15-letter words containing r, i, e, m
- interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
- interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
- interminability — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
- internet number — internet address
- internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
- intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
- irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- james rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
- jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- junior minister — politics
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
- lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- lateral moraine — a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.
- latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
- leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
- lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member