13-letter words containing e, r, n, s
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- easter egging — (jargon) (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- efflorescence — the state or a period of flowering.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- eleanor cross — any of the crosses erected at each place where the body of Eleanor of Castile (1246–90, Edward I's Spanish wife) rested between Nottingham (where she died) and London (where she is buried)
- electron lens — a system, such as an arrangement of electrodes or magnets, that produces a field for focusing a beam of electrons
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- electrostrong — (physics) describing the combination of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enchantresses — Plural form of enchantress.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
- endometriosis — A condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain.
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- energy crisis — a shortfall in or interruption to the provision of energy supplies
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- ensign-bearer — a soldier whose responsibility was to carry a Company's ensign
- ensorcellment — Enchantment, bewitchment.