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15-letter words containing s, i, l, c, a

  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • insurance class — An insurance class is a type of insurance coverage such as liability, health, legal expenses, or construction risk.
  • insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
  • intellectualise — to seek or consider the rational content or form of.
  • intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • intellectualist — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
  • interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
  • intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
  • intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
  • intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • intrinsicalness — The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • irrationalistic — Of or relating to irrationalism.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
  • isoamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used in flavorings, perfumery, and as a solvent. Compare banana oil (def 1).
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
  • jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lackadaisically — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • learner's chain — an inexperienced team of slaughtermen working in a freezing works
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
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