4-letter words starting with a
- aits — a small island, especially in a river.
- aitu — (in Polynesian culture) a ghost or spirit
- aiya — (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, informal) ah; oh; expressing surprise or blame.
- ajar — If a door is ajar, it is slightly open.
- ajax — the son of Telamon; a Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself in vexation when Achilles' armour was given to Odysseus
- ajee — to one side; awry.
- akan — a member of a people of Ghana and the E Côte d'Ivoire
- akcl — Austin Kyoto Common Lisp
- akee — ackee
- aken — (obsolete) To bear, give birth to. (Usually in past participle.).
- aker — The old and regular spelling of acre.
- akil — a male given name: from an Arabic word meaning “one who uses reason.”.
- akin — If one thing is akin to another, it is similar to it in some way.
- akko — city in NW Israel, on the Mediterranean: pop. 37,000
- alae — plural of ala.
- alai — a mountain range in central Asia, in SW Kyrgyzstan, running from the Tian Shan range in China into Tajikistan. Average height: 4800 m (16 000 ft), rising over 5850 m (19 500 ft)
- alam — (language) A language for symbolic mathematics, especially General Relativity. See also CLAM.
- alan — a common male first name
- alap — a style of Indian vocal music without words
- alar — relating to, resembling, or having wings or alae
- alas — You use alas to say that you think that the facts you are talking about are sad or unfortunate.
- alay — a mountain range in SW Kyrgyzstan, part of the Tien Shan. To 19,280 feet (5880 meters).
- alba — Duke of Alva
- albe — (obsolete) Although; despite the fact that.
- albi — a town in S France: connected with the Albigensian heresy and the crusade against it. Pop: 46 274 (1999)
- albo — (American, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian-American.
- albs — Plural form of alb.
- alc. — alcohol
- alcm — air-launched cruise missile: a type of cruise missile that can be launched from an aircraft
- alco — A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives.
- ald. — Alderman
- alda — Frances, 1885–1952, U.S. operatic singer.
- alea — Classical Mythology. an epithet of Athena referring to a sanctuary built in her honor by Aleus.
- alec — A Language with an Extensible Compiler
- alee — on or towards the lee
- alef — (language) A programming language from Bell Labs. ALEF boasts few new ideas but is instead a careful synthesis of ideas from other languages. The result is a practical general purpose programming language which was once displacing C as their main implementation language. Both shared variables and message passing are supported through language constructs. A window system, user interface, operating system network code, news reader, mailer and variety of other tools in Plan 9 are now implemented using ALEF.
- ales — Plural form of ale.
- alew — a cry used to call hounds at a hunt
- alex — a male given name, form of Alexander.
- alfa — the NATO name for a class of nuclear-powered Soviet attack submarine having a titanium hull and a submerged speed of more than 40 knots.
- alfl — (language) A lazy function language. A weakly typed, lazy functional language developed by Paul Hudak <[email protected]> of Yale in 1983. Alfl is implemented as a Scheme preprocessor for the Orbit compiler, by transforming laziness into force-and-delay. See also ParAlfl.
- alg- — algo-
- alg. — Algeria(n)
- alga — A simple nonflowering plant of a large group that includes the seaweeds and many single-celled forms . Algae contain chlorophyll but lack true stems, roots, leaves, and vascular tissue.
- algy — a male given name, form of Algernon.
- alif — the first letter of the Arabic alphabet
- alim — An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class.
- alit — alight1
- alk. — alkali
- alko — a heavy drinker or alcoholic