7-letter words containing s, a
- apodous — apodal.
- apogees — Plural form of apogee.
- apophis — a demon serpent of darkness whom Ra, as sun god, destroys every morning at dawn.
- aporias — Plural form of aporia.
- apostil — a marginal note
- apostle — The apostles were the followers of Jesus Christ who went from place to place telling people about him and trying to persuade them to become Christians.
- appalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appall.
- appeals — Plural form of appeal.
- appears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appear.
- appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
- appends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of append.
- applets — Plural form of applet.
- applies — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- apports — things brought as offerings; revenues
- apposed — Simple past tense and past participle of appose.
- apposer — a person who asks questions
- apposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appose.
- appress — to press together or towards a surface
- apprise — When you are apprised of something, someone tells you about it.
- appulse — a very close approach of two celestial bodies so that they are in conjunction but no eclipse or occultation occurs
- apropos — Something which is apropos, or apropos of, a subject or event, is connected with it or relevant to it.
- apsaras — a female spirit of water and air
- apsidal — of an apse or apsis
- apsides — Astronomy. either of two points in an eccentric orbit, one (higher apsis) farthest from the center of attraction, the other (lower apsis) nearest to the center of attraction.
- aptness — inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- apyrase — any of various enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate, yielding a phosphate and energy
- aquabis — (chemistry, in combination) Containing two molecules of water as a ligand.
- aqueous — In chemistry, an aqueous solution or cream has water as its base.
- aquinas — Saint Thomas. 1225–74, Italian theologian, scholastic philosopher, and Dominican friar, whose works include Summa contra Gentiles (1259–64) and Summa Theologiae (1267–73), the first attempt at a comprehensive theological system. Feast day: Jan 28
- arabist — An Arabist is a person who supports Arab interests or knows a lot about the Arabic language.
- arachis — any of various plants native to South America and belonging to the genus Arachis of the family Fabaceae, the most famous of which is the peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
- aragats — extinct volcano in NW Armenia: 13,435 ft (4,095 m)
- araised — Simple past tense and past participle of araise.
- aralias — Plural form of aralia.
- arapesh — a member of a Papuan people of Papua New Guinea.
- arausio — a town in SE France: a small principality in the Middle Ages, the descendants of which formed the House of Orange. Pop: 27 989 (1999)
- arbores — Plural form of arbor.
- arbours — Plural form of arbour.
- arbutus — any of several temperate ericaceous shrubs of the genus Arbutus, esp the strawberry tree of S Europe. They have clusters of white or pinkish flowers, broad evergreen leaves, and strawberry-like berries
- arcades — Plural form of arcade.
- archbsd — (operating system) 4.4 BSD-Lite for the Acorn Archimedes.
- archers — Plural form of archer.
- archest — Superlative form of arch.
- archeus — the spirit or force which Paracelsians believed dwelt in, and presided over, all living things
- archons — Plural form of archon Chief magistrates of ancient Athens.
- archsee — archbishopric.
- arcsech — (mathematics) The inverse hyberbolic secant function.
- arcsecs — Plural form of arcsec.
- arcsine — the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- arctics — high, warm, waterproof overshoes, usually with buckles