4-letter words containing i, s
- nios — Netware Input/Output Subsystem
- nips — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nish — a city in SE Serbia: a former capital of Serbia.
- nisi — not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies): a decree nisi.
- niso — National Information Standards Organisation (USA). NISO Standards cover many aspects of library science, publishing, and information services, and address the application of both traditional and new technologies to information services.
- niss — National Information Services and Systems
- nist — National Institute of Standards and Technology
- nits — Plural form of nit.
- nsdi — National Spatial Data Infrastructure
- obis — a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- oiks — Plural form of oik.
- oils — A viscous liquid derived from petroleum, esp. for use as a fuel or lubricant.
- oise — a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- onis — Plural form of oni.
- oshi — (in sumo wrestling) a move in which an opponent is pushed backward or down.
- ossi — a native, inhabitant, or citizen of that part of Germany that was formerly East Germany
- otis — Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- pais — outside of court; without legal proceedings.
- pics — Platform for Internet Content Selection
- pies — a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna.
- pigs — an earthenware crock, pot, pitcher, or jar.
- pils — a type of lager-like beer
- pins — a number assigned to an individual, used to establish identity in order to gain access to a computer system via an automatic teller machine, a point-of-sale terminal, or other device.
- pisa — a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- pise — rammed earth.
- pish — an exclamation of “pish!”.
- piso — (in the Philippines) a peso
- piss — urine.
- pits — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
- pius — (Eugenio Pacelli) 1876–1958, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1939–58.
- psia — pounds per square inch, absolute
- psid — pounds per square inch, differential
- psig — pounds per square inch, gauge
- psis — the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- psni — Police Service of Northern Ireland, established in 2000
- qis' — Ch'i.
- rais — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
- reis — a former Portuguese and Brazilian money of account
- ribs — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- rics — Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- rids — to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
- riis — Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- rims — the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- risc — Reduced Instruction Set Computer
- rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- risp — to rasp or to grate
- riss — the third major Pleistocene glaciation in Alpine Europe
- sadi — (Muslih ud-Din) 1184?–1291? Persian poet.
- safi — a seaport in W central Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean coast.