14-letter words containing em
- elected member — person voted in as a member
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
- embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
- embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
- emergency exit — door, way out
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- emergency room — hospital: casualty department
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- emilia-romagna — a region of N central Italy, on the Adriatic: rises from the plains of the Po valley in the north to the Apennines in the south. Capital: Bologna. Pop: 4 030 220 (2003 est). Area: 22 123 sq km (8628 sq miles)
- éminence grise — a person who wields power and influence unofficially or behind the scenes
- eminent domain — government seizure of property
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- employment law — rules governing working practices
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
- ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
- ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
- epidemiologist — A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
- epistemologies — Plural form of epistemology.
- epistemologist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
- female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
- feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
- fiery-tempered — easily angered
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.