6-letter words that end in te
- litote — (perhaps nonstandard) An instance of litotes.
- lobate — having a lobe lobes; lobed.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lorate — strap-shaped
- lucite — Alternative capitalization of Lucite.
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- luxate — to put out of joint; dislocate: The accident luxated the left shoulder.
- lyghte — Obsolete spelling of light.
- lyrate — Botany. (of a pinnate leaf) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
- lysate — the mixture of substances formed by the lysis of cells.
- malate — a salt or ester of malic acid.
- mecate — Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- melete — one of the original three Muses, the Muse of meditation. Compare Aoede, mneme (def 2).
- metate — a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- micate — to add mica to
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- mogote — a residual hillock of limestone, honeycombed with cavities.
- mucate — a salt of mucic acid
- munite — to fortify.
- mutate — to change; alter.
- nanite — nanobot.
- nasute — a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- nerite — any member of the family of small sea snail or freshwater snail Neritidae
- nidate — (of a new embryo) to undergo nidation, to implant (oneself) in the uterus
- niente — (especially as a direction) with a soft sound or tone gradually fading to nothing.
- nilote — a member of any of several indigenous black peoples of the Sudan and eastern Africa.
- norite — a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- notate — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- nutate — to undergo or show nutation.
- oblate — flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).
- odette — a female given name.
- oleate — Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- onsite — accomplished or located at the site of a particular activity or concern: on-site medical treatment for accident victims.
- oocyte — an immature egg cell of the animal ovary; in humans, one oocyte matures during the menstrual cycle, becoming an ootid and then an ovum, while several others partially mature and then disintegrate.
- oolite — a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
- ophite — a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- orante — a representation of a female figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- osmate — a salt of osmic acid
- outate — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- 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.
- pedate — having a foot or feet.
- pelite — any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- petite — (of a woman) short and having a small, trim figure; diminutive.
- peyote — hallucinogen