| inspan | (verb) attach a yoke or harness to | - |
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| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| 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 | - |
| inspirational | (adjective) imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul | - |
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| inspirationally | (adverb) with inspiration; in an inspiring manner | - |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |
| inspired | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, elysian |
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| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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| inspiring | (adjective) stimulating or exalting to the spirit | - |
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| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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| inspissate | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: thicken |
| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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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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| 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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| plainspoken | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) using simple and direct language | - |
| uninspired | (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, unimaginative, uninventive |
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| (adjective) having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement | - |
| uninspiring | (adjective) depressing to the spirit | - |
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