6-letter words containing e, s, o, t
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- stopes — 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.
- stored — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- storer — a person or thing that stores something
- stores — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- storey — story2 .
- storge — natural or instinctual affection, as of a parent for a child
- stover — coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- stowed — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- stower — a person who stows
- strobe — Also called strobe light. stroboscope (def 2a).
- strode — simple past tense of stride.
- stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- strove — simple past tense of strive.
- telson — the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- tenson — a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
- tensor — Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- teston — a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- theos. — theosophical
- throes — a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- tolsel — a tolbooth
- tories — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- torose — Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- torsel — a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- tosher — a person who scavenged in the sewers in Victorian London
- tosser — to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
- totems — a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- touser — someone who touses
- tousle — to disorder or dishevel: The wind tousled our hair.
- townes — Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
- towser — a big dog.
- triose — a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trouse — close-fitting breeches worn in Ireland
- troyes — a river in N France, flowing NW to the Seine. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- vetoes — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- weston — Edward, 1886–1958, U.S. photographer.
- zoster — Also called herpes zoster. Pathology. shingles.