4-letter words containing s, e
- esop — Employee Stock Ownership Plan: a compensation plan set up by a company and funded with its tax-deductible contributions by which qualified employees accumulate shares of the company's stock
- espy — Catch sight of.
- esq. — Esq. is used after men's names as a written abbreviation for esquire.
- esrc — Economic and Social Research Council
- esro — European Space Research Organization
- esse — Essential nature or essence.
- este — Alternative form of est.
- etsi — European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- eves — Plural form of eve.
- ewes — Plural form of ewe.
- exes — Plural form of ex.
- exos — A brand of Ethernet controller card and Ethernet software for Unix.
- eyas — A young hawk, especially (in falconry) an unfledged nestling taken from the nest for training.
- eyes — Plural form of eye.
- fase — Fundamentally Analyzable Simplified English. L.E. McMahon, Bell Labs.
- fdse — full-duplex Switched Ethernet
- feds — the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
- fees — Plural form of fee.
- feis — (Irish) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
- fems — Plural form of fem.
- fens — low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- fess — a teacher.
- fest — an assembly of people engaged in a common activity (often used in combination): filmfest; gabfest; love-fest; poetry fest.
- fets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fet.
- fise — A breaking wind.
- foes — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- fuse — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
- gcse — General Certificate of Secondary Education
- geas — (in Irish folklore) an obligation or prohibition magically imposed on a person.
- gees — Plural form of gee.
- geis — Plural form of gei.
- gels — Plural form of gel.
- gems — chamois (def 1).
- gens — a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- geos — A small windowing, microkernel (less than 64 kbytes long) operating system written in heavily bummed assembly language for MS-DOS computers. It multitasks rather nicely on a 6 Mhz Intel 80286 with at least 512K memory. It was adapted to PDAs by adding pen recognition, which doesn't work very well.
- gers — a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- gest — Generic Expert System Tool
- gets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of get.
- gise — (obsolete) guise; manner.
- goes — 3rd person singular present indicative of go1 .
- gues — Plural form of gue.
- gyse — Obsolete form of guise.
- he's — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- heds — Plural form of hed.
- hehs — the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- hems — Plural form of hem.
- hens — the female of the domestic fowl.
- heqs — E. Derman. Constraint language for financial modelling. Uses an extension of the equation solver in IDEAL. "A Simple Equation Solver and Its Application to Financial Modeling", E. Derman et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(12):1169-1181 (Dec 1984).
- hers — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hesc — human embryonic stem cell