| 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 |
| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| inlay | (noun) a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface | - |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place | - |
| inlet | (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: intake |
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| (noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: recess |
| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| inmate | (noun) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) | - |
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| (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inpatient |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, yard bird, yardbird |
| inn | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, lodge |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| innateness | (noun) the quality of being innate | - |
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| innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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| innervation | (noun) the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region | - |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, irritation |
| inning | (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: frame |
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| innings | (noun) the batting turn of a cricket player or team | - |
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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| innocence | (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness |
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| (noun) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense | - |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
| innocency | (noun) an innocent quality or thing or act | - |
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| innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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| innocent | (noun) a person who lacks knowledge of evil | Synonyms: inexperienced person |
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| innovation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: invention |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, invention |
| innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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| innovator | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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| inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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| inoculum | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculant |
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| inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| inordinateness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, excessiveness |
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| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| inosine | (noun) a nucleoside that is formed by the deamination of adenosine; used in kidney transplantation to provide a temporary source of sugar | - |
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| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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| inpour | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpouring, inrush |
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| inpouring | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inrush |
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| input | (noun) a component of production; something that goes into the production of output | - |
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| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulation, stimulus |
| (noun) signal going into an electronic system | Synonyms: input signal |
| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, remark |
| inquest | (noun) an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death | - |
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| inquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, edginess, uneasiness |
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| inquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, querier, questioner |
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| inquiring | (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: questioning |
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| inquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: enquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| inquisition | (noun) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals) | - |
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| inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
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| (noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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| insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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| inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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| (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| insect | (noun) small air-breathing arthropod | - |
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| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, louse, worm |
| insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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| insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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| insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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| (noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
| insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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| insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
| insemination | (noun) the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female | - |
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| (noun) the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) | - |
| insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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| (noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
| insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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| insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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| insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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| insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
| (noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
| insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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| (noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
| inset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: gusset |
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| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: insert |
| (noun) a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one | - |
| inside | (noun) the inner or enclosed surface of something | Synonyms: interior |
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| (noun) the region that is inside of something | Synonyms: interior |
| insider | (noun) an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations | - |
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| insides | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, innards, viscera |
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| insidiousness | (noun) subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease) | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being designed to entrap | - |
| insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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| (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
| insightfulness | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: acumen |
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| insignia | (noun) a badge worn to show official position | - |
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| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insincerity | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, hollowness |
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| insinuation | (noun) the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments | Synonyms: ingratiation |
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| (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: innuendo |
| insipidity | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidness |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidness |
| insipidness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidity |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidity |
| insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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| (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
| insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| insolation | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: heliotherapy |
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| (noun) incident solar radiation | - |
| (noun) sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | Synonyms: siriasis, sunstroke, thermic fever |
| insole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: innersole |
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| insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
| insolubility | (noun) the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid | - |
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| (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve | Synonyms: unsolvability |
| insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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| insolvent | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
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| insomnia | (noun) an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness | - |
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| insomniac | (noun) someone who cannot sleep | Synonyms: sleepless person |
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| insouciance | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
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| inspection | (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: review |
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| inspector | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: examiner |
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| (noun) a high ranking police officer | - |
| inspectorate | (noun) a body of inspectors | - |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| inspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: brainchild |
| (noun) (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings | Synonyms: divine guidance |
| (noun) a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem | - |
| (noun) arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity | - |
| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| 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 |