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16-letter words containing e, m, a, n

  • income statement — an accounting of income and expenses that indicates a firm's net profit or loss over a certain period of time, usually one year.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
  • infernal machine — a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.
  • infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • installment plan — a system for paying for an item in fixed amounts at specified intervals.
  • instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
  • instrumentalists — Plural form of instrumentalist.
  • insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
  • inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
  • interappointment — Between appointments.
  • intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
  • interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
  • interdimensional — Between dimensions.
  • interest payment — a payment of interest on a loan or mortgage
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • interior lineman — one of the players positioned on the line of scrimmage between the ends.
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • interlaced image — progressive coding
  • intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
  • interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
  • interministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
  • internationalism — the principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good, sometimes as contrasted with nationalism, or devotion to the interests of a particular nation.
  • intertestamental — of or relating to the period between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.
  • intimate apparel — lingerie (sense 2)
  • intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
  • intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
  • investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
  • irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
  • isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
  • japanese anemone — an eastern Asian plant, Anemone hupehensis, of the buttercup family, having purplish or reddish flowers and grown widely in gardens.
  • john von neumann — John, 1903–57, U.S. mathematician, born in Hungary.
  • journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
  • karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
  • keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
  • keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
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