Word origins

• hypostropheThe act of a patient turning himself or herself.
• hypothenarOf the ulnar fleshy side of the palm.
• hypozeugmaA zeugma where the word or words on which all of the phrases depend is placed last.
• hypozeuxisAn expression whose every clause has its own independent subject and predicate.
• hyps-Height.
• hypsi-Height.
• hypsistaphyliaA condition characterized by a high and narrow palate.
• HypsistarianA member of an ancient syncretic Jewish-pagan cult of Asia Minor, who worshiped Theos Hypsistos "God Most High" (or Zeus Hypsistos) and observed many Jewish practices, such as keeping the Sabbath and adhering to kosher, while rejecting circumcision or sacrifices.
• hypso-Tall, high in size.
• hystero-Uterus; uterine.
• hysterocleisisThe surgical closure of the uterus by suturing the edges of the os.
• iamatologyThe science of remedies, or of therapeutics.
• IapydesAn ancient people who dwelt north of and inland from the Liburnians, off the Adriatic coast and eastwards of the Istrian peninsula.
• -iasisA pathological condition or process.
• IasoThe goddess and personification of recuperation. She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
• -iatricOf or relating to a physician.
• iatricOf or pertaining to a physician or physicians.
• -iatricsForms a noun meaning a specialty medical field of practice.
• iatro-Medical treatment; doctor; physician.
• iatrocultureThe culture of medical professionals.
• -iatryForms names of specialized fields of medical practice.
• IbycusAn Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 6th-century Ancient Greek lyric poet from Rhegium in Italy.
• icasmimitative or figurative expression
• -ichnionForms names of types of trace fossils.
• ichno-Denoting a trace or trace amounts.
• ichnusaiteA radioactive thorium molybdate mineral found in Sardinia.
• ichthyicOf, pertaining to, or like fish; piscine.
• ichthyo-fish
• ichthyocentaurA centaurian sea being with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and forelegs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.
• ichthyodoruliteOne of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.
• ichthyophageThat which consumes fish; any fish-eating thing or (more rarely) person.
• ichthyophthalmiteA form of apophyllite
• ichthyophthiriasisA parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by the ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.
• ichthysA stylized representation of a fish, used as a Christian symbol.
• icono-Forms terms relating to images or to icons
• iconoduleA person who supports the veneration of religious icons; an iconophile or iconodulist
• iconologyThe study of icons in art or art history.
• iconomaticThe use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.
• iconotypeAn illustration of a biological specimen that serves as a holotype or lectotype (type specimen and it becomes the type illustration). It is not an illustration of a holotype or lectotype. In the 18th and early 19th century, iconotypes were designated as type specimens when preserved specimens were not available. In the 21st century, iconotypes are being used where a live animal is recorded and then released.
• icosa-twenty
• icosagonA polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
• icosihenagonA polygon with twenty-one edges and twenty-one angles.
• icositetrachoronA four-dimensional object with no regular three-dimensional analogue, constructed out of twenty-four octahedra.
• ideasthesiaA neurological or cognitive phenomenon in which activation of a particular concept triggers a sensory-like experience.
• ideo-Idea, image.
• idio-individuality, peculiarity, separateness.
• idiomelonA type of sticheron found in the liturgical books used in Orthodox Christianity.
• -idionUsed to form diminutive nouns.
• idiosomaThe posterior portion of the body of a mite.
• -idiumreproductive organs, gametes, and early life stages
• IkelosIn Ovid's Metamorphoses, one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep).
• Ili-Troy, an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey.
• ilinxA form of play that creates a temporary disruption of perception, for example by inducing vertigo, dizziness, disorientation, or frenzy.
• IlisosA river in Athens, Greece, originally a tributary of the Kifisos.
• Imbrosisland of Turkey in the north-eastern Aegean Sea
• iniencephalyA cephalic disorder characterized by spina bifida and spinal retroflexion
• inogenA complex nitrogenous substance formerly hypothesized to be continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles during life.
• inosilicateany silicate having interlocking chains of silicate tetrahedra
• interhyalOf or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoid arch.
• iodo-Containing iodine.
• -ionAn action or process, or the result of an action or process.
• iosisSynonym of rubedo (“reddening process in the alchemical magnum opus”).
• -iotOf or relating to an island or peninsula in Greece or the Hellenic sphere.
• IotabeSynonym of Tiran (“An island”).
• iotacismPronunciation of another vowel or diphthong as [i], or a vowel shift resulting in such pronunciation, especially in Greek.
• iotationA specific occurrence of palatalization that occurred in the Proto-Slavic language, in which a consonant combined with the palatal approximant /j/ to form a palatalized consonant.
• iotizeTo precede a spoken vowel sound with a "y" sound, as the u in "pure" and "cute".
• IphidamasVarious characters in Greek mythology. See Wikipedia.
• IphimedeiaA Thessalian princess, the daughter of Triopas of Thessaly (a son of Poseidon and Canace).
• IphisThe daughter of Ligdus and Telethusa, who, as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses, was raised as male and was eventually transformed into a man by the goddess Isis in order to marry Ianthe, daughter of Telestes.
• irenicPromoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.
• irenologyThe study of peace.
• iridencleisisA surgical procedure for glaucoma in which a portion of the iris is incised and incarcerated in a limbal incision.
• irideremiaTotal or partial absence of the iris of the eye.
• IrminonesA large group of early Germanic tribes who settled in the Elbe watershed and by the 1st century AD had expanded into Bavaria, Swabia and Bohemia.
• irmologionA liturgical book containing irmoi for the various canons chanted during the morning service.
• irmosThe initial troparion of an ode of a canon.
• ironismA state of doubt regarding one's own "vocabulary" (set of communicative beliefs) that cannot be removed by making arguments in that vocabulary.
• isapostleAn equal of the Apostles.
• Isauriaa rugged isolated district in the interior of South Asia Minor; famous for its bandits
• ischidrosisAnhidrosis, the suppression or retention of sweating.
• ischio-ischium
• ischiopagusOne of a pair of conjoined twins who are united at the pelvis.
• isegoriaequality of all citizens in freedom of speech, specially in public assemblies.
• IslamomisiaHatred of Islam or Muslims.
• -ismUsed to form nouns of action, process, or result based on the accompanying verb ending in -ise or -ize.
• iso-Same, identical.
• isobrontAn isoline drawn through geographical points at which a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
• isochasmA line connecting places on the Earth's surface that have the same mean frequency of auroras.
• isocheimAn isotherm connecting points on a map with equal mean winter temperature.
• isochoreIn general, a place or position with relevant parameters matching other places, as in having the same pressure, chemistry, population etc. Even within a single discipline the parameter might vary according to convenience e.g. in physics alone it might refer to velocity, volume, gravity, and many more. cf. contour, isopleth.
• isochronalHaving the same duration.
• isochronyThe state of being isochronous.
• isochroousOf uniform color; isochromatic.
• isocolonA rhetorical scheme in which parallel elements possess the same number of words or syllables.
• isocoriaThe condition of having the pupils of both eyes the same size
• isocrymeAn isoline connecting points on the Earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year.
• IsodiconIn the Greek Orthodox Church, a troparion or short anthem sung while the Gospel is being carried through the church.
• isodomonA form of masonry in which the vertical joint of each course is in the middle of the block beneath.
• isodrosothermA line of equal or constant dew point on a graph or chart, such as a weather map.