15-letter words containing l, e, t, i, n
- 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
- eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
- econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
- eddington limit — the theoretical upper limit of luminosity that a star of a given mass can reach; occurs when the outward force of the radiation just balances the inward gravitational force
- eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- eight-bit clean — (software) A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
- 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
- electing a pope — (electronics, humour) (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- electric needle — a surgical instrument for cutting tissue by the application of a high-frequency current
- electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
- electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
- 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
- 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.
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- 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.
- 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.
- enamel painting — the art or process of decorating an object made of metal, porcelain, etc. using enamel paint
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
- encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
- enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- enter the lists — to engage in a conflict, controversy, etc
- enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- etesian climate — a climate having sunny, hot, dry summers and rainy winters.
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- ethylene series — the homologous series of unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain one double bond and have the general formula, CnH2n; alkene series