13-letter words containing i
- affenpinscher — a small wire-haired breed of dog of European origin, having tufts of hair on the muzzle
- affinity card — An affinity card is a type of credit card. The bank which issues the card gives a small amount of money to a charity or institution each time the customer spends a certain amount with their card.
- affirmatively — affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.
- affirming gun — a gun fired by a warship to signal its intention to search a merchant vessel.
- affordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- afforestation — Afforestation is the process of planting large numbers of trees on land which has few or no trees on it.
- affreightment — a contract hiring a ship to carry goods
- aformentioned — Misspelling of aforementioned.
- african daisy — any of several composite plants native to Africa, especially of the genera Arctotis, Gerbera, and Lonas, having showy, daisylike flowers.
- african grape — a watermelon.
- african plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the African continent as well as adjacent ocean basins (the Canary, Cape Verde, Angola, Cape Agulhas, Somali, Madagascar, and Natal Basins), and bounded on the north by the Eurasian and Arabian Plates, on the east by mid-ocean ridges (the Southwest Indian, Mid-Indian, and Carlsberg Ridges), on the south by the Antarctic Plate, and on the west by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
- african union — an organization of African states established in 2002 as successor to the OAU; it aims to encourage economic development and political stability through increased cooperation between its members
- afro-american — African-American
- after a while — some time later
- aganglionosis — (medicine) A medical condition involving absence of ganglia.
- age hardening — the hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over a period of time
- aggiornamento — the process of bringing up to date methods, ideas, etc
- agglomeration — An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement.
- agglomerative — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- agglutinating — Present participle of agglutinate.
- agglutination — the act or process of agglutinating
- agglutinative — tending to join or capable of joining
- agglutinogens — Plural form of agglutinogen.
- aggradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by aggradation.
- aggravatingly — in a manner that is aggravating
- aggregational — resulting from aggregation
- aggregatively — in an aggregative manner
- agonistically — in an agonistic manner
- agriculturist — an agricultural expert
- agro-economic — of or relating to a nation's agricultural economy, the financial problems of farmers as a group, etc.: mounting pressures on the agro-economic system.
- agro-industry — the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methods.
- agrobacterium — A soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants.
- agrobiologist — One who studies bacteria and other organisms in soil for the purpose of growing crops or feeding animals.
- agrochemicals — Plural form of agrochemical.
- agroecologist — One who studies agroecology.
- agronomically — in an agronomic manner
- agrostologist — a person who specializes in agrostology
- agroterrorism — the use of biological agents as weapons against agricultural and food-supply industries
- ahead of time — If you do something ahead of time, you do it before a particular event or before you need to, in order to be well prepared.
- ahistorically — In an ahistorical way.
- ailurophiliac — Appropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles.
- air ambulance — An air ambulance is a helicopter or plane that is used for taking people to hospital.
- air commodore — a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
- air core coil — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
- air discharge — Air discharge is a method for testing ESD-protection structures in which the ESD generator is discharged through an air gap between the generator and the device under test.
- air force one — the US Air Force plane used by the US president
- air freshener — An air freshener is a product people can buy which is meant to make rooms smell pleasant.
- air hardening — a process of hardening high-alloy steels by heating and cooling in a current of air
- air injection — injection of liquid fuel into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, especially a diesel, by means of a jet of compressed air.
- air pollution — contamination of the atmosphere