6-letter words containing a, r, t
- treaty — a formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
- trepan — a person who ensnares or entraps others.
- triact — a sponge spicule with three rays
- triage — the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- trials — systematic testing
- tribal — of, relating to, or characteristic of a tribe: tribal customs.
- tricar — an automobile with three wheels
- trinal — threefold; triple; trine.
- trivia — (in Roman religion) Hecate: so called because she was the goddess of the crossroads.
- trocar — a sharp-pointed instrument enclosed in a cannula, used for withdrawing fluid from a cavity, as the abdominal cavity.
- troika — a Russian carriage, wagon, or sleigh drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
- trojan — of or relating to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
- truant — a student who stays away from school without permission.
- truman — Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- tuareg — a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
- tughra — the official emblem of a Turkish Sultan
- tulare — a city in central California.
- tulear — a city on SW Madagascar.
- tulwar — any of several Indian sabers.
- tundra — one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- turaco — touraco.
- turban — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turiya — the fourth state of consciousness, beyond thought, love, and will, and beyond the awareness of variety, duality, and unity.
- tursha — an ancient people of the Mediterranean region, variously identified with the Lydians, Etruscans, or Trojans.
- tuskar — (in Orkney and Shetland) a peat-cutting spade
- tygart — a river in E West Virginia, flowing N and joining the West Fork River to form the Monongahela River. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- tyrant — a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
- tyrian — of or relating to ancient Tyre or its people.
- ugarit — an ancient city in Syria, N of Latakia, on the site of modern Ras Shamra: destroyed by an earthquake early in the 13th century b.c.; excavations have yielded tablets written in cuneiform and hieroglyphic script that reveal important information on Canaanite mythology.
- ultra- — Ultra- is added to adjectives to form other adjectives that emphasize that something or someone has a quality to an extreme degree.
- uncart — to remove from a cart
- updart — to dart upwards
- uprate — to raise in rate, power, size, classification, etc.; upgrade: to uprate a rocket engine.
- uptear — to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- urartu — an ancient kingdom, c1270–750 b.c., in E Turkey, on the shore of Lake Van: often invaded by Assyria.
- uratic — a salt of uric acid.
- urtica — a nettle which yields a flax-like fibre
- utgard — a home of the Jotuns, outside Midgard and Asgard: probably synonymous with Jotunheim.
- varlet — a knavish person; rascal.
- vaster — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vatter — a lake in S Sweden. 80 miles (130 km) long; 733 sq. mi. (1900 sq. km).
- viator — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vorant — violently consuming
- votary — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- vratsa — a city in NW Bulgaria.
- vritra — a serpent-demon, the personification of evil and leader of the Danavas: conquered by Indra.
- wafter — to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- waiter — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- walter — Bruno [broo-noh] /ˈbru noʊ/ (Show IPA), (Bruno Schlesinger) 1876–1962, German opera and symphony conductor, in U.S. after 1939.
- wanter — One who wants, or who wants something.