6-letter words containing t, l
- molter — One who, or that which, molts or sheds.
- moltke — Helmuth Karl [hel-moot kahrl] /ˈhɛl mut kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1800–91, Prussian field marshal: chief of staff 1858–88.
- mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- mostly — for the most part; in the main: The work is mostly done.
- motels — Plural form of motel.
- motile — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- motley — exhibiting great diversity of elements: a motley crowd. Synonyms: heterogenous, varied, diverse, mixed, assorted, sundry; incongruous, disparate, diversified, dissimilar, divergent. Antonyms: homogeneous, uniform, identical; similar, like.
- motril — a town in S Spain: resort center.
- mottle — to mark or diversify with spots or blotches of a different color or shade.
- moults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moult.
- mulcts — Plural form of mulct.
- muleta — a red cloth similar to but smaller than a capa and manipulated by a stick set into one of the three holes in or near the center, for use by a matador in guiding the course of the bull's attack in the stage of the fight preparatory to the kill.
- mullet — any of several marine or freshwater, usually gray fishes of the family Mugilidae, having a nearly cylindrical body.
- multan — a city in E central Pakistan.
- multi- — Multi- is used to form adjectives indicating that something consists of many things of a particular kind.
- multic — (language) A data-parallel version of C from Wavetracer.
- multum — An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.
- mutely — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- mutual — possessed, experienced, performed, etc., by each of two or more with respect to the other; reciprocal: to have mutual respect.
- mutuel — pari-mutuel (def 1).
- mutule — a projecting flat block under the corona of the Doric cornice, corresponding to the modillion of other orders.
- myrtle — a female given name.
- natals — (obsolete) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
- neatly — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- nestle — to lie close and snug, like a bird in a nest; snuggle or cuddle.
- netful — the quantity of fish that can be held by a net
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").
- nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- nextly — most nearly or closely
- niglet — (slang, US, offensive, pejorative, racial slur) A child of Negro lineage.
- nilote — a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- nitfly — botfly.
- nitryl — (inorganic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical -NO2.
- nustle — (obsolete) To fondle; to cherish.
- nutlet — a small nut; a small nutlike fruit or seed.
- nutley — a city in NE New Jersey.
- nytril — a synthetic, long-chain polymer fiber that produces a soft, elastic fabric.
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- oblast — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- oblate — flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).
- occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
- ocelot — a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- octile — (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
- odelet — A little or short ode.
- offlet — A pipe to drain or let off water.
- oillet — eyelet (def 5).
- oilnut — a nut from which oil is extracted
- olathe — a city in E Kansas.
- olcott — Chauncey (Chancellor John Olcott) 1860–1932, U.S. tenor, actor, and songwriter.
- oldest — far advanced in the years of one's or its life: an old man; an old horse; an old tree.