13-letter words containing r, i, o, t
- interjunction — an act of joining; combining.
- interlocation — A placing or coming between; interposition.
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interlunation — the interlunar period.
- intermediator — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intermissions — Plural form of intermission.
- intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- intermountain — located between mountains or mountain ranges: an intermontane lake.
- international — between or among nations; involving two or more nations: international trade.
- internet worm — (networking, security) The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on machines it infected, which quickly used up all available processor time on those systems. Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
- interneuronal — (neurology) Between neurons.
- interobserver — someone or something that observes.
- interoception — Any of the senses that detect conditions within the body.
- interoceptive — pertaining to interoceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- interoceptors — a receptor, especially of the viscera, responding to stimuli originating from within the body.
- interoperable — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interoperably — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interoperates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interoperate.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpersonal — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
- interpetiolar — situated between petioles, or situated between the axis and a petiole
- interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
- interpolation — extrapolation
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interposition — the act or fact of interposing or the condition of being interposed.
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- interregional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- interrelation — reciprocal relation.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- interrogating — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogative — of, relating to, or conveying a question.
- interrogators — Plural form of interrogator.
- interrogatory — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
- intersections — Plural form of intersection.
- intersessions — Plural form of intersession.
- intersocietal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- interspersion — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
- intertropical — situated or occurring between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn; tropical.
- interventions — Plural form of intervention.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- into thin air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate