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Name Report For First Name ION:

First name ION's origin is Greek. ION means "myth name (son of apollo)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ION below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ion.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with ION and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with ION - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ION

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES �ON AS A WHOLE:

caoilfhionn carnation cairistiona catriona eilionoir dionysia hesione ionela odion sion zorion bendision histion ceannfhionn amphion arion cebriones deucalion dionysius echion endymion hasione hyperion iasion ixion kedalion ophion pygmalion adoracion alastriona anunciacion arionna ascencion asuncion battzion briona brione brioni brionna brionne briony caerlion charion chione concepcion consolacion diona diondra dione dionis dionisa dionna dionne encarnacion exaltacion fiona fionn fionna fionnghuala fionnuala gliona hermione ione jaione kiona kionah kioni kionna marion riona tionna adrion albion aodhfionn bairrfhionn brion dairion davion devion diondray dorion fabion faiion fionan fionnbarr gurion ionnes jamion jarion kevion lamarion lion merlion rion tavion travion trevion zion zionah zioniah ionel ionache benzion dion gionnan fionnlaoch pution ioness ionia iliona dionysie iona eadaion marmion albiona clarion lionel dillion einion orion ionanna tzion diondre dionte lionell garion torion

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

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

afton aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton celyddon eburacon mabon alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymon ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron acteon aeson agamemnon alcmaeon amphitryon andraemon bellerophon biton cadmon cenon cercyon charon chiron corydon creon daemon demogorgon demophon erysichthon euryton geryon haemon iason jason korudon ladon laocoon laomedon lycaon machaon myron palaemon panteleimon phaethon phaon philemon phlegethon poseidon sarpedon sinon spyridon telamon triton typhon xenophon xylon zenon arnon deron agoston kaemon kannon raidon damon hanson son

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

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

ioachime ioakim ioan ioana iobates iola iolana iolanda iolantha iolanthe iole iomar iorgas iorwerth iosep ioseph iov

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH �ON:

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

iain ian iban iden ihrin ihsan iman imogen imran inazin inghean inghinn irfan irin irven irvin irvyn irwin irwyn isen isleen istvan iulian ivalyn ivan iven ivon ixcatzin izaan izazkun izmirlian

English Words Rhyming ION

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES �ON AS A WHOLE:

abacination

noun (n.) The act of abacinating.

abaction

noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.

abalienation

noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.

abannation

noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition

abannition

noun (n.) Banishment.

abarticulation

noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.

abbreviation	noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
	noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
	noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
	noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

abdication

noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

abduction	noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
	noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
	noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
	noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

aberration	noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
	noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
	noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
	noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.
	noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
	noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

aberrational

adjective (a.) Characterized by aberration.

abevacuation

noun (n.) A partial evacuation.

abirritation

noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

abjection	noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling.
	noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.
	noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.

abjudication

noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.

abjuration	noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
	noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.

ablactation	noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
	noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

ablaqueation

noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.

ablation	noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.
	noun (n.) Extirpation.
	noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.

ablegation

noun (n.) The act of sending abroad.

abligurition

noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food.

ablution	noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
	noun (n.) The water used in cleansing.
	noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

ablutionary

adjective (a.) Pertaining to ablution.

abluvion

noun (n.) That which is washed off.

abnegation

noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation.

abnodation

noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.

abolition

noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

abolitionism

noun (n.) The principles or measures of abolitionists.

abolitionist

noun (n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

abomination	noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
	noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
	noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness.

abortion	noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
	noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth.
	noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
	noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.

abortional

adjective (a.) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.

abortionist

noun (n.) One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

abrasion	noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
	noun (n.) The substance rubbed off.
	noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.

abrenunciation

noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation.

abreption

noun (n.) A snatching away.

abrogation

noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.

abruption

noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.

abscession

noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess.

abscision

noun (n.) See Abscission.

abscission	noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off.
	noun (n.) The state of being cut off.
	noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

absentation

noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self.

absolution	noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
	noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
	noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
	noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.
	noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
	noun (n.) Delivery, in speech.

absorbition

noun (n.) Absorption.

absorption	noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
	noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
	noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
	noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

abstention

adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.

abstersion

noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

abstraction	adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
	adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
	adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
	adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
	adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
	adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
	adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.

abstractional

adjective (a.) Pertaining to abstraction.

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

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

abaddon	noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
	noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit.

abandon	noun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
	verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
	verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
	verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
	verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
	verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.

abstrusion

noun (n.) The act of thrusting away.

absumption

noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

abutilon

noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

acceleration

noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.

accension

noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

accentuation	noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
	noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

acceptation	noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.
	noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.

acceptilation

noun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

acception

noun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning.

accession	noun (n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
	noun (n.) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.
	noun (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.
	noun (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
	noun (n.) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.
	noun (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

acclamation	noun (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
	noun (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
	noun (n.) In parliamentary usage, the act or method of voting orally and by groups rather than by ballot, esp. in elections;
	noun (n.) the election of a pope or other ecclesiastic by unanimous consent of the electors, without a ballot.

acclimatation

noun (n.) Acclimatization.

acclimation

noun (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

acclimatization

noun (n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

accombination

noun (n.) A combining together.

accommodation	noun (n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
	noun (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
	noun (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
	noun (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
	noun (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
	noun (n.) A loan of money.
	noun (n.) An accommodation bill or note.

accordion

noun (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

accreditation

noun (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

accrementition

noun (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

accretion	noun (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
	noun (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
	noun (n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
	noun (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
	noun (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
	noun (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.

accubation

noun (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

accumulation	noun (n.) The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.
	noun (n.) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.

accusation	noun (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
	noun (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.

acervation

noun (n.) A heaping up; accumulation.

acetification

noun (n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

acheron

noun (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.

achilles' tendon

noun (n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

achromatization

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

acidification

noun (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

acotyledon

noun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

acquisition	noun (n.) The act or process of acquiring.
	noun (n.) The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

acromion

noun (n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

actinozoon

noun (n.) One of the Actinozoa.

action	noun (n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
	noun (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
	noun (n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
	noun (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
	noun (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
	noun (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
	noun (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
	noun (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
	noun (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
	noun (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
	noun (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
	noun (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
	noun (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

acton

noun (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.

actualization

noun (n.) A making actual or really existent.

actuation

noun (n.) A bringing into action; movement.

acuation

noun (n.) Act of sharpening.

acuition

noun (n.) The act of sharpening.

acumination

noun (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

acupuncturation

noun (n.) See Acupuncture.

adaptation	noun (n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
	noun (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.

adaption

noun (n.) Adaptation.

addiction

noun (n.) The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

addition	noun (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
	noun (n.) Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.
	noun (n.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.
	noun (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
	noun (n.) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.
	noun (n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.

addression

noun (n.) The act of addressing or directing one's course.

adduction	noun (n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.
	noun (n.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.

ademption

noun (n.) The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like.

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

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

iodal

noun (n.) An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

iodate

noun (n.) A salt of iodic acid.

iodhydrin

noun (n.) One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins.

iodic

adjective (a.) to, or containing, iodine; specif., denoting those compounds in which it has a relatively high valence; as, iodic acid.

iodide

noun (n.) A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide.

iodine

noun (n.) A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.

iodism

noun (n.) A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

iodizing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Iodize

iodizer

noun (n.) One who, or that which, iodizes.

iodoform

noun (n.) A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

iodoquinine

noun (n.) A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite.

iodous

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, iodine. See -ous (chemical suffix).

ioduret

noun (n.) Iodide.

iodyrite

noun (n.) Silver iodide, a mineral of a yellowish color.

iolite

noun (n.) A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable for its dichroism, and is also called dichroite.

ion	noun (n.) One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.
	noun (n.) One of the electrified particles into which, according to the electrolytic dissociation theory, the molecules of electrolytes are divided by water and other solvents. An ion consists of one or more atoms and carries a unit charge of electricity, 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units, or a multiple of this. Those which are positively electrified (hydrogen and the metals) are called cations; negative ions (hydroxyl and acidic atoms or groups) are called anions.
	noun (n.) One of the small electrified particles into which the molecules of a gas are broken up under the action of the electric current, of ultraviolet and certain other rays, and of high temperatures. To the properties and behavior of ions the phenomena of the electric discharge through rarefied gases and many other important effects are ascribed. At low pressures the negative ions appear to be electrons; the positive ions, atoms minus an electron. At ordinary pressures each ion seems to include also a number of attached molecules. Ions may be formed in a gas in various ways.

ionian	noun (n.) A native or citizen of Ionia.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians; Ionic.

ionic	noun (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
	noun (n.) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
	noun (n.) The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
	noun (n.) Ionic type.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.

ionidium

noun (n.) A genus of violaceous plants, chiefly found in tropical America, some species of which are used as substitutes for ipecacuanha.

iota	noun (n.) The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (/) corresponding with the English i.
	noun (n.) A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle.

iotacism

noun (n.) The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding /, /, /, /, //, etc., like /.

iowas

noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region now included in the State of Iowa.

iodocresol

noun (n.) Any of several isomeric iodine derivatives of the cresols, C6H3I(CH3)OH, esp. one, an odorless amorphous powder, used in medicine as a substitute for iodoform.

iodoformogen

noun (n.) A light powder used as a substitute for iodoform. It is a compound of iodoform and albumin.

iodol

noun (n.) A crystallized substance of the composition C4I4NH, technically tetra-iodo-pyrrol, used like iodoform.

iodothyrin

noun (n.) A peculiar substance obtained from the thyroid gland, containing from nine to ten per cent of iodine.

ionizing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ionize

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

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.