6-letter words containing a, s
- ananas — the pineapple or a related tropical American bromeliaceous plant, the pinguin, that has an edible plum-shaped fruit
- anceps — (poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.
- anchos — Plural form of ancho.
- andros — an island in the Aegean Sea, the northernmost of the Cyclades: long famous for wine. Capital: Andros. Pop: 10 009 (2001). Area: about 311 sq km (120 sq miles)
- andrus — Andron.
- anenst — anent (def 2).
- angels — a male or female given name.
- angers — a city in W France, on the River Maine. Pop: 156 965 (2006)
- angles — Plural form of angle.
- anglos — Plural form of anglo.
- angsty — displaying or feeling angst, esp in a self-conscious manner
- angust — (obsolete) Narrow; strait; contracted; not spacious.
- animas — soul; life.
- animus — If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it.
- anions — Plural form of anion.
- anises — Plural form of anise.
- anisic — relating to or resulting from anise
- aniso- — not equal
- ankles — Plural form of ankle.
- annals — If something is in the annals of a nation or field of activity, it is recorded as part of its history.
- annoys — Plural form of annoy.
- annuls — (especially of laws or other established rules, usages, etc.) to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate: to annul a marriage.
- anodes — Plural form of anode.
- anoles — Plural form of anole.
- ansate — having a handle or handle-like part
- ansatz — Lb mathematics A mathematical assumption used to describe a certain phenomenon, posited in order to help provisionally solve an equation or other problem. (from 20th c.).
- anselm — Saint. 1033–1109, Italian Benedictine monk; archbishop of Canterbury (1093–1109): one of the founders of scholasticism; author of Cur Deus Homo? (Why did God become Man?). Feast day: Aug 21
- ansgar — Saint ("Apostle of the North") 801–865, French Benedictine priest and missionary: patron saint of Scandinavia.
- anshan — a city in NE China, in Liaoning province. Pop: 1 459 000 (2005 est)
- ansi c — (language, standard) (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989.
- answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
- antics — Antics are funny, silly, or unusual ways of behaving.
- antres — a cavern; cave.
- anubis — a deity, a son of Osiris, who conducted the dead to judgment. He is represented as having a jackal's head and was identified by the Greeks with Hermes
- anused — (in combination) Having (or having the characteristics associated with) a specified form of anus.
- anuses — the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- anvers — French name of Antwerp.
- anvils — Plural form of anvil.
- anzaas — Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- aorist — a tense of the verb in classical Greek and in certain other inflected languages, indicating past action without reference to whether the action involved was momentary or continuous
- aortas — Plural form of aorta.
- apexes — the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- aphids — Plural form of aphid.
- apices — apex
- apises — a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- appals — (British) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appal.
- apples — well or fine; under control.
- appose — to place side by side or near to each other
- appros — (of a purchase) approval: on appro.
- aprons — Plural form of apron.