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18-letter words containing l, a, s

  • imploded consonant — a consonant which is pronounced with or by implosion
  • impressionableness — The quality of being impressionable.
  • in praise of folly — Latin Moriae Encomium. a prose satire (1509) by Erasmus, written in Latin and directed against theologians and church dignitaries.
  • in terrorem clause — a clause in a will stating that a beneficiary who contests the will shall lose his or her legacy.
  • in the first place — firstly
  • in the last resort — You use in the last resort when stating the most basic or important fact that will still be true in a situation whatever else happens.
  • in-band signalling — (communications)   (Or CAS, channel associated signaling) Transmission of control signals in the same channel as data. This is commonly used in the Public Switched Telephone Network where the same pair of wires carry both voice and control signals (e.g. dialling, ringing). Another example is the use on a computer serial line of Control-S and Control-Q characters for flow control as opposed to hardware flow control which would be out-of-band signalling. In digital communications, in-band signalling often uses "bit-robbing" where, for example, one bit in each frame is used for signalling instead of data. This is the reason why a D1 channel in the T-carrier system can only carry 56 Kbps of usable data instead of the 64 Kbps carried by the D0 channel in the E-carrier system.
  • incidental charges — Incidental charges are costs of items and services that are not part of the main bill.
  • incidental damages — law: incurred by contract breach
  • inclusive language — language that avoids the use of certain expressions or words that might be considered to exclude particular groups of people, esp gender-specific words, such as "man", "mankind", and masculine pronouns, the use of which might be considered to exclude women
  • incommensurability — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • inconsequentiality — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
  • inconsiderableness — Quality of being inconsiderable.
  • independent clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
  • indiscriminatingly — In an indiscriminating manner.
  • indus civilization — an ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus River valley, from about 2500 to 1500 b.c.: extensive archaeological excavations at the main sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in Pakistan.
  • industrial diamond — a small often synthetic diamond, valueless as a gemstone, used in cutting tools, abrasives, etc
  • industrial disease — occupational disease (def 1).
  • industrial dispute — disagreement between workers and managers
  • industrial hygiene — the science that assesses, controls, and prevents occupational factors or sources of stress in the workplace that may significantly affect the health and well-being of employees or of the community in general
  • industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
  • information island — (jargon)   A body of information (i.e. electronic files) that needs to be shared but has no network connection.
  • initial commission — Initial commission is commission that is paid to someone who sells or recommends a financial product for the first time.
  • inquisitor-general — the head of the Spanish court of Inquisition
  • institutionalising — Present participle of institutionalise.
  • institutionalizing — Present participle of institutionalize.
  • instruction manual — how-to, usage guide
  • instrument landing — an aircraft landing accomplished by use of gauges on the instrument panel and ground-based radio equipment, with limited reference to outside visual signals.
  • insurable interest — a financial or other interest in the life or property covered by an insurance contract, without which the contract cannot be enforced
  • insurance salesman — male: sells insurance
  • intensional object — the object of a propositional attitude that may or may not exist, as in Robert is dreaming of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This must be an intensional (or opaque) context, for otherwise, since there is no pot of gold, Robert would be dreaming of nothing
  • inter-relationship — reciprocal relation.
  • intercartilaginous — (anatomy) Within cartilage.
  • interface analysis — (testing)   A software test which checks the interfaces between program elements for consistency and adherence to predefined rules or axioms.
  • interinstitutional — Between institutions.
  • internal secretion — a secretion, esp a hormone, that is absorbed directly into the blood
  • interrelationships — Plural form of interrelationship.
  • interstellar space — astronomy: space between the stars
  • inverse square law — one of several laws relating two quantities such that one quantity varies inversely as the square of the other, as the law that the illumination produced on a screen by a point source varies inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the source.
  • investment analyst — a specialist in forecasting the prices of stocks and shares
  • invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
  • involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
  • iphigenia in aulis — a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Euripides.
  • iron (ii) sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • irreconcilableness — The quality of being irreconcilable; irreconcilability; incompatibility; incongruity.
  • irreproachableness — The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
  • isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
  • isoamyl salicylate — a colorless, sometimes slightly yellow, synthetic oil, C 12 H 16 O 3 , having an orchidlike odor: used in perfumery.
  • isolation hospital — a hospital used to isolate or quarantine people with a contagious disease
  • isothermal process — a process that takes place without change in temperature.
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