17-letter words containing m, r, i, a
- imperialistically — In an imperialistic manner.
- impersonalization — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
- implosion therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
- implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
- improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
- improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
- improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
- in (great) demand — If someone or something is in demand or in great demand, they are very popular and a lot of people want them.
- in a/the minority — If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group.
- in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
- in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
- indicator diagram — a graphical or other representation of the cyclic variations of pressure and volume within the cylinder of a reciprocating engine obtained by using an indicator
- inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
- infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
- infralapsarianism — the doctrine, held by Augustinians and by many Calvinists, that God planned the Creation, permitted the Fall, elected a chosen number, planned their redemption, and suffered the remainder to be eternally punished (opposed to supralapsarianism).
- innominate artery — brachiocephalic artery.
- instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
- insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
- insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
- insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
- insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
- intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
- intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
- interdepartmental — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
- interim financing — temporary financing
- intermediate card — a card used in the carding process to transfer sliver from the breaker card to the finisher card.
- intermediate care — an intermediate level of healthcare for chronically ill, disabled, or elderly people, especially in a facility for this purpose.
- intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
- internal examiner — an examiner from the same college or university as the students who are being examined
- internal medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.
- intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- intradepartmental — Within a department.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- invincible armada — Armada.
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
- irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
- irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
- isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
- isomorphism class — (mathematics) A collection of all the objects isomorphic to a given object. Talking about the isomorphism class (of a poset, say) ensures that we will only consider its properties as a poset, and will not consider other incidental properties it happens to have.