6-letter words containing t, e, r
- porter — the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.
- poster — post horse.
- pother — commotion; uproar.
- potter — Beatrix [bee-uh-triks] /ˈbi ə trɪks/ (Show IPA), 1866–1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books.
- pouter — a person who pouts.
- powter — to potter about, to do trifling simple tasks
- prater — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- pratie — a potato
- preact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- precut — cut to a specific shape or size before being assembled or used: a kit with precut parts.
- preset — to set beforehand.
- presto — quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
- pretax — profits, etc.: before tax
- pretor — (in the ancient Roman republic) one of a number of elected magistrates charged chiefly with the administration of civil justice and ranking next below a consul.
- pretry — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- pretty — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- pripet — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- privet — any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, especially L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge.
- projet — a project.
- pronet — (language)
- proset — A derivative of SETL with Ada-like syntax developed at the University of Essen in 1990. Formerly known as SETL/E.
- protea — any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
- protei — plural of proteus (def 3).
- pterin — any of a group of substances which occur naturally as insect pigments
- ptero- — wing, feather, or a part resembling a wing
- pteron — (in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- punter — Cards. a person who lays a stake against the bank.
- purest — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- putter — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- puture — a forester's rightful claim to food, drink, and lodging within the bounds of the forest
- pyrite — a very common brass-yellow mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , with a metallic luster, burned to sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of sulfuric acid: chemically similar to marcasite, but crystallizing in the isometric system.
- quarte — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quater — (in prescriptions) four times.
- quatre — the four at cards, dice, or the like.
- quoter — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- qwerty — of or relating to a keyboard having the keys in traditional typewriter arrangement, with the letters q, w, e, r, t, and y being the first six of the top row of alphabetic characters, starting from the left side.
- rabbet — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- rachet — flashy, unrefined, etc.; low-class: ratchet girls wearing too much makeup.
- racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- raetia — Rhaetia
- raetic — an extinct language of uncertain affinities that was spoken in Rhaetia and written with the Etruscan alphabet.
- rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
- ramate — having branches; branching out or off.
- ramets — an individual of a clone.
- ramjet — a jet engine operated by the injection of fuel into a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft.
- ranket — a double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- ranted — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- ranter — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.