Words starting with i

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

iapetus means: (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology

iatrogenic means: induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)

ib. means: in the same place (used when citing a reference)

ibadan means: a large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria; site of a university

ibda-c means: a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO

iberia means: a peninsula in southwestern Europe

iberia means: an ancient geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains that corresponded approximately to the present-day Georgia

iberian means: a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times)

iberian means: a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus

iberian means: of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula or its inhabitants

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

baphia means: small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar

barometric pressure means: atmospheric pressure as indicated by a barometer

bemoan means: regret strongly

blue tit means: widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head

cairo means: the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs

cairo means: a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

clusia major means: a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

cogent means: powerfully persuasive

cordyline australis means: elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand

costal cartilage means: the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration

cydippidea means: ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles

essen means: a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr

flu means: an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease

glacier means: a slowly moving mass of ice

heavy-handed means: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

heavy-handed means: unjustly domineering

investment trust means: a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

mailman means: a man who delivers the mail

queen charlotte sound means: an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia

saint lucia means: a volcanic island in the Windward Isles to the south of Martinique