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11-letter words containing s, m, e, t

  • epitomising — Present participle of epitomise.
  • epsom salts — Epsom salts is a kind of white powder which you can mix with water and drink as a medicine to help you empty your bowels.
  • erastianism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters
  • escapements — Plural form of escapement.
  • escarpments — Plural form of escarpment.
  • escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
  • escheatment — (legal) The process of transferring unclaimed or abandoned property to a state authority, especially when a person dies intestate.
  • esemplastic — Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
  • esotericism — The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.
  • estheticism — aestheticism
  • estimations — Plural form of estimation.
  • estramazone — a slashing move in fencing
  • estremadura — a region of W Spain: arid and sparsely populated except in the valleys of the Tagus and Guardiana rivers. Area: 41 593 sq km (16 059 sq miles)
  • estrepement — the laying of waste, esp on rented land
  • etymologies — Plural form of etymology.
  • etymologise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of etymologize.
  • etymologist — A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
  • eudaemonist — A supporter of eudaemonism.
  • eudiometers — Plural form of eudiometer.
  • euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.
  • eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
  • eurhythmist — a person who teaches or practises eurhythmics
  • evanishment — A vanishing; a disappearance.
  • examinators — Plural form of examinator.
  • excitements — Plural form of excitement.
  • exhumations — Plural form of exhumation.
  • exotericism — The quality of being widely known or exoteric.
  • experiments — Plural form of experiment.
  • extemporise — (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
  • externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
  • extremeness — The degree or property of being extreme.
  • extremities — Plural form of extremity.
  • farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
  • farm-sitter — a person who takes temporary charge of a farm during the absence or incapacity of the owner.
  • farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
  • femtosecond — One quadrillionth of a second.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • fire master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
  • firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
  • first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
  • first-timer — a person who does, experiences, or attends something for the first time.
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
  • flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
  • flusterment — the state of being flustered
  • fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
  • foremastman — a sailor positioned before the foremast
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