6-letter words containing n, t, e, r
- extern — A person working in but not living in an institution, such as nonresident doctor or other worker in a hospital.
- farnet — A non-profit corporation, established in 1987, whose mission is to advance the use of computer networks to improve research and education.
- fernet — A particular type of Italian amaro.
- garnet — Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
- genter — elegant; graceful.
- gentry — wellborn and well-bred people.
- gerant — The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.
- gerent — a ruler or manager.
- gretna — a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- gurnet — Alternative form of gurnard (fish).
- harten — (obsolete) To hearten; to encourage; to incite.
- hinter — an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue: Give me a hint as to his identity.
- hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- hunter — John, 1728–93, Scottish surgeon, physiologist, and biologist.
- insert — to put or place in: to insert a key in a lock.
- inter- — Inter- combines with adjectives and nouns to form adjectives indicating that something connects two or more places, things, or groups of people. For example, inter-governmental relations are relations between governments.
- interj — Interjection.
- intern — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- inters — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- intire — Obsolete spelling of entire.
- invert — to turn upside down.
- ireton — Henry. 1611–51, English Parliamentarian general in the Civil War; son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. His plan for a constitutional monarchy was rejected by Charles I (1647), whose death warrant he signed; lord deputy of Ireland (1650–51)
- learnt — a simple past tense and past participle of learn.
- lentor — Slowness, sluggishness.
- linter — linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- marten — any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- mentor — (in the Odyssey) a loyal adviser of Odysseus entrusted with the care and education of Telemachus.
- merton — Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- metron — Measure (poetic).
- minter — One who mints.
- montre — An organ stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes
- munter — (British, slang, pejorative) An ugly person.
- n-tier — three-tier
- natter — to talk incessantly; chatter.
- nature — has the X nature
- neater — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- nectar — the saccharine secretion of a plant, which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate the flower.
- nerite — any member of the family of small sea snail or freshwater snail Neritidae
- nernst — Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- nester — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- nestor — the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- nether — lying or believed to lie beneath the earth's surface; infernal: the nether regions.
- netrek — (games) A 16-player graphical real-time battle simulation with a Star Trek theme. The game is divided into two teams of eight (or less), who dogfight each other and attempt to conquer each other's planets. There are several different types of ships, from fast, fragile scouts up to big, slow battleships; this allows a great deal of variance in play styles. Netrek is played using a client to connect to one of several Netrek servers on the Internet. There is a metaserver which distributes details of games in progress on other servers. See also ogg.
- netter — A fisherman who uses nets to catch fish.
- neuter — Grammar. noting or pertaining to a gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine. (of a verb) intransitive.
- neutra — a city in W Slovakia, on the Nitra River: historic religious sites.
- nipter — a religious ceremony of foot washing
- nitery — a nightclub.
- nither — Alternative form of nether.