7-letter words that end in te
- gestate — to carry in the womb during the period from conception to delivery.
- globate — shaped like a globe.
- gradate — to pass by gradual or imperceptible degrees, as one color into another.
- granate — Archaic form of garnet.
- granite — ice (def 4).
- guerite — a wicker chair having a tall back arched over the seat to form a hood.
- gummite — a yellow to red alteration product of pitchblende and a minor ore of uranium, having a greasy luster and occurring in gumlike masses.
- guttate — resembling a drop; having droplike markings.
- hastate — (of a leaf) triangular or shaped like an arrow, with two spreading lobes at the base.
- hermite — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, French mathematician.
- hessite — a rare mineral, silver telluride, Ag 2 Te, found in silver ores: sometimes contains gold.
- hirsute — hairy; shaggy.
- hittite — a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
- hogcote — A shed for pigs; a sty.
- hoplite — a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- hussite — a member of the religious reformist and nationalistic movement initiated by John Huss in Bohemia in the late 14th century.
- hyalite — a colorless variety of opal, sometimes transparent like glass, and sometimes whitish and translucent.
- hydrate — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- ichnite — a fossil footprint.
- imamate — the office of an imam.
- imamite — a member of the principal sect of Shiʿah, believing in a succession of twelve divinely inspired imams, beginning with Ali and ending with Muhammad al-Muntazar (d. a.d. c880), who supposedly retired to a cave, later to return as the Mahdi.
- imbrute — to reduce to a bestial state
- imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- impaste — to cover with or enclose in a paste.
- implate — (transitive) To cover with plates; to sheathe.
- implete — to fill
- infante — any son of the king of Spain or of Portugal who is not heir to the throne.
- inflate — deflate
- ingrate — an ungrateful person.
- instate — to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- irisate — to make iridescent
- isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- iterate — to utter again or repeatedly.
- jadeite — a mineral, essentially sodium aluminum silicate, NaAlSi 2 O 6 , usually fibrous, occurring in compact masses, whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- janeite — a devotee of the works of Jane Austen
- kainite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of magnesium and potassium chloride, occurring in granular crystalline masses, a source of potassium salts.
- karaite — a member of a sect, founded in Persia in the 8th century a.d. by the religious leader Anan ben David, that rejected the Talmud and the teachings of the rabbis in favor of strict adherence to the Bible as the only source of Jewish law and practice.
- kassite — a member of an ancient people related to the Elamites, who ruled Babylonia from c1650 to c1100 b.c.
- kernite — a mineral, hydrated sodium borate, Na 2 B 4 O 7 ⋅4H 2 O, occurring in transparent colorless crystals: the principal source of boron compounds in the U.S.
- keynote — Music. the note or tone on which a key or system of tones is founded; the tonic.
- khanate — the area governed by a khan.
- kunzite — a transparent lilac-colored variety of spodumene, used as a gem.
- kyanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in blue or greenish bladed triclinic crystals, used as a refractory.
- l-plate — In Britain, L-plates are signs with a red 'L' on them which you attach to a car to warn other drivers that you are a learner.
- labiate — having parts that are shaped or arranged like lips; lipped.
- lachute — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactate — to produce milk.
- ladette — A young woman who behaves in a boisterously assertive or crude manner and engages in heavy drinking.
- lafitte — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1780–c1825, French privateer in the Americas.