| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| inane | adjective | Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless., That which is void or empty. |
| inapt | adjective | Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept. |
| incan | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Incas. |
| incle | noun | Same as Inkle. |
| incog | adverb | Incognito. |
| incur | verb t. | To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one’s self in the way of; to expose one’s self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one’s self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc., To render liable or subject to; to occasion., To pass; to enter. |
| incus | noun | An anvil., One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear., The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera. |
| indew | verb t. | To indue. |
| index | noun | That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses., That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; — called also fist., A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; — usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume., A prologue indicating what follows., The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger., The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent., To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents. |
| india | noun | A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. |
| indin | noun | A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol. |
| indo- | A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India. | |
| indol | noun | A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora. |
| indow | verb t. | See Endow. |
| indri | noun | Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris. |
| indue | verb t. | To put on, as clothes; to draw on., To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. |
| inept | adjective | Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming., Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. |
| inerm | adjective | Alt. of Inermous |
| inert | adjective | Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert., Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless., Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect. |
| ineye | verb t. | To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate. |
| infer | verb t. | To bring on; to induce; to occasion., To offer, as violence., To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer., To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence., To show; to manifest; to prove. |
| infix | verb t. | To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart., To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory., Something infixed. |
| infra | adverb | Below; beneath; under; after; — often used as a prefix. |
| ingle | noun | Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace., A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle., To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle. |
| ingot | noun | That in which metal is cast; a mold., A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. |
| inial | adjective | Pertaining to the inion. |
| inion | noun | The external occipital protuberance of the skull. |
| inked | imp. & past participle | of Ink |
| inker | noun | One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type. |
| inkle | noun | A kind of tape or braid., To guess. |
| inlaw | verb t. | To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law. |
| inlay | verb t. | To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions., Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety. |
| inlet | noun | A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance., A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands., That which is let in or inland; an inserted material. |
| inmew | verb t. | To inclose, as in a mew or cage. |
| inned | imp. & past participle | of Inn |
| inner | adjective | Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena., Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. |
| inset | verb t. | To infix., That which is inserted or set in; an insertion., One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; — also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted. |
| insue | verb i. | See Ensue, v. i. |
| inter | verb t. | To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body. |
| inure | verb t. | To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually., To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. |
| inurn | verb t. | To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb. |
| inust | adjective | Burnt in. |
| inwit | noun | Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience. |