6-letter words containing t, p, s
- spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- spirts — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spital — a hospital, especially one for lazars.
- spited — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spites — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- splint — a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- splits — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- spoilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spoil.
- sports — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sporty — flashy; showy.
- spotty — full of, having, or occurring in spots: spotty coloring.
- spouty — tending to spout water
- sprent — sprinkled.
- sprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sprits — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spritz — to spray briefly and quickly; squirt: He spritzed a little soda in his drink.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
- spruit — (in southern Africa) a small stream.
- sputum — matter, as saliva mixed with mucus or pus, expectorated from the lungs and respiratory passages.
- stapes — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- staple — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- steppe — an extensive plain, especially one without trees.
- stipel — a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- stipes — Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- stirps — a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- stoiip — STOIIP is a method of estimating how much oil in a reservoir can be economically brought to the surface.
- stoped — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- stopes — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- streep — Meryl, original name Mary Louise Streep. born 1949, US actress. Her films include The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1986), The Hours (2002), Mamma Mia! (2008), and The Iron Lady (2011)
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- stript — a simple past tense and past participle of strip1 .
- stripy — having or marked with stripes.
- stumps — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stumpy — of the nature of or resembling a stump.
- stupid — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- sumpit — in Malaysia, a long wooden blowpipe, from which poison-tipped or barbed darts are blown, used primarily for hunting
- t lisp — T
- t-stop — a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.
- tapies — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ˈɑn tɔˌni/ (Show IPA), or Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Spanish painter.
- tapist — a person who records printed matter in an audio format
- 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.
- tophus — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- tossup — the tossing of a coin to decide something by its fall.
- transp — transportation
- trapes — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- 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.