17-letter words containing a, l, i, e, n, t
- 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.
- institutionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institutionalize.
- instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
- insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
- insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
- intangible assets — intellectual property, etc.
- integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
- integral equation — an equation in which an integral involving a dependent variable appears.
- integral function — an entire function.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- intel corporation — (company) A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking and communications products. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel in 1968 to design, manufacture, and market semiconductor computer memory to replace magnetic core memory, the dominant computer memory at that time. Dr. Andrew S. Grove joined Intel soon after its incorporation. Three years later, in 1971, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Intel has design, development, production, and administration facilities throughout the western US, Europe and Asia. In 1995 nearly 75% of the world's personal computers use Intel architecture. Annual revenues are rapidly approaching $10 billion. In March, 1994, "Business Week" named Intel one of the top ten American companies in terms of profit, one of the top 15 market value winners, and 16th out of the magazine's top 1,000 companies overall. Intel invested a record $2.9 billion in capital and R&D in 1993, and expects to increase combined spending on these activities to $3.5 billion in 1994. Quarterly sales were $2770M and profits, $640M in Aug 1994. Address: Santa Clara, CA, USA.
- intellectualising — Give an intellectual character to.
- intellectualistic — Of or relating to intellectualism.
- intellectualizing — Present participle of intellectualize.
- inter-correlation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
- interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
- interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
- interdepartmental — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interdisciplinary — combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
- intergenerational — of, relating to, or for individuals in different generations or age categories: intergenerational housing.
- intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
- interjectionalize — to make into an interjection.
- interlibrary loan — a system by which one library obtains a work for a user by borrowing it from another library.
- internal conflict — psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense: Hamlet's inaction is caused by internal conflict.
- internal examiner — an examiner from the same college or university as the students who are being examined
- internal medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.
- internal relation — a relation between two entities such that if they had not been in this relation the nature of each would necessarily have been different.
- international law — the body of rules that nations generally recognize as binding in their conduct toward one another.
- internationalists — Plural form of internationalist.
- internationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of internationalize.
- internationalness — The state or condition of being international.
- interprofessional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- interrelationship — reciprocal relation.
- interrupt handler — (software) A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
- intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
- intersectionality — the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively): Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
- intertranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
- intestinal bypass — the surgical circumvention, by anastomosis, of a diseased portion of the intestine; also sometimes used to reduce nutrient absorption in morbidly obese patients.
- intradepartmental — Within a department.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.