6-letter words containing t, r, o, p
- probit — a normal equivalent deviate increased by five.
- procto — proctosigmoidoscopy.
- profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- projet — a project.
- prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- pronet — (language)
- pronto — promptly; quickly.
- proset — A derivative of SETL with Ada-like syntax developed at the University of Essen in 1990. Formerly known as SETL/E.
- prosit — good health! cheers!
- protea — any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
- protei — plural of proteus (def 3).
- proto- — Proto- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that something is in the early stages of its development.
- proton — a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- proust — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- prutot — prutah.
- ptero- — wing, feather, or a part resembling a wing
- pteron — (in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- ragtop — an automobile having a folding canvas top; convertible.
- raptor — a raptorial bird.
- redtop — any of several grasses of the genus Agrostis having reddish panicles, as A. gigantea, widely cultivated for lawns and pasturage.
- replot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- report — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- repost — a reposted message, resent via email or posted again on an internet chatboard etc
- repton — Humphry. 1752–1818, English landscape gardener
- respot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- ripost — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- roupet — hoarse; croaky
- sports — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sporty — flashy; showy.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- tarpon — a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- thorpe — a hamlet; village.
- topper — a person or thing that tops.
- torpex — (sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- torpid — inactive or sluggish.
- torpor — sluggish inactivity or inertia.
- tripod — a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
- tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- trompe — Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.
- tromps — to tramp or trample.
- troops — armed forces; soldiers
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trophi — the mandibles or other parts of an insect's mouth
- trophy — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- tropin — a hormone released in the body by a certain gland and which produces a response in other glands, stimulating the release of other hormones
- tropo- — indicating change or a turning