13-letter words containing eas
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- easter cactus — an epiphytic cactus, Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, native to Brazil, having oblong joints and red flowers.
- easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
- easter egging — (jargon) (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
- easter island — an island in the S Pacific, W of and belonging to Chile. About 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km): gigantic statues.
- easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
- easter parade — a parade held on or near Easter Day, in particular a strolling procession in and around Fifth Avenue New York City (celebrated by Irving Berlin in a song, which gave rise to a film of the same name) for which people dress up in especially smart clothes; this derives from an older tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter in honour of the festival.
- easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- easter-ledges — a pudding made from the young leaves of the bistort
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- easygoingness — The quality of being easygoing.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
- free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
- grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- heart disease — any condition of the heart that impairs its functioning.
- hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.
- major release — (programming) A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision. See also major delivery.
- mating season — the period during each year when a particular bird, animal, or fish mates
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- measure up to — to fulfil (expectations, standards, etc)
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- measuring jug — a graduated jug used in cooking to measure ingredients
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- nonincreasing — not increasing.
- nonmeasurable — capable of being measured.
- north by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of north. Abbreviation: NbE.
- north-eastern — North-eastern means in or from the north-east of a region or country.
- northeasterly — of or located in the northeast.