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14-letter words containing n, o, r

  • ecoengineering — A form of engineering that aims to work in harmony with the natural environment.
  • econometrician — Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics.
  • editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • electioneering — Campaigning for elective office on behalf of oneself or another candidate.
  • electric organ — a pipe organ operated by electrical means
  • electric piano — a piano operated by electrical means
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
  • electrogenesis — (biochemistry, physics) The production of electricity in the tissues of a living organism.
  • electrogilding — electroplating using gold
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
  • electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
  • electromotance — an electromotive force
  • electron model — (electronics)   A model of semiconductor behaviour in which donors contribute the charge of an electron, and acceptors contribute a space for same, in effect contributing a fictional positive charge of similiar magnitude. Physicists use the electron model. Some language theorists consider language and the electron to be models in themselves. Contrast hole model.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
  • electronically — By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
  • electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
  • electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
  • electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
  • electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • emergency room — hospital: casualty department
  • emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
  • emilia-romagna — a region of N central Italy, on the Adriatic: rises from the plains of the Po valley in the north to the Apennines in the south. Capital: Bologna. Pop: 4 030 220 (2003 est). Area: 22 123 sq km (8628 sq miles)
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
  • enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • endoradiosonde — an internally placed electronic device that relays information about conditions inside the body
  • energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
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