14-letter words containing e, r, m, l, i
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- e-mail address — electronic mail address
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
- eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
- electric mixer — a device for mixing ingredients which is powered by electricity
- electric motor — a device that converts electrical energy to mechanical torque
- electric storm — a violent atmospheric disturbance in which the air is highly charged with static electricity, causing a storm
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
- electroosmosis — osmosis through a membrane that is caused by the action of an electric field, usually such a field generated by two electrodes, one on each side of the membrane
- elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- emilia-romagna — a region of N central Italy, on the Adriatic: rises from the plains of the Po valley in the north to the Apennines in the south. Capital: Bologna. Pop: 4 030 220 (2003 est). Area: 22 123 sq km (8628 sq miles)
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- 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
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flowering moss — pyxie.