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14-letter words containing s, e, c, r

  • ice-cream soda — An ice-cream soda is a dessert made from ice cream, fruit-flavoured syrup, and soda water. It is usually served in a tall glass.
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
  • idiosyncracies — Plural form of idiosyncracy.
  • idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
  • ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
  • improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
  • in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
  • 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.
  • inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • 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.
  • indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • instant camera — a usually portable camera that produces a finished picture shortly after each exposure. Compare Polaroid (def 2).
  • insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
  • intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
  • interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
  • interactionist — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
  • intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
  • interinsurance — reciprocal insurance.
  • interiorscaper — One who works in interiorscaping.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
  • intersectional — of or relating to to an intersection, or a place where two or more roads, lines, or elements meet: intersectional traffic flow.
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