10-letter words containing ete
- foreteller — Someone who foretells.
- gadgeteers — Plural form of gadgeteer.
- gasometers — Plural form of gasometer.
- gauntleted — Adorned with one or more gauntlets.
- gaussmeter — a magnetometer for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, calibrated in gauss.
- glossmeter — an instrument for measuring the reflectivity of a surface.
- goniometer — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- grand jete — a jump or jeté, preceded by a grand battement or high kick, in which a dancer leaps from one leg and lands on the other.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- groceteria — a grocery store in which customers pick up products from shelves and pay for them on leaving the store, as opposed to one in which they are served by a shop assistant
- haemometer — A hemadynamometer.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hectometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- hektometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- heliometer — a telescope with a divided, adjustable objective, formerly used to measure small angular distances, as those between celestial bodies.
- heptameter — a verse of seven metrical feet.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- heteroatom — an atom other than carbon in the ring structure of a heterocyclic compound.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterokont — any organism that possesses two flagella of unequal length. Heterokonts include diatoms and some other algae
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- hexameters — Plural form of hexameter.
- hydrometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid, commonly consisting of a graduated tube weighted to float upright in the liquid whose specific gravity is being measured.
- hyetometer — an instrument used to measure rainfall
- hygrometer — any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
- hypermeter — a verse or line containing additional syllables after those proper to the meter.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- iconometer — an instrument for finding the size of an object by measuring its image
- incomplete — not complete; lacking some part.
- inconcrete — Not concrete.
- indiscrete — not discrete; not divided into parts.
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- inveterate — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- isogametes — one of a pair of conjugating gametes, exhibiting no differences in form, size, structure, or sex.
- juneteenth — June 19, celebrated by African Americans as the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865.
- junketeers — Plural form of junketeer.
- kilometers — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- lacretelle — Jacques de [zhahk duh] /ʒɑk də/ (Show IPA), 1888–1985, French novelist.
- lactometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of milk.
- leafleteer — a person who writes or distributes leaflets.
- macrometer — An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.