6-letter words containing e, n, a, t
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- magnet — a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- mantel — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantle — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- marten — any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- matane — a city in E Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mentat — (language) (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to a variety of MIMD architectures. By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new project, Legion. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- moneta — Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- nacket — a light lunch or snack
- nanite — nanobot.
- nantes — a department in NW France. 2695 sq. mi. (6980 sq. km). Capital: Nantes.
- nasute — a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- natfhe — National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- natter — to talk incessantly; chatter.
- nature — has the X nature
- nautes — (in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- neaten — to make neat: a day spent neatening the kitchen shelves.
- neater — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- neatly — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- nectar — the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- nefast — nefarious, wicked
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").
- netman — a tennis player.
- neutra — a city in W Slovakia, on the Nitra River: historic religious sites.
- nidate — (of a new embryo) to undergo nidation, to implant (oneself) in the uterus
- notate — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- nutate — to undergo or show nutation.
- octane — any of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons having the formula C 8 H 1 8 , some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.
- omenta — a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
- onbeat — the first and third beats in a bar of four-four time
- oneact — a short play consisting of one act.
- orante — a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- panted — to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- panter — of or relating to pants: pant cuffs.
- pantie — panties.
- parent — a father or a mother.
- patent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- patine — patina.
- patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- peanut — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- pedant — a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
- penta- — five
- pentad — a period of five years.