6-letter words containing t, a, l, u
- pultan — (in India) an infantry regiment
- puteal — an enclosure around a well
- ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- rotula — the kneecap
- saltus — oscillation (def 5b).
- salute — Military. to pay respect to or honor by some formal act, as by raising the right hand to the side of the headgear, presenting arms, firing cannon, dipping colors, etc.
- salyut — one of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting space stations, first launched in 1971.
- scutal — of or relating to a scute
- setula — a short, blunt seta.
- situla — a deep urn, vase, or bucket-shaped vessel, especially one made in the ancient world.
- sultan — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- tabula — an ancient tablet for writing on
- tabuli — tabbouleh
- talcum — Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- talmud — the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.
- taluka — a hereditary estate.
- tautly — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
- tegula — (in certain insects) a scalelike lobe at the base of the forewing.
- thulia — a dense, greenish-white powder, TmO 3 , that on gentle heating exhibits a reddish incandescence: used in the manufacture of thulium metal.
- toluca — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- torula — a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
- tugela — a river in E South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg where it forms the Tugela Falls, 856 m (2810 ft) high (highest waterfall in Africa), before flowing east to the Indian Ocean: scene of battles during the Zulu War (1879) and the Boer War (1899–1902). Length: about 500 km (312 miles)
- tuinal — a combination of equal parts of secobarbital sodium and amobarbital sodium, used as a quick and relatively long-acting sedative or hypnotic
- tuladi — lake trout.
- tulare — a city in central California.
- tulear — a city on SW Madagascar.
- tulwar — any of several Indian sabers.
- tussal — pertaining to tussis.
- tuvalu — a parliamentary state consisting of a group of islands in the central Pacific, S of the equator: a former British colony; gained independence 1978. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km). Capital: Funafuti.
- tuxtla — city in Chiapas state, SE Mexico: pop. 296,000
- ultima — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
- ultra- — Ultra- is added to adjectives to form other adjectives that emphasize that something or someone has a quality to an extreme degree.
- umlaut — a mark (¨) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic, especially as so used in German. Compare dieresis.
- umtali — former name of Mutare.
- unital — containing, or belonging or relating to, a unit
- uptalk — a rise in pitch at the end usually of a declarative sentence, especially if habitual: often represented in writing by a question mark as in Hi, I'm here to read the meter?
- valuta — (in Europe) the value of a currency expressed in terms of its rate of exchange with another currency.
- vatful — an amount sufficient to fill a vat
- vaulty — having the appearance or characteristics of a vault; arching: the vaulty rows of elm trees.
- walnut — the edible nut of trees of the genus Juglans, of the North Temperate Zone. Compare walnut family.