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- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- econometrician — Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics.
- ectocommensals — Plural form of ectocommensal.
- eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
- elected member — person voted in as a member
- elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
- ellesmere port — a port in NW England, in NW Cheshire on the Mersey estuary and Manchester Ship Canal. Pop: 66 265 (2001)
- embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
- embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- 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
- employment law — rules governing working practices
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
- entertainments — Plural form of entertainment.
- 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 It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time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
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- expanded metal — an open mesh of metal produced by stamping out alternating slots in a metal sheet and stretching it into an open pattern. It is used for reinforcing brittle or friable materials and in fencing
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- exposure meter — photography: light meter
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- farmer-general — (in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- 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.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- flame arrester — A flame arrester is a device which stops a flame from spreading along a pipe or tube.
- flame retarder — a material that, while not incombustible, does not itself maintain combustion without an external heat source and therefore retards the spread of fire
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- for the moment — for now
- foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- 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.
- four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
- fringe meeting — a meeting that takes place during a convention and is attended only by people whose views are not central to the majority
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.