14-letter words containing c, o, t, e
- hypophysectomy — excision of the pituitary gland.
- hypothetically — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
- hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- import licence — a government-issued document that authorizes the importation of goods into its country
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in countenance — calm; composed
- in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- in-consistence — the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
- incarcerations — Plural form of incarceration.
- incautiousness — The quality of being incautious.
- incestuousness — The state or property of being incestuous.
- income account — an account maintained for a particular item of revenue or income.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- incompetencies — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
- inconsequentia — Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- inconsistences — Plural form of inconsistence.
- inconsistently — lacking in harmony between the different parts or elements; self-contradictory: an inconsistent story.
- incontrollable — uncontrollable.
- inconveniently — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- incorporeality — not corporeal or material; insubstantial.
- incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.
- incrementation — The act or process of incrementing.
- indirect costs — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
- induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people