6-letter words containing pt
- optime — (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler (def 2).
- opting — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
- option — command line option
- optran — Specification language for attributed tree transformation writetn by R. Wilhelm, U Saarlandes in the early 1980's.
- peptic — pertaining to or associated with digestion; digestive.
- prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- pterin — any of a group of substances which occur naturally as insect pigments
- ptero- — wing, feather, or a part resembling a wing
- pteron — (in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- ptooey — an imitation of the sound of spitting
- ptosis — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- ptotic — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- ptyxis — the folding of each individual leaf in a bud
- raptly — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- raptor — a raptorial bird.
- raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- recept — an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- repton — Humphry. 1752–1818, English landscape gardener
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sculpt — shape, carve
- septal — of or relating to a septum.
- septet — any group of seven persons or things.
- septi- — seven
- septic — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- septum — a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure; dissepiment.
- stript — a simple past tense and past participle of strip1 .
- tiptoe — the tip or end of a toe.
- tiptop — the extreme top or summit.
- unkept — simple past tense and past participle of keep.
- unwept — not wept for; unmourned: an unwept loss.
- uptake — apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp: quick on the uptake.
- uptalk — a rise in pitch at the end usually of a declarative sentence, especially if habitual: often represented in writing by a question mark as in Hi, I'm here to read the meter?
- uptear — to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- uptick — a rise or improvement in business activity, in mood, etc.
- uptilt — to tilt up.
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- uptorn — past participle of uptear.
- uptoss — to throw or toss upwards
- uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
- upturn — to turn up or over: The farmer upturned clumps of sod with his spade.
- yclept — a past participle of clepe.
- zepto- — one sextillionth part of; the factor 10-21
- ziptop — (of a bag) closed with a zip at the top