4-letter words containing a, s
- tans — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- taos — a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- taps — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- tase — (sometimes initial capital letter) to electrically stun (a living target) using a Taser or similar stun gun: She tased her stalker when he tried to force her into his car.
- task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- tasm — Turbo Assembler. MS-DOS assembler from Borland.
- tass — a news-gathering agency of the former Soviet Union: merged with an alternative news service to form Itar-Tass (Russian Information Telegraph Agency).
- tavs — the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- taws — a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
- tcas — traffic collision avoidance system: a safety system in aircraft that is designed to prevent mid-air collisions
- teas — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- tisa — a river in S central Europe, rising in the Ukraine and flowing from the Carpathian Mountains along the Romanian border into E Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, where it joins the Danube N of Belgrade. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- tlas — (jargon) As of 2014-08-14, this dictionary included 1285 three-letter acronyms, which is 7% of the 26^3 = 17576 possible. Here's a grep command to find them: egrep '^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$' Dictionary or a GNU Emacs command: (occur "^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$") Here they are:
- tosa — a large dog, usually red in colour, which is a cross between a mastiff and a Great Dane: originally developed for dog-fighting; it is not recognized as a breed by kennel clubs outside Japan
- tsap — Transport Service Access Point
- tsar — an emperor or king.
- tsia — (messaging) Title Says It All. Something to put in the body of a electronic mail message or bulletin board posting when no body is really necessary because the title or subject header contains the whole message.
- twas — a member of a Pygmy people of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- ucas — Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
- upas — the poisonous milky sap of a large tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, native to tropical Asia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands, used for arrow poison.
- usaf — the permanent or regular military air force of the United States, established in 1947 as a separate service under the authority of the Department of Defense: a branch of the U.S. Army before 1947. Abbreviation: USAF.
- usda — United States Department of Agriculture
- usha — Dawn, a Vedic deity, daughter of Sky and sister of Night.
- usia — United States Information Agency
- ussa — Object-oriented state language by B. Burshteyn, Pyramid, 1992.
- utas — the eighth day of a festival
- vasa — a vessel or duct.
- vase — a vessel, as of glass, porcelain, earthenware, or metal, usually higher than it is wide, used chiefly to hold cut flowers or for decoration.
- vast — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vats — a large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat.
- vaus — the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- vavs — the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- vesa — Video Electronics Standards Association
- visa — an endorsement issued by an authorized representative of a country and marked in a passport, permitting the passport holder to enter, travel through, or reside in that country for a specified amount of time, for the purpose of tourism, education, employment, etc.
- vsam — Virtual Storage Access Method
- vsat — Very Small Aperture Terminal
- vsfa — Victor Submission Fighting Academy
- vsna — Vermont South Netball Association
- vsta — (operating system) Valencia Simple Tasker.
- wabs — web.
- wads — Plural form of wad.
- waes — woe.
- wafs — a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- wags — Plural form of wag.
- wais — Wide Area Information Servers
- wars — Plural form of war.
- wase — (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
- wash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- wasm — (humorous) An ideology, doctrine, theory or law that is no longer current or fashionable.
- wasp — a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.