7-letter words containing n, i, t
- lorient — a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- lost in — absorbed in; engrossed in
- lothian — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- lotions — Plural form of lotion.
- lotting — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- louting — an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunting — a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- lusting — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- maginot — André, 1877–1932, French minister of war 1929–32: backed construction of Maginot Line.
- maintop — a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.
- malting — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- manihot — (obsolete) manioc.
- manitou — (among the Algonquian Indians) a supernatural being that controls nature; a spirit, deity, or object that possesses supernatural power.
- mannite — mannitol.
- mantids — Plural form of mantid.
- mantric — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- manumit — to release from slavery or servitude.
- martian — of, relating to, or like the planet Mars or its hypothetical inhabitants.
- martina — a female given name.
- marting — Present participle of mart.
- martini — a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- martins — Archer John Porter [ahr-cher] /ˈɑr tʃər/ (Show IPA), 1910–2002, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
- martinu — Bohuslav [baw-hoo-slahf] /ˈbɔ hʊˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1959, Czech composer.
- masting — Nautical. a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast. any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- matinal — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- matinee — an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matting — a piece of cardboard or other material placed over or under a drawing, painting, photograph, etc., to serve as a frame or provide a border between the picture and the frame.
- mattins — matin (def 1).
- maturin — a city in NE Venezuela.
- mediant — the third degree of a major or minor musical scale.
- meeting — an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.
- meitner — Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- meletin — quercetin.
- melting — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- menotti — Gian Carlo [jahn kahr-loh;; Italian jahn kahr-law] /dʒɑn ˈkɑr loʊ;; Italian dʒɑn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–2007, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- mention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- meranti — wood from any of several Malaysian trees of the dipterocarpaceous genus Shorea
- methink — Misspelling of methinks.
- miction — urination
- midtown — the middle part of a city or town between uptown and downtown.
- migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- minaret — a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- mindest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of mind.
- mindset — an attitude, disposition, or mood.
- minette — a syenitic lamprophyre composed chiefly of orthoclase and biotite.
- mingent — Discharging urine.
- miniate — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- minivet — any of several small, long-tailed Asian cuckoo-shrikes of the genus Pericrocotus, having in the male black and red and in the female black and orange plumage.