15-letter words containing r, i, e, m
- 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.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- 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.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- 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 rerum natura — in the nature of things
- in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the majority — the largest group
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- indeterministic — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
- 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 demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
- 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.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
- instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
- instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
- insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intemperateness — The quality of being intemperate.
- interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
- interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
- interchangement — the act of interchanging
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.