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6-letter words containing t, s

  • outsin — to sin more than
  • outsit — to sit longer than; outwait: He was determined to outsit his rival.
  • outsum — to amount or add up to more than
  • ownest — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • oyster — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
  • palest — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
  • papist — a Roman Catholic.
  • partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
  • pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
  • pasted — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
  • pastel — the woad plant.
  • paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
  • 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  • pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
  • pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
  • pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
  • patmos — one of the Dodecanese Islands, off the SW coast of Asia Minor: St. John is supposed to have been exiled here (Rev. 1:9). 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
  • patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
  • patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
  • patres — dead.
  • patsys — a male given name, form of Patrick.
  • pattys — a female given name, form of Patience or Patricia.
  • peseta — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
  • pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • pestle — a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
  • photos — photograph.
  • pietas — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
  • pigsty — pigpen.
  • pisted — marked off into pistes
  • pistil — the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma.
  • pistol — a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
  • piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • pistou — a type of sauce from Provence, made from olive oil, basil, garlic, tomatoes, and cheese
  • pithos — a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
  • pities — sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy: to feel pity for astarving child.
  • pitsaw — a two-handed saw used in pit sawing.
  • plants — ["The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. 3-54097297-8].
  • plutus — the Greek god of wealth
  • points — the two electrical contacts that make or break the current flow in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine
  • pontus — an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
  • posnet — a small pot with a handle and three feet
  • posset — a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
  • postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
  • posted — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
  • poster — post horse.
  • postie — A postie is a postman.
  • postil — a commentary or marginal note, as in a Bible
  • postop — postoperative.
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