9-letter words starting with i
- idyllical — Idyllic.
- idyllists — Plural form of idyllist.
- iechyd da — a drinking toast; good health; cheers
- ieee 1076 — The IEEE standard for VHDL.
- ieee 1394 — High Performance Serial Bus
- ifdef out — /if'def owt/ v. Synonym for condition out, specific to C.
- ignescent — emitting sparks of fire, as certain stones when struck with steel.
- ignitable — to set on fire; kindle.
- ignitible — Capable of being ignited.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- ignorants — Plural form of ignorant.
- ignostics — Plural form of ignostic.
- iguanodon — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon that lived in Europe early in the Cretaceous Period and grew to a length of from 15 to 30 feet (4.5 to 9 meters) and walked erect on its hind feet.
- il sodoma — (Giovanni Antonio de Bazzi) [jaw-vahn-nee-ahn-taw-nyaw-de-baht-tsee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ dɛˈbɑt tsi/ (Show IPA), 1477–1549, Italian painter.
- ileocecal — of, relating to, or involving the ileum and cecum.
- ileocolic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the ileum and colon.
- ileostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall, permitting drainage of the contents of the small intestine.
- iliopsoas — (anatomy) A compound muscle composed of the iliac and psoas muscles.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- ill-being — state or condition of lacking health, solvency, etc.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- ill-timed — badly timed; inopportune.
- ill-treat — to treat badly; maltreat; abuse.
- ill-usage — unfair, unkind, or cruel treatment; abuse
- illations — Plural form of illation.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illawarra — a coastal district of E Australia, in S New South Wales. Pop: 404 626 (2002 est)
- illegally — forbidden by law or statute.
- illegible — not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print, etc.: This letter is completely illegible.
- illegibly — not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print, etc.: This letter is completely illegible.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illicitly — not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
- illimited — Not limited; interminable.
- illinoian — Geology. the third stage of the glaciation of North America during the Pleistocene.
- illisions — Plural form of illision.
- illiteral — Not literal.
- illnesses — Plural form of illness.
- illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
- illumined — Simple past tense and past participle of illumine.
- illuminer — an illuminator
- illumines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illumine.
- illusions — Plural form of illusion.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- ilmarinen — one of the heroes of the Kalevala.