Words ending with eat

acrobatic feat means: a stunt performed by an acrobat

alexander the great means: king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)

alfred the great means: king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)

athanasius the great means: (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373)

backbeat means: a loud steady beat

backseat means: a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)

backseat means: a secondary or inferior position or status

balloon seat means: a seat that has a bell shape (on some 18th century chairs)

basil the great means: (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)

beat means: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

advertence means: the process of being heedful

aggravator means: an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating

auxetic means: of or relating to growth by auxesis

barricado means: block off with barricades

discourage means: advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior

discourage means: try to prevent; show opposition to

discourage means: deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged

distension means: the act of expanding by pressure from within

distension means: the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions

electrical distributor means: electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence

hexadecimal digit means: a digit from 0 to 15 in hexadecimal notation

hire-purchase means: installment plan

ivory means: a shade of white the color of bleached bones

ivory means: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

round-bottomed means: having a rounded bottom

rust-colored means: having the brown color of rust

schwann cell means: any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath

sea purse means: the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore

stiff aster means: wiry tufted perennial of the eastern United States with stiff erect rough stems, linear leaves and large violet flowers

tetanic means: of or relating to or causing tetanus