6-letter words containing p, t, e
- entrap — Catch (someone or something) in or as in a trap.
- épater — to startle or shock, as out of complacency, conventionality, etc.
- epist. — Epistle
- equipt — Equipment.
- erupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of erupt.
- esprit — European Strategic Programme for Research in Information Technology
- ethiop — Ethiopian
- etypic — unable to conform to type
- except — Specify as not included in a category or group; exclude.
- exempt — Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.
- expats — Plural form of expat.
- expect — Regard (something) as likely to happen.
- expert — A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area.
- export — A commodity, article, or service sold abroad.
- extemp — (US, informal) extemporaneous speaking; a competitive event in schools and colleges in which students speak persuasively or informatively about current events and politics.
- extirp — to uproot (vegetation), to extirpate
- forpet — a fourth part
- get up — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- get-up — costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.
- getups — Plural form of getup.
- hapten — a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- hatpeg — a peg on which to hang a hat
- hepat- — hepato-
- hepcat — a performer or admirer of jazz, especially swing.
- hepnet — An association concerned with networking requirements for high energy physicists.
- hepta- — seven
- heptad — the number seven.
- het up — indignant; irate; upset: She was really het up about the new city tax.
- hopeth — Archaic third-person singular form of hope.
- hypate — (on the ancient Greek lyre) the highest placed string, producing the lowest tone
- impest — (obsolete, transitive) To afflict with pestilence.
- impute — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- incept — to take in; ingest.
- instep — the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- kapote — a long coat formerly worn by male Jews of eastern Europe and now worn chiefly by very Orthodox or Hasidic Jews.
- kempty — (of wool) Coarse or rough, like kemp.
- klepht — a Greek or Albanian brigand, exalted in the war of Greek independence as a patriotic robber; guerrilla.
- klepto — (slang) a kleptomaniac.
- lappet — a small lap, flap, or loosely hanging part, especially of a garment or headdress.
- leptin — a hormone that is thought to suppress appetite and speed up metabolism.
- lepto- — fine, slender, or slight
- lepton — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- let up — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- limpet — any of various marine gastropods with a low conical shell open beneath, often browsing on rocks at the shoreline and adhering when disturbed.
- meetup — a meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking website: a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip.
- metaph — metaphor
- metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
- metope — any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
- metump — a band or strap for carrying a load or burden, chiefly used by Native Americans
- moppet — a young child.