10-letter words that end in nt
- flagellant — a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- flavescent — turning yellow; yellowish.
- fleechment — flattery; cajolery; coaxing
- flex point — a point on a curve at which the curvature changes from convex to concave or vice versa.
- flocculant — a chemical for producing flocculation of suspended particles, as to improve the plasticity of clay for ceramic purposes.
- flocculent — like a clump or tuft of wool.
- florescent — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- free agent — a person who is self-determining and is not responsible for his or her actions to any authority.
- fremescent — rumbling; beginning to roar
- frutescent — tending to be shrublike; shrubby.
- fulfilment — the act or state of fulfilling: to witness the fulfillment of a dream; to achieve fulfillment of one's hopes.
- gabblement — a gabbling noise
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- glyptodont — any edentate mammal of the extinct genus Glyptodon, of the Pleistocene Epoch, having the body covered by a horny and bony armor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- habiliment — Usually, habiliments. clothes or clothing. clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc.
- half-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- 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.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
- 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.
- home front — the civilian sector of a nation at war when its armed forces are in combat abroad.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- idempotent — unchanged when multiplied by itself.
- ignipotent — (poetic) Presiding over fire; fiery.
- illuminant — an illuminating agent or material.
- immurement — to enclose within walls.