5-letter words containing t
- audit — When an accountant audits an organization's accounts, he or she examines the accounts officially in order to make sure that they have been done correctly.
- auget — (mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
- aught — anything at all; anything whatever (esp in the phrase for aught I know)
- aunts — Plural form of aunt.
- aunty — auntie.
- aust. — Australia(n)
- austl — Australia
- auto- — self; same; of or by the same one
- auton — (science fiction) A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- autos — Plural form of auto.
- autry — Gene, 1907–1998, U.S. actor and singer.
- avant — (obsolete) The front of an army; the vanguard.
- avast — stop! cease!
- avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
- await — If you await someone or something, you wait for them.
- axite — a type of smokeless gunpowder
- ayont — beyond
- azote — nitrogen
- azoth — the alchemical name for mercury, esp when regarded as the first principle of all metals
- aztec — a member of a Mexican Indian people who established a great empire, centred on the valley of Mexico, that was overthrown by Cortés and his followers in the early 16th century
- b.pt. — boiling point
- b.th. — Bachelor of Theology
- baath — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- bafta — British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- bahts — Plural form of baht.
- bahut — a portable, decorative chest, often with a round lid, primarily used for transporting clothing
- baith — both
- baits — Plural form of bait.
- bakst — Leon Nikolayevich (lɪˈɔn nikaˈlajɪvitʃ). 1866–1924, Russian painter and stage designer, noted particularly for his richly coloured sets for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909–21)
- balot — Alternative form of balut.
- balti — A balti is a vegetable or meat dish of Indian origin which is cooked and served in a bowl-shaped pan.
- balut — Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell.
- banat — a fertile plain extending through Hungary, Romania, and Serbia
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- bantu — Bantu means belonging or relating to a group of peoples in central and southern Africa. This use could cause offence.
- banty — a person resembling such a bird, namely short and often aggressive
- bantz — Alternate spelling of bants.
- bapt. — baptism
- barth — Heinrich. 1821–65, German explorer: author of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (1857–58)
- basta — enough! stop!
- baste — If you baste meat, you pour hot fat and the juices from the meat itself over it while it is cooking.
- basti — (in India) a slum inhabited by poor people
- basto — the ace of clubs in certain card games, esp quadrille and ombre
- batak — a member of a group of people chiefly inhabiting north-central Sumatra.
- batch — A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time.
- bated — (of breath) held
- bates — Sir Alan (Arthur). 1934–2003, British film and stage actor. His films include A Kind of Loving (1962), Women in Love (1969), The Go-Between (1971), and The Cherry Orchard (1999)
- bathe — If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
- baths — a place having baths or a swimming pool for pubic use
- batik — Batik is a process for printing designs on cloth. Wax is put on those areas of the cloth that you do not want to be coloured by dye.