16-letter words containing c, a, p, i, e
- imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
- imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- impracticalities — Plural form of impracticality.
- in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
- in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- in quintuplicate — in five identical copies
- inapplicableness — The state or quality of being inapplicable; inapplicability.
- inauspiciousness — The state, quality, or condition of being inauspicious or unpropitious; unfavorableness.
- incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- independence day — July 4, a U.S. holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
- indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
- inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
- insurance policy — contract that insures sth
- integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
- inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
- inter-packet gap — (networking) A time delay between successive data packets mandated by the network standard for protocol reasons. In Ethernet, the medium has to be "silent" (i.e., no data transfer) for a few microseconds before a node can consider the network idle and start to transmit. This is necessary for fairness reasons. The delay time, which approximately equals the signal propagation time on the cable, allows the "silence" to reach the far end so that all nodes consider the net idle.
- internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
- irreplaceability — The quality of being irreplaceable; inability to be replaced; (frequently) uniqueness.
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- keep pace (with) — to go at the same speed (as)
- khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
- laplace equation — the second-order partial differential equation indicating that the Laplace operator operating on a given function results in zero. Compare harmonic (def 4c).
- laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- learning process — a process of learning
- library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
- lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
- literacy project — a project, plan or scheme to increase literacy in a country, area, etc
- logical operator — any of the Boolean symbols or functions, as AND, OR, and NOT, denoting a Boolean operation; Boolean operator.
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
- lymphatic system — an extensive network of capillary vessels that transports the interstitial fluid of the body as lymph to the venous blood circulation
- lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
- mach's principle — the proposition that there is no absolute space and that the inertia and acceleration of a body are determined by all of the matter of the universe.
- machine operator — someone who operates mechanical equipment
- macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
- magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
- magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
- make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
- malpractice suit — a lawsuit brought against a professional accused of illegal or unethical practices or neglect of duty
- manic depression — bipolar disorder.
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
- mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
- mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.