6-letter words containing t, a, c
- mactcp — (networking) Part of earlier versions of MacOS that provided access to TCP/IP services. Apple removed MacTCP from MacOS in revision 7.5.3 in favor of the new OpenTransport (OT) TCP/IP stack. However, MacTCP lives on as a community development effort. See also MacPPP.
- mantic — of or relating to divination.
- marcot — (botany) A branch formed by marcottage.
- mascot — an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck: The U.S. Navy mascot is a goat.
- mastic — Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- matcha — a finely ground powder made from small green tea leaves that have been steamed briefly, then dried, used to make tea and as a flavoring in desserts.
- matico — a Peruvian shrub, Piper angustifolium, the leaves of which have medicinal properties
- matric — (South Africa) The final year of high school. (from 20th c.).
- mecate — Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- micate — to add mica to
- misact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- monact — the spicule of a sponge that has a single-spiked structure
- motuca — a Brazilian horsefly, Lepiselaga crassipes
- mucate — a salt of mucic acid
- mudcat — flathead catfish.
- muscat — Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- mycota — an alternative taxonomic name for the kingdom Fungi.
- nacket — a light lunch or snack
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- natick — a town in E Massachusetts, W of Boston.
- nautch — (in India) an exhibition of dancing by professional dancing girls.
- nautic — Alternative form of nautical.
- nectar — the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- ocicat — a breed of large short-haired cat with a spotted coat
- octads — Plural form of octad.
- octane — any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 1 8 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- octans — (of a fever) occurring every eighth day.
- octant — the eighth part of a circle.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- octavo — a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. Symbol: 8vo, 8°.
- olfact — to detect the smell of (something)
- oneact — a short play consisting of one act.
- outact — to outdo in acting.
- oxcart — an ox-drawn cart.
- packet — a small group or package of anything: a packet of letters.
- packit — (file format, tool) A file format used on the Apple Macintosh to represent collections of Mac files, possibly Huffman compressed. Packing many small related files together before a MacBinary transfer or a translation to BinHex 4.0 is common practice.
- pact i — An early system on the IBM 701. Version PACT IA was for the IBM 704.
- pactum — a pact
- pataca — a nickel, silver, or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Macao, equal to 100 avos.
- patchy — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathic — a catamite
- patuca — a river rising in E central Honduras and flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- phatic — denoting speech used to express or create an atmosphere of shared feelings, goodwill, or sociability rather than to impart information: phatic communion.
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- preact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- quatch — a sound
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- rachet — flashy, unrefined, etc.; low-class: ratchet girls wearing too much makeup.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- 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.