15-letter words starting with i
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interfraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
- interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
- interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- interiorization — Act or process of interiorizing.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
- interjectionary — Interjectional.
- interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- interminability — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
- internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
- internal spline — any one of a series of grooves in a mating part into which external splines fit to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
- internal stress — (in metal or glass pieces, or the like) a stress existing within the material as a result of thermal changes, having been worked, or irregularity of molecular structure.
- internalisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of internalization.
- internalization — to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
- internationally — between or among nations; involving two or more nations: international trade.
- internet access — access to the internet for a computer or other device
- internet number — internet address
- internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
- internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
- internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- interpenetrated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpenetrate.
- interpenetrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpenetrate.
- interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
- interpersonally — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interpopulation — Between populations.
- interpretations — Plural form of interpretation.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
- interrelational — Between relations.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
- intertentacular — situated between tentacles
- intertextuality — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.