6-letter words starting with t
- tamari — a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- tamayo — Rufino [roo-fee-naw] /ruˈfi nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1991, Mexican painter.
- tambac — tombac.
- tambov — a city, in the Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- tamein — a Burmese skirt or sari worn by women
- tamely — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tamest — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tammar — a small scrub wallaby, Macropus eugenii, of Australia, having a thick dark-coloured coat
- tammie — a fabric of mixed fibers, constructed in plain weave and often heavily glazed, used in the manufacture of linings and undergarments.
- tammuz — the tenth month of the Jewish calendar. Compare Jewish calendar.
- tammys — a female given name.
- tampan — a biting tick of the genus Ornithodorus, native to Africa
- tampax — a brand of tampon (for absorbing menstrual blood); sometimes used as a generic name
- tamped — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tamper — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tampon — a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- tampur — tambura.
- tanach — the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, comprising the Law or Torah, the Prophets or Neviim, and the Hagiographa or Ketuvim, taken as a whole.
- tanaka — Baron Giichi [gee-ee-chee] /giˈi tʃi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1929, Japanese military and political leader: prime minister 1927–29.
- tanana — a river flowing NW from E Alaska to the Yukon River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- tanbur — tambura.
- tandem — one following or behind the other: to drive horses tandem.
- tanged — a sharp ringing or twanging sound; clang.
- tanger — a seaport in N Morocco, on the W Strait of Gibraltar: capital of the former Tangier Zone.
- tangie — a water spirit of Orkney, appearing as a figure draped in seaweed, or as a seahorse
- tangka — tanga.
- tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- tangly — full of tangles; snarled
- tangor — temple orange.
- tangun — a small and sturdy pony native to Tibet and Bhutan
- tanguy — Yves [eev] /iv/ (Show IPA), 1900–55, French painter, in the U.S. after 1939.
- tanist — the successor apparent to a Celtic chief, usually the oldest or worthiest of his kin, chosen by election among the tribe during the chief's lifetime.
- tanked — put or stored in a tank.
- tanker — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tankia — a population of boat-people who live off the coast of Guangzhou, China
- tanned — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- tanner — the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- tannic — Chemistry. of, relating to, or derived from tan or tannin.
- tannie — a title of respect used to refer to an elderly woman
- tannin — Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)
- tannoy — A Tannoy is a system of loudspeakers used to make public announcements, for example at a fair or at a sports stadium.
- tanoan — an American Indian language family of which the three surviving languages are spoken in several pueblos, including Taos, in northern New Mexico near the Rio Grande.
- tanrec — tenrec.
- tantra — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.
- tanuki — a Japanese raccoon dog, formerly believed in Japan to be a mischievous animal capable of shape-shifting
- tanzim — a Palestinian militia belonging to a militant faction of Al Fatah
- taoism — the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.
- taonga — treasure; anything highly prized
- tap-in — a field goal made by striking a ball in the air into the basket, usually from close range.
- tapalo — a Latin American scarf or shawl, often patterned and brightly coloured