6-letter words containing p, t, e
- repton — Humphry. 1752–1818, English landscape gardener
- repute — estimation in the view of others; reputation: persons of good repute.
- respot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- retape — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- retype — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- ripest — having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- roupet — hoarse; croaky
- rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
- sapote — Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- septal — of or relating to a septum.
- septet — any group of seven persons or things.
- septi- — seven
- septic — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- septum — a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure; dissepiment.
- set up — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- set-up — Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- sexpot — a sexually attractive person.
- sippet — a small bit; fragment.
- sitrep — a military situation report
- sopite — put to sleep
- spathe — a bract or pair of bracts, often large and colored, subtending or enclosing a spadix or flower cluster.
- spects — single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- speltz — a wheat variety
- spents — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- spetch — a piece of animal skin or leather
- spinet — a small upright piano.
- spited — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spites — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- sprent — sprinkled.
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- stapes — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- staple — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- steppe — an extensive plain, especially one without trees.
- stipel — a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- stipes — Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- stoped — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- stopes — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- streep — Meryl, original name Mary Louise Streep. born 1949, US actress. Her films include The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1986), The Hours (2002), Mamma Mia! (2008), and The Iron Lady (2011)
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- taipei — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
- takeup — the act or process of taking up, making tight, etc.
- tamped — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tamper — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tapeti — a forest rabbit of Brazil, Lepus brasiliensis
- tapies — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ˈɑn tɔˌni/ (Show IPA), or Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Spanish painter.
- tapped — to draw liquid from (a vessel or container).
- tapper — a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
- tappet — a sliding rod, intermittently struck by a cam, for moving another part, as a valve.
- tawpie — a foolish or thoughtless young person.