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14-letter words containing t, a, r, s

  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • east-northeast — the point on a compass midway between east and northeast.
  • eastern camass — wild hyacinth.
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
  • eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
  • eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
  • easternization — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
  • electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
  • electrostatics — The study of stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
  • elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • enterogastrone — a hormone liberated by the upper intestinal mucosa when stimulated by fat: reduces peristalsis and secretion in the stomach
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • entertainments — Plural form of entertainment.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • 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
  • espírito santo — a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic: swampy coastal plain with mountains in the west; heavily forested. Capital: Vitória. Pop: 3 201 722 (2002). Area: 45 597 sq km (17 601 sq miles)
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • eta conversion — (theory)   In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
  • ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
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