14-letter words containing a, p, r, i
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electric piano — a piano operated by electrical means
- electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
- electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
- epigrammatizer — someone who epigrammatizes
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- erotic capital — the influence and earning power a person has as a result of his or her sexual attractiveness
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- espírito santo — a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic: swampy coastal plain with mountains in the west; heavily forested. Capital: Vitória. Pop: 3 201 722 (2002). Area: 45 597 sq km (17 601 sq miles)
- espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- european union — political union of European countries
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
- executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- expansion card — (hardware) A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
- experientially — In terms of experience.
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
- expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
- extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
- extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
- extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
- extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers