5-letter words containing et
- civet — any catlike viverrine mammal of the genus Viverra and related genera, of Africa and S Asia, typically having blotched or spotted fur and secreting a powerfully smelling fluid from anal glands
- colet — John. ?1467–1519, English humanist and theologian; founder of St Paul's School, London (1509)
- comet — A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
- coset — one of several sets that form a larger set
- covet — If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself.
- crete — a mountainous island in the E Mediterranean, the largest island of Greece: of archaeological importance for the ruins of Minoan civilization. Pop: 601 131 (2001). Area: 8331 sq km (3216 sq miles)
- cruet — A cruet is a small container, or set of containers, for salt, pepper, or mustard which is used at meals.
- csnet — Computers and Science Network, operated by CREN for US computer science institutes. It provides electronic mail service via dial-up lines, X.25 and Internet services.
- culet — the flat face at the bottom of a gem
- curet — a spoon-shaped surgical instrument for the removal of tissue from the walls of body cavities
- dalet — The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- deets — (slang) Details.
- denet — (formerly, in Britain) to sell (a book) at a lower price than that specified by the Net Book Agreement
- detab — DEcision TABle. A decision table COBOL preprocessor written by A. Chapman in 1964. Versions: DETAB 65, DETAB X.
- deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
- detol — (language) Directly Executable Test Oriented Language.
- detox — Detox is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
- dette — (obsolete) Debt.
- dieth — Archaic third-person singular form of die.
- diets — Plural form of diet.
- diety — Good for a diet.
- divet — Alternative form of divot.
- doeth — 3rd person singular present ind. of do1 .
- duets — Plural form of duet.
- duvet — a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover; comforter.
- ebbet — a type of newt
- effet — Alternative form of eft (a newt).
- efnet — (networking) (From "Eris-free Net", eris being eris.berkeley.edu). The dominant Internet Relay Chat network. See also Undernet.
- egret — A heron with mainly white plumage, having long plumes in the breeding season.
- eleet — (internet slang, leet, dated) alternative spelling of leet (
- emmet — a tourist or holiday-maker
- ennet — (now chiefly dialectal) Duck; drake.
- étage — a floor in a multi-storey building
- étape — a storehouse
- etext — Alternative spelling of e-text.
- ethal — (chemistry, dated) cetyl alcohol.
- ethan — a masculine name
- ethel — The letter Œ/œ, or the rune ᛟ.
- ether — A pleasant-smelling, colorless, volatile liquid that is highly flammable. It is used as an anesthetic and as a solvent or intermediate in industrial processes.
- ethic — A set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct.
- ethos — belief system
- ethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
- ettin — (dialectal, archaic, fantasy) A giant.
- ettle — (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To aim; purpose; intend; attempt; try.
- etude — (music) A short piece of music, designed to give a soloist performer practice in a particular area or skill.
- etuis — Plural form of etui.
- etyma — Plural form of etymon.
- etzel — a great king who, according to the Nibelungenlied, was the second husband of Kriemhild after the death of Siegfried: identified with Attila the Hun
- facet — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- feete — Plural form of foote.