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12-letter words that end in et

  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • fitted sheet — a sheet with ends that are elasticated and shaped to fit tightly over a mattress
  • fleet street — a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.
  • floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
  • forex market — short for
  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
  • giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
  • giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
  • glove puppet — a small figure of a person or animal that fits over and is manipulated by the hand
  • hello packet — (networking, communications)   An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
  • infinite set — (mathematics)   A set with an infinite number of elements. There are several possible definitions, e.g. (i) ("Dedekind infinite") A set X is infinite if there exists a bijection (one-to-one mapping) between X and some proper subset of X. (ii) A set X is infinite if there exists an injection from N (the set of natural numbers) to X. In the presence of the Axiom of Choice all such definitions are equivalent.
  • inner planet — any of the four planets closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars.
  • isolated set — Mathematics. a set containing none of its accumulation points, consisting, therefore, of only isolated points.
  • java servlet — (web)   (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
  • junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
  • labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • linen closet — a closet in which sheets, towels, table linens, etc., are kept.
  • little egret — any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
  • magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
  • major planet — planet (def 1a).
  • major-planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
  • manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
  • mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
  • money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
  • moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
  • mosquito net — a screen, curtain, or canopy of net, gauze, or the like, for keeping out mosquitoes.
  • multi-garnet — A better constraint system for Garnet. Version 2.1 by Michael Sannella <[email protected]>.
  • naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
  • nearer tibet — the eastern part of Tibet.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
  • offset sheet — a rubber-coated sheet in an offset press which acts as the intermediate surface to transfer the impression to the paper
  • on the quiet — If something is done on the quiet, it is done secretly or in such a way that people do not notice it.
  • on your feet — position: standing
  • open couplet — a couplet that concludes with a run-on line.
  • outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • parma violet — a variety of the sweet violet, Viola odorata, that is the source of an essential oil used in perfumery.
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