12-Letter Words Starting with I

Inessential

Lack of accuracy

Inexistence

A lack of specific skills

Impossible to escape from

Impossible to separate

Incapable of being untied

In an inextricable manner.

""Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.""

Infanticide

Infantilism

INFANTILIZE

Infantilize

Infatuation

In an infectious manner.

Infelicity

Unfortunate; not appropriate

Inappropriate, unfortunate

Unfortunate; inappropriate

Infestation

Infidelity

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

""The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.""

Of or pertaining to infiltration.

Infiltrator

The state or quality of being infinite; infinity; greatness; immensity.

Infinitive

Job for man selling balloons involving Frenchmen first is swell - that's hot!

Allergic reaction a short distance into economic problem

A couple of million swallowed by rising prices may be a cause of pain

Provocative

Trouble-making name in Webster's duchy on hill in springtime

""INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

""INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money.

""Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.""

Influential

Information

Dancing fan not in time for jazzed up programmes

Not very often

Not often

Flinty queen stirred to embrace her husband? Not often!

Breaking (of a law, etc)

The breaking (of a law)

Trouble fermenting in breaking of rule

Infuriation

""Capability of being infused, pouredin, or instilled.""

Ingathering

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

""The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling.""

""INHALATION The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.""

Inheritance

Plural or third person singular

Inheritrix

Affording no shelter

Difficult to live in

Harsh, inimical to life

""INHOSPITABLE Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. as, an inhospitable person or people.""

Acts of atrocious cruelty

In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.

Starting a computer application

Innateness

Innervation

""INNOVATION The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.""

Innovative

Jabs

Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

Very dirty, a line on ground

Toured, only it rained excessively

It's over-the-top to say Lee is largely excessive

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

""The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. as, inosculation of veins, etc.""

Inquisition

Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

Legends

INSECTICIDE An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder.

Insecticide

Change to services in exclusive diners

Insecurity

INSEMINATE To sow; to impregnate.

Planting seeds in half the country

Inseminator

Insentience

Insightful

Insinuation

Insipidity

Insistency

Insobriety

""The quality or state of being insoluble or not dissolvable, as in a fluid.""

Insouciant

Office of an examining officer

Body of assessors examine 'O' grade

Examining official's office

Inspiration

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

""The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.""

Inspissator

Art exhibit in a gallery

The making of equipment ready for use

One 22 in country establishment

Installment

INSTANTIATE

Instantiate

""Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.""

Instigation

""The of instilling; also, that which is instilled.""

Instillment

Institution

Orders lessons (wordplay)

They're popular in IKEA manual

Something followed at school

A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess.

Piece of music without voices

Piece of music without vocals

Music with no vocals

Instrument

In short supply

Not able to fulfil a need

Leaving something to be desired

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

The act of breathing on or into anything

Insufflator

Insularity

Abstract noun (-ity)

Rising from the ranks (wordplay)

Recruits in on planning for The Rising

Superior bishop fills in part 10

Intactness

Integration

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.

""Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.""

Egghead uncle a little upset

Related to rational thought processes

Philosopher, for example.

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.""

Excess remnant with piece in shreds

Unrestrained alcohol consumption

Breaking the cane after being angry indicates lack of restraint

INTENERATE To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

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

Intensifier

Intensify

Intentness

Interactant

Interaction

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

Interbed

Between divisions of Greater New York

""INTERCALATE To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.""

Intercalate

High-climbing war planes

Intercept

""The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy. as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.""

Interceptor

Saying of a prayer on another's behalf

Form of prayer ...

Act of pleading on behalf of another

Intercessor

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer. as, intercessory prayer.""

Interchain

Switched dancing there as redirected

CHANGER one that {changes=v}

Interchange

CHANNEL to direct along a course

CLUSTER to form into groups

Altercations getting out of hand between New York and California, perhaps

COMPANY to associate with

COMPARE to scrutinise for similarities

Link to each other

Join with each other

Link with each other

CONVERT to change into another form

Intercooler

Intercostal

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

Intercourse

CROPPED crop

Intercross

Meets

CULTURE to cultivate

Running between or among; intervening.

Intercut

DEALERS dealer

Interdepend

Interdict

Bar delivery follows Italian team

Tabu.

""Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence. as, an interdictive sentence.""

Interdictor

Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

DIFFUSE to spread widely or thinly

Interested

Interfacing

FACULTY an inherent power or ability

Football penalty, or phone problem

Radio distortion renders Rene frenetic

Disturbance to radio signals

FERTILE productive

FLUVIAL pertaining to a {river=n}

Interfusion

GENERIC a type of drug

Period between Ice Ages

GRADING grade

Intergraft

Intergrowth

INVOLVE to implicate or entangle

INTERIORISE to incorporate within oneself; same as interiorize.interiorize.

Interiorise

INTERIORIZE to incorporate within oneself.

Interiorize

Interject

Abrupt utterance

A side cutting in, in a manner of speaking

Exclamation

Interjector

INTERJECTOR

""Between lammell\'91 or lamin\'91; as, interlamellar spaces.as, interlamellar spaces.""

Interlap

Interlard

Interlayer

LEAVING a {leftover=n}

Interlend

Interleukin

LIBRARY a room containing books for reading or reference

Interlinear

Interlining

Interlink

""Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein. as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.""

Engaging with close fit

Engaging by fitting together

Like crossword words

Person who takes part in a conversation

Participant in a dialogue

Involved in conversation to disclose tricolour net

MARRIED one who has entered into marriage

Finds mate from another group creates a union in unfamiliar religious building

MEDDLED meddle