7-letter words that end in te
- epidote — A lustrous yellow-green crystalline mineral, common in metamorphic rocks. It consists of a hydroxyl silicate of calcium, aluminum, and iron.
- epilate — To remove hair from the body by mechanical, chemical or other means.
- epurate — to purify
- eremite — A Christian hermit or recluse.
- erinite — (mineral) A hydrous copper arseniate of an emerald-green colour.
- erudite — Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
- esthete — Alternative spelling of aesthete.
- eucrite — a type of stony meteorite
- evacate — (obsolete) To empty.
- evirate — to emasculate; to castrate
- evocate — (rare) To evoke.
- evolute — A curve that is the locus of the centers of curvature of another curve (its involute).
- ex ante — based on what is expected to happen
- exabyte — (computing) a unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes.
- exarate — (of the pupa of such insects as ants and bees) having the legs, wings, antennae, etc, free and movable
- excrete — (of a living organism or cell) separate and expel as waste (a substance, especially a product of metabolism).
- execute — execution
- exegete — An expounder or textual interpreter, especially of scripture.
- expiate — Atone for (guilt or sin).
- exudate — An exuded substance, in particular.
- falcate — curved like a scythe or sickle; hooked; falciform.
- fansite — a website dedicated to a particular person or subject and run by a fan or fans of the person or subject
- feebate — A system of charges and rebates whereby energy-efficient or environmentally friendly practices are rewarded while failure to adhere to such practices is penalized.
- fellate — to perform fellatio on.
- felsite — a dense, fine-grained, igneous rock consisting typically of feldspar and quartz, both of which may appear as phenocrysts.
- fermate — the sustaining of a note, chord, or rest for a duration longer than the indicated time value, with the length of the extension at the performer's discretion.
- ferrate — a salt of the hypothetical ferric acid, H 2 FeO 4 .
- ferrite — Chemistry. a compound, as NaFeO 2 , formed when ferric oxide is combined with a more basic metallic oxide.
- fibrate — any of a class of drugs used to lower fat levels in the body
- filiate — Law. to determine judicially the paternity of, as a child born out of wedlock. Compare affiliate (def 5).
- fissate — split, divided, with fissures
- foliate — covered with or having leaves.
- formate — a salt or ester of formic acid.
- fossate — having cavities or depressions
- fouette — a whipping movement of the free leg, often executed during a turn.
- foveate — having foveae; pitted.
- frenate — having a frenum or frenulum.
- frigate — a fast naval vessel of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, generally having a lofty ship rig and heavily armed on one or two decks.
- fungate — To become like a fungus.
- furcate — forked; branching.
- gahnite — a dark-green to black mineral of the spinel group, zinc aluminate, ZnAl 2 O 4 .
- galeate — having a galea.
- galette — any of various thin, round cakes or pastries, often with a filling or topping: a galette glazed with blackberry jam; a cabbage-stuffed galette.
- gallate — a salt or ester of gallic acid.
- garotte — to execute by the garrote.
- garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gavotte — an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
- gazette — a newspaper (now used chiefly in the names of newspapers): The Phoenix Gazette.
- gemmate — having buds; increasing by budding.
- genette — any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.