4-letter words containing s
- airs — affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
- aisy — Archaic spelling of easy.
- aits — a small island, especially in a river.
- alas — You use alas to say that you think that the facts you are talking about are sad or unfortunate.
- albs — Plural form of alb.
- ales — Plural form of ale.
- alls — the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year.
- alms — Alms are gifts of money, clothes, or food to poor people.
- alps — a mountain range in S central Europe, extending over 1000 km (650 miles) from the Mediterranean coast of France and NW Italy through Switzerland, N Italy, and Austria to Slovenia. Highest peak: Mont Blanc, 4807 m (15 771 ft)
- also — You can use also to give more information about a person or thing, or to add another relevant fact.
- amas — a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- ambs — Plural form of amb.
- ames — a city in central Iowa.
- 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)
- amos — a Hebrew prophet of the 8th century bc
- amps — amputation.
- anas — a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject, person, place, or thing.
- anes — once.
- anis — a French or Spanish liqueur flavored with aniseed
- ansa — the apparent extremities of planetary rings, esp those of Saturn, when viewed from such a perspective that they look like handles
- ansi — American National Standards Institution
- ants — any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.
- anus — A person's anus is the hole from which faeces leaves their body.
- apes — Plural form of ape.
- apis — (in ancient Egypt) a sacred bull worshipped at Memphis
- apps — Plural form of app.
- apse — a domed or vaulted semicircular or polygonal recess, esp at the east end of a church
- apso — a Tibetan terrier
- apsu — an Akkadian god: the consort of Tiamat and the father of the gods.
- apus — a constellation in the S hemisphere situated near Musca and Octans
- aras — a river rising in mountains in E Turkey and flowing east to the Caspian Sea: forms part of the E border of Turkey and the N border of Iran. Length: about 1100 km (660 miles)
- arbs — Plural form of arb.
- arcs — Associate of the Royal College of Science
- ards — a district of Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 74 369 (2003 est). Area: 368 sq km (142 sq miles)
- ares — the god of war, born of Zeus and Hera
- aris — buttocks
- arks — Plural form of ark.
- arms — weapons collectively
- aros — Plural form of aro.
- arse — Your arse is your bottom.
- arsm — Associate of the Royal School of Mines
- arts — cunning or crafty actions or plots; schemes
- as31 — (tool, programming) An 8031/8051 assembler by Ken Stauffer <[email protected]> and Theo Deraadt which produces a variety of object code output formats. The distribution includes an assembler, yacc parser, and documentation. as31 runs on Sun-3, Sun-4, SunOS 4.0, Tandy 6000, and Xenix.
- asap — asap is an abbreviation for 'as soon as possible'.
- asat — antisatellite
- asbo — An ASBO is a legal order restricting the activities or movements of someone who has repeatedly behaved in a way that upsets or annoys other people. ASBO is an abbreviation for 'anti-social behaviour order'.
- asce — American Society of Civil Engineers
- asch — Sholem (ˈʃəʊləm). 1880–1957, US writer, born in Poland, who wrote in Yiddish. His works include biblical novels
- asci — ascus
- ascs — Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service