6-letter words containing s, a, r
- hearse — a vehicle for conveying a dead person to the place of burial.
- hearst — William Randolph, 1863–1951, U.S. editor and publisher.
- hearsy — resembling a hearse
- hearts — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hijras — Plural form of hijra.
- hoards — Plural form of hoard.
- hoarse — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hussar — (originally) one of a body of Hungarian light cavalry formed during the 15th century.
- hydras — Plural form of hydra.
- icarus — Also, Ikaros. Classical Mythology. a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.
- ikaros — Icarus.
- instar — an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- irades — Plural form of irade.
- ishtar — the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- isobar — Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- israel — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- istria — a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- jabers — Jesus
- jagirs — Plural form of jagir.
- jarash — Jerash.
- jasper — a city in NW Alabama.
- jaures — Jean Léon [zhahn ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1859–1914, French socialist and writer.
- jerash — a town in N Jordan, N of Amman: Roman ruins.
- jumars — Plural form of jumar.
- k star — a relatively cool, orange-to-red star, as Aldebaran or Arcturus, having a surface temperature between 3500 and 5000 K and an absorption spectrum with strong lines of calcium and many neutral metals.
- kafirs — Plural form of kafir.
- kairos — A propitious moment for decision or action.
- kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
- karats — Plural form of karat.
- karmas — Plural form of karma.
- kaross — a cloak or rug of animal skins used in southern Africa.
- karpas — a piece of parsley, celery, or similar green vegetable that is dipped in salt water and eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.
- kasher — kosher.
- kasper — a male given name, form of Caspar.
- kastro — Mytilene (def 2).
- kauris — Plural form of kauri.
- kayser — A unit of wavenumber in the CGS system of units, equivalent to the number of waves in one centimeter.
- kearns — a town in N Utah, near Salt Lake City.
- kormas — Plural form of korma.
- kosrae — an island in the W Pacific: part of the Federated States of Micronesia. 42 sq. mi. (109 sq. km).
- kraals — Plural form of kraal.
- kraits — Plural form of krait.
- krasny — Russian name of Kyzyl.
- krauss — Clemens [kley-mens] /ˈkleɪ mɛns/ (Show IPA), 1893–1954, Austrian conductor and pianist.
- kurtas — Plural form of kurta.
- labors — Plural form of labor.
- labrys — A double-headed ax in Minoan mythology.
- lagers — Plural form of lager.
- lahars — Plural form of lahar.
- lairds — Plural form of laird.