6-letter words containing e, n, t, o
- enroot — (usually, of a plant) To take root.
- entoil — to trap in toils or snares; ensnare
- entomb — Place (a dead body) in a tomb.
- eothen — from the East
- etalon — A device consisting of two reflecting plates for producing interfering light beams.
- ethion — a type of liquid pesticide
- ethno- — indicating race, people, or culture
- ethnos — an ethnic group
- etymon — A word or morpheme from which a later word is derived.
- eunoto — (Kenya) A Masai ceremony in which a warrior passes into senior warriorhood.
- exaton — A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many quintillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- fenton — James (Martin). born 1949, British poet, journalist, and critic. His poetry includes the collections A German Requiem (1980) and Out of Danger (1993)
- foment — to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.
- gentoo — a Hindu.
- geonet — A network of geocells sometimes forming a geospacer.
- get on — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- gotten — a past participle of get.
- honest — honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair: an honest person.
- hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- hotien — Wade-Giles. Hotan.
- ignote — (obsolete) unknown.
- intoed — having inwardly turned toes.
- intone — to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
- ireton — Henry. 1611–51, English Parliamentarian general in the Civil War; son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. His plan for a constitutional monarchy was rejected by Charles I (1647), whose death warrant he signed; lord deputy of Ireland (1650–51)
- jetton — an inscribed counter or token.
- keaton — Buster (Joseph Francis Keaton) 1895–1966, U.S. film comedian and director.
- kenton — Stan(ley Newcomb) 1912–79, U.S. jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader.
- ketone — any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH 3 COCH 3 or CH 3 COC 2 H 5 .
- leanto — a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
- lentor — Slowness, sluggishness.
- lepton — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- let on — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- leyton — a former borough in SE England, near London: now part of Waltham Forest.
- lionet — a young or small lion.
- loment — a pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
- lonest — being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.
- melton — a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- menton — a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- mentor — (in the Odyssey) a loyal adviser of Odysseus entrusted with the care and education of Telemachus.
- mentos — Plural form of mento.
- merton — Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- metron — Measure (poetic).
- molten — a past participle of melt1 .
- moment — an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
- monest — (obsolete) To warn; to admonish; to advise.
- 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.
- moneth — Obsolete spelling of month.
- monnet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- montem — a former money-raising practice for the benefit of the senior college at Eton school, whereby pupils dressed up in fancy dress and walked to a hill near Slough and asked for donations from anyone they saw on the way there
- montes — Plural form of mons.