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13-letter words containing t, e, r, n, a, s

  • easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • easter egging — (jargon)   (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
  • easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
  • eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enchantresses — Plural form of enchantress.
  • encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
  • encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • entomostracan — any small crustacean of the group (formerly subclass) Entomostraca, including the branchiopods, ostracods, and copepods
  • equalitarians — Plural form of equalitarian.
  • equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
  • escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
  • estrangedness — the state of being estranged
  • estrangements — Plural form of estrangement.
  • ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
  • everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
  • exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
  • exaggerations — Plural form of exaggeration.
  • exasperations — Plural form of exasperation.
  • excrescential — Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • express train — a fast train
  • exterminators — Plural form of exterminator.
  • externalising — Present participle of externalise.
  • externalities — Plural form of externality.
  • extrapersonal — Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
  • extraposition — placement of something outside something else
  • extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
  • extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
  • extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
  • extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
  • extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
  • extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
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