2-Letter Words Starting with I

IMPERFORATE

Aggressive foreign policy

Empire-minded person.

Expansionist coloniser

Advocate of extending power over other nations

Imperil

""The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled.""

In an imperious manner.

Styrofoam's boast (wordplay)

Not lasting

Transitory

Not allowing fluid to pass through

Like rain jackets

Hard

Primate's one crazy ape!

Pretend to be (another)

Pretend to be (another person)

I am apt to be cheeky

Cheeky troublemaker has abused internet

Being rude, I am short and to the point

IMPETRATE Obtained by entreaty.

""The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.""

Rashness

Impetuous

The act of impinging.

IMPLANT to plant firmly

Not seeming probable

Full of holes

Provoking disbelief

""IMPLAUSIBLE Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.""

Put into effect

Implement

""IMPLEMENT That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.""

A charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).

A likely consequence

Meaning that is inferred, not explicitly stated

Suggestion

Tending to implicate.

Imploring

Impolitic.

In an impolitic manner.

Importance

In an important manner.

Tariff target

Persistent, pressing

Annoyingly persistent

Persistently demanding various permutation

In an importune manner.

Importuner

""IMPORTUNE To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.""

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.

Annoying obligations / "No need to check" split (nonverbal)

Annoying obligations / 'No need to check' split (nonverbal)

Imposthume

Impotency

The act of impounding or the state of being impounded.

I can make stuff that doesn't work

Not suitable for use

Not sensible

""IMPRECATE To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.""

Verbal whammy

Spoken curse

""Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invokingevil; as, the imprecatory psalms. as, the imprecatory psalms.""

In a manner that lacks accuracy

Without accuracy

Vaguely

Lack of exactness

Lack of accuracy

Inaccuracy

Not able to be overcome

Immune to attack

Unable to be broken into

IMPREGN to make {pregnant=adj}

Impregnant

""Same as fertilized, 1.fertilized, 1.""

Fulfills the destiny of many 25-D

Tinctures

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

Opera and concert promoters

Personal managers of concert artists.

Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

Mimic's forte.

The first ones last

Rich Little specialty

""The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors. as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.""

Impressure

Official licenses to publish books

Tots bonding patterns

Tots bonding patterns

Imprison

Unseemly behaviour

I am in favour of holiness, keeping right - opposing this, therefore

Indecorum

A change for the better

Act of making better

With "show," get better

Araucaria's for depression around 6 or 7

Lacking foresight - spendthrift

Lacking foresight

Improviser

""IMPROVISE To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.""

Improvisor

Imprudence

Dim reply nut concocted in a foolish way

Junior has a fresh mouth

In a foolish manner

Lack of power; inability.

In an impulsive manner.

IMPULSIVE Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.

Imputation

With absolutely no spark

Incitement

In an inclement manner.

Causing discomfort (to someone)

Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance.

Lacking in necessary skills

Unable to function

Lacking ability

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

Main lectern possibly raised by degrees

Changing by degrees

Advancing by small amounts

Make (someone) appear guilty

Certain I'm in trouble getting blame

Involve in an accusation

Incumber

Pre-1501 book

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) (Law) to secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for; insure""

One who compensates (another) for harm or loss

Indemnify

Indemnity

Indictment

Not easily discouraged

Boat of Billy Budd

Impossible to subdue

""INDOMITABLE Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal. as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.""

""The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.""

Inducement

Above all price.

Milanese bit possibly can't be guessed

Not able to be measured

""In a manner, or to a degree, above estimation; as, things inestimably excellent. as, things inestimably excellent.""

""INFANTILE Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior. as, infantile behavior.""

Fighter on foot with small-arms

Young stationer joined up as a soldier

Foot soldier

Soldiers led by a child (wordplay)

Some soldiers

Fashionable business sign for hospitals

Popular company stars, offering facilities for sick people

Infirmity

Stiff Little Fingers album material

Not fireproof

Easily ignited

In an inflammable manner.

Long TV ad

Half-hour product pitch

Enlightening TV ad

Lack of rigid rules

Lack of starch

Relaxed approach

Data-intensive branch of engineering

It means 'forming a pattern', dope!

How the Red Arrows fly low-down

Ready to play, or a phone service

Providing useful facts

""Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.""

Infrahuman

Inharmony

INHUMANE {cruel=adj}

Inhumation

Initialism

Umpteen from a Berlin menu

Minnie (wordplay)

More than plentiful

""INNUMERABLE Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.""

Innumerate

""Same as fertilized, 1.fertilized, 1.""

Inseminate

INSEMINATE To sow; to impregnate.

Monthly partial payment

Payment on a payment plan

In the present month, all fellows will take time setting up in office

Hire purchase payments

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

What pilot may fly on

Orchestral hardware

Tools, implements

Insularism

Integument

Not inclined towards moderation

Lacking self-control

Dined in a bad mood, indulging to excess

Intendment

Acting between atoms

CAMPUS to restrict a student to the school ground

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with.

Intermedin

Intermesh

Intermesh

Brahms piano pieces

Music: What works provide comic relief between acts of an opera seria (wordplay)

Mix when at university, say, in front of a fire

Mix together

Intermit

INTERMIT to stop temporarily

Intermix

Internment

Period between periods of normal rule

Period between reigns

Period between kings.

SYSTEM a group of interacting elements forming a unified whole

Hints

Frightened - suggested I'd go inside!

Frightened popular boy I went out with

Hinted quietly about one daughter influenced by threats

Dainties I'm taking time to prepare for cows

Cows

Bully

Relating to areas between the layers of the skin.

Intromit

One who intromits.

Swelling up; expanding.

Invalidism

How a priest preaches (wordplay)

Military sieges

It should be a large portion of your retirement savings

Participation (in something)

Inclusion as a necessary part

Inclusion; entanglement

Iridosmine

IRKSOME tending to irk

Ironmaster

Golf-club salesmen?

Golf-club salesmen (wordplay)

Hardware merchants, in Hampshire

Tools and hardware

In a manner of speaking, my French and German hardware

The doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related.

Not removable; immovable; inflexible.

IRREMOVABLE Not removable; immovable; inflexible.

The state or quality of being isochronous.

ISOMERIZE

""A similarity of crystalline form between substances of similar composition, as between the sulphates of barium (BaSO4) and strontium (SrSO4). It is sometimes extended to include similarity of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called hom\'d2omorphism. BaSO4) and strontium (SrSO4). It is sometimes extended to include similarity of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called hom\'d2omorphism.""

Having the quality of isomorphism.

April 15 listing

Ivermectin

Bad image city changed in state without authorisation

Not in accordance with the law

Not proper, acceptable

Unlawful, invalid

Illiberality.

Illuminance

Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Well lit Paul Weller album

Light

Lighting

Revealing bad turn onto motorway by one locally born

Illuminator

Illusionism

Imagination

Imbecility

""IMBIBITION The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the postmortem imbibition of poisons. as, the postmortem imbibition of poisons.""

Imbrication

Immaculacy

In a perfect manner

Immanentism

Immanentist

Immaturity

Too large to quantify

Beyond calculation

Edition of album with reams in that is very big

In an immeasurable manner or degree.

Beyond memory.

Immeasurable.

Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.

Immigration

Immobility

Immobilizer

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

Immoderacy

Too much for May term I dole out

In an excessive manner

I am pretty likely to act in a way that's over the top

I am having the means, given allowance in excess

Immorality

IMMORTALISE

Immortalise

IMMORTALIZE To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

IMMORTALIZE To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.