6-letter words containing n, t
- mantis — any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- mantle — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantra — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- mantua — a city in E Lombardy, in N Italy: birthplace of Vergil.
- marten — any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- martin — (Oddone Colonna) 1368–1431, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1417–31.
- matane — a city in E Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- mating — a partner in marriage; spouse.
- matins — (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.
- matron — a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- mayn't — Mayn't is a spoken form of 'may not'.
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mcnutt — Paul Vories [vawr-eez,, vohr-] /ˈvɔr iz,, ˈvoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1891–1955, U.S. diplomat and government official.
- melton — a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mentat — (language) (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to a variety of MIMD architectures. By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new project, Legion. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- mentee — a person who is guided by a mentor.
- mentes — (in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- menton — a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- mentor — (in the Odyssey) a loyal adviser of Odysseus entrusted with the care and education of Telemachus.
- mentos — Plural form of mento.
- mentum — Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- merton — Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
- meting — to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
- metron — Measure (poetic).
- milnet — Military Network. Part of the Defense Data Network (DDN) and of the Internet. Managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
- milton — John, 1608–74, English poet.
- minnit — (nonstandard, or, eye dialect) minute.
- minted — intent; purpose.
- minter — One who mints.
- minthe — a nymph who was changed into a mint plant by Persephone to protect her from Hades.
- minton — fine-quality porcelain ware produced in Stoke-on-Trent since 1793
- minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- minuit — Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- mithan — gayal.
- mitten — a hand covering enclosing the four fingers together and the thumb separately.
- molten — a past participle of melt1 .
- moment — an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
- monact — the spicule of a sponge that has a single-spiked structure
- monest — (obsolete) To warn; to admonish; to advise.
- moneta — Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- moneth — Obsolete spelling of month.
- mongst — amongst.
- monist — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- monnet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- monstr — (language) A term graph rewriting language from Manchester University(?), designed to be easily implementable on distributed architectures and featuring limited synchronisation facilities.
- montem — a former money-raising practice for the benefit of the senior college at Eton school, whereby pupils dressed up in fancy dress and walked to a hill near Slough and asked for donations from anyone they saw on the way there
- montes — Plural form of mons.