15-letter words containing ent
- dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- double entendre — a double meaning.
- double-entendre — a double meaning.
- eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
- efficient cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- engagement book — couple
- engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
- enter the lists — to engage in a conflict, controversy, etc
- enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- enterohepatitis — dual inflammation of the intestine and liver
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- enterprise zone — An enterprise zone is an area, usually a depressed or inner-city area, where the government offers incentives in order to attract new businesses.
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
- entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
- entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- ethnocentricism — Ethnocentrism.
- ethnocentricity — Practising or the policies surrounding being ethnocentric.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- existentialists — Plural form of existentialist.
- experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
- experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
- experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
- experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
- experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- fifth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, providing chiefly that no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously.
- file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
- fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
- fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
- first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
- first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first intention — See under intention (def 5a).
- first-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
- free enterprise — an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.