15-letter words containing a, n, t, i, p
- interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- internal spline — any one of a series of grooves in a mating part into which external splines fit to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
- internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- interpenetrated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpenetrate.
- interpenetrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpenetrate.
- interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
- interpersonally — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interpopulation — Between populations.
- interpretations — Plural form of interpretation.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- intraperitoneal — Within the cavity of the peritoneum.
- intrapopulation — occurring within a population or between members of a population
- intrapreneurial — Entrepreneurial within an existing business; describing entrepreneurship within an existing business.
- introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- iranian plateau — a plateau in SW Asia, mostly in Iran, extending from the Tigris to the Indus rivers. 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,590,000 sq. km).
- italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
- italian spinone — a strongly-built gun dog with a wiry white coat and pendulous ears
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
- limited partner — special partner.
- linear operator — a mathematical operator with the property that applying it to a linear combination of two objects yields the same linear combination as the result of applying it to the objects separately.
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
- make a point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.