10-letter words containing ete
- planometer — surface plate.
- pleximeter — a small, thin plate, as of ivory, placed against the body to mediate the blow of a plexor.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- presweeten — to sweeten in advance
- pretendant — a pretender
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretensive — pretentious
- pretexting — the practice of deceiving individuals into surrendering personal information for fraudulent purposes
- prophetess — a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- quietening — Present participle of quieten.
- radiometer — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
- ratiometer — (in three-color photography) a device for determining the exposure factors of the filters to be used.
- recarpeted — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- reteaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- retentions — profits earned by a company but not distributed as dividends; retained earnings
- ricocheted — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- scotometer — a device used for measuring a scotoma's size, shape and intensity
- semiterete — terete on one side only; round on one side but flat on the other
- slot meter — a meter into which coins are inserted, in advance, to pay for electricity (as opposed to a meter that records the amount of electricity the customer has used, for which they are later billed, usually each quarter)
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spot meter — an exposure meter that measures light reflected from only a small area of a subject or scene.
- squeteague — an Atlantic food fish, Cynoscion regalis, of the croaker family.
- st. peters — a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- stimpmeter — a machine used in golf to measure the speed of a putting green
- sweetening — something that sweetens food, beverages, etc., as sugar, saccharine, etc.
- synesthete — a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachymeter — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- taleteller — a telltale; talebearer.
- taseometer — an instrument for measuring stresses within structures
- tensimeter — manometer.
- tete-beche — of or relating to a pair of stamps that have been printed with one stamp inverted.
- tetrameter — Prosody. a verse of four feet.
- tintometer — a precision instrument for comparing tints or colors with those used as arbitrary standards.
- triathlete — a competitor in a triathlon.
- tribometer — an instrument used to estimate rubbing friction
- tromometer — an instrument used to measure very slight earth tremors
- unbonneted — bareheaded.
- unbudgeted — (of expenses or expenditures) that have not been budgeted for; unplanned
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- uncomplete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- unconcrete — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- uncorseted — Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- undetected — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.