| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| invariant | noun | An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. |
| invection | noun | An inveighing against; invective. |
| invective | adjective | Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing., An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; — followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny. |
| inveighed | imp. & past participle | of Inveigh |
| inveigher | noun | One who inveighs. |
| inveigled | imp. & past participle | of Inveigle |
| inveigler | noun | One who inveigles. |
| inventing | present participle & vb. noun | of Invent |
| inventful | adjective | Full of invention. |
| invention | noun | The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing., That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention., Thought; idea., A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood., The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention., The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. |
| inventive | adjective | Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. |
| inventory | noun | An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business., To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. |
| inversely | adverb | In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; — opposed to directly. |
| inversion | noun | The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted., A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition., A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on., A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third., A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse., A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, “of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable,” instead of, “impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices.”, A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause., Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc., Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass., Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa., Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places., The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed., The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose). |
| inverting | present participle & vb. noun | of Invert |
| investing | present participle & vb. noun | of Invest |
| investive | adjective | Investing. |
| investure | noun | Investiture; investment., To clothe; to invest; to install. |
| invidious | adjective | Envious; malignant., Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable., Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, invidious distinctions. |
| inviolacy | noun | The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath. |
| inviolate | adjective | Alt. of Inviolated |
| inviscate | verb t. | To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. |
| invisible | adjective | Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible., An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being., A Rosicrucian; — so called because avoiding declaration of his craft., One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church. |
| invisibly | adverb | In an invisible manner. |
| invitiate | adjective | Not vitiated. |
| invocated | imp. & past participle | of Invocate |
| invoicing | present participle & vb. noun | of Invoice |
| involucel | noun | A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre. |
| involucre | noun | A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head., A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns., The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum. |
| involucra | plural | of Involucrum |
| involuted | adjective | Rolled inward from the edges; — said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation., Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea., Rolled inward spirally. |
| involving | present participle & vb. noun | of Involve |