15-letter words containing r, e, l
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
- immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- imperial system — a system of measurement units, including the foot, pound, and second, as well as miles and yards
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- impressibleness — The state of being impressible; impressibility.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in all weathers — If you say that someone does something in all weathers, you mean that they do it regularly whether the weather is good or bad.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
- inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
- inappropriately — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
- indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indian licorice — rosary pea.
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
- inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- inertial system — a frame of reference in which a body remains at rest or moves with constant linear velocity unless acted upon by forces: any frame of reference that moves with constant velocity relative to an inertial system is itself an inertial system.
- inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- inguinal hernia — a common type of hernia in which a loop of the intestine protrudes directly through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin region.
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)