6-letter words containing o, a, s
- sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- shoaly — full of shoals or shallows.
- shofar — a ram's horn blown as a wind instrument, sounded in Biblical times chiefly to communicate signals in battle and announce certain religious occasions and in modern times chiefly at synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
- shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- siabon — a hybrid animal bred from a gibbon and a siamang.
- sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
- sidamo — a member of a people in SW Ethiopia.
- siloam — a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- slalom — Skiing. a downhill race over a winding and zigzag course marked by poles or gates. Compare giant slalom.
- slavo- — Slav
- sleazo — a sleazy person
- sloane — Sir Hans, 1660–1753, English physician and naturalist.
- slogan — a distinctive cry, phrase, or motto of any party, group, manufacturer, or person; catchword or catch phrase.
- slot a — (hardware) The physical and electrical specification for the edge-connector used by AMD's Athlon processor. The connector allows for a higher bus rate than Socket 7 or Super 7. Slot A motherboards use Compaq's EV6 bus protocol. Slot A is mechanically compatible but electrically incompatible with Intel's Slot 1.
- slovak — one of a Slavic people dwelling in Slovakia.
- smalto — colored glass or similar vitreous material used in mosaic.
- so far — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- soaked — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- soaker — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- soaper — soap opera.
- soared — to fly upward, as a bird.
- soarer — to fly upward, as a bird.
- soares — Mário [mah-ryoo] /ˈmɑ ryʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1924, Portuguese statesman: prime minister 1976–78, 1983–85; president 1986–96.
- socage — a tenure of land held by the tenant in performance of specified services or by payment of rent, and not requiring military service.
- social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- socman — sokeman.
- sodaic — relating to or containing soda
- soemba — Dutch name of Sumba.
- sol-fa — Music. the set of syllables, do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti, sung to the respective tones of the scale. All but do and ti are attributed to Guido d'Arezzo.
- solace — comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
- solana — Javier (ˈhævɪeɪ). born 1942, Spanish socialist politician; minister for foreign affairs (1992–95), secretary-general of NATO (1995–99), and EU high representative for foreign policy (1999–2009)
- solano — a hot wind in Spain
- solate — to change from a gel to a sol.
- soldan — the ruler of an Islamic country.
- solera — (especially in Spain) a series of casks, graded according to age, in which sherries and brandies are stored while maturing.
- sollar — solar2 .
- solvay — Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1838–1922, Belgian chemist.
- somali — a member of a Hamitic population showing an admixture of Arab, black, and other ancestry, and dwelling in Somalia and adjacent regions.
- somat- — somato-
- somata — the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- somoza — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Anastasio Somoza García) 1896–1956, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1937–47, 1950–56 (father of Anastasio and Luis Somoza Debayle).
- sonant — sounding; having sound.
- sonata — a composition for one or two instruments, typically in three or four movements in contrasted forms and keys.
- sondra — a female given name.
- songka — a river in SE Asia, flowing SE from SW China through Indochina to the Gulf of Tonkin. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- sonoma — a town in W California: center of wine-producing region.
- sonora — a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- sontag — Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.
- sophar — Zophar.