16-letter words containing e, r, c, t, i
- hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- icterine warbler — a European variety of tree warbler (Hippolais icterina )
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- impact parameter — the perpendicular distance from the original center of a set of scattering particles to the original line of motion of a particle being scattered.
- impact structure — a large geologic formation, as a crater, created by a comet's or meteor's collision with a planet.
- imperceptibility — very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road.
- imperceptiveness — The quality of being imperceptive.
- imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
- imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
- imperfectibility — The state or quality of being imperfectible.
- imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- impracticalities — Plural form of impracticality.
- in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
- inarticulateness — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
- indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
- indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- induction course — training for new job
- induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
- infostreet, inc. — (company) An Internet consulting and development company dedicated to assisting companies in establishing an Internet presence. InfoStreet develope Internet strategies, design and create web pages, and host and maintain websites. InfoStreet, has been recognized by PC/Computing as the "Best of the Top Home Page Services" (August 1996) and has been featured in Netguide magazine and the Wiley and Son's Electronic Marketing book.
- insect repellent — chemical that deters insects
- insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
- inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
- inter-packet gap — (networking) A time delay between successive data packets mandated by the network standard for protocol reasons. In Ethernet, the medium has to be "silent" (i.e., no data transfer) for a few microseconds before a node can consider the network idle and start to transmit. This is necessary for fairness reasons. The delay time, which approximately equals the signal propagation time on the cable, allows the "silence" to reach the far end so that all nodes consider the net idle.
- intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
- interconnections — Plural form of interconnection.
- interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
- intercontinental — between or among continents; involving two or more continents: intercontinental trade.
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- intercorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.