IAN

Name Report For First Name IAN:

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

Rhymes with IAN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming IAN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES �AN AS A WHOLE:

esiankiki allyriane cliantha deianira dianthe erianthe giancinta ianthe miliani oliana fabiana liliana sebastiana adriana lilian mariana tatiana bian germian sofian bedrosian izmirlian korian christiansen cyprian kristian sebastian urian adriano iulian octavian traian burian abriana abrianna adianna adriane adrianna adrianne andrianna ariana ariane arianell arianna arianrod asianne audriana audrianna aureliana aviana aviance avianna ayiana bianca bibiana braiana brezziana briana brianna brianne caliana caroliana chiana chianna christian christiana christiane christianna cianna cianni cipriana dagian daiana damiana damiane daviana davianna dian diana dianda diandra diandre diane dianna diannah dianne diantha eliana eliane eviana fhristiansen fianait fianna floriana galiana giana gillian gloriane glorianna graciana gracianna indiana jerianne jianna jilian jillian jilliane jillianna jillianne joelliana joelliane julianna julianne jullianna kadian katriane keiana keianna keriana keriann kerianna kerianne kerrianne khyianna kiana kiandra kiandria kiani kianna kristiana kristiane kristianna kristianne krystiana krystianna leianna liana liane lianna liliane lilianna lillian lilliana lorian loriana loriann lorianne luciana marian mariane marianne millian nimiane odiana odiane orianna qiannah rhianna rhiannon shiann shianna siann siannan siany teriana teriann tiane toriana tyrianne vivian viviana viviane vivianna vivianne adrian aidrian andrian aureliano blian bliant brian briant cassian cian cianan cillian cipriano cristian cristiano davian derrian dorian eldrian evian fabian favian feliciano fiannan finian finnian gabrian gianluca giannes gianni gremian jadarian jamian jorian julian juliano kavian khristian kian kilian killian laurian lauriano lucian luciano mariano martiniano maximilian o'brian ossian rian sebastiano trevian victoriano wacian xavian gian damian andswarian emiliana oriana gianina gianna ianthina gregoriana giancinte georgiana erian eriantha clianthe gloriana maiana lucianna juliana anbidian arian astyrian derian ealdian gaderian leanian lufian nerian tilian treddian trymian warian werian wissian hadrian valiant aubriana aubrianne briann briannah briannon coriann corianne corrianna corrianne jilliann laciann tianna dacian maximillian tristian torrian kianni

NAMES RHYMING WITH �AN (According to last letters):

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

achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan taban aidan nechtan willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shaaban shoukran aban abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan safwan salman sulaiman yaman dickran hovan karayan vartan ban laodegan leodegan adiran alan condan duncan fiallan gelban hafgan morfran mynogan pendaran taran pulan siman dehaan deman geldersman van woudman zeeman lukman uthman

NAMES RHYMING WITH �AN (According to first letters):

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

iago iain iakovos iamar iaokim iapetus iasion iasius iason

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH �AN:

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

iban iden ihrin imogen inazin inghean inghinn ioan ion irin irven irvin irvyn irwin irwyn isen isleen istvan ivalyn ivan iven ivon ixcatzin ixion izaan izazkun

English Words Rhyming IAN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES �AN AS A WHOLE:

abderian

adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

abecedarian	noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
	noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary

abelian

noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian

abelonian

noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

absinthian

noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood.

abyssinian	noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia.
	noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.

academian

noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college.

academician	noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
	noun (n.) A collegian.

acadian	noun (n.) A native of Acadie.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

acanthopterygian	noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish.
	adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.

accadian

adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

achaian	noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.

acoustician

noun (n.) One versed in acoustics.

acroceraunian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia.

adessenarian

noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

adiantum

noun (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

adrian

adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

aeolian	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.

aeonian

adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting.

aesculapian

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

affiance	noun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
	noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
	verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
	verb (v. t.) To assure by promise.

affiancing

noun (p. pr. / vb. n.) of Affiance

affiancer

noun (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

affiant

noun (n.) One who makes an affidavit.

agrarian	noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
	noun (n.) An agrarian law.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
	adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

agrarianism

noun (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

alabastrian

adjective (a.) Alabastrine.

albanian	noun (n.) A native of Albania.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.

albigensian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

aleutian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic

alexandrian	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
	adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.

algerian	noun (n.) A native of Algeria.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.

allegiance	noun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
	noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

allegiant

adjective (a.) Loyal.

alliance	noun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
	noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
	noun (n.) The persons or parties allied.
	verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

alliant

noun (n.) An ally; a confederate.

allophylian

adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.

alogian

noun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

alphabetarian

noun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.

alsatian	noun (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to Alsatia.

altaian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic

altitudinarian

adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc.

amatorian

adjective (a.) Amatory.

amazonian	adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

ambrosian	adjective (a.) Ambrosial.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.

ametabolian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

amianth

noun (n.) See Amianthus.

amianthiform

adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus in form.

amianthoid

adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus.

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

Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (an) - English Words That Ends with an:

acalephan

noun (n.) One of the Acalephae.

acaridan

noun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

acephalan	noun (n.) Same as Acephal.
	adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala.

achaean

adjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian

achean

noun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian.

achillean

adjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

acritan	noun (n.) An individual of the Acrita.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.

acrolithan

adjective (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic

acropolitan

adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis.

adamantean

adjective (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.

adonean

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.

aegean

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

aesthetican

noun (n.) One versed in aesthetics.

afghan	noun (n.) A native of Afghanistan.
	noun (n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

african	noun (n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.

ahriman

noun (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

alan

noun (n.) A wolfhound.

alban

noun (n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

alcoran

noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).

aldebaran

noun (n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.

alderman	noun (n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
	noun (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

alkoran

noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

alloxan

noun (n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

alman	noun (n.) A German.
	(adj.) German.
	(adj.) The German language.
	(adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande.

almsman	noun (n.) A recipient of alms.
	noun (n.) A giver of alms.

alongshoreman

noun (n.) See Longshoreman.

amebean

adjective (a.) See Am/bean.

american	noun (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.

amoebean

adjective (a.) Alternately answering.

amoebian

noun (n.) One of the Amoebea.

amphibian	noun (n.) One of the Amphibia.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

amphicoelian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous

amphigean

adjective (a.) Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

amphipodan

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

andean

adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Andes.

anglian	noun (n.) One of the Angles.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles.

anglican	noun (n.) A member of the Church of England.
	noun (n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
	adjective (a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

annelidan	noun (n.) One of the Annelida.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Annelida.

annulosan

noun (n.) One of the Annulosa.

anomuran	noun (n.) One of the Anomura.
	adjective (a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.

antaean

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.

antediluvian	noun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
	adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.

antelucan

adjective (a.) Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.

antemeridian

adjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

anthobian

noun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers.

anthokyan

noun (n.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

anthozoan	noun (n.) One of the Anthozoa.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Anthozoa.

anthropophaginian

noun (n.) One who east human flesh.

antichristian

adjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion.

antinomian	noun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

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

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

iamatology

noun (n.) Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.

iamb

noun (n.) An iambus or iambic.

iambic	noun (n.) An iambic foot; an iambus.
	noun (n.) A verse composed of iambic feet.
	noun (n.) A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
	adjective (a.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.

iambical

adjective (a.) Iambic.

iambus

noun (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

ianthina

noun (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail.

iatraliptic

adjective (a.) Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method.

iatric

adjective (a.) Alt. of Iatrical

iatrical

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.

iatrochemical

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.

iatrochemist

noun (n.) A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

iatrochemistry

noun (n.) Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.

iatromathematical

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.

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.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH �AN:

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

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.