4-letter words containing a, s
- amps — amputation.
- anas — a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject, person, place, or thing.
- anes — once.
- anis — a French or Spanish liqueur flavored with aniseed
- ansa — the apparent extremities of planetary rings, esp those of Saturn, when viewed from such a perspective that they look like handles
- ansi — American National Standards Institution
- ants — any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.
- anus — A person's anus is the hole from which faeces leaves their body.
- apes — Plural form of ape.
- apis — (in ancient Egypt) a sacred bull worshipped at Memphis
- apps — Plural form of app.
- apse — a domed or vaulted semicircular or polygonal recess, esp at the east end of a church
- apso — a Tibetan terrier
- apsu — an Akkadian god: the consort of Tiamat and the father of the gods.
- apus — a constellation in the S hemisphere situated near Musca and Octans
- aras — a river rising in mountains in E Turkey and flowing east to the Caspian Sea: forms part of the E border of Turkey and the N border of Iran. Length: about 1100 km (660 miles)
- arbs — Plural form of arb.
- arcs — Associate of the Royal College of Science
- ards — a district of Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 74 369 (2003 est). Area: 368 sq km (142 sq miles)
- ares — the god of war, born of Zeus and Hera
- aris — buttocks
- arks — Plural form of ark.
- arms — weapons collectively
- aros — Plural form of aro.
- arse — Your arse is your bottom.
- arsm — Associate of the Royal School of Mines
- arts — cunning or crafty actions or plots; schemes
- as31 — (tool, programming) An 8031/8051 assembler by Ken Stauffer <[email protected]> and Theo Deraadt which produces a variety of object code output formats. The distribution includes an assembler, yacc parser, and documentation. as31 runs on Sun-3, Sun-4, SunOS 4.0, Tandy 6000, and Xenix.
- asap — asap is an abbreviation for 'as soon as possible'.
- asat — antisatellite
- asbo — An ASBO is a legal order restricting the activities or movements of someone who has repeatedly behaved in a way that upsets or annoys other people. ASBO is an abbreviation for 'anti-social behaviour order'.
- asce — American Society of Civil Engineers
- asch — Sholem (ˈʃəʊləm). 1880–1957, US writer, born in Poland, who wrote in Yiddish. His works include biblical novels
- asci — ascus
- ascs — Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
- ascu — Association of State Colleges and Universities
- asde — Airport Surface Detection Equipment: a radar system that is used by aircraft controllers to assist in the safe manoeuvring of aircraft on the ground
- asdf — Common fill-in word (where keyboards are used, which have these letters in horizontal sequence).
- asdl — Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language
- asea — in a seaward manner
- aser — Asher (def 1).
- asha — the cosmic principle of order, justice, righteousness, and truth.
- ashe — Arthur (Robert). 1943–93, US tennis player: US champion 1968; Wimbledon champion 1975
- ashy — of a pale greyish colour; ashen
- asia — the largest of the continents, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the large peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka; contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran, and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris, and Euphrates. Pop: 4 164 252 000 (2011 est). Area: 44 391 162 sq km (17 139 445 sq miles)
- asic — Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
- asid — American Society of Interior Designers
- asio — Australian Security Intelligence Organization
- asir — a region of SW Saudi Arabia, in the Southern Province on the Red Sea: under Turkish rule until 1933. Area: 81 000 sq km (31 000 sq miles)
- asis — 1. Application Software Installation Server. 2. (language) Ada Semantic Interface Specification.