17-letter words containing a, l, e, t
- hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
- hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
- hyperchlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
- hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- hyperinflationary — (economics) Having very high levels of inflation.
- hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
- hyperpolarisation — Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
- hyperpolarization — The act or process of hyperpolarizing.
- hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
- ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
- illegal immigrant — a person who has entered a country illegally
- illinois waterway — a waterway system in N Illinois made up of canals and rivers connecting Lake Michigan in Chicago with the Mississippi River. 336 miles (541 km) long.
- imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
- imperialistically — In an imperialistic manner.
- impersonalization — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- implosion therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
- implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
- in the altogether — wholly; entirely; completely; quite: altogether fitting.
- in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
- incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
- income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
- incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
- indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
- indicial equation — an equation that is obtained from a given linear differential equation and that indicates whether a solution in power series form exists for the differential equation.
- indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
- indoleacetic acid — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 10 H 9 NO 2 , a natural plant hormone, used especially for stimulating growth and root formation in plant cutting.
- industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
- industrial estate — industrial park.
- industrial unrest — business: among employees
- inertial guidance — a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight.
- inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
- inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
- inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
- infinite integral — improper integral (def 1).
- infinitive clause — a clause containing an infinitive as its main or only verb form, as to speak clearly in Try to speak clearly.
- inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
- inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
- installment sales — Installment sales are sales where fixed payments will be made regularly over a particular period of time.
- instance variable — (programming) In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
- institutionalised — to make institutional.
- institutionalized — to make institutional.