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14-letter words containing r, o, u, l, e, t

  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electroculture — the practice of using electricity in agriculture or horticulture in order to stimulate plant growth
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
  • heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
  • heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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