6-letter words containing a, t, e, r
- strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- strake — Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
- streak — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- stream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- striae — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- tabret — a small tabor.
- tacker — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- tagger — a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label: The price is on the tag.
- tagore — Sir Rabindranath [ruh-been-druh-naht] /rəˈbin drəˌnɑt/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, Indian poet: Nobel prize 1913.
- tailer — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- talker — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- taller — having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
- tamper — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tanger — a seaport in N Morocco, on the W Strait of Gibraltar: capital of the former Tangier Zone.
- tanker — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tanner — the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tanrec — tenrec.
- tapper — a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
- tarbes — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
- target — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tarred — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tarter — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tasker — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- taster — a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- tatler — a triweekly periodical (1709–11) written, edited, and published by Richard Steele with the collaboration of Joseph Addison.
- tatter — a person who does tatting, especially as an occupation.
- tauber — Richard, 1892–1948, Austrian tenor, in England after 1940.
- tauter — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
- tavern — a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- tavert — bewildered or confused
- tawery — a place where the tawing of skins is carried out
- teamer — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- tearer — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- teaser — a person or thing that teases.
- tehran — a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.
- telary — relating to a web
- tendra — (language) TenDRA home.
- tephra — clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- teraph — any of various small household gods or images venerated by ancient Semitic peoples. (Genesis 31:19–21; I Samuel 19:13–16)
- terat- — indicating a monster or something abnormal
- terbia — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- teresa — Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- tergal — of or relating to the tergum.
- termac — An interactive matrix language.
- ternal — having three parts
- tetra- — four
- tetrad — a group of four.
- thaler — any of various former large coins of various German states; dollar.
- thayer — Sylvanus, 1785–1872, U.S. army officer and educator.
- thenar — the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.