4-letter words containing t
- oft- — Oft- combines with past participles to form adjectives that mean that something happens or is done often.
- oint — (now rare, poetic) To anoint.
- oita — a seaport on NE Kyushu, in S Japan.
- okta — (meteorology) One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
- oltp — On-Line Transaction Processing
- omit — to leave out; fail to include or mention: to omit a name from a list.
- ont. — Ontario
- onto — surjection
- oont — (India) A camel.
- oort — Jan Hendrick. 1900–92, Dutch astronomer, who confirmed (1927) and developed the theory of galactic rotation. He was the first to propose (1950) the existence of a mass of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto (the Oort cloud)
- oost — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- opts — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
- orts — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- osta — Optical Storage Technology Association
- ot&e — operational test and evaluation
- otay — (nonstandard, eye dialect, childish) Alternative form of okay.
- otec — a solar energy conversion system for producing electricity, using warm and cold ocean layers to vaporize and condense a fluid that drives a turbine
- otic — of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- otis — Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- oto- — indicating the ear
- otoe — Oto.
- otoh — (chat) On the other hand.
- otsu — a city in S Honshu, Japan, on Lake Biwa.
- otto — c1175–1218, king of Germany 1208–15; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1209–15.
- oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- out- — You can use out- to form verbs that describe an action as being done better by one person than by another. For example, if you can outswim someone, you can swim further or faster than they can.
- oute — Obsolete spelling of out.
- outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- pact — an agreement, covenant, or compact: We made a pact not to argue any more.
- pant — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- past — gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now.
- pata — 1. (storage) Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment. 2. Pooling Agreement for Technical Assistance.
- patd — patented
- pate — porcelain paste used in ceramic work.
- path — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- pato — an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
- patu — a short Māori club, now used ceremonially
- paty — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center; formée: a cross paty.
- payt — payment
- pcte — Portable Common Tool Environment
- peat — a merry young girl; darling (used as a term of endearment).
- pelt — to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
- pent — a simple past tense and past participle of pen2 .
- pert — Program Evaluation and Review Technique
- pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
- peta — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- pete — Charles, Jr ("Pete") 1930–1999, U.S. astronaut.
- petn — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 1 2 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- peto — wahoo3 .