6-letter words containing a, s
- aghast — If you are aghast, you are filled with horror and surprise.
- aginst — Archaic spelling of against.
- agitas — heartburn; indigestion.
- aglets — Plural form of aglet.
- agnesi — Maria Gaetana. 1718–99, Italian mathematician and philosopher, noted for her work on differential calculus
- agogos — Plural form of agogo.
- agones — (in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
- agoras — Plural form of agora.
- agrees — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agree.
- agress — Misspelling of aggress.
- agrise — to fear or shudder at (something frightful)
- agrius — one of the Gigantes.
- aguise — to dress (the body)
- aguish — producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.
- ahimsa — (in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist philosophy) the law of reverence for, and nonviolence to, every form of life
- ahmose — 1580–1557 b.c, founder of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
- ahorse — on horseback
- aimers — Plural form of aimer.
- airbus — An Airbus is an aeroplane which is designed to carry a large number of passengers for fairly short distances.
- airers — Plural form of airer.
- airish — given to putting on airs.
- aisles — a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- akasha — (in the philosophies of India) the ether, regarded as including material and nonmaterial entities in a common medium.
- akashi — a city on W Honshu, in Japan.
- alamos — a poplar.
- alarms — Plural form of alarm.
- alaska — the largest state of the US, in the extreme northwest of North America: the aboriginal inhabitants are Inuit and Yupik; the earliest White settlements were made by the Russians; it was purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. It is mostly mountainous and volcanic, rising over 6000 m (20 000 ft), with the Yukon basin in the central region; large areas are covered by tundra; it has important mineral resources (chiefly coal, oil, and natural gas). Capital: Juneau. Pop: 648 818 (2003 est). Area: 1 530 694 sq km (591 004 sq miles)
- albers — Josef. 1888–1976, US painter, designer, and poet, born in Germany. His works include a series of abstract paintings entitled Homage to the Square
- albums — Plural form of album.
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alders — Plural form of alder.
- aldisp — Applicative Language for Digital Signal Processing
- aldiss — Brian W(ilson). born 1925, British novelist, best known for his science fiction. His works include Non-Stop (1958), Enemies of the System (1978), The Helliconia Trilogy (1983–86), Forgotten Life (1988), and The Detached Retina (1995)
- aldols — Plural form of aldol.
- aldose — a sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is a hemiacetal
- alephs — Plural form of aleph.
- alerts — Plural form of alert.
- alesia — an ancient city and fortress in Gaul: Caesar captured Vercingetorix here 52 b.c.
- aletes — a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- alexis — a masculine and feminine name
- algins — any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- alibis — Plural form of alibi.
- aliens — Plural form of alien.
- aligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of align.
- alines — (especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- alisma — a flowering marsh plant of the genus Alsima, with round leaves
- alison — a feminine name
- alissa — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
- aliyos — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- alkies — Plural form of alkie.