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14-letter words containing e, y, r

  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
  • energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
  • energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • entertainingly — In an entertaining manner.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • erythrocytosis — Polycythemia.
  • erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
  • erythropoietic — Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
  • erythropoietin — A hormone secreted by the kidneys that increases the rate of production of red blood cells in response to falling levels of oxygen in the tissues.
  • ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
  • every man jack — everyone without exception
  • every so often — now and again
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • experientially — In terms of experience.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
  • extortionately — In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
  • extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extraplanetary — Originating, or located outside of a planet.
  • 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.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • eyeball search — (jargon)   (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
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