6-letter words containing et
- ghetti — Irregular plural form of ghetto.
- ghetto — a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- gibbet — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- giblet — (usually plural) the edible viscera of a bird.
- gigget — Alternative form of gigot.
- giglet — a giddy, playful girl.
- gillet — a mare
- gimlet — a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
- giveth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of give.
- gleety — characteristic of or resembling gleet.
- gobbet — a fragment or piece, especially of raw flesh.
- goblet — a drinking glass with a foot and stem.
- goethe — Johann Wolfgang von [yoh-hahn vawlf-gahng fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈvɔlf gɑŋ fən/ (Show IPA), 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher.
- goetic — relating to witchcraft
- goglet — a long-necked container, especially for water, usually of porous earthenware so that its contents are cooled by evaporation.
- gorets — /gor'ets/ The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup alt.gorets, which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no definition is ever final. [A correspondent from the Former Soviet Union informs me that "gorets" is Russian for "mountain dweller" - ESR] Compare frink.
- gorget — a patch on the throat of a bird or other animal, distinguished by its color, texture, etc.
- goslet — a pygmy goose
- greets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of greet.
- gretna — a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- gretry — André Ernest Modeste [ahn-drey er-nest maw-dest] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ɛrˈnɛst mɔˈdɛst/ (Show IPA), 1741–1813, French operatic composer.
- grivet — a small Abyssinian monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a grayish back, gray tail, black face, and dark extremities.
- groete — Gerhard [Dutch khey-rahrt;; English gair-hahrt] /Dutch ˈxeɪ rɑrt;; English ˈgɛər hɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Gerardus Magnus) 1340–84, Dutch religious reformer, educator, and author: founder of the order of Brethren of the Common Life.
- gromet — Alternative form of grommet.
- grovet — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler in a kneeling position grips the head of his kneeling opponent with one arm and forces his shoulders down with the other
- guglet — goglet.
- gullet — the esophagus.
- gurlet — a pickaxe with a double-sided head, one side being a sharp point and the other side being a cutting edge
- gurnet — Alternative form of gurnard (fish).
- gusset — a small, triangular piece of material inserted into a shirt, shoe, etc., to improve the fit or for reinforcement. Compare godet (def 1), gore3 (def 1).
- haffet — the part of the face above the upper jaw; the cheekbone and temple.
- hametz — a food forbidden for use by Jews during the festival of Passover, especially a baked food, as bread or cake, made with leaven or a leavening agent.
- hamlet — (italics) a tragedy (first printed 1603) by Shakespeare.
- haslet — the heart, liver, etc., of a hog or other animal used for food.
- hateth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hate.
- helmet — any of various forms of protective head covering worn by soldiers, firefighters, divers, cyclists, etc.
- hepnet — An association concerned with networking requirements for high energy physicists.
- hereto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- het up — indignant; irate; upset: She was really het up about the new city tax.
- hetero — Chemistry. of or relating to an atom other than carbon, particularly in a cyclic compound.
- hether — Obsolete spelling of heather.
- hetian — Hotan.
- hetman — the title assumed by the chief of Ukrainian Cossacks of the Dnieper River region, with headquarters at Zaporozhe.
- hettie — a female given name, form of Hester or Esther.
- hideth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hide.
- highet — Gilbert, 1906–78, U.S. writer and classical scholar.
- hocket — a technique in medieval musical composition in which two or three voice parts are given notes or short phrases in rapid alternation, producing an erratic, hiccuping effect.
- hogget — hog (def 5).
- hoglet — A baby hedgehog.
- hopeth — Archaic third-person singular form of hope.