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18-letter words containing a, p, l, e, i

  • electrotherapeutic — Relating to electrotherapeutics.
  • elizabeth petrovna — 1709-62; empress of Russia (1741-62): daughter of Peter I
  • entrepreneurialism — The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
  • epicycloidal wheel — one of the planetary gears of an epicyclic train
  • equinoctial spring — either of the two highest spring tides that occur at the equinoxes
  • ethnopsychological — Relating to ethnopsychology.
  • false imprisonment — the unlawful restraint of a person from exercising the right to freedom of movement.
  • family-size packet — a packet large enough to be suitable for a family
  • farewell-to-spring — a slender, showy plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, native to western North America, having satiny, cup-shaped, lilac-crimson or reddish-pink flowers and roundish fruit.
  • fermat's principle — Optics. the law that the path taken by a ray of light in going from one point to another point will be the path that requires the least time.
  • flat-panel display — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
  • forward compatible — forward compatibility
  • fulminating powder — powder that explodes by percussion.
  • funeral procession — ceremonial cortège at a burial
  • gainful employment — an occupation that pays an income
  • galilean telescope — a refracting telescope that forms an erect image, consisting of an objective of relatively long focal length that causes light rays to converge and an eyepiece of short focal length that causes them to diverge.
  • gene amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
  • general precession — the precession that results from both lunisolar precession and planetary precession; precession of the equinoxes.
  • geometrical optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as rays, especially in the study of the effects of lenses and mirrors on light beams and of their combination in optical instruments.
  • giuseppe garibaldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1807–82, Italian patriot and general.
  • greater periwinkle — a Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plant of the genus Vinca, V. major, having trailing stems and blue flowers
  • grumbling appendix — a condition in which the appendix causes intermittent pain but appendicitis has not developed
  • half-open interval — a set of numbers between two given numbers but including only one endpoint.
  • hamilton's problem — Hamiltonian problem
  • handyman's special — fixer-upper.
  • helicopter station — a place where helicopters are kept in readiness for use
  • hexachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of forty-two isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing six chlorine atoms.
  • hilary of poitiers — Saint, a.d. c300–368, French bishop and theologian.
  • historical present — the present tense used in narrating a past event as if happening at the time of narration.
  • hyper-intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • hyper-metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • hyperaldosteronism — aldosteronism.
  • hyperbilirubinemia — an abnormally high level of bilirubin in the blood, manifested by jaundice, anorexia, and malaise, occurring in association with liver disease and certain hemolytic anemias.
  • hypercholesteremia — Alternative spelling of hypercholesteraemia.
  • hypernationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • hyperproliferation — (biology) An abnormally high rate of proliferation of cells by rapid division.
  • hypersexualisation — Alternative spelling of hypersexualization.
  • hypersexualization — The act or process of hypersexualizing.
  • imploded consonant — a consonant which is pronounced with or by implosion
  • impressionableness — The quality of being impressionable.
  • in compliance with — in accordance with
  • in praise of folly — Latin Moriae Encomium. a prose satire (1509) by Erasmus, written in Latin and directed against theologians and church dignitaries.
  • in the first place — firstly
  • incremental backup — (operating system)   A kind of backup that copies all files which have changed since the date of the previous backup. The first backup of a file system should include all files - a "full backup". Call this level 0. The next backup could also be a full level 0 backup but it is usually much quicker to do a level 1 backup which will include only those files which have changed since the level 0 backup. Together the level 0 and level 1 backups will include the latest version of every file. Level 1 backups can be made until, say, the backup tape is nearly full, after which we can switch to level 2. Each level includes those files which have changed since the last backup at a lower level. The more levels you use, the longer it will take to restore the latest version of a file (or all files) if you don't know when it was last modified. Compare differential backup.
  • independent clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
  • industrial dispute — disagreement between workers and managers
  • input/output table — a table of all the inputs and outputs of the industries of an economy
  • inter-relationship — reciprocal relation.
  • interdependability — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
  • interrelationships — Plural form of interrelationship.
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