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14-letter words containing c, i, e, l

  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • indian sanicle — a North American boneset, Eupatorium rugosum, that has heads of white flowers and causes trembles and milk sickness.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
  • inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
  • inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
  • inexplicitness — The state or condition of being inexplicit.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
  • insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • intellectually — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
  • inter-particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
  • interarticular — of or relating to the joints.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • intercorrelate — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
  • interdialectal — relating to, or existing between, different dialects
  • interelectrode — existing between multiple electrodes
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • interjectional — Being or pertaining to an interjection.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • internal clock — biological clock.
  • internucleonic — internuclear
  • interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
  • intersectional — of or relating to to an intersection, or a place where two or more roads, lines, or elements meet: intersectional traffic flow.
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
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