15-letter words containing a, m, e, r, i, n
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- enantiomorphism — (chemistry) The relationship exhibited by a pair of enantiomorphs.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- eric s. raymond — (person) One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
- experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
- experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
- experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- feynman diagram — a network of lines that represents a series of emissions and absorptions of elementary particles by other elementary particles, from which the probability of the series can be calculated.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- filemaker, inc. — (company) The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
- fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
- first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
- first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
- franco-american — an American of French or French-Canadian descent.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- friedmann model — any model of the universe deduced from a homogeneous, isotropic solution of Einstein's field equations without a cosmological constant. Such models form the mathematical basis for many modern cosmologies and provide for expansion or contraction of the universe.
- gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
- garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles