15-letter words containing s, e, r, p
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
- direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
- dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
- disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- disperse system — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
- dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- early-type star — any massive hot star of spectral type O, B, or A
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
- egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
- electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
- electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
- electrophoreses — Plural form of electrophoresis.
- electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- enantiomorphism — (chemistry) The relationship exhibited by a pair of enantiomorphs.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
- english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
- enterohepatitis — dual inflammation of the intestine and liver
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- enterprise zone — An enterprise zone is an area, usually a depressed or inner-city area, where the government offers incentives in order to attract new businesses.
- entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
- episodic memory — the recollection of events within their historical setting
- epitestosterone — (organic compound) An inactive epimer of the steroid hormone testosterone.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
- evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
- experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
- experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
- experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
- export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services