4-letter words containing a, s
- sera — a plural of serum.
- seta — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- sfax — a seaport in E Tunisia, in N Africa.
- sffa — Sales Force Automation
- shad — a deep-bodied herring, Alosa sapidissima, of Europe and North America, that migrates up streams to spawn, used for food.
- shag — this dance step.
- shah — (formerly, in Iran) king; sovereign.
- shak — Shakespeare
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shan — a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- shat — excrement; feces.
- shaw — Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
- shay — a chaise.
- shea — shea tree.
- shia — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shoa — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province of Ethiopia. 25,290 sq. mi. (65,501 sq. km). Capital: Addis Ababa.
- shwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- sial — the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- siam — former name of Thailand (def 1).
- sian — Older Spelling. Xian.
- sica — Vittorio [vi-tawr-ee-oh,, -tohr-;; Italian veet-taw-ryaw] /vɪˈtɔr iˌoʊ,, -ˈtoʊr-;; Italian vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1901–74, Italian motion-picture director, producer, and actor.
- sida — any plant of the Queensland hemp genus Sida
- sika — a small, reddish deer, Cervus nippon, native to eastern Asia: most populations are endangered.
- sima — the uppermost member of a full classical order, usually a cyma recta, representing a roof gutter; cymatium.
- sina — a female given name.
- sita — (in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- siva — Shiva.
- skag — heroin.
- skas — a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.
- skat — a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.
- skaw — The, a cape at the N tip of Denmark.
- skua — Also called bonxie. any of several large brown gull-like predatory birds of the genus Catharacta, related to jaegers, especially C. skua (great skua) of colder waters of both northern and southern seas.
- slab — a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- slag — British Slang. an abusive woman.
- slam — the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
- slap — a gap or opening, as in a fence, wall, cloud bank, or line of troops.
- slat — a slap; a sharp blow.
- slav — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- slaw — coleslaw.
- slay — to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- slsa — Surf Life Saving Australia
- snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- snap — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- soap — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- soar — to fly upward, as a bird.
- soay — a breed of small horned sheep having long legs and dark brown wool that is plucked rather than shorn; found mainly on St Kilda where they were probably introduced by the Vikings
- soba — flat noodles made from buckwheat and wheat flours, used in Japanese cookery.
- soca — a style of Caribbean dance music derived from calypso and American soul music and having a pounding beat.
- soda — Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly Program