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16-letter words containing l, a, r, e

  • dolce far niente — pleasing inactivity.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domiciliary care — services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes
  • dominical letter — any one of the letters from A to G used in church calendars to mark the Sundays throughout any particular year, serving primarily to aid in determining the date of Easter.
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-barrelled — A double-barrelled gun has two barrels.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
  • drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
  • draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • dry-cell battery — a dry battery
  • dual carriageway — divided highway.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
  • early retirement — retirement before established age
  • earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
  • easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
  • edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electric blanket — electrically-heated bedcover
  • electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
  • electrical fault — a fault caused by something electrical
  • electrical power — electricity
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
  • electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
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