6-letter words starting with t
- termed — a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- termer — a person who is serving a term, especially in prison (usually used in combination): a first-termer.
- termor — a person who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
- ternal — having three parts
- terret — one of the round loops or rings on the saddle of a harness, through which the driving reins pass.
- terror — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
- teruel — a city in E central Spain: 15th-century cathedral; scene of fierce fighting during the Spanish Civil War. Pop: 32 304 (2003 est)
- tessie — a female given name, form of Theresa.
- tessin — French and German name of Ticino.
- tested — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- testee — a person who is tested, as by a scholastic examination.
- tester — the teston of Henry VIII.
- testes — plural of testis.
- testis — the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- teston — a former silver coin of France, equal at various times to between 10 and 14½ sols, bearing on the obverse a bust of the reigning king.
- tetany — a state marked by severe, intermittent tonic contractions and muscular pain, due to abnormal calcium metabolism.
- tetchy — irritable; touchy.
- tether — a rope, chain, or the like, by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so as to limit its range of movement.
- tethys — Classical Mythology. a Titan, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids and river gods.
- tetra- — four
- tetrad — a group of four.
- tetryl — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 7 H 5 N 5 O 8 , used as a chemical indicator and as a detonator and bursting charge in small-caliber shells.
- tetter — (not in technical use) any of various eruptive skin diseases, as herpes, eczema, and impetigo.
- tettix — a cicada
- tetuan — a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean: former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco.
- tetzel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.
- teucer — a Cretan leader, who founded Troy
- teuton — a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
- tevere — a river in central Italy, flowing through Rome into the Mediterranean. 244 miles (395 km) long.
- tex-78 — (language, text) The original version of TeX.
- tex-82 — (language, text) The version of TeX described in The TeXbook, Donald Knuth, A-W 1984.
- texian — a state in the S United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).
- texted — the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
- texter — a person who communicates by text messaging
- tgs-ii — Translator Generator System. Contained TRANDIR.
- th 227 — radioactinium.
- thakur — chief or master (used as a term of respectful address among the Kshatriya caste in India).
- thaler — any of various former large coins of various German states; dollar.
- thales — c640–546? b.c, Greek philosopher, born in Miletus.
- thalia — the Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.
- thalli — a simple vegetative body undifferentiated into true leaves, stem, and root, ranging from an aggregation of filaments to a complex plantlike form.
- thamar — Tamar.
- thames — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- thamin — a small deer, Cervus eldi, of southeastern Asia, having long, curved antlers: now reduced in numbers throughout its range.
- thanet — Octave [ok-tiv,, -teyv] /ˈɒk tɪv,, -teɪv/ (Show IPA) pen name of Alice French.
- thanks — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- thasos — a Greek island in the N Aegean. About 170 sq. mi. (440 sq. km).
- that'd — That'd is a spoken form of 'that would', or of 'that had' when 'had' is an auxiliary verb.
- that's — That's is a spoken form of 'that is'.
- thatch — Edward, Teach, Edward.