6-letter words containing t, a, p
- copita — a tulip-shaped sherry glass
- cowpat — A cowpat is a pile of faeces from a cow.
- depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- dopant — an impurity added intentionally in a very small, controlled amount to a pure semiconductor to change its electrical properties: Arsenic is a dopant for silicon.
- dorpat — German name of Tartu.
- drapet — a cloth
- eat up — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- empath — (chiefly in science fiction) a person with the paranormal ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual.
- enrapt — Fascinated; enthralled.
- entrap — Catch (someone or something) in or as in a trap.
- épater — to startle or shock, as out of complacency, conventionality, etc.
- expats — Plural form of expat.
- hapten — a substance having a single antigenic determinant that can react with a previously existing antibody but cannot stimulate more antibody production unless combined with other molecules; a partial antigen.
- haptic — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- hatpeg — a peg on which to hang a hat
- hatpin — a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.
- hepat- — hepato-
- hepcat — a performer or admirer of jazz, especially swing.
- hepta- — seven
- heptad — the number seven.
- hutzpa — unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
- hypate — (on the ancient Greek lyre) the highest placed string, producing the lowest tone
- impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- impart — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
- jampot — A pot of jam.
- jupati — A Brazilian palm, Raphia taedigera, whose long stalks are used in constructing buildings.
- kapote — a long coat formerly worn by male Jews of eastern Europe and now worn chiefly by very Orthodox or Hasidic Jews.
- kapton — a strong, lightweight plastic resistant to high temperatures, used primarily by the aerospace industry to make thin sheets of insulation
- kaputt — (slang) alternative spelling of kaput.
- katipo — A venomous spider, Latrodectus katipo, endemic to New Zealand.
- lapith — a member of a people in Thessaly who at the wedding of their king, Pirithoüs, fought the drunken centaurs
- lappet — a small lap, flap, or loosely hanging part, especially of a garment or headdress.
- laptop — portable computer
- laputa — an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
- 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.
- maputo — Formerly Portuguese East Africa. a republic in SE Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 297,731 sq. mi. (771,123 sq. km). Capital: Maputo.
- matipo — any of several shrubs and small trees, native to New Zealand, of the genera Myrsine and Pittosporum
- metaph — metaphor
- metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
- napata — an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan.
- on tap — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- op art — a style of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions of an ambiguous nature, as alternately advancing and receding squares on a flat surface.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- optant — a person who opts into, out of, or for something
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- optima — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- optran — Specification language for attributed tree transformation writetn by R. Wilhelm, U Saarlandes in the early 1980's.
- 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.