14-letter words containing o, l, i, c
- hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
- hypostatically — In a hypostatic manner.
- hypothetically — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
- ichthyological — Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
- idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- import licence — a government-issued document that authorizes the importation of goods into its country
- in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- inapproachable — not approachable.
- inarticulation — (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
- inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- incomes policy — a government policy to curb inflation that relies on voluntary compliance rather than on mandatory wage, price, or profit controls.
- incommodiously — In an incommodious manner.
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incommunicably — In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
- incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- inconscionable — Obsolete form of unconscionable.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- inconsistently — lacking in harmony between the different parts or elements; self-contradictory: an inconsistent story.
- incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
- incontrollable — uncontrollable.
- inconveniently — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- incorporeality — not corporeal or material; insubstantial.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- induction coil — a transformer for producing high-voltage alternating current from a low-voltage direct current, consisting essentially of two concentric coils with a common soft-iron core, a primary coil with relatively few windings of heavy wire, and a secondary coil with many turns of fine wire. Excitation of the primary coil by rapidly interrupted or variable current induces high voltage in the secondary coil.
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
- insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- 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.
- intercorrelate — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.