6-letter words containing e, s, o, t
- set-to — a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- setoff — something that counterbalances or makes up for something else, as compensation for a loss.
- setose — covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- setout — preparations, especially for beginning a journey.
- sexpot — a sexually attractive person.
- sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
- shohet — a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- sobeit — provided that
- socket — a hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
- soften — to make soft or softer.
- softie — softy.
- solate — to change from a gel to a sol.
- solent — The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
- solute — the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- somite — any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- sonnet — Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
- sopite — put to sleep
- sorbet — sherbet (defs 1, 3).
- sorest — physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.
- sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
- sorter — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- sortes — divination by opening a book, esp the Bible, at random
- sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- sotted — drunken; besotted.
- souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- soweto — a group of townships in NE South Africa, SW of and administered by Johannesburg: constructed in the 1950s and early 1960s to provide housing and services for black Africans. 26 sq. mi. (67 sq. km).
- steno- — indicating narrowness or contraction
- stereo — stereoscopic photography.
- sterno — inflammable hydrocarbon jelly in a small can, used for cooking
- sterol — any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- stheno — one of the three Gorgons
- stodge — to stuff full, especially with food or drink; gorge.
- stogie — a long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar.
- stoked — exhilarated; excited.
- stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- stokes — a unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter.
- stoled — having or clothed in a stole
- stolen — past participle of steal.
- stoles — an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below. Compare tippet (def 2).
- stone- — very; completely
- stoned — made of or pertaining to stone.
- stonen — of or comprising stone
- stoner — Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- stones — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stoney — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- stooge — an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
- stooze — to borrow money at low interest for investment in a high-interest account
- stoped — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.