6-letter words containing i, s, t, a
- gaslit — gaslit (def 2).
- giants — (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- gisant — a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- gratis — without charge or payment; free: The manufacturer provided an extra set of coat buttons gratis.
- habits — Plural form of habit.
- hastie — William Henry, 1904–76, U.S. jurist: first black judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- hestia — the ancient Greek goddess of the hearth.
- hiatus — a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
- insta- — indicating instant or quickly produced
- instal — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- instar — an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- isatin — a yellowish-red or orange, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 8 H 5 NO 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of vat dyes.
- ishtar — the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- isotac — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- istana — (in Malaysia) a royal palace
- istria — a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- itasca — Lake, a lake in N Minnesota: one of the sources of the Mississippi River.
- javits — Jacob K(oppel) [koh-pel] /koʊˈpɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, U.S. politician: senator 1957–81.
- kismat — fate; destiny.
- kistna — former name of Krishna (def 2).
- kraits — Plural form of krait.
- lathis — Plural form of lathi.
- latish — somewhat or rather late.
- laxist — (in Roman Catholic theology) a casuist who believes that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- manist — Ancestor-worshipper.
- 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.
- maoist — the political, social, economic, and military theories and policies advocated by Mao Zedong, as those concerning revolutionary movements and guerrilla warfare.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- mastic — Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- mastix — mastic, being an aromatic resin obtained from the mastic tree
- maties — Plural form of maty.
- 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.
- misact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- miseat — to eat unhealthily or improperly
- mistag — (transitive) To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
- mistal — a cow shed; byre
- 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.
- ostiak — Ostyak.
- ostial — relating to an ostium
- papist — a Roman Catholic.
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- pietas — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- pitsaw — a two-handed saw used in pit sawing.
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.