6-letter words containing ta
- namtar — the Sumerian and Akkadian demon personifying death.
- napata — an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan.
- natals — (obsolete) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
- natant — swimming; floating.
- nectar — the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- nontax — not involving or relating to tax, not derived from or due to tax
- notary — notary public.
- notate — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- nutant — drooping; nodding.
- nutate — to undergo or show nutation.
- o star — a very hot, massive, blue star of spectral type O, having a surface temperature between 30,000 and 50,000 K and an absorption spectrum with few lines, though the Balmer series of hydrogen lines is present and lines of ionized helium are detectable.
- oaktag — tagboard.
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- octads — Plural form of octad.
- octane — any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 1 8 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- octans — (of a fever) occurring every eighth day.
- octant — the eighth part of a circle.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- octavo — a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. Symbol: 8vo, 8°.
- odetta — (Odetta Holmes) 1930–2008, U.S. folk singer.
- omenta — a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- omerta — secrecy sworn to by oath; code of silence.
- on tap — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- optant — a person who opts into, out of, or for something
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- ottava — (of notes in a score) at an octave higher than written (when placed above the staff) or lower than written (when placed below the staff). Abbreviation: 8va.
- ottawa — a city in and the capital of Canada, in SE Ontario.
- oughta — (colloquial, or, dialectical) Ought to.
- outact — to outdo in acting.
- outadd — to beat or surpass at adding
- outage — an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- outask — (transitive) To ask or proclaim for the last time.
- outate — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- oxtail — the skinned tail of an ox or steer, used as an ingredient in soup, stew, etc.
- partan — a crab.
- pataca — a nickel, silver, or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Macao, equal to 100 avos.
- pataka — a building on stilts, used for storing provisions
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- penta- — five
- pentad — a period of five years.
- pepita — a female given name.
- peseta — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
- petain — Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- petara — (in India) a basket for clothes
- petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- petary — a place where peat is excavated; peatary
- pietas — a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.
- pinata — (in Mexico and Central America) a gaily decorated crock or papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents.
- pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()