5-letter words containing i, t, a
- ratio — the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second: the ratio of 5 to 2, written 5:2 or 5/2.
- retia — a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- riant — laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- riata — a lariat.
- ribat — a building housing a community of Sufis.
- saint — any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- saite — a native or citizen of Saïs.
- saith — third person singular present of say1 .
- sakti — the female principle or organ of generative power.
- satie — Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- satin — a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- satis — the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.
- sitar — a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- sitka — a town in SE Alaska, on an island in the Alexander Archipelago: the capital of former Russian America.
- staid — of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
- stain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stair — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stasi — formerly, the secret police in East Germany
- stipa — a member of a genus of perennial grasses in the subfamily Pooideae
- stoai — Greek Architecture. a portico, usually a detached portico of considerable length, that is used as a promenade or meeting place.
- stria — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- suita — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- swati — Swat (def 2).
- tabid — Also, tabid [tab-id] /ˈtæb ɪd/ (Show IPA). pertaining to or affected with tabes.
- tacit — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tafia — a type of rum made in Haiti from lower grades of molasses, refuse sugar, or the like.
- taiga — the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- taihu — a lake in E central China, W of Shanghai: noted for scenery. 869 sq. mi. (2250 sq. km).
- taiko — a large Japanese drum
- tails — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- taine — Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- taino — a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- taint — the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
- taira — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.
- tajik — a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
- takhi — a species of wild Mongolian horse, Equus przewalski
- takin — a mountain-dwelling bovid, Budorcas taxicolor, native to the eastern Himalayas, China, and northern Burma, that resembles a cross between a goat and a musk ox.
- talib — a member of the Taliban
- tamil — a member of a people of Dravidian stock of S India and Sri Lanka.
- tamin — a thin woollen fabric
- tamis — a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- tangi — a Māori funeral ceremony
- tanis — an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- tanti — worthwhile
- tapir — any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.
- tapis — Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- tarai — a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- tarim — a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- tarsi — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of the proximal segment of the foot; the bones between the tibia and the metatarsus, contributing to the construction of the ankle joint.
- tatie — a potato