13-letter words starting with i
- inline skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
- inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
- inner mission — a movement, originating in the early 19th century within the evangelical churches of Germany and later spreading through Europe and America, that ministered chiefly to the material and spiritual needs of the poor and of social outcasts.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- innocent viii — (Giovanni Battista Cibò) 1432–92, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1484–92.
- innocent xiii — (Michelangelo Conti) 1655–1724, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1721–24.
- innocuousness — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- inobservation — lack of observation
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
- inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
- inoperational — Not operational.
- inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
- inopportunity — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
- inorganically — In an inorganic manner.
- inquire after — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- inquiry agent — a private detective
- inquisitional — Of or pertaining to an inquisition.
- inquisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of inquisition.
- inquisitively — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- inquisitorial — of or relating to an inquisitor or inquisition.
- insatiability — not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- insatiateness — The state of being insatiate.
- inscriptional — Of or pertaining to inscription.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- insectologist — a person who studies insectology
- insensibility — incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
- insensitively — In an insensitive manner.
- insensitivity — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
- inset initial — an initial letter, especially of the first word of a chapter or other section of a book, magazine, etc., larger than the body type and occupying two or more lines in depth, causing body type to be set around it.
- insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insignificant — unimportant, trifling, or petty: Omit the insignificant details.
- insincerities — Plural form of insincerity.
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- insociability — the state or quality of being insociable
- insolubilized — Made insoluble.
- insolubleness — The quality or state of being insoluble.
- inspectorates — Plural form of inspectorate.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- inspirational — imparting inspiration.
- inspiritingly — In an inspiriting manner.
- instabilities — Plural form of instability.
- installations — Plural form of installation.
- instantaneity — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
- instantaneous — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
- instantiating — Present participle of instantiate.
- instantiation — to provide an instance of or concrete evidence in support of (a theory, concept, claim, or the like).