6-letter words containing t, i, p
- thrips — any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.
- tie up — that with which anything is tied.
- tie-up — a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident.
- tiepin — a straight pin, usually with an ornamented head and a small metal sheath for its point, for holding together the ends of a necktie or to pin them to a shirt front.
- tinpot — inferior; paltry; shoddy.
- tip in — a slender or pointed end or extremity, especially of anything long or tapered: the tips of the fingers.
- tip up — overturn, cause to topple
- tip-in — tip1 (def 4).
- tip-on — tip1 (def 4).
- tip-up — designed to tilt
- tipcat — a game in which a short piece of wood, tapered at both ends, is struck lightly at one end with a bat, causing the wood to spring into the air so that it can be batted for a distance.
- tipoff — the act of tipping off.
- tippee — a person who receives a tip, as of money or information.
- tipper — a person or thing that tips: The waiters liked him for being a big tipper.
- tippet — a scarf, usually of fur or wool, for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, and usually having ends hanging down in front. Compare stole2 (def 2).
- tipple — to drink intoxicating liquor, especially habitually or to some excess.
- tiptoe — the tip or end of a toe.
- tiptop — the extreme top or summit.
- tipuna — an ancestor
- tittup — an exaggerated prancing, bouncing movement or manner of moving.
- toppie — topknot (def 3).
- torpid — inactive or sluggish.
- trepid — fearful or apprehensive, especially trembling from fear.
- tricep — a triceps muscle, especially the one at the back of the upper arm.
- tripes — the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- tripey — characteristic of tripe; worthless
- triple — threefold; consisting of three parts: a triple knot.
- triply — to a triple number, measure, or degree.
- tripod — a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
- tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- trippy — suggestive of or resembling the effect produced by a hallucinogenic drug
- trophi — the mandibles or other parts of an insect's mouth
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- tropin — a hormone released in the body by a certain gland and which produces a response in other glands, stimulating the release of other hormones
- turnip — the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga.
- turpin — Ben, 1874–1940, U.S. silent-film comedian.
- typier — (of a domestic animal) embodying the ideal characteristics of its variety or breed.
- typify — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
- typing — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- typist — a person who operates a typewriter.
- upknit — to reconcile or bring to agreement
- uplift — to lift up; raise; elevate.
- uppity — affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
- upstir — a commotion or disturbance
- uptick — a rise or improvement in business activity, in mood, etc.
- uptilt — to tilt up.
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- utopia — an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
- wapiti — elk (def 2).
- ziptop — (of a bag) closed with a zip at the top