17-letter words containing i, o, n, e
- into/in overdrive — If you go into overdrive, you begin to work very hard or perform a particular activity in a very intense way.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- introspectiveness — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- inventory control — the process of monitoring and adjusting the amount of items available, esp to avoid having too many or too few for current demand
- inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
- inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
- inversion therapy — a method used to stretch and align the body, especially the lower back, by suspending the entire body upside down from an apparatus that grips or supports the feet or knees.
- inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
- investment income — income arising from business investments
- invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
- invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
- iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
- irons in the fire — If someone has a lot of irons in the fire, they are involved in several different activities or have several different plans.
- irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
- irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
- irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
- irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
- isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
- island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
- isoelectric point — the pH at which a substance is electrically neutral or at which it is at its minimum ionization.
- isotonic exercise — exercise or a program of exercises to increase muscular strength, power, and endurance based on lifting a constant amount of weight at variable speeds through a range of motion.
- it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
- it's now or never — If you say 'It's now or never', you mean that something must be done immediately, because if it is not done immediately there will not be another chance to do it.
- it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
- italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
- jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
- job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
- job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
- job-order costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
- joined at the hip — friends: inseparable
- journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
- juazeiro do norte — a city in Bahia state, NE Brazil.
- judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
- jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
- junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
- jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
- juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
- karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
- kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
- kennesaw mountain — a mountain in N Georgia, near Atlanta: battle 1864. 1809 feet (551 meters).
- kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
- kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
- kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
- kinetic potential — the kinetic energy minus the potential energy in a system obeying the principle of conservation of energy. Symbol: L.
- king george's war — a war (1744–48) waged by England and its colonies against France, constituting the North American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession.
- knocking-off time — the time when you finish work
- know one's onions — a plant, Allium cepa, of the amaryllis family, having an edible, succulent, pungent bulb.
- lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
- lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.