15-letter words containing l, e, o, m
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- emotionlessness — The property of being emotionless.
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
- epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
- erythema solare — inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun
- erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- external memory — (storage) A vague term for slower, non-volatile storage, usually magnetic disk, in contrast to main memory which is usually volatile semiconductor RAM.
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- fall from grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- fresnel mirrors — two plane mirrors so linked that a beam of light falling on them is reflected in slightly different directions, thus producing interference fringes in the area where this reflected light overlaps
- friedmann model — any model of the universe deduced from a homogeneous, isotropic solution of Einstein's field equations without a cosmological constant. Such models form the mathematical basis for many modern cosmologies and provide for expansion or contraction of the universe.
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
- galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
- geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
- george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
- go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
- go up in flames — be burned
- gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
- golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.