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17-letter words containing r, e, s, i, l, n

  • incomprehensively — In an incomprehensive manner.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
  • industrial estate — industrial park.
  • industrial unrest — business: among employees
  • inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
  • insertion element — a section of DNA that is capable of becoming inserted into another chromosome
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
  • insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
  • interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
  • interdisciplinary — combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
  • internationalists — Plural form of internationalist.
  • internationalness — The state or condition of being international.
  • interprofessional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • interrelationship — reciprocal relation.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • intersectionality — the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively): Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
  • intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
  • intertranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
  • intraspecifically — Between individuals of the same species.
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • isoelectric point — the pH at which a substance is electrically neutral or at which it is at its minimum ionization.
  • it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
  • japanese slippers — (in Malaysia) casual sandals; flip-flops
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • lancashire heeler — a small sturdy dog of a breed with a short thick black or liver-coloured coat with tan markings, often used for herding cattle
  • landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
  • langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • lanthanide series — the series of rare-earth elements of atomic numbers 57 through 71 (lanthanum through lutetium).
  • larmor precession — the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4π times the mass.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • latter-day saints — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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