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13-letter words that end in et

  • ragged jacket — a young seal that, having lost parts of its initially white fur, presents a parti-colored or piebald appearance.
  • receiving set — a radio receiver.
  • retail outlet — shop, store
  • return ticket — a ticket for the return portion of a trip.
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • robbe-grillet — Alain [a-lan] /aˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1922–2008, French writer.
  • rubber bullet — A rubber bullet is a bullet made of a metal ball coated with rubber. It is intended to injure people rather than kill them, and is used by police or soldiers to control crowds during a riot.
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • sales leaflet — a leaflet or brochure used by a company to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
  • scratch sheet — a racing publication giving the betting odds and other information on the horses entered at a racetrack or racetracks during a racing day.
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
  • silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • single ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • slimming diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • state banquet — a formal banquet given for the head of a country
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • street market — outdoor stalls
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • target market — intended customers
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • the smart set — The smart set is a group of fashionable and wealthy people.
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thunder sheet — a large sheet of metal that can be shaken to produce a noise resembling thunder as a sound effect for a theatrical production
  • to one's feet — to a standing position
  • tracer bullet — a bullet containing a tracer.
  • turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
  • velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.
  • vortex street — a regular stream of vortices or parallel streams of vortices carried downstream by the flow of a fluid over a body. These are sometimes made visible by vapour condensation as in the vortex trails from the wing tips of an aeroplane
  • wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
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