5-letter words containing s, a, t
- texas — a state in the S United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).
- thais — flourished late 4th century b.c, Athenian courtesan: mistress of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I.
- thars — any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- tisza — a river in S central Europe, rising in the Ukraine and flowing from the Carpathian Mountains along the Romanian border into E Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, where it joins the Danube N of Belgrade. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- toast — a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.
- toras — the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
- tosca — an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- trabs — training shoes
- trans — transgender or transsexual: Their son is trans. Laura is a trans woman.
- traps — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- trash — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trass — a light-colored type of volcanic tuff used in making water-resistant cement and mortar.
- trias — the Triassic period or rock system
- troas — The, a region in NW Asia Minor surrounding ancient Troy.
- tsade — sadhe.
- tsadi — sadhe.
- tsana — Lake. Tana, Lake.
- tsuba — a sword guard of a Japanese sword
- tulsa — a city in NE Oklahoma: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- twats — vulva.
- ustar — Union Student Technical Assistance Resources
- vasty — vast; immense.
- vatus — a nickel-brass coin and monetary unit of Vanuatu.
- vesta — the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- vista — a national program in the U.S., sponsored by ACTION, for sending volunteers into poor areas to teach various job skills.
- vitas — a female given name, form of Davida.
- wafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waft.
- waist — the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.
- waits — Plural form of wait.
- wanst — (archaic) once.
- wants — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- warts — Plural form of wart.
- wasnt — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of wasn't.
- waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- watts — the standard unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one joule per second and equal to the power in a circuit in which a current of one ampere flows across a potential difference of one volt. Abbreviation: W, w.
- wetas — Plural form of weta.
- whats — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- wtsda — World Tang Soo Do Association
- yasht — a hymn to a deity.
- yates — Plural form of yate.
- yeast — any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- yeats — William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1923.
- zetas — Plural form of zeta.