19-letter words containing a, l, i, n
- in (all) conscience — in fairness; on any reasonable ground
- in particular terms — If you say something in particular terms, you say it using a particular type or level of language or using language which clearly shows your attitude.
- in the second place — secondly
- incidental expenses — costs outside those budgeted
- incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
- incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
- indeterminate vowel — schwa.
- individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- industrial accident — an accident that happens to an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- industrial medicine — the study and practice of the health care of employees of large organizations, including measures to prevent accidents, industrial diseases, and stress in the workforce and to monitor the health of executives
- industrial tribunal — (in Northern Ireland and formerly elsewhere in the UK) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
- industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
- indwelling catheter — a hollow tube left implanted in a body canal or organ, especially the bladder, to promote drainage.
- inelastic collision — a collision in which the total kinetic energy of the colliding bodies or particles is not the same after the collision as it was before (opposed to elastic collision).
- infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
- inflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- informal settlement — a squatter camp
- information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
- inglenook fireplace — a large fireplace with a space on either side
- installed user base — user base
- instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
- instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
- insulating material — anything that is used as insulation
- intangible property — intellectual property, rights ownership
- intellectualization — to seek or consider the rational content or form of.
- intelligence agency — a government department charged with obtaining intelligence, or information, especially for use by the armed forces.
- intentional fallacy — (in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work.
- inter-institutional — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- intercardinal point — any of the four points of the compass midway between the cardinal points; northeast, southeast, southwest, or northwest.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- interdenominational — occurring between, involving, or common to different religious denominations.
- interdepartmentally — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.
- interferometrically — By means of interferometry.
- intergalactic space — the region of physical space that exists between galaxies. The density is negligible, and close to an almost total vacuum
- interlaced scanning — a system of scanning a television picture, first along the even-numbered lines, then along the odd-numbered lines, in one complete scan
- intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
- internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
- internal hemorrhoid — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- internal resistance — the resistance within a battery, or other voltage source, that causes a drop in the source voltage when there is a current.
- internal translator — (language, mathematics) (IT) An early compiler for mathematics developed by A.J. Perlis et al at Carnegie Tech ca 1957. IT was originally written for the Burroughs 205, then the IBM 650. IT was the forerunner of RUNCIBLE, GATE, CORRELATE and GAT. IT source code was converted to PIT, thence to SPIT. IT-2 produced machine language directly, IT-3 developed at Carnegie added double-precision floating-point.
- internal-combustion — of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.
- international pitch — diapason normal pitch.
- international style — the general form of architecture developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and others, characterized by simple geometric forms, large untextured, often white, surfaces, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.