bet — If you bet on the result of a horse race, football game, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.
ret — to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
stet — let it stand (used imperatively as a direction on a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like, to retain material previously cancelled, usually accompanied by a row of dots under or beside the material).
sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
tet — the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
tete — a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
threat — a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace: He confessed under the threat of imprisonment.
abet — If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'.
cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
colette — full name Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette. 1873–1954, French novelist; her works include Chéri (1920), Gigi (1944), and the series of Claudine books
collette — Toni, full name Antonia Collette. born 1972, Australian film actress. Her films include Muriel's Wedding (1994), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
cornet — A cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family that looks like a small trumpet.
corvette — A corvette is a small fast warship that is used to protect other ships from attack.
couchette — A couchette is a bed on a train or a boat which is folded against the wall or used as a seat during the day.
drift net — a fishing net supported upright in the water by floats attached along the upper edge and sinkers along the lower, so as to be carried with the current or tide.
duet — a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
gazette — a newspaper (now used chiefly in the names of newspapers): The Phoenix Gazette.
gillette — King Camp, 1855–1932, U.S. businessman: inventor of the safety razor.
gill net — a curtainlike net, suspended vertically in the water, with meshes of such a size as to catch by the gills a fish that has thrust its head through.
gwinnett — Button, 1735?–77, American Revolutionary leader, born in England.
jeannette — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
jet set — a fashionable social set composed of wealthy people who travel frequently by jetliner to parties and resorts.
lorgnette — a pair of eyeglasses mounted on a handle.
pipette — a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
pound net — a trap for catching fish, consisting of a system of nets staked upright in the water and a rectangular enclosure or pound from which escape is impossible.
roulette — a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device (roulette wheel) into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36.
saw set — an instrument used to bend out slightly the point of each alternate tooth of a saw so that the kerf made by the saw will be wider than its blade.
smart set — sophisticated, fashionable people as a group: a shop catering to the smart set.
susette — a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
tibet — Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
unmet — simple past tense and past participle of meet1 .
unset — not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
wynette — Tammy, original name Virginia Wynette Pugh. 1942–98, US country singer; her bestselling records include "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" (1967) and "Stand By Your Man" (1969)
bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
calumet — a long-stemmed ceremonial pipe, smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
clarinet — A clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family in the shape of a pipe. You play the clarinet by blowing into it and covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.
crepe suzette — an orange-flavoured pancake flambéed in a liqueur or brandy
deseret — a territory established by the Mormons in 1849 as a proposed state of the Union: was refused admission to the Union by Congress and incorporated in the newly organized Territory of Utah 1850.
falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
landing net — a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.
luncheonette — a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
mariette — Auguste Édouard [oh-gyst ey-dwar] /oʊˈgüst eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, French Egyptologist.
minaret — a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
nicolet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1598–1642, French explorer in America.
olivette — a large floodlight having a single bulb.
pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.