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15-letter words containing t, i, l, e

  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • eau de toilette — toilet water.
  • ecclesiasticism — ecclesiastical principles, practices, or spirit.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • eclipse scotoma — a blind spot; a permanent or temporary area of depressed or absent vision caused by viewing the sun directly
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • ecotoxicologist — One who studies ecotoxicology.
  • eddington limit — the theoretical upper limit of luminosity that a star of a given mass can reach; occurs when the outward force of the radiation just balances the inward gravitational force
  • eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electing a pope — (electronics, humour)   (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • electric cooker — a device for cooking which is powered by electricity
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electric needle — a surgical instrument for cutting tissue by the application of a high-frequency current
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
  • electric system — An electric system consists of all of the elements needed to distribute electrical power, including overhead and underground lines, poles, transformers, and other equipment.
  • electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • electro-osmosis — movement of liquid through a capillary tube or membrane under the influence of an electric field: used in controlling rising damp
  • electro-osmotic — relating to electro-osmosis
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
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