6-letter words containing t, r, a
- eather — Obsolete spelling of either.
- ecarte — a card game for two players.
- elater — That which elates.
- elytra — Plural form of elytron.
- endart — (obsolete, rare) To throw or shoot out like a dart.
- enrapt — Fascinated; enthralled.
- entrap — Catch (someone or something) in or as in a trap.
- épater — to startle or shock, as out of complacency, conventionality, etc.
- ergate — (entomology) A worker ant.
- errant — Erring or straying from the proper course or standards.
- errata — An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections are listed; corrigenda.
- ersatz — (of a product) Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
- estray — (legal) An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
- extra- — extra- is used to form adjectives indicating that something is outside something or is not part of it.
- extras — Plural form of extra.
- f star — a white to yellow star, as Canopus, Polaris, or Procyon, having a surface temperature between 6000 and 7500 K and an absorption spectrum in which the pair of ultraviolet lines of singly ionized calcium and the Balmer series of hydrogen are of about equal strength.
- factor — Christmas factor.
- falter — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- farest — Archaic second-person singular form of fare.
- farnet — A non-profit corporation, established in 1987, whose mission is to advance the use of computer networks to improve research and education.
- farted — Simple past tense and past participle of fart.
- farter — Someone or something that farts.
- fartsy — Only used in artsy-fartsy.
- faster — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- father — a male parent.
- fatter — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- fautor — a supporter or patron
- feater — apt; skillful; dexterous.
- fermat — Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1601–65, French mathematician.
- forcat — convict or galley slave
- forgat — a simple past tense of forget.
- format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- fortas — Abe, 1910–1982, U.S. lawyer, government official, and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1965–69.
- foutra — a fig, used as an expression of contempt
- fratch — to disagree; quarrel.
- frater — the refectory of a religious house.
- fratry — frater2 .
- frusta — the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base.
- g star — a yellow star, as the sun or Capella, having a surface temperature between 5000 and 6000 K and an absorption spectrum in which the ultraviolet pair of lines of singly ionized calcium are strongest and in which the Balmer series is prominent.
- gaiter — a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot. Compare upper1 (def 7).
- gantry — a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- gareth — Arthurian Romance. nephew of King Arthur and a knight of the Round Table.
- garget — Veterinary Pathology. inflammation of the udder of a cow; bovine mastitis.
- garnet — Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
- garote — to execute by the garrote.
- garret — spall (def 1).
- garrot — A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
- garter — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- gaster — (in ants, bees, wasps, and other hymenopterous insects) the part of the abdomen behind the petiole.
- gastr- — gastro-