13-letter words starting with e
- eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- eccentrically — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- ecclesiastics — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- ecomanagement — any of various ways to lessen the harmful impact of human activity on the environment.
- economic good — a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.
- economic rent — the return on a productive resource, as land or labor, that is greater than the amount necessary to keep the resource producing or on a product in excess of what would have been the return except for some unique factor.
- economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
- economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
- ecopsychology — A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.
- ecotoxicology — The branch of science that deals with the nature, effects, and interactions of substances that are harmful to the environment.
- ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
- ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
- ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- editorialists — Plural form of editorialist.
- editorialized — Simple past tense and past participle of editorialize.
- editorializer — One who editorializes.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
- edward lorenz — (person) A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- eff and blind — to use obscene language
- effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- efficientness — The quality of being efficient; efficiency.