6-letter words containing p, t
- parrot — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- partan — a crab.
- parted — partial; of a part: part owner.
- parter — a person or thing that parts; separator
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- partly — in part; to some extent or degree; partially; not wholly: His statement is partly true.
- 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.
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- pasted — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- pataca — a nickel, silver, or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Macao, equal to 100 avos.
- pataka — a building on stilts, used for storing provisions
- patchy — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patera — a shallow ancient Roman bowl used in rituals
- pathan — Afghan (def 1).
- pathic — a catamite
- patho- — disease
- pathol — pathological
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- 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.
- patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- patres — dead.
- patri- — father
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- patsys — a male given name, form of Patrick.
- patted — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- pattée — (of a cross) having triangular arms widening outwards
- patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- patter — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pattle — paddle1 (def 11).
- patton — Charley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
- pattys — a female given name, form of Patience or Patricia.
- patuca — a river rising in E central Honduras and flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- patwin — a member of a North American Indian people of the western Sacramento River valley in California.
- patzer — a casual, amateurish chess player.
- paxton — Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.