aigrette | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigret |
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aiguillette | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiglet |
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anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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briquette | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquet |
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brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
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brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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(noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunet |
burette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: buret |
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butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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cigarette | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, coffin nail, fag |
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cocotte | (noun) a small casserole in which individual portions can be cooked and served | - |
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(noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
coquette | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
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(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
corvette | (noun) a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer | - |
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couchette | (noun) a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping | - |
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(noun) a sleeping berth in a couchette compartment. | - |
courgette | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: zucchini |
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(noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: zucchini |
crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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croquette | (noun) minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried | - |
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culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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curette | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curet |
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dinette | (noun) a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining | - |
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diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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duette | (noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duet, duo |
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(noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duet, duo |
epaulette | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulet |
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etiquette | (noun) rules governing socially acceptable behavior | - |
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farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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flannelette | (noun) a cotton fabric imitating flannel | - |
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garotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, iron collar |
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(verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, scrag |
garrotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, iron collar |
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(verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, scrag |
gavotte | (noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte | - |
gazette | (noun) a newspaper or official journal | - |
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(verb) publish in a gazette | - |
georgette | (noun) a thin silk dress material | - |
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kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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latte | (noun) strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk | Synonyms: caffe latte |
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launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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layette | (noun) kit consisting of a complete outfit (clothing and accessories) for a new baby | - |
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lazarette | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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lorgnette | (noun) eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle | - |
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lotte | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, monkfish |
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lunette | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: fenestella |
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(noun) temporary fortification like a detached bastion | - |
maisonette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonnette |
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(noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonnette |
maisonnette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonette |
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(noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonette |
majorette | (noun) a female drum major | Synonyms: drum majorette |
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(noun) a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band | Synonyms: drum majorette |
marionette | (noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: puppet |
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matte | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted |
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(noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt |
(noun) a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted | - |
(verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte up |
midinette | (noun) a Parisian salesgirl | - |
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mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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moquette | (noun) a thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery | - |
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musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
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netiquette | (noun) Etiquette practiced or advocated in electronic communication over a computer network. | - |
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novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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octette | (noun) a musical composition written for eight performers | Synonyms: octet |
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(noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: eightsome, octet |
(noun) a set of eight similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet |
(noun) eight performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: octet |
omelette | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelet |
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oubliette | (noun) a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling | - |
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palette | (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: pallet |
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(noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: pallette |
(noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: pallet |
pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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pipette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipet |
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pirouette | (noun) (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet) | - |
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(verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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poulette | (noun) allemande sauce with chopped parsley | - |
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quartette | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartet |
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(noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartet |
(noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartet |
(noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartet |
quintette | (noun) a musical composition for five performers | Synonyms: quintet |
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(noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: fivesome, quintet |
(noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintuple, quintuplet |
(noun) five performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quintet |
ravigotte | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigote |
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roomette | (noun) a small private compartment for one on a sleeping car | - |
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roquette | (noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket, rocket salad |
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rosette | (noun) an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor | - |
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(noun) circular window filled with tracery | Synonyms: rose window |
(noun) a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground) | - |
(noun) rhizoctinia disease of potatoes | Synonyms: little potato, russet scab, stem canker |
roulette | (noun) a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in | - |
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(noun) a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations | Synonyms: toothed wheel |
(noun) a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure | Synonyms: line roulette |
satinette | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinet |
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septette | (noun) a musical composition written for seven performers | Synonyms: septet |
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(noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septet, sevensome |
(noun) a set of seven similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: septet |
(noun) seven performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: septet |
serviette | (noun) a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing | Synonyms: napkin, table napkin |
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sextette | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
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(noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sixsome |
(noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
(noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
silhouette | (noun) a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color | - |
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(noun) an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow) | - |
(verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
(verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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(noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
statuette | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: figurine |
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stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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suffragette | (noun) a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century) | - |
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sulfurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulphurette |
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sulphurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurette |
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toilette | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilet |
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usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
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videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
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vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
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(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
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winceyette | (noun) cotton flannelette with a nap on both sides | - |
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