13-letter words containing i, m, u
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
- if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
- ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- illuminations — Plural form of illumination.
- illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
- illustrissimo — most illustrious (esp as belonging to the Italian aristocracy)
- immanuel kant — Immanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; German ih-mah-noo-el] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; German ɪˈmɑ nuˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1724–1804, German philosopher.
- immune system — a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies, and lymphokines.
- immunifacient — causing immunity
- immunisations — Plural form of immunisation.
- immunity bath — the giving of testimony that is self-incriminating in order to avail oneself of the immunity granted a witness.
- immunizations — Plural form of immunization.
- immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- immunogenesis — the production of an immune response
- immunological — (immunology) Of, or relating to immunology.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- impetuosities — Plural form of impetuosity.
- impetuousness — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
- importunities — Plural form of importunity.
- impostumation — an abscess or swelling filled with pus
- impulsiveness — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- inclinatorium — an instrument invented by Robert Norman in 1576, used to determine the degree to which a magnetic needle dips towards the earth; a dipping needle
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- incommunicado — (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- indian mutiny — a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.
- indian summer — a period of mild, dry weather, usually accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring usually in late October or early November and following a period of colder weather.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- individualism — a social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- industrialism — an economic organization of society built largely on mechanized industry rather than agriculture, craftsmanship, or commerce.