6-letter words containing n, t
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- ostend — a seaport in NW Belgium.
- ostent — Appearance; air; mien.
- osteon — (anatomy) Any of the central canals, and surrounding bony layers, found in compact bone.
- othman — Osman.
- outgun — to exceed in firepower.
- outing — a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.: He always left himself an out.
- outken — (transitive) To surpass or exceed in kenning.
- outman — to surpass in manpower.
- outran — simple past tense of outrun.
- outrun — to run faster or farther than.
- outsin — to sin more than
- outwin — to get out (from)
- ownest — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- painty — of, coated with, or soiled with paint: a painty finish; painty overalls.
- pandit — Vijaya Lakshmi [vi-jahy-uh lahk-shmee] /vɪˈdʒaɪ ə ˈlɑk ʃmi/ (Show IPA), 1900–90, Indian stateswoman (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- panted — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- panter — of or relating to pants: pant cuffs.
- pantie — panties.
- panto- — all
- panton — a soft horseshoe
- pantry — a room or closet in which food, groceries, and other provisions, or silverware, dishes, etc., are kept.
- pantun — pantoum.
- parent — a father or a mother.
- partan — a crab.
- parton — a constituent of the nucleon originally postulated in the theoretical analysis of high-energy scattering of electrons by nucleons and subsequently identified with quarks and gluons.
- patent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- pathan — Afghan (def 1).
- patina — a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
- patine — patina.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- patton — Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- patwin — a member of a North American Indian people of the western Sacramento River valley in California.
- paxton — Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.
- payton — Walter ("Sweetness") 1954–99, U.S. football player.
- peanut — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- 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.
- 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.
- pedant — a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
- peinct — to paint
- penta- — five
- pentad — a period of five years.
- pentel — a ballpoint pen with free-flowing ink in the manner of a felt-tip pen
- pentyl — containing a pentyl group; amyl.
- penult — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- petain — Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- petnap — to steal (a pet) for ransom or resale
- photon — a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.
- phytin — a salt containing calcium and magnesium that is derived from plants and used as a dietary supplement