These are the meanings of the letters UNPATENT when you unscramble them.
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Attune (v. t.)
To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
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Attune (v. t.)
To arrange fitly; to make accordant.
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Nutant (a.)
Nodding; having the top bent downward.
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Patent (a.)
Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
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Patent (a.)
Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
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Patent (a.)
Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
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Patent (a.)
Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
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Patent (a.)
A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
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Patent (a.)
A writing securing to an invention.
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Patent (a.)
A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
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Patent (a.)
The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
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Patent (v. t.)
To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
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Patten (n.)
A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
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Patten (n.)
A stilt.
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Peanut (n.)
The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
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Punnet (n.)
A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.
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Tenant (n.)
One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
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Tenant (n.)
One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
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Tenant (v. t.)
To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.