16-letter words containing tr
- drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
- electric blanket — electrically-heated bedcover
- electric current — flow of electricity
- electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
- electric vehicle — An electric vehicle is a vehicle that is driven by an electric motor which draws its current either from storage batteries or from overhead cables.
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- electrical fault — a fault caused by something electrical
- electrical power — electricity
- electrical storm — thunder, lightning
- electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
- electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
- electronic flash — Photography
- electronic music — music: synthesized
- electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
- electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
- electroreception — The detection by an aquatic animal of electric fields or currents.
- electroreceptors — Plural form of electroreceptor.
- electrostriction — the change in dimensions of a dielectric occurring as an elastic strain when an electric field is applied
- electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- emergency centre — a building used, often temporarily, to coordinate the response to an emergency and to deal with some of the problems that arise during the emergency
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
- equidistribution — An equal distribution.
- eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- extracorporeally — Outside the body.
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extraterrestrial — Of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.
- extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
- extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- fair-trade price — the price set for a commodity by the Fairtrade Foundation
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- feedback control — (electronics) A control system which monitors its effect on the system it is controlling and modifies its output accordingly. For example, a thermostat has two inputs: the desired temperature and the current temperature (the latter is the feedback). The output of the thermostat changes so as to try to equalise the two inputs. Computer disk drives use feedback control to position the read/write heads accurately on a recording track. Complex systems such as the human body contain many feedback systems that interact with each other; the homeostasis mechanisms that control body temperature and acidity are good examples.
- feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.