7-letter words containing n, t
- letting — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- levants — Plural form of levant.
- licente — permitted or allowed
- liement — (fencing) An action in which one fencer forces the opponent\u2019s blade into the diagonally opposite line, (that is, from high line to low line on the opposite side, or vice versa) by taking it with the guard and forte of his own blade.
- lifting — Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lignite — a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
- lilting — rhythmic swing or cadence.
- linctus — (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
- lineate — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- linecut — an engraving or print obtained from a line drawing
- lineout — (rugby) a set piece where the hooker throws the ball into play between a row of players from each team.
- linkrot — the condition of a website link not being updated, with the result that the host website is no longer hyperlinked to the desired website
- linnets — Plural form of linnet.
- linocut — a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- lintels — Plural form of lintel.
- linters — the short fibres stripped from ginned cotton seeds
- linties — Plural form of lintie.
- linting — the process of making lint
- lintols — a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- lisente — plural of sente.
- listens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of listen.
- listing — a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
- littlun — A child or a young animal.
- locknut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- lofting — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- loments — Plural form of loment.
- longest — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
- longeth — Archaic third-person singular form of long.
- lonnrot — Elias [e-lyahs] /ˈɛ lyɑs/ (Show IPA), 1802–84, Finnish scholar and editor.
- looting — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lorentz — Hendrik Antoon [hen-drik ahn-tohn] /ˈhɛn drɪk ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), 1853–1928, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1902.
- lorient — a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- lost in — absorbed in; engrossed in
- lost on — without effect on; failing to influence
- lothian — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- lotions — Plural form of lotion.
- lotting — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- louting — an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- lrltran — Lawrence Radiation Laboratory TRANslator. A Fortran extension with vector arithmetic and dynamic storage, used for scientific work and systems programming, including the LTSS operating system.
- lug nut — a large nut fitting on a heavy bolt, used especially in attaching a wheel to a motor vehicle.
- lunated — Lunate; crescent-shaped.
- lunates — Plural form of lunate.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunette — any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.
- lunting — a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- lunulet — (zoology) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent.
- lusting — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- luthern — a dormer window.
- lutyens — Sir Edwin Landseer, 1869–1944, English architect.