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15-letter words starting with in

  • indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
  • indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
  • indeterministic — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
  • indian elephant — See under elephant.
  • indian hawthorn — a southern Chinese evergreen shrub, Raphiolepis indica, of the rose family, having shiny, leathery leaves and pinkish-white flowers in loose clusters.
  • indian licorice — rosary pea.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • indicator board — a device that shows information, such as the arrival and departure times of trains or planes
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
  • indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
  • indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
  • indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • induction motor — a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator.
  • industrial arts — (used with a plural verb) the methods of using tools and machinery, as taught in secondary and technical schools.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
  • ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
  • ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
  • ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
  • inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • inertial system — a frame of reference in which a body remains at rest or moves with constant linear velocity unless acted upon by forces: any frame of reference that moves with constant velocity relative to an inertial system is itself an inertial system.
  • inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
  • inexpensiveness — The state or quality of being inexpensive.
  • inexplicability — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
  • inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
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