12-letter words containing isi
- disquisition — a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition
- divisibility — the capacity of being divided.
- divisiveness — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- enterprising — Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness.
- episiotomies — Plural form of episiotomy.
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
- fraternising — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- generalising — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- hair-raising — terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- illegalising — Present participle of illegalise.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- incisiveness — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- indecisively — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indigenising — to make indigenous.
- initialising — to set (variables, counters, switches, etc.) to their starting values at the beginning of a program or subprogram.
- inquisitions — Plural form of inquisition.
- inquisitress — a woman who makes an inquisition.
- intervisible — (surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
- invisibility — not visible; not perceptible by the eye: invisible fluid.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- laxadaisical — Misspelling of lackadaisical.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- levalloisian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- mare crisium — (Sea of Crises) a dark plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 66,000 sq. mi. (170,000 sq. km).
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- millisievert — (physics) A unit of ionizing radiation equal to 10-3 sieverts.
- minimalising — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
- misintention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- monopolising — Present participle of monopolise.
- naturalising — Present participle of naturalise.
- neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
- night vision — ability to see at night or in a dim light.
- non-decision — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.