| 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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