4-letter words starting with s
- sikh — a member of a monotheistic religion, founded in the Punjab c1500 by the guru Nanak, that refuses to recognize the Hindu caste system or the Brahmanical priesthood and forbids magic, idolatry, and pilgrimages.
- sild — (in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- sile — to pour with rain
- silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
- sill — Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).
- silo — a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- silt — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- sima — the uppermost member of a full classical order, usually a cyma recta, representing a roof gutter; cymatium.
- simd — Single Instruction/Multiple Data
- simi — an East African short sword
- simm — Single In-line Memory Module
- simp — a fool; simpleton.
- sims — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- sina — a female given name.
- sind — a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- sine — an indispensable condition; requisite.
- sing — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- sinh — hyperbolic sine.
- sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- sins — the Akkadian god of the moon: the counterpart of the Sumerian Nanna.
- sion — a canton in SW Switzerland. 2021 sq. mi. (5235 sq. km). Capital: Sion.
- siop — (formerly) the secret and central U.S. contingency plan for waging a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
- sipb — Student Information Processing Board, MIT.
- sipe — (of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- sipp — Single Inline Pin Package
- sips — to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily.
- sire — the male parent of a quadruped.
- siri — An object-oriented constraint language using a single abstraction mechanism developed by Bruce Horn of CMU in 1991. Siri is a conceptual blend of BETA and Bertrand. It is similar to Kaleidoscope.
- sist — a court order stopping or suspending proceedings
- sita — (in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- site — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- sith — since
- situ — in situ.
- siva — Shiva.
- size — any of various gelatinous or glutinous preparations made from glue, starch, etc., used for filling the pores of cloth, paper, etc., or as an adhesive ground for gold leaf on books.
- sizy — thick; viscous.
- sjoe — an exclamation expressive of surprise, admiration, exhaustion, etc
- skag — heroin.
- skas — a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.
- skat — a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.
- skaw — The, a cape at the N tip of Denmark.
- sked — an airline that maintains a regular schedule of flights.
- skee — one of a pair of long, slender runners made of wood, plastic, or metal used in gliding over snow.
- skeg — a projection supporting a rudder at its lower end, located abaft a sternpost or rudderpost.
- sken — to squint or stare
- skeo — a dry-stone hut
- skep — a round farm basket of wicker or wood.
- sker — to scour
- sket — to splash (water)
- skew — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.