6-letter words containing s
- busses — bus
- busted — caught out doing something wrong and therefore in trouble
- bustee — a small settlement; village.
- buster — a person or thing destroying something as specified
- bustic — a small American tree, Dipholis salicifolia
- bustle — If someone bustles somewhere, they move there in a hurried way, often because they are very busy.
- busway — a highway, or lane of a highway, set aside for the exclusive use of buses, especially during peak traffic hours.
- buzzes — a man's very short haircut; crew cut.
- byblos — a major Phoenician city of the second millennium bc, in modern Lebanon
- bypass — If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
- bypast — past; bygone
- byrnes — James Francis, 1879–1972, U.S. statesman and jurist: secretary of state 1945–47.
- byrrus — birrus.
- byssal — relating to the byssus of molluscs
- byssus — a mass of strong threads secreted by a sea mussel or similar mollusc that attaches the animal to a hard fixed surface
- c of s — Chief of Staff
- c star — a relatively cool, red giant having a spectrum with strong bands of carbon compounds.
- c++sim — A class library like the simulation class libraries of SIMULA, by Mark Little <[email protected]>. Version: 1.0.
- c-axis — the vertical crystallographic axis.
- c-bias — grid bias.
- cabals — Plural form of cabal.
- cabers — Plural form of caber.
- cabins — Plural form of cabin.
- cables — Plural form of cable.
- cacaos — Plural form of cacao.
- caches — Plural form of cache.
- cactus — A cactus is a thick fleshy plant that grows in many hot, dry parts of the world. Cacti have no leaves and many of them are covered in prickles.
- caddis — a type of coarse woollen yarn, braid, or fabric
- cadets — Plural form of cadet.
- cadmus — a Phoenician prince who killed a dragon and planted its teeth, from which sprang a multitude of warriors who fought among themselves until only five remained, who joined Cadmus to found Thebes
- cadres — Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
- caesar — Gaius Julius (ˈɡaɪəs ˈdʒuːlɪəs). 100–44 bc, Roman general, statesman, and historian. He formed the first triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus (60), conquered Gaul (58–50), invaded Britain (55–54), mastered Italy (49), and defeated Pompey (46). As dictator of the Roman Empire (49–44) he destroyed the power of the corrupt Roman nobility. He also introduced the Julian calendar and planned further reforms, but fear of his sovereign power led to his assassination (44) by conspirators led by Marcus Brutus and Cassius Longinus
- cagers — Plural form of cager.
- caguas — city in EC Puerto Rico: pop. 141,000
- cahows — Plural form of cahow.
- cairns — a port in NE Australia, in Queensland. Pop: 98 981 (2001)
- cais-a — Common APSE Interface Set A DoD-STD-1838A.
- calais — a port in N France, on the Strait of Dover: the nearest French port to England; belonged to England 1347–1558. Pop: 75 790 (2006)
- calash — a horse-drawn carriage with low wheels and a folding top
- calces — calx
- calesa — a horse drawn buggy, once common in the Philippines but now mainly used as a tourist attraction
- callas — Maria, real name Maria Anna Cecilia Kalageropoulos. 1923–77, Greek operatic soprano, born in the US
- calles — Plutarco Elías [ploo-tahr-kaw e-lee-ahs] /pluˈtɑr kɔ ɛˈli ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1877–1945, Mexican general and statesman: president of Mexico 1924–28.
- callus — A callus is an unwanted area of thick skin, usually on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, which has been caused by something rubbing against it.
- calves — calf1
- calvus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.
- camass — any of several North American plants of the liliaceous genus Camassia, esp C. quamash, which has a cluster of blue or white flowers and a sweet edible bulb
- camels — Plural form of camel.
- cameos — Plural form of cameo.
- camest — (archaic) second-person singular simple past of come.