15-letter words containing i, r, g, a, t
- immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
- industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
- inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
- 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.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
- interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangement — the act of interchanging
- intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
- interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
- intransigeantly — intransigently
- intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
- intransigentist — an intransigent
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- large intestine — intestine (def 3).
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- latent learning — learning mediated neither by reward nor by the expectation of reward
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.