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6-letter words containing a, r, t

  • phater — Slang. great; wonderful; terrific.
  • pirate — software pirate
  • plater — a person or thing that plates.
  • popart — A grammar-driven programming environment generator. Uses Paddle.
  • porta- — portable
  • portal — portal vein.
  • portia — the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
  • potaro — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • prater — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
  • pratie — a potato
  • preact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
  • pretax — profits, etc.: before tax
  • protea — any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
  • prutah — a former aluminum coin of Israel, the thousandth part of a pound.
  • qatari — an independent emirate on the Persian Gulf; under British protection until 1971. 8500 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km). Capital: Doha.
  • qintar — a money of account of Albania, the 100th part of a lek.
  • quarte — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
  • quarto — a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°.
  • quarts — Plural form of quart.
  • quartz — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
  • quater — (in prescriptions) four times.
  • quatre — the four at cards, dice, or the like.
  • quatro — a small guitar with four or five strings or pairs of strings, used in Latin American and Caribbean music.
  • rabato — a wide, stiff collar of the 17th century, worn flat over the shoulders or open in front and standing at the back.
  • rabbet — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
  • rabbit — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
  • racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
  • rachet — flashy, unrefined, etc.; low-class: ratchet girls wearing too much makeup.
  • racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
  • racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
  • raetia — Rhaetia
  • raetic — an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
  • rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
  • ragout — French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
  • ragtag — ragged or shabby; disheveled.
  • ragtop — an automobile having a folding canvas top; convertible.
  • rajkot — a city in S Gujarat, in W India.
  • rajput — a member of a Hindu people claiming descent from the ancient Kshatriya, or warrior caste, and noted for their military spirit.
  • ramate — having branches; branching out or off.
  • ramcat — a male cat
  • ramets — an individual of a clone.
  • ramjet — a jet engine operated by the injection of fuel into a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft.
  • ramtil — Niger seed.
  • ranket — a double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • ranted — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
  • ranter — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
  • rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
  • raptly — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
  • raptor — a raptorial bird.
  • raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
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