6-letter words containing a, s, t, r
- santur — a Persian or Arabian dulcimer
- sarthe — a department in NW France. 2411 sq. mi. (6245 sq. km). Capital: Le Mans.
- sarton — May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- sartor — a tailor
- sartre — Jean-Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ˈpɔl/ (Show IPA), 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.
- satara — a type of heavy woollen cloth with a horizontal rib
- sather — (language) /Say-ther/ (Named after the Sather Tower at UCB, as opposed to the Eiffel Tower). An interactive object-oriented language designed by Steve M. Omohundro at ICSI in 1991. Sather has simple syntax, similar to Eiffel, but it is non-proprietary and faster. Sather 0.2 was nearly a subset of Eiffel 2.0, but Sather 1.0 adds many distinctive features: parameterised classes, multiple inheritance, statically-checked strong typing, garbage collection. The compiler generates C as an intermediate language. There are versions for most workstations. Sather attempts to retain much of Eiffel's theoretical cleanliness and simplicity while achieving the efficiency of C++. The compiler generates efficient and portable C code which is easily integrated with existing code. A variety of development tools including a debugger and browser based on gdb and a GNU Emacs development environment have also been written. There is also a class library with several hundred classes that implement a variety of basic data structures and numerical, geometric, connectionist, statistical, and graphical abstractions. The authors would like to encourage contributions to the library and hope to build a large collection of efficient, well-written, well-tested classes in a variety of areas of computer science. Sather runs on Sun-4, HP9000/300, Decstation 5000, MIPS, Sony News 3000, Sequent/Dynix, SCO SysVR3.2, NeXT, Linux. See also dpSather, pSather, Sather-K. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satori — sudden enlightenment.
- satrap — a governor of a province under the ancient Persian monarchy.
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- satyra — a female satyr
- scrota — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- searat — a pirate of the sea
- seater — a person or thing that seats.
- seurat — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- sharet — Moshe [maw-she] /mɔˈʃɛ/ (Show IPA), (Moshe Shertok) 1894–1965, Israeli statesman, born in Russia: prime minister 1953–55.
- sintra — a town in central Portugal, near Lisbon, in the Sintra mountains: noted for its castles and palaces and the beauty of its setting: tourism
- sistra — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.
- skater — a person who skates.
- slater — Samuel, 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
- smarts — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smarty — a smart aleck.
- sorata — Mount, a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes, near Lake Titicaca: two peaks, Ancohuma, 21,490 feet (6550 meters), and Illampu, 21,276 feet (6485 meters).
- sortal — a concept, grasp of which includes knowledge of criteria of individuation and reidentification, such as dog or concerto, but not flesh or music
- sparta — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- sparth — a type of battle-axe
- sparti — Classical Mythology. a group of fully armed warriors who sprang from the dragon's teeth that Cadmus planted.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- stager — a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- stairs — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- star 0 — Early system on Datatron 200 series. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- starch — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- stared — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- starer — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- stares — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- starry — abounding with stars: a starry night.
- starve — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- stater — statistic.
- stator — Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine. Compare rotor (def 1).
- stayer — a person or thing that stays
- stelar — an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- sterna — sternum
- storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- strabo — 63? b.c.–a.d. 21? Greek geographer and historian.
- strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- strake — Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
- strand — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.