7-letter words containing e, a, t, o
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lao-tse — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- late on — at a late stage; near the end
- latrobe — Benjamin Henry, 1764–1820, U.S. architect and engineer, born in England.
- lean-to — a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- legator — a person who bequeaths; a testator.
- leotard — a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- lepanto — Greek Návpaktos. a seaport in W Greece, on the Lepanto Strait: Turkish sea power destroyed here 1571.
- levator — Anatomy. a muscle that raises a part of the body. Compare depressor.
- lipoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of lipoic acid.
- loathed — to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
- loather — unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to be loath to admit a mistake.
- loathes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loathe.
- located — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locater — a person who locates something.
- locates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate.
- loretta — a female given name, form of Laura.
- maestro — an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music: Toscanini and other great maestros.
- magneto — a small electric generator with an armature that rotates in a magnetic field provided by permanent magnets, as a generator supplying ignition current for certain types of internal combustion engines or a hand-operated generator for telephone signaling.
- mahomet — Muhammad (def 1).
- makeout — Of, involving, or suited to making out.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- manbote — a sum of money paid to a lord whose vassal was murdered.
- manetho — flourished c250 b.c, Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.
- matelot — a sailor.
- mayotte — one of the Comoro Islands, in the Indian Ocean, NW of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- megaton — one million tons.
- mendota — Lake, a lake in S Wisconsin, in N Madison. About 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- metazoa — a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.
- moabite — an inhabitant or native of Moab.
- momenta — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
- montage — the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition. Compare collage (def 1).
- montale — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1981, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1975.
- montane — pertaining to, growing in, or inhabiting mountainous regions.
- montera — A traditional Iberian hat associated with bullfighters.
- mortage — Misspelling of mortgage.
- near to — near
- negaton — (not in technical use) electron (def 1).
- negator — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- nemato- — indicating a threadlike form
- neonate — a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- netload — A program to down-load Excelan TCP/IP software. The host's Ethernet address can be specified as netload -e aabbccddeeff where aabbccddeeff is a 12 hexadecimal digit number.
- niobate — any salt of niobic acid; columbate.
- nodated — knotted
- nonmeat — a substance that does not contain meat
- nortena — a lively, polkalike folk music chiefly of southern Texas and northern Mexico, usually with Spanish lyrics and played on accordion and 12-string guitar, sometimes with fiddle and saxophone.
- notable — worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory.
- notaeum — the back (upper surface) of an animal, esp of a bird