10-letter words containing n, e, p, t
- armipotent — strong in arms or war
- asperating — to make rough, harsh, or uneven: a voice asperated by violent emotion.
- asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
- asphaltene — any of the constituents of a bitumen, as asphalt, that are insoluble in pentane, hexane, or naphthalene.
- aspirinate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of aspirin.
- asthenopia — a strained condition of the eyes, often with headache, dizziness, etc.
- at present — A situation that exists at present exists now, although it may change.
- atropatene — Media Atropatene.
- attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- bench stop — a metal device set flush with the top of a workbench and having a portion able to be raised to stop longitudinal movement of an object placed against it.
- biparental — from two parents
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- bonnet top — a top to a secretary, highboy, etc., following in outline a broken pediment on the front.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- captivance — captivity
- carpenters — Plural form of carpenter.
- carpentier — Georges (ʒɔrʒ), known as Gorgeous Georges. 1894–1975, French boxer: world light-heavyweight champion (1920–22)
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
- catnappers — Plural form of catnapper.
- center pin — a cylindrical device passing through the center plates of both the body bolster and the truck bolster, permitting the truck to swivel beneath the car body while the stress is taken by the center plate.
- centipedes — Plural form of centipede.
- centipoise — one hundredth of a poise. 1 centipoise is equal to 0.001 newton second per square metre
- chainplate — a metal plate on the side of a vessel, to which the shrouds are attached
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- clientship — the state of being a client
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- compellent — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- competence — Competence is the ability to do something well or effectively.
- competency — Competency means the same as competence.