15-letter words containing t, i, e, r, d
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
- ichthyodorylite — a fossilised fish-spine
- identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
- identity crisis — a period or episode of psychological distress, often occurring in adolescence but sometimes in adulthood, when a person seeks a clearer sense of self and an acceptable role in society.
- identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- identity parade — law: police lineup
- identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- 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.
- indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
- indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- interdependence — the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other: Globalization of economies leads to an ever-increasing interdependence of countries.