14-letter words containing n, i, e, c
- elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
- ellice islands — group of islands in the WC Pacific, north of Fiji: under British control, 1892-1978; name changed to Tuvalu in 1976 and as such became independent in 1978
- emergency exit — door, way out
- éminence grise — a person who wields power and influence unofficially or behind the scenes
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
- encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
- enteric-coated — An enteric-coated tablet is one that is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid, so that it does not dissolve in the stomach but allows release of the medication in the intestine.
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- enterocentesis — a procedure that involves puncturing the intestine to withdraw fluid or gas
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
- epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
- epicontinental — Denoting those areas of sea or ocean overlying the continental shelf.
- epigenetically — By means of, or in terms of, epigenesis or epigenetics.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- eta conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
- etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.