14-letter words containing o, n, a
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- espírito santo — a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic: swampy coastal plain with mountains in the west; heavily forested. Capital: Vitória. Pop: 3 201 722 (2002). Area: 45 597 sq km (17 601 sq miles)
- espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
- essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- 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.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
- 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
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- european union — political union of European countries
- 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.
- evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
- exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- 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.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- 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
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- 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.
- expansion slot — (hardware) A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. The connector supplies power to the card and connects it to the data bus, address bus and control signals of the motherboard.
- expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
- exponentiation — The operation of raising one quantity to the power of another.
- export manager — a person who is responsible for running the export department of a business organization
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extended algol — (language) An extension of ALGOL 60, used to write the ESPOL compiler on the Burroughs B5500, Burroughs B6500, and Burroughs B6700.
- extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead