14-letter words containing m, p, e
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- detention camp — a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drop-down menu — pull-down menu
- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
- eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eco-capitalism — the theory or practice of a free-market economy in which natural resources are regarded as capital and profits are partially dependent on environmental protection and sustainability
- edaphic climax — a localized climax community that may differ from the surrounding climax vegetation by reason of slightly differing soil type, exposure to sun and wind, drainage, etc.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- ellesmere port — a port in NW England, in NW Cheshire on the Mersey estuary and Manchester Ship Canal. Pop: 66 265 (2001)
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- employment law — rules governing working practices
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
- ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
- epidemiologist — A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
- epigrammatizer — someone who epigrammatizes
- epistemologies — Plural form of epistemology.
- epistemologist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.