15-letter words containing e, l, i, p
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypercatalectic — (of a line of verse) containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot. Compare acatalectic (def 2), catalectic.
- hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperinsulinism — excessive insulin in the blood, resulting in hypoglycemia.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperlipidaemia — Alternative spelling of hyperlipidemia.
- hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hysteresis loop — a closed curve showing the variation of the magnetic flux density of a ferromagnetic material with the external magnetic field producing it, when this field is changed through a complete cycle
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- imperial system — a system of measurement units, including the foot, pound, and second, as well as miles and yards
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
- impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.