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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 in sequence Sequentially, one after another. inserve To be useful for a purpose, or to somsone inservient Conducive; instrumental. insession The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. insessorial pertaining to a member of the Order Insessores, or perching birds; perching or designed for perching insidiate To lie in ambush for. insidiator Someone who lies in ambush, or plots insignificative Not expressing meaning in silico In computer simulation or in virtual reality. insimulate To accuse. insinuant Insinuating; insinuative. insinuator One who insinuates. insociable Not sociable or companionable. insomnious restless; sleepless inspective Engaged in inspection; involving inspection. insperse To sprinkle; to scatter. inspersion The act of sprinkling. instauration A restoration after decay or dilapidation; a renewal; a repair. instimulate To stimulate; to excite. institorial Relating to an agent or factor. insuavity Lack of suavity; unpleasantness. insuccation The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. insuetude The state or quality of being unaccustomed; lack of habit. insulous Abounding in islands. insulse insipid, dull, stupid or tasteless insulsity lack of taste, insipidity insultation The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. insusurration The act of whispering into something. intaminated uncontaminated intemperant intemperate intempestive untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment intempestivity Unseasonability; untimeliness. interbellic Of or pertaining to an interbellum (period of time between two wars), especially the period between the two World Wars (1919–1939); interwar. intercident Coming or falling between; happening accidentally. interclude To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt. intercur To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime. interfection The act of murder or killing. interfluent flowing into one another. interfulgent Shining between, through, or among. Interglossa A constructed language devised by Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975). interjacent Situated between; lying among. interjunction A place where two or more things join or cross. interlucation The thinning of a forest to let in light. interlucent shining between interluency A flowing between; intervening water. intermediae The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices. interminate Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable. intermination A menace or threat. internatal Between pregnancies or births. internecive internecine internection intimate connection interpel To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with. interpellant interrupting. interpone To interpose; to insert or place between. interposit An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. interpretament interpretation interpunct The punctuation mark ⟨·⟩. interpunction punctuation (insertion of points between words or sentences) interrex An official in Ancient Rome who acted as single head of state during the interregnum between two consulates. interscribe To write or draw between. intersecant Crossing, intersecting; (figuratively) clashing, conflicting. intersert To put in between other things; to insert. interspiration spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals intervenient Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental. intervert To turn to another course or use. intervolution The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution intervolve To involve one with another. in the arms of Morpheus Asleep, sleeping. intolerability The state of being intolerable; intolerableness. intorsion A bending or twisting of an organ from its proper alignment. intort To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe, wind, or wring. intraneous Internal, that is within. intransgressible Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed. intravitam During the life of an organism. intro- inward, inwards. introcession A depression or inward sinking of parts. introgress To infiltrate the genes of one species into the gene pool of another through repeated backcrossing of an interspecific hybrid. introitus The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina. intromit To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another. introrse Facing or turned inwards or towards an axis. introvenient Coming in together; entering; commingling. intumesce To swell or enlarge (abnormally) intumulated unburied inturgescence A swelling (the act of swelling, or state of being swelled). intuse A bruise; a contusion. inunct To smear with ointment. inunction The anointing or rubbing in of oil or balm. inundant overflowing inusitate Unusual. inust burnt in inutility Uselessness. in utramque parte synonym of in utrumque partes in utramque partem Synonym of in utrumque partes in utrumque partes Arguing both sides of an issue; the practice of presenting arguments for and against a given proposition. invalescence strength; health invect To import or introduce. invected Having a border consisting of semicircles with the convex part outwards (and the points inwards). invection An inveighing against; invective. invendible Not vendible or saleable. inverecund Immodest; shameless.