6-letter words containing n, t
- nautch — (in India) an exhibition of dancing by professional dancing girls.
- nautes — (in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- nautic — Alternative form of nautical.
- navsat — navigational satellite.
- neaten — to make neat: a day spent neatening the kitchen shelves.
- neater — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- neatly — 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.
- nefast — nefarious, wicked
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- nekton — the aggregate of actively swimming aquatic organisms in a body of water, able to move independently of water currents.
- nenets — a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
- 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.
- nesbit — E(dith) 1858–1924, English children's author, novelist, and poet.
- nested — (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.
- 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.
- nestle — to lie close and snug, like a bird in a nest; snuggle or cuddle.
- nestor — the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- netbsd — (operating system) An open source Unix clone that aims for platform independance by a clean separation between the hardware and the the kernel. It has been ported to many platforms from embedded systems to 64-bit computers.
- netbui — (spelling) It's spelled "NetBEUI".
- netcdf — Network Common Data Form. A machine-independent, self-describing file format for scientific data.
- netful — the quantity of fish that can be held by a net
- nether — lying or believed to lie beneath the earth's surface; infernal: the nether regions.
- nethou — Pic de [French peek duh] /French pik də/ (Show IPA) a mountain in NE Spain: highest peak of the Pyrenees. 11,165 feet (3400 meters).
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").
- netman — a tennis player.
- 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.
- netted — net income, profit, or the like.
- netter — A fisherman who uses nets to catch fish.
- nettie — (Tyneside, and, Wearside) toilet.
- nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- 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.
- newest — of recent origin, production, purchase, etc.; having but lately come or been brought into being: a new book.
- newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- nextly — most nearly or closely
- nicest — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- nicety — a delicate or fine point; punctilio: niceties of protocol.
- nidate — (of a new embryo) to undergo nidation, to implant (oneself) in the uterus
- nidget — (obsolete) A fool or idiot; a coward.
- niente — (especially as a direction) with a soft sound or tone gradually fading to nothing.
- nights — at or during the night regularly or frequently: He worked during the day and wrote nights.
- nighty — nightie.
- niglet — (slang, US, offensive, pejorative, racial slur) A child of Negro lineage.
- nilote — a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- nimitz — Chester William, 1885–1966, U.S. admiral.
- nimwit — (rare) A dimwit.
- nineth — Misspelling of ninth.
- ninety — a cardinal number, ten times nine.