4-letter words that end in ss
- -ass — added to adjectives as an intensifier
- -ess — indicating a female
- 5ess — Number 5 Electronic Switching System
- bass — A bass is a man with a very deep singing voice.
- bess — a diminutive of Elizabeth
- boss — Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
- buss — A buss is a kiss.
- cass — Lewis1782-1866; U.S. statesman
- cess — (formerly) any of several special taxes, such as a land tax in Scotland
- coss — kos.
- ctss — Compatible Timesharing System
- cuss — If someone cusses, they swear at someone or use bad language.
- dass — (archaic) To dare.
- dess — Obsolete form of dais.
- dhss — Department of Health and Social Security
- diss — (US, British, slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
- doss — any of several single-user, command-driven operating systems for personal computers, especially MS DOS.
- dtss — (operating system) The first commercial time-sharing system, created by Dartmouth College and sold by General Electric around 1967. GE's Information Service Divsion (ISD) marketed DTSS which was running on a system called GE-265 (a combination of the front-end processor the Datanet-30 and the GE-235). DTSS was ported (and significantly improved by GE ISD around 1965-1966 on a combination of DN-30 and GE-635). This proprietary system, called Mk-II, later improved by GE and renamed Mk-III, is still working today (1997) as part of the GE service bureau that also includes IBM and Unix computers.
- epss — Electronic Performance Support System
- fess — a teacher.
- fhss — Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
- fiss — (transitive, nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
- foss — a moat or defensive ditch in a fortification, usually filled with water.
- fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- goss — (slang) gossip.
- gpss — General Purpose Systems Simulator. Geoffrey Gordon, 1960. Discrete simulations. "The Application of GPSS V to Discrete System Simulation", G. Gordon, P-H 1975. Versions include GPSS II (1963), GPSS III (1965), GPS/360 (1967), and GPSS V (1970).
- hess — Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.
- hiss — to make or emit a sharp sound like that of the letter s prolonged, as a snake does, or as steam does when forced under pressure through a small opening.
- hoss — (US, slang, South) A horse.
- huss — John, 1369?–1415, Czech religious reformer and martyr.
- jass — a card game for two persons that is played with a 36-card pack made by removing all cards below the sixes from a regular 52-card pack, in which point values are assigned to certain melds and to certain cards taken in tricks.
- jess — a male or female given name, form of Jesse, Jessie, or Jessica.
- joss — JOHNNIAC Open Shop System
- kiss — to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed, and then often to part them and to emit a smacking sound, in an expression of affection, love, greeting, reverence, etc.: He kissed his son on the cheek.
- koss — Alternative form of coss.
- lass — a girl or young woman, especially one who is unmarried.
- less — not at all (used before a verb): He little knows what awaits him.
- liss — Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
- loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- mass — the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
- mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- muss — a state of disorder or untidiness.
- nass — a river in W British Columbia, Canada, flowing SW to the Portland Inlet, an arm of the Pacific Ocean, near Prince Rupert. 236 miles (380 km) long.
- ness — a headland; promontory; cape.
- niss — National Information Services and Systems
- nuss — Eye dialect of nurse.
- pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- piss — urine.
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