6-letter words containing t, e, r
- fortes — Plural form of forte.
- forthe — Obsolete spelling of forth.
- foster — to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage: to foster new ideas.
- fother — (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
- fouter — something that has no value (used in expressions of contempt): A fouter for the world, say I!
- foutre — to mess around; to footer
- frater — the refectory of a religious house.
- freest — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- freity — superstitious
- fretty — covered with criss-crossed and interlacing diagonal strips: argent, fretty sable.
- frites — chipped potatoes
- frutex — a plant or shrub with a woody stem
- futter — To fuck.
- future — time that is to be or come hereafter.
- gaiter — a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot. Compare upper1 (def 7).
- gareth — Arthurian Romance. nephew of King Arthur and a knight of the Round Table.
- garget — Veterinary Pathology. inflammation of the udder of a cow; bovine mastitis.
- garnet — Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
- garote — to execute by the garrote.
- garret — spall (def 1).
- garter — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- gaster — (in ants, bees, wasps, and other hymenopterous insects) the part of the abdomen behind the petiole.
- gaters — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- genter — elegant; graceful.
- gentry — wellborn and well-bred people.
- gerant — The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.
- gerent — a ruler or manager.
- gether — (obsolete, or, regional) Alternative form of gather.
- getter — a person or thing that gets.
- gifter — One who gives a gift.
- girted — Simple past tense and past participle of girt.
- goiter — an enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front and sides of the neck, usually symptomatic of abnormal thyroid secretion, especially hypothyroidism due to a lack of iodine in the diet.
- goitre — an enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front and sides of the neck, usually symptomatic of abnormal thyroid secretion, especially hypothyroidism due to a lack of iodine in the diet.
- gorets — /gor'ets/ The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup alt.gorets, which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no definition is ever final. [A correspondent from the Former Soviet Union informs me that "gorets" is Russian for "mountain dweller" - ESR] Compare frink.
- gorget — a patch on the throat of a bird or other animal, distinguished by its color, texture, etc.
- goster — to laugh uncontrollably
- grated — Produced by grating.
- grater — a person or thing that grates.
- grates — Plural form of grate.
- great- — Great- is used before some nouns that refer to relatives. Nouns formed in this way refer to a relative who is a further generation away from you. For example, your great-aunt is the aunt of one of your parents.
- greate — Archaic spelling of great.
- greats — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
- greets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of greet.
- gretna — a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- gretry — André Ernest Modeste [ahn-drey er-nest maw-dest] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ɛrˈnɛst mɔˈdɛst/ (Show IPA), 1741–1813, French operatic composer.
- grexit — the possible withdrawal of Greece from the eurozone and a return to the drachma as its national currency.
- grivet — a small Abyssinian monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a grayish back, gray tail, black face, and dark extremities.
- groete — Gerhard [Dutch khey-rahrt;; English gair-hahrt] /Dutch ˈxeɪ rɑrt;; English ˈgɛər hɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Gerardus Magnus) 1340–84, Dutch religious reformer, educator, and author: founder of the order of Brethren of the Common Life.
- gromet — Alternative form of grommet.