14-letter words starting with i
- ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- inefficiencies — Plural form of inefficiency.
- ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
- inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
- inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
- inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- inexplicitness — The state or condition of being inexplicit.
- inexpressibles — underwear
- inexterminable — Impossible to exterminate.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people
- infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inference rule — (logic) A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
- inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- inferoanterior — below and in front.
- infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
- infix notation — (language) One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in infix notation the functions are placed between their operands, such as "1+2". Although infix notation is limited to binary functions most languages mix infix notation with prefix or postfix notation, as a form of syntactic sugar.
- inflammability — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflation rate — economy: price increase
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- infralapsarian — a person who believes in infralapsarianism.
- inframaxillary — (anatomy) Under the lower jaw; submaxillary.
- infrangibility — The quality of being infrangible.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
- ingratiatingly — In an ingratiating manner.
- ingressiveness — Quality of being ingressive.
- inhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhabitiveness — the disposition to remain in one place; the inclination not to leave home
- inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
- inheritability — capable of being inherited.
- inimitableness — The quality of being inimitable.
- iniquitousness — Quality of being iniquitous.
- initialisation — Alternative spelling of initialization.
- initialization — (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- injection pump — An injection pump is a device that supplies fuel under pressure to the injector of a fuel injection system.
- injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
- injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
- 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.