15-letter words containing l, i, t, e, n, r
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
- illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
- immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in all weathers — If you say that someone does something in all weathers, you mean that they do it regularly whether the weather is good or bad.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
- inappropriately — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
- indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
- 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
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- inertial system — a frame of reference in which a body remains at rest or moves with constant linear velocity unless acted upon by forces: any frame of reference that moves with constant velocity relative to an inertial system is itself an inertial system.
- inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- injector nozzle — An injector nozzle is a fine sprayer through which fuel is injected into an engine.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
- instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
- instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intellectronics — a field of study that seeks to develop electronic devices, as robots, that have humanlike intellect and skills.
- inter-fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
- interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra