6-letter words containing a, l, t, e
- ligate — to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).
- litate — (botany) forked, with the points slightly curved outward.
- loathe — to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
- lobate — having a lobe lobes; lobed.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lorate — strap-shaped
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- luteal — of, relating to, or involving the corpus luteum.
- luxate — to put out of joint; dislocate: The accident luxated the left shoulder.
- lyrate — Botany. (of a pinnate leaf) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
- lysate — the mixture of substances formed by the lysis of cells.
- malate — a salt or ester of malic acid.
- malest — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- mallet — a hammerlike tool with a head commonly of wood but occasionally of rawhide, plastic, etc., used for driving any tool with a wooden handle, as a chisel, or for striking a surface.
- malted — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- malter — (dated) A person who makes malt; a maltster.
- mantel — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantle — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- martel — Charles, Charles Martel.
- meatal — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- metals — Plural form of metal.
- muleta — a red cloth similar to but smaller than a capa and manipulated by a stick set into one of the three holes in or near the center, for use by a matador in guiding the course of the bull's attack in the stage of the fight preparatory to the kill.
- neatly — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").
- oblate — flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).
- olathe — a city in E Kansas.
- oleate — Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- osteal — osseous.
- palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- palest — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pallet — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- palter — to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- pattle — paddle1 (def 11).
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- plante — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1929–86, Canadian ice-hockey player.
- plated — coated with a thin film of gold, silver, etc., as for ornamental purposes.
- platen — a flat plate in a printing press for pressing the paper against the inked type or plate to produce an impression.
- plater — a person or thing that plates.
- platte — a river flowing E from the junction of the North and South Platte rivers in central Nebraska to the Missouri River S of Omaha. 310 miles (500 km) long.
- playte — (data, jargon) /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with byte. Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also dynner, crumb.
- potale — residue from a grain distillery, used as animal feed
- puteal — an enclosure around a well
- rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
- raylet — a small ray
- realty — real property or real estate.