4-letter words containing a, t, s
- scat — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- seat — something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- seta — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- shat — excrement; feces.
- sita — (in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- skat — a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.
- slat — a slap; a sharp blow.
- spat — a pointed rod or bar for thrusting through and holding meat that is to be cooked before or over a fire.
- srta — Señorita
- ssta — Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association
- stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- stac — 1. (language) Storage Allocation and Coding Program. 2. (company) The company responsible for Stacker and stac compression.
- stag — an adult male deer.
- stan — a male given name, form of Stanley.
- star — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- stat — statistic.
- stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stoa — Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- swat — to hit; slap; smack.
- tabs — tabloid (def 1).
- tais — a group of languages spoken in SE Asia, including Thai, Lao, and Shan.
- tans — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- taos — a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
- taps — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- tase — (sometimes initial capital letter) to electrically stun (a living target) using a Taser or similar stun gun: She tased her stalker when he tried to force her into his car.
- task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- tasm — Turbo Assembler. MS-DOS assembler from Borland.
- tass — a news-gathering agency of the former Soviet Union: merged with an alternative news service to form Itar-Tass (Russian Information Telegraph Agency).
- tavs — the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- taws — a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
- tcas — traffic collision avoidance system: a safety system in aircraft that is designed to prevent mid-air collisions
- teas — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- tisa — a river in S central Europe, rising in the Ukraine and flowing from the Carpathian Mountains along the Romanian border into E Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, where it joins the Danube N of Belgrade. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- tlas — (jargon) As of 2014-08-14, this dictionary included 1285 three-letter acronyms, which is 7% of the 26^3 = 17576 possible. Here's a grep command to find them: egrep '^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$' Dictionary or a GNU Emacs command: (occur "^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$") Here they are:
- tosa — a large dog, usually red in colour, which is a cross between a mastiff and a Great Dane: originally developed for dog-fighting; it is not recognized as a breed by kennel clubs outside Japan
- tsap — Transport Service Access Point
- tsar — an emperor or king.
- tsia — (messaging) Title Says It All. Something to put in the body of a electronic mail message or bulletin board posting when no body is really necessary because the title or subject header contains the whole message.
- twas — a member of a Pygmy people of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- utas — the eighth day of a festival
- vast — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vats — a large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat.
- vsat — Very Small Aperture Terminal
- vsta — (operating system) Valencia Simple Tasker.
- wast — a 2nd person singular pt. indicative of be.
- wats — a Buddhist temple or monastery in Thailand or Cambodia.