15-letter words containing m, o, r
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the majority — the largest group
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- induction motor — a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informationally — In an informational manner.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
- interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
- intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- java 2 platform — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
- jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- jog sb's memory — If something or someone jogs your memory, they cause you to suddenly remember something that you had forgotten.
- john chrysostom — Saint John, a.d. 347?–407, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- junior minister — politics
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- katathermometer — a thermometer used to measure the cooling power of ambient air