10-letter words containing n, e, a, t, i
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- fulminated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulminate.
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- funiculate — having a funicle.
- fustianize — to use pompous or bombastic language
- fustinella — a short stiff skirt, usually pleated, made of white cotton or linen, worn by men in some parts of the Balkans.
- gabapentin — (medicine) A medication, originally used for the treatment of epilepsy but now used to relieve pain.
- gadolinite — a silicate mineral from which the rare-earth metals gadolinium, holmium, and rhenium are extracted.
- gainstrive — to resist; to oppose
- galantines — Plural form of galantine.
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- gametangia — an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts.
- gangliated — having ganglia.
- garnierite — a mineral, hydrous nickel magnesium silicate, occurring in earthy, green masses: an important ore of nickel.
- garnitures — Plural form of garniture.
- gatherings — Plural form of gathering.
- gear train — a set of automobile gears that transmit power; transmission.
- gelatinate — (transitive) To convert into gelatin or a jelly-like substance.
- gelatinize — to make gelatinous.
- gelatinoid — resembling gelatin; gelatinous.
- gelatinous — having the nature of or resembling jelly, especially in consistency; jellylike.
- geminating — Present participle of geminate.
- gemination — a doubling; duplication; repetition.
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- generality — an indefinite, unspecific, or undetailed statement: to speak in generalities about human rights.
- generating — Present participle of generate.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- generative — capable of producing or creating.
- generatrix — generator (def 4b).
- genethliac — of or relating to birthdays or to the position of the stars at one's birth.
- geniculate — having kneelike joints or bends.
- genitalial — relating to genitalia
- gentamicin — a highly toxic broad-spectrum antibiotic mixture of related aminoglycoside substances derived from the actinomycete bacterium Micromonospora purpurea, used in its sulfate form in the treatment of severe Gram-negative infections.
- geobotanic — phytogeography.
- germinated — Simple past tense and past participle of germinate.
- germinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of germinate.
- giant cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- giant cell — an exceptionally large cell, often possessing several nuclei, such as an osteoclast
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- giant reed — a tall grass, Arundo donax, of southern Europe, having woody stems and a spirelike flower cluster often 2 feet (60 cm) long.
- giantesses — Plural form of giantess.
- gigatonnes — Plural form of gigatonne.
- gilbertian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style or humor of Sir William S. Gilbert.
- glauconite — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- gleization — the natural process of producing gley.
- glitterand — glittering
- glottidean — Of or relating to the glottis; glottal.
- gradienter — an instrument on a transit for measuring angles of inclination in terms of their tangents.
- grand tier — the first tier of boxes after the parquet circle in a large theater or opera house.