5-Letter Words Ending With S

a prolonged period of time

an estimate based on little or no information

an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed

the force of workers available

considerable capital (wealth or income)

an indefinite period of time

a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

in such a manner as could not be otherwise

an angry dispute

a body of students who graduate together

the internal mechanism of a device

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

a particular situation

a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

meet at a point

a dense crowd of people

the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

(used in the plural) underpants worn by women

verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

people in general (often used in the plural)

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament

a game played with playing cards

render holy by means of religious rites

gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises

the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

become focussed or come into focus

the local environment

(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

a steep descent of the water of a river

the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

a flight of stairs or a flight of steps

a discussion intended to produce an agreement

status with respect to the relations between people or groups

English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation

United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)

a woman's close-fitting foundation garment

a means of flight or ascent

a police informer who implicates many people

a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

United States golfer (1902-1971)

(theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

the male sex organ (`member' is a euphemism)

an area that includes places where several people can sit

the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time

a state of extreme confusion and disorder

the third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20

celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)

strips of potato fried in deep fat

United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)

a partly sheltered anchorage

the most important or necessary part of something

United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)

a large number or amount

the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage

an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

a pair of people who live together

spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

performance of moral or religious acts

strips of potato fried in deep fat

assets in the form of money

weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)