15-letter words containing i, r, e, m, o
- ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the majority — the largest group
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
- interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- junior minister — politics
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
- lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.