4-letter words containing t, e
- sept — the number seven.
- sert — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- seta — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- seth — the brother and murderer of Osiris, represented as having the form of a donkey or other mammal and regarded as personifying the desert.
- seti — Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; the attempt to detect signals, esp radio waves or light, from an intelligent extraterrestrial source
- setl — SET Language. A very high level language based on sets, designed by Jack Schwartz at the Courant Institute in the early 1970s. It was possibly the first use of list comprehension notation. Data types include sets (unordered collections), tuples (ordered collections) and maps (collections of ordered pairs). Expressions may include quantifiers ('for each' and 'exists'). The first Ada translator was written in SETL. See also ISETL, ProSet, SETL2.
- sets — Set Equation Transformation System. Symbolic manipulation of Boolean equations. "Efficient Ordering of Set Expressions for Symbolic Expansion", R.G. Worrell et al, J ACM 20(3):482-488 (Jul 1973).
- sett — Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
- sext — a sexually explicit digital image, text message, etc., sent to someone usually by cell phone.
- shet — to shut
- site — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- sket — to splash (water)
- stem — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, considered as a group of academic or career fields (often used attributively): degree programs in STEM disciplines; teaching STEM in high school.
- sten — a British light submachine gun.
- step — Standard for the exchange of product model data
- ster — sterling
- stet — let it stand (used imperatively as a direction on a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like, to retain material previously cancelled, usually accompanied by a row of dots under or beside the material).
- stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- stey — a ladder
- stge — storage
- stye — a circumscribed abscess caused by bacterial infection of the glands on the edge of the eyelid; hordeolum.
- suet — the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- tace — tasset.
- tael — liang.
- taen — taken.
- tafe — Technical and Further Education
- take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- tame — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tane — a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tape — a long, narrow strip of linen, cotton, or the like, used for tying garments, binding seams or carpets, etc.
- tare — the act of tearing.
- tase — (sometimes initial capital letter) to electrically stun (a living target) using a Taser or similar stun gun: She tased her stalker when he tried to force her into his car.
- tate — Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
- tceu — Toronto Civic Employees Union
- tdel — thick film dielectric electroluminescence
- teac — Tertiary Education Advisory Committee
- teak — a large East Indian tree, Tectona grandis, of the verbena family, yielding a hard, durable, resinous, yellowish-brown wood used for shipbuilding, making furniture, etc.
- teal — any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
- team — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- tear — the act of tearing.
- teas — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
- teat — the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
- tech — technical: The engineers sat together exchanging tech talk.
- teco — (editor, text) /tee'koh/ (Originally an acronym for "[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector"; later, "Text Editor and COrrector"]) A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody. With all the dialects included, TECO may have been the most prolific editor in use before Emacs, to which it was directly ancestral. The first Emacs editor was written in TECO. It was noted for its powerful programming-language-like features and its unspeakably hairy syntax (see write-only language). TECO programs are said to resemble line noise. Every string of characters is a valid TECO program (though probably not a useful one); one common game used to be predict what the TECO commands corresponding to human names did. As an example of TECO's obscurity, here is a TECO program that takes a list of names such as: Loser, J. Random Quux, The Great Dick, Moby sorts them alphabetically according to surname, and then puts the surname last, removing the comma, to produce the following: Moby Dick J. Random Loser The Great Quux The program is [1 J^P$L$$ J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$ (where ^B means "Control-B" (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an alt or escape (ASCII 0011011) character). In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a bug: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the "@" in front of "F^B", which as anyone can see is clearly the Wrong Thing. It worked fine the second time. There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but "^P" means "sort" and "J<.-Z; ... L>" is an idiomatic series of commands for "do once for every line". By 1991, Emacs had replaced TECO in hacker's affections but descendants of an early (and somewhat lobotomised) version adopted by DEC can still be found lurking on VMS and a couple of crufty PDP-11 operating systems, and ports of the more advanced MIT versions remain the focus of some antiquarian interest. See also retrocomputing.
- teed — Golf. Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole. a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.
- teek — well; in good health
- teel — til.
- teem — to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
- teen — a teenager.