15-letter words containing n, i, e, c
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- 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
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- 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
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- eric s. raymond — (person) One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- etesian climate — a climate having sunny, hot, dry summers and rainy winters.
- ethnic minority — an immigrant or racial group regarded by those claiming to speak for the cultural majority as distinct and unassimilated
- ethnocentricism — Ethnocentrism.
- ethnocentricity — Practising or the policies surrounding being ethnocentric.
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- eustachian tube — part of the ear
- evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
- eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
- eviction notice — an advance notice that someone must leave a property
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
- exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
- exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
- excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
- excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- expressionistic — Expressionist.
- extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
- extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- extrinsicalness — Quality of being extrinsical.
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- facile princeps — an obvious leader
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fanconi anaemia — a rare genetic disorder that can cause bone marrow failure, leukaemia, and tumours
- fantasticalness — The state or condition of being fantastical.
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
- fighting french — Free French.