6-letter words containing t, r, a
- antara — a type of panpipes native to the Andes, made of clay and tuned in the pentatonic scale
- antarc — Antarctica
- antero — Mount, a peak in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Mountains. 14,269 feet (4349 meters).
- anther — the terminal part of a stamen consisting usually of two lobes each containing two sacs in which the pollen matures
- anthro — (informal) anthropology.
- antiar — the upas tree of Java
- antler — A male deer's antlers are the branched horns on its head.
- antral — a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- antres — a cavern; cave.
- antrim — a historical county of NE Northern Ireland, famous for the Giant's Causeway on the N coast: in 1973 it was replaced for administrative purposes by the districts of Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Larne, Moyle, Newtownabbey, and parts of Belfast and Lisburn. Area: 3100 sq km (1200 sq miles)
- antron — a strong, shiny, silklike nylon fiber made into clothing, carpet, upholstery fabric, etc.
- antrum — a natural cavity, hollow, or sinus, esp in a bone
- aorist — a tense of the verb in classical Greek and in certain other inflected languages, indicating past action without reference to whether the action involved was momentary or continuous
- aortal — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- aortas — Plural form of aorta.
- aortic — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- apport — the production of objects by apparently supernatural means at a spiritualists' seance
- arafat — a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj
- ararat — an extinct volcanic mountain massif in E Turkey: two main peaks; Great Ararat 5155 m (16 916 ft), said to be the resting place of Noah's Ark after the Flood (Genesis 8:4), and Little Ararat 3914 m (12 843 ft)
- arbute — (archaic) The wood of the strawberry tree.
- arcata — a town in NW California.
- archet — Lb musical instruments violin box.
- arcnet — (networking) A network developed by DataPoint. ARCnet was proprietary until the late 1980s and had about as large a marketshare as Ethernet among small businesses. It was almost as fast and was considerably cheaper at the time.
- arctan — arctangent: the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function
- arctic — The Arctic is the area of the world around the North Pole. It is extremely cold and there is very little light in winter and very little darkness in summer.
- ardent — Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about something or someone.
- aren't — Aren't is the usual spoken form of 'are not'.
- arendt — Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)
- aretes — Plural form of arete.
- argent — (as adjective; often postpositive, esp in heraldry)
- argots — Plural form of argot.
- arguta — the green, smooth-skinned, edible fruit of an Asian vine, Actinidia arguta.
- argute — (of sounds) shrill
- arhant — a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva.
- arhats — Plural form of arhat.
- aright — correctly; rightly; properly
- arista — a stiff bristle such as the awn of some grasses and cereals
- aristo — an aristocrat
- arkite — a passenger in Noah's ark
- armlet — a small arm, as of a lake, the sea, etc
- armpit — Your armpits are the areas of your body under your arms where your arms join your shoulders.
- aroint — to drive away
- arpent — a former French unit of length equal to 190 feet (approximately 58 metres)
- arrant — Arrant is used to emphasize that something or someone is very bad in some way.
- arrect — (of animals' ears) pricked up
- arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- artaud — Antonin (ɑ̃tɔnɛ̃). 1896–1948, French stage director and dramatist, whose concept of the theatre of cruelty is expounded in Manifeste du théâtre de la cruauté (1932) and Le Théâtre et son double (1938)
- artels — Plural form of artel.
- artery — Arteries are the tubes in your body that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Compare vein.
- artful — If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.