6-letter words containing a, s, t
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- patres — dead.
- patsys — a male given name, form of Patrick.
- pattys — a female given name, form of Patience or Patricia.
- peseta — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- pietas — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- pitsaw — a two-handed saw used in pit sawing.
- plants — ["The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. 3-54097297-8].
- postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potass — potash.
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- qanats — Plural form of qanat.
- qantas — the Australian national airline
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- quotas — Plural form of quota.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- 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.
- ramets — an individual of a clone.
- 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.
- raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- rarest — (of meat) cooked just slightly: He likes his steak rare.
- raster — Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- rawest — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- reasty — rancid
- recast — to cast again or anew.
- repast — a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating: to eat a light repast.
- reseat — to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- resita — an industrial city in the Banat, W Romania.
- ristra — a string of dried chilies, garlic, or other foodstuffs.
- rosita — a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- rostra — a plural of rostrum.
- s star — a relatively cool red giant having a surface temperature of about 2500 K and an absorption spectrum with strong lines of zirconium oxide.
- sabata — Victor de [veek-tawr de] /vikˈtɔr dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1967, Italian composer and conductor.
- sabbat — (in the 14th–16th centuries) a secret rendezvous of witches and sorcerers for worshiping the Devil, characterized by orgiastic rites, dances, feasting, etc.
- sacbut — a person who plays a sacbut
- sachet — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sadist — Psychiatry. a person who has the condition of sadism, in which one receives sexual gratification from causing pain and degradation to another.
- saeter — an upland pasture or meadow
- safest — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- safety — the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.