6-letter words containing t, a
- jetsam — goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.
- jetway — A portable bridge put against an aircraft door to allow passengers to embark or disembark.
- jhatka — the slaughter of animals for food according to Sikh law
- jictar — Joint Industry Committee for Television Advertising Research
- jubate — covered with long hairs resembling a mane.
- jugate — Botany. having the leaflets in pairs, as a pinnate leaf.
- jumart — the mythical offspring of a bull and a mare
- juntas — Plural form of junta.
- jupati — A Brazilian palm, Raphia taedigera, whose long stalks are used in constructing buildings.
- jurant — taking an oath
- juxta- — near, beside, close by
- k star — a relatively cool, orange-to-red star, as Aldebaran or Arcturus, having a surface temperature between 3500 and 5000 K and an absorption spectrum with strong lines of calcium and many neutral metals.
- kabuto — A traditional Japanese military helmet.
- kaftan — caftan.
- kantar — (in some Middle Eastern countries) a unit of weight corresponding to the hundredweight, but varying in different localities.
- kantha — a type of Bengali embroidered quilt
- kantor — MacKinlay [muh-kin-lee] /məˈkɪn li/ (Show IPA), 1904–77, U.S. novelist.
- 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.
- karait — Alternative spelling of krait.
- karate — a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by striking sensitive areas on an attacker's body with the hands, elbows, knees, or feet. Compare judo, jujitsu.
- karats — Plural form of karat.
- karter — a person who drives a kart
- kasten — Plural form of kast.
- kastro — Mytilene (def 2).
- katana — A long, single-edged sword used by Japanese samurai.
- kathak — a form of N Indian classical dancing that tells a story
- kation — a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- katipo — A venomous spider, Latrodectus katipo, endemic to New Zealand.
- katmai — Mount, an active volcano in SW Alaska. 7500 feet (2286 meters).
- keaton — Buster (Joseph Francis Keaton) 1895–1966, U.S. film comedian and director.
- kentia — Any palm tree in the genus Howea.
- ketmia — Alternative form of ketmie.
- keytar — (music) A relatively lightweight keyboard or synthesizer supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, as a guitar is supported by a guitar strap.
- kgotla — Any of several types of public meetings in a Botswana village, especially involving a gathering of tribal elders; also the place where such a meeting is held.
- khanty — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along the river Ob and its tributaries in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- khatri — a person who belongs to a Hindu mercantile caste alleged to originate with the Kshatriyas.
- khatti — Hatti.
- khelat — a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.
- khilat — (in India and the Middle East) a ceremonial robe or other gift given to someone by a superior as a mark of honour
- khotan — Older Spelling. Hotan.
- khurta — a long-sleeved, hip-length shirt worn by men in India.
- kinate — Alternative form of quinate.
- kirtan — A call-and-response chant performed in India's devotional traditions.
- kismat — fate; destiny.
- kistna — former name of Krishna (def 2).
- kitbag — a small bag or knapsack, as for a soldier.
- klatch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- komati — a river in NE South Africa, N Swaziland, and SW Mozambique, flowing generally NE to the Indian Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.