14-letter words containing e
- Île de la cité — a natural island in the river Seine, in the centre of the city of Paris, France, the Île de la Cité is the location where the medieval city was refounded
- Îles marquises — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegitimately — born of parents who are not married to each other; born out of wedlock: an illegitimate child.
- illegitimation — (obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; bastardization.
- illegitimatize — to make illegitimate: The decree illegitimatized his heirs.
- illegitimizing — illegitimatize.
- illiterateness — Quality of being illiterate.
- illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
- immaterialized — Simple past tense and past participle of immaterialize.
- immaterializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immaterialize.
- immaterialness — The state of being immaterial; immateriality.
- immelmann turn — a maneuver in which an airplane makes a half loop, then resumes its normal, level position by making a half roll: used to gain altitude while turning to fly in the opposite direction.
- immersion foot — an abnormal condition of the foot caused by prolonged exposure to water, characterized by pathological changes in the skin, blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- immiserisation — the process of immiserising
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
- impact printer — (printer) The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.
- imparidigitate — having an odd number of fingers on each limb
- impassableness — The quality of being impassable.
- impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
- impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
- imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- imperial eagle — a brown eagle, Aquila heliaca, of Asia and southern Europe: the subspecies A. heliaca adalberti is endangered.
- impermeability — not permeable; impassable.
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- impersonations — Plural form of impersonation.
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
- imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
- implementation — the act of implementing, or putting into effect; fulfillment: The implementation of policies to conserve energy will involve personal sacrifice.
- implied reader — the hypothetical reader that a work is addressed to, whose thoughts, attitudes, etc, may differ from an actual reader's
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.