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

  • 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 of closure — the amount by which a computed, plotted, or observed quantity or position differs from the true or established one, esp when plotting a closed traverse
  • 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.
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • 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.
  • expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
  • 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
  • eyebrow tweezers — small tweezers for plucking hairs out of your eyebrows
  • 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.
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • feme-sole trader — a married woman who is entitled to carry on business on her own account and responsibility, independently of her husband.
  • fend for oneself — to manage by oneself; get along without help
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • fermat's theorem — the theorem that an integer raised to a prime power leaves the same remainder as the integer itself when divided by the prime.
  • ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
  • fibonacci series — a sequence of integers in which each integer (Fibonacci number) after the second is the sum of the two preceding integers; specif., the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . .
  • fictitious force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • fielder's choice — a fielder's attempt to put out a base runner rather than the batter when a play at first base would put out the batter.
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • first generation — 1.   (architecture)   first generation computer. 2.   (language)   first generation language.
  • first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
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