15-letter words containing st
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- elder statesman — experienced, respected figure
- electric system — An electric system consists of all of the elements needed to distribute electrical power, including overhead and underground lines, poles, transformers, and other equipment.
- emancipationist — An advocate of the emancipation of slaves.
- embedded system — (computer) Hardware and software which forms a component of some larger system and which is expected to function without human intervention. A typical embedded system consists of a single-board microcomputer with software in ROM, which starts running some special purpose application program as soon as it is turned on and will not stop until it is turned off (if ever). An embedded system may include some kind of operating system but often it will be simple enough to be written as a single program. It will not usually have any of the normal peripherals such as a keyboard, monitor, serial connections, mass storage, etc. or any kind of user interface software unless these are required by the overall system of which it is a part. Often it must provide real-time response.
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- enter the lists — to engage in a conflict, controversy, etc
- epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
- epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
- epitestosterone — (organic compound) An inactive epimer of the steroid hormone testosterone.
- estates general — States-General (sense 1)
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- eustachian tube — part of the ear
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- exhaustlessness — the quality of being exhaustless
- exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- existentialists — Plural form of existentialist.
- experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
- experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
- expressionistic — Expressionist.
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fairy footsteps — heavy footsteps
- fantasticalness — The state or condition of being fantastical.
- fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
- feast of lights — Hanukkah.
- feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- featherstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of featherstitch.
- fencepost error — 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also zeroth and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash coding implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an algorithm.
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
- fiesta de toros — a bullfight; corrida.
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- filling station — service station (def 1).
- fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
- fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
- 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 messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
- first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
- first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
- first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
- first world war — World War I.