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7-letter words containing n, e, p, t

  • pent-up — confined; restrained; not vented or expressed; curbed: pent-up emotions; pent-up rage.
  • pentact — a sponge spicule with five rays
  • pentane — a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
  • pentene — a colourless flammable liquid alkene having several straight-chained isomeric forms, used in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C5H10
  • pentice — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
  • pentito — a person involved in organized crime who offers information to the police in return for immunity from prosecution
  • pentium — (processor)   Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
  • pentode — a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.
  • pentose — a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
  • peptone — any of a class of diffusible, soluble substances into which proteins are converted by partial hydrolysis.
  • percent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
  • perpent — perpend1 .
  • persant — sharp or stabbing
  • pertain — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
  • pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
  • peteman — peterman.
  • petrine — of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
  • petting — kissing and cuddling
  • petunia — flowering plant
  • phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
  • phenate — a phenic acid salt
  • phonate — to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound
  • phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
  • picante — prepared so as to be very hot and spicy, especially with a hot and spicy sauce.
  • pigment — a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
  • pimento — pimiento.
  • pinetum — an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
  • pinnate — resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis: a pinnate branch; pinnate trees.
  • pinsent — Sir Matthew (Clive). born 1970, British oarsman; won four gold medals in rowing events at consecutive Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004)
  • pinxter — Whitsuntide.
  • planate — having a plane or flat surface.
  • plantae — the taxonomic kingdom comprising all plants.
  • planter — a person who plants.
  • plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
  • plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
  • pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • pointel — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
  • pointer — a person or thing that points.
  • polenta — (especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
  • pollent — strong
  • pontage — a tax paid for the maintenance of a bridge
  • pontile — a metal bar used in glass-making
  • pontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
  • portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
  • portent — an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
  • portnet — the South African Port Authority
  • posteen — an Afghan jacket made of leather and with a wool lining
  • postern — a back door or gate.
  • postnet — an official postal service in South Africa
  • potence — potency.
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