13-letter words containing i, n, s, c
- intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intricateness — The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.
- intrinsically — belonging to a thing by its very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring.
- intrinsicness — The quality or state of being intrinsic.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspection — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- invectiveness — The quality of being invective.
- irascibleness — The state of being irascible; irascibility.
- irc penis war — penis war
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
- isotopic spin — a quantum number that is related to the number of different values of electric charge that a given kind of baryon or meson may have. Symbol: I.
- jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- jail sentence — a term of imprisonment imposed by a court
- japanese chin — one of a Japanese breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, black and white or red and white coat and a tail carried over the back.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- jus canonicum — canon law.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.