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14-letter words containing i

  • authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
  • autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
  • autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autoionization — the process in which spontaneous decay of excited atoms or molecules results in emission of electrons, rather than photons
  • automatic door — a self-opening door
  • automatization — to make automatic.
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • autopolyploidy — having more than two haploid sets of chromosomes that are derived from the same ancestral species.
  • autoradiograph — a photograph showing the distribution of a radioactive substance in a specimen. The photographic plate is exposed by radiation from the specimen
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
  • autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
  • availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
  • axiomatisation — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • axiomatization — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • axis of diesel — a name given to a bloc of countries (Russia, Iran, and Venezuela) whose reserves of oil enhance their political importance
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
  • babbling brook — a cook
  • babbling error — (networking)   An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
  • babies'-breath — baby's breath
  • baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back to basics — If you talk about getting back to basics, you are suggesting that people have become too concerned with complicated details or new theories, and that they should concentrate on simple, important ideas or activities.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
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