6-letter words containing i, t
- nitrox — a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used by divers
- nitryl — (inorganic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical -NO2.
- nitter — (zoology) A louse that deposits nits on horses.
- nitwit — a slow-witted, stupid, or foolish person.
- no-hit — of, relating to, or noting a game in which a pitcher allows no base hits to the opposing team: a no-hit pitcher; a no-hit game.
- nocti- — night
- noctis — (in prescriptions) of the night.
- noetic — of or relating to the mind.
- norite — a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- nothin — Apocopic form of nothing.
- notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- noting — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- notion — a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
- notist — (obsolete) An annotator.
- novity — (countable, now rare) An innovation; a novelty.
- nudist — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- nudity — the state or fact of being nude; nakedness.
- nuthin — Eye dialect nothing.
- nutria — the coypu.
- nycti- — night
- nytril — a synthetic, long-chain polymer fiber that produces a soft, elastic fabric.
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- obiter — Incidentally; in passing.
- oboist — a player of the oboe.
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- ocicat — a breed of large short-haired cat with a spotted coat
- octile — (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
- octopi — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- octroi — (formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- oddity — an odd or remarkably unusual person, thing, or event.
- oecist — a person who colonizes, particularly in Ancient Greece
- oillet — eyelet (def 5).
- oilnut — a nut from which oil is extracted
- ointed — Simple past tense and past participle of oint.
- olivet — a large floodlight having a single bulb.
- omotic — a proposed branch of the Afroasiatic family comprising a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and often included within the Cushitic branch.
- on dit — a rumour; piece of gossip
- onetti — Juan Carlos [wahn kahr-lohs,, -luh s;; Spanish hwahn kahr-laws] /wɑn ˈkɑr loʊs,, -ləs;; Spanish ʰwɑn ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–94, Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer.
- onsite — accomplished or located at the site of a particular activity or concern: on-site medical treatment for accident victims.
- oolite — a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- oolith — any of the component concretions of a piece of oolite.
- ootids — Plural form of ootid.
- ophite — a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- opt in — choose to be included
- optics — the eye.
- optima — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- optime — (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler (def 2).
- opting — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).