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6-letter words containing t, o, e

  • rotten — decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
  • rotter — a thoroughly bad, worthless, or objectionable person.
  • rottes — rote2 .
  • roupet — hoarse; croaky
  • routed — a bellow.
  • router — a person or thing that routes.
  • sapote — Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
  • scoter — any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • scrote — a worthless fellow
  • sderot — a city in the W Negev in S Israel, close to the border with Gaza; a target for sustained rocket attack by Hamas since 2001. Population: 19 800 (2006 est)
  • sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
  • see to — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
  • sefton — a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 281 600 (2003 est). Area: 150 sq km (58 sq miles)
  • seston — any particulate matter suspended in bodies of water, esp plankton or other organic matter
  • sestos — an ancient Thracian town on the Hellespont opposite Abydos: Xerxes crossed the Hellespont here when he began his invasion of Greece.
  • set on — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • set to — a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
  • set-to — a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
  • setoff — something that counterbalances or makes up for something else, as compensation for a loss.
  • setose — covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
  • setout — preparations, especially for beginning a journey.
  • sexpot — a sexually attractive person.
  • sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
  • shohet — a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
  • sobeit — provided that
  • socket — a hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
  • soften — to make soft or softer.
  • softie — softy.
  • solate — to change from a gel to a sol.
  • solent — The, a channel between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of S England. 2–5 miles (3.2–8 km) wide.
  • solute — the substance dissolved in a given solution.
  • somite — any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
  • sonnet — Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
  • soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
  • sopite — put to sleep
  • sorbet — sherbet (defs 1, 3).
  • sorest — physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.
  • sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
  • sorter — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • sortes — divination by opening a book, esp the Bible, at random
  • sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
  • sotted — drunken; besotted.
  • souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
  • soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
  • soweto — a group of townships in NE South Africa, SW of and administered by Johannesburg: constructed in the 1950s and early 1960s to provide housing and services for black Africans. 26 sq. mi. (67 sq. km).
  • steno- — indicating narrowness or contraction
  • stereo — stereoscopic photography.
  • sterno — inflammable hydrocarbon jelly in a small can, used for cooking
  • sterol — any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
  • stheno — one of the three Gorgons
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