6-Letter Words Containing: T,H,E,R

• a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

• preceding even the first

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• performs some wicked deed

• someone you feel sorry for

• resembling or containing chert

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena

• a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

• a belief that can guide behavior

• grow vigorously

• make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

• wither, as with a loss of moisture

• lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

• flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes