6-letter words containing t, e, r
- tanker — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tanner — the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tanrec — tenrec.
- tapper — a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
- tarbes — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
- target — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tarred — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- tarter — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tasker — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- taster — a person who tastes, especially one skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- tatler — a triweekly periodical (1709–11) written, edited, and published by Richard Steele with the collaboration of Joseph Addison.
- tatter — a person who does tatting, especially as an occupation.
- tauber — Richard, 1892–1948, Austrian tenor, in England after 1940.
- tauter — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
- tavern — a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- tavert — bewildered or confused
- tawery — a place where the tawing of skins is carried out
- te reo — the Māori language
- teamer — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- tearer — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- teaser — a person or thing that teases.
- tedder — Arthur William, 1st Baron, 1890–1967, British Royal Air Force marshal and educator, born in Scotland.
- teener — a teenager.
- teeter — to move unsteadily.
- tehran — a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.
- telary — relating to a web
- telfer — to transport by means of a telpherage.
- teller — Edward, 1908–2003, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.
- temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
- tender — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tendra — (language) TenDRA home.
- tendre — a feeling of tenderness
- tenner — a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- tenrec — any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- tenser — stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
- tensor — Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- tenter — a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- tenure — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- tephra — clastic volcanic material, as scoria, dust, etc., ejected during an eruption.
- teraph — any of various small household gods or images venerated by ancient Semitic peoples. (Genesis 31:19–21; I Samuel 19:13–16)
- terat- — indicating a monster or something abnormal
- terbia — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- tercel — the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.
- tercet — Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
- tercio — a regiment of Spanish or Italian infantry
- teredo — a shipworm of the genus Teredo.
- teresa — Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- terete — slender and smooth, with a circular transverse section.
- tereus — a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- terfel — Sir Bryn, real name Bryn Terfel Jones. born 1965, Welsh bass baritone, noted for his performances in operas by Mozart and Wagner