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15-letter words containing l, e, s, i

  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • ecclesiasticism — ecclesiastical principles, practices, or spirit.
  • ecclesiological — Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • eclipse scotoma — a blind spot; a permanent or temporary area of depressed or absent vision caused by viewing the sun directly
  • ecotoxicologist — One who studies ecotoxicology.
  • eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
  • electric system — An electric system consists of all of the elements needed to distribute electrical power, including overhead and underground lines, poles, transformers, and other equipment.
  • electro-osmosis — movement of liquid through a capillary tube or membrane under the influence of an electric field: used in controlling rising damp
  • electro-osmotic — relating to electro-osmosis
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
  • ellipsis points — the characters (… or formerly ***) forming a punctuation mark indicating an intentional omission of words or letters or an abrupt change of thought, lapse of time, incomplete statement, etc.
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • 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.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • english channel — waterway between England and France
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • enter the lists — to engage in a conflict, controversy, etc
  • epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
  • epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
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