14-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- 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)
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- eta conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
- 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.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- 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
- export manager — a person who is responsible for running the export department of a business organization
- expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
- extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- exterior angle — an angle of a polygon contained between one side extended and the adjacent side
- extortionately — In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
- extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
- extracorporeal — Situated or occurring outside the body.
- extractor hood — a fan used over a cooker to remove fumes
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
- extraordinaire — Outstanding or remarkable in a particular capacity.
- extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
- extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
- false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.