6-letter words containing s
- annuls — (especially of laws or other established rules, usages, etc.) to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate: to annul a marriage.
- anodes — Plural form of anode.
- anoles — Plural form of anole.
- ansate — having a handle or handle-like part
- ansatz — Lb mathematics A mathematical assumption used to describe a certain phenomenon, posited in order to help provisionally solve an equation or other problem. (from 20th c.).
- anselm — Saint. 1033–1109, Italian Benedictine monk; archbishop of Canterbury (1093–1109): one of the founders of scholasticism; author of Cur Deus Homo? (Why did God become Man?). Feast day: Aug 21
- ansgar — Saint ("Apostle of the North") 801–865, French Benedictine priest and missionary: patron saint of Scandinavia.
- anshan — a city in NE China, in Liaoning province. Pop: 1 459 000 (2005 est)
- ansi c — (language, standard) (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989.
- answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
- antics — Antics are funny, silly, or unusual ways of behaving.
- antres — a cavern; cave.
- anubis — a deity, a son of Osiris, who conducted the dead to judgment. He is represented as having a jackal's head and was identified by the Greeks with Hermes
- anused — (in combination) Having (or having the characteristics associated with) a specified form of anus.
- anuses — the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
- anvers — French name of Antwerp.
- anvils — Plural form of anvil.
- anzaas — Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- aorist — a tense of the verb in classical Greek and in certain other inflected languages, indicating past action without reference to whether the action involved was momentary or continuous
- aortas — Plural form of aorta.
- apexes — the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- aphids — Plural form of aphid.
- apices — apex
- apises — a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- appals — (British) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appal.
- apples — well or fine; under control.
- appose — to place side by side or near to each other
- appros — (of a purchase) approval: on appro.
- aprons — Plural form of apron.
- apsara — A celestial nymph, typically the consort of a gandharva or heavenly musician.
- apside — (astronomy) An apsis.
- aptest — inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- arabis — any plant of the annual or perennial genus Arabis, some of which form low-growing mats with downy grey foliage and white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- araise — to raise
- araxes — Araks
- arbors — Plural form of arbor.
- arccos — arccosine
- arches — Obsolete. a person who is preeminent; a chief.
- arcsch — (mathematics) The area hyperbolic cosecant function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cosecant function.
- arcsec — 1⁄3600 of a degree of an angle
- arcsin — arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- ardors — Plural form of ardor.
- arecas — Plural form of areca.
- arenas — Plural form of arena.
- arepas — Plural form of arepa.
- aretes — Plural form of arete.
- argies — a term used to refer to an Argentine.
- argosy — a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships
- argots — Plural form of argot.
- argues — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.