10-letter words that end in te
- intrastate — existing or occurring within the boundaries of a state, especially of the United States: intrastate commerce.
- intrigante — A female intrigant.
- invaginate — to insert or receive, as into a sheath; sheathe.
- invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
- inveterate — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- invigilate — to keep watch.
- invigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- irradicate — To root deeply.
- irresolute — not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
- ishmaelite — a descendant of Ishmael, the traditional ancestor of the Arab peoples.
- isocyanate — a salt or ester of isocyanic acid.
- italianate — Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
- jamesonite — a metallic, dark-gray mineral, lead and iron antimony sulfide: formerly mined for lead.
- jezreelite — Plain of, Esdraelon.
- kersantite — an igneous rock containing black mica and plagioclase
- kick plate — a metal plate fastened to the bottom of a door to resist blows and scratches.
- kimberlite — Petrology. a variety of micaceous peridotite, low in silica content and high in magnesium content, in which diamonds are formed.
- kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
- kryptonite — The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
- la fayette — Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne [ma-ree maduh-len pyawsh duh la ver-nyuh] /maˈri madəˈlɛn pyɔʃ də la ˈvɛr nyə/ (Show IPA), Comtesse de, 1634–93, French novelist.
- lanceolate — shaped like the head of a lance.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- latin rite — Also called Roman liturgy, Roman rite. the forms of worship and liturgy expressed in Liturgical Latin in the Roman Catholic Church in the West.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- laundrette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- laurdalite — a type of pale pink or grey syenite
- lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
- leaderette — (US) a short editorial, or a paragraph in an editorial.
- legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lentamente — slowly.
- lepidolite — a mineral of the mica group, potassium lithium aluminum silicate, commonly occurring in lilac, rose-colored, or whitish scaly masses: an ore of lithium.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- lherzolite — a peridotite consisting mainly of olivine, with orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene
- licentiate — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- lily-white — white as a lily: soft lily-white skin.
- limburgite — a glassy, dark-coloured volcanic rock containing olivine and augite but little or no feldspar
- liner note — Usually, liner notes. explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided.
- linolenate — a salt or ester of linolenic acid
- lithophyte — Zoology. a polyp with a hard or stony structure, as a coral.
- lithotrite — an instrument for performing lithotrity.
- littermate — one of a pair or group of animals born or reared in the same litter.
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- logic gate — gate1 (def 16b).
- lollingite — a mineral, iron arsenide, FeAs 2 , occurring in steel-gray prismatic crystals.
- loom-state — (of a woven cotton fabric) not yet dyed
- lose caste — to lose social status or position
- lymphocyte — a type of white blood cell having a large, spherical nucleus surrounded by a thin layer of nongranular cytoplasm.
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.