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15-letter words containing s, m, i, r

  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
  • indeterministic — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
  • inertial system — a frame of reference in which a body remains at rest or moves with constant linear velocity unless acted upon by forces: any frame of reference that moves with constant velocity relative to an inertial system is itself an inertial system.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
  • instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • intemperateness — The quality of being intemperate.
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
  • interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • james rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
  • janissary music — music characteristic of or imitative of that played by a Turkish military band, typically employing cymbals, triangles, bass drum, and Turkish crescents.
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
  • junior minister — politics
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • 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.
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
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