4-letter words containing t, e
- kate — Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
- keat — a young guinea fowl.
- keet — a young guinea fowl.
- kelt — Celt.
- kent — knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- kept — simple past tense and past participle of keep.
- keta — chum salmon.
- kete — a basket woven from flax
- keto — of or derived from a ketone.
- khet — (in Thailand) a district or locality
- kite — the paunch; stomach; belly.
- kyte — the paunch; stomach; belly.
- late — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- leat — An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
- lect — (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
- leet — elite
- left — of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the west when the subject is facing north (opposed to right).
- lent — simple past tense and past participle of lend.
- lept — (archaic) Simple past form of leap.
- lest — With the intention of preventing (something undesirable); to avoid the risk of.
- leta — a female given name, form of Latona.
- leto — the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- lets — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- lett — a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- lite — noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lite beer.
- lote — lotus.
- lute — a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle.
- mate — a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
- meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- meet — greatest lower bound
- melt — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- ment — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of meng.
- mest — of or involving an obsessive interest in one's own satisfaction: the me decade.
- meta — (in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- mete — to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
- meth — methamphetamine; Methedrine.
- mett — An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
- metz — the E part of the former kingdom of the Franks, comprising parts of what is now NE France, W Germany, and Belgium. Capital: Metz.
- mite — a contribution that is small but is all that a person can afford.
- mote — a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
- mtbe — methyl tertiary-butyl ether: a lead-free antiknock petrol additive
- mute — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- ncte — National Council of Teachers of English
- neat — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- neet — Alternative form of NEET.
- nest — 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.
- nete — in Ancient Greek music, the name given to the highest note in each of the two highest tetrachords (the hyperbolaeon and the diezeugmenon); i.e. the first and fourth notes from the top of a scale
- netl — A semantic network language, for connectionist architectures.
- nets — Plural form of net.
- nett — (dated, especially in the USA) alternative spelling of net (Remaining after expenses or deductions.).