6-letter words containing r, a, t, e
- patter — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- patzer — a casual, amateurish chess player.
- petara — (in India) a basket for clothes
- petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- petary — a place where peat is excavated; peatary
- phater — Slang. great; wonderful; terrific.
- pirate — software pirate
- plater — a person or thing that plates.
- prater — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- pratie — a potato
- preact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- pretax — profits, etc.: before tax
- protea — any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
- quarte — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quater — (in prescriptions) four times.
- quatre — the four at cards, dice, or the like.
- rabbet — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- rachet — flashy, unrefined, etc.; low-class: ratchet girls wearing too much makeup.
- racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- raetia — Rhaetia
- raetic — an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
- rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
- ramate — having branches; branching out or off.
- ramets — an individual of a clone.
- ramjet — a jet engine operated by the injection of fuel into a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft.
- ranket — a double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- ranted — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- ranter — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- rarest — (of meat) cooked just slightly: He likes his steak rare.
- raster — Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- ratine — a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- ratite — having a flat, unkeeled sternum, as an ostrich, cassowary, emu, or moa.
- ratted — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- ratten — to sabotage or steal (tools), or harass in order to disrupt workers
- ratter — a person, animal, or thing that catches rats, as a terrier or a cat.
- rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
- rawest — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- raylet — a small ray
- re-act — to act or perform again.
- re-hat — to assign a new designation to (a soldier), for example when installing a national army as UN peacekeepers
- realty — real property or real estate.
- reasty — rancid
- reated — to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.
- rebait — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- rebate — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- rebato — rabato.
- recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recast — to cast again or anew.