14-letter words containing i, n, s, u
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- institutionary — of or relating to an institution or institutions; institutional.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
- insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
- interinsurance — reciprocal insurance.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
- interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
- interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
- interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
- intersexuality — Having the physical features of both sexes.
- interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
- intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
- intracutaneous — within the skin.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- intuitionalism — intuitionism.
- intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
- ion propulsion — Rocketry. a projected type of propulsion for vehicles in outer space, the exhaust consisting of positive ions and negative electrons repelled from the vehicle by electrostatic forces, resulting in a very high exhaust velocity.
- irresoluteness — The state of being irresolute.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- japanese quail — any of several small Old World quails of the genus Coturnix, especially C. japonica (Japanese quail) widely used as a laboratory animal.
- jesuits' resin — an oleoresin obtained from several tropical, chiefly South American trees belonging to the genus Copaifera, of the legume family, used chiefly in varnishes and lacquers, for removing old oil varnish from or for brightening oil paintings, and formerly in medicine in the treatment of certain mucous-membrane conditions.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
- junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- juxtapositions — Plural form of juxtaposition.
- kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
- karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
- kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.