6-letter words containing a, t, n
- mantid — mantis.
- mantis — any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- mantle — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantra — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- mantua — a city in E Lombardy, in N Italy: birthplace of Vergil.
- marten — any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- martin — (Oddone Colonna) 1368–1431, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1417–31.
- matane — a city in E Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- mating — a partner in marriage; spouse.
- matins — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- matron — a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- mayn't — Mayn't is a spoken form of 'may not'.
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mentat — (language) (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to a variety of MIMD architectures. By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new project, Legion. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- mithan — gayal.
- monact — the spicule of a sponge that has a single-spiked structure
- moneta — Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- moutan — a variety of Asian tree peony, Paeonia suffruticosa, having large, colourful flowers
- movant — (legal) The party who moves for the judge to rule in favor of a motion.
- multan — a city in E central Pakistan.
- mutant — undergoing or resulting from mutation.
- mutina — a city in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna: ruled by the Este family (18th–19th century); university (1678). Pop: 175 502 (2001)
- naboth — the owner of a vineyard coveted by Ahab, slain by the scheming of Jezebel so that Ahab could secure the vineyard. I Kings 21.
- nacket — a light lunch or snack
- naiant — (of a fish in heraldry) swimming horizontally
- namtar — the Sumerian and Akkadian demon personifying death.
- nanite — nanobot.
- nantes — a department in NW France. 2695 sq. mi. (6980 sq. km). Capital: Nantes.
- napata — an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan.
- naruto — A type of kamaboko.
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- nasute — a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- natals — (obsolete) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
- natant — swimming; floating.
- natfhe — National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
- nathan — a prophet during the reigns of David and Solomon. II Sam. 12; I Kings 1:34.
- natick — a town in E Massachusetts, W of Boston.
- nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- natron — a mineral, hydrated sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- natrum — Lb homeopathy sodium.
- natter — to talk incessantly; chatter.
- natura — nature
- nature — has the X nature
- naught — nothing.
- nautch — (in India) an exhibition of dancing by professional dancing girls.
- nautes — (in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- nautic — Alternative form of nautical.