6-letter words containing t, a
- aitken — Robert Grant. 1864–1951, US astronomer who discovered over three thousand double stars
- ajanta — a village in N Maharashtra, in W central India: caves and shrines containing Buddhist frescoes and sculptures.
- akatea — a vine with white flowers, Metrosideros diffusa, found in New Zealand
- aketon — a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- aktobe — an industrial city in W Kazakhstan. Pop: 291 000 (2005 est)
- al-lat — a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess personifying the sun and considered to be a daughter of Allah.
- alated — having wings; winged.
- albata — a variety of German silver consisting of nickel, copper, and zinc
- albeit — You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.
- albert — a kind of watch chain usually attached to a waistcoat
- albiet — Misspelling of albeit.
- albite — a colourless, milky-white, yellow, pink, green, or black mineral of the feldspar group and plagioclase series, found in igneous sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Composition: sodium aluminium silicate. Formula: NaALSi3O8. Crystal structure: triclinic
- alcott — Louisa May. 1832–88, US novelist, noted for her children's books, esp Little Women (1869)
- alecto — one of the three Furies; the others are Megaera and Tisiphone
- alerts — Plural form of alert.
- aletes — a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- alette — (in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch.
- algate — by any means; anyway
- alight — If something is alight, it is burning.
- alioth — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major and in the handle of the Big Dipper: magnitude, 1.8
- aliter — Otherwise.
- aliyot — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- allots — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allot.
- almaty — a city in SE Kazakhstan; capital of Kazakhstan (1991–97): an important trading centre. Pop: 1 103 000 (2005 est)
- almost — You use almost to indicate that something is not completely the case but is nearly the case.
- alston — a male given name.
- altaic — a postulated family of languages of Asia and SE Europe, consisting of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic branches, and perhaps also Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
- altair — the brightest star in the constellation Aquila. Visual magnitude: 0.77; spectral type: A7V; distance: 16.8 light years
- altars — Plural form of altar.
- altern — alternate
- alters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alter.
- alteza — highness
- althea — a feminine name
- alties — Plural form of altie.
- altman — Robert. US film director, 1925–2006; his films include M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), Short Cuts (1994), and Gosford Park (2001)
- altona — a metropolitan district of Hamburg, Germany: formerly an independent city.
- altran — (language) A Fortran extension for rational algebra developed by W.S. Brown of Bell Labs ca. 1968.
- alwite — white (def 11).
- amated — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of amate.
- amathi — Amittai.
- amatol — an explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate and TNT, used in shells and bombs
- ambato — city in central Ecuador: pop. 124,000
- ambits — Plural form of ambit.
- amenta — Plural form of amentum.
- aments — Plural form of ament.
- amidst — Amidst means the same as amid.
- aminet — (networking) (Amiga network) A collection of FTP mirrors that contain several gigabytes of freely distributable software for the Amiga range of computers.
- amitie — Eye dialect of amity.
- amoret — an amorous girl or woman
- amount — The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.