| incalculable | (adjective) not able to be computed or enumerated | - |
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| (adjective) too much to be measured | Synonyms: untold |
| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| incantation | (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: conjuration |
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| incapability | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapableness |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapableness |
| incapable | (adjective) (followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for | - |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incompetent, unequal to |
| (adjective) not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of') | - |
| incapableness | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapability |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapability |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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| (noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
| incarcerate | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| incarceration | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
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| incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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| incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
| (verb) make concrete and real | - |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incarnation | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: personification |
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| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, embodiment |
| (noun) time passed in a particular bodily form | - |
| incase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, encase |
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| incased | (adjective) covered or protected with or as if with a case | Synonyms: cased, encased |
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| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
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| incaution | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incautiousness |
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| incautious | (adjective) lacking in caution | - |
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| (adjective) carelessly failing to exercise proper caution | - |
| incautiously | (adverb) without caution or prudence | Synonyms: carelessly |
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| incautiousness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incaution |
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| incendiarism | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: arson, fire-raising |
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| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb |
| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, firebug |
| incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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| (noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, infuriate |
| (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, thurify |
| incensed | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: indignant, outraged, umbrageous |
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| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| inception | (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: origin, origination |
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| inceptive | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inchoative |
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| incertain | (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: uncertain, unsure |
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| incertitude | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessant | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| incessantly | (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, forever, perpetually |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| incest | (noun) sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child) | - |
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| incestuous | (adjective) relating to or involving incest | - |
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| (adjective) resembling incest as by excessive intimacy | - |
| incestuously | (adverb) by incest | - |
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| inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
| inchoate | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: incipient |
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| inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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| (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
| inchworm | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: looper, measuring worm |
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| incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
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| (noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
| incident | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence | Synonyms: incidental |
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| (adjective) falling or striking of light rays on something | - |
| (noun) a single distinct event | - |
| (noun) a public disturbance | - |
| incidental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence | Synonyms: incident |
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| (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: accidental, nonessential |
| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, resultant, sequent |
| (noun) an item that is incidental | - |
| (noun) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified | Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense |
| incidentally | (adverb) introducing a different topic | Synonyms: apropos, by the bye, by the way |
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| (adverb) of a minor or subordinate nature | Synonyms: accidentally |
| incienso | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, brittlebush, Encelia farinosa |
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| incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
| incineration | (noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes | - |
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| incinerator | (noun) a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) | - |
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| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| incipient | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: inchoate |
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| incise | (verb) make an incision into by carving or cutting | - |
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| incised | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, inscribed |
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| (adjective) sharply and deeply indented | - |
| (adjective) cut into with a sharp instrument | - |
| incision | (noun) the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) | Synonyms: section, surgical incision |
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| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, prick, scratch, slit |
| incisive | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
| incisively | (adverb) in an incisive manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a precise manner | Synonyms: exactly, precisely |
| incisiveness | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: trenchancy |
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| incisor | (noun) a tooth for cutting or gnawing; located in the front of the mouth in both jaws | - |
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| incisura | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisure |
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| incisure | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisura |
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| 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 |
| incite | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: instigate, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, prod |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| incitive | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| incivility | (noun) deliberate discourtesy | - |
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| inclemency | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
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| (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness |
| inclement | (adjective) used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) severe | - |
| inclementness | (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclemency |
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| inclination | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclining |
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| (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: tendency |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: lean, leaning, list, tilt |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, tendency |
| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking | - |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) | Synonyms: angle of inclination |
| (noun) (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees | Synonyms: inclination of an orbit |
| incline | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: ramp |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: side, slope |
| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: dispose |
| (verb) feel favorably disposed or willing | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: pitch, slope |
| (verb) lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow | - |
| (verb) bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well | - |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, lean, run, tend |
| inclined | (adjective) at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency | - |
| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, fain, prepared |
| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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| inclinometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) | Synonyms: dip circle |
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| (noun) an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon | - |
| (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: clinometer |
| inclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, enclose, shut in |
| inclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, envelopment |
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| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: enclosure |
| include | (verb) add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category | - |
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| (verb) consider as part of something | - |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: admit, let in |
| (verb) have as a part, be made up out of | - |
| included | (adjective) enclosed in the same envelope or package | - |
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| inclusion | (noun) the act of including | - |
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| (noun) any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) | Synonyms: cellular inclusion, inclusion body |
| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: comprehension |
| (noun) the state of being included | - |
| inclusive | (adjective) including much or everything; and especially including stated limits | - |
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| incognito | (adjective) with your identity concealed | - |
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| (adverb) without revealing one's identity | - |
| incognizable | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognoscible |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incognizant | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: unaware |
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| incognoscible | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognizable |
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| incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
| incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
| incoherent | (adjective) without logical or meaningful connection | - |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation | - |
| (adjective) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently | Synonyms: tongue-tied |
| incoherently | (adverb) in an incoherent manner | - |
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| incombustible | (adjective) not capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: noncombustible |
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| income | (noun) the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | - |
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| incoming | (adjective) arriving at a place or position | - |
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| (adjective) entering upon a position of office vacated by another | - |
| (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, entry, ingress |
| incommensurable | (adjective) not having a common factor | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence | - |
| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| incommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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