6 Letter Words That Start With T

torrid

Adjective : Very hot and dry.

Adjective : Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.

Adjective : (chiefly British) Full of difficulty.

tender

Adjective : Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Adjective : Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

Adjective : Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

titter

Verb : To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.

Verb : (obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.

Noun : A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.

thrust

Noun : (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

Noun : A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

Noun : The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

timbre

Noun : The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

Noun : The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.

Noun : (heraldry, uncommon) The crest on a (helmet atop a) coat of arms.

turbid

Adjective : Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)

Adjective : Smoky or misty.

Adjective : Unclear; confused; obscure.

tumult

Noun : Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.

Noun : Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.

Noun : A riot or uprising.

trudge

Noun : A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

Verb : (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.

Verb : (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

tawdry

Noun : (obsolete) Tawdry lace.

Noun : (obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.

Adjective : (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.

twinge

Verb : (intransitive)

Verb : To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch.

Verb : (obsolete except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist.

thwart

Adjective : Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.

Adjective : (figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.

Adjective : (figuratively, dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.

tremor

Noun : A shake, quiver, or vibration.

Noun : (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.

Noun : An earthquake.

temper

Noun : A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

Noun : State of mind; mood.

Noun : A tendency to become angry.

turgid

Adjective : Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

Adjective : Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.

Adjective : (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

torpid

Adjective : unmoving

Adjective : dormant or hibernating

Adjective : lazy, lethargic or apathetic

thrill

Verb : (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

Verb : (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.

Verb : (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.

trepid

Adjective : Timid, timorous, fearful.

target

Noun : A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

Noun : A goal or objective.

Noun : An object of criticism or ridicule.

tetchy

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Synonym of touchy: easily annoyed or irritated, peevish, testy, irascible; also (figurative) extremely sensitive, difficult to manage, use, or work.

twilit

Adjective : Illuminated by or as if by twilight.

terror

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

Noun : (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

Noun : (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.

theory

Noun : A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.

Noun : (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.

Noun : (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.

torpor

Noun : A state of being inactive or stuporous.

Noun : A state of apathy or lethargy.

Noun : (biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.

tyrant

Noun : (historical, Ancient Greece) A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.

Noun : (obsolete) Any monarch or governor.

Noun : A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

throng

Noun : A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.

Noun : A group of things; a host or swarm.

Verb : (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.

tartar

Noun : A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.

Noun : A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.

Noun : (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.

tumble

Noun : A fall, especially end over end.

Noun : A disorderly heap.

Noun : (informal) An act of sexual intercourse.

totter

Verb : To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.

Verb : (figurative) To be on the brink of collapse.

Verb : (archaic) To collect junk or scrap.

trance

Noun : (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.

Noun : (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).

Noun : (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.

tandem

Noun : (countable) A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.

Noun : (by extension, countable)

Noun : Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other.

tricky

Adjective : Hard to deal with, complicated.

Adjective : Adept at using deception.

Adjective : (colloquial, slang) Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick.

tedium

Noun : Boredom or tediousness; ennui.

thrall

Noun : One who is enslaved or under mind control.

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.

Noun : A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

thread

Noun : A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.

Noun : A continued theme or idea.

Noun : (engineering) A screw thread.

timber

Noun : (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

Noun : (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Noun : (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

trifle

Noun : (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

Noun : (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.

Noun : An insignificant amount of money.

treble

Adjective : High in pitch.

Adjective : (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.

Adjective : (dated) Threefold, triple.

toddle

Verb : To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.

Verb : To walk or travel in a carefree manner.

Noun : A carefree or aimless gait; a stroll.

tabard

Noun : A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.

Noun : A sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.

Noun : (historical) A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.

tin god

Noun : (idiomatic) A false god, particularly a petty tyrant, a person who abuses or exceeds their authority over others in petty ways.

temple

Noun : A house of worship, especially:

Noun : A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.

Noun : (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.

tetrad

Noun : A group of four things.

Noun : (biology) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.

Noun : (biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.

tavern

Noun : A restaurant or bar.

Noun : (dated) A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.

Noun : (Oxford University slang, obsolete) New Inn Hall, Oxford, one of the earliest medieval halls of the University of Oxford.

trauma

Noun : Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

Noun : An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.

Noun : An event that causes great distress.

thrash

Verb : To beat mercilessly.

Verb : To defeat utterly.

Verb : To thresh.

tactic

Noun : A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.

Noun : (military) A maneuver used against an enemy.

Noun : (chess) A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.

tingle

Verb : (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Verb : (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.

tirade

Noun : A long, angry or violent speech.

Noun : A section of verse concerning a single theme.

Verb : To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.

touchy

Adjective : (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.

Adjective : (of a person) Easily offended, oversensitive.

Adjective : (informal) Inclined to engage in physical touch.

tousle

Verb : To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.

Noun : The action of ruffling or setting in disorder.

tenets

Noun : An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

theion

Noun : (archaic) the divine, especially a divine fire

Noun : (archaic) sulfur, especially in the context of fire and brimstone

trough

Noun : A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

Noun : Any similarly shaped container.

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.

torque

Noun : (physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)

Verb : (physics, mechanics) To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.

Noun : A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.

tinkle

Verb : (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to tinkle.

Verb : (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.

tussle

Noun : A physical fight or struggle.

Noun : A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.

Verb : To have a tussle.

troika

Noun : A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.

Noun : A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.

tin ear

Noun : (idiomatic) Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language.

Noun : (idiomatic) Insensitivity to the nuances of the current situation or the subtleties of a craft; indifference to somebody else's attitudes, moods, and dialogue.

tendre

Noun : (archaic) Tender feeling or fondness; affection.

Adjective : Obsolete form of tender. [Sensitive or painful to the touch.]

Verb : Obsolete form of tender. [(now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.]

tongue

Noun : The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).

Noun : Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

tangle

Verb : (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.

Verb : (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

trophy

Noun : An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.

Noun : An object taken as a prize by a hunter, or a conqueror or belligerent, especially one that is displayed.

Noun : Any emblem of success; a status symbol.

tragic

Adjective : Causing great sadness or suffering.

Adjective : Relating to tragedy in a literary work.

Adjective : (in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of a tragedy.

thence

Verb : (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

Verb : (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.

Verb : (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter

take in

Verb : (transitive) To receive.

Verb : (transitive) To receive and properly absorb or comprehend.

Verb : (transitive) To enjoy or appreciate.

taisch

Noun : second sight; the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events.

Noun : The sound of the voice of a person about to die, heard supernaturally by somebody not present at the scene.

thorax

Noun : (anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.

Noun : (entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.

tenure

Noun : A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.

Noun : A period of time during which something is possessed.

Noun : A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.

threat

Noun : An expression of intent to injure or punish another.

Noun : An indication of potential or imminent danger.

Noun : A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

travel

Verb : (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.

Verb : (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.

Verb : (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.

tailor

Noun : A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

Noun : (Australia) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Verb : (ambitransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

troupe

Noun : A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.

Noun : Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

Verb : (intransitive) To tour with a troupe.

thresh

Verb : (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.

Verb : (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

Verb : (intransitive, literary) To violently toss the limbs about.

thusly

Verb : thus (in this way).

Verb : thus (therefore)

thrumb

Noun : Alternative form of thrum [A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.]

tackle

Noun : A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.

Noun : A block and tackle.

Noun : (nautical, slang, uncountable) Clothing.

turret

Noun : (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

Noun : (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

Noun : (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

tycoon

Noun : A wealthy and powerful business person.

Noun : (video games) A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox.

topple

Verb : (transitive) To push or throw over.

Verb : To overturn.

Verb : (figurative) To overthrow something.

tinsel

Noun : (obsolete) A shining fabric used for ornamental purposes.

Noun : A silk or wool fabric with gold or silver thread woven into it; brocade.

Noun : A very thin, gauzelike cloth with gold or silver (or, later, copper) thread woven into it, or overlaid with thin metal plates.

truism

Noun : A self-evident or obvious truth.

Noun : A banality or cliché.

typify

Verb : (transitive) To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.

Verb : (transitive) To portray stereotypically.

Verb : (transitive, sciences) To serve as a typical or reference specimen of.

take on

Verb : To acquire, bring in, or introduce.

Verb : To obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

Verb : (idiomatic) To begin to have or exhibit.

triste

Adjective : (rare) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.

throat

Noun : The front part of the neck.

Noun : The gullet or windpipe.

Noun : A narrow opening in a vessel.

talent

Noun : A marked natural ability or skill.

Noun : (historical) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.

Noun : (obsolete) A desire or inclination for something.

thesis

Noun : Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.

Noun : (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.

Noun : (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.

tinker

Noun : An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.

Noun : (dated, chiefly British and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.

Noun : (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.

treaty

Noun : (countable, international law) A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.

Noun : (archaic)

Noun : (uncountable) Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.

thrive

Verb : (intransitive) To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish.

Verb : (intransitive) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.

though

Verb : (conjunctive) Despite that; however.

Verb : (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.

Verb : Misspelling of thought.

thorny

Adjective : (literally) Having thorns or spines.

Adjective : (figuratively)

Adjective : Troublesome or vexatious.

tercet

Noun : a three-line stanza in a poem

triune

Adjective : (chiefly religion, Christianity) Both three and one at the same time.

tootle

Verb : (intransitive) To make a soft toot sound.

Verb : (transitive) To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.

Verb : (intransitive, colloquial) To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.

taipan

Noun : A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.

Noun : (Philippines) A tycoon (usually of Chinese Filipino background)

Noun : Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.

tabula

Noun : A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

Noun : A table, index, or list of data.

Noun : A legal record.

tranny

Noun : (slang, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A transgender person, especially a trans woman.

Noun : (colloquial, Commonwealth) A transistor radio.

Noun : (colloquial, automotive) A vehicle's transmission.

traits

Noun : (biology, psychology) An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

Noun : (object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

tenacy

Noun : (obsolete) Tenaciousness; obstinacy.

Noun : Misspelling of tenancy. [Synonym of lease (an interest in land, its related contract or the document containing that contract); more commonly used when a lease is short-term or has a periodic rent that is not merely nominal.]

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