6-letter words containing e, t, c
- nacket — a light lunch or snack
- nectar — the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- netcdf — Network Common Data Form. A machine-independent, self-describing file format for scientific data.
- nicest — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- nicety — a delicate or fine point; punctilio: niceties of protocol.
- nocent — harmful; injurious.
- noetic — of or relating to the mind.
- notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- object — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- obtect — (of a pupa) having the antennae, legs, and wings glued to the surface of the body.
- ocelot — a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- octane — any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 1 8 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- octets — Plural form of octet.
- octile — (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
- oecist — a person who colonizes, particularly in Ancient Greece
- oncest — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
- oneact — a short play consisting of one act.
- oocyte — an immature egg cell of the animal ovary; in humans, one oocyte matures during the menstrual cycle, becoming an ootid and then an ovum, while several others partially mature and then disintegrate.
- packet — a small group or package of anything: a packet of letters.
- pecten — Zoology, Anatomy. a comblike part or process. a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- pectic — pertaining to pectin.
- pectin — a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- peinct — to paint
- peptic — pertaining to or associated with digestion; digestive.
- picket — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
- picote — ornamented or embroidered with picots
- pictex — A version of TeX for pictures.
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- poetic — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- potche — to thrust, pierce, or stab
- preact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- precut — cut to a specific shape or size before being assembled or used: a kit with precut parts.
- quetch — Alternative form of quitch.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- rachet — flashy, unrefined, etc.; low-class: ratchet girls wearing too much makeup.
- racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- raetic — an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
- re-act — to act or perform again.
- recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recast — to cast again or anew.
- recent — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- recept — an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- recite — to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner: to recite a lesson.
- recoat — to coat (something) again or with a new coat of paint, varnish, etc
- recost — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- rectal — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- recti- — straight or right
- recto- — rectum, rectum and