12-Letter Words Starting with I

Another name for an artist or illustrator

Of or pertaining to iconography.

""Images the description, history, and analysis of symbolic art or artistic symbolism, especially that of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Also called iconography . ; iconologist, n . ; iconological,""

Ideography

IDEOLOGIZE

To catch fire or set fire to; burn or cause to burn

Ignobility

IGNORANT an ill-educated person

Illegality

ILLEGALIZE To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

The state or quality of being illegible.

Bad image city changed in state without authorisation

Not in accordance with the law

Not proper, acceptable

Unlawful, invalid

One left area without soldier? That doesn't make sense

Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Showing in pictures

Imagination

Immigration

""IMMOBILIZE To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.""

Immunology

Studier of resistance to diseases

IMPARADISE To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.

Impassion

""Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.""

Impingement

Executing rogue, sorrowful earl replaces head of axe

IMPREGNATE To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

Impregnator

""INACTIVATE to make inactive; as, boiling will inactivate most enzymes; acetylation of the antibiotic inactivated it.as, boiling will inactivate most enzymes; acetylation of the antibiotic inactivated it.""

Officially opening

An induction into office

January event.

*Formal beginning

Inaugurator

INCANDESCE

INCINERATE Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

""Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice.""

Want of congruence; incongruity.

Start of a lapel-button warning message

Not able to be reformed

Dyed-in-the-wool and in religion crib

In an incorrigible manner.

More and more anglers in icy waves

More and more

More and more grain's nicely ground

Compensating (someone) for harm/loss

INDIGENIZE

Indigenous

It's being idle that can be hard to stomach

Unpalatable part of bagel bits, for example, I'd nibbled on the way back

One note on summary from lawyer in Ireland is too complex to read

Indigestion

Indignation

Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable.

So as to be inexpugnable; in an inexpugnable manner.

Incapable of being expunged

INFILTRATE To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

Breaking (of a law, etc)

The breaking (of a law)

Trouble fermenting in breaking of rule

Ingathering

In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.

Seeking friendship

""INGRATIATE To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought. with before the person whose favor is sought.""

""Pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; as, her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable.as, her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable.""

Ingratitude

""INGURGITATE To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.""

Ingurgitate

Starting a computer application

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

INSEMINATE To sow; to impregnate.

Insightful

""INSPISSATE To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.""

Instigation

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

Insurgency

Integration

Military wit (wordplay)

Upstairs perhaps for spying on community

Mental capacity for the inside story

Able to be understood

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

INTENERATE To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

Intensify

Interbed

Between divisions of Greater New York

Intercept

Switched dancing there as redirected

CHANGER one that {changes=v}

Interchange

Intercut

Interdict

Interfacing

GENERIC a type of drug

Period between Ice Ages

GRADING grade

Intergraft

Intergrowth

Interject

Interlap

Interlard

LEAVING a {leftover=n}

Interlend

Interlining

Interlink

Engaging with close fit

Engaging by fitting together

Like crossword words

Intermesh

Confused in calling the French 'Dutch'

Lending merit to anagram for 'Mixed'

Like 0's and 1's in binary numbers

Intermingle

Intermit

Interplay

Interpret

Interregnum

Interrobang

Grilled deer rotating in pieces

Closely questioned

One who is interrogated.

Grills

Inquisitor used terror to gain conversion

Questioner

Interrupt

(Of lines) crossing

SEGMENT to divide into sections

SPACING the distance between any two objects

""TILLAGE cultivated land, also TILTH""

Intertill

TWINING the act of twining

The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews.

VILLAGE a small community in a rural area

WEAVING the act of making cloth

The act of working in together; interweaving.

Trendy man, to one getting old-fashioned, is threatening

Exciting, exhilarating

Making drunk

Exhilarating - as the Christmas spirit may be

Unlikely to budge

Renting isn't a problem if obstinate

Impervious to persuasion or reason

Interestingly, most of the scheme at home is ugly without something on top

Introject

Intromit

Introvert

INVAGINATE To insert as in a sheath; to pr<?/<?/<?/ce intussusception in.

The condition of an invaginated organ or part.

Tending to invalidate or prove false.

Act of alluring.

Inventory

""INVESTIGATE To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena. as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.""

What Brewster's committee does

One making a search or enquiries

One making a search or enquiry

Private eye

INVIGILATE To keep watch.

Keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating.

Invigilator

Bracing

Action of strengthening

Enlivening process

Invigorator

Iridologist

""Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence. as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence.""

""IRREFRAGABLE Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence. as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence.""

*No matter

Common malapropism used to mean "Nonetheless!"

Fluctuation

Abnormality

Irritating

ISOANTIGEN

""ITALIANATE To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize.""

ITALIANISE

ITALIANIZE To play the Italian; to speak Italian.