English Words: I

17,902 words · Page 48 of 359

imbossverb

Archaic form of emboss.

imbosturenoun

embossed work; ornamentation; embossment

imboundverb

To enclose in limits; to shut in.

imbowverb

Obsolete form of embow.

imbowerverb

Archaic form of embower.

imboxverb

To enclose in a box, or as if in a box.

imbraceverb

Obsolete spelling of embrace.

imbracementnoun

Obsolete form of embracement.

imbracestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of imbrace

imbracethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of imbrace

imbrangleverb

Archaic form of embrangle.

imbrastverb

simple past and past participle of imbrace

imbreatheverb

To inbreathe; to breathe in.

imbrexnoun

A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.

imbricateadj

Alternative form of imbricated (“overlapping”).

imbricatedadj

Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.

imbricatelyadv

In an imbricate manner.

imbricationnoun

A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.

imbriferousadj

Rainy; rain-causing; relating to rain.

Imbriotnoun

One of the inhabitants of the Turkish island of Imbros.

imbroccatanoun

A hit or thrust.

imbrogliinoun

plural of imbroglio

imbroglionoun

A complicated situation; an entanglement.

Imbrognoname

A surname from Italian.

Imbrosname

island of Turkey in the north-eastern Aegean Sea

imbrownverb

Archaic spelling of embrown.

imbrueverb

To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].

imbruedverb

simple past and past participle of imbrue

imbruementnoun

The act of imbruing, or the state of being imbrued.

imbruteverb

To make brutal

imbrutementnoun

The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted.

imbrutingadj

Brutalizing, degrading.

imbueverb

To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.

imbuementnoun

The act of imbuing, or state of being imbued.

imbuernoun

One who imbues.

imbuethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of imbue

imbuianoun

Ocotea porosa, a tree of southern Brazil, a source of high-end timber.

Imburgianame

A surname from Italian.

imburseverb

To put into a purse; to save, to store up.

imbursementnoun

The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.

imbuzeironoun

A hog plum (Spondias mombin), native to the tropical Americas.

imciromabnoun

A mouse monoclonal antibody formerly used for cardiac imaging.

IMDnoun

Initialism of index of multiple deprivation.

IMDbname

Initialism of Internet Movie Database, a website that documents movies and television shows.

imdevimabnoun

A monoclonal antibody used with casirivimab to treat COVID-19

IMEnoun

Initialism of input method editor.

IMEInoun

Initialism of International Mobile Equipment Identity.

Imeldaname

A female given name from the Romance languages.

Imelda Marcosname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

Imeldificadj

Ostentatiously extravagant, sometimes to the point of vulgarity.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter I contains 17,902 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 359 pages, and you are currently viewing page 48. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "I" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.