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15-letter words containing c, r, i

  • electric cooker — a device for cooking which is powered by electricity
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electric needle — a surgical instrument for cutting tissue by the application of a high-frequency current
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
  • electric system — An electric system consists of all of the elements needed to distribute electrical power, including overhead and underground lines, poles, transformers, and other equipment.
  • electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • electro-osmosis — movement of liquid through a capillary tube or membrane under the influence of an electric field: used in controlling rising damp
  • electro-osmotic — relating to electro-osmosis
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • 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
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
  • episodic memory — the recollection of events within their historical setting
  • eric conspiracy — (person, humour)   A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
  • 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]>
  • esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
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