16-letter words containing s, i, a, m
- infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
- inmos transputer — transputer
- installment plan — a system for paying for an item in fixed amounts at specified intervals.
- institutionalism — the system of institutions or organized societies devoted to public, charitable, or similar purposes.
- instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
- instrumentalists — Plural form of instrumentalist.
- insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
- inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
- interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- interest payment — a payment of interest on a loan or mortgage
- interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
- intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
- interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
- interministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
- internationalism — the principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good, sometimes as contrasted with nationalism, or devotion to the interests of a particular nation.
- intertestamental — of or relating to the period between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.
- intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
- isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- kaposi's sarcoma — a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
- karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
- keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
- king james bible — Authorized Version.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- kolyma mountains — a mountain range in NE Siberia, Russia, near the Sea of Okhotsk, rising to over 6000 feet (1830 meters).
- kunlun mountains — mountain system in W China, between Tibet & Xinjiang: highest peak, c. 25,300 ft (7,711 m)
- lachryma christi — a table wine produced from grapes grown near Vesuvius, in Italy.
- lateral meristem — meristem located along the sides of a part, as a stem or root.
- latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
- law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
- lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
- lithium stearate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, LiC 18 H 35 O 2 , used chiefly in cosmetics, in plastics, and as a lubricant in powder metallurgy.
- little smalltalk — A line-oriented near-subset of Smalltalk-80 written in C by Tim Budd <[email protected]>. Version 3 runs on Unix, IBM PC, Atari and VMS.
- long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
- lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
- luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.