IDEN
First name IDEN's origin is English. IDEN means "wealthy". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with IDEN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of iden.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with IDEN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming IDEN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ĘDEN AS A WHOLE:
jaiden aiden braiden driden kaiden zaidenNAMES RHYMING WITH ĘDEN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (den) - Names That Ends with den:
arden yspaddaden braden vaden camden caden eden linden sharaden aden alden auden ayden barden blagden boden boyden braeden branden brenden broden cayden culloden elden garaden golden graden haden halden hamden hayden holden huntingden jaden jaeden jayden jorden kaden kaeden kamden kanden kayden landen layden louden madden marden micaden oakden ogden paden payden selden shauden shelden walden warden worden zaden den tilden harden hadden dryden belden varden bowden borden lunden woden amsden marsden ramsden royden snowden ysbaddaden braydenRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (en) - Names That Ends with en:
cwen guendolen raven coleen helen hien huyen quyen tien tuyen yen aren essien mekonnen shaheen yameen kadeen kailoken nascien bingen evnissyen lairgnen nisienNAMES RHYMING WITH ĘDEN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ide) - Names That Begins with ide:
ide idelisa idelle ider idetta idetteRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (id) - Names That Begins with id:
ida idaia idal idalia idalie idalis idas idi idla idna idogbe idoia idola idomeneus idris idrissa idurreNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ĘDEN:
First Names which starts with 'i' and ends with 'n':
iain ian iasion iason iban ihrin ihsan iman imogen imran inazin inghean inghinn ioan ion irfan irin irven irvin irvyn irwin irwyn isen isleen istvan iulian ivalyn ivan iven ivon ixcatzin ixion izaan izazkun izmirlianEnglish Words Rhyming IDEN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ĘDEN AS A WHOLE:
accidence | noun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. |
noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject. |
accident | noun (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. |
noun (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. | |
noun (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. | |
noun (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. | |
noun (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. | |
noun (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. | |
noun (n.) Unusual appearance or effect. |
accidental | noun (n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. |
noun (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow. | |
noun (n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. | |
adjective (a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit. | |
adjective (a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. |
accidentalism | noun (n.) Accidental character or effect. |
accidentality | noun (n.) The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. |
accidentalness | noun (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness. |
assident | adjective (a.) Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms. |
bident | noun (n.) An instrument or weapon with two prongs. |
bidental | adjective (a.) Having two teeth. |
bidentate | adjective (a.) Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed. |
coincidence | noun (n.) The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. |
noun (n.) The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. | |
noun (n.) Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. |
coincident | noun (n.) One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence. |
adjective (a.) Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. |
coincidental | adjective (a.) Coincident. |
confidence | noun (n.) The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. |
noun (n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had. | |
noun (n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed. | |
noun (n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them. | |
noun (n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved. | |
noun (n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted. | |
noun (n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous. | |
noun (n.) Giving occasion for confidence. |
confident | noun (n.) See Confidant. |
confidential | adjective (a.) Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. |
adjective (a.) Communicated in confidence; secret. |
confidentness | noun (n.) The quality of being confident. |
curvidentate | adjective (a.) Having curved teeth. |
decidence | noun (n.) A falling off. |
diffidence | noun (n.) The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. |
noun (n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness. |
diffidency | noun (n.) See Diffidence. |
diffident | adjective (a.) Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. |
adjective (a.) Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve. |
dissidence | adjective (a.) Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. |
dissident | noun (n.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. |
adjective (a.) No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. |
dividend | noun (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate. |
noun (n.) A number or quantity which is to be divided. |
divident | noun (n.) Dividend; share. |
ethidene | noun (n.) Ethylidene. |
evidence | noun (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement. |
noun (n.) One who bears witness. | |
noun (n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. | |
verb (v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender. |
evidencing | noun (p, pr. & vb. n.) of Evidence |
evidencer | noun (n.) One whi gives evidence. |
evident | adjective (a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident. |
evidential | adjective (a.) Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity. |
evidentiary | adjective (a.) Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. |
evidentness | noun (n.) State of being evident. |
handmaiden | noun (n.) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. |
hesperidene | noun (n.) An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil. |
hoiden | noun (n.) A rude, clownish youth. |
noun (n.) A rude, bold girl; a romp. | |
adjective (a.) Rustic; rude; bold. | |
verb (v. i.) To romp rudely or indecently. |
hoidenhood | noun (n.) State of being a hoiden. |
hoidenish | adjective (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden. |
identic | adjective (a.) Identical. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Identical |
identical | adjective (a.) The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. |
adjective (a.) Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological. | |
adjective (a.) In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; -- applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government. |
identicalness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being identical; sameness. |
identifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being identified. |
identification | noun (n.) The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified. |
identifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Identify |
identism | noun (n.) The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system / doctrine of identity. |
identity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. |
noun (n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods. | |
noun (n.) An identical equation. |
improvidence | noun (n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift. |
improvident | adjective (a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ĘDEN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (den) - English Words That Ends with den:
beden | noun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible. |
beholden | adjective (p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. |
(p. p.) of Behold |
bounden | adjective (p. p & a.) Bound; fastened by bonds. |
adjective (p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. | |
adjective (p. p & a.) Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. | |
() of Bind |
breaden | adjective (a.) Made of bread. |
broaden | adjective (a.) To grow broad; to become broader or wider. |
verb (v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive. |
burden | noun (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load. |
noun (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. | |
noun (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden. | |
noun (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. | |
noun (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. | |
noun (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. | |
noun (n.) A birth. | |
noun (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. | |
noun (n.) The drone of a bagpipe. | |
noun (n.) A club. | |
verb (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. | |
verb (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). |
churchwarden | noun (n.) One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. |
noun (n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. |
cudden | noun (n.) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. |
noun (n.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy. |
deaden | adjective (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. |
adjective (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. | |
adjective (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. | |
adjective (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. | |
verb (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. |
den | noun (n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers. |
noun (n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice. | |
noun (n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone. | |
noun (n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. | |
verb (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den. |
downtrodden | adjective (a.) Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. |
eden | noun (n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence. |
faburden | noun (n.) A species of counterpoint with a drone bass. |
noun (n.) A succession of chords of the sixth. | |
noun (n.) A monotonous refrain. |
fielden | adjective (a.) Consisting of fields. |
firewarden | noun (n.) An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward. |
forbidden | adjective (a.) Prohibited; interdicted. |
(p. p.) of Forbid |
garden | noun (n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. |
noun (n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. | |
verb (v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture. | |
verb (v. t.) To cultivate as a garden. |
gilden | adjective (a.) Gilded. |
gladen | noun (n.) Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. |
golden | adjective (a.) Made of gold; consisting of gold. |
adjective (a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. | |
adjective (a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. |
gowden | adjective (a.) Golden. |
gulden | noun (n.) See Guilder. |
hidden | adjective (p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. |
(p. p.) of Hide |
hoyden | noun (n.) Same as Hoiden. |
hurden | noun (n.) A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. |
jorden | noun (n.) A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists. |
noun (n.) A chamber pot. |
laden | adjective (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. |
leaden | adjective (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. |
adjective (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. | |
adjective (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish. |
leden | noun (n.) Alt. of Ledden |
ledden | noun (n.) Language; speech; voice; cry. |
linden | noun (n.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe. |
noun (n.) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana. |
lyden | noun (n.) See Leden. |
lynden | noun (n.) See Linden. |
maiden | noun (n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. |
noun (n.) A female servant. | |
noun (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. | |
noun (n.) A machine for washing linen. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. | |
adjective (a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. | |
adjective (a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. | |
adjective (a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. | |
verb (v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object. |
manhaden | noun (n.) See Menhaden. |
menhaden | noun (n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc. |
midden | noun (n.) A dunghill. |
noun (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens. |
muckmidden | noun (n.) A dunghill. |
olden | adjective (a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time. |
verb (v. i.) To grow old; to age. |
overburden | noun (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry. |
verb (v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. |
redden | adjective (a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to. |
verb (v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush. |
reeden | adjective (a.) Consisting of a reed or reeds. |
sudden | noun (n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. |
adjective (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy. | |
adjective (a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid. | |
adjective (a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. | |
adverb (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly. |
threaden | adjective (a.) Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. |
unbidden | adjective (a.) Not bidden; not commanded. |
adjective (a.) Uninvited; as, unbidden guests. | |
adjective (a.) Being without a prayer. |
unyolden | adjective (a.) Not yielded. |
warden | noun (n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. |
noun (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison. | |
noun (n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden. | |
noun (n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. |
wealden | noun (n.) The Wealden group or strata. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series. |
woden | noun (n.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin. |
wooden | adjective (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. |
adjective (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ĘDEN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ide) - Words That Begins with ide:
ide | noun (n.) Same as Id. |
idea | noun (n.) The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual. |
noun (n.) A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. | |
noun (n.) Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of. | |
noun (n.) A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. | |
noun (n.) A plan or purpose of action; intention; design. | |
noun (n.) A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract. | |
noun (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. |
ideal | noun (n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc. |
adjective (a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. | |
adjective (a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. | |
adjective (a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. | |
adjective (a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy. | |
adjective (a.) Imaginary. |
idealess | adjective (a.) Destitute of an idea. |
idealism | noun (n.) The quality or state of being ideal. |
noun (n.) Conception of the ideal; imagery. | |
noun (n.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. | |
noun (n.) The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns; -- opposed to realism. |
idealist | noun (n.) One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. |
noun (n.) One who holds the doctrine of idealism. |
idealistic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. |
ideality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being ideal. |
noun (n.) The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection. | |
noun (n.) The conceptive faculty. |
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. |
idealizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Idealize |
idealizer | noun (n.) An idealist. |
idealogic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization. |
idealogue | noun (n.) One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. |
ideat | noun (n.) Alt. of Ideate |
ideate | noun (n.) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence. |
verb (v. t.) To form in idea; to fancy. | |
verb (v. t.) To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. |
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. |
ideational | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation. |
ideogenical | adjective (a.) Of or relating to ideology. |
ideogeny | noun (n.) The science which treats of the origin of ideas. |
ideogram | noun (n.) An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea. |
noun (n.) A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, /, $, /, etc. | |
noun (n.) A phonetic symbol; a letter. |
ideograph | noun (n.) Same as Ideogram. |
ideographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ideographical |
ideographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself. |
ideographics | noun (n.) The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written. |
ideography | noun (n.) The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc. |
ideological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ideology. |
ideologist | noun (n.) One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology. |
ideology | noun (n.) The science of ideas. |
noun (n.) A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation. |
ides | noun (n. pl.) The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ĘDEN:
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. |
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. |
inaffectation | noun (n.) Freedom from affectation; naturalness. |
inanimation | noun (n.) Want of animation; lifeless; dullness. |
noun (n.) Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration. |
inanitiation | noun (n.) Inanition. |