15-letter words containing e, c, i, p
- 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.
- inexplicability — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
- 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
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interdependence — the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other: Globalization of economies leads to an ever-increasing interdependence of countries.
- interdependency — the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other: Globalization of economies leads to an ever-increasing interdependence of countries.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
- interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- 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
- jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
- 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.
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- kamikaze packet — Christmas tree packet
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- lead-pipe cinch — an absolute certainty: It's a lead-pipe cinch they'll be there.
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- 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
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.