14-letter words containing r, e, s, t
- in parenthesis — You say 'in parenthesis' to indicate that you are about to add something before going back to the main topic.
- in short order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- in the forties — between 40 and 49 degrees in temperature
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- in this regard — on this point
- inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
- incarcerations — Plural form of incarceration.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.
- incrementalism — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
- incrementalist — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- indeterminates — Plural form of indeterminate.
- index register — (processor) A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
- indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
- indifferentism — systematic indifference.
- indifferentist — An advocate of indifferentism.
- indirect costs — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- indiscreetness — Indiscretion.
- indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- industrialised — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- inordinateness — The quality of being inordinate; unreasonable excess.
- inquisiturient — keen to act as an inquisitor
- insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
- inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
- insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
- insertion sort — (algorithm) A sorting algorithm that inserts each item in the proper place into an initially empty list by comparing it with each item in the list until it finds the new element's successor or the end of the list. Compare bubble sort.
- instant camera — a usually portable camera that produces a finished picture shortly after each exposure. Compare Polaroid (def 2).
- instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- integrationist — a person who believes in, supports, or works for social integration.
- intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
- intensitometer — a device used to measure x-ray intensity in radiography in order to determine correct exposure time.
- intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.