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14-letter words containing u, t, e, r

  • 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.
  • 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
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • 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)
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exposure meter — photography: light meter
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • 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.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • 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.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
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