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15-letter words containing a, m, e, r, i, s

  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
  • in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
  • inertial system — a frame of reference in which a body remains at rest or moves with constant linear velocity unless acted upon by forces: any frame of reference that moves with constant velocity relative to an inertial system is itself an inertial system.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
  • instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • intemperateness — The quality of being intemperate.
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • james rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • male prostitute — man who has sex for money
  • malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
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