15-letter words containing i, b, s
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- impressibleness — The state of being impressible; impressibility.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in a (bad) spot — in a bad situation; in trouble
- in sb's opinion — You add expressions such as 'in my opinion' or 'in their opinion' to a statement in order to indicate that it is what you or someone else thinks, and is not necessarily a fact.
- in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
- in the box seat — in the best position
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
- inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
- inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
- inconsolability — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
- inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
- infeasible path — dead code
- inflammableness — The quality of being inflammable.
- 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)
- inner barrister — a barrister belonging to the inner bar.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- inseparableness — The quality or state of being inseparable.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- insubstantially — In an insubstantial manner.
- insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
- intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
- intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund