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Insuetude

The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.

Insufferable

Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.

Insufferably

In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

Insufflate

To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

Insufflation

The act of breathing on or into anything The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life. The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.

Insulated

Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.

Insulation

The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.

Insulite

An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.

Insulting

Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc.

Insuperability

The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.

Insuperable

Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.

Insupportable

Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.

Insupposable

Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.

Insurable

Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.

Insurancer

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter.

Insurant

The person insured, called also the insured.

Insure

To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Insurer

One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

Insurgent

A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Insurmountable

Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

Insurrectionary

Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.

Insurrectionist

One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.

Insusceptible

Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery; new strains of bacteria insusceptible to penicillin.

Inswathe

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.

Inswept

Narrowed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.

Intact

Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire.

Intagliated

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone.

Intaglio

A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

Intake

The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to outlet.

Intangibility

The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.

Intangible

Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

Intastable

Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory.

Integer

A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

Integral

A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.

Integrally

In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.

Integrant

Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral.

integrating

the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.

integrative

tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.

Integrator

That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.

Integropallial

Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.

Integumation

That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.

Integument

That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part.

Integumentation

The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.

Intellect

The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

Intellected

Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities.

Intellection

A mental act or process; The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. A creation of the mind itself.

Intellectual

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Intellectuality

Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.

Intellectualize

To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.

Intelligencer

One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.

intelligentsia

an educated and intellectual{2} elite; intellectuals, collectively or considered as a class.

Intelligibly

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

Intemperament

A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part.

Intemperately

In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.

Intemperateness

The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

Intenable

Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress.

Intended

One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.

Intendiment

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.

Inteneration

The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening.

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