6-letter words containing e, t, c
- fucate — (obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
- gedact — a flutelike stopped metal diapason organ pipe
- geotic — (obsolete) Belonging to earth; terrestrial.
- gestic — pertaining to bodily motions, especially in dancing.
- getcha — (colloquial) Contraction of
- goetic — relating to witchcraft
- hecate — a goddess of the earth and Hades, associated with sorcery, hounds, and crossroads.
- hectic — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hecto- — denoting 100
- hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hepcat — a performer or admirer of jazz, especially swing.
- hexact — hexactinal
- hocket — a technique in medieval musical composition in which two or three voice parts are given notes or short phrases in rapid alternation, producing an erratic, hiccuping effect.
- humect — to moisten, to wet
- iciest — Superlative form of icy.
- incent — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incept — to take in; ingest.
- incest — sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- infect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inject — to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue: to inject a medicine into the veins.
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- intice — Archaic spelling of entice.
- invect — (obsolete) To inveigh.
- itched — Simple past tense and past participle of itch.
- itches — Plural form of itch.
- jacent — Lying at length.
- jacket — a short coat, in any of various forms, usually opening down the front.
- keltic — Celt.
- kvetch — to complain, especially chronically.
- lacert — (obsolete) A fleshy muscle of the human body.
- lancet — a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lector — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- letcha — (slang) Let you.
- letchy — Alternative form of lechy.
- lettic — of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locket — a small case for a miniature portrait, a lock of hair, or other keepsake, usually worn on a necklace.
- lucent — shining.
- lucite — Alternative capitalization of Lucite.
- luetic — syphilitic.
- mcvert — (tool) A Unix program for reading and writing Apple Computer Macintosh binary files. It was written by Doug Moore, now at Rice University (Jan 1990). See BinHex, HQX, MacBinary.
- mecate — Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- metics — Plural form of metic.
- metric — software metric
- micate — to add mica to
- mixtec — a member of an Amerindian people of Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Puebla, Mexico.
- mucate — a salt of mucic acid