6-letter words containing s, t, o
- otters — Plural form of otter.
- oughts — a cipher (0); zero.
- ousted — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- oustee — (chiefly, India) A person who is ousted, especially one who is removed from his place of residence or land to make room for an infrastructure improvement or public works project.
- ouster — expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied: The opposition called for the ouster of the cabinet minister.
- outask — (transitive) To ask or proclaim for the last time.
- outers — Plural form of outer.
- outgas — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outros — Plural form of outro.
- outsat — simple past tense and past participle of outsit.
- outsay — to say (something) out loud
- outsee — (transitive) To see beyond; to surpass in foresight.
- outset — the beginning or start: I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.
- outsin — to sin more than
- outsit — to sit longer than; outwait: He was determined to outsit his rival.
- outsum — to amount or add up to more than
- ownest — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- oyster — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- 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.
- 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.
- photos — photograph.
- pistol — a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- pistou — a type of sauce from Provence, made from olive oil, basil, garlic, tomatoes, and cheese
- pithos — a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- points — the two electrical contacts that make or break the current flow in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine
- pontus — an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- posnet — a small pot with a handle and three feet
- posset — a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
- postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- posted — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
- poster — post horse.
- postie — A postie is a postman.
- postil — a commentary or marginal note, as in a Bible
- postop — postoperative.
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potass — potash.
- pothos — any of various tropical climbing vines belonging to the genera Pothos and Epipremnum, of the arum family, especially E. aureum, widely cultivated for its variegated foliage.
- potosi — a city in S Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center. 13,022 feet (3970 meters) above sea level.
- presto — quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
- proset — A derivative of SETL with Ada-like syntax developed at the University of Essen in 1990. Formerly known as SETL/E.
- prosit — good health! cheers!
- proust — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- psyton — (humour) /si:'ton/ (From TMRC) The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fail when lots of people are watching. This term appears to have been largely superseded by bogon; see also quantum bogodynamics.
- ptosis — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- pushto — Pashto.
- putois — a brush to paint pottery