6-letter words starting with t
- teapoy — a small three-legged table or stand.
- tearer — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- teasel — any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads. Compare teasel family.
- teaser — a person or thing that teases.
- teazel — to raise a nap on (cloth) with teasels; dress by means of teasels.
- teazle — to raise a nap on (cloth) with teasels; dress by means of teasels.
- tebbad — a strong suffocating wind of Central Asia
- teched — touched; slightly crazy.
- techie — a student, enthusiast, or specialist in a particular technical field or subject, especially electronics.
- techno — a style of disco music characterized by very fast synthesizer rhythms, heavy use of samples, and a lack of melody.
- tectal — of or relating to the tectum
- tectum — a rooflike structure.
- tedder — Arthur William, 1st Baron, 1890–1967, British Royal Air Force marshal and educator, born in Scotland.
- teddys — a male given name, form of Edward or Theodore.
- tedium — the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
- tee up — In golf, when you tee up a ball, you place it on a tee so that it is ready for you to hit it.
- teemed — to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
- teener — a teenager.
- teensy — teeny; tiny.
- teepee — a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
- teeter — to move unsteadily.
- teethe — to grow teeth; cut one's teeth.
- teevee — television.
- teflon — characterized by imperviousness to blame or criticism: a Teflon politician.
- tegmen — a cover, covering, or integument.
- tegula — (in certain insects) a scalelike lobe at the base of the forewing.
- tehran — a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.
- tehsil — an administrative region of India
- teibas — Toronto Electrical Industry Benefit Administrative Services
- tejano — (often lowercase) a style of Mexican-American popular music that features the accordion and blends the polka with various forms of traditional Mexican music, now often including synthesizers and rock music.
- tekkie — a student, enthusiast, or specialist in a particular technical field or subject, especially electronics.
- telary — relating to a web
- teledu — a small, dark-brown, badgerlike mammal, Mydaus javensis, of the mountains of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, having a white stripe down the back, and ejecting a foul-smelling secretion when alarmed.
- telega — a Russian cart of rude construction, having four wheels and no springs.
- telegu — Telugu
- telesm — a talisman
- telfer — to transport by means of a telpherage.
- telial — of a telium
- telium — the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- telkom — the official telephone service in South Africa
- teller — Edward, 1908–2003, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.
- tellez — Gabriel [Spanish gah-vree-el] /Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), Tirso de Molina.
- tellin — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Tellina, having a thin, rounded shell of white, yellow, pink, or purple.
- telloh — a village in SE Iraq, between the lower Tigris and Euphrates: site of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash.
- tells' — an artificial mound consisting of the accumulated remains of one or more ancient settlements (often used in Egypt and the Middle East as part of a place name).
- tellus — an ancient Roman goddess of the earth, marriage, and fertility, identified with the Greek goddess Gaea.
- telnet — /tel'net/ 1. The Internet standard protocol for remote login. Runs on top of TCP/IP. Defined in STD 8, RFC 854 and extended with options by many other RFCs. Unix BSD networking software includes a program, telnet, which uses the protocol and acts as a terminal emulator for the remote login session. Sometimes abbreviated to TN. TOPS-10 had a similar program called IMPCOM. 2. The US nationwide network into which one dials to access CompuServe. It was created by John Goltz, one of the founders and system guru of CompuServe. He later worked for Tymshare, one of CompuServe's big competitors.
- telome — the fundamental unit of a plant's structure
- telsim — Busch, ca 1966. Digital simulation.
- telson — the last segment, or an appendage of the last segment, of certain arthropods, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail.