14-letter words starting with i
- inland passage — Inside Passage
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- inline element — (web) Any HTML element that is rendered in the same position as normal plain text, i.e. to the right of the preceding text (for left-to-right scripts). This contrasts with a block-level elements that is always placed below the preceding text line. Inline elements typically specify formatting, e.g. (bold), or the kind of content, e.g.
, , though they also include things like inline images () and text areas (
- inner hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- inner mongolia — an administrative division in NE China, adjoining the Mongolian People's Republic. 174,000 sq. mi. (450,660 sq. km). Capital: Hohhot.
- inner-directed — guided by internalized values rather than external pressures.
- innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- innovativeness — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
- inordinateness — The quality of being inordinate; unreasonable excess.
- inorganization — lack of organization.
- inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
- inquisitionist — an inquisitor.
- inquisiturient — keen to act as an inquisitor
- insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
- insatiableness — not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
- insensibleness — Insensibility.
- inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
- insertion mark — a symbol used to show that a missing letter or symbol should be inserted
- insertion sort — (algorithm) A sorting algorithm that inserts each item in the proper place into an initially empty list by comparing it with each item in the list until it finds the new element's successor or the end of the list. Compare bubble sort.
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
- insignificancy — insignificance.
- inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- inspection pit — a hole in the floor of a garage, etc from which the underside of a vehicle can be examined and serviced
- inspirationism — a belief in some form of divine inspiration, esp the belief that Christian Scripture was divinely inspired
- inspirationist — an adherent of inspirationism
- instant access — the ability or access to withdraw (money from a bank) whenever needed
- instant camera — a usually portable camera that produces a finished picture shortly after each exposure. Compare Polaroid (def 2).
- instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
- instantiations — Plural form of instantiation.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- institutionary — of or relating to an institution or institutions; institutional.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
- insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner