14-letter words containing n, i, e, c
- indiscreetness — Indiscretion.
- indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indistinctness — not distinct; not clearly marked or defined: indistinct markings.
- induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
- ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- inefficiencies — Plural form of inefficiency.
- ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
- inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
- inexplicitness — The state or condition of being inexplicit.
- infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people
- infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inference rule — (logic) A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
- inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- injection pump — An injection pump is a device that supplies fuel under pressure to the injector of a fuel injection system.
- injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
- inner-directed — guided by internalized values rather than external pressures.
- innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
- insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
- inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- inspection pit — a hole in the floor of a garage, etc from which the underside of a vehicle can be examined and serviced
- instant access — the ability or access to withdraw (money from a bank) whenever needed
- instant camera — a usually portable camera that produces a finished picture shortly after each exposure. Compare Polaroid (def 2).
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- intellectually — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
- intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
- inter-american — of or relating to some or all of the countries of North, Central, and South America.
- inter-epidemic — 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.
- inter-particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- interactionist — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- interarticular — of or relating to the joints.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
- intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.