14-letter words containing r, i, s, n
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
- 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.
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- 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.
- experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
- expert witness — In a court case, an expert witness is someone such as a doctor or other professional who testifies about and gives opinions on subjects and issues that have been raised in the particular court case.
- 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
- expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
- expressiveness — The quality of being expressive; expressivity.
- expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extension ring — a spacer element that can be fixed between the camera body and the lens to increase the distance between film and lens and allow closer focus than would be possible without it
- extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
- 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
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
- ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
- fidget spinner — a small toy comprising two or three prongs arranged around a central bearing, designed to be spun by the fingers as means of improving concentration or relieving stress
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- file signature — A magic number.