6-letter words containing r, i, o, t
- octroi — (formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- orbits — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- orbity — a bereavement or the state of being bereaved
- orient — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- outrig — the supply of something
- pictor — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Dorado and Carina
- poiret — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1944, French fashion designer.
- portia — the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- probit — a normal equivalent deviate increased by five.
- profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- prosit — good health! cheers!
- protei — plural of proteus (def 3).
- ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- rhotic — of or relating to a dialect of English in which the r is pronounced at the end of a syllable or before a consonant: Midwestern American English is rhotic, while Southern British English is not.
- rialto — an exchange or mart.
- righto — Some people say righto to show that they agree with a suggestion that someone has made.
- rioted — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rioter — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- riotry — riotous behaviour
- ripost — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- rosita — a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- satori — sudden enlightenment.
- sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- suitor — a man who courts or woos a woman.
- tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
- tercio — a regiment of Spanish or Italian infantry
- thoria — a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- thoric — a grayish-white, lustrous, somewhat ductile and malleable, radioactive metallic element present in monazite: used as a source of nuclear energy, as a coating on sun-lamp and vacuum-tube filament coatings, and in alloys. Symbol: Th; atomic weight: 232.038; atomic number: 90; specific gravity: 11.7.
- timour — Tamerlane.
- timrod — Henry, 1828–67, U.S. poet.
- tobira — a shrub, Pittosporum tobira, of China and Japan, having leathery leaves, fragrant, greenish-white flower clusters, densely hairy fruit, and lemon-scented foliage.
- toiler — hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- tonier — high-toned; stylish: a tony nightclub.
- toorie — a tassel or bobble on a bonnet
- tories — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- torino — Turin.
- toroid — a surface generated by the revolution of any closed plane curve or contour about an axis lying in its plane.
- torpid — inactive or sluggish.
- torrid — subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun, as a geographical area: the torrid sands of the Sahara.
- tribo- — indicating friction
- tricot — a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
- trigon — a triangle.
- triode — a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- triose — a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- tripod — a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
- tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- triton — Classical Mythology. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet.
- troika — a Russian carriage, wagon, or sleigh drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
- trophi — the mandibles or other parts of an insect's mouth
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.