4-Letter Words Ending in S

All 268 four-letter words ending in S

A

• abas6n. A cutaneous disease; the scald-head. porrigo.
• aces6interj. Ace; excellent.
• ages5n. A long time.
• airs4n. Affected manners intended to impress others.
• alas4interj. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion, grief, resignation, or...
• alls4det. All.
• alms6n. Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
• aris4n. Arse.
• arms6n. Weaponry, weapons.
• arts4n. The study of languages and literature.
• atas4adj. High-class, fancy (elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in...
• avis7n. Advice; opinion; deliberation.
• awks11adj. Awkward.
• axis11n. An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or...

B

• baas6n. An employer, a boss (frequently used as a form of address).
• bags7n. A large quantity.
• bais6n. A kind of Filipino mead drink.
• baps8n. A woman's breasts.
• bars6n. Any event in gymnastics using the bars.
• bass6adj. Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
• bats6adj. Mad, insane.
• bays9n. Baize.
• bens6n. Benefits.
• bias6n. Inclination towards something.
• bibs8n. Another name for overalls.
• bins6n. Binoculars.
• bios6n. A particular mode of life, a qualified life.
• bits6n. Genitals.
• bocs8n. A BOCS representation of an algebraic structure.
• boss6n. One who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
• boys9n. The testicles.
• bris6n. Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
• bugs7adj. Crazy; unstable.
• buns6n. The buttocks.
• buss6v. To kiss (either literally or figuratively).

C

• cans6n. Headphones.
• caps8n. Capital letters; capitals.
• cass6v. To render moot or void; to annul; to reject.
• cess6n. An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
• ciss6v. To retract (from a uniform film applied to a damp, oily or nonabsorbent...
• clas6n. A Celtic monastery.
• coms8n. Combinations (underwear).
• cons6n. A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used...
• cops8n. The police, considered as a group entity.
• coss6n. A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half...
• cous6n. Cousin (usually as a term of address, but not necessarily towards one's...
• crus6n. The shin (tibia and fibula).
• cups8n. A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, bearing the symbol of a cup or...
• cuss6v. To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
• cuts6n. Corporal punishment at school.

D

• dais5n. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a...
• daks9n. Trousers or underwear.
• dars5n. A lesson on a topic in the Qurʾān or Sunna.
• dass5v. To dare.
• days8n. A particular time or period of vague extent.
• debs7n. A debutante ball or debut.
• dees5n. Something shaped like the letter D.
• defs8adv. Definitely.
• dens5n. A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of...
• dess5adj. Unattractive, unappealing.
• dibs7n. The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
• digs6n. Lodgings; place of accommodation.
• dins5n. Dinner.
• diss5v. To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting...
• docs7n. Documentation.
• dogs6n. Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
• doss5v. To avoid work, shirk, etc.
• dots5n. A punctuation mark consisting of three dots, indicating an omission of...
• dubs7n. The name of the Latin script letter W/w.
• duds6n. Clothing, especially for work or of rough appearance.
• dues5n. Membership fees.
• duss5v. To leave; to scram.

E

• eats4n. Food.
• emys9n. Any member of the small Emys genus of freshwater pond tortoises.
• ends5n. The area in close proximity to one's home; neighbourhood.
• ents4n. Entertainment.
• epos6n. An epic.
• eros4n. A winged figure of a child representing love or its power.
• exes11n. The number six.

F

• fals7n. Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning...
• feds8n. The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of...
• feis7n. An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
• fers7n. The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen.
• fess7v. To confess; to admit.
• fils7adj. Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to...
• fors7n. Only used in fors and againsts.
• foss7n. A waterfall.
• fuss7n. Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

G

• geas5n. A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone...
• geis5n. Synonym of geas (“a mystical injunction: a prohibition, or...
• gens5n. A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people...
• gibs7n. The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being...
• gods6n. The highest platform, or upper circle, in an auditorium.
• goss5n. Gossip.
• grus5n. An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand...
• guns5n. Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and...
• guts5n. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
• guys8n. Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.

H

• hams9n. The hamstring muscles; the biceps femoris.
• hass7n. A kind of prebendal land revenue reserved for high-ranking officials of...
• hers7pron. That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used...
• hiss7n. A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an...
• hods8n. Lots, loads.
• hols7n. Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling).
• hops9n. Term of address for a guy.
• hoss7n. A big, strong and respected or dependable person, usually a man; one...
• hots7n. A condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone.
• hubs9n. Husband.
• huss7v. To flee.

I

• ibis6n. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family...
• ides5n. The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day...
• ipos6n. The tuber of any one of several edible species of Perideridia spp.
• iris4n. A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and...
• isis4n. Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of...
• itis4n. A medical condition accompanied by inflammation.

J

• jass11n. A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas...
• jaws14n. The mouth.
• jess11n. A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to...
• joss11n. A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.

K

• kegs9n. Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing; underwear.
• kets8n. Manure or farm muck spread on farm land.
• keys11n. Keyboard.
• khus11n. Vetiver.
• kiss8v. To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love...
• kris8n. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having...

L

• lads5n. A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
• laos4n. Galangal.
• lass4n. A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.
• lats4n. Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and...
• laws7n. The police.
• lees4n. The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting...
• legs5n. Eleven.
• lens4n. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light...
• less4adv. Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives...
• lias4n. A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales.
• lies4adj. Great, wonderful.
• lips6v. To kiss (passionately), to smooch.
• liss4n. Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
• loos4n. Praise; fame; reputation.
• loss4n. The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a...
• lots4n. A lot; a great deal; tons; loads.
• loys7n. "Some kind of stone.".
• lues4n. A plague or disease.

M

• maas6n. Sour milk.
• mans6n. Synonym of man.
• mass6n. A quantity of matter cohering so as to make one body, or an aggregation...
• mess6n. A thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty...
• mews9n. An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
• mibs8n. A game of marbles.
• mids7n. Middle-grade marijuana.
• mins6n. Minutes; plural of min.
• miss6v. To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
• moms8n. Affectionate term of address for one's mother.
• mons6n. An extraterrestrial mountain or volcano.
• mops8n. A pug dog.
• moss6n. Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or...
• muss6v. To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.

N

• nabs6n. A single-serving package of snack crackers, usually filled with peanut...
• nads5n. The testicles.
• nafs7n. The self; the psyche, ego, or soul.
• naos4n. The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the...
• naps6n. Kinky or curly hair.
• nems6n. The ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose.
• ness4n. A promontory; a cape or headland. (Frequently used as a suffix in...
• nets4n. A training session before playing a cricket match for both bowlers and...
• news7n. New information of interest.
• nias4n. A young hawk; an eyas.
• nibs6n. An important or self-important person.
• noms6n. Food, especially tasty food.
• nous4n. The mind or intellect, faculty for rationality or reason using the...
• nuts4n. The testicles.
• nyas7n. An eyas (a fledgling falcon).

O

• oaks8n. A stakes race in which entry is restricted to 3-year-old fillies.
• oats4n. A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa).
• odds6n. The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not...
• olds5n. One's parents.
• ones4n. A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
• onos4n. Synonym of epinetron (“Attic pottery item”).
• onus4n. A legal obligation.
• oops6interj. Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
• opus6n. A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of...
• oses4n. The various sugars ending in -ose, such as sucrose, lactose, glucose...
• ours4pron. Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours).

P

• pais6n. The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district...
• pass6v. To move or be moved from one place to another.
• paws9n. Pause, used in contexts of animals with paws.
• peds7n. Pediatrics.
• pegs7n. Peg-top trousers.
• phys12adj. Physical.
• pils6n. Pilsner.
• plus6prep. And; sum of the previous one and the following one.
• pogs7n. The game of milk caps.
• pons6n. A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.
• pops8n. Father, dad.
• poss6v. To mix with a vertical motion, especially when agitating laundry in a...
• pots6n. A large quantity.
• pous6n. The Greek foot, a unit of length based on the shod foot, generally...
• puss6n. A cat.

R

• rams6n. A French trick-taking card game related to nap and loo.
• rats4interj. An expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn.
• refs7n. A scheduled meal break during a shift.
• regs5n. Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
• reis4n. The holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.
• reps6n. Rep.
• reys7n. A journey or a military expedition.
• ross4n. The rough, scaly surface on the bark of trees.
• runs4n. Diarrhea/diarrhoea.

S

• saas4n. A mother-in-law, especially the mother of the groom, who lives with the...
• sads5n. Sadness or melancholy.
• sais4n. A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.
• sans4prep. Without; lacking; especially with regard to something expected or with...
• sass4n. The quality of being sassy.
• sens4n. Marijuana.
• sess4n. Marijuana, weed.
• sets4n. Set theory.
• shis7det. Belonging to them; their.
• sids5n. Oat husks, or bran with some kernel, used to make sowens.
• sies4interj. Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
• siss4n. A hissing noise.
• snus4n. A type of tobacco snuff consumed in the form of a moist powder which is...
• soss4n. Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
• suds5n. Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
• suss4adj. Suspicious; suspect.

T

• tais4n. A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.
• taps6n. A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers'...
• tass4n. A cup or cupful.
• tens4n. An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or...
• this7det. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
• thus7adv. In this way or manner.
• ties4n. Low shoes fastened with lacings.
• tips6n. Tag (a popular children's chasing game).
• tiss4v. To make a hissing sound.
• togs5n. Clothes.
• tons4n. Lots; large quantities or numbers (of people or things).
• tops6adv. At the very most; as a maximum.
• toss4n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction...
• tres4n. A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban...
• tris4n. A flammable compound which forms a corrosive solution in water and is...
• tuss4n. The penis.
• twos7n. The age of two; two years old.

U

• ulus4n. An administrative division of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia...
• upas6n. A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the...
• urbs6n. A walled city in Ancient Rome.
• urus4n. The aurochs.
• uses4n. A form of equitable ownership peculiar to English law, by which one...
• usus4n. The use of something.
• utas4n. The octave, or seventh day after a festival (i.e., the eighth day...
• utis4n. A racket, din.

V

• vers7adj. Willing to take either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role...
• vibs9n. Shoes with rubber outsoles made by the Vibram company.
• viss7n. A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms...

W

• wass7n. Wanton disposition, unorderly state of mind or behaviour.
• ways10n. A distance.
• wels7n. Wels catfish (Silurus glanis).
• wiss7v. To know; to understand.
• wits7n. Senses.
• woos7n. A coward; a wuss.
• wops9n. Variant spelling of waps in the sense of wasp.
• wors7n. Boerewors.
• wuss7v. Only used in wuss out.

Y

• yass7interj. A strong expression of excitement or admiration.
• yaws10n. A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema...
• yees7pron. You.
• yens7pron. You, you all; used in referring to a group that includes one's audience.
• yips9n. A nervous condition which prevents a sportsperson from playing...
• yous7pron. You.
• yuks11n. Laughter, amusement.

Z

• zzzs31n. Sleep.

Questions about these words

How many four-letter words ending in S are there?

Word.ws lists 268 four-letter words ending in S, plus 12 rare ones.

What are common four-letter words ending in S?

this, days, less, news, guys, miss, loss and ones.

Which of the four-letter words ending in S has the highest letter score?

zzzs scores 31 points with the standard letter tile values.

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