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16-letter words containing t, e, s, c

  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
  • indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • 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.
  • infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • infostreet, inc. — (company)   An Internet consulting and development company dedicated to assisting companies in establishing an Internet presence. InfoStreet develope Internet strategies, design and create web pages, and host and maintain websites. InfoStreet, has been recognized by PC/Computing as the "Best of the Top Home Page Services" (August 1996) and has been featured in Netguide magazine and the Wiley and Son's Electronic Marketing book.
  • insect repellent — chemical that deters insects
  • 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.
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
  • intellectualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intellectualize.
  • intellectualness — Quality of being intellectual.
  • intensifications — Plural form of intensification.
  • inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
  • interconnections — Plural form of interconnection.
  • interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
  • intercrystalline — situated or passing between the crystals of a substance.
  • interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
  • interdependences — Plural form of interdependence.
  • interhemispheric — of, relating to, or between hemispheres, as of the earth: interhemispheric cooperation.
  • 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
  • internet society — (body)   (ISOC) A non-profit, professional membership organisation which facilitates and supports the technical evolution of the Internet, stimulates interest in and educates the scientific and academic communities, industry and the public about the technology, uses and applications of the Internet, and promotes the development of new applications for the system. The Society provides a forum for discussion and collaboration in the operation and use of the global Internet infrastructure. The Internet Society publishes a quarterly newsletter, the Internet Society News, and holds an annual conference, INET. The development of Internet technical standards takes place under the auspices of the Internet Society with substantial support from the Corporation for National Research Initiatives under a cooperative agreement with the US Federal Government.
  • intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
  • introspectionist — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
  • intussusceptions — Plural form of intussusception.
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • 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.
  • it's no accident — You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
  • jacques cousteau — Jacques Yves [zhahk eev] /ʒɑk iv/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, French naval officer, author, and underseas explorer: developed the Aqua-Lung.
  • janet ip service — (networking)   (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
  • justices in eyre — the justices travelling on circuit and presiding over such courts
  • kekulé structure — the structure of many molecules, notably benzene, suggested by Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–96), the German chemist
  • kepler telescope — astronomical telescope.
  • keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
  • 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
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • lake saint clair — a lake between SE Michigan and Ontario: linked with Lake Huron by the St Clair River and with Lake Erie by the Detroit River. Area: 1191 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • lattice constant — a parameter, either a measure of length or angle, that defines the size and shape of the unit cell of a crystal lattice.
  • lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
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