6-letter words containing n, t
- tanguy — Yves [eev] /iv/ (Show IPA), 1900–55, French painter, in the U.S. after 1939.
- tanist — the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- tanked — put or stored in a tank.
- tanker — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tankia — a population of boat-people who live off the coast of Guangzhou, China
- tanned — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- tanner — the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tannic — Chemistry. of, relating to, or derived from tan or tannin.
- tannie — a title of respect used to refer to an elderly woman
- tannin — Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)
- tannoy — A Tannoy is a system of loudspeakers used to make public announcements, for example at a fair or at a sports stadium.
- tanoan — an American Indian language family of which the three surviving languages are spoken in several pueblos, including Taos, in northern New Mexico near the Rio Grande.
- tanrec — tenrec.
- tantra — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.
- tanuki — a Japanese raccoon dog, formerly believed in Japan to be a mischievous animal capable of shape-shifting
- tanzim — a Palestinian militia belonging to a militant faction of Al Fatah
- taonga — treasure; anything highly prized
- tap-in — a field goal made by striking a ball in the air into the basket, usually from close range.
- taping — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- tappan — Arthur, 1786–1865, and his brother Lewis, 1788–1873, U.S. businessmen, philanthropists, and abolitionists.
- tarand — a northern animal of legend, now supposed to have been the reindeer
- taring — the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
- tarnal — damned
- tarnow — a city in SE Poland, E of Cracow.
- tarpan — a small, dun-colored wild horse chiefly of southern Russia, having a flowing mane and tail: extinct since the early 20th century but somewhat restored by selective breeding of mixed-breed domestic horses, and sustained in zoos.
- tarpon — a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- tartan — a woolen or worsted cloth woven with stripes of different colors and widths crossing at right angles, worn chiefly by the Scottish Highlanders, each clan having its own distinctive plaid.
- tarzan — the hero of a series of jungle stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- tasian — designating or of the earliest known Neolithic farming culture of Egypt, preceding the Badarian
- tasman — Abel Janszoon [ah-buh l yahn-sohn] /ˈɑ bəl ˈyɑn soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1602?–59, Dutch navigator and explorer.
- tatung — Datong.
- tauten — make taut
- tavern — a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- taxing — wearingly burdensome: the day-to-day, taxing duties of a supervisor.
- taxman — collector of taxes
- techno — a style of disco music characterized by very fast synthesizer rhythms, heavy use of samples, and a lack of melody.
- teener — a teenager.
- teensy — teeny; tiny.
- teflon — characterized by imperviousness to blame or criticism: a Teflon politician.
- tegmen — a cover, covering, or integument.
- tehran — a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.
- tejano — (often lowercase) a style of Mexican-American popular music that features the accordion and blends the polka with various forms of traditional Mexican music, now often including synthesizers and rock music.
- tellin — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Tellina, having a thin, rounded shell of white, yellow, pink, or purple.
- telnet — /tel'net/ 1. The Internet standard protocol for remote login. Runs on top of TCP/IP. Defined in STD 8, RFC 854 and extended with options by many other RFCs. Unix BSD networking software includes a program, telnet, which uses the protocol and acts as a terminal emulator for the remote login session. Sometimes abbreviated to TN. TOPS-10 had a similar program called IMPCOM. 2. The US nationwide network into which one dials to access CompuServe. It was created by John Goltz, one of the founders and system guru of CompuServe. He later worked for Tymshare, one of CompuServe's big competitors.
- telson — the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.
- tenace — a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- tenaim — the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- tenant — a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
- tencel — a fabric made from wood pulp cellulose, having a silky texture