IAIN

Name Report For First Name IAIN:

First name IAIN's origin is Scottish. IAIN means "gift from god". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with IAIN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of iain.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scottish) with IAIN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with IAIN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming IAIN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES �A�N AS A WHOLE:

guiliaine

NAMES RHYMING WITH �A�N (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ain) - Names That Ends with ain:

brengwain husain agravain alain mabonagrain tortain fiamain bain banain coinleain charmain dubhain etain germain ain bhradain bothain brittain broehain cain cochlain cuchulain culain dain deoradhain dewain dubhagain dwain efrain fain fallamhain flannagain gauvain gawain gordain gormain husnain hussain jermain justain lochlain mabonaqain macbain morain narain riordain shain thawain tremain wain zain diolmhain bheathain bharain twain thain swain brain houdain helain ghislain romain evrain mordrain owain gille-eathain jordain

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (in) - Names That Ends with in:

fatin yasmin camarin maolmin delbin kristin adin gin ixcatzin tepin tlazohtzin xochicotzin yoltzin zeltzin ihrin adwin akin alafin din kayin yerodin abbudin abdul-muhaimin aladdin amin mazin muhsin yasin custennin erbin pheredin taliesin txomin

NAMES RHYMING WITH �A�N (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (iai) - Names That Begins with iai:

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Begins with ia:

iago iakovos iamar ian ianthe ianthina iaokim iapetus iasion iasius iason

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH �A�N:

First Names which starts with 'i' and ends with 'n':

iban iden ihsan iman imogen imran inazin inghean inghinn ioan ion irfan irin irven irvin irvyn irwin irwyn isen isleen istvan iulian ivalyn ivan iven ivon ixion izaan izazkun izmirlian

English Words Rhyming IAIN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES �A�N AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH �A�N (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ain) - English Words That Ends with ain:

almain

noun (n.) Alt. of Alman

amain	noun (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
	noun (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.
	verb (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

archchamberlain

noun (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

attain	noun (n.) Attainment.
	verb (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
	verb (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
	verb (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
	verb (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
	verb (v. t.) To overtake.
	verb (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
	verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
	verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

bain

noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

bargain	noun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
	noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
	noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
	noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
	noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
	verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

blain	noun (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
	noun (n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

boatswain	noun (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
	noun (n.) The jager gull.
	noun (n.) The tropic bird.

brain	noun (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
	noun (n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
	noun (n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
	noun (n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.
	verb (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
	verb (v. t.) To conceive; to understand.

captain	noun (n.) A head, or chief officer
	noun (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
	noun (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
	noun (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
	noun (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
	noun (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
	noun (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen.
	noun (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
	noun (n.) A military leader; a warrior.
	adjective (a.) Chief; superior.
	verb (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead.

catchdrain

noun (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

certain	noun (n.) Certainty.
	noun (n.) A certain number or quantity.
	adjective (a.) Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
	adjective (a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
	adjective (a.) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
	adjective (a.) Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
	adjective (a.) Unfailing; infallible.
	adjective (a.) Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
	adjective (a.) Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
	adverb (adv.) Certainly.

chain	noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
	noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
	noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
	noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
	noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
	noun (n.) The warp threads of a web.
	verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
	verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
	verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
	verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain.
	verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

chamberlain	noun (n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
	noun (n.) An upper servant of an inn.
	noun (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
	noun (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.

chaplain	noun (n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
	noun (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
	noun (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

chevrotain

noun (n.) A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.

chieftain

noun (n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.

chilblain	noun (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
	verb (v. t.) To produce chilblains upon.

cockswain

noun (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

copatain

adjective (a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

cordwain

noun (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

coxswain

noun (n.) See Cockswain.

curtain	noun (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
	noun (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
	noun (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
	noun (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
	verb (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

dagswain

noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

demain	noun (n.) Rule; management.
	noun (n.) See Demesne.

detain	noun (n.) Detention.
	verb (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
	verb (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
	verb (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

digitain	noun (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
	noun (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.

domain	noun (n.) Dominion; empire; authority.
	noun (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
	noun (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
	noun (n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.

drain	noun (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
	noun (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
	noun (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
	verb (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
	verb (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
	verb (v. t.) To filter.
	verb (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
	verb (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

elain

noun (n.) Same as Olein.

entertain	noun (n.) Entertainment.
	verb (v. t.) To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
	verb (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
	verb (v. t.) To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
	verb (v. t.) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
	verb (v. t.) To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
	verb (v. t.) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
	verb (v. i.) To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

epictetain

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

explain	adjective (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
	adjective (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
	verb (v. i.) To give an explanation.

fain	adjective (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
	adjective (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
	adverb (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

filigrain

noun (n.) Alt. of Filigrane

forebrain

noun (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

fountain	noun (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
	noun (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
	noun (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
	noun (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

fusain	noun (n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
	noun (n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.

gain	noun (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
	noun (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
	noun (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.
	noun (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
	noun (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
	noun (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
	adjective (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
	verb (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
	verb (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
	verb (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

gainpain

noun (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

germain

adjective (a.) See Germane.

grain	noun (v. & n.) See Groan.
	noun (n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
	noun (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.
	noun (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
	noun (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
	noun (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
	noun (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
	noun (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
	noun (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
	noun (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
	noun (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
	noun (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.
	noun (n.) To yield fruit.
	noun (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
	noun (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
	noun (n.) A tine, prong, or fork.
	noun (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.
	noun (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.
	noun (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
	noun (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
	adjective (a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
	adjective (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
	verb (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
	verb (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

grosgrain

adjective (a.) Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

hindbrain

noun (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.

hogchain

noun (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

incertain

noun (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.

ingrain	noun (n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
	adjective (a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes.
	adjective (a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
	verb (v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.
	verb (v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
	verb (v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

interbrain

noun (n.) See Thalamencephalon.

jain

noun (n.) Alt. of Jaina

kain

noun (n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH �A�N (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (iai) - Words That Begins with iai:

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH �A�N:

English Words which starts with 'i' and ends with 'n':

iatromathematician

noun (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

iberian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Iberia.

icarian

adjective (a.) Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.

iceman	noun (n.) A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
	noun (n.) One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.

ichneumon

noun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

noun (n.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.

ichneumonidan	noun (n.) One of the Ichneumonidae.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidae, or ichneumon flies.

ichthidin

noun (n.) A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

ichthin

noun (n.) A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

ichthulin

noun (n.) A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

ichthyosaurian	noun (n.) One of the Ichthyosauria.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria.

icon	noun (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
	noun (n.) A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church.

icosahedron

noun (n.) A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

icosandrian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Icosandrous

icositetrahedron

noun (n.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

idalian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.

idealization	noun (n.) The act or process of idealizing.
	noun (n.) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

ideation

noun (n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

identification

noun (n.) The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

idioticon

noun (n.) A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

idorgan

noun (n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

idumean	noun (n.) An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia.

ignition	noun (n.) The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.
	noun (n.) The state of being ignited or kindled.

iguanian

adjective (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.

iguanodon

noun (n.) A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.

ilicin

noun (n.) The bitter principle of the holly.

ilixanthin

noun (n.) A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.

ilkon

noun (pron.) Alt. of Ilkoon

ilkoon

noun (pron.) Each one; every one.

illaqueation	noun (n.) The act of catching or insnaring.
	noun (n.) A snare; a trap.

illation

noun (n.) The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

illecebration

noun (n.) Allurement.

illegitimation	noun (n.) The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.
	noun (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.

illimitation

noun (n.) State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation.

illinition	noun (n.) A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.
	noun (n.) A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.

illiquation

noun (n.) The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.

illision

noun (n.) The act of dashing or striking against.

illumination	noun (n.) The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
	noun (n.) Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
	noun (n.) Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
	verb (v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
	verb (v. t.) That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
	verb (v. t.) The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.

illusion	noun (n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
	noun (n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
	noun (n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
	noun (n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.

illustration	noun (n.) The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
	noun (n.) That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
	noun (n.) A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

illutation

noun (n.) The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

imagination	noun (n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
	noun (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
	noun (n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
	noun (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

iman

noun (n.) Alt. of Imaum

imbibition

noun (n.) The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.

imbrication

noun (n.) An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

imbution

noun (n.) An imbuing.

imesatin

noun (n.) A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.

imitation	noun (n.) The act of imitating.
	noun (n.) That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
	noun (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
	noun (n.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

immanation

noun (n.) A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation.

immersion	noun (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
	noun (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
	noun (n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
	noun (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.

immigration

noun (n.) The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

imminution

noun (n.) A lessening; diminution; decrease.

immission

noun (n.) The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

immoderation

noun (n.) Want of moderation.

immolation	noun (n.) The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
	noun (n.) That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

immortalization

noun (n.) The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

immortification

noun (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.

immutation

noun (n.) Change; alteration; mutation.

impaction	noun (n.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.
	noun (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

impanation

adjective (a.) Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.

impartation

noun (n.) The act of imparting, or the thing imparted.

impastation

noun (n.) The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

impatronization

noun (n.) Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession.

impedition

noun (n.) A hindering; a hindrance.

imperatorian

adjective (a.) Imperial.

imperception

noun (n.) Want of perception.

imperfection

adjective (a.) The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

imperforation

noun (n.) The state of being without perforation.

impersonation

noun (n.) Alt. of Impersonification

impersonification

noun (n.) The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

imperturbation

noun (n.) Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude.

impetration	noun (n.) The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
	noun (n.) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.

impignoration

noun (n.) The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.

impinguation

noun (n.) The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened.

implantation

noun (n.) The act or process of implantating.

impletion	noun (n.) The act of filling, or the state of being full.
	noun (n.) That which fills up; filling.

implexion

noun (n.) Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

implication	noun (n.) The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
	noun (n.) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

imploration

noun (n.) The act of imploring; earnest supplication.

implosion

noun (n.) A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

noun (n.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany.

impoon

noun (n.) The duykerbok.

imposition	noun (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
	noun (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
	noun (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
	noun (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
	noun (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
	noun (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

imposthumation	noun (n.) The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.
	noun (n.) An abscess; an imposthume.

imprecation

noun (n.) The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.

imprecision

noun (n.) Want of precision.

impregnation	noun (n.) The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
	noun (n.) The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.
	noun (n.) That with which anything is impregnated.
	noun (n.) Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.
	noun (n.) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

impreparation

noun (n.) Want of preparation.

impression	noun (n.) The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
	noun (n.) That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
	noun (n.) That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
	noun (n.) Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
	noun (n.) An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
	noun (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
	noun (n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
	noun (n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
	noun (n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.

improbation	noun (n.) The act of disapproving; disapprobation.
	noun (n.) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.

improperation

noun (n.) The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.

impropriation	noun (n.) The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.
	noun (n.) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
	noun (n.) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.

improvisation	noun (n.) The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
	noun (n.) That which is improvised; an impromptu.

improvision

noun (n.) Improvidence.

impugnation

noun (n.) Act of impugning; opposition; attack.

impulsion	noun (n.) The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
	noun (n.) Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.

impuration

noun (n.) Defilement; obscuration.

inaction

noun (n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

inactuation

noun (n.) Operation.

inadaptation

noun (n.) Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

inadequation

noun (n.) Want of exact correspondence.

inadhesion

noun (n.) Want of adhesion.