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Incineration

The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.

Incipient

Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.

Incircumspect

Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic.

incisiveness

keenness and forcefulnelss of thought or expression or intellect.

Incisor

Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.

Incisory

Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive.

Incitant

That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant.

Incitative

A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant.

Incite

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

Inciter

One who, or that which, incites.

Incito-motor

Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.

Incivilization

The state of being uncivilized; lack of civilization; barbarism.

Incivism

Lack of civism; lack of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government.

Inclasp

To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle.

Inclave

Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

Inclinatory

Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle.

Incline

An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

Inclined

Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue.

Incliner

One who, or that which, inclines; an inclined dial.

Inclinnometer

An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.

Incloister

To confine as in a cloister; to cloister.

Incloser

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

Incloud

To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure.

Inclusa

A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example.

Incogitative

Not cogitative; not thinking; lacking the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being.

Incogitativity

The quality of being incogitative; lack of thought or of the power of thinking.

Incognito

Without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; -- said esp. of great personages who sometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoid notice.

Incognizable

Not cognizable; incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished.

Incognizant

Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice.

Incoherently

In an incoherent manner; without due connection of parts.

Incoincidence

The quality of being incoincident; lack of coincidence.

Incoincident

Not coincident; not agreeing in time, in place, or principle.

Incombine

To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ.

Incombustible

Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas.

Income

A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

Incomity

Lack of comity; incivility; rudeness.

Incommensurate

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

Incommodious

Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying; as, an incommodious seat; an incommodious arrangement.

Incommodity

Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance.

Incommunicability

The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted.

Incommunicable

Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others.

Incommunicative

Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.

Incommutable

Not commutable; not capable of being exchanged with, or substituted for, another.

Incompacted Incompact

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete.

Incomparable

Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.

Incompassionate

Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless.

Incompatibility

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

Incompatible

An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.

Incompatibly

In an incompatible manner; inconsistently; incongruously.

Incompleteness

The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness.

Incompliance

The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy.

Incompliant

Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn.

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