| institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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| institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
| (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
| (noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
| instroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving away from the crankshaft | - |
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| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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| (noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
| (noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
| (noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
| (noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
| instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
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| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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| instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
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| (noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
| (noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
| instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
| (noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |
| insubordination | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
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| (noun) defiance of authority | - |
| insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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| (noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
| insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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| (noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
| insufflation | (noun) an act of blowing or breathing on or into something | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity) | - |
| insulant | (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulation |
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| insularism | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularity, insulation |
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| insularity | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insulation |
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| insulation | (noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity | - |
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| (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insularity |
| (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulant |
| insulator | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, nonconductor |
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| insulin | (noun) hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas; regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in cells | - |
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| insult | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: affront |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, revilement, vilification |
| insurability | (noun) the quality of being insurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company) | - |
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| insurance | (noun) written contract or certificate of insurance | Synonyms: insurance policy, policy |
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| (noun) promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company | - |
| (noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: indemnity |
| insured | (noun) a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc. | Synonyms: insured person |
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| insurer | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, underwriter |
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| insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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| insurgency | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgence |
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| insurgent | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurrectionist, rebel |
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| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, irregular |
| insurrection | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| insurrectionism | (noun) the principle of revolt against constituted authority | - |
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| insurrectionist | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel |
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| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kinship | (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: affinity |
| kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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| linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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| linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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| loins | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: pubes, pubic region |
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| (noun) the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen | - |
| mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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| mainsheet | (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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| mainspring | (noun) the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism | - |
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| mainstay | (noun) the forestay that braces the mainmast | - |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: pillar |
| mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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| marlinspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlingspike |
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| matins | (noun) the first canonical hour; at daybreak | Synonyms: morning prayer |
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| minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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| minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| (noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| mountainside | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: versant |
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| muggins | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| nainsook | (noun) a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies | - |
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| ninepins | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: skittles |
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| pains | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| peninsula | (noun) a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
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| pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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| pinstripe | (noun) a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| (noun) a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plainsong | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainchant |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| quinsy | (noun) a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis | Synonyms: peritonsillar abscess |
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| rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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| reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| remains | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, stiff |
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| (noun) any object that is left unused or still extant | - |
| (noun) a relic that has been excavated from the soil | Synonyms: archeological remains |
| rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
| (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
| (noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
| rinsing | (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinse |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
| spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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| tenpins | (noun) bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins | Synonyms: tenpin bowling |
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| tinsel | (noun) a thread with glittering metal foil attached | - |
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| (noun) a showy decoration that is basically valueless | - |
| tinsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tinware | Synonyms: tinner |
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| tinsnips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: snips |
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| twins | (noun) (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other | - |
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| uninsurability | (noun) the quality of being uninsurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will refuse to issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company) | - |
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| wainscot | (noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room | Synonyms: wainscoting, wainscotting |
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| (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: dado |
| wainscoting | (noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room | Synonyms: wainscot, wainscotting |
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| (noun) a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) | Synonyms: wainscotting |
| wainscotting | (noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room | Synonyms: wainscot, wainscoting |
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| (noun) a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) | Synonyms: wainscoting |
| whinstone | (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | Synonyms: whin |
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| winsomeness | (noun) childlike charm or appeal | - |
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