14-letter words containing s, e, t, u
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
- enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
- essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- exposure meter — photography: light meter
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- 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.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- first language — mother tongue
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.