17-letter words containing r, i, m
- 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
- insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
- insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
- insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- intercolumniation — the space between two adjacent columns, usually the clear space between the lower parts of the shafts.
- intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
- intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
- interdepartmental — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
- interim financing — temporary financing
- interior minister — the minister who is responsible for domestic affairs
- intermediate card — a card used in the carding process to transfer sliver from the breaker card to the finisher card.
- intermediate care — an intermediate level of healthcare for chronically ill, disabled, or elderly people, especially in a facility for this purpose.
- intermediate host — the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.
- internal examiner — an examiner from the same college or university as the students who are being examined
- internal medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.
- intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- intradepartmental — Within a department.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- invincible armada — Armada.
- invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
- irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
- irrigation system — a system of supplying (land) with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops
- isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
- isomorphism class — (mathematics) A collection of all the objects isomorphic to a given object. Talking about the isomorphism class (of a poset, say) ensures that we will only consider its properties as a poset, and will not consider other incidental properties it happens to have.
- it doesn't matter — You say 'it doesn't matter' to tell someone who is apologizing to you that you are not angry or upset, and that they should not worry.
- jalal ud-din rumi — Jalal ud-din [Persian jah-lahl ood-deen,, oo d-,, ja-] /Persian dʒɑˈlɑl udˈdin,, ʊd-,, dʒæ-/ (Show IPA), Jalal ud-din Rumi.
- jammu and kashmir — official name of Kashmir (def 2).
- jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
- job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
- journeyman joiner — a joiner who is qualified to work in the employment of another
- judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
- jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
- kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
- key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
- lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
- 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.
- lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
- lan administrator — (job) A person who installs and maintains LAN hardware and software. A LAN administrator troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He installs new users, performs system backups and data recovery, and resolves LAN communications problems.
- 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.
- large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
- 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.
- latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.