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4-letter words containing t, s

  • psat — Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test: a multiple-choice test done at high school as a practice for college entrance tests
  • psst — used to attract attention
  • pstn — Public Switched Telephone Network
  • ptsd — PTSD is an abbreviation for post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • qats — an evergreen shrub, Catha edulis, of Arabia and Africa, the leaves of which are used as a narcotic when chewed or made into a beverage.
  • rats — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
  • rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
  • rtfs — (jargon)   1. Read The Fucking Source. Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals - or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be. For even trickier situations, see RTFB. Unlike RTFM, the anger inherent in RTFS is not usually directed at the person asking the question, but rather at the people who failed to provide adequate documentation. 2. Read The Fucking Standard; this oath can only be used when the problem area (e.g. a language or operating system interface) has actually been codified in a ratified standards document. The existence of these standards documents (and the technically inappropriate but politically mandated compromises that they inevitably contain, and the impenetrable legalese in which they are invariably written, and the unbelievably tedious bureaucratic process by which they are produced) can be unnerving to hackers, who are used to a certain amount of ambiguity in the specifications of the systems they use. (Hackers feel that such ambiguities are acceptable as long as the Right Thing to do is obvious to any thinking observer; sadly, this casual attitude toward specifications becomes unworkable when a system becomes popular in the Real World.) Since a hacker is likely to feel that a standards document is both unnecessary and technically deficient, the deprecation inherent in this term may be directed as much against the standard as against the person who ought to read it.
  • rtgs — An RTGS is a type of electronic transfer where the money is immediately taken from the payer and the payee has access to it right away.
  • rtos — Real-Time Operating System
  • rtsa — real-time structured analysis
  • rtsp — Real Time Streaming Protocol
  • rust — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
  • sadt — Structured Analysis and Design Technique
  • salt — See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
  • sant — a devout person in India
  • sata — Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
  • satb — soprano, alto, tenor, bass: a combination of voices in choral music
  • sate — to cause to sit; seat (often followed by down): Sit yourself down. He sat me near him.
  • sati — the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.
  • sato — Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
  • sats — (in Vedic mythology) the realm of existence, populated by people and gods. Compare Asat.
  • scat — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
  • scot — a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
  • sctu — Singapore Chinese Teachers Union
  • scut — a worthless, contemptible person.
  • seat — something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
  • sect — a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination.
  • sekt — sparkling wine; champagne.
  • sent — simple past tense and past participle of send1 .
  • sept — the number seven.
  • sert — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
  • seta — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
  • seth — the brother and murderer of Osiris, represented as having the form of a donkey or other mammal and regarded as personifying the desert.
  • seti — Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; the attempt to detect signals, esp radio waves or light, from an intelligent extraterrestrial source
  • setl — SET Language. A very high level language based on sets, designed by Jack Schwartz at the Courant Institute in the early 1970s. It was possibly the first use of list comprehension notation. Data types include sets (unordered collections), tuples (ordered collections) and maps (collections of ordered pairs). Expressions may include quantifiers ('for each' and 'exists'). The first Ada translator was written in SETL. See also ISETL, ProSet, SETL2.
  • sets — Set Equation Transformation System. Symbolic manipulation of Boolean equations. "Efficient Ordering of Set Expressions for Symbolic Expansion", R.G. Worrell et al, J ACM 20(3):482-488 (Jul 1973).
  • sett — Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
  • sext — a sexually explicit digital image, text message, etc., sent to someone usually by cell phone.
  • shat — excrement; feces.
  • shet — to shut
  • shit — excrement; feces.
  • shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • shpt — shipment
  • shtg — shortage
  • shut — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
  • sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
  • silt — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
  • sist — a court order stopping or suspending proceedings
  • sita — (in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
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