6-letter words containing t, p, i
- lipton — Seymour, 1903–1986, U.S. sculptor.
- lit up — a simple past tense and past participle of light1 .
- matipo — any of several shrubs and small trees, native to New Zealand, of the genera Myrsine and Pittosporum
- nipter — a religious ceremony of foot washing
- octopi — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- ophite — a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- opt in — choose to be included
- optics — the eye.
- optima — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- optime — (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler (def 2).
- opting — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
- option — command line option
- 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.
- patri- — father
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- patwin — a member of a North American Indian people of the western Sacramento River valley in California.
- pectic — pertaining to pectin.
- pectin — a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- peewit — the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
- peinct — to paint
- pelite — any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- pepita — a female given name.
- peptic — pertaining to or associated with digestion; digestive.
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- petain — Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- petipa — Marius [mair-ee-uh s,, mar-;; French ma-ryys] /ˈmɛər i əs,, ˈmær-;; French maˈryüs/ (Show IPA), 1819–1910, French ballet dancer and choreographer in Russia.
- petite — (of a woman) short and having a small, trim figure; diminutive.
- petofi — Sándor [shahn-dawr] /ˈʃɑn dɔr/ (Show IPA), (Sándor Petrovics) 1823–49, Hungarian poet and patriot.
- petrie — Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- phatic — denoting speech used to express or create an atmosphere of shared feelings, goodwill, or sociability rather than to impart information: phatic communion.
- photic — of or relating to light.
- phytin — a salt containing calcium and magnesium that is derived from plants and used as a dietary supplement