13-letter words containing m, i, t, r, e, c
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
- imperialistic — the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
- impertinences — Plural form of impertinence.
- impracticable — not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means: an impracticable plan.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- incident room — An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident.
- inclinometers — Plural form of inclinometer.
- income stream — a flow of money into a business
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- incrementally — increasing or adding on, especially in a regular series: small, incremental tax hikes.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interepidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
- interlacement — to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine: Their hands interlaced.
- intermetallic — (inorganic chemistry) of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
- intermittence — stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
- intermittency — stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- macroclimates — Plural form of macroclimate.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- magnetic core — Computers. core1 (def 12a).
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic star — a star having a strong magnetic field.
- magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
- magnetometric — Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, 'magnetometric' instruments; 'magnetometric' measurements.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- mare nectaris — (Sea of Nectar) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 26,000 sq. mi. (67,000 sq. km).
- mass catering — the trade of supplying food and drink to large numbers of customers at the same time
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.