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15-letter words containing e, n, c, u

  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • efficaciousness — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • efficient cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
  • electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • escape sequence — (character)   (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
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