6-letter words containing m, e, t
- mature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maumet — British Dialect. a doll, puppet, scarecrow, or other figure built to resemble a human being. an empty-headed or mindless person.
- mayest — 2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mcvert — (tool) A Unix program for reading and writing Apple Computer Macintosh binary files. It was written by Doug Moore, now at Rice University (Jan 1990). See BinHex, HQX, MacBinary.
- me too — A functional language for executable specifications developed by Peter Henderson in 1984. It is like LispKit Lisp, but with sets, maps and sequences to describe the specification.
- me-too — Slang. characterized by or involving me-tooism: a candidate's me-too campaign.
- meatal — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- meated — Fed; fattened.
- meatus — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- mecate — Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- meerut — a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- meeted — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of meet.
- meeter — to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter: I would meet him on the street at unexpected moments.
- meetly — suitably; fittingly; properly; in a seemly manner.
- meetup — a meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking website: a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip.
- melete — one of the original three Muses, the Muse of meditation. Compare Aoede, mneme (def 2).
- melted — Simple past tense and past participle of melt.
- melter — a person or thing that melts.
- 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.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mentat — (language) (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to a variety of MIMD architectures. By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new project, Legion. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- mentee — a person who is guided by a mentor.
- mentes — (in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- 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.
- mentum — Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- merest — Superlative form of mere.
- merits — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- merlot — a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- merton — Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- meseta — a plateau
- mestee — mustee.
- mester — Obsolete form of mister (employment, trade).
- meta 5 — Early syntax-directed compiler-compiler, used for translating one high-level language to another. Versions: META II, META-3.
- metage — the official measurement of contents or weight.
- metals — Plural form of metal.
- metaph — metaphor
- metate — a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- metely — (obsolete) According to measure or proportion.
- meteor — Astronomy. a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere. a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
- metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
- meters — Plural form of meter.
- mether — (dialect) Four in the old counting system of Northern England.
- metho- — methyl
- method — a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, especially in accordance with a definite plan: There are three possible methods of repairing this motor.
- methyl — containing the methyl group.
- metics — Plural form of metic.