6-letter words containing t, i, a
- matins — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- matipo — any of several shrubs and small trees, native to New Zealand, of the genera Myrsine and Pittosporum
- matri- — mother or motherhood
- matric — (South Africa) The final year of high school. (from 20th c.).
- matrix — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- mattie — a young herring with undeveloped roe
- maudit — cursed; damned; wretched
- micate — to add mica to
- misact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- miseat — to eat unhealthily or improperly
- mistag — (transitive) To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
- mistal — a cow shed; byre
- mithan — gayal.
- mitral — of or resembling a miter.
- mutina — a city in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna: ruled by the Este family (18th–19th century); university (1678). Pop: 175 502 (2001)
- naiant — (of a fish in heraldry) swimming horizontally
- nanite — nanobot.
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- natick — a town in E Massachusetts, W of Boston.
- nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- nautic — Alternative form of nautical.
- nidate — (of a new embryo) to undergo nidation, to implant (oneself) in the uterus
- nutria — the coypu.
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- ocicat — a breed of large short-haired cat with a spotted coat
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- optima — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- ostiak — Ostyak.
- ostial — relating to an ostium
- oxtail — the skinned tail of an ox or steer, used as an ingredient in soup, stew, etc.
- packit — (file format, tool) A file format used on the Apple Macintosh to represent collections of Mac files, possibly Huffman compressed. Packing many small related files together before a MacBinary transfer or a translation to BinHex 4.0 is common practice.
- pact i — An early system on the IBM 701. Version PACT IA was for the IBM 704.
- painty — of, coated with, or soiled with paint: a painty finish; painty overalls.
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- pandit — Vijaya Lakshmi [vi-jahy-uh lahk-shmee] /vɪˈdʒaɪ ə ˈlɑk ʃmi/ (Show IPA), 1900–90, Indian stateswoman (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- pantie — panties.
- papist — a Roman Catholic.
- parity — the condition or fact of having borne offspring.
- partim — in part
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pathic — a catamite
- patier — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- patina — a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
- patine — patina.
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.