6-letter words containing a, t, n
- catton — Eleanor. born 1985, Canadian-born New Zealand writer; her books include The Rehearsal (2008) and the Booker-prizewinning The Luminaries (2013)
- caxton — a book printed by William Caxton
- cedant — The cedant is the person or company that cedes business to another person or company.
- cental — a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds (45.3 kilograms)
- centas — a former monetary unit of Lithuania, worth one hundredth of a litas
- centra — a plural of centrum.
- cetane — a colourless insoluble liquid alkane hydrocarbon used in the determination of the cetane number of diesel fuel. Formula: C16H34
- chants — Plural form of chant.
- chanty — chantey.
- chaton — a stone with a reflective metal foil backing
- chaunt — chant
- citran — (language) Caltech's answer to MIT's JOSS.
- coltan — a metallic ore found esp in the E Congo, consisting of columbite and tantalite (a source of the element tantalum)
- conant — James Bryant1893-1978; U.S. chemist & educator
- conapt — (science fiction) a condominium apartment.
- contra — against
- corant — A coranto (kind of dance).
- cotman — John Sell. 1782–1842, English landscape watercolourist and etcher
- crants — a garland or wreath carried in front of a maiden's bier
- craton — a stable part of the earth's continental crust or lithosphere that has not been deformed significantly for many millions, even hundreds of millions, of years
- creant — creating or creative; formative
- cretan — of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants
- criant — garish; loud
- dainty — If you describe a movement, person, or object as dainty, you mean that they are small, delicate, and pretty.
- dalton — John. 1766–1844, English chemist and physicist, who formulated the modern form of the atomic theory and the law of partial pressures for gases. He also gave the first accurate description of colour blindness, from which he suffered
- damnit — (especially, southern US) misspelling of dammit.
- dangit — Dang it; used to express irritation or disappointment.
- danite — of the Hebrew tribe of Dan
- danton — Georges Jacques (ʒɔrʒ ʒɑk). 1759–94, French revolutionary leader: a founder member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793) and minister of justice (1792–94). He was overthrown by Robespierre and guillotined
- dating — Dating agencies or services are for people who are trying to find a girlfriend or boyfriend.
- dation — (rare, legal) The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift.
- datong — a city in N Shanxi province, in NE China.
- daunts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of daunt.
- dayton — an industrial city in SW Ohio: aviation research centre. Pop: 161 696 (2003 est)
- decant — If you decant a liquid into another container, you put it into another container.
- dental — pronounced or articulated with the tip of the tongue touching the backs of the upper teeth, as for t in French tout
- detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- dinant — a town in S Belgium, on the River Meuse below steep limestone cliffs: 11th-century citadel: famous in the Middle Ages for fine brassware, known as dinanderie: tourism, metalwork, biscuits. Pop: 12 719 (2004 est)
- donate — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- dopant — an impurity added intentionally in a very small, controlled amount to a pure semiconductor to change its electrical properties: Arsenic is a dopant for silicon.
- dothan — a city in SE Alabama.
- dunant — Jean Henri [French zhahn ahn-ree] /French ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1828–1910, Swiss banker and philanthropist: founder of the Red Cross; Nobel Peace Prize 1901.
- durant — Ariel, 1898–1981, U.S. author and historian (wife of Will).
- dynast — A member of a powerful family, especially a hereditary ruler.
- easton — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- eat in — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- eating — eats, Informal. food.
- elanet — any of four species of diurnal bird of prey of the genus Elanus and of the family Accipitridae
- eluant — Alternative spelling of eluent.
- enacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enact.