3-Letter Words Containing: A

• A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.

• a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact

• strike suddenly and with force

• kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting

• strike at with firepower or bombs

• cook or heat in a microwave oven

• crested largely blue bird

• United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)

• duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

• send something via a facsimile machine

• any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

• cover with wax

• go up or advance

• increase in phase

• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• talk incessantly and tiresomely

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• censure severely or angrily

• an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions

• the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba

• an edge tool used to cut and shape wood

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate