13-letter words containing p, r, e, c, i, t
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- in respect to — with regard to
- in retrospect — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- in triplicate — in three copies, times three
- incorporative — Tending to incorporate or include things.
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- inspectorates — Plural form of inspectorate.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- interceptable — Able to be intercepted.
- interceptions — Plural form of interception.
- intercropping — Present participle of intercrop.
- interepidemic — 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.
- interiorscape — An installation of plants decorating the inside of a building.
- interoception — Any of the senses that detect conditions within the body.
- interoceptive — pertaining to interoceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- interoceptors — a receptor, especially of the viscera, responding to stimuli originating from within the body.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- interparticle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
- intertropical — situated or occurring between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn; tropical.
- intraparticle — Within a particle.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspection — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
- irreciprocity — lack or absence of reciprocity
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- little prince — an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.