13-letter words containing e, s, m, p
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- depressomotor — retarding motor activity
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- encompassment — The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- ephemeralness — The quality of being ephemeral or transitory.
- epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
- epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
- epigrammatist — Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings).
- epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- exemplariness — The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example.
- experimenters — Plural form of experimenter.
- expert system — (artificial intelligence) A computer program that contains a knowledge base and a set of algorithms or rules that infer new facts from knowledge and from incoming data. An expert system is an artificial intelligence application that uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in solving problems. The degree of problem solving is based on the quality of the data and rules obtained from the human expert. Expert systems are designed to perform at a human expert level. In practice, they will perform both well below and well above that of an individual expert. The expert system derives its answers by running the knowledge base through an inference engine, a software program that interacts with the user and processes the results from the rules and data in the knowledge base. Expert systems are used in applications such as medical diagnosis, equipment repair, investment analysis, financial, estate and insurance planning, route scheduling for delivery vehicles, contract bidding, counseling for self-service customers, production control and training.
- expressionism — A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
- extemporising — Present participle of extemporise.
- extreme sport — Extreme sports are exciting, physically dangerous sports such as bungee jumping or snowboarding.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- goose pimples — Goose pimples are the same as goose bumps.
- gossipmongers — Plural form of gossipmonger.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
- gross premium — A gross premium is the total premium of an insurance contract before brokerage or discounts have been deducted.