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16-letter words containing s, u, i, t, e

  • indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
  • inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • 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.
  • infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • institutionalise — Alternative spelling of institutionalize.
  • institutionalize — to make institutional.
  • 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.
  • insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
  • intellectualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intellectualize.
  • intellectualness — Quality of being intellectual.
  • interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
  • intrapreneurship — The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • intussusceptions — Plural form of intussusception.
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • investment trust — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
  • isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
  • joint resolution — a resolution adopted by both branches of a bicameral legislative assembly and requiring the signature of the chief executive to become law.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • justices in eyre — the justices travelling on circuit and presiding over such courts
  • karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • language isolate — isolate (def 9).
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
  • lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
  • lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
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