7-letter words containing m, a, t, e
- stamped — A stamped envelope or package has a stamp stuck on it.
- stamper — a person or thing that stamps.
- steamed — heated by or heating with steam: a steam radiator.
- steamer — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steamie — a public wash house
- stomate — stoma (def 1).
- streams — (operating system) A collection of system calls, kernel resources, and kernel utility routines that can create, use, and dismantle a stream. A "stream head" provides the interface between the stream and the user processes. Its principal function is to process STREAMS-related user system calls. A "stream module" processes data that travel bewteen the stream head and driver. The "stream end" provides the services of an external input/output device or an internal software driver. The internal software driver is commonly called a pseudo-device driver. The STREAMS concept has been formalised in Unix System V. For example, SVR4 implements sockets and pipes using STREAMS, resulting in pipe(2) openning bidirectional pipes.
- streamy — abounding in streams or watercourses: streamy meadows.
- suimate — self-mate.
- summate — to add together; total; sum up.
- tagmeme — the basic unit of grammatical analysis in tagmemics, consisting of a correlation between a grammatical function and the class of items that can occur in that function. Compare filler (def 9), slot1 (def 3).
- takelma — a member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon, extinct since the early 20th century.
- tamable — able to be tamed.
- tampere — a city in SW Finland.
- tapeman — a person who holds and positions a tape in taking measurements.
- tapetum — Botany. a layer of cells often investing the archespore in a developing sporangium and absorbed as the spores mature.
- taramea — a New Zealand speargrass, Aciphylla aurea
- team up — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- teaming — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- tearoom — a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.
- teatime — the time at which tea is served or taken, usually in the late afternoon.
- telamon — atlas (def 5).
- teleman — a noncommissioned officer in the US navy, usually charged with communications duties
- tempera — a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.
- templar — a member of a religious military order founded by Crusaders in Jerusalem about 1118, and suppressed in 1312.
- tempura — seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- teraohm — a unit of electrical resistance equal to one million million ohms
- the man — the person having power or authority over one; esp., as orig. used by U.S. blacks, a white man
- the ram — the constellation Aries, the first sign of the zodiac
- themata — theme (def 7).
- thermae — hot springs; hot baths.
- thermal — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- timbale — Also, timbale case. a small shell made of batter, fried usually in a timbale iron.
- to-name — a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
- tomtate — a grunt, Haemulon aurolineatum, inhabiting waters off the West Indies and Florida.
- tonearm — pickup (sense 7) pickup (sense 7b)
- toxemia — blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
- trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
- trammie — the conductor or driver of a tram
- tramped — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- tramper — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
- trample — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- trueman — Freddy, full name Frederick Sewards Trueman. 1931–2006, English cricketer; a fast bowler, he played for Yorkshire (1949–68) and England (1952–65); first bowler to take 300 test match wickets
- trumeau — a mirror having a painted or carved panel above or below the glass in the same frame.
- unmated — without a mate
- unmeant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- untamed — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- varment — Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S. vermin. an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
- vietnam — Official name Socialist Republic of Vietnam. a country in SE Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin-China: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). Capital: Hanoi. Compare North Vietnam, South Vietnam.
- vitamer — a chemical compound which exhibits vitamin activity