Words starting with I

177 words.

• ichneumon An Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), found in Africa and southern Europe.
• ichor The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
• iconomatic The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in
• iconostasis A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in an Eastern Orthodox church.
• icosagon A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
• idempotence A quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on the outcome; th
• ideonomy A combinatorial "science of ideas", for the categorization and analysis of any kind of idea.
• ideophone A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses,
• idolomancy Divination by idols, images or figures.
• ignoramo A foolish and ignorant person; an ignoramus.
• iktsuarpok The feeling of anticipation while waiting for someone to arrive, often leading to intermittently goi
• ilinx The sensation or altered state of consciousness that is so created, called by sociologist Roger Cail
• illapse A gliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another.
• illaqueate To grab; seize, or catch.
• illecebrous Tending to attract; enticing.
• illeism The practice of (excessively) referring to oneself in the third person.
• illywhacker A small-time confidence trickster or seller of trinkets.
• imaginant imagining; conceiving, or imaginative
• imbecilitate To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
• imbroglio A complicated situation; an entanglement.
• imbrue To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].
• imburse To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
• immarcescible Permanent, enduring; that does not perish.
• immasculate To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.
• immeritorious Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
• imminution reduction; lessening; decrease.
• immure To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
• imparlance Discussion, especially before some action is taken; conference, debate.
• impassion make passionate, instill passion in
• impaste To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
• impatronize To make lord, ruler or master.
• imped a creature without feet
• impedimenta Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially milita
• impeditive Causing or being a hindrance; impeding.
• imperate Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
• impetrable Capable of being obtained or influenced by petition.
• impetrate To obtain by asking; to procure upon request.
• impinguate To fatten; to make fat.
• impletion An act of filling; the state of being full.
• impone To stake; to wager; to pledge.
• imposture The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or
• imprecate To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
• impregn To impregnate; to make fruitful.
• imprescriptible Not subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.
• imprest An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.
• imprimatur An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
• impropriate To appropriate for private use.
• inamorata A female lover or woman with whom one is in love; a mistress.
• inarticulable Not articulable; incapable of being articulated.
• inbeat Occurring on an inward beat.
• inbirth An inner or inward birth
• inblow To blow into; puff up; inflate.
• inbreak To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.
• inbring To bring in; introduce; present; usher in; adduce; induce; cause to come in.
• incantate To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of r
• incarnadine Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
• incastle To add castles to a place.
• incathedrate To officially invest into a position of authority.
• inceptive Beginning; of or relating to inception.
• inchastity Absence of chastity; the quality of being unchaste.
• inchoate Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
• inchoative Initial; as yet unformed; inchoate.
• incide To separate and remove (something); to cut.
• includence The withdrawal of a person within a routine that they cannot escape, a forerunner of pathological me
• incogitancy A lack of thought or thinking.
• incommodity inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage
• incommunicado In a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate.
• inconcussible Unshakable; — Firm; solid.
• inconsideration Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
• increpate To chide; to rebuke; to tell off.
• incunabulum A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
• incurrent Carrying inward; relating to an inward current.
• incurvate To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to.
• indecorum Indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous
• indoles Natural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities (collectively).
• indubitate To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted.
• inelegance The state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, c
• ineluctable Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
• inenarrable That cannot be told; indescribable, inexpressible, unspeakable.
• inenubilable Incapable of being cleared of clouds.
• inerrable Incapable of error; infallible, unerring.
• inescate To allure; to lay a bait for.
• inexpugnable Impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.
• infame To defame; to make infamous.
• infangthief A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves captured w
• infare A party or other celebration held to mark someone's entrance into a new home, especially the arrival
• infaust Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.
• infestuous Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.
• infiltratrix A woman who infiltrates; a female infiltrator.
• infodemic An excessive amount of information concerning a problem such that the solution is made more difficul
• infohazard A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.
• informity Absence of regular form; shapelessness.
• infraordinary Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.
• infrigidate To make (something) cold; to chill.
• infumate Somewhat translucent with a mottled smokey appearance.
• ingeminate To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
• ingenerate Not generated, self-existent.
• ingravidate To impregnate (literal or figurative).
• ingurgitate To swallow greedily or in large amounts.
• inkhorn A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
• inkle Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
• inlapidate To convert into a stony substance; to petrify.
• inlibration The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christian
• innodate (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict;
• inofficious Indifferent to obligation or duty.
• inogorodnie Non-Cossack immigrants to Cossack-controlled land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• inoperation agency; influence; production of effects
• inosculate To homogenize; to make continuous.
• inquietude A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
• insalutary Not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health.
• insanable Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
• insatiate That is not satiated; insatiable.
• insculp To engrave; to carve; to sculpt.
• insee To see into; to observe acutely.
• inselberg A monadnock (isolated mountain).
• insolation The incident radiant energy emitted by the sun which reaches a unit area over a period of time, typi
• instanter immediately; instantly; without delay.
• insuavity Lack of suavity; unpleasantness.
• insuck The act or process of sucking in; absorption.
• insufflate To breathe or blow into or on.
• insula A block of buildings in a Roman town.
• intaglio A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
• intellection The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understandi
• intemerate Pure, undefiled, chaste.
• intempestivity Unseasonability; untimeliness.
• intendant The administrator of an opera house or theater.
• intension Intensity or the act of becoming intense.
• intentive Paying attention; attentive, heedful.
• intercalary Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
• intercalate To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
• intercedent Interceding: Passing between; mediating
• intercident Coming or falling between; happening accidentally.
• interclude To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, t
• intercurrent Coming between, temporally; intervening in time.
• interfluent flowing into one another.
• interjacent Situated between; lying among.
• interlard The abdominal fat of an animal.
• intermede A short musical dramatic piece, of a light, pleasing, and sometimes burlesque character.
• interminate To menace; to threaten.
• intermise interference, intervention or intermediation
• internatal Between pregnancies or births.
• interpassivity A state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the a
• interpellate To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
• interpunct To place points between clauses, words or some letters.
• interregnum A period of time between the end of one monarch's reign and the accession of their successor.
• interrobang A combination of a question mark and an exclamation mark; ⟨!?⟩ or ⟨?!⟩.
• intersecant Crossing, intersecting; (figuratively) clashing, conflicting.
• intersert To put in between other things; to insert.
• intertex To intertwine; to weave or bind together.
• intertwingle To confuse or entangle together; to enmesh, to muddle.
• intervacuum An intervening empty space; a vacant interval.
• interventor One who intervenes; a mediator, especially one designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite
• inthronizate Placed upon a throne; enthroned.
• intort To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe, wind, or wring.
• intrados The inner curve of an arch or vault.
• introvenient Coming in together; entering; commingling.
• intumescent Any substance that swells on exposure to heat, thus increasing in volume and decreasing in density.
• inukshuk A structure of piled stones, used as a landmark and traditionally constructed by the Inuit, often re
• inumbrate To put in shadow; to darken.
• inutile useless; unprofitable.
• inveigle To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
• invigilatrix A woman (or entity given female personification) who invigilates; a female invigilator.
• inviscate To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
• inwit Inward knowledge or understanding.
• inwork Indoor work; work done inside the home.
• irenic Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-con
• irmologion A liturgical book containing irmoi for the various canons chanted during the morning service.
• irrealis An irrealis construct.
• irrefragable Which cannot be refuted; clearly right, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable.
• irremeable Admitting no return; from or by which one cannot return.
• isinglass A thin, transparent sheet of mica (probably from its similarity to true isinglass and/or resulting f
• isogloss A line on a map indicating the geographical boundaries of a linguistic feature.
• isopolity Equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.
• isorhythm A technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern, used in some
• izard A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).
• izzard The letter Z; zed, zee.
• izzat Honour, pride; reputation.