17-letter words containing s, u, n
- industrial action — job action.
- industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
- industrial estate — industrial park.
- industrial injury — an injury sustained by an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
- industrial unrest — business: among employees
- industrialisation — Alternative spelling of industrialization.
- industrialization — the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
- industry standard — an established standard, norm, or requirement in a particular area of business
- inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
- inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
- infinitive clause — a clause containing an infinitive as its main or only verb form, as to speak clearly in Try to speak clearly.
- insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
- instantaneousness — Condition of being instantaneous.
- institutionalised — to make institutional.
- institutionalized — to make institutional.
- institutionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institutionalize.
- instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
- instrumentalities — Plural form of instrumentality.
- insulin treatment — treatment of diabetes with insulin
- insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
- insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
- insurance carrier — company issuing an insurance policy
- insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
- insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
- insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- integral calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with integrals, especially the methods of ascertaining indefinite integrals and applying them to the solution of differential equations and the determining of areas, volumes, and lengths.
- integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
- intellectualising — Give an intellectual character to.
- intellectualistic — Of or relating to intellectualism.
- intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
- interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
- interrupt request — (IRQ) The name of an input found on many processors which causes the processor to suspend normal instruction execution temporarily and to start executing an interrupt handler routine. Such an input may be either "level sensitive" - the interrupt condition will persist as long as the input is active or "edge triggered" - an interrupt is signalled by a low-to-high or high-to-low transition on the input. Some processors have several interrupt request inputs allowing different priority interrupts.
- interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
- intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
- intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
- intrusive testing — (testing) Testing that collects timing and processing information during program execution that may change the behaviour of the software from its behavior in a real environment. Intrusive testing usually involves additional code embedded in the software being tested or additional processes running concurrently with software being tested on the same processor.
- iron constitution — a particularly strong and resistant physical make-up
- island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
- isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
- it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
- jammu and kashmir — official name of Kashmir (def 2).
- japanese chestnut — any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata (American chestnut) which has been virtually destroyed by the chestnut blight, C. sativa (European chestnut) C. mollissima (Chinese chestnut) and C. crenata (Japanese chestnut)
- john of salisbury — c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.
- judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
- jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
- jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
- juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
- keep one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.