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15-letter words containing i, l, c, o

  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
  • elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • 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.
  • exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • fasciolopsiasis — a parasitic disease caused by flukes of the genus Fasciolopsis and characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea: common in the Far East.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • ferric chloride — a compound that in its anhydrous form, FeCl 3 , occurs as a black-brown, water-soluble solid; in its hydrated form, FeCl 3 ⋅xH 2 O, it occurs in orange-yellow, deliquescent crystals: used chiefly in engraving, for deodorizing sewage, as a mordant, and in medicine as an astringent and styptic.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
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