6-letter words containing i
- acquis — The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of EU law.
- acquit — If someone is acquitted of a crime in a court of law, they are formally declared not to have committed the crime.
- actin- — actino-
- acting — Acting is the activity or profession of performing in plays or films.
- action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- actium — a town of ancient Greece that overlooked the naval battle in 31 bc at which Octavian's fleet under Agrippa defeated that of Mark Antony and Cleopatra
- active — Someone who is active moves around a lot or does a lot of things.
- acuity — Acuity is sharpness of vision or hearing, or quickness of thought.
- aculei — Also, acus. the modified ovipositor or sting of certain hymenopterous insects.
- ad-lib — If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
- adagio — Adagio written above a piece of music means that it should be played slowly.
- adamic — pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.
- adapid — (zoology) Any member of the Adapidae.
- add in — If you add in something, you include it as a part of something else.
- add-in — Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
- addict — An addict is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them.
- adding — an act or instance of addition
- adient — tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adieus — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adieux — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adighe — Adygei.
- adipic — (organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
- adipsy — Archaic form of adipsia.
- aditus — The entrance to a cavity or channel.
- aditya — one of the Vedic gods, the sons of Aditi.
- adjigo — a yam plant, Dioscorea hastifolia, native to SW Australia that has edible tubers
- adjoin — If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- adlibs — Plural form of adlib.
- admail — Alternative expression for junk mail.
- admier — Eye dialect of admire.
- admins — Plural form of admin.
- admire — If you admire someone or something, you like and respect them very much.
- admits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admit.
- admixt — Simple past tense and past participle of admix; alternative spelling of admixed.
- adonai — a name for God
- adonic — (in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adrian — Edgar Douglas, Baron Adrian. 1889–1977, English physiologist, noted particularly for his research into the function of neurons: shared with Sherrington the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine 1932
- adrift — If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.
- adroit — Someone who is adroit is quick and skilful in their thoughts, behaviour, or actions.
- aduice — Obsolete spelling of advice.
- advice — If you give someone advice, you tell them what you think they should do in a particular situation.
- advise — If you advise someone to do something, you tell them what you think they should do.
- adviso — (obsolete) information; advice; intelligence.
- adygei — a member of a Circassian people of the Northwest Caucasus
- adzing — an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
- adzuki — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus angularis, that has yellow flowers and pods containing edible brown seeds; widely cultivated as a food crop in China and Japan
- aecial — relating to or resembling an aecium
- aecium — a globular or cup-shaped structure in some rust fungi in which aeciospores are produced
- aedile — a magistrate of ancient Rome in charge of public works, games, buildings, and roads