5-letter words containing a, s
- avers — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- avgas — a type of aviation fuel, high in octane, used for aeroplanes and racing cars
- avise — Obsolete spelling of advise.
- aviso — a boat carrying messages; a dispatch-boat
- avows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avow.
- awacs — airborne warning and control system
- awash — If the ground or a floor is awash, it is covered in water, often because of heavy rain or as the result of an accident.
- aways — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- awols — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- axels — Plural form of axel.
- axils — Plural form of axil.
- axles — Plural form of axle.
- axons — Plural form of axon.
- ayahs — Plural form of ayah.
- ayous — the wood of the obeche.
- ayres — air1 (def 8d).
- azans — Plural form of azan.
- azusa — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- babas — Plural form of baba.
- babes — a baby or child.
- babus — a Hindu title of address equivalent to Sir, Mr., or Esquire.
- backs — a large tub, vat, or cistern used by dyers, brewers, distillers, etc., to hold liquids.
- baels — Plural form of bael.
- baffs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baff.
- baggs — Alternative spelling of bags (
- baghs — Plural form of bagh.
- bahts — Plural form of baht.
- bails — Plural form of bail.
- baisa — a unit of currency in Oman, worth one-thousandth of a rial
- baits — Plural form of bait.
- bakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bake.
- bakst — Leon Nikolayevich (lɪˈɔn nikaˈlajɪvitʃ). 1866–1924, Russian painter and stage designer, noted particularly for his richly coloured sets for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909–21)
- balas — a red variety of spinel, used as a gemstone
- bales — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- balks — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- balls — If you say that someone has balls, you mean that they have courage.
- balms — Plural form of balm.
- balsa — Balsa or balsa wood is a very light wood from a South American tree.
- bands — Plural form of band.
- banes — a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
- bangs — Bangs are hair that is cut so that it hangs over your forehead.
- banks — Iain (Menzies). 1954–2013, Scottish novelist and science fiction writer. His novels include The Wasp Factory (1984), The Crow Road (1992), and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007); science-fiction (under the name Iain M. Banks) includes Look to Windward (2000)
- banns — When a minister or priest reads or publishes the banns, he or she makes a public announcement in church that two people are going to be married.
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- barbs — barbiturates
- bards — Plural form of bard.
- bares — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- barfs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barf.
- barks — Plural form of bark.
- barns — Plural form of barn.