15-letter words containing i, m, p, e, n
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- 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.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
- impressibleness — The state of being impressible; impressibility.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- 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.
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- instalment plan — agreed series of repayments
- insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
- intemperateness — The quality of being intemperate.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
- kommunizma peak — a mountain in SE Tajikistan in the Pamirs: the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Height: 7495 m (24 590 ft)
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
- limited partner — special partner.
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- make a point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
- master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- mechanical pulp — groundwood pulp.