4-letter words starting with a
- auew — Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
- aug. — Aug. is a written abbreviation for August.
- auge — a daughter of King Aleus who became a priestess of Athena. After being raped by Hercules she bore a son, Telephus.
- auks — Plural form of auk.
- aula — a large place where people can congregate, such as a hall
- auld — old
- aune — an old French measure of length, usually for measuring cloth
- aunt — Someone's aunt is the sister of their mother or father, or the wife of their uncle.
- aura — An aura is a quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them.
- aut- — auto-
- auth — authentic
- auto — an automobile
- auxo — one of the Graces worshiped at Athens.
- aval — of, like, or relating to a grandparent
- avar — a member of a people of unknown origin in E Europe from the 6th to the early 9th century ad: crushed by Charlemagne around 800
- avay — Eye dialect of away.
- ave. — Ave. is a written abbreviation for avenue.
- avel — (transitive, obsolete) To pull away.
- aven — A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.
- aver — If you aver that something is the case, you say very firmly that it is true.
- aves — the class of vertebrates comprising the birds
- avid — You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.
- avis — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “bird.”.
- aviv — the seventh month of the Jewish year, equivalent to Nisan of the modern Jewish calendar. Ex. 34:18.
- avon — a former county of SW England, created in 1974 from areas of N Somerset and S Gloucestershire: replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset (Somerset), North Somerset (Somerset), South Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire), and Bristol
- avos — Plural form of avo.
- avow — If you avow something, you admit it or declare it.
- away — If someone or something moves or is moved away from a place, they move or are moved so that they are no longer there. If you are away from a place, you are not in the place where people expect you to be.
- awdl — a very long traditional Welsh poem following strict conventions
- awed — wondering and respectful
- awee — for a short duration of time
- awes — an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like: in awe of God; in awe of great political figures.
- awfy — awfully, extremely
- awls — Plural form of awl.
- awns — Plural form of awn.
- awny — having awns
- awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
- awre — Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
- awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- axal — Archaic form of axial.
- axed — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
- axel — a jump in which the skater takes off from the forward outside edge of one skate, makes one and a half, two and a half, or three and a half turns in the air, and lands on the backward outside edge of the other skate
- axen — Lb UK dialectal Ashes.
- axes — Axes is the plural of axe.
- axil — the angle between the upper surface of a branch or leafstalk and the stem from which it grows
- axin — (medicine) A fatty and varnish-like substance produced in Mexico by an insect, Coccus axinus, used in the arts and locally in medicine, being regarded as a good vulnerary and resolvent.
- axis — An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something.
- axle — An axle is a rod connecting a pair of wheels on a car or other vehicle.
- axon — the long threadlike extension of a nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses from the cell body
- axum — Aksum