Index of English words, starting with "as"

(1) - Asperity (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
(2) - Asperity (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
(3) - Asperity (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
(4) - Asperity (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
(5) - Asperity (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

(1) - Asperse (v. t.) To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.
(2) - Asperse (v. t.) To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

(1) - Aspersion (n.) The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
(2) - Aspersion (n.) A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.