16-letter words containing ei
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- oder-neisse line — the boundary between Poland and East Germany after World War II.
- oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
- onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- palmitoleic acid — a colorless, unsaturated fatty acid, C 1 6 H 3 0 O 2 , occurring in oils and fats of plants and animals.
- post-pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
- prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- regional ileitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes scarring and thickening of the intestinal walls and frequently leads to obstruction.
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
- reinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- saorstat eireann — Irish name of Irish Free State.
- schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
- schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
- schweizerdeutsch — Schwyzertütsch.
- seidlitz powders — a mild laxative consisting of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and Rochelle salt, which are dissolved separately, mixed, and drunk after effervescence.
- self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- sterling heights — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
- the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.