7-letter words containing n, t, e
- neolith — a Neolithic stone implement.
- neolyte — a durable, semiflexible synthetic material used for the heels and soles of shoes.
- neonate — a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days.
- neoteny — Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- neotype — a specimen selected to replace a holotype that has been lost or destroyed.
- nepotic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- neptune — the ancient Roman god of the sea, identified with the Greek god Poseidon.
- neritic — of or relating to the region of water lying directly above the sublittoral zone of the sea bottom.
- neritid — (zoology) Any member of the Neritidae.
- nerthus — goddess of fertility, described by Tacitus in his Germania: later appeared in Scandinavian mythology as the god Njord.
- nervate — (of leaves) having veins.
- nestbox — Alternative spelling of nest box.
- nesters — Plural form of nester.
- nestful — As much or many as will fill a nest.
- nesting — 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.
- nestled — Simple past tense and past participle of nestle.
- nestler — One that nestles.
- nestles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nestle.
- net ton — Also called net register ton. Nautical. one gross ton registered as taxable.
- net-net — (of an outcome) with no possibility of further revision
- net.god — (person) /net god/ Accolade referring to anyone who satisfies some combination of the following conditions: has been visible on Usenet for more than 5 years, ran one of the original backbone sites, moderated an important newsgroup, wrote news software, or knows Gene, Mark, Rick, Mel, Henry, Chuq, and Greg personally. Net.goddesses such as Rissa or the Slime Sisters have (so far) been distinguished more by personality than by authority. See demigod.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- netball — Tennis. a ball, on a return shot, that hits the top of the net and drops on the other side of the court, thus remaining in play.
- netbeui — NetBIOS Extended User Interface. The network transport protocol used by all of Microsoft's network systems and IBM's LAN Server based systems. NetBEUI is often confused with NetBIOS. NetBIOS is the applications programming interface and NetBEUI is the transport protocol.
- netbios — An applications programming interface (API) which activates network operations on IBM PC compatibles running under Microsoft's DOS. It is a set of network commands that the application program issues in order to transmit and receive data to another host on the network. The commands are interpreted by a network control program or network operating system that is NetBIOS compatible. See NetBOLLIX.
- netbook — a small, lightweight laptop computer used especially for Internet access and email.
- netburp — (networking, chat) (Or "netsplit") When netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a "netburp" (or, sometimes, netsplit).
- netdead — (jargon, chat) The state of someone who signs off IRC, perhaps during a netburp, and doesn't sign back on until later. In the interim, he is "dead to the net".
- netfind — A research prototype that provides a simple Internet "white pages" user directory. It runs on SunOS 4.0 or more recent systems that are connected to the Internet (however, you can run Netfind on one server at your site, and let the others use Netfind on that server). Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of where the person works, Netfind attempts to locate telephone and electronic mailbox information about the person.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- nethead — (slang) An obsessive Internet user.
- nethers — The private parts of the body, particularly the sex organs.
- netizen — (sometimes initial capital letter) a user of the Internet, often one who is actively engaged in uncensored online discussions of political and social issues: Chinese netizens who post their messages using pseudonyms.
- netless — Lacking a net.
- netlike — a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals: a butterfly net.
- netload — A program to down-load Excelan TCP/IP software. The host's Ethernet address can be specified as netload -e aabbccddeeff where aabbccddeeff is a 12 hexadecimal digit number.
- netmask — (networking) A 32-bit bit mask which shows how an Internet address is to be divided into network, subnet and host parts. The netmask has ones in the bit positions in the 32-bit address which are to be used for the network and subnet parts, and zeros for the host part. The mask should contain at least the standard network portion (as determined by the address's class), and the subnet field should be contiguous with the network portion. If a `+' (plus sign) is given for the netmask value, then the network number is looked up in the NIS netmasks.byaddr map (or in the /etc/netmasks) file if not running the NIS service.
- netnews — /net'n[y]ooz/ 1. The software that makes Usenet run. 2. The content of Usenet. "I read netnews right after my mail most mornings."
- netplay — (video games) Multiplayer gameplay over a network.
- netrock — /net'rok/ (IBM) A flame; used especially on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
- netroot — a political activist who promotes his or her cause via the internet
- netstat — (networking) (Or "rstat") A Unix command to give statistics about the network including socket status, interfaces that have been auto-configured, memory statistics, routing tables.
- netsuke — (in Japanese art) a small figure of ivory, wood, metal, or ceramic, originally used as a buttonlike fixture on a man's sash, from which small personal belongings were hung.
- netters — Plural form of netter.
- netting — net income, profit, or the like.
- nettled — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- nettler — an irritating or aggravating person or thing
- nettles — Plural form of nettle.
- netware — Novell NetWare
- network — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.