4-letter words containing t, a
- meta — (in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- mfat — Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- mita — a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- moat — a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- mota — Alternative form of mootah.
- muta — Alternative form of mootah.
- naat — (Islam) poetry in praise of the prophet Muhammad.
- naht — National Association of Head Teachers
- nait — (transitive) To refuse; deny; disclaim.
- nart — (obsolete) Contraction of ne art.
- nast — Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- nata — for an unforeseen need or contingency.
- nath — (obsolete) hath not.
- natl — national
- nato — an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- nats — Nationalists, esp. Scottish Nationalists
- naut — nautical
- neat — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- nota — a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- oast — a kiln for drying hops or malt.
- oath — a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc.: to testify upon oath.
- oats — a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- oaty — Containing oats.
- octa — (meteorology) The fraction of the sky that is obscured by clouds, in eighths (one octa means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two octas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
- oita — a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- okta — (meteorology) One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
- osta — Optical Storage Technology Association
- otay — (nonstandard, eye dialect, childish) Alternative form of okay.
- pact — an agreement, covenant, or compact: We made a pact not to argue any more.
- pant — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- past — gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now.
- pata — 1. (storage) Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment. 2. Pooling Agreement for Technical Assistance.
- patd — patented
- pate — porcelain paste used in ceramic work.
- path — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- pato — an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- patu — a short Māori club, now used ceremonially
- paty — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- payt — payment
- peat — a merry young girl; darling (used as a term of endearment).
- peta — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- phat — Typesetting. fat (def 23).
- piat — a spring-powered British antitank weapon of World War II, mounted on a tripod and capable of firing a 2½-pound (1-kg) bomb up to 350 yards (320 meters).
- pita — a round, flat Middle Eastern bread that is often filled with meat, peppers, etc., to make a sandwich.
- plat — a plait or braid.
- ppta — Post-primary Teachers Association
- prat — the buttocks.
- psat — Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test: a multiple-choice test done at high school as a practice for college entrance tests
- pta. — peseta.