6-letter words containing a, s
- abohms — Plural form of abohm.
- aborts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort.
- aboves — in, at, or to a higher place.
- abrams — Plural form of abram.
- abrase — (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank. (Attested only in the 17th century.).
- abrash — any variation or change, typically striation, in the different dyes of an Oriental rug as it ages.
- abrest — Alternative spelling of abreast.
- absail — Misspelling of abseil.
- abscam — the code name for an FBI investigation (1978–80) of bribery, involving members of Congress.
- abseil — To abseil down a cliff or rock face means to slide down it in a controlled way using a rope, with your feet against the cliff or rock.
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- abunas — Plural form of abuna.
- aburas — Plural form of abura.
- aburst — in a bursting state
- abused — Simple past tense and past participle of abuse.
- abusee — A person who is the victim of abuse (by an abuser).
- abuser — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abuses — Plural form of abuse.
- abusio — (rhetoric) Catachresis.
- abydos — an ancient town in central Egypt: site of many temples and tombs
- acarus — any of the free-living mites of the widely distributed genus Acarus, several of which, esp A. siro, are serious pests of stored flour, grain, etc
- acates — provisions, esp food
- access — If you have access to a building or other place, you are able or allowed to go into it.
- accius — Lucius, c170–c90 b.c, Roman poet and prose writer.
- accost — If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening.
- accuse — If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
- achest — Archaic second-person singular form of ache.
- achish — the king of the Philistine city of Gath, who twice gave refuge to David. I Sam. 21:10–15.
- achsah — the daughter of Caleb who was promised in marriage to the conqueror of the city of Debir. Josh. 15:16–19; Judges 1:12–15.
- acinus — any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acoasm — acouasm.
- acorns — Plural form of acorn.
- acquis — The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of EU law.
- across — If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other.
- acrost — Eye dialect of across.
- actons — Plural form of acton.
- actors — Plural form of actor.
- acutes — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- ad seg — administrative segregation.
- adabas — (database) A relational database system by Software AG. While it was initially designed for large IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of Unix including AIX. ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.
- adages — a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- adamas — Admah.
- adapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt.
- addams — Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931
- adders — Plural form of adder.
- addles — mentally confused; muddled.
- adepts — Plural form of adept.
- adieus — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.