6-letter words containing s, i, t, r
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sprits — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spritz — to spray briefly and quickly; squirt: He spritzed a little soda in his drink.
- spruit — (in southern Africa) a small stream.
- squirt — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- stairs — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- steric — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stirps — a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- stiver — Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- strati — a cloud of a class characterized by a gray, horizontal layer with a uniform base, found at a lower altitude than altostratus, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- striae — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- strich — the screech owl
- strick — a group of any of the major bast fibers, as flax or jute, prepared for conversion into sliver form.
- strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strift — a struggle
- strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strine — Australian English.
- string — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- stript — a simple past tense and past participle of strip1 .
- stripy — having or marked with stripes.
- strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- styria — a province in SE Austria: formerly a duchy. 6327 sq. mi. (16,385 sq. km). Capital: Graz.
- suiter — a piece of luggage for carrying suits and dresses
- suitor — a man who courts or woos a woman.
- syrtis — an area of quicksand
- tarsia — intarsia.
- tarski — Alfred, 1902–1983, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Poland.
- theirs — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- thiers — Louis Adolphe [lwee a-dawlf] /lwi aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1797–1877, French statesman: president 1871–73.
- thirds — goods of a standard lower than that of seconds
- thirst — a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
- thrips — any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.
- tigris — a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150 miles (1850 km) long.
- tiryns — an ancient city in Greece, in Peloponnesus: destroyed in 486 b.c. by the Argives; excavated ruins include Cyclopean walls forming part of a great fortress.
- tishri — the first month of the Jewish calendar.
- tories — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- travis — William Barret, 1809–36, U.S. soldier: commander during the battle of the Alamo.
- trials — systematic testing
- tricks — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- triens — a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- triose — a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- tripes — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- triste — sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- trisul — the trident symbol of the Hindu God Siva