6-letter words containing g, e, t
- greats — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
- greets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of greet.
- gretna — a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- gretry — André Ernest Modeste [ahn-drey er-nest maw-dest] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ɛrˈnɛst mɔˈdɛst/ (Show IPA), 1741–1813, French operatic composer.
- grexit — the possible withdrawal of Greece from the eurozone and a return to the drachma as its national currency.
- grivet — a small Abyssinian monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a grayish back, gray tail, black face, and dark extremities.
- groete — Gerhard [Dutch khey-rahrt;; English gair-hahrt] /Dutch ˈxeɪ rɑrt;; English ˈgɛər hɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Gerardus Magnus) 1340–84, Dutch religious reformer, educator, and author: founder of the order of Brethren of the Common Life.
- gromet — Alternative form of grommet.
- groote — Gerhard [Dutch khey-rahrt;; English gair-hahrt] /Dutch ˈxeɪ rɑrt;; English ˈgɛər hɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Gerardus Magnus) 1340–84, Dutch religious reformer, educator, and author: founder of the order of Brethren of the Common Life.
- grovet — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler in a kneeling position grips the head of his kneeling opponent with one arm and forces his shoulders down with the other
- guests — Plural form of guest.
- guglet — goglet.
- gullet — the esophagus.
- gunite — a mixture of cement, sand or crushed slag, and water, sprayed over reinforcement as a lightweight concrete construction.
- gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- gurlet — a pickaxe with a double-sided head, one side being a sharp point and the other side being a cutting edge
- gurnet — Alternative form of gurnard (fish).
- gusset — a small, triangular piece of material inserted into a shirt, shoe, etc., to improve the fit or for reinforcement. Compare godet (def 1), gore3 (def 1).
- gusted — Archaic. flavor or taste.
- gustie — tasty or savoury
- gutser — a person who eats too much and greedily.
- guttae — a drop, or something resembling one.
- gutted — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- gutter — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- guttle — To put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.
- gutzer — a bad fall or tumble
- gyrate — to move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point; whirl.
- hatpeg — a peg on which to hang a hat
- height — extent or distance upward: The balloon stopped rising at a height of 500 feet.
- heigth — Misspelling of height.
- highet — Gilbert, 1906–78, U.S. writer and classical scholar.
- hogget — hog (def 5).
- hoglet — A baby hedgehog.
- hogtie — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- hugest — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- ignite — to set on fire; kindle.
- ignote — (obsolete) unknown.
- ingate — gate1 (def 15).
- ingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- jetlag — Alternative spelling of jet lag.
- jugate — Botany. having the leaflets in pairs, as a pinnate leaf.
- juglet — a small jug
- leg it — run, hurry
- legate — an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- legato — In a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.
- legist — an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- leglet — a piece of jewellery worn around the leg
- length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- ligate — to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).