14-letter words containing e, n, c
- 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.
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- 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.
- expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
- experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
- export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
- export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- 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
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
- financial year — law: annual accounting period
- fine champagne — a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- 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).
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
- fitness centre — a place which has gym equipment
- fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall