6-letter words containing t, s
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potass — potash.
- pothos — any of various tropical climbing vines belonging to the genera Pothos and Epipremnum, of the arum family, especially E. aureum, widely cultivated for its variegated foliage.
- potosi — a city in S Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center. 13,022 feet (3970 meters) above sea level.
- preset — to set beforehand.
- presto — quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
- priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- 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!
- proust — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- psyton — (humour) /si:'ton/ (From TMRC) The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fail when lots of people are watching. This term appears to have been largely superseded by bogon; see also quantum bogodynamics.
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- ptosis — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- ptyxis — the folding of each individual leaf in a bud
- purest — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- purist — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- pushto — Pashto.
- pushtu — Pashto.
- putois — a brush to paint pottery
- putsch — a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.
- q-sort — a psychological test requiring subjects to sort items relative to one another along a dimension such as "agree"/"disagree" for analysis by Q-methodological statistics
- qanats — Plural form of qanat.
- qantas — the Australian national airline
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- qubits — Plural form of qubit.
- queest — Archaic form of cushat.
- quests — Plural form of quest.
- quiets — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quilts — Plural form of quilt.
- quints — a quintuplet.
- quirts — Plural form of quirt.
- quoits — quoits, (used with a singular verb) a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.
- quotas — Plural form of quota.
- quotes — Plural form of quote.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- ramets — an individual of a clone.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- rarest — (of meat) cooked just slightly: He likes his steak rare.
- raster — Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- rawest — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- reasty — rancid
- recast — to cast again or anew.
- recost — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- rectus — any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- regest — a register
- relist — to list again
- renest — to nest again or form a new nest