6-letter words containing e, t, u
- degout — to cover (something) with gouts or drops of something
- degust — to taste, esp with care or relish; savour
- demuth — Charles, 1883–1935, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- depute — If you are deputed to do something, someone tells or allows you to do it on their behalf.
- deputy — A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
- derust — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- detenu — prisoner
- detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- detune — to change the pitch of (a stringed instrument), whether for musical or maintenance purposes
- deturn — (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- deuto- — deutero-
- deuton — deuteron.
- devout — A devout person has deep religious beliefs.
- dilute — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- doucet — (obsolete except in dialects) A sweetened dish.
- douted — Simple past tense and past participle of dout.
- douter — an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.
- duarte — a city in SW California.
- dublet — Obsolete form of doublet.
- ducted — Simple past tense and past participle of duct.
- due to — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
- dugite — A highly venomous snake found in SW Australia, similar to the related brown snakes.
- dulcet — pleasant to the ear; melodious: the dulcet tones of the cello.
- dunite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed almost entirely of olivine.
- dunted — Simple past tense and past participle of dunt.
- duplet — Chemistry. two electrons occupying the same orbital in an atom or molecule; two electrons working together, especially forming a nonpolar covalent bond between atoms.
- dusted — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- duster — a person or thing that removes or applies dust.
- dutied — having a liability for duty to be applied
- duties — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- duvets — Plural form of duvet.
- eat up — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- econut — an environmentalist
- eluant — Alternative spelling of eluent.
- eluate — A solution obtained by elution.
- eluent — (analytical chemistry) In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution.
- eluted — Simple past tense and past participle of elute.
- elutor — a vessel used for elution
- emeute — Alternative spelling of \u00e9meute.
- englut — To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
- entune — To tune.
- equant — (of a crystal or particle) having its different diameters approximately equal, so as to be roughly cubic or spherical in shape.
- equate — Consider (one thing ) to be the same as or equivalent to another.
- equipt — Equipment.
- equity — The quality of being fair and impartial.
- erbout — Eye dialect of about.
- erfurt — an industrial city in central Germany, the capital of Thuringia: university (1392). Pop: 201 645 (2003 est)
- eructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eruct.
- erudit — (rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.
- erupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of erupt.