3-letter words containing S
Embark on an exploration of 3-letter words that contain the letter S. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate S within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| was | 6 | - | - |
| she | 6 | This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. | - |
| see | 3 | take charge of or deal with | Could you see about lunch? |
| yes | 6 | an affirmative | I was hoping for a yes |
| his | 6 | - | - |
| say | 6 | have or contain a certain wording or form | What does the law say? |
| has | 6 | - | - |
| sir | 3 | a title used before the name of knight or baronet | - |
| son | 3 | the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) | - |
| ask | 7 | consider obligatory; request and expect | Aren't we asking too much of these children? |
| saw | 6 | a power tool for cutting wood | - |
| use | 3 | exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | - |
| sit | 3 | work or act as a baby-sitter | I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do |
| its | 3 | - | - |
| ass | 3 | slang for sexual intercourse | - |
| set | 3 | an unofficial association of people or groups | the smart set goes there |
| six | 10 | denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units | - |
| sex | 10 | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus |
| sun | 3 | first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians | - |
| sea | 3 | anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | - |
| sad | 4 | bad; unfortunate | her clothes were in sad shape |
| bus | 5 | a car that is old and unreliable | the fenders had fallen off that old bus |
| sam | 5 | a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target | - |
| sky | 10 | throw or toss with a light motion | - |
| gas | 4 | a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes | - |
| san | 3 | - | - |
| shh | 9 | - | - |
| cos | 5 | ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle | - |
| sat | 3 | the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians | - |
| sin | 3 | estrangement from god | - |
| shy | 9 | lacking self-confidence | - |
| sue | 3 | French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) | - |
| sec | 5 | 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | - |
| spy | 8 | (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors | - |
| sis | 3 | a female person who has the same parents as another person | my sister married a musician |
| sum | 5 | determine the sum of | - |
| sub | 5 | a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | - |
| gus | 4 | - | - |
| est | 3 | standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States | - |
| ash | 6 | any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus | - |
| sal | 3 | - | - |
| ski | 7 | move along on skis | We love to ski the Rockies |
| sip | 5 | a small drink | - |
| spa | 5 | a health resort near a spring or at the seaside | - |
| sew | 6 | create (clothes) with cloth | Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week? |
| soy | 6 | thin sauce made of fermented soy beans | - |
| sol | 3 | a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid | - |
| sai | 3 | - | - |
| sly | 6 | marked by skill in deception | sly as a fox |
| ops | 5 | (Roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of Saturn; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor | - |
| sow | 6 | place seeds in or on (the ground) | sow the ground with sunflower seeds |
| sha | 6 | - | - |
| das | 4 | any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | - |
| sod | 4 | an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen | - |
| ins | 3 | an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States | - |
| sri | 3 | - | - |
| tsk | 7 | utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | - |
| pas | 5 | (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet) | - |
| sim | 5 | - | - |
| sup | 5 | a small amount of liquid food | a sup of ale |
| sen | 3 | a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel | - |
| sox | 10 | - | - |
| sap | 5 | a person who lacks good judgment | - |
| dos | 4 | an operating system that is on a disk | - |
| sob | 5 | convulsive gasp made while weeping | - |
| som | 5 | the basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan | - |
| abs | 5 | any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances | - |
| dis | 4 | (Roman mythology) god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Hades | - |
| sac | 5 | an enclosed space | - |
| sae | 3 | - | - |
| hos | 6 | - | - |
| sax | 10 | a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | - |
| sos | 3 | an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code | - |
| ras | 3 | the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function | - |
| sur | 3 | a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks | - |
| pus | 5 | a fluid product of inflammation | - |
| jus | 10 | - | - |
| mis | 5 | - | - |
| vis | 6 | - | - |
| nos | 3 | - | - |
| sei | 3 | - | - |
| sic | 5 | urge to attack someone | The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders |
| ifs | 6 | - | - |
| psi | 5 | a unit of pressure | - |
| sui | 3 | - | - |
| sag | 4 | a shape that sags | there was a sag in the chair seat |
| ans | 3 | the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands | - |
| vas | 6 | a tube in which a body fluid circulates | - |
| mus | 5 | type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch | - |
| sty | 6 | a pen for swine | - |
| sou | 3 | a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money | he hasn't a sou to his name |
| als | 3 | thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs | - |
| bos | 5 | wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini | - |
| sop | 5 | piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | - |
| sau | 3 | - | - |
| mos | 5 | - | - |
| res | 3 | a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells | - |
| sar | 3 | - | - |
| ser | 3 | - | - |
| ers | 3 | - | - |
| sus | 3 | type genus of the Suidae | - |
| tas | 3 | - | - |
| pos | 5 | - | - |
| pis | 5 | - | - |
| ems | 5 | - | - |
| fas | 6 | a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy | - |
| ais | 3 | - | - |
| sig | 4 | - | - |
| eds | 4 | a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports | - |
| ism | 5 | a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | - |
| nas | 3 | - | - |
| kos | 7 | (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities | - |
| pst | 5 | standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States | - |
| soh | 6 | the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | - |
| soc | 5 | - | - |
| asp | 5 | of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder | - |
| sav | 6 | - | - |
| iso | 3 | - | - |
| nus | 3 | - | - |
| bes | 5 | - | - |
| bis | 5 | - | - |
| eas | 3 | a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events | - |
| ios | 3 | - | - |
| sug | 4 | - | - |
| syn | 6 | - | - |
| ens | 3 | - | - |
| ois | 3 | agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy | - |
| obs | 5 | - | - |
| sot | 3 | a chronic drinker | - |
| sab | 5 | - | - |
| pes | 5 | the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint | - |
| oms | 5 | - | - |
| kas | 7 | - | - |
| ess | 3 | - | - |
| wus | 6 | - | - |
| sel | 3 | - | - |
| wis | 6 | - | - |
| cis | 5 | an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 | - |
| yus | 6 | - | - |
| yos | 6 | - | - |
| zas | 12 | - | - |
| zos | 12 | - | - |
| wos | 6 | - | - |
| xis | 10 | - | - |
| nys | 6 | - | - |
| ohs | 6 | - | - |
| oes | 3 | - | - |
| ods | 4 | - | - |
| nis | 3 | - | - |
| oys | 6 | - | - |
| oos | 3 | - | - |
| ons | 3 | - | - |
| ous | 3 | - | - |
| ors | 3 | - | - |
| ose | 3 | - | - |
| las | 3 | - | - |
| les | 3 | - | - |
| kis | 7 | - | - |
| mes | 5 | - | - |
| los | 3 | - | - |
| lis | 3 | - | - |
| mas | 5 | - | - |
| tis | 3 | - | - |
| tes | 3 | - | - |
| suq | 12 | - | - |
| swy | 9 | - | - |
| sye | 6 | - | - |
| suk | 7 | - | - |
| sud | 4 | - | - |
| ugs | 4 | - | - |
| uds | 4 | - | - |
| uns | 3 | - | - |
| uts | 3 | - | - |
| ups | 5 | - | - |
| qis | 12 | - | - |
| sif | 6 | (Norse mythology) wife of Thor and guardian of the home | - |
| sik | 7 | - | - |
| sib | 5 | one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | - |
| sey | 6 | - | - |
| sez | 12 | - | - |
| ska | 7 | - | - |
| sov | 6 | - | - |
| sog | 4 | - | - |
| sma | 5 | - | - |
| sny | 6 | - | - |
| saz | 12 | - | - |
| sed | 4 | - | - |
| seg | 4 | - | - |
| bys | 8 | - | - |
| ahs | 6 | - | - |
| aas | 3 | an associate degree in applied science | - |
| ags | 4 | - | - |
| ads | 4 | - | - |
| ays | 6 | - | - |
| bas | 5 | - | - |
| ars | 3 | - | - |
| gos | 4 | - | - |
| hes | 6 | - | - |
| gis | 4 | - | - |
| ish | 6 | - | - |
| ids | 4 | - | - |
| dso | 4 | - | - |
| ehs | 6 | - | - |
| efs | 6 | - | - |
| els | 3 | - | - |
| fes | 6 | a city in north central Morocco; religious center | - |
| soz | 12 | - | - |
| sho | 6 | - | - |
| sev | 6 | - | - |
| yas | 6 | - | - |
| ums | 5 | - | - |
| ats | 3 | - | - |
