6-letter words containing a, s
- apsara — A celestial nymph, typically the consort of a gandharva or heavenly musician.
- apside — (astronomy) An apsis.
- aptest — inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- arabis — any plant of the annual or perennial genus Arabis, some of which form low-growing mats with downy grey foliage and white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- araise — to raise
- araxes — Araks
- arbors — Plural form of arbor.
- arccos — arccosine
- arches — Obsolete. a person who is preeminent; a chief.
- arcsch — (mathematics) The area hyperbolic cosecant function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cosecant function.
- arcsec — 1⁄3600 of a degree of an angle
- arcsin — arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- ardors — Plural form of ardor.
- arecas — Plural form of areca.
- arenas — Plural form of arena.
- arepas — Plural form of arepa.
- aretes — Plural form of arete.
- argies — a term used to refer to an Argentine.
- argosy — a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships
- argots — Plural form of argot.
- argues — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- arhats — Plural form of arhat.
- ariose — characterized by melody
- arioso — a recitative with the lyrical quality of an aria
- arised — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of arise.
- arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arises — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arista — a stiff bristle such as the awn of some grasses and cereals
- aristo — an aristocrat
- arkies — a term used to refer to a migrant worker originally from Arkansas.
- arkose — a sandstone consisting of grains of feldspar and quartz cemented by a mixture of quartz and clay minerals
- arliss — George, 1868–1946, English actor.
- armies — Plural form of army.
- armors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armor.
- aromas — Plural form of aroma.
- arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- arrays — Plural form of array.
- arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- arrish — corn stubble
- arrose — (obsolete) To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.
- arrows — a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
- arseno — having or containing arsenic
- arshin — a Russian unit of length equal to 28 inches (71 cm).
- arsine — a colourless poisonous gas used in the manufacture of organic compounds, to dope transistors, and as a military poisonous gas. Formula: AsH3
- arsino — having or comprising the radical AsH2
- arsons — Plural form of arson.
- artels — Plural form of artel.
- artist — An artist is someone who draws or paints pictures or creates sculptures as a job or a hobby.
- artois — a former province of N France
- arusha — a city in N Tanganyika, in Tanzania.