| incomer | n. | person moving into a tight-knit community from outside that group or location | ||
| incommensurable | adj. | without a common standard of comparison, having no shared basis of measure; entirely disproportionate | ||
| inconscient | adj. | unconscious | ||
| incontinent | adj. | unable to control bladder or bowels; having no or little moral or sexual restraint | ||
| incorporeity | n. | quality of being incorporeal, lack of material existence | ||
| incumbent | adj. | being the current officeholder; obligatory, required | ||
| incurrent | adj. | moving into the interior, relating to an inward current | ||
| indefeasible | adj. | not liable to be annulled or voided, not forfeitable | ||
| indefectible | adj. | perfect; resisting decay, permanent | ||
| indicium | n. | sign, token; mail marking used in place of stamps or cancellation (usu. plural) | ||
| indiction | n. | fifteen year time period used in Roman Empire from time of Constantine into the Middle Ages; also denotes particular year within an indiction, e.g. “twelfth indiction” meaning twelfth year of (a given) indiction | ||
| indolent | adj. | slothful, averse to exertion or work | ||
| indurate | v. | to harden; to make callous; to inure | ||
| ineffable | adj. | unutterable, unspeakable; of that which must not be spoken | ||
| ineluctable | adj. | inescapable | ||
| inenarrable | adj. | inexpressible, unable to be described, not narratable | ||
| infandous | adj. | of that which should not be told; odious in the extreme, horrid | ||
| inflorescence | n. | arrangement of flowers upon a plant; blossoming, process of flowering | ||
| infra dig | adj. | (abbrev. of infra dignitatem) beneath one’s dignity, unbecoming | Latin | |
| infralapsarian | adj. | of the Calvinist doctrine that God’s election of some to eternal life followed His foreknowledge of the Fall of Man | ||
| ingle | n. | fireplace | obsolete | |
| inglenook | n. | corner or nook by a fireplace | ||
| ingrained | adj. | deep-rooted | ||
| inherent vice | n. | tendency of an item to degrade due to poor manufacturing or materials used or other factors | law | |
| iniquitous | adj. | nefarious; flagrantly unfair | ||
| innate | adj. | part of the essential character of something, rather than learned | ||
| inquisiturient | adj. | inquisitorial, prone to inquisition | ||
| insecution | n. | close pursuit | obsolete | |
| inselberg | n. | monadnock, hill remaining on peneplain created by erosion | ||
| insidious | adj. | secretly sinister | ||
| insolation | n. | exposure to solar rays | ||
| inspan | v. | [South Africa] to yoke (animals, esp. oxen) to a vehicle; to harness | ||
| inspirit | v. | to encourage, to give vigor and strength | ||
| inspissated | adj. | thickened, congealed, dried by evaporation; condensed | ||
| instancy | n. | immediateness; urgency, insistent nature | ||
| instant | adj. | of the current calendar month | ||
| instanter | adv. | immediately, right away | ||
| instantiation | n. | representative instance of a more general pattern, algorithm, or concept | ||
| instauration | n. | renewal, restoration; [obsolete] the establishing or instituting (of something) | ||
| insufflate | v. | to blow or breathe into; to introduce air or gas into a body cavity | ||
| intarsia | n. | elaborate Italian form of marquetry; decorative yarnwork using multiple colors of yarn | ||
| integument | n. | covering; natural covering of a body, animal, plant; skin, husk, shell | ||
| intercalary | adj. | inserted, esp. of a day, days, or month inserted into a calendar | ||
| interest | n. | cause or business in which a person has a share | ||
| intermit | v. | to temporarily suspend or discontinue | ||
| internecine | adj. | of or related to fighting within a group; destructive, with great slaughter; mutually destructive | ||
| interstice | n. | small space between things | ||
| intransigent | adj. | irreconcilable, inflexible, uncompromising | ||
| intrant | n. | one who enters, entrant | archaic | |
| intrepid | adj. | dauntless |
