15-letter words containing c, i, s, p, e
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- incapaciousness — the quality of not having (sufficiently) great capacity
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- introsusception — intussusception.
- intussusception — a taking within.
- intussusceptive — Relating to intussusception.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
- jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
- japanese quince — a flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa, of Japan, having scarlet flowers and pear-shaped fruit.
- jewish princess — JAP.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- 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.
- lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
- mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
- membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
- menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
- mexican spanish — Spanish as used in Mexico. Abbreviation: MexSp.