6-letter words containing s
- aisles — a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- akasha — (in the philosophies of India) the ether, regarded as including material and nonmaterial entities in a common medium.
- akashi — a city on W Honshu, in Japan.
- alamos — a poplar.
- alarms — Plural form of alarm.
- alaska — the largest state of the US, in the extreme northwest of North America: the aboriginal inhabitants are Inuit and Yupik; the earliest White settlements were made by the Russians; it was purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. It is mostly mountainous and volcanic, rising over 6000 m (20 000 ft), with the Yukon basin in the central region; large areas are covered by tundra; it has important mineral resources (chiefly coal, oil, and natural gas). Capital: Juneau. Pop: 648 818 (2003 est). Area: 1 530 694 sq km (591 004 sq miles)
- albers — Josef. 1888–1976, US painter, designer, and poet, born in Germany. His works include a series of abstract paintings entitled Homage to the Square
- albums — Plural form of album.
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alders — Plural form of alder.
- aldisp — Applicative Language for Digital Signal Processing
- aldiss — Brian W(ilson). born 1925, British novelist, best known for his science fiction. His works include Non-Stop (1958), Enemies of the System (1978), The Helliconia Trilogy (1983–86), Forgotten Life (1988), and The Detached Retina (1995)
- aldols — Plural form of aldol.
- aldose — a sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is a hemiacetal
- alephs — Plural form of aleph.
- alerts — Plural form of alert.
- alesia — an ancient city and fortress in Gaul: Caesar captured Vercingetorix here 52 b.c.
- aletes — a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- alexis — a masculine and feminine name
- algins — any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- alibis — Plural form of alibi.
- aliens — Plural form of alien.
- aligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of align.
- alines — (especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- alisma — a flowering marsh plant of the genus Alsima, with round leaves
- alison — a feminine name
- alissa — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
- aliyos — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- alkies — Plural form of alkie.
- alkyds — Plural form of alkyd.
- allays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allay.
- alleys — Plural form of alley.
- allies — (in World War I) the powers of the Triple Entente (France, Russia, and Britain) together with the nations allied with them
- allons — let's go!
- allots — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allot.
- allows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allow.
- alloys — Plural form of alloy.
- almost — You use almost to indicate that something is not completely the case but is nearly the case.
- almous — alms.
- aloeus — a son of Poseidon, husband of Iphimedia, and foster father of Otus and Ephialtes.
- alonso — Alicia (Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez Hoyo) born 1921, Cuban ballerina.
- alphas — Plural form of alpha.
- alsace — a region and former province of NE France, between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine: famous for its wines. Area: 8280 sq km (3196 sq miles)
- alsike — a clover, Trifolium hybridum, native to Europe and Asia but widely cultivated as a forage crop. It has trifoliate leaves and pink or whitish flowers
- alston — a male given name.
- altars — Plural form of altar.
- alters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alter.
- alties — Plural form of altie.
- alveus — The channel of a river.
- always — If you always do something, you do it whenever a particular situation occurs. If you always did something, you did it whenever a particular situation occurred.