16-letter words containing l, a, r, e
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- ellesmere island — a Canadian island in the Arctic Ocean: part of Nunavut; mountainous, with many glaciers. Area: 212 688 sq km (82 119 sq miles)
- emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
- emulator program — (networking) (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers: less formal than an alliance
- environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
- environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- escalator clause — a clause in a contract stipulating an adjustment in wages, prices, etc, in the event of specified changes in conditions, such as a large rise in the cost of living or price of raw materials
- eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
- exclamation mark — (character) The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
- experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- external affairs — (formerly) the Canadian federal Foreign Affairs department
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
- external student — a student studying a university subject extramurally
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- extracorporeally — Outside the body.
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extraterrestrial — Of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.
- extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
- facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
- fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- farewell address — (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
- farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.