14-letter words containing o, i, c
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- 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.
- eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
- excitotoxicity — The continuous stimulation of a nerve cell by a neurotransmitter, especially by glutamates.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exercise video — a recorded television programme on which the presenter performs various keep-fit exercises, explaining how to perform each one, as the viewer joins in while watching
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- expansion card — (hardware) A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
- expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
- export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
- export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.