| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| interring | present participle & vb. noun | of Inter |
| interaxal | adjective | Situated in an interaxis. |
| interaxes | plural | of Interaxis |
| interaxis | noun | The space between two axes. See Axis, 6. |
| intercede | verb i. | To pass between; to intervene., To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; — usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you., To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate. |
| intercept | verb t. | To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris., To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river., To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade., To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B., A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves. |
| interdash | verb t. | To dash between or among; to intersperse. |
| interdeal | verb i. | To intrigue. |
| interdict | noun | To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations., To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual., A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition., A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church., An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America. |
| interdome | noun | The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry. |
| interduce | noun | An intertie. |
| interesse | noun | Interest. |
| interfere | verb i. | To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands., To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose., To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; — sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes., To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; — said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2., To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention. |
| interflow | verb i. | To flow in. |
| interfuse | verb t. | To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter., To spread through; to permeate; to pervade., To mix up together; to associate. |
| interhyal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoidean arch., An interhyal ligament or cartilage. |
| interject | verb t. | To throw in between; to insert; to interpose., To throw one’s self between or among; to come between; to interpose. |
| interjoin | verb t. | To join mutually; to unite. |
| interknit | verb t. | To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine. |
| interknow | verb t. | To know mutually. |
| interlace | verb t. & i. | To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. |
| interlard | verb t. | To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean., Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions. |
| interlaid | imp. & past participle | of Interlay |
| interleaf | noun | A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book. |
| interline | verb t. | To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book., To arrange in alternate lines; as, to interline Latin and English., To mark or imprint with lines. |
| interlink | verb t. | To link together; to join, as one chain to another., An intermediate or connecting link. |
| interlock | verb i. | To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly., To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening. |
| interlope | verb i. | To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle. |
| interlude | noun | A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting., A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama., A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line. |
| intermean | noun | Something done in the meantime; interlude. |
| intermede | noun | A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera. |
| intermell | verb i. & t. | To intermeddle; to intermix. |
| interment | verb t. | The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. |
| intermine | verb t. | To intersect or penetrate with mines. |
| intermise | noun | Interference; interposition. |
| intermure | verb t. | To wall in; to inclose. |
| internity | noun | State of being within; interiority. |
| internode | noun | The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise., A part between two joints; a segment; specifically, one of the phalanges. |
| interpale | verb t. | To place pales between or among; to separate by pales., To interweave or interlace. |
| interpeal | verb t. | To interpel. |
| interplay | noun | Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection. |
| interpone | verb t. | To interpose; to insert or place between. |
| interpose | verb t. | To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light., To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling., To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument., To be or come between., To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace., To utter a sentiment by way of interruption., Interposition. |
| interpret | verb t. | To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; — applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech., To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape., To act as an interpreter. |
| interrupt | verb t. | To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking., To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill., Broken; interrupted. |
| intersect | verb t. | To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center., To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other; as, the point where two lines intersect. |
| intersert | verb t. | To put in between other things; to insert. |
| intertalk | verb i. | To converse. |
| intervale | noun | A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. |
| intervary | verb i. | To alter or vary between; to change. |
| intervene | verb i. | To come between, or to be between, persons or things; — followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa., To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking., To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel., In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one’s interest in the subject matter., To come between., A coming between; intervention; meeting. |
| intervent | verb t. | To thwart; to obstruct. |
| intervert | verb t. | To turn to another course or use. |
| interview | noun | A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President., A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited., To have an interview with; to question or converse with, especially for the purpose of obtaining information for publication. |
| interwove | imp. & obs. past participle | of Interweave, Alt. of Interwoven |
| interwish | verb t. | To wish mutually in regarded to each other. |