4 Letter Words That Start With A

avid

Adjective : Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.

Adjective : greedy

aura

Noun : (figurative, with about, of) A distinctive atmosphere or quality surrounding or associated with something or someone.

Noun : (also parapsychology) A supposed emanation from and surrounding a living person or thing, regarded by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual.

Noun : (pathology) A subjective sensation experienced at the onset of a neurological condition, especially a migraine headache or epileptic seizure.

agog

Verb : In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.

Adjective : In eager desire, eager, astir.

Adjective : (chiefly of eyes) Wide open.

apex

Noun : The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.

Noun : (geometry) The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.

Noun : (chiefly anatomy) The pointed fine end of something.

arch

Noun : (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch

Noun : An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.

Noun : Any place covered by an arch; an archway.

acme

Noun : A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.

Noun : A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.

Noun : (euphemistic) Sexual orgasm.

arid

Adjective : Very dry.

Adjective : Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.

Adjective : (figurative) Devoid of value.

awry

Adjective : Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

Verb : Obliquely, crookedly; askew.

Adjective : (figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course

ache

Verb : (intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.

Noun : Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.

Verb : (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

aeon

Noun : Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.

Noun : (Gnosticism) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

Noun : (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.

anon

Noun : An anonymous person, traditionally especially a published author but now especially an internet rando.

Noun : (Internet) An anonymous poster (“person who contributes a note, message, etc”). A participant in an online site, such as a forum or an imageboard, without an account, or who posts without identifying themselves, or hidden behind a pseudonym.

Verb : Soon; in a little while.

ally

Noun : A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.

Noun : A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.

Noun : People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.

aver

Verb : (ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.

Verb : (ambitransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.

abet

Verb : (transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.

Verb : (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.

able

Adjective : Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

Adjective : Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.

Adjective : Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.

airy

Adjective : Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.

Adjective : Consisting of air.

Adjective : Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.

area

Noun : A particular geographic region.

Noun : Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

Noun : (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.

anal

Adjective : (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.]

Noun : (uncountable, informal) Anal sex.

Adjective : (psychology, also informal, vulgar) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.]

axis

Noun : (geometry) An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).

Noun : (mathematics) A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis)

Noun : (anatomy) The second cervical vertebra of the spine

agon

Noun : (countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.

Noun : (countable) An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.

Noun : (countable) A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.

akin

Adjective : (often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

Adjective : (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.

Verb : (rare) To relate or compare; to liken.

aide

Noun : An assistant.

Noun : (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

apse

Noun : (architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.

Noun : The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.

Noun : A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.

alas

Noun : A type of geological depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

avow

Verb : (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.

Verb : (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.

Verb : (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.

aery

Adjective : (poetic) Aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.

Noun : (American spelling, uncommon) Alternative spelling of eyrie. [The nest of a bird of prey.]

auld

Adjective : (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) Old.

Noun : A surname from Scots.

arse

Noun : (Commonwealth, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.

Noun : (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang) A stupid, pompous, arrogant, mean or despicable person.

Noun : (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.

also

Verb : (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.

Verb : (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as.

ague

Noun : (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

Noun : The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.

Noun : A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

aven

Noun : A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.

Noun : A pothole.

Noun : A surname from Norwegian.

aria

Noun : (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

Noun : A female given name from English.

Noun : (historical) region in modern-day Afghanistan

ajax

Noun : (computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.

Noun : (Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.

Noun : A town in Ontario, Canada.

amid

Noun : Archaic form of amide. [(organic chemistry) Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides or acid amides]

awed

Adjective : Filled with awe.

Adjective : Having or showing awe.

anta

Noun : (architecture) A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.

Noun : Initialism of Australian National Training Authority.

aion

Noun : (Greek mythology) A Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac.

Noun : (ophthalmology) Initialism of anterior isch(a)emic optic neuropathy.

Noun : (Gnosticism) Alternative spelling of aeon. [Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.]

ajar

Verb : Slightly turned or opened.

Adjective : Slightly turned or opened.

Verb : (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.

affy

Verb : (transitive) To have faith in (someone); to trust.

Verb : (intransitive) Chiefly followed by in, on, and upon: to rely on, to trust.

Verb : (transitive) Chiefly followed by that or to: to formally affirm or promise (something).

adyt

Noun : (archaic, poetic) The innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.

atom

Noun : (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.

Noun : (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.

Noun : (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.

anus

Noun : (anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

Noun : (informal, derogatory) An impolite, unpopular, or unintelligent person.

Noun : An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia.

ante

Noun : (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.

Verb : To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.

Noun : A price or cost, as in up the ante.

aunt

Noun : The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

Noun : The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.

Noun : (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

amok

Verb : Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.

Verb : In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.

Noun : The act of running amok.

arts

Noun : The humanities.

Noun : The study of literature, philosophy, and the arts.

Noun : The study of languages and literature.

alba

Noun : (poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.

Noun : A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

Noun : A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

airs

Noun : Affected manners intended to impress others.

aval

Noun : Synonym of flattened rice.

Noun : (finance, law) A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.

Adjective : (rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.

adaw

Verb : (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome, subdue.

aitu

Noun : A ghost or spirit, often malevolent, in Polynesian mythology.

acre

Noun : An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.

Noun : Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

Noun : (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.

alee

Verb : On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

as is

Adjective : (idiomatic, of an object) as it is; in its present state or condition, especially as a contractual condition of sale.

avis

Noun : (obsolete) advice; opinion; deliberation.

Noun : A particular car rental company

allo

Adjective : (informal) Allosexual and/or alloromantic; experiencing sexual and/or romantic attraction.

Noun : (informal) One who is allosexual and/or alloromantic.

abbe

Noun : A British surname.

Noun : Alternative spelling of abbé. [A low-ranking member of the Roman Catholic clergy in France who is not a member of a religious order, is not a priest, and can marry and inherit property; an honorific title for such a clergymember.]

airt

Noun : (Scotland, Northern England) direction; quarter

Verb : (Scotland) To guide; to direct.

asea

Adjective : on the ocean; on a boat on the ocean

Verb : in the direction of the sea, seaward.

Adjective : uncertain; (psychologically) adrift.

alew

Noun : (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.

amen

Verb : (biblical) Certainly; verily.

Verb : (intransitive) To say amen.

Noun : An instance of saying ‘amen’.

abut

Verb : (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

Verb : (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)

Verb : (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

anna

Noun : (historical) A former Indian coin.

Noun : A female given name from Latin.

Noun : A prophetess in the New Testament.

amos

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun : (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

Noun : (biblical) A prophet, author of the book of Amos.

aril

Noun : (botany) A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.

amah

Noun : (Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia) A female domestic helper; a maid.

Noun : (India) A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.

amor

Noun : (astronomy) An asteroid that orbits between the orbits of Earth and Mars.

Noun : A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Noun : A surname.

alce

Noun : (obsolete) An elk.

Noun : (rare, heraldry or fantasy) A mythical beast resembling a griffin with no wings, often classified as a male griffin.

aren

auto

Noun : (automotive) A car with an automatic gearbox/transmission.

Noun : (automotive) An automatic gearbox/transmission.

Noun : (uncountable) A setting for automatic operation.

axle

Noun : The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

Noun : A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Noun : (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.

agar

Noun : A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.

Noun : A culture medium based on this material.

Noun : agarwood

anew

Verb : (literary, poetic or formal, especially Philippines) Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.

alga

Noun : (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

anil

Noun : The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.

Noun : (organic chemistry) Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.

Noun : (organic chemistry) 1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil.

ashy

Adjective : Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.

Adjective : Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.

Adjective : (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).

aper

Noun : Someone who apes something

as if

asse

Noun : (rare) A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).

Noun : Obsolete spelling of ass. [Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.]

amay

Verb : (transitive and intransitive, obsolete) to dismay; confound; be dismayed

alum

Noun : (Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.

Noun : An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).

Noun : (inorganic chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

away

Verb : From a place, hence.

Verb : Aside; off; in another direction.

Verb : Aside, so as to discard something.

arms

Noun : Weaponry, weapons.

Noun : (heraldry) A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, normally displayed upon an escutcheon and sometimes accompanied by other elements of an achievement

aqua

Noun : (inorganic chemistry) The compound water.

Noun : A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.

Adjective : Of a greenish-blue colour.

agio

Noun : (economics, finance) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

alps

Noun : A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

aero

Adjective : (not comparable) Of or pertaining to aviation.

Adjective : Aerodynamic; having an aerodynamic appearance.

Noun : (uncountable) Aerospace.

acts

Noun : (biblical) Clipping of Acts of the Apostles. [(biblical) The fifth book in the New Testament of the Bible.]

afro

Noun : hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.

Noun : A person of African ancestry

Noun : Alternative form of afro. [hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.]

abel

Noun : (biblical) The son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic.

ansa

Noun : (anatomy) A loop-shaped structure.

Noun : (astronomy) The most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from a distance, perceived to project like handles on either side of the disc of the planet.

atmo

Noun : (physics, dated) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements and calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.

Noun : (colloquial) Clipping of atmosphere [The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.]

aslo

Noun : Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.

avie

Verb : (obsolete) emulously

Noun : A female given name.

atum

Noun : (Egyptian mythology) The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.

adry

Adjective : (archaic) Dry.

Adjective : (archaic) Thirsty.

atas

Adjective : (informal, Singapore) High-class, fancy (elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character).

Adjective : (informal, Singapore) Arrogant, lofty.

aula

Noun : (rare) A court or hall.

Noun : (anatomy, obsolete) The anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain leading to the lateral ventricles.

atem

Noun : (Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Atum. [(Egyptian mythology) The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.]

Noun : Acronym of Association for Tertiary Education Management.

achi

Noun : (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) the eldest sister

Noun : (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) an elder sister

Noun : (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) respectful term of address for the eldest sister

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