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13-letter words containing a, n, e, r

  • early-morning — taking place or being presented in the early part of the morning
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
  • east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
  • east paterson — former name of Elmwood Park (def 2).
  • east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • easter egging — (jargon)   (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
  • eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • eccentrically — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • eleanor cross — any of the crosses erected at each place where the body of Eleanor of Castile (1246–90, Edward I's Spanish wife) rested between Nottingham (where she died) and London (where she is buried)
  • electrization — the action of electrifying
  • electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embryonically — In an embryonic way.
  • emergency tax — the tax a person pays on their income when it is not yet clear what tax band they should be assigned to
  • emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
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