6-letter words containing t, u
- astute — If you describe someone as astute, you think they show an understanding of behaviour and situations, and are skilful at using this knowledge to their own advantage.
- atreus — a king of Mycenae, son of Pelops, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, and member of the family known as the Atreids (ˈeɪtrɪɪdz )
- atrium — An atrium is a part of a building such as a hotel or shopping centre, which extends up through several floors of the building and often has a glass roof.
- attius — Lucius, Accius, Lucius.
- attune — to adjust or accustom (a person or thing); acclimatize
- atyrau — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- audits — Plural form of audit.
- aughts — Archaic. ownership; possession. property; a possession.
- augite — a black or greenish-black mineral of the pyroxene group, found in igneous rocks. Composition: calcium magnesium iron aluminium silicate. General formula: (Ca,Mg,Fe,Al)(Si,Al)2O6. Crystal structure: monoclinic
- august — August is the eighth month of the year in the Western calendar.
- auklet — any of various small auks of the genera Aethia and Ptychoramphus
- auntie — Someone's auntie is their aunt.
- auntly — of or like an aunt
- aurate — any salt of auric acid
- aurist — a former name for audiologist
- aussat — the Australian-owned communications satellite launched in 1985
- austen — Jane. 1775–1817, English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families. Her completed novels are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818)
- auster — the south wind
- austin — a city in central Texas, on the Colorado River: state capital since 1845. Pop: 672 011 (2003 est)
- auteur — You can refer to a film director as an auteur when they have a very strong artistic influence on the films they make.
- author — The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
- autism — Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause someone to have difficulty in communicating with and responding to other people.
- autist — an autistic person
- autumn — Autumn is the season between summer and winter when the weather becomes cooler and the leaves fall off the trees.
- avaunt — go away! depart!
- baguet — (architecture, zoology) Alternative form of baguette.
- bahutu — Hutu
- baotou — an industrial city in N China, in the central Inner Mongolia AR on the Yellow River. Pop: 1 367 000 (2005 est)
- barbut — an open-faced Italian helmet made from one piece of metal and reaching the shoulders
- baruta — a city in N Venezuela: a suburb of Caracas.
- basuto — Sotho (def 3).
- bateau — a light flat-bottomed boat used on rivers in Canada and the northern US
- battue — the beating of woodland or cover to force game to flee in the direction of hunters
- batumi — seaport in Georgia, on the Black Sea, near the Turkish border: pop. 136,000
- beaute — Archaic spelling of beauty.
- beauts — (often used ironically) something or someone beautiful, remarkable, or amazing.
- beauty — Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful.
- bedust — to cover with dust
- beirut — the capital of Lebanon, a port on the Mediterranean: part of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until 1918; many universities (including Lebanese, American, French, and Arab). Pop: 1 875 000 (2005 est)
- besmut — to blacken with smut
- bestud — to set with studs
- bhutan — a kingdom in central Asia: disputed by Tibet, China, India, and Britain since the 18th century but most closely connected with India; contains inaccessible stretches of the E Himalayas in the north. Official language: Dzongka; Nepali is also spoken. Official religion: Mahayana Buddhist. Currencies: ngultrum and Indian rupee. Capital: Thimbu. Pop: 725 296 (2013 est). Area: about 46 600 sq km (18 000 sq miles)
- bhutto — Benazir (ˈbɛnəzɪə). (1953–2007), Pakistani stateswoman; prime minister of Pakistan (1988–90; 1993–96); deposed and subsequently defeated in elections in 1997; assassinated during the 2007 election campaign
- biuret — a white crystalline substance, C 2 H 5 O 2 N 3 ⋅H 2 O, soluble in water and alcohol, used for the identification of urea, from which it is formed on heating.
- bluest — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bouget — a representation of a water-carrying vessel consisting of a yoke with a bucket at either end
- bought — Bought is the past tense and past participle of buy.
- bounty — You can refer to something that is provided in large amounts as bounty.
- boutel — boltel (def 1).
- bouton — the enlarged part of a nerve fibre or cell which facilitates contact between nerves