6-letter words containing ant
- canton — A canton is a political or administrative region in some countries, for example Switzerland.
- cantor — a man employed to lead synagogue services, esp to traditional modes and melodies
- cantos — Plural form of canto.
- cantus — a medieval form of church singing; chant
- cedant — The cedant is the person or company that cedes business to another person or company.
- chants — Plural form of chant.
- chanty — chantey.
- conant — James Bryant1893-1978; U.S. chemist & educator
- corant — A coranto (kind of dance).
- crants — a garland or wreath carried in front of a maiden's bier
- creant — creating or creative; formative
- criant — garish; loud
- danton — Georges Jacques (ʒɔrʒ ʒɑk). 1759–94, French revolutionary leader: a founder member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793) and minister of justice (1792–94). He was overthrown by Robespierre and guillotined
- decant — If you decant a liquid into another container, you put it into another container.
- dinant — a town in S Belgium, on the River Meuse below steep limestone cliffs: 11th-century citadel: famous in the Middle Ages for fine brassware, known as dinanderie: tourism, metalwork, biscuits. Pop: 12 719 (2004 est)
- dopant — an impurity added intentionally in a very small, controlled amount to a pure semiconductor to change its electrical properties: Arsenic is a dopant for silicon.
- dunant — Jean Henri [French zhahn ahn-ree] /French ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1828–1910, Swiss banker and philanthropist: founder of the Red Cross; Nobel Peace Prize 1901.
- durant — Ariel, 1898–1981, U.S. author and historian (wife of Will).
- eluant — Alternative spelling of eluent.
- enfant — a French child
- equant — (of a crystal or particle) having its different diameters approximately equal, so as to be roughly cubic or spherical in shape.
- errant — Erring or straying from the proper course or standards.
- extant — (especially of a document) still in existence; surviving.
- fantod — Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.
- fantom — an apparition or specter.
- galant — Of, relating to, or denoting a light and elegant style of 18th -century music.
- gantry — a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- gerant — The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.
- giants — (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- gisant — a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- granta — Cam.
- granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, original text compiled 1604.
- grants — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
- gyrant — having a circular movement
- hantle — a sizeable amount
- havant — a market town in S England, in SE Hampshire. Pop: 45 435 (2001)
- incant — Chant or intone.
- infant — a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby.
- jurant — taking an oath
- kantar — (in some Middle Eastern countries) a unit of weight corresponding to the hundredweight, but varying in different localities.
- kantha — a type of Bengali embroidered quilt
- kantor — MacKinlay [muh-kin-lee] /məˈkɪn li/ (Show IPA), 1904–77, U.S. novelist.
- khanty — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along the river Ob and its tributaries in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- krantz — (in South Africa) An encircling or overhanging wall of rock.
- leanto — a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- levant — to leave secretly or hurriedly to avoid paying debts.
- libant — touching lightly
- locant — (organic chemistry) That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group e.g. the 2 in hexan-2-one.
- mahant — A chief priest of a temple or the head of a monastery.
- mantel — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.