Tend

Definition: Tend

Tend

Verb

1. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence".

2. Have care of or look after; "She tends to the children".

3. Manage or run; "tend a store".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Tend

Aid

Serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of; entertain; smooth the bed of death.

Direction

Verb: tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.

Husbandry

Verb: tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle,. (restrain).

Instrumentality

Verb: subserve, minister, mediate, intervene; be instrumental; Adjective: pander to; officiate; tend.

Servant

Verb: serve; wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon; squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of; chore.

Tendency

Verb: tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote; (aid).

Crosswords: Tend

And, um, you tend to let whatever's in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

Women as insistent as her tend to be the ones who get emotionally swayed by their exes (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari)

They tend to be venomous (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

In the pizza business, when things are slow you tend to eat the inventory (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates)

If a tend to look dazed I've read it someplace ("What's Love Got to Do With It"; performing artist: Tina Turner)

If I tend to look dazed I've read it someplace (WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT; performing artist: Tina Turner)

If our gifts are not surrendered to God, we tend to beat people over the head with them. (references; author: unknown)

Maigret tend un piège (1957)

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Books

• Aromatherapy to Heal & Tend the Body (reference)

• Maigret Tend un Piege (reference)

• Tend My Sheep: Applied Theology (reference)

• Tend your own garden first (reference)

• What Will Love Tend to Make You Do: True Stories of Heartbreak, Healing and Triumph (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mixology 101:How to Tend Bar (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Maigret Tend Un Piege V.3 [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Microgametocytes are smaller than macrogametocytes. They are oval and almost fill the erythrocyte. They tend to stain lighter than macrogametocytes and have a more diffuse nucleus. Credit: CDC.

Loading a stripped down Piper Cub on the PIONEER Plane used to tend tide gages and do reconnaissance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Spotters looking for signs of tuna such as logs on surface or agitated water. Tuna tend to congregate around floating logs or other floating objects on the surface. Credit: Fisheries.

A hazard of a diving marine biologist. Hammers on the head tend to discourage attack. Carcharinis Limbatus - grey shark on a murky day at the reef. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Mther and daughter tend their campfire a Two Lakes camping ground on the Chequamegon National Forest, MN. Credit: USDA.

A bowl of berries is a treat for the eye as well as a delight for the palate. But these tasty little morsels happen to be quite tricky to grow, harvest, and handle. These crops tend to have brief growing seasons and are vulnerable to insects, disease, and even birds, so ARS scientists have given them lots of attention. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Oregon. Independence, Polk County. Hop farmer's sons, washing for noon meal on back porch. They supervise the migratory workers in the field and tend to the weighing of hops. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Hosiery factory. This mechanic used to tend machines which produced some of America's sheerest hosiery. Today he's working for America's armed forces on these same machines, which are producing mosquito netting for the Army and Navy. In the pi. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Flower of youth tend it well with--Planned Parenthood. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So that the end and measure of this power, when in every man's hands in the state of nature, being the preservation of all of his society, that is, all mankind in general, it can have no other end or measure, when in the hands of the magistrate, but to preserve the members of that society in their lives, liberties, and possessions; and so cannot be an absolute, arbitrary power over their lives and fortunes, which are as much as possible to be preserved; but a power to make laws, and annex such penalties to them, as may tend to the preservation of the whole, by cutting off those parts, and those only, which are so corrupt, that they threaten the sound and healthy, without which no severity is lawful. (Second Treatise of Government)

Hamilton, of New York,) expressing their unanimous conviction that it might essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union if the States by which they were respectively delegated would concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same. (reference)

The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. (reference)

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We don't like our meat like that and tend to be leery of things that do. I was definitely leery of these lizards

They succour the poor, they tend the sick

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Health

These foods tend to aggravate diarrhea. (references)

Men tend to be affected more frequently than women. (references)

The clusters tend to occur soon after arousal from sleep. (references)

Business

Most buyers of gifts tend to be women. (references)

Private clinics tend to prefer less modern equipment at low prices. (references)

Economics Economic factors tend to counterbalance low demand concentration. (references)

Children

Vanuatu

Boys tend to receive more education than girls. (references)

Panama

Persons with disabilities also tend to be paid less than employees without disabilities for performing the same job. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

Media laws tend to be enforced selectively. (references)

Discrimination

Papua New Guinea

Skirmishes and conflicts tend to be based on disputes between clans over issues such as boundaries, land ownership, injuries, and insults suffered by one clan at the hands of another; they are not ethnically based. (references)

Switzerland

The Constitution and laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, language, or social status, and the Government generally enforces these prohibitions effectively, although some laws tend to discriminate against women. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

Belgian distributors tend to be small and specialized. (references)

Human Rights

Ecuador

Prisons in the tropical coastal areas tend to be worse than those in the temperate highlands. (references)

Italy

Older facilities tend to lack outdoor or exercise space, compounding the difficulties of close quarters. (references)

Chad

Applicable law can be confusing, as courts often tend to blend the formal French-derived legal code with traditional practices. (references)

Indigenous People

Ecuador

The communities tend to be consulted on such matters, although their wishes are not always met. (references)

Minorities

Haiti

Racial distinctions tend to parallel social and economic strata. (references)

Greece

Ethnic Greeks tend to link religious affiliation very closely to ethnicity. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

Omani nationals tend to be well protected. (references)

Costa Rica

Party leaders tend to blur these policy and ideological differences. (references)

CHILE

Other regulations tend to be focussed in labor, environment, and health standards. (references)

Political Rights

Comoros

Village chiefs and Muslim religious leaders tend to dominate local politics. (references)

Tonga

Proposals for constitutional revision tend to center on the popular election of all parliamentarians, with the parliamentarians then selecting their speaker. (references)

Jordan

In the largely tribal society, citizens tend to cast their first vote for family members, and any additional votes in accordance with their political leanings. (references)

Trade

China

Legal Framework: Laws and regulations in China tend to be far more general than in most OECD countries. (references)

Taiwan

Tariffs: In general, tariffs on agricultural products tend to be higher than tariffs on industrial products. (references)

Canada

American firms exporting to department stores tend to offer between eight and ten percent discount for settlement within ten days. (references)

Travel

Colombia

Dinner meetings tend to be less formal. (references)

Kenya

The precise areas tend to shift with time. (references)

Spain

Spaniards tend to be "conservative" in their buying habits. (references)

Women

Congo

Women also tend to receive less education than men. (references)

Ghana

The police tend not to intervene in domestic disputes. (references)

Central African Republic

Women who are educated and financially independent tend to seek monogamous marriages. (references)

Worker Rights

India

Safety conditions tend to be better in the EPZ's. (references)

Poland

Women from Bulgaria tend to be from the Turkish and Roma minorities. (references)

Malawi

Wage earners tend to supplement their incomes through farming activities. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tend": all our efforts tend to same object ♦ tend a wound ♦ tend to ♦ tend to do smth. ♦ To tend a vessel. Additional references.

Afrikaans

verpleeg (attend, nurse, tend to). (various references)

Albanian

ruaj (bear, conserve, cure, enshrine, guard, hold, hug, keep, lay up, maintain, police, preserve, protect, put by, reserve, retain, safeguard, save, secure, shield, spare, spin out, ware, watch, watch over), prirem (heel, incline, lean, list, trend), kujdesem për (cater, cater for, do for, Foster, look after, mother, nurse, provide, provide for, see about, see to, take care of), drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, shunt, superintend, supervise, train, unbend, vector). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كان له ميل أو نزعة نحو, ‏مال ل, ‏مال الي, ‏نزع ل, ‏صان (arm, conserve, cover, defend, embalm, ensure, fence, fend, maintain, preserve, protect, repair, safeguard, screen, steady, vindicate), ‏خدم (act, attend, be in service, dish out, further, ladle, serve out, wait, wait on), ‏إتجه (face, head for, resort to), ‏إعتنى (attend, care, care about, groom, interest, look after, mean, see to), ‏رعى (cherish, cultivate, foster, grass, groom, heed, inculcate, nurse, nurture, pasture, patronize, see to, shepherd, sponsor, take care of), ‏راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, look on, mind, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, watch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грижа се за (administer to, do for, fend for, fend for oneself, keep, look after, look to, mind, nurse, see after, take care of), гледам (eye, gape, lamp, look, look at, look on, look out, look through, manage, mind, nurse, open, overlook, point, regard, see, see into, view, watch), отглеждам (breed, bring up, cradle, cultivate, fledge, flower, grow, incubate, nourish, nurse, raise, rear), обслужвам (cater for, handle, maintain, service, valet, wait on, wait upon), паса (browse, depasture, feed, grass, graze, herd, pasture, range, run, wrangle). (various references)

Chinese 

趋向 (gravitate, Gravitated, Gravitating, Tended, tending, trend, Trended, Trending), 照料 . (various references)

Czech

smìřovat (aim, lead up, lead up to, look, make for, point), peèovat o (attend on, care for, look after, take care of), opatrovat (cherish, guard, look after, take care of), obsluhovat (attend to, manipulate, operate), mít tendenci, mít sklon (slant), hlídat (guard, Mark, mind, ward, watch, watch over). (various references)

Danish

pleje (attend, nurse, tend to). (various references)

Dutch

tijdens continu koelen werken alle legeringselementen,die de omzetting vertragen,de anomalie tegen (all alloying elements which retard transformation tend to prevent abnormality, during continous cooling), zorgen voor (attend, care for, nurse, tend to), zodra de smelt geheel is gestold,groeien de ontstane metaalkernen in bepaalde richtingen uit tot een hoeveelheid elkaar rakende korrels (the metallic nuclei tend to grow in certain directions into a mass of intersecting grains, until the whole of the liquid has solidified), verzorgen (attend, look after, nurse, tend to), verplegen (attend, nurse, tend to), naar 0 streven (tend to zero), doordat de oppervlaktelaag van een plaat de neiging heeft meer te verlengen dan de kern,ontstaan in deze laatste drukspanningen (as the surface layers of the sheet tend to elongate more than the internal zones a compressive stress is set up), de vrije kristallen hebben op hun beurt de neiging te zakken en de insluitsels die zich op dat ogenblik in de smelt bevinden met zich mee te nemen (for their part, tend to sink taking with them the inclusions existing in the liquid at this particular moment, the free crystals), de gestolde kristallen zijn dus nog aan plaatselijke korrelgrensverschuivingen blootgesteld,waardoor zij naar een zekere mate van korrelgrensevenwicht streven (the solid crystals thus undergo local boundary rearrangements in order to tend towards a certain interfacial equilibrium), de endogene insluitsels hebben de neiging zich tamelijk gelijkmatig te verdelen (endogeneous inclusions tend to be fairly uniformly distributed), bij transmissie via een leiding neemt de verzwakking op deze leiding bij hogere frequentie toe, terwijl de koppelingsdemping en de invloed van storingen minder worden (in guided transmission systems, line attenuation increases with rising frequency, whereas coupling attenuation and interference tend to diminish). (various references)

Esperanto

flegi (attend, nurse, tend to). (various references)

Farsi 

پرستاری کردن (Minister, Nurse), مواظب بودن (Watch), متمایل بودن به , نگهداری کردن از, گرایش داشتن , وجه کردن . (various references)

Finnish

suuntautua (aim, be directed, turn), paimentaa (shepherd), kaita (narrow), hoivata (nurse, shelter, take good care of), hoitaa (attend, look after, manage, nurse, run, see to, take care of, tend to, treat). (various references)

French

tendre (tender, tenderhearted, tension), surveiller, soigner (tend to), servir, incliner � , entretenir, avoir tendance. (various references)

Frisian

ferpleegje (attend, nurse, tend to). (various references)

German

neigen (bend, bow, bow down, incline, tilt, tilt over, tip, tipping, trend). (various references)

Greek 

περιποιούμαι (attend on, attend to, cherish, court, entertain, groom, nurse, treat). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקח (control, inspect, oversee, superintend, supervise), ל�"ש�'יח (care, look after, look out, monitor, notice, oversee, regard, supervise, watch), לטפל ב- (look after, take care of, tamper), ל� טות (deviate, dispose, extend, fancy, incline, lean, stretch, tip, trend, turn aside). (various references)

Hungarian

tart (bore, borne, continue, endure, head for, hold, keep, keep on, last, make for, sustain, to bear, to check, to cultivate, to hold out, to keep back, to keep off, to make for, to regard, to support, to sustain, trend, uphold), változás iránya (trend), irányul (drift, ran, run, to drift, to run, to tend), halad (cruise, get on with, go, go ahead, have way on, head, move, move on, pass, proceed, to come along, to come on, to drift, to fare, to follow in sy's track, to go the pace, to make an advance, to make head, to make headway, to move on, to progress), ellát (administer, cater, fit out, fit up, fit with, maintain, provide, ration, supply, to cater, to deck over, to electrify, to emboss, to fit out, to fit up, to furnish, to fuse, to fuze, to graduate, to groom, to horse, to initial, to issue, to lattice, to minister, to page, to ply, to rig, to sheathe, to trellis). (various references)

Indonesian

menggembala (look after), mencenderungkan, memelihara (grow, keep, look after, maintain, take care). (various references)

Italian

tirare (be tight, blow, draft, drag, draught, draw, feel tight, haul, heave, land, lug, pluck, pull, shoot, stretch, throw, tighten, to pull, tug, twitch, wheel), propendere (be inclined, incline, lean, slant), prendersi cura di (attend), piegare (bend, bow, crook, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, give in, incline, inflect, lap, subdue, tilt, tuck, turn, yield), pendere (be inclined, be pending, droop, flag, hang, hang over, lean, lop, slant, slope, tip), inclinare (be inclined, incline, slope, tilt, tip), coltivare (cherish, cultivate, farm, grow, nurse, raise, rear, soigne, till, treat), badare a (mind, reck). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

行き過ぎの嫌いが有る (to tend to go too far). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆきすぎのきらいがある (to tend to go too far). (various references)

Korean 

가십시�" (Go, no-go). (various references)

Manx

shirveish er (administer, pander), freayll arrey er (chaperon, watch). (various references)

Papiamen

lidia (attend, nurse, tend to). (various references)

Pig Latin

endtay.(various references)

Polish

pielęgnować (attend, nurse, tend to). (various references)

Portuguese

tratar de (care, cross, prevent, talk, traverse), tomar conta de (bear the cost, keep an eye on), tender (direct, go, intend, lean, run, run to, trend), vigiar (guard, have an eye on, keep, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, look to, mind, observe, oversee, scout, supervise, wake, watch, watch over), guardar (bestow, bin, bosom, coffer, coffin, conserve, defend, guard, keep, lay up, look after, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put, put away, reserve, retain, save, shield, stow, tuck, watch over), cuidar de (cater to, keep, look after, mind, take care of). (various references)

Romanian

veghea (keep watch, keep watch and ward, stay up, wake, watch), supraveghea un bolnav, pãzi (await, award, be careful, defend, fend, guard, heep an eye on, herd, keep, restrain, shield, treasure, watch), duce (bear, blow away, bring, carry, convey, deliver, die, drive, duke, fare, fool, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, wage, wear), îngriji (attend, breed, care, doctor, groom, keep, nurse, raise, rear, see, take care, worry), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, redress, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, train, unbend). (various references)

Russian 

присматривать (see to), иметь склонность, иметь тенденцию;стремиться, иметь тенденцию. (various references)

Scottish

saodaich (take care of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

služiti (officiate, serve, subserve, wait on), postarati se, negovati (care, cherish, nurse), naginjati (gravitate, incline), čuvati (conserve, favor, favour, guard, husband, protect, store, treasure, watch). (various references)

Spanish

cuidar (attend, babysit, care, fondle, groom, look after, look to, mind, nurse, pay attention, reck, see, take care, tend to, worry). (various references)

Swedish

valla (herd, Shepherd, ski wax, watch), tendera (trend). (various references)

Thai

เลี้ยง (สัตว์), โน้มเอียงต่อ (tend to), โน้มเอียง, คอยรับใช้. (various references)

Turkish

yatkın olmak (incline), yüz tutmak, yönelmek (bear, bend, face, front, head, head for, slant, steer for, trend, wend one's way), hizmet etmek (administer, attend, render service to, serve, subserve, wait on, wait upon), gözetmek (guard, oversee, protect, study, supervise), eğilimi olmak (be disposed to, incline, slant, squint, sway), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

стерегти (watch), стежити (attend, espy, eye, investigate, keep tabs on, observe, outwatch, oversee, see to, track, watch), доглядати (attend, care, overlook, see after). (various references)

Welsh

tueddu (incline, trend), tendio (mind). (various references)

confotum, tendere. (various references)

tendre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tend": tendance, tendances, tended, tendence, tendences, tendencies, tendencious, tendency, tendentious, tendentiously, tendentiousness, tendentiousnesses, tender, tendered, tenderer, tenderers, tenderest, tenderfeet, tenderfoot, tenderfoots, tenderhearted, tenderheartedly, tenderheartedness, tenderheartednesses, tendering, tenderization, tenderizations, tenderize, tenderized, tenderizer, tenderizers, tenderizes, tenderizing, tenderloin, tenderloins, tenderly, tenderness, tendernesses, tenderometer, tenderometers, tenders, tending, tendinitis, tendinitises, tendinous, tendon, tendonitis, tendonitises, tendons, tendresse, tendresses. (additional references)

Words ending with "tend": attend, bartend, coattend, coextend, contend, distend, extend, hyperextend, intend, mistend, overextend, portend, pretend, protend, repetend, subtend, superintend. (additional references)

Words containing "tend": attendance, attendances, attendant, attendants, attended, attendee, attendees, attender, attenders, attending, attends, bartended, bartender, bartenders, bartending, bartends, coattended, coattending, coattends, coextended, coextending, coextends, contended, contender, contenders, contending, contends, countertendencies, countertendency, distended, distending, distends, extendabilities, extendability, extendable, extended, extendedly, extendedness, extendednesses, extender, extenders, extendible, extending, extends, goaltender, goaltenders, goaltending, goaltendings, hyperextended, hyperextending, hyperextends. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taind, tand, teeld, teid, tena, tenc, tende, tendo, tendy, tened, teng, teni, tenk, teno, tenu, tenv, tenz, terd, tewd, tiend, Tienda, tindr, tnd, tond, tondo, tondu, Tuenda, tund, tundi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dent.

-1 letter: den, end, net, ted, ten.

-2 letters: de, ed, en, et, ne.

+1 letter: anted, dents, noted, teind, tends, tined, toned, trend, tuned, tyned.

+2 letters: adnate, advent, anteed, ardent, atoned, attend, bunted, cadent, canted, decant, decent, dement, denote, dental, dented, dentil, dentin, detain, detent, dinted, dipnet, docent, donate, dunite, dunted, endite, extend, hanted, hented, hinted, hunted, indent, indite, intend, lunted, minted, nested, netted, nidget, nudest, nutted, panted, pedant, pentad, punted, ranted, rented, rident, rodent, staned, stoned, syndet, tandem, tanged, tanked, tanned, teinds, tended, tender, tendon, tensed, tented, tinder, tineid, tinged, tinned, tinted, tonged, trends, trendy, trined, tunned, turned, twined, united, untied, vented, wanted, wonted.