| hydrostaticity | (noun) The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. | - |
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| hydrostatics | (noun) study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion | - |
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| hyperalimentation | (noun) administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes | Synonyms: total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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| hyperbetalipoproteinemia | (noun) a genetic disorder characterized by high levels of beta-lipoproteins and cholesterol; can lead to atherosclerosis at an early age | - |
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| hypercatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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| hypervitaminosis | (noun) an abnormal condition resulting from taking vitamins excessively; can be serious for vitamins A or D or K | - |
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| hypobetalipoproteinemia | (noun) a hereditary disorder characterized by low levels of beta-lipoproteins and lipids and cholesterol | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| hypostasis | (noun) (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality | - |
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| (noun) any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united | Synonyms: hypostasis of Christ |
| (noun) the accumulation of blood in an organ | - |
| (noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene | Synonyms: epistasis |
| hypostatisation | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatization, reification |
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| hypostatization | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, reification |
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| hypovitaminosis | (noun) any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins | Synonyms: avitaminosis |
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| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| imitation | (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
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| (noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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| (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
| immortal | (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, god |
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| (noun) a person (such as an author) of enduring fame | - |
| immortality | (noun) the quality or state of being immortal | - |
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| (noun) perpetual life after death | - |
| immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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| immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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| impartation | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, imparting |
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| impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
| implantation | (noun) the act of planting or setting in the ground | - |
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| (noun) a surgical procedure that places something in the human body | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: nidation |
| implementation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: effectuation |
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| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, execution |
| importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
| importation | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importing |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
| imputation | (noun) the attribution to a source or cause | - |
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| (noun) a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense) | - |
| inamorata | (noun) a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship | - |
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| incantation | (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: conjuration |
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| incidental | (noun) an item that is incidental | - |
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| (noun) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified | Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense |
| incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
| incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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| inconstancy | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: changefulness |
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| (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness |
| incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
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| incrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: encrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, encrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: encrustation |
| indentation | (noun) the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions | - |
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| (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indention, indenture |
| (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: pitting, roughness |
| (noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indenture |
| indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| indomitability | (noun) the property being difficult or impossible to defeat | Synonyms: invincibility |
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| indubitability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
| ineluctability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: unavoidability |
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| inevitability | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitableness |
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| inevitable | (noun) an unavoidable event | - |
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| inevitableness | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitability |
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| infestation | (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: plague |
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| (noun) the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites | - |
| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| ingesta | (noun) solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth | - |
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| inhabitancy | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitation |
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| inhabitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller |
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| inhabitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitancy |
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| inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
| (noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
| inhospitableness | (noun) having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition | - |
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| (noun) the environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth | - |
| inhospitality | (noun) unkind and inconsiderate welcome | - |
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| injectant | (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injection |
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| inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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| (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| instability | (noun) the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute | Synonyms: unstableness |
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| (noun) unreliability attributable to being unstable | - |
| (noun) an unstable order | - |
| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, unbalance |
| instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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| instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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| installation | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installing, installment, instalment |
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| (noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry | Synonyms: facility |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
| (noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
| instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
| instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
| instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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| (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
| instant | (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: minute, moment, second |
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| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| instantaneousness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instancy |
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| instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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| instar | (noun) an insect or other arthropod between molts | - |
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| instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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| 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 | - |
| insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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| (noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
| intactness | (noun) the state of being unimpaired | - |
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| intaglio | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: diaglyph |
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| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: gravure, intaglio printing |
| intake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake |
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| (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration |
| (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: inlet |
| intangibility | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibleness |
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| intangible | (noun) assets that are saleable though not material or physical | Synonyms: intangible asset |
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| intangibleness | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibility |
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| intercostal | (noun) muscles between the ribs; they contract during inspiration | Synonyms: intercostal muscle, musculus intercostalis |
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| interpretation | (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: rendering, rendition |
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| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpreting, rendering, rendition |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: reading, version |
| (noun) an explanation that results from interpreting something | - |
| interstate | (noun) one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States | Synonyms: interstate highway |
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| intestacy | (noun) the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will | - |
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| intractability | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractableness |
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| intractableness | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractability |
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| invertase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: saccharase, sucrase |
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| invitation | (noun) a tempting allurement | - |
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| (noun) a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something | - |
| involuntariness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: unwillingness |
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| iota | (noun) the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| irredenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irridenta |
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| irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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| irritability | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: excitability |
| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance |
| irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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| irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
| (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
| (noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
| isostasy | (noun) (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust | - |
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