4-letter words that end in s
- bees — Also called bee block. Nautical. a piece of hardwood, bolted to the side of a bowsprit, through which to reeve stays.
- beos — (operating system) The operating system originally designed to run on the BeBox microcomputer. BeOS is good at both multitasking and real-time operation. It has a bash command shell, with ports of many GNU programs by Be, Inc. It has a GUI front end (not X). A C++ compiler is supplied with the machine, and there are rumours of other languages being ported in the future. BeOs eventually became used on the x86 and standard PPC. Be, Inc. went bankrupt in 1999, after releasing the last upgrade of BeOS (R5.0.3), and was sold to Palm. Several groups are currently (2003) attempting to create an R6 version of the OS. The most likely to succeed are Yellowtab and OpenBeOS, which is likely to be renamed.
- bess — a diminutive of Elizabeth
- bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
- bids — to command; order; direct: to bid them depart.
- bins — a pair of glasses
- bios — Basic Input Output System: the built-in software which controls the primary functions of a PC
- bips — Billion (10^9) instructions per second. Same as GIPS.
- bmus — Bachelor of Music
- boas — Franz (frants). 1858–1942, US anthropologist, born in Germany. He made major contributions to cultural and linguistic anthropology in studies of North American Indians, including The Mind of Primitive Man (1911; 1938)
- bocs — Berard Object and Class Specifier
- bors — one the knights of the Round Table, nephew of Lancelot
- boss — Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
- bots — a digestive disease of horses and some other animals caused by the presence of botfly larvae in the stomach
- brcs — British Red Cross Society
- bres — a Fomorian king of Ireland, whose unpopular rule led to the expulsion of the Fomorians by the Tuatha De Danann.
- bris — ritual circumcision of male babies, usually at eight days old, regarded as the formal entry of the child to the Jewish community
- btos — Convergent Technologies Operating System
- bubs — (used as an often insolent term of address) brother; buddy.
- bugs — crazy
- buns — the buttocks
- buss — A buss is a kiss.
- buts — with the exception of; except; save: No one replied but me.
- bvds — long undergarments for men
- byes — near to or next to: a home by a lake.
- cabs — Plural form of cab.
- cads — Plural form of cad.
- cags — Plural form of cag.
- cals — Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support: a DoD standard for electronic exchange of data with commercial suppliers.
- cams — Plural form of cam.
- cans — a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal: a can of soup.
- caps — Capital letters.
- cars — Plural form of car.
- cass — Lewis1782-1866; U.S. statesman
- cats — credit accumulation transfer scheme: a scheme enabling school-leavers and others to acquire transferable certificates for relevant work experience and study towards a recognized qualification
- caus — causative
- caws — Plural form of caw.
- cays — Plural form of cay.
- cbbs — bulletin board system
- cees — the letter C.
- cels — Plural form of cel.
- cens — a type of annual property ground rent
- ceps — Plural form of cep.
- cess — (formerly) any of several special taxes, such as a land tax in Scotland
- chis — Plural form of chi.
- cics — Customer Information Control System
- cifs — Common Internet File System
- cigs — Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- cits — pure consciousness.
- clas — A Celtic monastery.