14-letter words containing e, a, t, u
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- 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.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- 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
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- faute de mieux — for lack of anything better
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- file signature — A magic number.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- first language — mother tongue
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.