14-letter words containing r, i, s, n
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
- 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.
- inapprehension — lack of apprehension.
- inapprehensive — not apprehensive (often followed by of).
- inartistically — Not artistically; in an inartistic manner.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- incarcerations — Plural form of incarceration.
- incense bearer — a person who carries the censer at religious ceremonies
- incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- incorporations — Plural form of incorporation.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- incrementalism — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
- incrementalist — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
- indecorousness — The quality of being indecorous.
- 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 mustard — leaf mustard.
- indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
- indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- 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.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- indiscreetness — Indiscretion.
- indiscriminant — Misspelling of indiscriminate.
- 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.
- industrialists — Plural form of industrialist.
- industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.