6-letter words containing s
- arhats — Plural form of arhat.
- ariose — characterized by melody
- arioso — a recitative with the lyrical quality of an aria
- arised — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of arise.
- arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arises — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arista — a stiff bristle such as the awn of some grasses and cereals
- aristo — an aristocrat
- arkies — a term used to refer to a migrant worker originally from Arkansas.
- arkose — a sandstone consisting of grains of feldspar and quartz cemented by a mixture of quartz and clay minerals
- arliss — George, 1868–1946, English actor.
- armies — Plural form of army.
- armors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armor.
- aromas — Plural form of aroma.
- arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- arrays — Plural form of array.
- arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- arrish — corn stubble
- arrose — (obsolete) To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.
- arrows — a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
- arseno — having or containing arsenic
- arshin — a Russian unit of length equal to 28 inches (71 cm).
- arsine — a colourless poisonous gas used in the manufacture of organic compounds, to dope transistors, and as a military poisonous gas. Formula: AsH3
- arsino — having or comprising the radical AsH2
- arsons — Plural form of arson.
- artels — Plural form of artel.
- artist — An artist is someone who draws or paints pictures or creates sculptures as a job or a hobby.
- artois — a former province of N France
- arusha — a city in N Tanganyika, in Tanzania.
- as for — You use as for and as to at the beginning of a sentence in order to introduce a slightly different subject that is still connected to the previous one.
- as how — that
- as one — If a group of people does something as one, all the people do the same thing at the same time or in the same way.
- as per — If something happens as per a particular plan or suggestion, it happens in the way planned or suggested.
- as was — in a previous state
- as yet — You use as yet with negative statements to describe a situation that has existed up until the present time.
- asa/bs — an obsolete expression of the speed of a photographic film, replaced by the ISO rating
- asanas — Plural form of asana.
- asante — Ashanti.
- asarum — the dried strong-scented root of the wild ginger plant: a flavouring agent and source of an aromatic oil used in perfumery, formerly used in medicine
- asbury — Francis1745-1816; 1st Methodist bishop in U.S.
- ascend — If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it.
- ascent — An ascent is an upward journey, especially when you are walking or climbing.
- ascham — Roger. ?1515–68, English humanist writer and classical scholar: tutor to Queen Elizabeth I
- ascian — a person who lives in the area between the tropics
- ascoma — a fruiting body that bears asci.
- ascots — Plural form of ascot.
- aseity — existence derived from itself, having no other source
- asemia — inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.
- asemic — inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.
- aseyev — Nikolay Nikolaevich [nik-uh-lahy nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1963, Russian poet.