6-letter words containing ect
- abject — You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
- adject — (obsolete) To annex.
- advect — (of air, water) to move horizontally
- affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
- alecto — one of the three Furies; the others are Megaera and Tisiphone
- arrect — (of animals' ears) pricked up
- aspect — An aspect of something is one of the parts of its character or nature.
- bisect — If something long and thin bisects an area or line, it divides the area or line in half.
- dectet — a group that consists of ten musicians
- defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
- deject — to have a depressing effect on; dispirit; dishearten
- detect — To detect something means to find it or discover that it is present somewhere by using equipment or making an investigation.
- direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- disect — Misspelling of dissect.
- ectomy — (medicine) Any operation involving surgical excision or removal.
- ectype — a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- ejecta — Material that is forced or thrown out, especially as a result of volcanic eruption, meteoritic impact, or stellar explosion.
- ejects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eject.
- elects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elect.
- erects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of erect.
- expect — Regard (something) as likely to happen.
- exsect — (transitive) To cut out or away; to remove by exsection.
- hectic — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hecto- — denoting 100
- hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- humect — to moisten, to wet
- infect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inject — to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue: to inject a medicine into the veins.
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- invect — (obsolete) To inveigh.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lector — a lecturer in a college or university.
- nectar — the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- object — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- obtect — (of a pupa) having the antennae, legs, and wings glued to the surface of the body.
- pecten — Zoology, Anatomy. a comblike part or process. a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- pectic — pertaining to pectin.
- pectin — a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- rectal — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- recti- — straight or right
- recto- — rectum, rectum and
- rector — a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- rectum — the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- rectus — any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- refect — to refresh, especially with food or drink.
- reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- resect — to do a resection on.
- sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
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