14-letter words containing ter
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- heterostrophic — (of a shell) twisting or turning in a different direction
- heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- holter monitor — a portable electrocardiograph worn by a patient over an extended period of time to assess the effects on heart function of activities of daily living.
- human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
- hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- illiterateness — Quality of being illiterate.
- 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.
- 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.
- in the interim — for the time being, in the meantime
- inalterability — Inalterableness.
- indeterminable — not determinable; incapable of being ascertained.
- indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
- indeterminates — Plural form of indeterminate.
- index register — (processor) A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
- inexterminable — Impossible to exterminate.
- inferoanterior — below and in front.
- inkjet printer — a high-speed typing or printing process in which charged droplets of ink issuing from nozzles are directed onto paper under computer control.
- intensitometer — a device used to measure x-ray intensity in radiography in order to determine correct exposure time.
- inter-american — of or relating to some or all of the countries of North, Central, and South America.
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- inter-epidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
- inter-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
- inter-parental — of or relating to a parent.
- inter-particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- inter-regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- interactionist — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- interanimation — mutual animation
- interarticular — of or relating to the joints.
- interarytenoid — pertaining to either of two small cartilages on top of the cricoid cartilage at the upper, back part of the larynx.
- interbank rate — The interbank rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
- intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
- interconnected — to connect with one another.
- interconnector — That which interconnects.
- interconnexion — Dated form of interconnection.