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  • electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
  • electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
  • electroreception — The detection by an aquatic animal of electric fields or currents.
  • electrostriction — the change in dimensions of a dielectric occurring as an elastic strain when an electric field is applied
  • electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • embroidery frame — a frame in the form of a pair of (usually circular) rings, designed to keep the fabric taut while an embroiderer works on it
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
  • entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers: less formal than an alliance
  • entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • error correction — the automatic correction of errors in data that arise from missing or distorted digital pulses
  • erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • examination room — the room designated for a particular examination to take place
  • exclamation mark — (character)   The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
  • expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
  • exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
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