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14-letter words containing e, p, a, s, o, r

  • depolarisation — Alternative spelling of depolarization.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • disappropriate — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
  • disceptatorial — disputable
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • espírito santo — a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic: swampy coastal plain with mountains in the west; heavily forested. Capital: Vitória. Pop: 3 201 722 (2002). Area: 45 597 sq km (17 601 sq miles)
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • 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.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
  • fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
  • 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
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flanders poppy — corn poppy.
  • fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
  • foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
  • for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
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