6-letter words containing s
- abydos — an ancient town in central Egypt: site of many temples and tombs
- acarus — any of the free-living mites of the widely distributed genus Acarus, several of which, esp A. siro, are serious pests of stored flour, grain, etc
- acates — provisions, esp food
- access — If you have access to a building or other place, you are able or allowed to go into it.
- accius — Lucius, c170–c90 b.c, Roman poet and prose writer.
- accost — If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening.
- accuse — If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
- achest — Archaic second-person singular form of ache.
- achish — the king of the Philistine city of Gath, who twice gave refuge to David. I Sam. 21:10–15.
- achsah — the daughter of Caleb who was promised in marriage to the conqueror of the city of Debir. Josh. 15:16–19; Judges 1:12–15.
- acinus — any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acoasm — acouasm.
- acorns — Plural form of acorn.
- acquis — The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of EU law.
- across — If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other.
- acrost — Eye dialect of across.
- actons — Plural form of acton.
- actors — Plural form of actor.
- acutes — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- ad seg — administrative segregation.
- adabas — (database) A relational database system by Software AG. While it was initially designed for large IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of Unix including AIX. ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.
- adages — a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- adamas — Admah.
- adapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt.
- addams — Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931
- adders — Plural form of adder.
- addles — mentally confused; muddled.
- adepts — Plural form of adept.
- adieus — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adipsy — Archaic form of adipsia.
- aditus — The entrance to a cavity or channel.
- adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
- adlibs — Plural form of adlib.
- admass — the part of society that is easily influenced by the mass media and advertising
- admins — Plural form of admin.
- admits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admit.
- adobes — Plural form of adobe.
- adobos — Plural form of adobo.
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adoors — at the door; of the door
- adopts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adopt.
- adorbs — Informal. very cute; adorable.
- adores — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adours — a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- adsorb — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick
- adsorp — (nonstandard) To adsorb.
- adults — Plural form of adult.
- advise — If you advise someone to do something, you tell them what you think they should do.
- adviso — (obsolete) information; advice; intelligence.