4-letter words containing r, s
- orts — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osar — plural of os3 .
- ours — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- pars — Programmable Airline Reservation System
- pers — Persia
- pres — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- pros — arguments or votes in favour of a proposal or motion
- prus — Prussia
- psbr — public sector borrowing requirement: the excess of government expenditure over receipts (mainly from taxation) that has to be financed by borrowing from the banks or the public
- psro — Professional Standards Review Organization: a group of doctors and healthcare professionals monitoring the quality of medical care that is paid for by the federal government in a particular geographical area
- purs — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- r2rs — A revision of RRS, itself revised in R3RS.
- r3rs — A revision of R2RS, revised in R4RS.
- r4rs — A revision of R3RS, revised in R3.99RS.
- rags — a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- rais — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
- rans — a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- rasa — (in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- rasc — (the former) Royal Army Service Corps, now called Royal Corps of Transport
- rase — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- rash — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- rask — Rasmus Christian [ras-muh s kris-chuh n;; Danish rahs-moo s krees-tyahn] /ˈræs məs ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish ˈrɑs mʊs ˈkris tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1787–1832, Danish philologist.
- rasp — to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
- rats — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- rays — John, 1627?–1705, English naturalist.
- rcvs — Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- rdos — Realtime Disk Operating System
- rebs — Mister (used as a title of respect).
- regs — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- reis — a former Portuguese and Brazilian money of account
- resh — the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- resp — respective(ly)
- rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
- reus — a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- rhus — any shrub or small tree of the anacardiaceous genus Rhus, several species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their foliage, which assumes brilliant colours in autumn
- rhys — Jean (Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams) 1890–1979, English novelist, born in Dominica.
- ribs — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- rics — Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- rids — to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
- riis — Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- rims — the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- risc — Reduced Instruction Set Computer
- rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- risp — to rasp or to grate
- riss — the third major Pleistocene glaciation in Alpine Europe
- rnas — RNAS is a written abbreviation for Royal Naval Air Services, one of the units which make up the United Kingdom's armed forces.
- rosa — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- rose — Remote Operations Service Element
- ross — Betsy Griscom [gris-kuh m] /ˈgrɪs kəm/ (Show IPA), 1752–1836, maker of the first U.S. flag.