6-letter words starting with t
- tag on — attach, append to sth
- tag up — to return to the base and touch it before taking another lead or running
- taggee — someone who has been tagged
- tagger — a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label: The price is on the tag.
- tagine — a large, heavy N African cooking pot with a conical lid
- tagore — Sir Rabindranath [ruh-been-druh-naht] /rəˈbin drəˌnɑt/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, Indian poet: Nobel prize 1913.
- tagrag — riffraff; rabble.
- taguan — a large nocturnal flying squirrel, Petaurista petaurista, of high forests in the East Indies that uses its long tail as a rudder
- tahini — a paste made of ground sesame seeds.
- tahiti — the principal island of the Society Islands, in the S Pacific. 402 sq. mi. (1041 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- tahsil — an administrative division of a zila in certain states in India
- taiaha — a carved weapon in the form of a staff, now used in Māori ceremonial oratory
- taibei — Taipei.
- taigle — to entangle, impede, or delay
- taihoa — hold on! no hurry!
- tailed — coming from behind: a tail breeze.
- tailer — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- taille — French History. a tax that was levied by a king or seigneur on his subjects or on lands held under him and that became solely a royal tax in the 15th century from which the lords and later the clergy were exempt.
- tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
- tainan — a city in SW Taiwan.
- taipan — a highly venomous elapid snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, of New Guinea and northern Australia, that grows to a length of from 10 to 12 feet (3.1 to 3.7 meters).
- taipei — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
- taisch — an apparition of a person whose death is imminent
- taisho — the designation of the period of the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, 1912–26.
- taiwan — a Chinese island separated from the SE coast of China by Taiwan Strait: a possession of Japan 1895–1945; restored to China 1945; seat of the Republic of China since 1949. Capital: Taipei.
- tajiki — a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
- takahe — notornis.
- takeup — the act or process of taking up, making tight, etc.
- taking — the act of taking.
- talara — a seaport in NW Peru.
- talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- talcum — Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
- talent — a special natural ability or aptitude: a talent for drawing.
- talien — Wade-Giles. Dalian.
- talion — lex talionis.
- talked — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talker — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talkie — talking picture.
- taller — having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
- tallet — a loft
- tallis — Thomas, c1505–85, English organist and composer, especially of church music.
- tallit — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
- tallow — the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
- tallys — Thomas, c1505–85, English organist and composer, especially of church music.
- talmud — the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.
- taluka — a hereditary estate.
- talwin — pentazocine
- tamale — a city in N Ghana.
- tamanu — the tree, Calophyllum inophyllum, native to SE Asia and found in the South Pacific, the oil of which is extracted from its fruit and used to treat skin conditions, cuts, burns, etc
- tamara — a female given name.