Words Containing TEN
Explore a range of words that include the letter TEN, showcasing the diversity and richness of the English language. Enhance your vocabulary with interesting and unique terms featuring TEN.
3 letter words
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| ten | 3 | one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face | - |
4 letter words
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| tent | 4 | a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) | he pitched his tent near the creek |
| tend | 5 | have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | She tends to be nervous before her lectures |
| sten | 4 | - | - |
| tens | 4 | - | - |
| tene | 4 | - | - |
| eten | 4 | - | - |
5 letter words
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| often | 8 | frequently or in great quantities | - |
| eaten | 5 | - | - |
| tense | 5 | cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up |
| tenth | 8 | coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position | - |
| tenor | 5 | the general meaning or substance of an utterance | although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument |
| tenia | 5 | a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband | - |
| tenet | 5 | a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | - |
| steno | 5 | - | - |
| tench | 10 | freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water | - |
| tenon | 5 | a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint | - |
| paten | 7 | - | - |
| oaten | 5 | of or related to or derived from oats | oaten bread |
| tenny | 8 | - | - |
| tenno | 5 | the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | - |
| tenne | 5 | - | - |
| tenge | 6 | 100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan | - |
| tenes | 5 | - | - |
| tendu | 6 | - | - |
| tenue | 5 | - | - |
| tenty | 8 | - | - |
| tents | 5 | - | - |
| tends | 6 | - | - |
| stent | 5 | a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
| stens | 5 | - | - |
| stend | 6 | - | - |
| ctene | 7 | a locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused | - |
| moten | 7 | - | - |
| laten | 5 | - | - |
| hoten | 8 | - | - |
| etens | 5 | - | - |
6 letter words
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| listen | 6 | pay close attention to; give heed to | - |
| gotten | 7 | - | - |
| beaten | 8 | much trodden and worn smooth or bare | did not stray from the beaten path |
| attend | 7 | take charge of or deal with | I must attend to this matter |
| rotten | 6 | damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | rotten floor boards |
| intend | 7 | denote or connote | - |
| tennis | 6 | a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court | - |
| tender | 7 | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | - |
| extend | 14 | extend in scope or range or area | The law was extended to all citizens |
| bitten | 8 | - | - |
| extent | 13 | the distance or area or volume over which something extends | the vast extent of the desert |
| intent | 6 | giving or marked by complete attention to | so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred |
| kitten | 10 | young domestic cat | - |
| stench | 11 | a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | - |
| tenant | 6 | someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else | the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent |
| tensed | 7 | having inflections to indicate tense | - |
| fasten | 9 | make tight or tighter | - |
| molten | 8 | reduced to liquid form by heating | a mass of molten rock |
| patent | 8 | clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | patent advantages |
| soften | 9 | lessen in force or effect | soften a shock |
| potent | 8 | having great influence | - |
| latent | 6 | (pathology) not presently active | latent infection |
| tenure | 6 | the term during which some position is held | - |
| hasten | 9 | speed up the progress of; facilitate | - |
| tenner | 6 | the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | - |
| tendon | 7 | a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment | - |
| fatten | 9 | make fat or plump | - |
| mitten | 8 | glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together | - |
| gluten | 7 | a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough | - |
| batten | 8 | furnish with battens | batten ships |
| whiten | 12 | turn white | This detergent will whiten your laundry |
| marten | 8 | agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels | - |
| lenten | 6 | of or relating to or suitable for Lent | lenten food |
| tented | 7 | - | - |
| tensor | 6 | a generalization of the concept of a vector | - |
| patten | 8 | footwear usually with wooden soles | - |
| attent | 6 | - | - |
| neaten | 6 | put (things or places) in order | - |
| catena | 8 | a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma) | - |
| butene | 8 | any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
| ctenes | 8 | - | - |
| hapten | 11 | - | - |
| harten | 9 | - | - |
| detenu | 7 | - | - |
| detent | 7 | a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | - |
| ostent | 6 | - | - |
| obtend | 9 | - | - |
| luiten | 6 | - | - |
| looten | 6 | - | - |
| lutten | 6 | - | - |
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7 letter words
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| written | 10 | written as for a film or play or broadcast | - |
| pretend | 10 | behave unnaturally or affectedly | - |
| intense | 7 | extremely sharp or severe | intense itching and burning |
| tension | 7 | the physical condition of being stretched or strained | it places great tension on the leg muscles |
| content | 9 | the state of being contented with your situation in life | he relaxed in sleepy contentedness |
| lighten | 11 | make more cheerful | the conversation lightened me up a bit |
| antenna | 7 | one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | - |
| tighten | 11 | narrow or limit | - |
| smitten | 9 | (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | conscience-smitten |
| shorten | 10 | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | - |
| flatten | 10 | become flat or flatter | The landscape flattened |
| sweeten | 10 | make sweeter in taste | - |
| tending | 9 | the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | - |
| contend | 10 | be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Militant groups are contending for control of the country |
| smarten | 9 | - | - |
| potency | 14 | the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse | - |
| tenuous | 7 | lacking substance or significance | a tenuous argument |
| tenfold | 11 | containing ten or ten parts | - |
| utensil | 7 | an implement for practical use (especially in a household) | - |
| glisten | 8 | be shiny, as if wet | His eyes were glistening |
| moisten | 9 | make moist | The dew moistened the meadows |
| tensile | 7 | capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | made of highly tensile steel alloy |
| quieten | 16 | make calm or still | - |
| tenancy | 12 | an act of being a tenant or occupant | - |
| detente | 8 | the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | - |
| stencil | 9 | a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below | - |
| tenured | 8 | appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime | a tenured professor |
| entente | 7 | a friendly understanding between political powers | - |
| tensing | 8 | - | - |
| portent | 9 | a sign of something about to happen | - |
| portend | 10 | indicate, as with a sign or an omen | - |
| bartend | 10 | - | - |
| uneaten | 7 | - | - |
| tendril | 8 | slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support | - |
| hearten | 10 | give encouragement to | - |
| tenable | 9 | based on sound reasoning or evidence | - |
| tenting | 8 | the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | - |
| chasten | 12 | correct by punishment or discipline | - |
| tensely | 10 | in a tense manner | he sat down tensely |
| oftener | 10 | - | - |
| chorten | 12 | - | - |
| extents | 14 | - | - |
| extense | 14 | - | - |
| extends | 15 | - | - |
| distent | 8 | - | - |
| distend | 9 | become wider | - |
| detents | 8 | - | - |
| detenue | 8 | - | - |
| detenus | 8 | - | - |
| ctenoid | 10 | resembling a comb; having projections like the teeth of a comb | - |
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8 letter words
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| sentence | 10 | pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | - |
| threaten | 11 | pose a threat to; present a danger to | - |
| intended | 10 | future; betrothed | his intended bride |
| frighten | 15 | cause fear in | The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me |
| attended | 10 | having a caretaker or other watcher | - |
| extended | 17 | relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | an extended discussion |
| contents | 10 | a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | - |
| impotent | 12 | lacking power or ability | Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent |
| tendency | 14 | a general direction in which something tends to move | the shoreward tendency of the current |
| listener | 8 | someone who listens attentively | - |
| brighten | 14 | become clear | - |
| fastened | 12 | furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | - |
| existent | 15 | presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | - |
| antennas | 8 | - | - |
| tenderly | 12 | with tenderness; in a tender manner | tenderly she placed her arms round him |
| penitent | 10 | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | - |
| patented | 11 | (of devices and processes) protected by patent | they are patented inventions |
| begotten | 11 | (of offspring) generated by procreation | naturally begotten child |
| antennae | 8 | - | - |
| softened | 12 | being or made softer or less loud or clear | - |
| christen | 13 | administer baptism to | - |
| pretense | 10 | an artful or simulated semblance | - |
| pretence | 12 | an artful or simulated semblance | - |
| tenement | 10 | a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | - |
| tenacity | 13 | persistent determination | - |
| intently | 11 | with strained or eager attention | listened intently |
| heighten | 15 | make (one's senses) more acute | - |
| patently | 13 | unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | it is all patently nonsense |
| tentacle | 10 | any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
| softener | 11 | a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
| lateness | 8 | quality of coming late or later in time | - |
| unbeaten | 10 | not conquered | - |
| cuteness | 10 | the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | - |
| fattened | 12 | (of market animals) made ready for market | - |
| carotene | 10 | an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | - |
| unfasten | 11 | become undone or untied | The shoelaces unfastened |
| untended | 10 | lacking care and attention | untended garden was soon overgrown with weeds |
| verboten | 13 | excluded from use or mention | - |
| whitened | 15 | (of hair) having lost its color | - |
| extender | 16 | - | - |
| fastener | 11 | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | - |
| stenosis | 8 | abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | - |
| tungsten | 9 | a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | - |
| tenderer | 9 | - | - |
| extensor | 15 | a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part | - |
| muteness | 10 | the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | her muteness was a consequence of her deafness |
| attendee | 9 | a person who is present and participates in a meeting | the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees |
| atenolol | 8 | an oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) | - |
| potently | 13 | in a manner having a powerful influence | Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind |
| rottenly | 11 | in a terrible manner | - |
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9 letter words
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| attention | 9 | the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | - |
| listening | 10 | the act of hearing attentively | you can learn a lot by just listening |
| forgotten | 13 | not noticed inadvertently | her aching muscles forgotten she danced all night |
| potential | 11 | the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | - |
| existence | 18 | the state or fact of existing | laws in existence for centuries |
| intention | 9 | an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | good intentions are not enough |
| detention | 10 | a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | his detention was politically motivated |
| sentenced | 12 | - | - |
| bartender | 12 | an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
| pretended | 13 | adopted in order to deceive | a pretended interest |
| attending | 11 | the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | - |
| extension | 16 | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
| attendant | 10 | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | - |
| intensive | 12 | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | - |
| extensive | 19 | large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England |
| intensity | 12 | chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | - |
| competent | 15 | adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | a competent performance |
| enlighten | 13 | make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | - |
| attentive | 12 | taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | - |
| intensely | 12 | to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | she loved him intensely |
| flattened | 13 | having been flattened | - |
| contented | 12 | satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | a contented smile |
| contender | 12 | the contestant you hope to defeat | - |
| fattening | 13 | subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | a fattening hog |
| tenacious | 11 | sticking together | tenacious burrs |
| insistent | 9 | repetitive and persistent | the bluejay's insistent cry |
| impotence | 15 | an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | - |
| shortened | 13 | cut short in duration | her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking |
| intendant | 10 | - | - |
| unwritten | 12 | using speech rather than writing | - |
| retention | 9 | the power of retaining and recalling past experience | - |
| tentative | 12 | unsettled in mind or opinion | drew a few tentative conclusions |
| whitening | 16 | changing to a lighter color | - |
| rewritten | 12 | - | - |
| sweetener | 12 | anything that serves as an enticement | - |
| pretender | 12 | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | - |
| intensify | 15 | become more intense | - |
| sweetened | 13 | with sweetening added | - |
| softening | 13 | having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | - |
| whiteness | 15 | the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) | - |
| untenable | 11 | (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified | - |
| hortensia | 12 | deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue | - |
| penitence | 13 | remorse for your past conduct | - |
| centenary | 14 | of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | - |
| distended | 12 | - | - |
| fastening | 13 | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | - |
| retentive | 12 | good at remembering | a retentive mind |
| subtenant | 11 | - | - |
| hottentot | 12 | any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa | - |
| tenderize | 19 | make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | tenderize meat |
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10 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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| lieutenant | 10 | an officer in a police force | - |
| frightened | 18 | made afraid | the frightened child cowered in the corner |
| pretending | 14 | the act of giving a false appearance | his conformity was only pretending |
| threatened | 14 | (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one |
| straighten | 14 | put (things or places) in order | - |
| consistent | 12 | the same throughout in structure or composition | bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product |
| persistent | 12 | continually recurring to the mind | - |
| attendance | 13 | the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | - |
| tenderness | 11 | a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | - |
| sentencing | 13 | - | - |
| unattended | 12 | lacking a caretaker | many casualties were lying unattended |
| lightening | 15 | changing to a lighter color | - |
| politeness | 12 | a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | - |
| glistening | 12 | reflecting light | glistening bodies of swimmers |
| competence | 18 | the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | - |
| contention | 12 | a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | - |
| tightening | 15 | the act of making something tighter | the tightening of economic controls |
| unfastened | 14 | not tied | - |
| sustenance | 12 | the financial means whereby one lives | - |
| discontent | 13 | a longing for something better than the present situation | - |
| insistence | 12 | continual and persistent demands | - |
| omnipotent | 14 | having unlimited power | - |
| shortening | 14 | act of decreasing in length | the dress needs shortening |
| ostensibly | 15 | from appearances alone | had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it |
| oftentimes | 15 | many times at short intervals | - |
| abstention | 12 | the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | - |
| hypotenuse | 18 | the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle | - |
| pretension | 12 | a false or unsupportable quality | - |
| unintended | 12 | not deliberate | - |
| tenderloin | 11 | the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | - |
| heartening | 14 | cheerfully encouraging | - |
| competency | 21 | the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | - |
| centennial | 12 | of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | centennial celebration |
| remoteness | 12 | the property of being remote | - |
| tenderfoot | 14 | an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
| hootenanny | 16 | - | - |
| attenuated | 11 | reduced in strength | - |
| malcontent | 14 | discontented as toward authority | - |
| tendonitis | 11 | inflammation of a tendon | - |
| inexistent | 17 | - | - |
| extendable | 20 | capable of being lengthened | - |
| rottenness | 10 | in a state of progressive putrefaction | - |
| dishearten | 14 | take away the enthusiasm of | - |
| portentous | 12 | ominously prophetic | - |
| tendinitis | 11 | inflammation of a tendon | - |
| tenderizer | 20 | a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | - |
| frightener | 17 | - | - |
| extensible | 19 | capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | an extensible measuring rule |
| distension | 11 | the act of expanding by pressure from within | - |
| moistening | 13 | the act of making something slightly wet | - |
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