6-letter words containing a, s, t, r
- ishtar — the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
- istria — a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- k star — a relatively cool, orange-to-red star, as Aldebaran or Arcturus, having a surface temperature between 3500 and 5000 K and an absorption spectrum with strong lines of calcium and many neutral metals.
- karats — Plural form of karat.
- kastro — Mytilene (def 2).
- kraits — Plural form of krait.
- kurtas — Plural form of kurta.
- laster — occurring or coming after all others, as in time, order, or place: the last line on a page.
- laters — (slang) see you later; an expression used at parting.
- lustra — Also, luster; especially British, lustre. a period of five years.
- m star — a relatively cool, red star, as Antares or Betelgeuse, having a surface temperature of less than 3600 K and an absorption spectrum dominated by molecular bands, especially titanium oxide.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- master — botmaster
- maters — British Informal. mother1 .
- matres — Plural form of mater.
- mostar — a city in S Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Neretva River: former capital of Herzegovina.
- nostra — Plural form of nostrum.
- o star — a very hot, massive, blue star of spectral type O, having a surface temperature between 30,000 and 50,000 K and an absorption spectrum with few lines, though the Balmer series of hydrogen lines is present and lines of ionized helium are detectable.
- oaters — Plural form of oater.
- orants — a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- orates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of orate.
- osetra — a type of caviar deriving from the osetra sturgeon
- partis — (in prescriptions) of a part.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patras — Greek Patrai [pah-tre] /ˈpɑ trɛ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in the Peloponnesus, in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras.
- patres — dead.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- racest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of race.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- ramets — an individual of a clone.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- rarest — (of meat) cooked just slightly: He likes his steak rare.
- raster — Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- rawest — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- reasty — rancid
- recast — to cast again or anew.
- repast — a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating: to eat a light repast.
- reseat — to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- resita — an industrial city in the Banat, W Romania.
- ristra — a string of dried chilies, garlic, or other foodstuffs.
- rosita — a female given name, Spanish form of Rose.
- rostra — a plural of rostrum.
- s star — a relatively cool red giant having a surface temperature of about 2500 K and an absorption spectrum with strong lines of zirconium oxide.
- saeter — an upland pasture or meadow
- salter — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- santer — Jacques. born 1937, Luxembourg politician: prime minister of Luxembourg (1984–95); president of the European Commission (1995–99)
- santir — a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.