| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
| (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| interrogatively | (adverb) with curiosity | Synonyms: curiously, inquisitively |
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| (adverb) in a questioning format | - |
| intervene | (verb) occur between other event or between certain points of time | - |
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| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, interpose, step in |
| (verb) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events | - |
| intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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| intervenor | (noun) (law) a party who interposes in a pending proceeding | - |
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| intervention | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intercession |
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| (noun) (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings | - |
| (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: treatment |
| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: interposition |
| (noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: interference |
| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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| interwoven | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interlocking |
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| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
| intransitively | (adverb) in an intransitive manner | - |
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| intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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| intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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| intravenously | (adverb) in an intravenous manner | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| (verb) turn inside | - |
| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| introverted | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introspective, self-examining |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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| intrusive | (adjective) tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) | - |
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| (adjective) thrusting inward | - |
| (adjective) of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock | - |
| intrusiveness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: meddlesomeness, officiousness |
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| intuitive | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: nonrational, visceral |
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| (adjective) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency | - |
| intuitively | (adverb) in an intuitive manner | - |
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| invasive | (adjective) marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision | - |
| (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing |
| (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invading |
| invasiveness | (noun) The quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument). | - |
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| (noun) The quality of tending to spread; especially of tending to invade healthy tissue. | - |
| invective | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: vitriol, vituperation |
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| inveigh | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: rail |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: declaim |
| inveigle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| invent | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, make up, manufacture |
| invention | (noun) the act of inventing | - |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: innovation |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, innovation |
| inventive | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: imaginative |
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| inventively | (adverb) in an inventive manner | - |
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| inventiveness | (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| inventor | (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, discoverer |
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| inventory | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventorying, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| (noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: stock |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| (noun) a detailed list of all the items in stock | Synonyms: stock list |
| (noun) (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods | - |
| (verb) make or include in an itemized record or report | Synonyms: stock-take, take stock |
| inventorying | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| inverse | (adjective) opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
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| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: opposite |
| inversely | (adverb) in an inverse or contrary manner | Synonyms: reciprocally |
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| inversion | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: upending |
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| (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, everting |
| (noun) a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: sexual inversion |
| (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: anastrophe |
| (noun) (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed | - |
| (noun) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer | - |
| (noun) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa | - |
| (noun) abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth) | - |
| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
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| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| invertase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: saccharase, sucrase |
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| invertebrate | (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: spineless |
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| (noun) any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification | - |
| inverted | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: anatropous |
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| (adjective) being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed | Synonyms: upside-down |
| inverter | (noun) an electrical converter that converts direct current into alternating current | - |
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| invertible | (adjective) having an additive or multiplicative inverse | - |
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| invest | (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, place, put |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, vest |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, seat |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, clothe |
| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue |
| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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| investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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| (noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
| investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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| investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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| (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
| (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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| investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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| (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
| investment | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investing |
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| (noun) the act of putting on robes or vestments | - |
| (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investiture |
| (noun) outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism | - |
| (noun) the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result | - |
| (noun) money that is invested with an expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment funds |
| investor | (noun) someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns | - |
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| inveterate | (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: chronic |
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| (adverb) in a habitual and longstanding manner | Synonyms: chronically |
| involve | (verb) make complex or intricate or complicated | - |
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| (verb) occupy or engage the interest of | - |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: imply |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, regard |
| (verb) contain as a part | - |
| (verb) engage as a participant | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| involved | (adjective) connected by participation or association or use | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally involved | - |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| (adjective) enveloped | - |
| (adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: mired |
| involvement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, participation |
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| (noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: interest |
| (noun) a connection of inclusion or containment | - |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison |
| (noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: participation |
| inweave | (verb) weave together into a fabric or design | - |
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| irrecoverable | (adjective) incapable of being recovered or regained | Synonyms: unrecoverable |
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| irrespective | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, no matter, regardless |
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| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
| irreverently | (adverb) without respect | - |
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| (adverb) in an irreverent manner | - |
| irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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| irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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| irreversibly | (adverb) in an irreversible manner | - |
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| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
| javelin | (noun) a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events | - |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible | - |
| javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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| jive | (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: swing, swing music |
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| (verb) dance to jive music; dance the jive | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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| juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
| (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
| juvenility | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: youth, youthfulness |
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| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, jejuneness |
| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| knave | (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: jack |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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| kvetch | (noun) (Yiddish) a nagging complaint | - |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a constant complainer | - |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
| ladylove | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: dulcinea |
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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| lave | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: wash |
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| (verb) wash one's face and hands | Synonyms: wash up |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, wash |
| lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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| (noun) a pale purple color | - |
| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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| laxative | (adjective) stimulating evacuation of feces | - |
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| (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| (verb) leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking | Synonyms: leave alone, leave behind, let alone |
| (verb) be survived by after one's death | Synonyms: leave behind |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: forget |
| (verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: exit, get out, go out |
| (verb) go away from a place | Synonyms: go away, go forth |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, will |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, impart, pass on |
| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: entrust |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: depart, pull up stakes |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, result |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, provide |
| (verb) act or be so as to become in a specified state | - |
| (verb) have left or have as a remainder | - |
| leaved | (adjective) having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination | Synonyms: leafed |
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| leaven | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leavening |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leavening |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: prove, raise |