Name Report For First Name IAN:

IAN

First name IAN's origin is Scottish. IAN means "gift from god form of john". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with IAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ian.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scottish) with IAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with IAN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming IAN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ƯAN AS A WHOLE:

esiankiki allyriane cliantha deianira dianthe erianthe giancinta ianthe miliani oliana fabiana liliana sebastiana adriana lilian mariana tatiana bian germian sofian bedrosian izmirlian korian christiansen cyprian kristian sebastian urian adriano iulian octavian traian burian abriana abrianna adianna adriane adrianna adrianne andrianna ariana ariane arianell arianna arianrod asianne audriana audrianna aureliana aviana aviance avianna ayiana bianca bibiana braiana brezziana briana brianna brianne caliana caroliana chiana chianna christian christiana christiane christianna cianna cianni cipriana dagian daiana damiana damiane daviana davianna dian diana dianda diandra diandre diane dianna diannah dianne diantha eliana eliane eviana fhristiansen fianait fianna floriana galiana giana gillian gloriane glorianna graciana gracianna indiana jerianne jianna jilian jillian jilliane jillianna jillianne joelliana joelliane julianna julianne jullianna kadian katriane keiana keianna keriana keriann kerianna kerianne kerrianne khyianna kiana kiandra kiandria kiani kianna kristiana kristiane kristianna kristianne krystiana krystianna leianna liana liane lianna liliane lilianna lillian lilliana lorian loriana loriann lorianne luciana marian mariane marianne millian nimiane odiana odiane orianna qiannah rhianna rhiannon shiann shianna siann siannan siany teriana teriann tiane toriana tyrianne vivian viviana viviane vivianna vivianne adrian aidrian andrian aureliano blian bliant brian briant cassian cian cianan cillian cipriano cristian cristiano davian derrian dorian eldrian evian fabian favian feliciano fiannan finian finnian gabrian gianluca giannes gianni gremian jadarian jamian jorian julian juliano kavian khristian kian kilian killian laurian lauriano lucian luciano mariano martiniano maximilian o'brian ossian rian sebastiano trevian victoriano wacian xavian gian damian andswarian emiliana oriana gianina gianna ianthina gregoriana giancinte georgiana erian eriantha clianthe gloriana maiana lucianna juliana anbidian arian astyrian derian ealdian gaderian leanian lufian nerian tilian treddian trymian warian werian wissian hadrian valiant aubriana aubrianne briann briannah briannon coriann corianne corrianna corrianne jilliann laciann tianna dacian maximillian tristian torrian kianni

NAMES RHYMING WITH ƯAN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:

achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan taban aidan nechtan willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shaaban shoukran aban abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan safwan salman sulaiman yaman dickran hovan karayan vartan ban laodegan leodegan adiran alan condan duncan fiallan gelban hafgan morfran mynogan pendaran taran pulan siman dehaan deman geldersman van woudman zeeman lukman uthman

NAMES RHYMING WITH ƯAN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Begins with ia:

iago iain iakovos iamar iaokim iapetus iasion iasius iason

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ƯAN:

First Names which starts with 'i' and ends with 'n':

iban iden ihrin imogen inazin inghean inghinn ioan ion irin irven irvin irvyn irwin irwyn isen isleen istvan ivalyn ivan iven ivon ixcatzin ixion izaan izazkun

English Words Rhyming IAN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ƯAN AS A WHOLE:

abderianadjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

abecedariannoun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
 noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary

abeliannoun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian

abeloniannoun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

absinthiannoun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood.

abyssiniannoun (n.) A native of Abyssinia.
 noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.

academiannoun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college.

academiciannoun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
 noun (n.) A collegian.

acadiannoun (n.) A native of Acadie.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

acanthopterygiannoun (n.) A spiny-finned fish.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.

accadianadjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

achaiannoun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.

acousticiannoun (n.) One versed in acoustics.

acroceraunianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia.

adessenariannoun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

adiantumnoun (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

adrianadjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

aeolianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.

aeonianadjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting.

aesculapianadjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

affiancenoun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
 noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
 verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
 verb (v. t.) To assure by promise.

affiancingnoun (p. pr. / vb. n.) of Affiance

affiancernoun (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

affiantnoun (n.) One who makes an affidavit.

agrariannoun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
 noun (n.) An agrarian law.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
 adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

agrarianismnoun (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

alabastrianadjective (a.) Alabastrine.

albaniannoun (n.) A native of Albania.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.

albigensianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

aleutianadjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic

alexandrianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
 adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.

algeriannoun (n.) A native of Algeria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.

allegiancenoun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
 noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

allegiantadjective (a.) Loyal.

alliancenoun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
 noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
 noun (n.) The persons or parties allied.
 verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

alliantnoun (n.) An ally; a confederate.

allophylianadjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.

alogiannoun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

alphabetariannoun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.

alsatiannoun (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Alsatia.

altaianadjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic

altitudinarianadjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc.

amatorianadjective (a.) Amatory.

amazonianadjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

ambrosianadjective (a.) Ambrosial.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.

ametabolianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

amianthnoun (n.) See Amianthus.

amianthiformadjective (a.) Resembling amianthus in form.

amianthoidadjective (a.) Resembling amianthus.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ƯAN (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (an) - English Words That Ends with an:


acalephannoun (n.) One of the Acalephae.

acaridannoun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

acephalannoun (n.) Same as Acephal.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala.

achaeanadjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian

acheannoun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian.

achilleanadjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

acritannoun (n.) An individual of the Acrita.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.

acrolithanadjective (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic

acropolitanadjective (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis.

adamanteanadjective (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.

adoneanadjective (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.

aegeanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

aestheticannoun (n.) One versed in aesthetics.

afghannoun (n.) A native of Afghanistan.
 noun (n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

africannoun (n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.

ahrimannoun (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

alannoun (n.) A wolfhound.

albannoun (n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

alcorannoun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).

aldebarannoun (n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.

aldermannoun (n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
 noun (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

alkorannoun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

alloxannoun (n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

almannoun (n.) A German.
  (adj.) German.
  (adj.) The German language.
  (adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande.

almsmannoun (n.) A recipient of alms.
 noun (n.) A giver of alms.

alongshoremannoun (n.) See Longshoreman.

amebeanadjective (a.) See Am/bean.

americannoun (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.

amoebeanadjective (a.) Alternately answering.

amoebiannoun (n.) One of the Amoebea.

amphibiannoun (n.) One of the Amphibia.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

amphicoelianadjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous

amphigeanadjective (a.) Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

amphipodanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

andeanadjective (a.) Pertaining to the Andes.

angliannoun (n.) One of the Angles.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles.

anglicannoun (n.) A member of the Church of England.
 noun (n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
 adjective (a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

annelidannoun (n.) One of the Annelida.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Annelida.

annulosannoun (n.) One of the Annulosa.

anomurannoun (n.) One of the Anomura.
 adjective (a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.

antaeanadjective (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.

antediluviannoun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
 adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.

antelucanadjective (a.) Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.

antemeridianadjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

anthobiannoun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers.

anthokyannoun (n.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

anthozoannoun (n.) One of the Anthozoa.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Anthozoa.

anthropophaginiannoun (n.) One who east human flesh.

antichristianadjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion.

antinomiannoun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ƯAN (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ia) - Words That Begins with ia:


iamatologynoun (n.) Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.

iambnoun (n.) An iambus or iambic.

iambicnoun (n.) An iambic foot; an iambus.
 noun (n.) A verse composed of iambic feet.
 noun (n.) A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.

iambicaladjective (a.) Iambic.

iambusnoun (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

ianthinanoun (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail.

iatralipticadjective (a.) Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method.

iatricadjective (a.) Alt. of Iatrical

iatricaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.

iatrochemicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.

iatrochemistnoun (n.) A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

iatrochemistrynoun (n.) Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.

iatromathematicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.

iatromathematiciannoun (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ƯAN:

English Words which starts with 'i' and ends with 'n':

iberianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Iberia.

icarianadjective (a.) Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.

icemannoun (n.) A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
 noun (n.) One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.

ichneumonnoun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
 noun (n.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.

ichneumonidannoun (n.) One of the Ichneumonidae.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidae, or ichneumon flies.

ichthidinnoun (n.) A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

ichthinnoun (n.) A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

ichthulinnoun (n.) A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg.

ichthyosauriannoun (n.) One of the Ichthyosauria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria.

iconnoun (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
 noun (n.) A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church.

icosahedronnoun (n.) A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

icosandrianadjective (a.) Alt. of Icosandrous

icositetrahedronnoun (n.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

idalianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.

idealizationnoun (n.) The act or process of idealizing.
 noun (n.) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

ideationnoun (n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

identificationnoun (n.) The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

idioticonnoun (n.) A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

idorgannoun (n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

idumeannoun (n.) An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia.

ignitionnoun (n.) The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.
 noun (n.) The state of being ignited or kindled.

iguanianadjective (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.

iguanodonnoun (n.) A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.

ilicinnoun (n.) The bitter principle of the holly.

ilixanthinnoun (n.) A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.

ilkonnoun (pron.) Alt. of Ilkoon

ilkoonnoun (pron.) Each one; every one.

illaqueationnoun (n.) The act of catching or insnaring.
 noun (n.) A snare; a trap.

illationnoun (n.) The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

illecebrationnoun (n.) Allurement.

illegitimationnoun (n.) The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.
 noun (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.

illimitationnoun (n.) State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation.

illinitionnoun (n.) A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.
 noun (n.) A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.

illiquationnoun (n.) The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.

illisionnoun (n.) The act of dashing or striking against.

illuminationnoun (n.) The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
 noun (n.) Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
 noun (n.) Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
 verb (v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
 verb (v. t.) That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
 verb (v. t.) The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.

illusionnoun (n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
 noun (n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
 noun (n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
 noun (n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.

illustrationnoun (n.) The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
 noun (n.) That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
 noun (n.) A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

illutationnoun (n.) The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

imaginationnoun (n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
 noun (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
 noun (n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
 noun (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

imannoun (n.) Alt. of Imaum

imbibitionnoun (n.) The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.

imbricationnoun (n.) An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

imbutionnoun (n.) An imbuing.

imesatinnoun (n.) A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.

imitationnoun (n.) The act of imitating.
 noun (n.) That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
 noun (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
 noun (n.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

immanationnoun (n.) A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation.

immersionnoun (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
 noun (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
 noun (n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
 noun (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.

immigrationnoun (n.) The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

imminutionnoun (n.) A lessening; diminution; decrease.

immissionnoun (n.) The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

immoderationnoun (n.) Want of moderation.

immolationnoun (n.) The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
 noun (n.) That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

immortalizationnoun (n.) The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

immortificationnoun (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.

immutationnoun (n.) Change; alteration; mutation.

impactionnoun (n.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.
 noun (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

impanationadjective (a.) Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.

impartationnoun (n.) The act of imparting, or the thing imparted.

impastationnoun (n.) The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

impatronizationnoun (n.) Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession.

impeditionnoun (n.) A hindering; a hindrance.

imperatorianadjective (a.) Imperial.

imperceptionnoun (n.) Want of perception.

imperfectionadjective (a.) The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

imperforationnoun (n.) The state of being without perforation.

impersonationnoun (n.) Alt. of Impersonification

impersonificationnoun (n.) The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

imperturbationnoun (n.) Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude.

impetrationnoun (n.) The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
 noun (n.) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.

impignorationnoun (n.) The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.

impinguationnoun (n.) The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened.

implantationnoun (n.) The act or process of implantating.

impletionnoun (n.) The act of filling, or the state of being full.
 noun (n.) That which fills up; filling.

implexionnoun (n.) Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

implicationnoun (n.) The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
 noun (n.) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

implorationnoun (n.) The act of imploring; earnest supplication.

implosionnoun (n.) A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.
 noun (n.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany.

impoonnoun (n.) The duykerbok.

impositionnoun (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
 noun (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
 noun (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
 noun (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
 noun (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
 noun (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

imposthumationnoun (n.) The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.
 noun (n.) An abscess; an imposthume.

imprecationnoun (n.) The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.

imprecisionnoun (n.) Want of precision.

impregnationnoun (n.) The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
 noun (n.) The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.
 noun (n.) That with which anything is impregnated.
 noun (n.) Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.
 noun (n.) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

impreparationnoun (n.) Want of preparation.

impressionnoun (n.) The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
 noun (n.) That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
 noun (n.) That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
 noun (n.) Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
 noun (n.) An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
 noun (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
 noun (n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
 noun (n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
 noun (n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.

improbationnoun (n.) The act of disapproving; disapprobation.
 noun (n.) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.

improperationnoun (n.) The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.

impropriationnoun (n.) The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.
 noun (n.) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
 noun (n.) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.

improvisationnoun (n.) The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
 noun (n.) That which is improvised; an impromptu.

improvisionnoun (n.) Improvidence.

impugnationnoun (n.) Act of impugning; opposition; attack.

impulsionnoun (n.) The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
 noun (n.) Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.

impurationnoun (n.) Defilement; obscuration.

inactionnoun (n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

inactuationnoun (n.) Operation.

inadaptationnoun (n.) Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

inadequationnoun (n.) Want of exact correspondence.

inadhesionnoun (n.) Want of adhesion.

inaffectationnoun (n.) Freedom from affectation; naturalness.