10-letter words containing ete
- manometers — Plural form of manometer.
- marketeers — Plural form of marketeer.
- masseteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the masseter.
- meatometer — A device to measure the width of a human's urinary meatus.
- megagamete — macrogamete.
- metecdysis — the period following the moult (ecdysis) of an arthropod, when the new cuticle is forming
- metempiric — Of or relating to metempirics.
- meteorites — a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.
- meteoritic — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteorites.
- meteoroids — Plural form of meteoroid.
- meter maid — a female member of a police or traffic department responsible for issuing tickets for parking violations.
- meterology — Misspelling of meteorology.
- micrometer — micron (def 1).
- mileometer — device calculating miles travelled
- millimeter — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm.
- multimeter — a device consisting of one or more meters, as an ammeter and voltmeter, used to measure two or more electrical quantities in an electric circuit, as voltage, resistance, and current.
- musketeers — Plural form of musketeer.
- myriameter — Alternative form of myriametre.
- myxomycete — an organism of the phylum Myxomycota (or, in some classifications, the class Myxomycetes), comprising the slime molds.
- nanometers — Plural form of nanometer.
- nephometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of cloud cover in the sky.
- nineteenth — next after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19.
- nitrometer — an apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds in a substance or mixture.
- nonathlete — a person who is not an athlete
- noncompete — (legal) Of or pertaining to a commitment not to engage in competition with another party.
- nonveteran — a person who has had long service or experience in an occupation, office, or the like: a veteran of the police force; a veteran of many sports competitions.
- obsoletely — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- octameters — Plural form of octameter.
- odontocete — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, as dolphins, killer whales, and sperm whales, characterized by an asymmetrical skull, a single blowhole, and rows of teeth, feeding primarily on fish, squid, and crustaceans.
- ombrometer — An instrument for measuring rainfall.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- osmeterium — a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- osmometers — Plural form of osmometer.
- outcompete — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outsweeten — to be sweeter or make things sweeter than
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- parameters — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pelvimeter — an instrument used to measure the pelvis
- pentameter — a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
- penteteric — (of ancient Greek festivals) occurring every fifth year
- peripeteia — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
- peten-itza — Lake, a lake in N central Guatemala: nearby site of Mayan ruins. About 38 sq. mi. (98 sq. km).
- peter chen — (person) The developer of the Entity-Relationship model.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- phonometer — a device for measuring the intensity of a sound.
- photometer — an instrument that measures luminous intensity or brightness, luminous flux, light distribution, color, etc., usually by comparing the light emitted by two sources, one source having certain specified standard characteristics.
- piezometer — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.