6-letter words starting with as
- aslant — at a slant
- aslaug — daughter of Brynhild and Sigurd, wife of Ragnar Lodbrok.
- asleep — Someone who is asleep is sleeping.
- aslope — sloping
- aslosh — submerged or deluged with or as with water
- asmara — the capital of Eritrea; cathedral (1922); Grand Mosque (1937); university (1958). Pop: 615 000 (2005 est)
- asmear — in a smeared or soiled manner
- asonia — tone deafness.
- asosan — Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- aspect — An aspect of something is one of the parts of its character or nature.
- aspens — Plural form of aspen.
- aspers — Plural form of asper.
- aspire — If you aspire to something such as an important job, you have a strong desire to achieve it.
- aspish — relating to asps
- asport — the phenomena of the vanishing or removal of objects (by a spirit) and the subsequent reappearance in another location
- aspout — in a spurting or spouting manner
- asprin — Misspelling of aspirin.
- asquat — in a crouched down manner
- asrama — any of the four phases of the ideally conducted life: education, work, withdrawal from society, and asceticism.
- assail — If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
- assain — (obsolete): To heal or save.
- assais — any of several slender Brazilian palms of the genus Euterpe, especially E. edulis, a species bearing a purple fruit from which a beverage is made by infusion.
- assart — an area of land that has had trees and undergrowth removed and the ground broken up in preparation for cultivation
- assays — Plural form of assay.
- assent — If someone gives their assent to something that has been suggested, they formally agree to it.
- assert — If someone asserts a fact or belief, they state it firmly.
- assess — When you assess a person, thing, or situation, you consider them in order to make a judgment about them.
- assets — the property and claims against debtors that a business enterprise may apply to discharge its liabilities. Assets may be fixed, current, liquid, or intangible and are shown balanced against liabilities
- asshur — Ashur1
- assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- assisi — a town in central Italy, in Umbria: birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order here in 1208. Pop: 25 304 (2001)
- assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- assiut — Asyut
- assize — a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body
- assoc. — Assoc. is a written abbreviation for association, , associated, or , associate.
- assoil — to absolve; set free
- assort — to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify
- assott — besotted
- assuan — Aswan
- assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
- assure — If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried.
- astana — the capital of Kazakhstan, in the N of the country; replaced Almaty as capital in 1997; an important railway junction. Pop: 335 000 (2005 est)
- astare — in an obvious or pronounced manner
- asteer — (Scotland) Alternative form of astir.
- astely — the lack of a central cylinder or stele
- astern — Something that is astern is at the back of a ship or behind the back part.
- asters — Plural form of aster.
- astert — to jump up or move quickly, to come abruptly into reality or being or to flee
- asthma — Asthma is a lung condition which causes difficulty in breathing.
- astony — (archaic) To stun, paralyse, astound.