4-letter words containing a
- amay — (transitive, and, intransitive, obsolete) To dismay; confound; be dismayed.
- amba — anba.
- ambo — either of two raised pulpits from which the gospels and epistles were read in early Christian churches
- ambs — Plural form of amb.
- amdg — ad majorem Dei gloriam (the Jesuit motto)
- amel — (obsolete) enamel.
- amen — Amen is said by Christians at the end of a prayer.
- ames — a city in central Iowa.
- amex — American Express
- amga — a river in E Russia, flowing NE to the Aldan River. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- amia — a species of primitive ray-finned fish
- amic — of or relating to an amide or amine.
- amid — If something happens amid noises or events of some kind, it happens while the other things are happening.
- amie — a female friend
- amin — Idi (ˈiːdiː). 1925–2003, Ugandan soldier; dictator and head of state (1971–79). Notorious for his brutality, he was overthrown and exiled
- amir — Amir means the same as emir.
- amis — Sir Kingsley. 1922–95, British novelist and poet, noted for his novels Lucky Jim (1954), Jake's Thing (1978), Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990)
- amit — (obsolete) To lose.
- amla — the edible fruit of a species of small leafy Indian tree, amlica embilicus, valued both for its vitamin C content and for the oil extracted from it, which is used as a hair conditioner
- amma — An abbess or spiritual mother.
- ammo — Ammo is ammunition for guns and other weapons.
- amok — a state of murderous frenzy, originally observed among Malays
- amol — Active Management Of Labor
- amon — a local god of fertility and life in Egyptian Thebes: later associated with Re as the chief deity of Egypt ( Amon-Re): identified by the Greeks (and Romans) with Zeus (and Jupiter)
- amor — love of one's country; patriotism.
- amos — a Hebrew prophet of the 8th century bc
- amoy — a port in SE China, in Fujian province on Amoy Island, at the mouth of the Jiulong River opposite Taiwan: one of the first treaty ports opened to European trade (1842). Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- ampl — (language) Along with mpl, the intrinsic parallel languages for MasPar's computers. AMPL and mpl are parallel variants of C. Ampl is actually now a gcc port.
- amps — amputation.
- amri — Omri.
- amur — a river in NE Asia, rising in N Mongolia as the Argun and flowing southeast, then northeast to the Sea of Okhotsk: forms the boundary between Manchuria and Russia. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)
- amyl — of, consisting of, or containing any of eight isomeric forms of the monovalent group C5H11-
- ana- — up; upwards
- anal — Anal means relating to the anus of a person or animal.
- anam — a former kingdom and French protectorate along the E coast of French Indochina: now part of Vietnam.
- anan — what did you say?
- anas — a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject, person, place, or thing.
- anax — one of the Gigantes and father of Asterius.
- anba — father: a title of a clergyman or saint in the Coptic Church.
- ance — (chiefly, Scotland) alternative spelling of once.
- ancp — (language) An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- ande — Alternative form of onde.
- andf — Architecture Neutral Distribution Format
- andy — a male given name, form of Andrew.
- anes — once.
- anet — The herb dill, or dillseed.
- anew — If you do something anew, you do it again, often in a different way from before.
- anga — one of the two parts, or tetrachords, of the octave in Indian music
- anie — Obsolete spelling of any.
- anik — one of a series of Canadian geosynchronous communications satellites that provide telephone and television transmissions.