17-letter words containing n, o, t
- immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
- impersonalization — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
- implicit function — See at implicit (def 4).
- 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.
- 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.
- imputation system — a former taxation system in which some, or all, of the corporation tax on a company was treated as a tax credit on account of the income tax paid by its shareholders on their dividends; discontinued from 1999
- in a fit of pique — If someone does something in a fit of pique, they do it suddenly because they are annoyed at being not treated properly.
- 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 broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- in good condition — person: fit and healthy
- in line/into line — If you keep someone in line or bring them into line, you make them obey you, or you make them behave in the way you want them to.
- in mint condition — looking as good as new
- in one's own time — outside paid working hours
- in recognition of — If something is done in recognition of someone's achievements, it is done as a way of showing official appreciation of them.
- in the altogether — wholly; entirely; completely; quite: altogether fitting.
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- in the front line — Someone who is in the front line has to play a very important part in defending or achieving something.
- 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.
- in the process of — If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it.
- in the same canoe — of the same tribe
- in/into disrepair — If something is in disrepair or is in a state of disrepair, it is broken or in bad condition.
- in/out of fashion — If something is in fashion, it is popular and approved of at a particular time. If it is out of fashion, it is not popular or approved of.
- in/out of keeping — If one thing is in keeping with another, it is suitable in relation to that thing. If one thing is out of keeping with another, it is not suitable in relation to that thing.
- in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
- inappropriateness — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
- incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incomplete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
- incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
- inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
- inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
- indecent exposure — the intentional exposure of one's body's privates in a manner that gives offense against accepted or prescribed behavior.
- independent axiom — in a set of axioms, one that cannot be proved by using the others in the set.
- indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
- 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
- indicator species — See at indicator (def 6).
- indicial equation — an equation that is obtained from a given linear differential equation and that indicates whether a solution in power series form exists for the differential equation.
- indirect question — An indirect question is the same as a reported question.
- indirect taxation — duty paid on goods or services
- individualisation — Alternative spelling of individualization.
- individualization — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
- indoleacetic acid — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 10 H 9 NO 2 , a natural plant hormone, used especially for stimulating growth and root formation in plant cutting.
- induction furnace — a type of electric furnace used for melting a charge of scrap by the heat produced by its own electrical resistance.