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8-letter words starting with i

  • idiotype — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
  • idleness — the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
  • idlewild — former name of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
  • idocrase — vesuvianite.
  • idolater — Also, idolist [ahyd-l-ist] /ˈaɪd l ɪst/ (Show IPA). a worshiper of idols.
  • idolator — Alternative spelling of idolater.
  • idolatry — the religious worship of idols.
  • idolised — Simple past tense and past participle of idolise.
  • idoliser — (UK) alternative spelling of idolizer.
  • idolized — to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc.
  • idolizer — One who idolizes.
  • idolizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of idolize.
  • idoneity — appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
  • idoneous — appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
  • idyllist — a writer of idylls.
  • ieee 488 — (hardware, standard)   (GPIB, General-Purpose Interface Bus, HP-IB, Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus) An 8-bit parallel bus common on test equipment. The IEEE-488 standard was proposed by Hewlett-Packard in the late 1970s and has undergone a couple of revisions. HP documentation (including data sheets and manuals) calls it HP-IB, or Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus. It allows up to 15 intelligent devices to share a single bus, with the slowest device participating in the control and data transfer handshakes to drive the speed of the transaction. The maximum data rate is about one megabit per second. Other standards committees have adopted HP-IB (American Standards Institute with ANSI Standard MC 1.1 and International Electro-technical Commission with IEC Publication 625-1). To paraphrase from the HP 1989 Test & Measurement Catalog (the 50th Anniversary version): The HP-IB has a party-line structure wherein all devices on the bus are connected in parallel. The 16 signal lines within the passive interconnecting HP-IB (IEEE-488) cable are grouped into three clusters according to their functions (Data Bus, Data Byte Transfer Control Bus, General Interface Management Bus). In June 1987 the IEEE approved a new standard for programmable instruments called IEEE Std. 488.2-1987 Codes, Formats, Protocols, and Common Commands. It works with the IEEE Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation, IEEE 488-1978 (now 488.1). HP-IB is Hewlett-Packard's implementation of IEEE 488.1.
  • ieee 754 — IEEE Floating Point Standard
  • ieee 802 — (networking, standard)   The IEEE standards for local area networks. The spanning tree algorithm is defined in IEEE 802.1 (under consideration), Logical Link Control (LLC, the upper portion of the data link layer) in IEEE 802.2, Ethernet in IEEE 802.3, Token Bus in IEEE 802.4 and IBM Token Ring in IEEE 802.5. The equivalent ISO standard is IS 8802.
  • iffiness — The state or quality of being iffy.
  • igdrasil — Ygdrasil
  • ignatiev — Count Nikolai Pavlovich. 1832–1908, Russian diplomat and politician. As ambassador to Turkey (1864–77), he negotiated the Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ending the Russo-Turkish War
  • ignatius — Saint (Ignatius Theophorus) a.d. c40–107? bishop of Antioch and Apostolic Father.
  • igniting — Present participle of ignite.
  • ignition — the act or fact of igniting; state of being ignited.
  • ignitron — a cathode-arc vacuum tube with an auxiliary electrode projecting into a pool of mercury: it conducts current when the anode is positive.
  • ignominy — disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.
  • ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • ignorers — Plural form of ignorer.
  • ignoring — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • ignostic — One who holds to ignosticism.
  • ihimaera — Witi (ˈwɪtɪ), full name Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler. born 1944, New Zealand Māori novelist and short-story writer; his novels include The Whale Rider (1987) and The Uncle's Story (2002)
  • ii kings — (in versions based on the Hebrew, including the Authorized Version) one of the two books recounting the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel
  • ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
  • ileotomy — (surgery) cutting into the ileum; ileostomy.
  • ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
  • ill fame — bad reputation, especially in sexual matters.
  • ill will — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
  • ill wind — You can describe an unfortunate event as an ill wind if someone benefits from it. The expression occurs in the proverb 'It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good'.
  • ill-bred — showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.
  • illation — the act of inferring.
  • illative — of, relating to, or expressing illation; inferential: an illative word such as “therefore.”.
  • illegals — Multiple emigrants residing illegally in a country.
  • illicium — (ichthyology) The modified dorsal fin on the head of anglerfish, acting as a lure.
  • illimani — a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes, near La Paz. 21,188 feet (6458 meters).
  • illinium — promethium. Symbol: Il.
  • illinois — a member of a confederacy of North American Indians of Algonquian stock, formerly occupying Illinois and adjoining regions westward.
  • illiquid — not readily convertible into cash; not liquid.
  • illision — (obsolete) The act of dashing or striking against.
  • illtreat — Alternative form of ill-treat.
  • illuding — Present participle of illude.
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