| I: | I the ninth letter of the English alphabet takes its form from the Phd2nician through the Latin and the Greek The Phd2nician letter was probably of Egyptian origin Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I or long e as in mete Etymologically I is most closely related to e y j g as in dint dent beverage L bibere E kin AS cynn E thin AS ynne E dominion donjon dungeon |
| I: | See Y |
| I: | The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself |
| IAA: | Indoleacetic acid a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots |
| Iamatology: | Materia Medica that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies |
| Iamb: | An iambus or iambic |
| Iambic: | Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented as an iambic foot |
| Iambic: | An iambic foot an iambus |
| Iambical: | Iambic |
| Iambically: | In a iambic manner after the manner of iambics |
| Iambize: | To satirize in iambics to lampoon |
| Iambus: | A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one as in or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one as invent an iambic See the Couplet under Iambic n |
| dIanthina: | Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina of which various species are found living in mid ocean called also purple shell and violet snail |
| Iatraliptic: | Treating diseases by anointing and friction as the iatraliptic method |
| Iatric: | Of or pertaining to medicine or to medical men |
| Iatrochemical: | Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry or to the iatrochemists |
| Iatrochemist: | A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles one who practiced iatrochemistry |
| Iatrochemistry: | Chemistry applied to or used in medicine used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders in the 17th century who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles |
| Iatromathematical: | Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine |
| Iatromathematician: | One of a school of physicians in Italy about the middle of the 17th century who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body and hence were eager student of anatomy opposed to the iatrochemists |
| Iberian: | Of or pertaining to Iberia |
| Iberis: | A genus of Old World herbs and subshrubs including the candytuft |
| Iberomesornis: | A sparrowsized fossil bird of the Lower Cretaceous having a strutlike pectoral bone and vestigial tail found in Spain considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds |
| Ibex: | One of several species of wild goats having very large recurved horns transversely ridged in front called also steinbok |
| dIbidem: | In the same place abbreviated ibid or ib |
| Ibis: | Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera of the family Ibid inhabiting both the Old World and the New Numerous species are known They are large wading birds having a long curved beak and feed largely on reptiles |
| ible: | See able |
| IBRD: | The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
| Ibsen: | Henrik Ibsen 18281906 Norwegian poet and dramatist |
| Ibsenian: | of or pertaining to Henrik Ibsen |
| Ibsenism: | The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen 18281906 Norwegian poet and dramatist whose bestknown plays deal with conventional hypocrisies the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem |
| ibuprofen: | a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic Advil and Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets |
| ic: | A suffix signifying in general relating to or characteristic of as historic hygienic telegraphic etc |
| icaco: | A small tropical American tree Chrysobalanus icaco bearing edible plumlike fruit |
| Icarian: | Soaring too high for safety like Icarus adventurous in flight |
| ICBM: | An intercontinental ballistic missile a longrange ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another Contrasted with IRBM |
| Ice: | Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold frozen water It is a white or transparent colorless substance crystalline brittle and viscoidal Its specific gravity 092 that of water at 4f8 C being 10 being less than that of water ice floats |
| Ice: | To cover with ice to convert into ice or into something resembling ice |
| Iceberg: | A large mass of ice generally floating in the ocean |
| Icebird: | An Arctic sea bird as the Arctic fulmar |
| iceboat: | A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation an icebreaker |
| Icebound: | Totally surrounded with ice so as to be incapable of advancing as an icebound vessel also surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access as an icebound coast |
| icebreaker: | a ship with a reinforced bow and powerful engines designed to break up layers of ice on waterways and keep channels open for navigation |
| Icebuilt: | Composed of ice |
| icecap: | a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land eg the polar regions or a mountain peak |
| iceclogged: | having flow restricted by ice of rivers or conduits as iceclogged rivers |
| icecold: | as cold as ice extremely cold |
| icefree: | free of ice and open to travel of water routes as an icefree channel in the river |
| Iced: | Covered with ice |
| Icefall: | A frozen waterfall or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall |
| icehouse: | a building used for storing ice especially one built partly below ground and insulated so as to preserve ice obtained during the winter from frozen lakes or rivers |
| Icelander: | A native or one of the Scandinavian people of Iceland |
| Icelandic: | Of or pertaining to Iceland relating to or resembling the Icelanders |
| Icelandic: | The language of the Icelanders It is one of the Scandinavian group and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken |
| Icelandmoss: | A kind of lichen Cetraria Icelandica found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent |
| Icelandspar: | A transparent variety of calcite the best of which is obtained in Iceland It is used for the prisms of the polariscope because of its strong double refraction Cf Calcite |
| Iceman: | A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice as among glaciers |
| Iceplant: | A plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum sprinkled with pellucid watery vesicles which glisten like ice It is native along the Mediterranean in the Canaries and in South Africa Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic its ashes are used in Spain in making glass |
| Icequake: | The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice often due to contraction from extreme cold |
| Iceskate: | A shoe with a metal runner called a blade attached to permit the wearer to glide on ice |
| Iceskater: | One who skates on ice wearing an ice skate esp an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice wearing ice skates a speed skater or a figure skater |
| Ich: | I |
| Ichneumon: | Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes and family Viverrid Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa The Egyptian species Herpestes ichneumon which ranges to Spain and Palestine is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians The common species of India Herpestes griseus known as the mongoose has similar habits and is often domesticated It is noted for killing the cobra |
| Ichneumonidan: | Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonid or ichneumon flies |
| dIchneumonides: | The ichneumon flies |
| Ichnite: | A fossil footprint as the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone |
| Ichnographic: | Of or pertaining to ichonography describing a ground plot |
| Ichnography: | A horizontal section of a building or other object showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale a ground plan a map also the art of making such plans |
| Ichnolite: | A fossil footprint an ichnite |
| Ichnolithology: | Same as Ichnology |
| Ichnological: | Of or pertaining to ichnology |
| Ichnology: | The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints |
| Ichnoscopy: | The search for the traces of anything |
| Ichor: | An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods |
| dIchorhmia: | Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances |
| Ichorous: | Of or like ichor thin watery serous sanious |
| Ichthidin: | A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes |
| Ichthin: | A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes |
| Ichthulin: | A substance from the yolk of salmons eggs |
| Ichthus: | In early Christian and ecclesiastical art an emblematic fish or the Greek word for fish which combined the initials of the Greek words Ihsoys Christos Qeoy Gios Swthr Jesus Christ Son of God Savior |
| Ichthyic: | Like or pertaining to fishes |
| Ichthyocol: | Fish glue isinglass a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes |
| Ichthyocoprolite: | Fossil dung of fishes |
| Ichthyodorulite: | One of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates |
| Ichthyography: | A treatise on fishes |
| Ichthyoid: | Somewhat like a fish having some of the characteristics of fishes said of some amphibians |
| Ichthyol: | An oily substance prepared by the dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases |
| Ichthyolatry: | Worship of fishes or of fishshaped idols |
| Ichthyolite: | A fossil fish or fragment of a fish |
| Ichthyologic: | Of or pertaining to ichthyology |
| Ichthyologist: | One versed in or who studies ichthyology |
| Ichthyology: | The natural history of fishes that branch of zo94logy which relates to fishes including their structure classification and habits |
| Ichthyomancy: | Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes |
| dIchthyomorpha: | The Urodela |
| Ichthyomorphic: | Fishshaped as the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria |
| Ichthyophagist: | One who eats or subsists on fish |
| Ichthyophagous: | Eating or subsisting on fish |
| Ichthyophagy: | The practice of eating or living upon fish |
| Ichthyophthalmite: | See Apophyllite |
| dIchthyophthira: | A division of copepod crustaceans including numerous species parasitic on fishes |
| dIchthyopsida: | A grand division of the Vertebrata including the Amphibia and Fishes |
| dIchthyopterygia: | See Ichthyosauria |
| dIchthyopterygium: | The typical limb or lateral fin of fishes |
| dIchthyornis: | An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebr and sharp conical teeth set in sockets Its wings were well developed It is the type of the order Odontotorm |
| Ichthyosaur: | One of the Ichthyosaura |
| dIchthyosauria: | An extinct order of marine reptiles including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms called also Ichthyopterygia They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period |
| Ichthyosaurian: | Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria |
| dIchthyosaurus: | An extinct genus of marine reptiles so named from their short biconcave vertebr resembling those of fishes Several species varying in length from ten to thirty feet are known from the Liassic O94litic and Cretaceous formations |
| dIchthyosis: | A disease in which the skin is thick rough and scaly called also fishskin |
| Ichthyotomist: | One skilled in ichthyotomy |
| Ichthyotomy: | The anatomy or dissection of fishes |
| dIchthys: | Same as Ichthus |
| Icicle: | A pendent and usually conical mass of ice formed by freezing of dripping water as the icicles on the eaves of a house |
| Icicled: | Having icicles attached |
| Icily: | In an icy manner coldly |
| Iciness: | The state or quality of being icy or very cold frigidity |
| Icing: | A coating or covering resembling ice as of sugar and milk or white of egg frosting |
| Ickle: | An icicle |
| icky: | very bad repulsive unpleasant distasteful |
| icon: | An image or representation a portrait or pretended portrait |
| Iconical: | Pertaining to or consisting of images pictures or representations of any kind |
| Iconism: | The formation of a figure representation or semblance a delineation or description |
| Iconize: | To form an image or likeness of |
| Iconoclasm: | The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts image breaking |
| Iconoclast: | A breaker or destroyer of images or idols a determined enemy of idol worship |
| Iconoclastic: | Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts or to image breaking |
| Iconodule: | One who serves images opposed to an iconoclast |
| Iconograph: | An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book |
| Iconographer: | A maker of images |
| Iconographic: | Of or pertaining to iconography |
| Iconography: | The art or representation by pictures or images the description or study of portraiture or representation as of persons as the iconography of the ancients |
| Iconolater: | One who worships images |
| Iconolatry: | The worship of images as symbols distinguished from idolatry the worship of images themselves |
| Iconology: | The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images Cf Iconography |
| Iconomachy: | Hostility to images as objects of worship |
| Iconomania: | A mania or infatuation for icons whether as objects of devotion bricabrac or curios |
| Iconomical: | Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship |
| Iconophilist: | A student or lover of the study of iconography |
| Icosahedral: | Having twenty equal sides or faces |
| Icosahedron: | A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces |
| dIcosandria: | A Linnan class of plants having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx |
| Icosandrian: | Pertaining to the class Icosandria having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx |
| Icositetrahedron: | A twentyfoursided solid a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron |
| ics: | A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences systems etc as acoustics mathematics dynamics statistics politics athletics |
| Icteric: | A remedy for the jaundice |
| Icteric: | Pertaining to or affected with jaundice |
| Icteritious: | Yellow of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice |
| Icteroid: | Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice yellow as an icteroid tint or complexion |
| dIcterus: | The jaundice |
| Ictic: | Pertaining to or caused by a blow sudden abrupt |
| Ictiobus: | A genus of fishes comprising the buffalofishes |
| ictodosaur: | An extinct reptile intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals |
| Ictodosauria: | An order of extinct reptiles of the Upper Triassic |
| dIctus: | The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word Cf Arsis |
| Icy: | Pertaining to resembling or abounding in ice cold frosty |
| Icypearled: | Spangled with ice |
| ID: | any document testifying to teh identity of the bearer especially a card or badge |
| Id: | A contraction from I would or I had as Id go if I could |
| Id: | A small freshwater cyprinoid fish Leuciscus idus or Idus idus of Europe A domesticated variety colored like the goldfish is called orfe in Germany |
| id: | That part of a persons psyche which is the unconscious source of impulses seeking gratification or pleasure the impulses are usually modified by the ego and superego before being acted upon |
| Idahoan: | a resident of Idaho |
| Idalian: | Of or pertaining to Idalium a mountain city in Cyprus or to Venus to whom it was sacred |
| Ide: | Same as first Id the fish |
| ide: | A suffix used to denote a The nonmetallic or negative element or radical in a binary compound as oxide sulphide chloride b A compound which is an anhydride as glycolide phthalide c Any one of a series of derivatives as indogenide glucoside etc |
| Idea: | The transcript image or picture of a visible object that is formed by the mind also a similar image of any object whatever whether sensible or spiritual |
| Ideal: | Existing in idea or thought conceptional intellectual mental as ideal knowledge |
| Ideal: | A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection a model of excellence beauty etc |
| Idealess: | Destitute of an idea |
| idealise: | Same as idealize |
| idealisation: | Same as idealization |
| Idealism: | The quality or state of being ideal |
| Idealist: | One who idealizes one who forms picturesque fancies one given to romantic expectations |
| Idealistic: | Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories |
| Ideality: | The quality or state of being ideal |
| Idealization: | The act or process of idealizing |
| Idealize: | To make ideal to consider as ideal to give an ideal form or value to to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to as to idealize real life |
| Idealize: | To form ideals |
| Idealizer: | An idealist |
| Ideally: | In an ideal manner by means of ideals mentally |
| Idealogic: | Of or pertaining to an idealogue or to idealization |
| Idealogue: | One given to fanciful ideas or theories a theorist a spectator |
| Ideat: | The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence |
| Ideate: | To form in idea to fancy |
| Ideation: | The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas the exercise of this capacity the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought |
| Ideational: | Pertaining to or characterized by ideation |
| Idem: | The same the same as above often abbreviated id |
| Identic: | Identical |
| Identical: | The same the selfsame the very same not different as the identical person or thing |
| Identic: | In diplomacy esp in the form identic precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government |
| Identically: | In an identical manner with respect to identity |
| Identicalness: | The quality or state of being identical sameness |
| Identifiable: | Capable of being identified |
| Identification: | The act of identifying or proving to be the same also the state of being identified |
| identified: | recognized having the identity established |
| Identify: | To make to be the same to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect to consider as the same in any relation |
| Identify: | To become the same to coalesce in interest purpose use effect etc |
| identifying: | serving to distinguish or identify an object person species or group as we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features |
| Identikit: | A set of images containing a wide variety of facial features such as noses hairlines chins etc on transparencies which can be overlayed in combinations to build up a picture of a person it is used by police agencies to create concrete images of a crime suspect from the descriptions of witnesses the image created with the kit is also called an Identikit or more properly an Identikit picture |
| Identism: | The doctrine taught by Schelling that matter and mind and subject and object are identical in the Absolute called also the system of identity or doctrine of identity |
| Identity: | The state or quality of being identical or the same sameness |
| Ideo: | A combining form from the Gr idea |
| Ideogenical: | Of or relating to ideology |
| Ideogeny: | The science which treats of the origin of ideas |
| Ideogram: | An original pictorial element of writing a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound but only an idea |
| Ideograph: | Same as Ideogram |
| Ideographic: | Of or pertaining to an ideogram representing ideas by symbols independently of sounds as 9 represents not the word bdnineb8 but the idea of the number itself |
| Ideographics: | The system of writing in ideographic characters also anything so written |
| Ideography: | The representation of ideas independently of sounds or in an ideographic manner as sometimes is done in shorthand writing etc |
| ideologic: | concerned with or suggestive of ideas as an ideologic argument |
| Ideological: | Of or pertaining to ideology |
| Ideologist: | One who treats of ideas one who theorizes or idealizes one versed in the science of ideas or who advocates the doctrines of ideology |
| ideologue: | an adherent to or advocate of some ideology3 |
| Ideology: | The science of ideas |
| Ideomotion: | An ideomotor movement |
| Ideomotor: | Applied to those actions or muscular movements which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech or in writing while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence |
| Ides: | The fifteenth day of March May July and October and the thirteenth day of the other months |
| Idio: | A combining form from the Greek idios meaning private personal peculiar distinct |
| Idioblast: | An individual cell differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size structure or contents |
| dIdiocrasis: | Idiocracy |
| Idiocrasy: | Peculiarity of constitution that temperament or state of constitution which is peculiar to a person idiosyncrasy |
| Idiocratic: | Peculiar in constitution or temperament idiosyncratic |
| Idiocy: | The condition or quality of being an idiot absence or marked deficiency of sense and intelligence |
| Idiocyclophanous: | Same as Idiophanous |
| Idioelectric: | Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties capable of becoming electrified by friction opposed to anelectric |
| Idiograph: | A mark or signature peculiar to an individual a trademark |
| Idiographic: | Of or pertaining to an idiograph |
| Idiolatry: | Selfworship excessive selfesteem |
| idiolect: | the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life |
| Idiom: | The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language the genius or cast of a language |
| Idiomatic: | Of or pertaining to or conforming to the mode of expression peculiar to a language as an idiomatic meaning an idiomatic phrase |
| Idiomorphic: | Idiomorphous |
| Idiomorphous: | Having a form of its own |
| Idiomuscular: | Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle produced by a mechanical irritant |
| Idiopathetic: | Idiopathic |
| Idiopathic: | Pertaining to idiopathy characterizing a disease arising primarily and not in consequence of some other disease or injury opposed to symptomatic sympathetic and traumatic |
| Idiopathy: | A peculiar or individual characteristic or affection |
| Idiophanous: | Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope as certain crystals |
| Idioplasm: | Same as Idioplasma |
| dIdioplasma: | That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission distinguished from the other portion which is termed nutritive plasma See Hygroplasm |
| Idiorepulsive: | Repulsive by itself as the idiorepulsive power of heat |
| Idiosyncrasy: | A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament a characteristic belonging to and distinguishing an individual characteristic susceptibility idiocrasy eccentricity |
| Idiosyncratic: | Of peculiar temper or disposition belonging to ones peculiar and individual character |
| Idiot: | A man in private station as distinguished from one holding a public office |
| Idiotcy: | Idiocy |
| Idioted: | Rendered idiotic befooled |
| Idiothermic: | Selfheating warmed as the body of animal by process going on within itself |
| Idiotic: | Common simple |
| Idiotically: | In an idiotic manner |
| Idioticon: | A dictionary of a peculiar dialect or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country a glossary |
| Idiotish: | Like an idiot foolish |
| Idiotism: | An idiom a form mode of expression or signification peculiar to a language |
| Idiotize: | To become stupid |
| Idiotry: | Idiocy |
| Idle: | Of no account useless vain trifling unprofitable thoughtless silly barren |
| Idle: | To lose or spend time in inaction or without being employed in business |
| Idle: | To spend in idleness to waste to consume often followed by away as to idle away an hour a day |
| Idleheaded: | Foolish stupid |
| Idleness: | The condition or quality of being idle in the various senses of that word uselessness fruitlessness triviality inactivity laziness |
| Idlepated: | Idleheaded stupid |
| Idler: | One who idles one who spends his time in inaction a lazy person a sluggard |
| Idless: | Idleness |
| Idly: | In a idle manner ineffectually vainly lazily carelessly Obs foolishly |
| Ido: | An artificial international language selected by the bdDelegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International Languageb8 founded at Paris in 1901 made public in 1907 and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or bdAcademyb8 It is a revised and simplified form of Esperanto It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words For each idea that root is selected which is already most international on the principle of the bdgreatest facility for the greatest number of peopleb8 The word bdIdob8 means in the language itself bdoffspringb8 The official name is bdLinguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro Sistema Idob8 |
| Idocrase: | Same as Vesuvianite |
| Idol: | An image or representation of anything |
| Idolastre: | An idolater |
| Idolater: | A worshiper of idols one who pays divine honors to images statues or representations of anything made by hands one who worships as a deity that which is not God a pagan |
| Idolatress: | A female worshiper of idols |
| Idolatrical: | Idolatrous |
| Idolatrize: | To worship idols to pay idolatrous worship |
| Idolatrize: | To make in idol of to idolize |
| Idolatrous: | Of or pertaining to idolatry partaking of the nature of idolatry given to idolatry or the worship of false gods as idolatrous sacrifices |
| Idolatrously: | In a idolatrous manner |
| Idolatry: | The worship of idols images or anything which is not God the worship of false gods |
| Idolish: | Idolatrous |
| Idolism: | The worship of idols |
| Idolist: | A worshiper of idols |
| Idolize: | To make an idol of to pay idolatrous worship to as to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt |
| Idolize: | To practice idolatry |
| Idolizer: | One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence an idolater |
| Idoloclast: | A breaker of idols an iconoclast |
| Idolographical: | Descriptive of idols |
| Idolous: | Idolatrous |
| dIdolum: | Appearance or image a phantasm a spectral image also a mental image or idea |
| Idoneous: | Appropriate suitable proper fit adequate |
| Idorgan: | A morphological unit consisting of two or more plastids which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan See Morphon |
| Idrialine: | A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria where it occurs mixed with cinnabar |
| Idumean: | Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea or Edom in Western Asia |
| Idyl: | A short poem properly a short pastoral poem as the idyls of Theocritus also any poem especially a narrative or descriptive poem written in an eleveted and highly finished style also by extension any artless and easily flowing description either in poetry or prose of simple rustic life of pastoral scenes and the like |
| Idyllic: | Of or belonging to idyls |
| Ie: | Abbreviation of Latin id est that is |
| If: | In case that granting allowing or supposing that introducing a condition or supposition |
| Ifaith: | In faith indeed truly |
| Ifere: | Together |
| Igasuric: | Pertaining to or obtained from nux vomica or St Ignatiuss bean as igasuric acid |
| Igasurine: | An alkaloid found in nux vomica and extracted as a white crystalline substance |
| Igloo: | An Eskimo snow house |
| Ignatiusbean: | See Saint Ignatiuss bean under Saint |
| Igneous: | Pertaining to having the nature of fire containing fire resembling fire as an igneous appearance |
| Ignescent: | Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel scintillating as ignescent stones |
| Ignicolist: | A worshiper of fire |
| Igniferous: | Producing fire |
| Ignifluous: | Flowing with fire |
| Ignify: | To form into fire |
| Ignigenous: | Produced by the action of fire as lava |
| Ignipotence: | Power over fire |
| Ignipotent: | Presiding over fire also fiery |
| dIgnisfatuus: | A phosphorescent light that appears in the night over marshy ground supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances or by some inflammable gas popularly called also Willwiththewisp or Willothewisp and Jackwithalantern or Jackolantern |
| Ignite: | To kindle or set on fire as to ignite paper or wood |
| Ignite: | To take fire to begin to burn |
| ignited: | set afire or burning |
| igniter: | a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire |
| Ignitible: | Capable of being ignited |
| Ignition: | The act of igniting kindling or setting on fire |
| Ignitor: | One who or that which produces ignition especially a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like |
| Ignivomous: | Vomiting fire |
| Ignobility: | Ignobleness |
| Ignoble: | Of low birth or family not noble not illustrious plebeian common humble |
| Ignoble: | To make ignoble |
| Ignobleness: | State or quality of being ignoble |
| Ignobly: | In an ignoble manner basely |
| Ignominious: | Marked with ignominy incurring public disgrace dishonorable shameful |
| Ignominiously: | In an ignominious manner disgracefully shamefully ingloriously |
| Ignominy: | Public disgrace or dishonor reproach infamy |
| Ignomy: | Ignominy |
| Ignoramus: | We are ignorant we ignore being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill The phrase now used is bdNo billb8 bdNo true billb8 or bdNot foundb8 though in some jurisdictions bdIgnoredb8 is still used |
| Ignorance: | The condition of being ignorant the lack of knowledge in general or in relation to a particular subject the state of being uneducated or uninformed |
| Ignorant: | Destitute of knowledge uninstructed or uninformed untaught unenlightened |
| Ignorant: | A person untaught or uninformed one unlettered or unskilled an ignoramous |
| Ignorantism: | The spirit of those who extol the advantage of ignorance obscurantism |
| Ignorantist: | One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge an obscurantist |
| Ignorantly: | In a ignorant manner without knowledge inadvertently |
| Ignore: | To be ignorant of or not acquainted with |
| Ignoscible: | Pardonable |
| Ignote: | Unknown |
| Iguana: | Any species of the genus Iguana a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanid They are arboreal in their habits usually green in color and feed chiefly upon fruits |
| Iguania: | A superfamily or suborder of New World lizards including the Iguanidae |
| Iguanian: | Resembling or pertaining to the iguana |
| Iguanid: | Same as Iguanoid |
| Iguanidae: | A natural family of New World lizards including the common Iguana Iguana iguana |
| Iguanodon: | A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with threetoed feet capable of supporting the entire body Its teeth resemble those of the iguana whence its name Several species are known mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe See Illustration in Appendix |
| Iguanodont: | Like or pertaining to the genus Iguanodon |
| Iguanoid: | Pertaining to the Iguanid |
| Ihlangihlang: | A rich powerful perfume obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata an East Indian tree |
| dIhram: | The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca |
| IHVH: | A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or bdincommunicable nameb8 of the Supreme Being which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim so that the true pronunciation is lost |
| Ik: | I |
| Il: | A form of the prefix in not and in among See In |
| ilama: | A tropical American tree Annona diversifolia grown in the southern U S having a whitish pinktinged fruit |
| ilangilang: | An oil distilled from flowers of the ilangilang tree used in perfumery |
| Ile: | Ear of corn |
| Ile: | An aisle |
| Ile: | An isle |
| Ileac: | Pertaining to the ileum |
| Ileoccal: | Pertaining to the ileum and ccum |
| Ileocolic: | Pertaining to the ileum and colon as the ileocolic or ileoccal valve a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine |
| IleStLouis: | An island on the Seine |
| dIleum: | The last and usually the longest division of the small intestine the part between the jejunum and large intestine |
| dIleus: | A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction It is characterized by complete constipation with griping pains in the abdomen which is greatly distended and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter Called also ileac passion or iliac passion |
| dIlex: | The holm oak Quercus Ilex |
| Iliac: | Pertaining to ancient Ilium or Troy |
| Iliac: | Pertaining to or in the region of the ilium or dorsal bone of the pelvis as the iliac artery |
| Iliacal: | Iliac |
| Iliad: | A celebrated Greek epic poem in twentyfour books on the destruction of Ilium the ancient Troy The Iliad is ascribed to Homer |
| Ilial: | Pertaining to the ilium iliac |
| Iliche: | Alike |
| Ilicic: | Pertaining to or derived from the holly Ilex and allied plants as ilicic acid |
| Ilicin: | The bitter principle of the holly |
| Ilio: | A combining form used in anatomy to denote connection with or relation to the ilium as iliofemoral iliolumbar iliopsoas etc |
| Iliofemoral: | Pertaining to the ilium and femur as iliofemoral ligaments |
| Iliolumbar: | Pertaining to the iliac and lumbar regions as the iliolumbar artery |
| Ilion: | Ilium or Troy the ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War a variant spelling of Ilium |
| Iliopsoas: | The great flexor muscle of the hip joint divisible into two parts the iliac and great psoas often regarded as distinct muscles |
| dIlium: | The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone See Innominate bone under Innominate |
| Ilixanthin: | A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly |
| Ilk: | Same each every |
| Ilk: | Kind class sort type as him and his ilk sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people |
| Ilke: | Same |
| Ilkon: | Each one every one |
| Ill: | Contrary to good in a physical sense contrary or opposed to advantage happiness etc bad evil unfortunate disagreeable unfavorable |
| Ill: | Whatever annoys or impairs happiness or prevents success evil of any kind misfortune calamity disease pain as the ills of humanity |
| Ill: | In a ill manner badly weakly |
| Ill: | Contraction for I will or I shall |
| Illabile: | Incapable of falling or erring infalliable |
| Illacerable: | Not lacerable incapable of being torn or rent |
| Illacrymable: | Incapable of weeping |
| Illampu: | A mountian in Bolivia 20873 feet high |
| Illapsable: | Incapable of slipping or of error |
| Illapse: | To fall or glide to pass usually followed by into |
| Illapse: | A gliding in an immisson or entrance of one thing into another also a sudden descent or attack |
| Illaqueable: | Capable of being insnared or entrapped |
| Illaqueate: | To insnare to entrap to entangle to catch |
| Illaqueation: | The act of catching or insnaring |
| Illation: | The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons perception of the connection between ideas that which is inferred inference deduction conclusion |
| Illative: | Relating to dependent on or denoting illation inferential conclusive as an illative consequence or proposition an illative word as then therefore etc |
| Illative: | An illative particle as for because |
| Illatively: | By inference as an illative in an illative manner |
| Illaudable: | Not laudable not praiseworthy worthy of censure or disapprobation |
| Illboding: | Boding evil inauspicious illomened |
| Illbred: | Badly educated or brought up impolite incivil rude See Note under Ill adv |
| Illecebration: | Allurement |
| Illecebrous: | Alluring attractive enticing |
| Illegal: | Not according to or authorized by law specif contrary to or in violation of human law unlawful illicit hence immoral as an illegal act illegal trade illegal love |
| Illegality: | The quality or condition of being illegal unlawfulness as the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment also an illegal act |
| Illegalize: | To make or declare illegal or unlawful |
| Illegally: | In a illegal manner unlawfully |
| Illegalness: | Illegality unlawfulness |
| Illegibility: | The state or quality of being illegible |
| Illegible: | Incapable of being read not legible as illegible handwriting an illegible inscription |
| Illegitimacy: | The state of being illegitimate |
| Illegitimate: | Not according to law not regular or authorized unlawful improper |
| Illegitimate: | To render illegitimate to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock to bastardize to illegitimatize |
| Illegitimately: | In a illegitimate manner unlawfully |
| Illegitimation: | The act of illegitimating bastardizing |
| Illegitimatize: | To render illegitimate to bastardize |
| Illesive: | Not injurious harmless |
| Illeviable: | Not leviable incapable of being imposed or collected |
| illfamed: | having an exceedingly bad reputation |
| illfated: | marked by or promising bad fortune unsuccessful as an illfated business venture |
| Illfavored: | Wanting beauty or attractiveness unattractive deformed ugly illlooking usually used of a face as an illfavored countenance |
| illfed: | not getting adequate food |
| illfitting: | Fitting poorly not the proper size and cut of clothing |
| illformed: | not grammatical ungrammatical not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage Opposite of grammatical |
| illgotten: | obtained illegally or by improper means as illgotten gains |
| illhumored: | illnatured having a sour disagreeable or surly disposition Opposite of goodnatured |
| Illiberal: | Not liberal not free or generous close niggardly mean sordid |
| Illiberalism: | Illiberality |
| Illiberality: | The state or quality of being illiberal narrowness of mind meanness niggardliness |
| Illiberalize: | To make illiberal |
| Illiberally: | In a illiberal manner ungenerously uncharitably parsimoniously |
| Illiberalness: | The state of being illiberal illiberality |
| Illicit: | Not permitted or allowed prohibited unlawful as illicit trade illicit intercourse illicit pleasure |
| Illicitous: | Illicit |
| dIllicium: | A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees having starshaped fruit star anise The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials being almost identical with true oil of anise |
| Illighten: | To enlighten |
| Illimitable: | Incapable of being limited or bounded immeasurable limitless boundless as illimitable space |
| Illimitation: | State of being illimitable lack of or freedom from limitation |
| Illimited: | Not limited interminable |
| Illinition: | A smearing or rubbing in or on also that which is smeared or rubbed on as ointment or liniment |
| Illinois: | A tribe of North American Indians which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers |
| Illiquation: | The melting or dissolving of one thing into another |
| Illish: | Somewhat ill |
| Illision: | The act of dashing or striking against |
| Illiteracy: | The state of being illiterate or uneducated lack of learning or knowledge ignorance specifically inability to read and write as the illiteracy shown by the last census |
| Illiteral: | Not literal |
| Illiterate: | Unable to read or write ignorant of letters or books unlettered uninstructed uneducated as an illiterate man or people |
| Illiterature: | Lack of learning illiteracy |
| Illjudged: | Not well judged unwise not well considered or thought out as an illjudged attempt |
| Illlived: | Leading a wicked life |
| Illlooking: | Having a bad look threatening ugly See Note under Ill adv |
| Illmannered: | Impolite rude displaying socially incorrect behavior |
| Illminded: | Illdisposed |
| Illnatured: | Of habitual bad temper having an unpleasant disposition surly disagreeable cross peevish fractious crabbed of people as an illnatured person an illnatured disagreeable old man Opposite of goodnatured |
| Illness: | The condition of being ill evil or bad badness unfavorableness |
| Illnurtured: | Illbred |
| Illocality: | Lack of locality or place |
| Illogical: | Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning as an illogical disputant contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning as an illogical inference |
| Illomened: | Having unlucky omens inauspicious See Note under Ill adv |
| illproportioned: | out of proportion in shape |
| illrepute: | Bad reputation notoriety |
| illshapen: | so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly as an illshapen vase |
| illsorted: | not well matched |
| Illstarred: | Fated to be unfortunate unlucky as an illstarred man or day |
| Illtempered: | Of bad temper grouchy morose crabbed sour peevish fretful quarrelsome |
| Illtimed: | Done attempted or said at an unsuitable or unpropitious time occurring at an inappropriate time as an illtimed intervention |
| Illtreat: | To treat cruelly or improperly to ill use to maltreat |
| illtreated: | physically abused |
| illtreatment: | cruel or inhumane treatment |
| Illude: | To play upon by artifice to deceive to mock to excite and disappoint the hopes of |
| Illume: | To throw or spread light upon to make light or bright to illuminate to illumine |
| Illuminable: | Capable of being illuminated |
| Illuminant: | That which illuminates or affords light as gas and petroleum are illuminants |
| Illuminary: | Illuminative |
| Illuminate: | To make light to throw light on to supply with light literally or figuratively to brighten |
| Illuminate: | To light up in token or rejoicing |
| Illuminate: | Enlightened |
| Illuminate: | One who is enlightened esp a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge |
| illuminated: | rendered luminous by rays of light striking and reflecting used especially of illumination by artificial light |
| dIlluminati: | Literally those who are enlightened |
| Illuminating: | Giving or producing light used for illumination |
| Illumination: | The act of illuminating or supplying with light the state of being illuminated |
| Illuminatism: | Illuminism |
| Illuminative: | Tending to illuminate or illustrate throwing light illustrative |
| Illuminator: | One whose occupation is to adorn books especially manuscripts with miniatures borders etc See Illuminate v t 3 |
| Illumine: | To illuminate to light up to adorn |
| Illuminee: | One of the Illuminati |
| Illuminer: | One who or that which illuminates |
| Illuminism: | The principles of the Illuminati |
| Illuministic: | Of or pertaining to illuminism or the Illuminati |
| Illuminize: | To initiate the doctrines or principles of the Illuminati |
| Illuminous: | Bright clear |
| Illure: | To deceive to entice to lure |
| illusage: | cruel or inhumane treatment |
| illuse: | to treat badly |
| illused: | taken advantage of treated badly of persons |
| Illusion: | An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision a deceptive appearance a false show mockery hallucination |
| Illusionable: | Liable to illusion |
| illusionary: | marked by or producing illusion as illusionary stage effects |
| Illusionist: | One given to illusion a visionary dreamer |
| Illusive: | Deceiving by false show deceitful deceptive false illusory unreal |
| Illusively: | In a illusive manner falsely |
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