11-letter words that end in te
- first state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- flake white — lead white.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flannelette — a warm, soft cotton fabric, plain or printed, napped on one side.
- flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
- forficulate — resembling scissors
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank
- fractionate — to separate or divide into component parts, fragments, divisions, etc.
- fragmentate — to break into fragments
- franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
- gametophyte — the sexual form of a plant in the alternation of generations.
- gangliocyte — (biology) A ganglion cell.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- go to waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- golden gate — a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
- governorate — an administrative division of a country, especially Egypt.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
- grosseteste — Robert. ?1175–1253, English prelate and scholar; bishop of Lincoln (1235–53). He attacked ecclesiastical abuses and wrote commentaries on Aristotle and treatises on theology, philosophy, and science
- grossierete — grossness or coarseness
- growth rate — increase per unit
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hatchettite — a soft yellowish mineral wax, C 38 H 78 , darkening on exposure: found in bogs and coal beds.
- haustellate — having a haustellum.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hematophyte — a microorganism, as a bacterium, that lives in the blood.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hepplewhite — George, died 1786, English furniture designer and cabinetmaker.
- heptathlete — (athletics) An athlete who competes in the heptathlon.
- heteroclite — irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- heterophyte — a plant that secures its nutrition directly or indirectly from other organisms; a parasite or saprophyte.
- hexahydrate — a hydrate that contains six molecules of water, as magnesium chloride, MgCl 2 ⋅6H 2 O.