6-letter words containing t, a
- lation — (astrology, obsolete) Motion of a celestial object from one place to another; local motion.
- latish — somewhat or rather late.
- latium — a country in ancient Italy, SE of Rome.
- lative — (grammar) A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
- latkes — Plural form of latke.
- latona — the goddess Leto as identified in Roman mythology.
- latour — Georges de [zhawrzh duh] /ʒɔrʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1593–1652, French painter.
- latria — the supreme worship, which may be offered to God only.
- latron — a bandit
- latten — a brasslike alloy commonly made in thin sheets and formerly much used for church utensils.
- latter — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- lattes — Plural form of latte.
- latvia — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of Estonia, an independent state 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 25,395 sq. mi. (63,700 sq. km). Capital: Riga.
- laught — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of laugh.
- lauter — To subject to lautering.
- lawton — a city in SW Oklahoma.
- laxalt — Paul, born 1922, U.S. politician: senator 1974–87.
- laxist — (in Roman Catholic theology) a casuist who believes that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- laxity — the state or quality of being lax; looseness.
- lay to — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- layout — an arrangement or plan: We objected to the layout of the house.
- layton — a town in N Utah.
- lealty — loyal; true.
- leanto — a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- learnt — a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- legate — an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- legato — In a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.
- letcha — (slang) Let you.
- lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- levant — to leave secretly or hurriedly to avoid paying debts.
- libant — touching lightly
- libate — to pour out (a liquid, esp wine) in honour of a deity
- ligate — to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).
- likuta — a paper money, aluminum coin, and monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 100th part of a zaire.
- litany — a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
- litate — (botany) forked, with the points slightly curved outward.
- lithal — (informal, inorganic compound) lithium aluminium hydride;.
- lithia — Chemistry. lithium oxide.
- litvak — a Jew from Lithuania or a neighboring country or region.
- loathe — to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
- loathy — (archaic) Loathsome.
- lobate — having a lobe lobes; lobed.
- locant — (organic chemistry) That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group e.g. the 2 in hexan-2-one.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- loggat — a small piece of wood
- lolcat — (on the Internet) an image of a cat accompanied by misspelled or grammatically incorrect text that humorously represents the cat's imagined thoughts or comments on what the image is depicting.
- lolita — Language for the On-Line Investigation and Transformation of Abstractions
- lomita — a town in SW California.
- loquat — a small evergreen tree, Eriobotrya japonica, native to China and Japan, cultivated as an ornamental and for its yellow, plumlike fruit.
- lorate — strap-shaped