10-letter words containing nt
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- giant reed — a tall grass, Arundo donax, of southern Europe, having woody stems and a spirelike flower cluster often 2 feet (60 cm) long.
- giant star — a star having a diameter of from 10 to 100 times that of the sun, as Arcturus or Aldebaran.
- giantesses — Plural form of giantess.
- glyptodont — any edentate mammal of the extinct genus Glyptodon, of the Pleistocene Epoch, having the body covered by a horny and bony armor.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- gouernment — Obsolete spelling of government.
- governante — a housekeeper
- government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- gradienter — an instrument on a transit for measuring angles of inclination in terms of their tangents.
- grandaunts — Plural form of grandaunt.
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- great-aunt — a grandaunt.
- gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
- grunt work — work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.
- guantanamo — a city in SE Cuba: U.S. naval base.
- guaranteed — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- guaranteer — One who guarantees.
- guarantees — Plural form of guarantee.
- guarantied — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guaranties — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guarantors — Plural form of guarantor.
- gunter rig — a type of gaffing in which the gaff is hoisted parallel to the mast
- habiliment — Usually, habiliments. clothes or clothing. clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc.
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- half-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- halobionts — Plural form of halobiont.
- hamantasch — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
- hatchments — Plural form of hatchment.
- hauntingly — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- headhunted — Simple past tense and past participle of headhunt.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- helianthus — any composite plant of the genus Helianthus, comprising the sunflowers.
- hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
- helminthic — of, relating to, or caused by helminths.
- hentaigana — (Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character.
- hesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- heterokont — any organism that possesses two flagella of unequal length. Heterokonts include diatoms and some other algae
- hexavalent — having a valence of six.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high point — a city in central North Carolina.
- high-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively high number of warp and filling threads per square inch.