Word origins

• humifuseSpread over the surface of the ground; procumbent
• humilianthumiliating; humbling
• Huttons AmboA civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district, that includes the villages of High Hutton and Low Hutton (OS grid ref SE7667).
• hyacinthineOf the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
• hydragogueCausing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.
• hydrargyriferousBearing or producing mercury
• hydropicalDropsical.
• hyemationThe passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.
• hylicalSynonym of physical or material.
• hymenealPertaining to marriage.
• hypaethralOpen-air, outdoor, exposed to the sky.
• hypercatalecticWhich has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse).
• hypercatalexisThe addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse
• hyperemesis gravidarumA rare complication of pregnancy, similar to severe morning sickness, sometimes fatal if left untreated.
• hyperthyrionThat part of the architrave which is over a door or window.
• hypocaustAn underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
• hypodiastoleA mark ⟨⸒⟩ in late Classical and Medieval Greek used as a form of interpunct to show two words should be read separately in situations where they might otherwise be confused with an identically spelled single word.
• hypogeanExisting or growing underground.
• hypogeumAn underground room or cavern (also used figuratively).
• hypolemmaA lesser proposition or subsumption within a larger syllogism.
• HypsipyleThe daughter of Thoas and Myrina, queen of Lemnos at the time of the curse by Aphrodite, the island’s subsequent androcide, and the Argonauts’ two-year sojourn on the island, during which time she bore Jason twin sons.
• hystricomorphAny rodent in the Hystricomorpha, a suborder of the order Rodentia
• -iaUsed in forming placenames, especially of countries.
• -ianaUsed in forming female given names.
• ianthinaAny of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae) of violet snails.
• iatralipticstherapeutic inunction
• IbericSynonym of Iberian.
• -ibleAn adjective suffix, now usually in a passive sense; forms adjectives meaning "able to be", "relevant or suitable to, in accordance with", or expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense.
• ichthyocollaFish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes.
• -icleUsed to form diminutive nouns.
• iconicitythe state of being iconic (in all meanings)
• iconothecaA collection of icons.
• ictericJaundiced (having icterus); having yellowing of the skin, mucous membranes of the sclerae of the eyes, or other parts of the body.
• icticPertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.
• IdalianOf or pertaining to Idalium, an ancient city of Cyprus where Aphrodite was worshipped.
• -ideAny of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside.
• ides of MarchThe 15th of March in the Ancient Roman calendar, on which day Julius Caesar was assassinated.
• idiopathyA disease or condition arising spontaneously or having no known cause.
• idiotismVery severe mental retardation.
• idoneousappropriate; suitable
• i.e.That is, namely, in other words, that is to say.
• ignescentEmitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating.
• igni-Related to fire.
• ignicolistA worshiper of fire.
• ignifluousFlowing with fire.
• ignigenousigneous
• ignipotentfiery, or having control over fire.
• ignosciblepardonable
• ignoteunknown
• ignotum per ignotiusAn attempt to explain something obscure in terms of something else which is even more obscure.
• il-not; a form of the prefix in-, used before l
• ilicic acidAn acid derived from various plants, such as the holly (Ilex).
• illapseA gliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another.
• illaqueableCapable of being ensnared or entrapped.
• illaqueationTrapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
• illationThe act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
• illeismThe practice of (excessively) referring to oneself in the third person.
• illeistSomeone who refers to themselves in the third person.
• illeityAn external embodiment of the self.
• illibertySynonym of unfreedom.
• illiciumThe modified dorsal fin on the head of anglerfish, acting as a lure.
• illinitionThe act of smearing or rubbing in or on.
• illiquationThe melting or dissolving of one thing into another.
• illisionThe act of dashing or striking against.
• illocutionThe aim of a speaker in making an utterance as opposed to the meaning of the terms used.
• illudeTo give a false impression to.
• illutationThe act of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.
• im-Expressing negation; not.
• imaginantimagining; conceiving, or imaginative
• imaginatorOne who imagines.
• imagologyThe study of cultural stereotypes as presented in literature etc.
• imbatA type of dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
• imbellicNot warlike or martial.
• imbonityLack of goodness.
• imitancyTendency to imitation.
• immanationA flowing or entering in.
• immanityGreat size; enormousness, hugeness.
• immeabilityInability to pass through or to permit passage.
• immemorableThat cannot be remembered or has been forgotten.
• immergeTo plunge (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.
• immeritousundeserving
• imminutionreduction; lessening; decrease.
• immissionThe act of immitting; injection or infusion.
• immitTo send in, put in, insert, inject or infuse
• immoderancyLack of moderation; excess.
• immolatorOne who offers in sacrifice.
• immutationchange (alteration, mutation, modification)
• immuteTo change or alter.
• impacableimplacable (unable to be appeased)
• impaludismA diseased state affecting the inhabitants of paludal, marshy areas.
• impanatorOne who holds the doctrine of impanation.
• imparidigitateHaving an odd number of fingers or toes.
• imparisyllabicNot having the same number of syllables in all its inflections (especially of Greek or Latin nouns); for example, the Latin word pars, which has the genitive form partis.
• impassibilityThe state or condition of being impassible.
• impatiencyImpatience.
• impavidfearless, undaunted
• impedientServing to make a marriage illicit but valid.
• impediteHindered; obstructed.
• impeditionThat which impedes; a hindrance.
• impendentimpending; threatening