7-letter words containing e, t, y
- butlery — a butler's room
- buttery — Buttery food contains butter or is covered with butter.
- by rote — by repetition; by heart (often in the phrase learn by rote)
- bycoket — a type of high-crowned hat
- catesby — Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest
- catseye — a glass reflector set into a small fixture, placed at intervals along roads to indicate traffic lanes at night
- cattery — A cattery is a place where you can leave your cat to be looked after when you go on holiday.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- century — A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
- certify — If someone in an official position certifies something, they officially state that it is true.
- chantey — a song formerly sung by sailors in rhythm with their motions while working, as while turning a capstan
- chayote — a tropical American cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Sechium edule, that has edible pear-shaped fruit enclosing a single enormous seed
- choyote — chayote.
- chutney — Chutney is a cold sauce made from fruit, vinegar, sugar, and spices. It is sold in jars and you eat it with meat or cheese.
- clyster — an enema
- coryate — Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.
- coyotes — Plural form of coyote.
- cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- curtesy — the tenure that a widower holds over the property of his deceased wife
- curtsey — A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses one calf of her leg behind the other and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.
- cutlery — Cutlery consists of the knives, forks, and spoons that you eat your food with.
- cyanate — any salt or ester of cyanic acid, containing the ion –OCN or the group –OCN
- cyanite — kyanite
- cygnets — Plural form of cygnet.
- cystine — a sulphur-containing amino acid present in proteins: yields two molecules of cysteine on reduction. Formula: HOOCCH(NH2)CH2SSCH2CH(NH2)COOH
- cystose — Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
- cythera — a Greek island off the SE coast of the Peloponnese: in ancient times a centre of the worship of Aphrodite. Pop: 3354 (2001). Area: about 285 sq km (110 sq miles)
- datedly — in a dated or unfashionable manner
- daytale — the calculation of work or earnings on a daily basis
- daytime — The daytime is the part of a day between the time when it gets light and the time when it gets dark.
- deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
- decoity — Alternative form of dacoity.
- decrypt — to decode (a message) with or without previous knowledge of its key
- density — Density is the extent to which something is filled or covered with people or things.
- dentary — a bone in the lower jaw of non-mammalian vertebrates, which holds the teeth
- destiny — A person's destiny is everything that happens to them during their life, including what will happen in the future, especially when it is considered to be controlled by someone or something else.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- dietary — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- diethyl — (organic chemistry) Two ethyl groups attached to the same molecule.
- dilthey — Wilhelm1833-1911; Ger. philosopher
- distyle — having two columns.
- dithery — a trembling; vibration.
- doctype — (computing) A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a Document Type Definition, potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.
- drybeat — to beat (someone) severely
- dubiety — doubtfulness; doubt.
- duotype — two halftone plates made from a monochrome original but etched differently to create two values of intensity when superimposed in printing.
- duvetyn — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- earthly — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- ebriety — the condition of being drunk
- ecotype — a subspecies or race that is especially adapted to a particular set of environmental conditions.