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15-letter words containing e, u, o

  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
  • extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
  • faites vos jeux — place your bets! (a phrase used by croupiers in roulette and other casino gambling games)
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fallout shelter — protective bunker
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
  • ferrous sulfate — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
  • ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
  • field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
  • finite automata — Finite State Machine
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • floriferousness — Quality of being floriferous, or bearing many flowers.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • fluoroquinolone — Any of a class of therapeutic antibiotics that are active against a range of bacteria associated with human and animal diseases. Their use in livestock has sparked concerns about the spread of bacteria resistant to them in humans.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
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