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There are 17 words ending with GHTEN

AFFRIGHTEN	• affrighten v. (Archaic) To frighten. • AFFRIGHTEN v. to frighten, also AFFRIGHT.
BENIGHTEN	• benighten v. (Obsolete, transitive) To benight. • BENIGHTEN v. to overtake with night, also BENIGHT.
BOUGHTEN	• boughten adj. (Archaic or regional, West Country, Cornwall, Canada, US) Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade). • boughten v. (Archaic or regional, chiefly US) past participle of buy. • BOUGHTEN adj. (archaic) purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
BRIGHTEN	• brighten v. (Transitive) To make bright or brighter in color. • brighten v. (Transitive) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to. • brighten v. (Transitive, figuratively) To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven.
ENLIGHTEN	• enlighten v. (Transitive) To supply with light. • enlighten v. (Transitive, figurative) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to. • ENLIGHTEN v. to impart knowledge or information to.
FORFOUGHTEN	• FORFOUGHTEN adj. (Scots) exhausted, also FORFEUCHEN, FORFOCHEN, FORFOUGHEN.
FOUGHTEN	• foughten v. (Archaic) past participle of fight. • FOUGHTEN adj. exhausted, especially from fighting.
FRIGHTEN	• frighten v. (Transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright. • FRIGHTEN v. to make afraid, to scare, also FRIGHT.
HEIGHTEN	• heighten v. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. • heighten v. To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc. • HEIGHTEN v. to raise.
LIGHTEN	• lighten v. (Transitive) To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate. • lighten v. (Intransitive) To become brighter or clearer; to brighten. • lighten v. (Intransitive, now rare) To flash lightning, to give off lightning.
OVERTIGHTEN	• overtighten v. (Transitive) To tighten too much. • OVERTIGHTEN v. to tighten to excess.
RETIGHTEN	• retighten v. To tighten again. • RETIGHTEN v. to tighten again.
RIGHTEN	• righten v. (Transitive) To make right; correct. • righten v. (Transitive) To set right or upright; right. • RIGHTEN v. (archaic) to set right.
STRAIGHTEN	• straighten v. (Transitive) To cause to become straight. • straighten v. (Intransitive) To become straight. • straighten v. (Transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
THOUGHTEN	• thoughten v. (Nonstandard) past participle of think. • THOUGHTEN adj. (Shakespeare) firm in belief, assured.
TIGHTEN	• tighten v. (Transitive) To make tighter. • tighten v. (Intransitive) To become tighter. • tighten v. (Economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
UNFOUGHTEN	• UNFOUGHTEN adj. (archaic) without having been fought e.g. the army departed unfoughten.

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
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English Wiktionary: 53 words
Scrabble in French: no word
Scrabble in Spanish: no word
Scrabble in Italian: no word
Scrabble in German: 1 word
Scrabble in Romanian: no word

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