7-letter words containing ten
- mistend — to care for or tend wrongly or improperly
- mittens — Plural form of mitten.
- mittent — (obsolete) Sending forth; emitting.
- moisten — Wet slightly.
- moulten — (of a bird) having shed old feathers
- neoteny — Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- nortena — a lively, polkalike folk music chiefly of southern Texas and northern Mexico, usually with Spanish lyrics and played on accordion and 12-string guitar, sometimes with fiddle and saxophone.
- norteno — type of Mexican music
- oftener — More often.
- oftenly — (nonstandard) often.
- oughten — (colloquial, or, dialectical) ought not, oughtn't.
- patency — the state of being patent.
- pattens — any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
- pentene — a colourless flammable liquid alkene having several straight-chained isomeric forms, used in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C5H10
- portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- portent — an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- potence — potency.
- potency — the state or quality of being potent.
- potents — a fur having a pattern of T -shaped forms, placed in alternate directions and having alternating tinctures, one metal and one color, so that all forms of one tincture face the same way and are between, above, and below forms of the other tincture facing the other way.
- potenza — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- protend — to stretch forth.
- quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
- righten — to set right
- shorten — to make short or shorter.
- shotten — (of fish, especially herring) having recently ejected the spawn.
- smarten — to make more trim or spruce; improve in appearance (usually followed by up): Try to smarten up your outfit.
- smitten — struck, as with a hard blow.
- soutenu — performed in a carefully sustained manner.
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stengel — Charles Dillon ("Casey") 1891–1975, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- stenoky — the ability of an organism to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
- stensor — L. Hornfeldt, Stockholm, mid-80's. Symbolic math, especially General Relativity. Implemented on top of SHEEP and MACSYMA.
- stenter — A stenter is a machine for drying cloth, in which sheets for drying are held by the edges.
- stentor — (in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
- stouten — to make stout.
- subtend — Geometry. to extend under or be opposite to: a chord subtending an arc.
- sudeten — Also, Sudetes [soo-dee-teez] /suˈdi tiz/ (Show IPA). Czech Sudety [soo -de-ti] /ˈsʊ dɛ tɪ/ (Show IPA). a mountain range in E central Europe, extending along the N boundary of the Czech Republic between the Elbe and Oder rivers. Highest peak, 5259 feet (1603 meters).
- sweeten — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
- synteny — the presence of two or more genes on the same chromosome
- tenable — capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute: a tenable theory.
- tenafly — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- tenancy — a holding, as of lands, by any kind of title; occupancy of land, a house, or the like, under a lease or on payment of rent; tenure.
- tend on — to wait upon; serve
- tend to — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
- tending — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
- tendons — Anatomy. a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white, fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone or part; sinew.
- tendril — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tendron — a shoot or young branch
- tenedos — an island in the Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, belonging to Turkey.