7-letter words containing n, t, e
- lunates — Plural form of lunate.
- lunette — any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.
- lunulet — (zoology) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent.
- luthern — a dormer window.
- lutyens — Sir Edwin Landseer, 1869–1944, English architect.
- lynchet — a terrace or ridge formed in prehistoric or medieval times by ploughing a hillside
- lynette — a female given name.
- magenta — a town in N Italy, W of Milan: the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians here 1859.
- magnate — a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.: a railroad magnate.
- magneto — a small electric generator with an armature that rotates in a magnetic field provided by permanent magnets, as a generator supplying ignition current for certain types of internal combustion engines or a hand-operated generator for telephone signaling.
- magnets — Plural form of magnet.
- manatee — any of several plant-eating aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, of West Indian, Floridian, and Gulf Coast waters, having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail: all species are endangered.
- manbote — a sum of money paid to a lord whose vassal was murdered.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- manetho — flourished c250 b.c, Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.
- mannite — mannitol.
- manrent — (historical) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
- manteau — a mantle or cloak, especially one worn by women.
- manteca — a town in central California.
- manteel — a cloak, shawl or covering
- mantels — Plural form of mantel.
- mantled — Simple past tense and past participle of mantle.
- mantles — Plural form of mantle.
- mantlet — mantelet (def 2).
- margent — margin.
- martens — Plural form of marten.
- martnet — an arrangement of lines formerly used for gathering up a leech of a sail.
- matinee — an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- meanest — occupying a middle position or an intermediate place, as in kind, quality, degree, or time: a mean speed; a mean course; the mean annual rainfall.
- meatman — a dealer in meat; butcher.
- 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.
- megaton — one million tons.
- 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.
- memento — an object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir.
- mendota — Lake, a lake in S Wisconsin, in N Madison. About 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- 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.
- mentees — Plural form of mentee.
- menthol — Also called hexahydrothymol, peppermint camphor. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble alcohol, C 1 0 H 2 0 O, obtained from peppermint oil or synthesized: used chiefly in perfumes, confections, cigarettes, and liqueurs and in medicine for colds and nasal disorders for its cooling effect on mucous membranes.
- mention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- mentors — Plural form of mentor.
- mentula — A penis.
- meranti — wood from any of several Malaysian trees of the dipterocarpaceous genus Shorea
- methane — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, CH 4 , the main constituent of marsh gas and the firedamp of coal mines, obtained commercially from natural gas: the first member of the methane, or alkane, series of hydrocarbons.
- methene — (chemistry) methylene.
- methink — Misspelling of methinks.
- methuen — a town in NE Massachusetts, near Lawrence.