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Noun: mettle  me-t(u)l
  1. The courage to carry on
    "you haven't got the mettle for baseball"
    - heart, nerve, spunk

Sounds like: metal

Derived forms: mettles

Type of: bottle [Brit], braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness

Nearest

metronymic
metropolis
metropolitan
metroptosis
metrorrhagia
metrosexual
Metroxylon
Metroxylon sagu
-metry
Metternich
mettle
mettlesome
mettlesomeness
Metycaine
meum
Meuniere butter
Meuse
Meuse River
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation
Mevacor