10-Letter Words Starting with I

Cardinal-bishop, university professor and nurses supply drugs

Ichneumon

Inventors' diaries (wordplay)

Dogmatic types thought diaries might be read aloud

Hardliners

Showing excessive admiration.

Inappropriately worshipful

Worshipping images

Perhaps a nun is good with dinosaurs

Herbivores of the early Cretaceous

Plant-eating dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period

Not laudable; not praiseworthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation.

ILLAUDABLE Not laudable; not praiseworthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation.

""That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. as, gas and petroleum are illuminants.""

Shine a light on (wordplay)

Put in the spotlight

Make bright with light

Subject of many conspiracy theories

Very enlightened group

Subjects of many conspiracy theories

Illumine

Personal enlightment

""ILLUMINE to throw light upon, also ENLUMINE""

Deceptive; misleading

Mostly mistreat one on a drop of LSD - suffering such experiences (wordplay)

In a illusive manner; falsely.

""Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive: "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy" (Tom Wicker).""

Angry about student sensuality? Clarify!

Prepare drawings for a book

Show it's all true, strangely enough

ILLUVIATE

The quality or condition of being immaculate.

Mary would have taken issue with this!

I'm taking cute Alma out! Perfect!

Ready for the white glove treatment

In an immature manner.

Lack of development

Immixture

Immunise

Immunity

Immunize

""A laboratory procedure, such as Western blot analysis, in which proteins that have been separated by electrophoresis are transferred onto nitrocellulose sheets and are identified by their reaction with labeled antibodies.""

Immunogen

""The science which studies the immune system, the processes of immunity, and the nature of the immune response, and techniques of analysis which use the immune response.""

""The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.""

Incapable of being affected

High-handed, inwardly very resistant

Resistant and high-handed, very contained

Begged persistently

What solicitor did, brought in to defend international group

Beseeched

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

Petitions to get resumption organised

Is a solicitor involved in resumption (wordplay)

Supplicates

Setter's after Scottish thinker's abscess

Impostume

Cheats and rogue start to make up stories

Deceptions.

Deceptions

Shutting up one politician undoing reforms

Dent; impression.

Licence in publishing

License to publish.

"Let it be printed."

Impromptu

Lack of discretion

Rashness and cheek? That's about right

That'll make one a rasher

Impudence

In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

Immodesty.

Open to question

Weak; impotent; feeble.

Impulsion

Impunity

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

Foreign parts (wordplay)

Base admixtures.

Results of fouling? Umpire is mad about it

""The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.""

Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.

Error seen in a key position of church

Lack of correctness

One's out in a cold clergyman's office

Wrong one can upset clergyman

Off the mark

Cain converted by a religious person? Wrong

Lack in capacity of processed cyanide ingested

Shortcoming

Not up to snuff

Unable to make the grade

Falling short of requirements

Lack of fitness

Unfortunate aunt pitied for showing awkwardness

Not arguable.

INARGUABLE

Office addresses (wordplay)

Addresses I can finally predict too briefly

Introduce (a new system, etc)

Induct into office

A rug auntie made for launch

Inbound

Incaution

Heedless of risks

Excessively close

Very close, resistant to outside influence

Inclosure

INCLUDE to take in as part of a whole

Capable of being included.

Imperfections affecting diamond clarity

Incrust

Incubate

Process of brooding (wordplay)

Development period

Independent young reporter in state should see development

Like the period when a hen sits on eggs

Office-space providers for startups

Hatchery installations

Serving for incubation.

Taught by constant repetition

Persistently taught

Impresses upon forcibly.

Repetitively teaches one way to ruin clues? I can't

One who inculcates.

Faultless; blameless; innocent.

INCULPATE To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.

Inculpate

Awful cynic admits expressing hesitation to Benedict Little from ministry

'Nice bum, Nancy' inappropriate with one leaving ministry

Some successful runners

Rockefeller, Brown and others.

They're in seats

Incumber

Incunable

Books printed before 1500.

Books printed before 1500

Some very early impressions

Incurable

""The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc. as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc.""

Incursion

INCURVATE Curved; bent; crooked.

Incurvate

Unseemly do on cruise trip

Unseemly.

Unseemly

Indecorum

Bound in service

Like many servants, once

Agreements to work wearing prostheses

Contracts among sets that may be false

Binds to service

Native ending up in debts

Native guide's in no trouble

Not foreign sounding, i.e. translated

One of the characters in solitary

Singular; distinctive

Bad Religion song about a lone wolf (wordplay)

Carrot, so to speak

Incentive to produce popular Dutch bond

Italy with new leader, people tense for stimulus

Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction.

Induction

Purchase made with mad money, say

Act of humoring

Dark chocolate, to some

Indurate

""The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.""

INDURATE to make {hard=adj}

Indian river test?

Inlaid rust (anagram)

Indian river test (wordplay)

Cosmetics and textiles, for two

Ancient civilisation taxes businesses

Business enterprises

Incapable of being educated.

Far from articulate

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable.

Reason for dismissal

Clumsy oaf's condition

Clumsiness to end, tie it up properly

Civil rights problem.

Popular attribute covers key difference

Sociologist's concern

One head nurse shares biases

They are just not fair with fashionable shares

Notoriously

Awkward characters from FA at United transported

Besotted

Gaga

Enamors

Liable to spread disease

(Of disease) liable to spread

(Of disease) catchable from others

There's no limit up north finishing within the bounds

Novel unidentified after edition's lost for perpetuity

Caused a change in, say

Had an effect on

Has an effect on fine uncle's adaptation

Changes shapes

""INFLUENZA An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.""

Influenza

Of a lower order than humans; subhuman.

Few and far between

Uncommon

Rare

Hot, as an angry person

Extremely angered

Wearing animal product, I provoked date to be incensed

Infuriate

One of the Infusoria.

Causing shame

Causing ignominy

Our lingo is rustic, like Gray's mute Milton

In an inhumane manner.

Cruelness, brutality

Cruelty that's part of society (wordplay)

Heartlessness and senselessness about olfactory offensiveness

The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

Sins.

Marked by turpitude

Highly unfair or immoral

Not just occupying one South American city, also part of North America

Command having entered 9 perhaps

I name meeting-place for court order

Directive popular with union

Enjoining

Wrongs.

Innuendo

Unions need new suggestions

Some risque humor

Suggestive remarks

Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.

Like a very bad summer

Not good in math

Innumerable.

Inoculant

Used a syringe on

Gave a shot to

Prevents from, in a way

Protects from disease

Protects, as from a virus

Immunity bestower of sorts

Doctor, at times

One who vaccinates

""To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.""

Inpouring

Inquiet

Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.

Inquiline

Excessively harsh questioner

One in search of heretics

Torquemada was one

Insculp

In a self-conscious manner

With doubt

Lack of confidence; anxiety

Lack of confidence

Waspish, it might be, about Geller's unease (wordplay)

Revealing depth in this gulf at sea

Aware one new landmark is mostly crowded

Like astute observations

Meant but didn't say

Stealthily implied

Got at

Imparts artfully

Slyly suggests

Hints at

His gibes are snide

Artful gossip

Insoluble

Light-hearted - in auctions (anagram)

Union I cast wrongly as unconcerned

Happy-go-lucky

The college day started

An institutor.

M.I.T., F.I.T., and R.P.I.

Parts of universities.

Sets up professional bodies

""One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.""

Taught

Teacher measures hill after short climb

One who makes the grade

He trains this month with old policemen by the hill

Player's choice (wordplay)

Flute or lute

Musician's ax

Blow DDT around

The state of being insulated.

Sometime ailment of New Yorkers.

Narrow-mindedness.

Setting apart

Attic covering, maybe

Non-conducting covering material

Covering on electrical wires.

Insulator

Protections for unorthodox Iran census

Trained gunners in reserve for rebellion

Uprising.

At home son meets pressure, causing rebellion

Rebellion in South leads to need for speedy action

Revolt

Gunners sit plotting with rebels

They're the fellows at the bottom of what ruins the top

Mutineers

Outer protective covering, such as skin

Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton

The region of higher land between two rivers that are in the same drainage system.

FUSED fuse

Interfuse

GROUP to arrange in a group (a collection)

Lulls, for example

Breaks resulted in disruption

They may be romantic

At the dark of the moon.

A time of invisibility from Margaret Atwood

Of the interval when the moon is invisible.

Heckles, say

Butts in

UNION the state of being united

Onetime transit

Early supertrolley.

Bury, old city stop between Leeds and Manchester (wordplay)

Intitule

Kind of contest

Type of competition.

Within certain limits.

English word

They plot

Plotters

Word said while stroking one's chin

Arousing curiosity

Conspiring; fascinating

Brought in, making right deduction

Brought into use

Brought forward

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

Presents discounter ordered (wordplay)

Makes acquainted with

Offers fantastic reductions

Busybody's specialties.

Uninvited visitations to unrestricted suitor's inn

A number of disturbances distracts trains of thought

Intrusive

Intrust

Intubate