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14-letter words containing e, u

  • eau de javelle — Javel water.
  • ecclesiasticus — a book of the Apocrypha. Abbreviation: Ecclus.
  • educated guess — informed estimate
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • elastic tissue — a connective tissue consisting largely of yellow, elastic fibers, occurring especially in the walls of arteries and veins
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electroculture — the practice of using electricity in agriculture or horticulture in order to stimulate plant growth
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • 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.
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance race — long-distance motor sport competition
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • english muffin — crumpet
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
  • equity capital — Finance
  • erogenous zone — a part of the body that is sensitive to sexual stimulation
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
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