15-letter words containing n, e, a, r, t
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- 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.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- ennerdale water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- enterohepatitis — dual inflammation of the intestine and liver
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- enumerated type — (programming) (Or "enumeration") A type which includes in its definition an exhaustive list of possible values for variables of that type. Common examples include Boolean, which takes values from the list [true, false], and day-of-week which takes values [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday]. Enumerated types are a feature of strongly typed languages, including C and Ada. Characters, (fixed-size) integers and even floating-point types could be (but are not usually) considered to be (large) enumerated types.
- 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.
- ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
- estates general — States-General (sense 1)
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- exaggeratedness — the quality of being exaggerated
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
- experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
- experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
- experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
- experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
- experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
- expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
- export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- external degree — a degree gained by a student who studies extramurally
- external galaxy — any galaxy beyond our own galaxy
- 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.
- external spline — any one of a series of narrow keys formed longitudinally around the circumference of a shaft that fit into corresponding grooves (internal splines) in a mating part: used to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
- externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- extraordinaries — things that exceed the usual order, kind, or method
- extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.