4-letter words containing e, t, s
- stet — let it stand (used imperatively as a direction on a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like, to retain material previously cancelled, usually accompanied by a row of dots under or beside the material).
- stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- stey — a ladder
- stge — storage
- stye — a circumscribed abscess caused by bacterial infection of the glands on the edge of the eyelid; hordeolum.
- suet — the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- 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.
- 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.
- tees — Golf. Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole. a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.
- tens — a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- tesl — TESL is the teaching of English to people who live in an English-speaking country, but whose first language is not English. TESL is an abbreviation for 'teaching English as a second language'.
- tess — a female given name, form of Theresa.
- test — Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.
- tets — the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- thes — Thessalonians
- ties — a pairs of shoes fastened by means of laces
- tres — very
- tsee — Technical and Engineering Environment: part of the RTEE toolset.
- vest — a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- wets — Plural form of wet.
- yest — Obsolete spelling of yeast.
- yets — Plural form of yet.
- zest — keen relish; hearty enjoyment; gusto.