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- IMPURENot pure
- IMPURITYThe condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- IMPUTATIONThe act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
- IMPUTETo attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
- INANELacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.
- INANITYThe property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
- INAPTITUDEThe quality of being inapt.
- INAUGURALOf inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
- INAURATETo cover with gold; to gild.
- INCANDESCETo make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat.
- INCANTTo state solemnly, to chant.
- INCARNATIONAn incarnate being or form.
- INCENDIARYCapable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.
- INCEPTIVEBeginning; of or relating to inception.
- INCEPTORA beginner; one in the rudiments.
- INCESSANTWithout pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.
- INCESTSexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.
- INCHOATERecently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
- INCHOATIVEInitial; as yet unformed; inchoate.
- INCIDENCEThe act of something happening; occurrence.
- INCIDENTAn event or occurrence.
- INCINERATETo destroy by burning.
- INCIPITThe first few words of a text, especially its first line.
- INCISORA narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth of mammals, between the canines and adapted for cutting; in humans there are four in each jaw.
- INCITETo call into action.
- INCITEMENTA call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
- INCLUSIVEIncluding (almost) everything within its scope.
- INCOMPARABLENot comparable.
- INCOMPLETENot complete; not finished.
- INCOMPOSITENot composite; simple or single.
- INCREASE(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- INCREATEThat exists without having been created.
- INCREDIBLEToo implausible to be credible; beyond belief.
- INCREDULITYUnwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
- INCREDULOUSSkeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
- INCREMENTThe action of increasing or becoming greater.
- INCUBATETo brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- INCUBUSAn evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
- INCULPATETo imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
- INCULTUncultivated, wild.
- INCURTo bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
- INCURABLEOf an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
- INCURIOUSLacking interest or curiosity; uninterested.
- INCURVATEbending inwards.
- INCUSA small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
- INCUSEHammered or pressed in (usually on a coin).
- INDAGATEto search into, investigate
- INDECOROUSImproper, immodest, or indecent.
- INDECORUMIndecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous
- INDEFATIGABLEExtremely persistent and untiring.
- INDEMNITYSecurity from damage, loss, or penalty.
- INDENTA cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- INDEXAn alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- INDICANTindicative; that points out.
- INDICATETo point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
- INDICATORA pointer or index that indicates something.
- INDICESplural of index
- INDICIAplural of indicium
- INDICIALOf or pertaining to an indicia; indicative
- INDICTTo accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
- INDIGESTCrude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.
- INDIRECTNot direct: Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- INDISCRETE(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) Not discrete mathematically.
- INDISPUTABLENot disputable; not open to question; obviously true
- INDITETo physically make (letters and words) on a writing surface; to inscribe.
- INDOCIBLEIncapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable.
- INDOCILEUnwilling to be taught or instructed; intractable or recalcitrant.
- INDOLEAn organic compound, C8H7N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fu
- INDOMITABLEIncapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
- INDUBIOUSNot dubious or doubtful; certain.
- INDUCETo lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
- INDUCTTo bring in as a member; to make a part of.
- INDUCTIVEOf, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
- INDUCTORA passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.
- INDULGE: To yield to a temptation or desire.
- INDUMENTUMA surface covering of any kind of trichomes, e.g. hairs, scales.
- INDUMENTUMSA surface covering of any kind of trichomes, e.g. hairs, scales.
- INDUSIUMA protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern.
- INDUVIAEpersistent portions of a calyx or corolla
- INEBRIATEA person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
- INEPTNot able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
- INEPTITUDEThe quality of being inept.
- INEQUALITYAbsence of equality.
- INERTUnable to move or act; inanimate.
- INERTIAThe property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
- INERUDITENot erudite; unlearned; ignorant.
- INESTIMABLENot able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.
- INEVITABLEImpossible to avoid or prevent.
- INEXCUSABLEnot excusable
- INEXPERTInept or unskilled; not of expert ability or quality.
- INEXTRICABLEImpossible to untie or disentangle.
- INFAMOUSHaving a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
- INFAMYThe state of being infamous.
- INFANCYThe earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
- INFARCTAn area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
- INFAUSTUnlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.
- INFECTTo bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into conta
- INFECTIOUSCaused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contac
- INFECUNDITYLack of fecundity or fruitfulness
- INFERIAESacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.