15-letter words containing i, p, r
- hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypochlorhydria — (pathology) The presence of an insufficient amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- hypochondriacal — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypochondriasis — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
- hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
- hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.
- hysteresis loop — a closed curve showing the variation of the magnetic flux density of a ferromagnetic material with the external magnetic field producing it, when this field is changed through a complete cycle
- hystricomorphic — relating to a suborder of rodents
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- identity parade — law: police lineup
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- imperfect-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- 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.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- impressibleness — The state of being impressible; impressibility.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- 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
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in good spirits — cheerful
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.