6-letter words containing a, t, l
- lorate — strap-shaped
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- lurcat — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.
- lustra — Also, luster; especially British, lustre. a period of five years.
- 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.
- maloti — plural of loti.
- malted — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- malter — (dated) A person who makes malt; a maltster.
- maltha — a liquid bitumen used in ancient times as a mortar or waterproofing agent.
- maltol — a crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 3 , obtained from larch bark, pine needles, chicory, or roasted malt, used for enhancing flavors and aromas, as in foods, wines, and perfumes.
- 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.
- matily — in a matey manner
- matlab — (mathematics, language, application) A high-level language and interactive program from The MathWorks for numeric computation and visualisation. MATLAB supports numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, linear algebra, statistics, Fourier analysis, filtering, optimisation and numerical integration. It can output two and three dimensional graphics and can be integrated with C, C++, Fortran, Java, COM and Microsoft Excel.
- 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.
- mistal — a cow shed; byre
- mitral — of or resembling a miter.
- mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- 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.
- multan — a city in E central Pakistan.
- mutual — possessed, experienced, performed, etc., by each of two or more with respect to the other; reciprocal: to have mutual respect.
- natals — (obsolete) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
- 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").
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- oblast — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- 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.
- olfact — to detect the smell of (something)
- osteal — osseous.
- ostial — relating to an ostium
- outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outlay — an expending or spending, as of money.
- oxtail — the skinned tail of an ox or steer, used as an ingredient in soup, stew, etc.
- 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.
- paltry — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- partly — in part; to some extent or degree; partially; not wholly: His statement is partly true.