14-letter words containing c, e, d
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world
- encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
- encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
- endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- endurance race — long-distance motor sport competition
- endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- enteric-coated — An enteric-coated tablet is one that is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid, so that it does not dissolve in the stomach but allows release of the medication in the intestine.
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- exercise video — a recorded television programme on which the presenter performs various keep-fit exercises, explaining how to perform each one, as the viewer joins in while watching
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- 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.
- expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extractor hood — a fan used over a cooker to remove fumes
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- flood defences — structures such as dams, artificial channels, etc, built to protect an area from flooding