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15-letter words containing i, m, p, l, a

  • 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.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • 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.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
  • incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • incompatibility — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • instalment plan — agreed series of repayments
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
  • lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • 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
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
  • 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.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • macroscopically — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
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