6-letter words containing s, t, e, r
- tasker — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- taster — a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- teaser — a person or thing that teases.
- tenser — stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
- tensor — Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- teresa — Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- tereus — a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- tester — the teston of Henry VIII.
- theirs — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- theres — in or at that place (opposed to here): She is there now.
- thiers — Louis Adolphe [lwee a-dawlf] /lwi aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1797–1877, French statesman: president 1871–73.
- thresh — to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
- throes — a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- thyrse — a compact branching inflorescence, as of the lilac, in which the main axis is indeterminate and the lateral axes are determinate.
- tories — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- torose — Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- torsel — a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- tosher — a person who scavenged in the sewers in Victorian London
- tosser — to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
- touser — someone who touses
- towser — a big dog.
- traces — either of the two straps, ropes, or chains by which a carriage, wagon, or the like is drawn by a harnessed horse or other draft animal.
- transe — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
- trapes — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- treas. — treasurer
- trends — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- tressy — resembling or having tresses.
- treves — a city in W Germany, on the Moselle River: extensive Roman ruins; cathedral.
- 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.
- triste — sad; sorrowful; melancholy.
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trouse — close-fitting breeches worn in Ireland
- troyes — a river in N France, flowing NW to the Seine. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- truest — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- turves — plural of turf.
- tusker — an animal with tusks, as an elephant or a wild boar.
- tuyers — an opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cupola, forge, or the like, to facilitate combustion.
- ulster — a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- unrest — lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet: the unrest within himself.
- uprest — an uprising
- uterus — the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
- vaster — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- verist — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verset — Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- vertus — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- vestry — a room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
- waster — a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
- waters — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.