4-letter words starting with a
- alky — a heavy drinker or alcoholic
- all- — All- is added to nouns or adjectives in order to form adjectives which describe something as consisting only of the thing mentioned or as having only the quality indicated.
- alls — the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year.
- ally — A country's ally is another country that has an agreement to support it, especially in war.
- alma — a feminine name
- alme — almah.
- alms — Alms are gifts of money, clothes, or food to poor people.
- alod — a feudal estate with no superior
- aloe — any plant of the liliaceous genus Aloe, chiefly native to southern Africa, with fleshy spiny-toothed leaves and red or yellow flowers
- aloo — (in Indian cookery) a potato dish
- alot — lot (def 14).
- alow — in or into the lower rigging of a vessel, near the deck
- alps — a mountain range in S central Europe, extending over 1000 km (650 miles) from the Mediterranean coast of France and NW Italy through Switzerland, N Italy, and Austria to Slovenia. Highest peak: Mont Blanc, 4807 m (15 771 ft)
- also — You can use also to give more information about a person or thing, or to add another relevant fact.
- alto — An alto is a woman who has a low singing voice.
- alum — An alum is the same as an alumnus.
- alva — Duke of, title of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo. 1508–82, Spanish general and statesman who suppressed the Protestant revolt in the Netherlands (1567–72) and conquered Portugal (1580)
- amah — (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese origin
- aman — Haman.
- amas — a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- amay — (transitive, and, intransitive, obsolete) To dismay; confound; be dismayed.
- amba — anba.
- ambo — either of two raised pulpits from which the gospels and epistles were read in early Christian churches
- ambs — Plural form of amb.
- amdg — ad majorem Dei gloriam (the Jesuit motto)
- amel — (obsolete) enamel.
- amen — Amen is said by Christians at the end of a prayer.
- ames — a city in central Iowa.
- amex — American Express
- amga — a river in E Russia, flowing NE to the Aldan River. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- amia — a species of primitive ray-finned fish
- amic — of or relating to an amide or amine.
- amid — If something happens amid noises or events of some kind, it happens while the other things are happening.
- amie — a female friend
- amin — Idi (ˈiːdiː). 1925–2003, Ugandan soldier; dictator and head of state (1971–79). Notorious for his brutality, he was overthrown and exiled
- amir — Amir means the same as emir.
- amis — Sir Kingsley. 1922–95, British novelist and poet, noted for his novels Lucky Jim (1954), Jake's Thing (1978), Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990)
- amit — (obsolete) To lose.
- amla — the edible fruit of a species of small leafy Indian tree, amlica embilicus, valued both for its vitamin C content and for the oil extracted from it, which is used as a hair conditioner
- amma — An abbess or spiritual mother.
- ammo — Ammo is ammunition for guns and other weapons.
- amok — a state of murderous frenzy, originally observed among Malays
- amol — Active Management Of Labor
- amon — a local god of fertility and life in Egyptian Thebes: later associated with Re as the chief deity of Egypt ( Amon-Re): identified by the Greeks (and Romans) with Zeus (and Jupiter)
- amor — love of one's country; patriotism.
- amos — a Hebrew prophet of the 8th century bc
- amoy — a port in SE China, in Fujian province on Amoy Island, at the mouth of the Jiulong River opposite Taiwan: one of the first treaty ports opened to European trade (1842). Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- ampl — (language) Along with mpl, the intrinsic parallel languages for MasPar's computers. AMPL and mpl are parallel variants of C. Ampl is actually now a gcc port.
- amps — amputation.
- amri — Omri.