5-letter words containing as
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- prase — a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- psoas — either of two muscles, one on each side of the loin, extending internally from the sides of the spinal column to the upper end of the femur, which assist in flexing and rotating the thigh and flexing the trunk on the pelvis.
- qiyas — judgment of an act or belief by application of established principles governing some analogous act or belief.
- quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quasi — resembling; seeming; virtual: a quasi member.
- quass — a Russian beer made from fermenting rye or barley and having a dark color and sour taste.
- rajas — a king or prince in India.
- rased — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- raser — raze.
- rases — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- rashi — (Solomon ben Isaac) 1040–1105, French Hebrew scholar.
- rasht — a city in NW Iran, about 10 miles (16 km) S of the Caspian Sea.
- rason — a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- raspy — harsh; grating; rasping.
- rasse — a small civet, Viverricula indica, of S and SE Asia
- rasta — Rastafarian (def 1).
- rnase — ribonuclease.
- roast — to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
- rojas — Fernando de [fer-nahn-daw th e] /fɛrˈnɑn dɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), c1475–1541? Spanish writer.
- rosas — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- roxas — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1892–1948, Philippine statesman: 1st president of the Philippines 1946–48.
- rudas — a coarse, rude old woman
- saser — a device for amplifying ultrasound, working on a similar principle to a laser
- sasha — a female given name, form of Sandra or Alexandra.
- sasin — blackbuck.
- sask. — Saskatchewan
- sasse — a lock on a river made to increase its navigability
- sassy — impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- sease — to seize
- shwas — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- silas — a male given name.
- sivas — Shiva.
- slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- slask — Polish name of Silesia.
- smash — to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
- snash — insolence; impertinence.
- so as — in order (to)
- sodas — [D.L. Parnas & J.A. Darringer. Proc FJCC 31:449-474, AFIPS (Fall 1967)].
- spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- stash — to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
- stasi — formerly, the secret police in East Germany
- swash — to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
- tamas — (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- tapas — the bark of the paper mulberry.
- taser — a brand of weapon that fires electrical probes that give an electric shock, causing temporary paralysis
- tasse — any of a series of jointed, metal plates forming a skirtlike protection of armor for the lower trunk and thighs
- tasso — Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- taste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
- tasty — good-tasting; savory: a tasty canapé.