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16-letter words containing s, e, r, o, a

  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • 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
  • 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
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • escalator clause — a clause in a contract stipulating an adjustment in wages, prices, etc, in the event of specified changes in conditions, such as a large rise in the cost of living or price of raw materials
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • 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.
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
  • extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • factor of safety — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • father confessor — confessor (def 2).
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
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