4-letter words containing s, a
- rnas — RNAS is a written abbreviation for Royal Naval Air Services, one of the units which make up the United Kingdom's armed forces.
- rosa — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- rtsa — real-time structured analysis
- rusa — an Indonesian deer, Cervus timorensis, with a mane
- ryas — a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- saag — (in Indian cookery) spinach
- saar — Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- saba — an island in the Netherlands Antilles, in the N Leeward Islands. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
- sabc — South African Broadcasting Corporation
- sabe — sense or savvy
- sabs — South African Bureau of Standards
- sac2 — (mathematics, tool) A symbolic mathematics system which compiles to Fortran or Common Lisp. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- sacc — South African Council of Churches
- sack — a strong light-colored wine formerly imported from Spain and the Canary Islands.
- saco — a city in SW Maine.
- sacp — South African Communist Party
- sade — Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- sadi — (Muslih ud-Din) 1184?–1291? Persian poet.
- sads — the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- sadt — Structured Analysis and Design Technique
- safe — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- safi — a seaport in W central Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
- saga — a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- sage — Alain René [a-lan ruh-ney] /aˈlɛ̃ rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.
- sago — a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- sagy — like or containing sage
- saic — http://saic.com.
- said — Security Association ID
- sail — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- sain — to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- sais — an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.
- sake — a Japanese fermented, mildly alcoholic beverage made from rice.
- saki — Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- sala — a large hall, living room, or reception room.
- sale — the act of selling.
- salk — Jonas E(dward) 1914–95, U.S. bacteriologist: developed Salk vaccine.
- salp — any free-swimming, oceanic tunicate of the genus Salpa, having a transparent, more or less fusiform body.
- salt — See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
- sama — the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- same — identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
- sami — Lapp.
- saml — (security) An XML framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information, developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of OASIS. SAML supports federation, allowing business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise application.
- samo — died a.d. 658, first ruler of the Slavs 623–658.
- samp — coarsely ground corn.
- sana — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- sand — George [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
- sane — free from mental derangement; having a sound, healthy mind: a sane person.
- sang — simple past tense of sing.
- sank — a simple past tense of sink.
- sans — without.