4-letter words - A Flashcards by Hartley Moorhouse

3rd person singular of the verb AAH

AAHS

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Plural of an E. Indian shrub

AALS

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Takes an -I

A nomogram, a chart or diagram of scaled lines or curves used to assist in mathematical calculations

ABAC

Takes an -I

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(Pl.) a tightly-woven camel-hair fabric or tunic, worn by Arabs.

ABAS

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Swedish pop group

(Aramaic) a Syriac or Coptic bishop

ABBA

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(Fr.) a courtesy title given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress

ABBE

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(Pl.) a kind of textile yarn.

ABBS

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Resting in a horizontal piece of furniture

ABED

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(Welsh) an estuary

ABER

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To incite by encouragement and support

ABET

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(Pt.) to stay, dwell.

ABID

pt of ABIDE

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Competent

ABLE

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Competently

ABLY

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(Fr.) a bomb shelter

ABRI

plural ABRIS

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To be adjacent to and touching

ABUT

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To pay the penalty for

ABYE

ABYES, ABYING, ABOUGHT (not ABYED*). Also ABY.

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(3rd. person) to pay as a penalty.

takes an S

ABYS

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A berry found in the Brazilian rainforest, aka palm berry

ACAI

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(Aust. sl.) an academic

ACCA

Also ACKER (as in Kathy)

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(Pt.) to play a winning serve in tennis.

ACED

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(Lat.) a plant of the maple genus

ACER

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(3rd.) to play a winning serve in tennis.

ACES

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A persistent dull pain

ACHE

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Persistently painful

ACHY

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Sharp, sour

ACID

(Greek) a peak, summit

ACME

A skin disease caused by inflammation of the sebaceous follicles, esp on the face, neck, and shoulders

ACNE ## Footnote Also ACNED

A measure of land equivalent to 4840 sq yd

ACRE ## Footnote ACRED

a skiing event in which a skier performs acrobatic moves to music

ACRO ## Footnote ACROS

(Lat.) official minutes of a proceeding. ## Footnote Same in Spanish

ACTA

(3rd.) to do in a specified way.

ACTS

(Denoting) carboxylic acid

ACYL ## Footnote AMYL, ARYL

# Think of (part of) a crow (Spenser) to daunt, subdue

ADAW

(3rd.) to make an addition.

ADDS

An email address

ADDY

A nearly horizontal shaft to the surface in a mine

ADIT

(Pl.) fuss.

ADOS

(Arch.) in a state of thirst.

ADRY

A cutting tool with an arched blade set at right angles to the handle; (verb) to shape with such a tool.

ADZE

(Lat.) the largest division of geological time, composed of several ERAS

AEON

(Relating to) aircraft or aeronautics

AERO ## Footnote AEROS

(Adj.) like air

AERY

(OE) an Old English rune used for AE

AESC

(At) a great distance

AFAR ## Footnote AFARS

To trust; to assure on one's faith

AFFY

A hairstyle characterized by thick, bushy curls standing out from the head

AFRO

(Malay) a jelly prepared from seaweeds of various kinds

AGAR

(Pl.) Turkish commander.

AGAS

Being of a certain age; old

AGED ## Footnote AGEDLY

(Scots) off the straight; ajar

AGEE ## Footnote AJEE

(Dial.) another time

AGEN ## Footnote AGIN

One that gets older

AGER

(Pl.) a long time.

AGES

(Turkish) a Turkish commander

AGHA

(Dial.) another time.

AGIN ## Footnote AGEN

(Ital.) a premium paid on foreign currency exchange

AGIO

(Inuit) a breathing hole made in ice by a seal

AGLU ## Footnote AGLUS, AGLOO, IGLU

(Scots) awry

AGLY

# M front hook (Greek) a phonetic symbol representing the sound ng

AGMA

In a state of eager curiosity.

AGOG

The dramatic conflict between the chief characters in a literary work

AGON

a student of agricultural studies

AGRO

A malarial fever

AGUE

PT of an exclamation indicating surprise or comprehension

AHED

A sound expressing delicate interruption

AHEM ## Footnote No -S

(Pl.) yellowfin tuna.

AHIS

Interjection used to hail another vessel.

AHOY

Indian nursemaids.

AIAS

A finely-meshed cotton fabric used for cross-stitch embroidery

AIDA

(Fr.) a confidential assistant to a person of senior rank

AIDE

(3rd.) to help.

AIDS

(Samoan) a large family, often spanning several generations

AIGA ## Footnote AINGA

(3rd.) to be amiss, be ill.

AILS

(3rd.) to seek to do, to point a weapon.

AIMS

(Fr.) elder, senior.

AINE

(Pl.) a Hebrew letter.

AINS

# think of a headless Scots infant (Scots) iron; (verb) to iron

AIRN

(3rd.) to make known publicly.

AIRS

(Scots) direction, quarter; (verb) to direct

AIRT

Full of air, light

AIRY

(Pl.) small island.

AITS

In Polynesia, a demigod

AITU

Partly open.

AJAR

(Scots) awry (higher-scoring version).

AJEE ## Footnote AGEE, AGLY, AGLEE, AGLEY

(Pl.) a spicy pepper.

AJIS

(Pt.) to ache.

AKED

(Pl.) a kind of New Zealand vine.

AKAS

a small African sapindaceous tree, now common in the W. Indies; its edible fruit, often used in Caribbean cookery

AKEE

(3rd.) to ache.

AKES

Related by blood.

AKIN

(Pl.) an outgrowth on a fruit.

ALAE

A large hunting dog

ALAN

(Sanskrit) in Indian music, the introductory section of a RAGA

ALAP ## Footnote ALAPS. Also ALAAP, ALAPA.

Of or pertaining to the wing or shoulder.

ALAR ## Footnote Also ALARY.

An interjection expressing grief.

ALAS

(Obs.) to assuage

ALAY ## Footnote ALAYS, ALAYING, ALAYED. Also ALEYE.

A white substance found in the brain

ALBA ## Footnote ALBAS

(Arch.) albeit.

ALBE ## Footnote Also ALBEE.

(Pl.) a priest's long white vestment.

ALBS

(Aust. sl.) a heavy drinker

ALCO ## Footnote Also ALKO.

A herring

ALEC

On the sheltered side.

ALEE

(Hebrew) the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet

ALEF ## Footnote Also ALEPH

Beers

ALES

(Spenser) halloo.

ALEW

(Arabic) a N. African esparto grass

ALFA ## Footnote Also HALFA

(Pl.) an uncultivated Australian.

ALFS

(Lat.) a seaweed

ALGA ## Footnote ALGAE or ALGAS

(Arabic) an Arabic letter, corresponding to Greek ALEPH

ALIF

(Pt.) to come down from something.

ALIT

(Aust. sl.) a heavy drinker (higher-scoring version)

ALKO ## Footnote Also ALCO

(Coll.) an alcoholic

ALKY ## Footnote Also ALKIE

(Pl.) the whole

ALLS

To join by marriage, friendship, treaty etc

ALLY

# think of Spanish soul (Arabic) an Egyptian dancing-girl

ALMA ## Footnote Also ALMAH, ALME, ALMEH.

(Arabic) an Egyptian dancing-girl (variant sp.)

ALME ## Footnote Also ALMAH, ALMA, ALMEH.

Relief given out of charity to the poor.

ALMS

An estate held in absolute ownership, without acknowledgement to a superior

ALOD ## Footnote ALODS. Also ALLOD, ALODIUM, ALLODIUM

Any member of a mainly S African genus, consisting mostly of trees and shrubs of the lily family

ALOE ## Footnote ALOES, ALOED

# You might go for AWEE here (Hindi) a potato

ALOO

(Scots) ablaze

ALOW ## Footnote Also ALOWE

(Pl.) a mountain.

ALPS

In addition.

ALSO

(Ital.) the highest adult male voice, with range above the tenor

ALTO

(Pl.) a high tone; a halt or rest.

ALTS

A sulphate of ammonium and potassium, used as a mordant

ALUM

(Pl.) a potato.

ALUS

(Port.) an Oriental nursemaid

AMAH

(Pl.) an Oriental nurse.

AMAS

An early Christian raised reading-desk or pulpit

AMBO ## Footnote AMBOS or AMBONES

So be it; (verb) to say [this word]

AMEN ## Footnote AMENS, AMENING, AMENED

(Pl.) French soul.

AMES

A freshwater fish, aka BOWFIN

AMIA

A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical

AMID ## Footnote AMIDS. Also AMIDE

(Fr.) a (female) friend

AMIE

A compound derived from ammonia

AMIN ## Footnote AMINS. Also AMINE, AMMINE

(Arabic) an Eastern ruler

AMIR ## Footnote Also AMEER, EMIR, EMEER

(Spenser) a strip of linen worn by priests round the shoulders

AMIS ## Footnote AMISES. Also AMICE, ALMUCE

# think of Motown An E. Indian tree, aka EMBLIC

AMLA

(Abbr.) bullets etc.

AMMO

(Malay) in a murderous rage; frenzied; (noun) a murderous rage

AMOK ## Footnote AMOKS. Also AMUCK

(Pl.) a unit of electrical current.

AMPS

(Pl.) a unit of mass.

AMUS

A univalent radical

AMYL ## Footnote Cf. ACYL, ARYL

Relating to the anus

ANAL

= ANON in sense of (to a person calling for attention) in a moment! coming!

ANAN

(Pl.) a collection of someone's table-talk.

ANAS

(Dial.) on one occasion

ANCE

(Pl.) the symbol ampersand.

ANDS

(Pl.) one.

ANES

Afresh, again.

ANEW

(Sanskrit) a yoga practice

ANGA

(Arabic) indigo, the plant or dye

ANIL

(Pl.) a tropical American bird.

ANIS

(Arabic) an Egyptian symbol of life, resembling a looped cross, later adapted by Coptic Christians as their cross

ANKH

(Hindi) a coppery Indian/Pakistani coin

ANNA

(Lat.) in the year of the Christian era.

ANNO

(Pl.) in Scotland, payment to a parish minister's widow

ANNS

(Indonesian) a wild ox of the Celebes

ANOA

At once; immediately

ANON ## Footnote Also ANAN

(Milton) enough

ANOW ## Footnote Also ENOW

(Lat.) part of Saturn's rings

ANSA ## Footnote ANSAE

1. (Lat.) a square pilaster at either side of a doorway 2. a tapir

ANTA ## Footnote ANTAE, ANTAS

To put a fixed stake in the pot

ANTE ## Footnote ANTES, ANTEING, ANTED or ANTEED

(Noun) one who is against

ANTI

(Pl.) a small industrious insect.

ANTS

(Lat.) the opening at the end of the alimentary canal by which undigested residues are excreted

ANUS

(Arch.) to satisfy; to repay

APAY ## Footnote APAYS, APAYING, APAID or APAYD. Also APPAY.

(Pt.) to imitate.

APED

One that imitates

APER

(3rd.) to imitate

APES

(Lat.) the summit or peak

APEX ## Footnote APEXES or APICES

An animal without feet or ventral fins

APOD ## Footnote APODS. Also APODE

(Pl.) a type of protein

APOS

(Pl.) short for application program

APPS

A rounded extension at the end of a building, especially at the east end of a church

APSE

(Tibetan) a Tibetan terrier

APSO

(3rd.) to fit, adapt

APTS

(Lat.) water

AQUA ## Footnote AQUAE or AQUAS

(Arabic) a spirit made from TODDY

ARAK ## Footnote ARAKS. Also ARRACK

The SANDARAC tree

ARAR

(Arabic) a heavy screened wagon used by Tatars and others

ARBA ## Footnote ARBAS. Also AROBA, ARABA

(Pl.) one who makes profit by dealing on the stock exchange

ARBS

Sly, mischievous, (verb) to bend

ARCH ## Footnote ARCHER, ARCHEST; ARCHLY; ARCHES, ARCHING, ARCHED.

(Ital.) with the bow

ARCO

(Pl.) a type of curve

ARCS

(Pl.) a primitive form of plough

ARDS

(Lat.) a particular tract of the earth's (or another planet's) surface; a region

AREA ## Footnote AREAS or AREAE

(Spenser) pt. of AREAD, to counsel.

ARED ## Footnote Also AREDD

(Pl.) ERG, a Saharan area of shifting sands.

AREG

(Pl.) 100 sq. metres

ARES

(Spenser) to entrust, commit

ARET

(Obs.) in a row

AREW ## Footnote Also AROW

(Pl.) a barking sound

ARFS

an interjection expressing pain or dismay

ARGH

(Ital.) an elaborate melody for a single voice

ARIA

Very dry

ARID ## Footnote ARIDER, ARIDEST; ARIDLY

An additional envelope, often fleshy, developed around the seed in certain plants (e.g. yew)

ARIL ## Footnote ARILS, ARILED. Also ARILLUS

(Cockney slang) arse

ARIS

(3rd.) to put in a large biblical boat

ARKS

To give earnest-money

ARLE

(3rd.) to provide with weapons

ARMS

A large body of people armed for war and under military command

ARMY

(Hindi) the Indian water-buffalo

ARNA

(Obs.) in a row

AROW ## Footnote Also AREW

A site concerned with internet infrastructure

ARPA

(Sl.) the backside; (verb) to bother with

ARSE

(Sl.) aggressive, irritable or argumentative

ARSY ## Footnote ARSIER, ARSIEST. Also ARSEY.

(Hindu) a ritual performed in homes and temples in which incense and light is offered to a deity

ARTI ## Footnote ARTIS. Also AARTI

(Pl.) the creation of works of beauty

ARTS

Aesthetic; (noun) an aesthetic person

ARTY ## Footnote ARTIER, ARTIEST; ARTILY; ARTIES

A large-spathed plant, aka 'cuckoo-pint' or 'lords and ladies'

ARUM

(Aus. sl.) afternoon

ARVO

Any aromatic univalent hydrocarbon radical

ARYL ## Footnote Cf. ACYL, AMYL

# think of Spanish verb to roast (Pl.) AS, a kame or esker

ASAR

(Pl.) ASCUS, a spore sac

ASCI

Not ashore

ASEA

Resembling burnt wood or paper

ASHY

(3rd.) to make a request of

ASKS

(Pl.) a venomous snake

ASPS

(Malay) the NIPA palm

ATAP ## Footnote Also ATTAP.

(Pl.) reckless ambition.

ATES ## Footnote Cf. ARES

(Sanskrit) the individual soul

ATMA ## Footnote ATMAS. Also ATMAN

(Peruvian) a species of skunk

ATOC ## Footnote Also ATOK

(Peruvian) a species of skunk (higher-scoring version)

ATOK ## Footnote Also ATOC.

The smallest particle in an element which can take part in a chemical reaction

ATOM

At the summit of

ATOP

(Maori) a spirit or demon

ATUA

(Pl.) the yellow-eyed mullet

AUAS

(Pl.) an elf's child

AUFS

an interjection expressing despair or frustration

AUGH ## Footnote Cf. ARGH

(Pl.) a northern sea bird

AUKS

# Spanish classroom (Lat.) a hall

AULA ## Footnote AULAS

(Scots) old

AULD ## Footnote AULDER, AULDEST

(Fr.) an ell; a French measure of cloth

AUNE

A father's or mother's sister, or an uncle's wife

AUNT

(Lat.) a supposed subtle emanation from living things

AURA ## Footnote AURAE or AURAS

(Verb) to travel by car

AUTO ## Footnote AUTOS, AUTOING, AUTOED

# Spanish guarantee Pertaining to a grandparent.

AVAL

(Pl.) a narcotic drink prepared from Polynesian plant

AVAS

(Hebrew) a mourner esp during the first seven days after a death

AVEL ## Footnote AVELS. Also OVEL

To declare positively

AVER

(Pl.) a prayer to the Virgin Mary

AVES

Eager

AVID ## Footnote AVIDER, AVIDEST; AVIDLY

(Pl.) a monetary unit of Macao

AVOS

To declare, to maintain

AVOW

(Noun) a match not played at home

AWAY ## Footnote AWAYS

(Welsh) a Welsh ode

AWDL

(Pt.) to strike with wonder

AWED

# What you might do in ALOO Awhile

AWEE

(3rd.) to strike with wonder

AWES

(Scots) awfully, extremely

AWFY

(Pl.) a computer language used for data-processing

AWKS

(Pl.) a tool for boring holes

AWLS

(Pl.) the beard of barley

AWNS

Having barley beards; bearded

AWNY

An absentee without leave

AWOL ## Footnote AWOLS

Twisted to one side; crooked; amiss.

AWRY

Of the axis

AXAL ## Footnote AXIAL, AXILE

(Pt.) to strike with a sharp cutting tool

AXED

In figure-skating, a jump from one skate to the other

AXEL

(Pl.) a tool for cutting or chopping

AXES

The upper angle formed where the leaf meets the stem

AXIL

1. (Lat.) the imaginary straight line about which a body such as the earth rotates 2. the white-spotted deer of India

AXIS ## Footnote AXES, AXISED. AXISES

The pin or rod in the nave of a wheel on or by means of which the wheel turns

AXLE ## Footnote AXLES, AXLED

(Greek) a nerve fibre

AXON ## Footnote Also AXONE

(Hindi) an Indian nursemaid

AYAH ## Footnote AYAHS. Also AIA

(Pl.) a vote in the affirmative

AYES

(Hebrew) a Hebrew letter

AYIN ## Footnote AYINS. Also AIN

(Obs.) = AIR, esp. in sense of tune

AYRE ## Footnote Cf. EYRE

(Pl.) a small edible Japanese fish

AYUS

(Arabic) the Muslim call to prayer, made five times a day by a MUEZZIN

AZAN ## Footnote AZANS. Also ADHAN

A radio-controlled aerial bomb

AZON

Unleavened bread; Passover cake

AZYM ## Footnote AZYMS. Also AZYME

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