6-letter words containing p, o, t, e
- topeka — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 82,276 sq. mi. (213,094 sq. km). Capital: Topeka. Abbreviation: KS (for use with zip code), Kans., Kan., Kas.
- tophet — a place in the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where, contrary to the law, children were offered as sacrifices, especially to Moloch. It was later used as a dumping ground for refuse.
- topper — a person or thing that tops.
- toppie — topknot (def 3).
- topple — to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
- torpex — (sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- toupee — a man's wig.
- trompe — Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- troupe — a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- tupelo — any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
- upvote — such a favorable vote: One of my posts is getting lots of upvotes.
- zepto- — one sextillionth part of; the factor 10-21