Words Starting AB & Ending A

• The fourth or digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum.

• (Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women

• a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines

• Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc

• a loss of will power

• Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

• A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

• A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.

• An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.

• a loss of will power

• any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico