6-letter words containing t, u, i
- inturn — an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
- intuse — a contusion or bruise
- irrupt — to break or burst in suddenly.
- iseult — Also, Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance. the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram. daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- itagui — a city in W central Colombia.
- iterum — again or afresh
- ithunn — a goddess, keeper of the apples of youth and wife of Bragi; abducted by the giant Thjazi, from whom she was rescued.
- itunes — a computer application enabling users to download music from the internet, create and order playlists, etc
- iturbi — José, 1895–1980, U.S. pianist, conductor, and composer; born in Spain.
- jesuit — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
- jibuti — Formerly French Somaliland, French Territory of the Afars and Issas. a republic in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: a former overseas territory of France; gained independence 1977. 8492 sq. mi. (21,994 sq. km). Capital: Djibouti.
- judith — a devoutly religious woman of the ancient Jews who saved her town from conquest by entering the camp of the besieging Assyrian army and cutting off the head of its commander, Holofernes, while he slept.
- juliet — the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- jupati — A Brazilian palm, Raphia taedigera, whose long stalks are used in constructing buildings.
- jurist — a person versed in the law, as a judge, lawyer, or scholar.
- justin — a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “just.”.
- jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- kidult — adultescent.
- kittul — a type of Asian palm, Caryota urens, from which jaggery sugar comes and which is used to make rope, etc
- kumite — (in martial arts) freestyle fighting.
- kunitz — Stanley, 1905–2006, U.S. poet and translator: U.S. poet laureate 2000–01.
- kurtis — Plural form of kurti.
- kutani — Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province in the late 17th century, often with both underglaze and overglaze enamel decoration; imitated in the 19th century.
- kuwait — a sovereign monarchy in NE Arabia, on the NW coast of the Persian Gulf: formerly a British protectorate. About 8000 sq. mi. (20,720 sq. km).
- latium — a country in ancient Italy, SE of Rome.
- lieut. — Lieut. is a written abbreviation for lieutenant when it is a person's title.
- likuta — a paper money, aluminum coin, and monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 100th part of a zaire.
- lit up — a simple past tense and past participle of light1 .
- litmus — a blue coloring matter obtained from certain lichens, especially Roccella tinctoria. In alkaline solution litmus turns blue, in acid solution, red: widely used as a chemical indicator.
- lituus — Geometry. a polar curve generated by the locus of a point moving so that the square of its radius vector varies inversely as the angle the radius vector makes with the polar axis. Equation: θr 2 = a.
- lucite — Alternative capitalization of Lucite.
- luetic — syphilitic.
- lutein — Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- luting — a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle.
- lutist — a lute player; lutenist.
- lutuli — Albert (John Mvumbi)1898-1967; South African political leader, born in Zimbabwe
- manitu — (among the Algonquian Indians) a supernatural being that controls nature; a spirit, deity, or object that possesses supernatural power.
- maudit — cursed; damned; wretched
- midgut — Zoology. the middle portion of the vertebrate alimentary canal, posterior to the stomach or gizzard and extending to the cecum, functioning in the digestion and absorption of food; the small intestine. the anterior portion of the arthropod colon, composed of endodermal tissue.
- minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- minuit — Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- miscut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- muftis — Plural form of mufti.
- multi- — Multi- is used to form adjectives indicating that something consists of many things of a particular kind.
- multic — (language) A data-parallel version of C from Wavetracer.
- munite — to fortify.
- munity — (obsolete) freedom; security; immunity.
- muntin — Also called sash bar. a bar for holding the edges of window panes within a sash.
- mutein — a mutationally altered protein.