6-letter words containing t, a
- nootka — a Wakashan language spoken in SW Canada on the western coast of Vancouver Island.
- nostra — Plural form of nostrum.
- notary — notary public.
- notate — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- nougat — a chewy or brittle candy containing almonds or other nuts and sometimes fruit.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- novato — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- numbat — banded anteater.
- nutant — drooping; nodding.
- nutate — to undergo or show nutation.
- nutbag — (informal) An odd, eccentric or insane person.
- nutbar — Crazy, eccentric.
- nutria — the coypu.
- o star — a very hot, massive, blue star of spectral type O, having a surface temperature between 30,000 and 50,000 K and an absorption spectrum with few lines, though the Balmer series of hydrogen lines is present and lines of ionized helium are detectable.
- oaktag — tagboard.
- oaters — Plural form of oater.
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- oblast — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- oblate — flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- ocicat — a breed of large short-haired cat with a spotted coat
- octads — Plural form of octad.
- octane — any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 1 8 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- octans — (of a fever) occurring every eighth day.
- octant — the eighth part of a circle.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- octavo — a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. Symbol: 8vo, 8°.
- odetta — (Odetta Holmes) 1930–2008, U.S. folk singer.
- olathe — a city in E Kansas.
- oleate — Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- olfact — to detect the smell of (something)
- omenta — a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- omerta — secrecy sworn to by oath; code of silence.
- on tap — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- onbeat — the first and third beats in a bar of four-four time
- oneact — a short play consisting of one act.
- 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.
- orante — a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orants — a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orated — Simple past tense and past participle of orate.
- orates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of orate.
- orator — a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
- orgeat — a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- ortega — Daniel, full surname Ortega Saavedra. born 1945, Nicaraguan politician and former resistance leader; president of Nicaragua (1985–90) and from 2007