15-letter words containing n, i, c, o, s, e
- injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- instruction set — (architecture) The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
- intellectronics — a field of study that seeks to develop electronic devices, as robots, that have humanlike intellect and skills.
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
- introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- introsusception — intussusception.
- intussusception — a taking within.
- 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.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- isothiocyanates — Plural form of isothiocyanate.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
- lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.