ENTERTAIN | • entertain v. (Transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably. • entertain v. (Transitive and intransitive) To have someone over at one’s home for a party or visit. • entertain v. (Transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind. |
INTERLENT | • interlent v. Simple past tense and past participle of interlend. • INTERLEND v. to lend between. |
INTERMENT | • interment n. The act of burying a dead body; burial. • INTERMENT n. the act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth. |
INTERNETS | • internets n. Plural of internet. • internets n. (Humorous, with the) The Internet. • Internets n. Alternative letter-case form of internets. |
PENETRANT | • penetrant adj. That penetrates; piercing. • penetrant n. Something, especially a liquid, that penetrates. • PENETRANT adj. penetrating. |
PERTINENT | • pertinent n. (Law) A right that attaches to land, in Scots law. • pertinent adj. Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant. • PERTINENT adj. belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand. |
REENTRANT | • reentrant adj. Reentering; pointing inward. • reentrant adj. (Programming, of a mutual exclusion mechanism) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by… • reentrant adj. (Programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion. |
REPENTANT | • repentant adj. Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing. • repentant n. One who repents; a penitent. • REPENTANT adj. penitent. |
RETENTION | • retention n. The act of retaining or something retained. • retention n. The act or power of remembering things. • retention n. A memory; what is retained in the mind. |
TENTERING | • tentering v. Present participle of tenter. • tentering n. The stretching of cloth on tenters. • TENTER v. to stretch on a type of frame. |
UNTENTIER | • UNTENTY adj. (Scots) careless. |