| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
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| avaritia | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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| dietitian | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietician |
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| initial | (adjective) occurring at the beginning | - |
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| (noun) the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | - |
| (verb) mark with one's initials | - |
| initialisation | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting |
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| initialise | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: format, initialize |
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| (verb) assign an initial value to a computer program | Synonyms: initialize |
| initialism | (noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately | - |
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| (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: acronym |
| initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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| initialize | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: format, initialise |
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| (verb) assign an initial value to a computer program | Synonyms: initialise |
| initially | (adverb) at the beginning | Synonyms: ab initio, at first |
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| initiate | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: enlightened |
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| (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: learned person, pundit, savant |
| (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, novice, tiro, tyro |
| (verb) set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for | Synonyms: lead up |
| (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: broach |
| (verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: pioneer |
| (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: originate, start |
| (verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: induct |
| initiation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: induction, trigger |
| (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledgeability, knowledgeableness |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, installation |
| initiative | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiatory, maiden |
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| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| initiator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: instigator |
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| initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| militia | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: reserves |
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| (noun) the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service | - |
| militiaman | (noun) a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies | - |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| pitiable | (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pathetic, pitiful |
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| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| pitiably | (adverb) in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion | Synonyms: pathetically |
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| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| propitiation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, placation |
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| (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
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| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| uninitiate | (adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: naive, uninitiated |
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| (noun) people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | - |
| uninitiated | (adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: naive, uninitiate |
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| vitiate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, void |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, spoil |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert |
| vitiated | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, debased |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, weakened |
| vitiation | (noun) nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null | - |
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