Words starting with i

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

ice show means: any entertainment performed by ice skaters

ice skate means: skate consisting of a boot with a steel blade fitted to the sole

ice skate means: move along on ice skates

ice skating means: skating on ice

ice storm means: a storm with freezing rain that leaves everything glazed with ice

ice tea means: strong tea served over ice

ice tongs means: tongs for lifting blocks of ice

ice up means: become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window

ice wagon means: (formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door

ice water means: water served ice-cold or with ice

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

book of facts means: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts

corked means: (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin

county line means: the boundary between two counties

ding means: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

ding means: a ringing sound

ding means: go `ding dong', like a bell

du bois means: United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)

e. coli means: a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety

enjambment means: the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

euphorbia dentata means: an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves

false vampire bat means: any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects

genus cetraria means: foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes

gloria steinem means: United States feminist (born in 1934)

groover means: a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching

hypoesthesia means: impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity

keratosis pilaris means: keratosis characterized by hard conical elevations in the openings of sebaceous glands (especially of arms and thighs)

medford means: town in northeastern Massachusetts; residential suburb of Boston

medford means: a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort

native holly means: low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods

obeche means: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood