12-letter words containing eli
- disbelievers — Plural form of disbeliever.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
- elicitations — Plural form of elicitation.
- eligibleness — Eligibility.
- eliminations — Plural form of elimination.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- enterocoelic — characterized by enterocoele
- epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
- evangelicals — Plural form of evangelical.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- evangelizing — Present participle of evangelize.
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
- freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- gas pipeline — a system of transmission for gaseous material, esp natural gas
- get religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- helical gear — a cylindrical gear wheel whose teeth follow the pitch surface in a helical manner.
- helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
- helical scan — denoting a recording technique used with video tapes in which the recorded tracks on the tape are segments of a helix
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliocentric — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- heliophilous — attracted to sunlight
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- indeliberate — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
- indelibility — making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.
- indelicacies — Plural form of indelicacy.
- indelicately — In an indelicate manner.
- ineliminable — Unable to be eliminated.
- infelicities — Plural form of infelicity.