6-letter words containing t, e, r
- uterus — the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
- varlet — a knavish person; rascal.
- vaster — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vatter — a lake in S Sweden. 80 miles (130 km) long; 733 sq. mi. (1900 sq. km).
- vector — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- venter — Anatomy, Zoology. the abdomen or belly. a bellylike cavity or concavity. a bellylike protuberance.
- verdet — a bluish green substance which is a type of verdigris that is insoluble in water but is soluble in vinegar and other acids
- verist — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verite — truth; truthfulness.
- verity — the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.
- vernet — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1714–89, French painter.
- verset — Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- vertex — the highest point of something; apex; summit; top: the vertex of a mountain.
- vertus — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- vervet — an African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, allied to the green monkey and the grivet, but distinguished by a rusty patch at the root of the tail.
- vestry — a room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
- vetter — Vätter.
- vietor — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1850–1918, German philologist and phonetician.
- virent — green
- virtue — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- vortex — a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
- wafter — to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- waiter — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- walter — Bruno [broo-noh] /ˈbru noʊ/ (Show IPA), (Bruno Schlesinger) 1876–1962, German opera and symphony conductor, in U.S. after 1939.
- wanter — One who wants, or who wants something.
- warted — a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
- waster — a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
- waters — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- watery — pertaining to or connected with water: watery Neptune.
- watter — a light bulb, radio station, etc., of specified wattage (usually used in combination): This lamp takes a 60-watter.
- welter — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
- westar — one of a series of privately owned geostationary communications satellites that service commercial users in the U.S.
- wester — a wind or storm coming from the west.
- wether — a castrated male sheep.
- wetter — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- whater — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whiter — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- winter — the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox).
- wister — Owen, 1860–1938, U.S. novelist.
- wither — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- witter — (obsolete, or, dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.
- wortle — a plate with holes for drawing wire or lead pipe through in order to lengthen it and reduce its width
- wrathe — Obsolete spelling of wrath.
- wreath — a circular band of flowers, foliage, or any ornamental work, for adorning the head or for any decorative purpose; a garland or chaplet.
- wrests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wrest.
- wretch — a deplorably unfortunate or unhappy person.
- wriest — produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features: a wry grin.
- writed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of write.
- writer — a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., especially as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist.
- writes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of write.