6-letter words containing i, t, a, r
- ratine — a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- rating — the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans.
- ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- ratite — having a flat, unkeeled sternum, as an ostrich, cassowary, emu, or moa.
- rebait — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- resita — an industrial city in the Banat, W Romania.
- retail — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retain — to keep possession of.
- retial — a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- retina — the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- rheita — a crater in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 42 miles (68 km) in diameter.
- rialto — an exchange or mart.
- ristra — a string of dried chilies, garlic, or other foodstuffs.
- ritard — ritardando
- ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- rosita — a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- santir — a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satori — sudden enlightenment.
- sintra — a town in central Portugal, near Lisbon, in the Sintra mountains: noted for its castles and palaces and the beauty of its setting: tourism
- sistra — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- stairs — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- strati — a cloud of a class characterized by a gray, horizontal layer with a uniform base, found at a lower altitude than altostratus, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- striae — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- styria — a province in SE Austria: formerly a duchy. 6327 sq. mi. (16,385 sq. km). Capital: Graz.
- tabari — Muhammad ibn Jarir al-. 838–923 ad, Arab scholar, whose works include a history of the world from the Creation to 915 ad and a commentary on the Koran
- tabriz — a city in and the capital of Eastern Azerbaijan province, in NW Iran.
- tailer — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
- tamari — a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- tariff — an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports.
- tarija — a city in S Bolivia.
- taring — the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
- tarpit — seepage of natural tar or asphalt, especially an accumulation that has acted as a natural trap into which animals have fallen and sunk and had their bones preserved.
- tarsia — intarsia.
- tarski — Alfred, 1902–1983, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Poland.
- terbia — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- thiram — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 12 N 2 S 4 , insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol, soluble in benzene and acetone, used as a vulcanizer and accelerator for rubber and as a fungicide, bacteriostat, and seed disinfectant.
- thoria — a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- tigard — a city in NW Oregon, near Portland.
- timaru — a seaport on the E coast of South Island, in S New Zealand.
- tirade — a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation: a tirade against smoking.
- tirage — the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
- tirana — a republic in S Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula, W of Macedonia and NW of Greece. 10,632 sq. mi. (27,535 sq. km). Capital: Tirana.
- tirane — a city in and the capital of Albania, in the central part.
- tityra — any of several songbirds of the genus Tityra, of the American tropics, having gray, black, and white plumage and large swollen bills, and variously classified with the flycatchers or the cotingas.
- tizard — Sir Henry (Thomas). 1885–1959, British chemist and scientific administrator, who specialized in the military application of science and backed the development of radar