19-letter words containing n, i, t, r, a
- in-service training — training that is given to employees during the course of employment
- incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
- indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
- indeterminate vowel — schwa.
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- index of refraction — a number indicating the speed of light in a given medium as either the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in the given medium (absolute index of refraction) or the ratio of the speed of light in a specified medium to that in the given medium (relative index of refraction) Symbol: n.
- index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
- indirect addressing — indirect address
- indirect initiative — a procedure in which a statute or amendment proposed by popular petition must receive legislative consideration before being submitted to the voters.
- induction hardening — a process in which the outer surface of a metal component is rapidly heated by means of induced eddy currents. After rapid cooling the resulting phase transformations produce a hard wear-resistant skin
- inductive reactance — the opposition of inductance to alternating current, equal to the product of the angular frequency of the current times the self-inductance. Symbol: X L.
- industrial accident — an accident that happens to an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- industrial medicine — the study and practice of the health care of employees of large organizations, including measures to prevent accidents, industrial diseases, and stress in the workforce and to monitor the health of executives
- industrial tribunal — (in Northern Ireland and formerly elsewhere in the UK) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
- industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
- indwelling catheter — a hollow tube left implanted in a body canal or organ, especially the bladder, to promote drainage.
- infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
- inflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- informal settlement — a squatter camp
- information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
- information content — the amount of information in something
- information highway — information superhighway
- information officer — someone whose job is to give information to people
- information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
- information service — a service which provides information
- information warfare — the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- inprise corporation — Borland Software Corporation.
- installed user base — user base
- instant photography — photography using an instant camera.
- instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
- instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
- insulating material — anything that is used as insulation
- intangible property — intellectual property, rights ownership
- integration testing — (testing) A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated.
- intensive care unit — the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. Abbreviation: ICU.
- inter-institutional — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- interactive fiction — an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
- intercardinal point — any of the four points of the compass midway between the cardinal points; northeast, southeast, southwest, or northwest.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- interdenominational — occurring between, involving, or common to different religious denominations.
- interdepartmentally — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- interesterification — transesterification.
- interface architect — An interface builder for Motif distributed by Hewlett-Packard (see UIMX).
- interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.