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English words: inheritance tax to inklessness

300 English words, part 39 of 77 of the words starting with I, A to Z. 54 have a page of their own.

English words inheritance tax to inklessness

  1. inheritance tax noun: A tax based on the value of the property of a deceased person, and charged on the beneficiaries of the estate.
  2. inherited adjective, verb /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtɪd/: Obtained via an inheritance
  3. inherited audience noun: The section of a broadcast's audience who had no specific intention of viewing or listening, but who continued doing so after the immediately preceding...
  4. inheritedness noun: The state or quality of being inherited.
  5. inheritee noun: Heir, inheritor; one who inherits.
  6. inheriter noun: Alternative form of inheritor.
  7. inheritocracy noun: An economic situation in which individuals' prosperity is mainly dependent on inherited wealth rather than income from work or other sources.
  8. inheritocrat noun: One who benefits from inherited wealth.
  9. inheritocratic adjective: Of or related to a inheritocracy.
  10. inheritor noun: Someone who inherits something; an heir.
  11. inheritress noun: A female inheritor; an heiress.
  12. inheritrice noun: A female inheritor; inheritrix.
  13. inheritrix noun: female inheritor.
  14. inhesion noun: inherence; act of inhering
  15. inhiate verb /ˈɪn.haɪ̯.eɪ̯t/: To open the jaws; to gape.
  16. inhiation noun /ɪnhaɪˈeɪʃən/: A gaping after; eager desire; craving.
  17. inhibin noun: A peptide hormone, secreted by the gonads, which inhibits the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and is thus under consideration as a male contraceptive
  18. inhibit verb /ɪnˈhɪbɪt/: To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
  19. inhibitability noun: The quality or degree of being inhibitable.
  20. inhibitable adjective: Capable of being inhibited
  21. inhibitant noun: something that inhibits.
  22. inhibitatory adjective: Alternative form of inhibitory.
  23. inhibited adjective, verb: Reserved or repressed, prone to quiet, inexpressive behavior.
  24. inhibitedly adverb: In an inhibited manner.
  25. inhibitedness noun: The property of being inhibited.
  26. inhibiter noun: Alternative form of inhibitor.
  27. inhibitible adjective: Alternative form of inhibitable.
  28. inhibiting adjective, verb: inhibitive
  29. inhibiting hormone noun: A hormone that is involved primarily in preventing the release of another hormone.
  30. inhibitingly adverb: So as to inhibit.
  31. inhibition noun /ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/: The act of inhibiting.
  32. inhibitionless adjective: Without inhibition.
  33. inhibitive adjective: that inhibits
  34. inhibitively adverb: So as to inhibit.
  35. inhibitor noun /ɪnˈhɪbɪtɚ/: One who, or that which, inhibits.
  36. inhibitorily adverb: In an inhibitory manner
  37. inhibitory adjective: That inhibits.
  38. inhibitory control noun: Synonym of response inhibition.
  39. inhive adjective, verb: Inside a hive
  40. Inhofe proper noun /ˈɪnhoʊf/: A surname.
  41. inhold verb: To contain, hold in.
  42. inholder noun: An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
  43. inholding noun, verb: A piece of privately-owned land inside the boundary of a national park, national forest, state park, or similar publicly-owned protected area.
  44. inhomogeneity noun: The state of being inhomogeneous.
  45. inhomogeneous adjective: Not homogeneous.
  46. inhomogeneously adverb: In an inhomogeneous manner.
  47. inhomogenous adjective: Not homogenous
  48. inhomogenously adverb: Alternative form of inhomogeneously.
  49. inhoop verb: To confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.
  50. inhospitability noun: The quality or state of being inhospitable.
  51. inhospitable adjective /ˌɪnhɒsˈpɪtəbəl/: Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
  52. inhospitableness noun: The state or quality of being inhospitable.
  53. inhospitably adverb: In an inhospitable manner.
  54. inhospitality noun: Lack of hospitality.
  55. inhouse adjective: Alternative spelling of in-house.
  56. inhowfar adverb: to what extent; how far
  57. inhuman adjective /ɪnˈhjuːmən/: Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
  58. inhumane adjective /ˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn/: Alternative form of inhuman: lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind.
  59. inhumanely adverb: In an inhumane manner.
  60. inhumaneness noun: The condition of being inhumane
  61. inhumanity noun: The lack of compassion.
  62. inhumanize verb: To make inhuman.
  63. inhumanly adverb /ɪnˈhjuːmənli/: In an inhuman manner.
  64. inhumanness noun: Quality of being inhuman, cruel.
  65. inhumate verb: To inhume; to bury.
  66. inhumation noun /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/: The act of burial.
  67. inhumationist noun: A person who believes in burial of the dead rather than cremation.
  68. inhumatory adjective: Relating to inhumation or burial.
  69. inhume verb /ɪnˈhjuːm/: To bury in a grave.
  70. inhumer noun: One who inhumes.
  71. inia noun: Any South American freshwater dolphin of genus (Inia), with a hairy snout.
  72. iniac adjective: Relating to the inion.
  73. iniad adverb: Toward the inion.
  74. inial adjective: Relating to the inion.
  75. iniencephalic adjective: Relating to iniencephaly
  76. iniencephalus noun: A person exhibiting iniencephaly
  77. iniencephaly noun: A cephalic disorder characterized by spina bifida and spinal retroflexion
  78. Inigo proper noun: A male given name.
  79. iniid noun: Any river dolphin of the family Iniidae.
  80. inimaginable adjective: unimaginable; inconceivable
  81. inimic adjective /ɪˈnɪ.mɪk/: Inimical.
  82. inimicability noun: The quality of being inimicable.
  83. inimicable adjective /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kə.bəl/: Synonym of inimical (“harmful, hostile”).
  84. inimicably adverb /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kə.bli/: In an inimicable manner.
  85. inimical adjective /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kəl/: Harmful in effect.
  86. inimicality noun: The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; unfriendliness.
  87. inimically adverb /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kli/: In an inimical manner.
  88. inimicalness noun: The property of being inimical.
  89. inimicitious adjective /ɪnɪmɪˈsɪʃəs/: Inimical; unfriendly, hostile.
  90. inimicitiously adverb: In an inimicitious way.
  91. inimitability noun: The property or status of being inimitable.
  92. inimitable adjective /ɪnˈɪmɪtəbl̩/: Beyond imitation, surpassing all others; matchless.
  93. inimitableness noun: inimitability; the state or quality of being inimitable.
  94. inimitably adverb: In an inimitable manner.
  95. inimplantable adjective: Alternative form of unimplantable.
  96. inioid noun: Any river dolphin of the superfamily Inioidea
  97. inion noun: A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.
  98. iniopterygian noun: Any member of the order †Iniopterygiformes (syn. †Iniopterygia) of extinct fishes.
  99. iniparib noun: The chemical compound 4-iodo-3-nitrobenzamide, once proposed as a drug for cancer treatment.
  100. iniquitous adjective /ɪˈnɪkwɪtəs/: Morally objectionable; sinful, wicked.
  101. iniquitously adverb: In an iniquitous manner.
  102. iniquitousness noun: Quality of being iniquitous.
  103. iniquity noun /ɪnˈɪkwɪti/: Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.
  104. iniquous adjective /ɪˈnɪkwəs/: Synonym of iniquitous.
  105. inirradiated adjective: Not irradiated.
  106. inirritability noun: The state of being inirritable.
  107. inirritable adjective: Incapable of being stimulated into action, as a muscle.
  108. inirritative adjective: Not accompanied with excitement (irritation).
  109. Inishowen proper noun: A peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ireland.
  110. init contraction, noun, verb /ˈɪn.ɪt/: Clipping of initialization.
  111. initiable adjective: Able to be initiated
  112. initial adjective, noun, verb /ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/: Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
  113. initial caps noun: A casing style similar to title case except that every word invariably begins with a capital letter.
  114. initial coin offering noun: A type of funding using cryptocurrencies.
  115. initial condition noun: In dynamical system, an initial condition is the value of a variable at a specific time, also known as a seed value.
  116. initial mass function noun: a relationship that specifies the mass distribution of a newly formed stellar population
  117. initial object noun: An object within a category which sends out arrows to all other objects in that category, and such that each of these arrows is unique.
  118. initial point noun: In surveying, the point where the principal meridian crosses the baseline.
  119. initial public offering noun: The first offering to members of the public of stock in a company, normally followed by a listing of that stock on a stock exchange.
  120. initial reject noun: An item that is not terminally defective but fails to meet the manufacturer's technical standards for sale through its normal retail channels.
  121. initial setting time noun: Of concrete, the moment in time that cement turns into paste after mixing with water and begins to lose its plasticity.
  122. initial topology noun: Given a set X, a family of topological spaces (M#95;i,T#95;i)#95;#123;i#92;inI#125; and a family of functions f#95;i#58;X#92;toM#95;i, the initial topology...
  123. initial value problem noun: The problem of solving an ordinary differential equation together with an initial condition (a set of specified values for the unknown function or its...
  124. initialed adjective, verb: Having initials.
  125. initialer noun: The artist who decorates the initial letters in an illuminated manuscript.
  126. initialese noun: Language that is rendered confusing by many initialisms.
  127. initialing noun, verb: The act of adding one's initials to a document rather than signing
  128. initialisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialization.
  129. initialise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialize.
  130. initialiser noun: Alternative spelling of initializer.
  131. initialism noun /ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm/: A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
  132. initialist noun: A writer who identifies themselves by the initial letters of their name.
  133. initializable adjective: That can be initialized.
  134. initialization noun: The process of preparing something to begin.
  135. initialize verb /ɪˈnɪʃəlaɪz/: To assign initial values to something.
  136. initializer noun: One who, or that which, initializes.
  137. initialler noun: Alternative form of initialer.
  138. initially adverb /ɪˈnɪʃəli/: At the beginning.
  139. initialness noun: The quality of being initial, or coming first.
  140. initials noun, verb /ɪˈnɪʃəlz/: An abbreviation of a person's name, constructed by taking the initial letters of first, last, and sometimes middle name(s). See monogram
  141. initiand noun: The subject of an initiation
  142. initiary adjective: Initial; beginning.
  143. initiate adjective, noun, verb /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/: To begin; to start.
  144. initiatee noun: One who, or that which, is initiated.
  145. initiatic adjective: Involving (religious, spiritual, etc) initiation (into something).
  146. initiation noun /ɪˌnɪʃ.iˈeɪ.ʃən/: The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
  147. initiation ceremony noun: A ritual during which an initiate is admitted to an organization or given secret knowledge; sometimes contains one or more tests that have to be passed or...
  148. initiation codon noun: A codon that signals the first amino acid to be used in the synthesis of the polypeptide chain of a protein; either AUG or GUG
  149. initiational adjective: Relating to or involving initiation (into a religious group, spiritual status, etc).
  150. initiationism noun: A rite or act of initiation.
  151. initiative adjective, noun /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/: Serving to initiate.
  152. initiatively adverb: On one's own initiative; without being prompted
  153. initiativeness noun /ɪˈnɪʃətɪvnəs/: initiative, drive, action
  154. initiator noun: One who initiates.
  155. initiatorily adverb: In an initiatory manner.
  156. initiatory adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to initiation.
  157. initiatrix noun: A female initiator.
  158. inition noun: initiation; beginning
  159. initionym noun /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.nɪm/: A hybrid of an initialism and an acronym (usually in that order).
  160. Inity noun: unity
  161. iniunctum noun: Synonym of prozeugma
  162. inject verb /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/: To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
  163. injectability noun: The quality of being injectable.
  164. injectable adjective, noun /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛktəbəl/: Capable of being (or designed to be) injected.
  165. injectal adjective: Relating to injection.
  166. injectant noun: A substance that is injected.
  167. injectate noun: Material that is injected.
  168. injectee noun: A person receiving an injection
  169. injecter noun: Alternative form of injector.
  170. injectibility noun: Alternative form of injectability.
  171. injectible adjective, noun: Alternative form of injectable.
  172. injection noun /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/: The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
  173. injection molding noun: A manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting material into a mold.
  174. injectional adjective: Relating to injection.
  175. injectisome noun: A needle-like projection of protein, in some bacteria, used as a sensory probe.
  176. injectite noun: A material formed by injection of a sediment, typically between strata
  177. injective adjective /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/: Of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain);...
  178. injective function noun: Synonym of injection (“a relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.”).
  179. injectively adverb: With regard to injection; in an injective manner
  180. injectiveness noun: The state or quality of being injective.
  181. injectivity noun: The property of being injective.
  182. injector noun /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/: One who injects (himself or herself with) psychoactive drugs.
  183. injector pen noun: A device designed to facilitate self-injection of medicinal products.
  184. injectoral adjective: Relating to an injector.
  185. injectosome noun: Alternative form of injectisome.
  186. injelititis noun: A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.
  187. injellied adjective: Placed in jelly.
  188. injera noun /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛɹə/: A pancakelike flatbread made from fermented teff flour, a traditional food of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, and the Nuer people of Sudan.
  189. Injian adjective: Pronunciation spelling of Indian
  190. injog noun, verb: In card tricks, one or more cards secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck towards the performer.
  191. injoint verb: To disjoint; to separate.
  192. injucundity noun: The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
  193. injudicable adjective: Not able to be determined by a judge.
  194. injudicial adjective: Not according to the forms of law
  195. injudicious adjective /ˌɪnd͡ʒʊˈdɪʃəs/: Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
  196. injudiciously adverb /ˌɪnd͡ʒʊˈdɪʃəslɪ/: In an injudicious manner.
  197. injudiciousness noun: The state or condition of being injudicious.
  198. injunct verb: To put an injunction against. (Used both of the party who applies for the injunction and of the judge who grants it.)
  199. injunction noun /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/: The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
  200. injunction gap noun: The time delay between a decision on patent infringement and a decision on the patent's validity, occurring where the two decisions are made by different...
  201. injunctional adjective: Being or pertaining to an injunction.
  202. injunctionless adjective: Lacking an injunction
  203. injunctive adjective, noun: A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually resembling an augmentless aorist or imperfect.
  204. injunctively adverb: As an injunction.
  205. injurable adjective: Capable of being injured.
  206. injurant adjective, noun: Causing injury.
  207. injure verb /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/: To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
  208. injured adjective, verb /ˈɪnd͡ʒɚd/: Suffering from an injury.
  209. injured party noun: The plaintiff in a lawsuit.
  210. injuredly adverb: In an injured manner.
  211. injuredness noun: The quality of being injured.
  212. injuree noun: A person who is injured.
  213. injurer noun: One who injures something.
  214. injuria noun /ɪnˈdʒʊəɹi.ə/: injury; invasion of another's rights
  215. injuria sine damno noun: A legal wrong that causes no actual damage or injury to anyone.
  216. injurious adjective /ɪnˈdʒʊə.ɹɪ.əs/: Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
  217. injuriously adverb: In an injurious manner; in a manner that injures or damages.
  218. injuriousness noun: The quality of being injurious.
  219. injury noun, verb /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/: Damage to the body of a living thing.
  220. injury current noun: the electric current due to an injury potential
  221. injury potential noun: the electric potential arising in a muscle or nerve from trauma injury
  222. injury-prone adjective: Who is susceptible to injury.
  223. injury time noun: Additional time played after each period of a game in order to compensate for stoppages due to player injuries; loosely extended to include time added on to...
  224. injust adjective: Unjust, unfair.
  225. injustice noun /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/: Absence of justice; unjustice.
  226. injustice collecting noun: A condition, where one remembers and itemizes slights, imagined or real.
  227. injustice collection noun: The list of injustices an injustice collector collects through injustice collecting.
  228. injustice collector noun: A person who practices injustice collecting.
  229. injustly adverb: Unjustly, unfairly.
  230. ink noun, verb /ˈɪŋk/: A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
  231. ink ball noun: Alternative form of inkball.
  232. ink-block noun: A block or table onto which the ink is spread, which is then transferred by the rollers or inkballs.
  233. ink bomb noun: An explosive device which releases an indelible ink designed to stain a person illegally opening a container of cash.
  234. ink bottle noun: A bottle of ink, especially one which a pen may be dipped into; inkwell.
  235. ink-cap noun: Alternative form of inkcap.
  236. ink cartridge noun: A user-replaceable container with one or more ink reservoirs that is designed to fit in the cartridge slot of an inkjet printer.
  237. ink converter noun: A cylindrical device that can be fitted inside a fountain pen to allow the use of bottled ink instead of cartridges.
  238. ink disease noun: Fungal infection by Phytophthora cinnamomi, in certain Castanea species.
  239. ink dot noun: Alternative form of inkdot.
  240. ink eradicator noun: An ink eraser of the chemical kind.
  241. ink eraser noun: An instrument used to remove ink from a writing surface, either (traditionally) a metal scraper or (more recently) a special pen dispensing a chemical that...
  242. ink fountain noun: A container that is a part of a rotary printing press and in which ink is kept during the printing process.
  243. ink in verb: to fill in or write in using a pen
  244. ink isn't dry on phrase: Of a document, used to indicate that it was just issued.
  245. ink jet noun: Alternative form of inkjet.
  246. ink jet printer noun: Alternative form of inkjet printer.
  247. ink monitor noun: A schoolchild assigned the duty of preparing and distributing ink.
  248. ink pad noun: A piece of absorbent material, soaked with ink used for rubber stamps. The ink gets onto the stamp by pressing the stamp on the ink-pad.
  249. ink pen noun: A writing pen.
  250. ink pot noun: Alternative spelling of inkpot.
  251. ink sac noun: A muscular bag found in certain cephalopods used to generate ink.
  252. ink slinger noun: A writer, especially of low-quality writing or invective.
  253. ink-stained adjective: Alternative form of inkstained
  254. ink syringe noun: A small hypodermic syringe typically with a blunt-tip needle, used in fountain pen maintenance.
  255. ink tag noun: A tag consisting of ink put on clothing merchandise in stores to deter theft.
  256. ink trap noun: A sharp recess in an inward corner, present in certain typefaces; when printed, ink fills them (as opposed to having normal corners, resulting in bleeding...
  257. ink up verb: To apply or install ink in preparation for printing.
  258. ink well noun: Alternative spelling of inkwell.
  259. Inka noun: Alternative form of Inca.
  260. inkable adjective: Capable of being inked.
  261. inkalimeva noun: A mythical animal that features in Xhosa folk tales. It is often described as a jackal-like creature with a multi-coloured coat.
  262. Inkan adjective: Alternative spelling of Incan.
  263. inkball noun: The gall of an oak tree, used to produce ink.
  264. inkberry noun: Ilex glabra (winterberry, gallberry)
  265. inkberry holly noun: Ilex glabra
  266. inkblot noun /ˈɪŋkˌblɑt/: A blot of ink.
  267. inkblot test noun: A Rorschach test
  268. inkbottle noun: Alternative spelling of ink bottle.
  269. inkbrush noun: A brush used in Chinese calligraphy and painting.
  270. inkbush noun: The plant Forestiera eggersiana.
  271. inkcap noun: A fungus of one of the genera Coprinus, Coprinellus or Coprinopsis.
  272. inkciyo noun: A beaded apron worn by the Xhosa people.
  273. inkdot noun: A small spot of ink.
  274. inkdrop noun: Synonym of inkblot or inkspot; a drop of ink.
  275. inked adjective, verb: Having a tattoo or tattoos.
  276. inken adjective: made of or written with ink
  277. inker noun /ˈɪŋ.kə(ɹ)/: A person or device that applies ink.
  278. Inkerman proper noun: A city in Crimea, Ukraine.
  279. inkfish noun: An octopus or squid.
  280. inkholder noun: A container for ink.
  281. inkhorn noun /ˈɪŋkˌhɔːn/: A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
  282. inkhorn term noun: A borrowing from another language thought to be pretentious or unneeded, especially from Latin or Greek.
  283. inkhorn word noun: Synonym of inkhorn term.
  284. inkhornish adjective: Employing, or characteristic of, inkhorn terms; pedantically scholarly.
  285. inkhornism noun: Pedantry; a preference for inkhorn terms.
  286. inkhornist noun: One who uses or favours inkhorn terms.
  287. inkhornize verb: To address (someone) using obscure words.
  288. inkhosi noun: Alternative spelling of inkosi.
  289. inkily adverb: In an inky way; darkly, blackly.
  290. inkindle verb: Alternative form of enkindle.
  291. inkiness noun: The condition of or an instance of being inky.
  292. inking noun, verb: An application of ink.
  293. inkish adjective: Synonym of inky, inklike, black.
  294. inkjet noun: A device, particularly one used in the printing of documents, which propels tiny droplets of ink to the paper.
  295. inkjet printer noun: A device for the printing of documents which that operates by propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper.
  296. inkjettable adjective: Capable of being printed on an inkjet.
  297. inkle noun, verb /ˈɪŋkl̩/: To hint at; disclose.
  298. inkless adjective: Without ink.
  299. inklessly adverb: Without the use of ink.
  300. inklessness noun: Absence of ink.

Part 38 · Part 40 · English words: I

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under I: 23,084 words, in 77 parts.