5-letter words containing i, s, a
- kivas — Plural form of kiva.
- kiyas — judgment of an act or belief by application of established principles governing some analogous act or belief.
- labis — a spoon used to give the Eucharist to communicants
- lairs — Plural form of lair.
- lais' — (in medieval French literature)
- laius — a king of Thebes, the husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus: unwittingly killed by Oedipus.
- laois — a county of central Republic of Ireland, in Leinster province: formerly boggy but largely reclaimed for agriculture. County town: Portlaoise. Pop: 58 774 (2002). Area: 1719 sq km (664 sq miles)
- lapis — (italics) Latin. stone (used in Latin names for minerals, gems, etc.)
- laris — Plural form of lari.
- lasik — a surgical procedure to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism in which a laser is used to remove inner layers of corneal tissue.
- laski — Harold Joseph, 1893–1950, English political scientist and writer.
- lassi — an Indian beverage of yogurt or buttermilk, water, and spices, often with the addition of fruit or sweetener.
- liars — Plural form of liar.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- litas — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- maids — Plural form of maid.
- mails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mail.
- maims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maim.
- mains — a river in central and W Germany, flowing W from the Bohemian Forest in N Bavaria into the Rhine at Mainz. 305 miles (490 km) long.
- maise — a measure of herring
- maist — (Geordie) most.
- makis — Plural form of maki.
- malis — Plural form of mali.
- mansi — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along western tributaries of the Ob River in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- maris — Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- masai — a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- mavis — a female given name.
- maxis — Plural form of maxi.
- miasm — (in homeopathy) any of the three underlying chronic diseases that afflict humankind: sycosis, syphilis, and psora.
- miass — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- micas — Plural form of mica.
- midas — Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- mimas — Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
- minas — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- miras — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- missa — Mass.
- mysia — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- nabis — a prophet.
- naifs — Plural form of naif.
- nails — Fasten to a surface or to something else with a nail or nails.
- naris — A nostril.
- nashi — an Asian tree also cultivated in Australia and New Zealand, Pyrus pyrifolia, of the rose family, having apple-shaped, pear-colored, juicy fruit.
- nasik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- nazis — a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
- nhisa — National Health Interview Survey Association
- nilas — Newly frozen sea ice in the form of smooth thin sheet less than 10 centimeters (4 inches) thick.
- nisan — the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- nsaid — a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, as ibuprofen.
- oasis — something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from what is usual, annoying, difficult, etc.: The library was an oasis of calm in the hectic city.
- ossia — (music) In a musical score, an alternative version of the music, often just a few measures long.