2-Letter Words Starting with I

Isologue

One of a group of enzymes that catalyzes the conversion of one isomer into another.

Quality of glucose and fructose

Property of having the same formula but a different arrangement of atoms

ISOMERE an organ corresponding with another

Exercises that add centimetres!

Form of eroticism in exercising muscles

Having equal dimensions

Ships moor around similarly shaped items ...

""A crystalline antibacterial compound, C 6 H 7 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.""

Isonomy

Flammable liquid hydrocarbon

ISOPHOTE a curve joining points of equal light intensity

Isophote

Isopleth

Isopodan

Isoprene

Radical derived from propane

Alcohol in antifreeze

""Having equal density, as different regions of a medium; passing through points at which the density is equal; as, an isopycnic line or surface. as, an isopycnic line or surface.""

Triangle with two sides of equal length

(Triangle) with two equal sides

Triangular losses of ice

Having the same or equal osmotic pressure; isotonic; -- used of solutions. Contrasted with hypertonic and hypotonichypertonic and hypotonic

Under equal pressure from every side.

One like this still in a state of equilibrium

(Chemistry) Chem (of a stereospecific polymer) having identical steric configurations of the groups on each asymmetric carbon atom on the chain Compare syndiotactic

Is nothing there? Surely the start of contour lines (wordplay)

Temperature lines on maps.

This is not the same manuscript in line

Hotlines to the Met Office

Isotopy

Uniform in all directions

Having the same properties irrespective of direction

New software version

More of the same.

Performance a second time.

""A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivorycolored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States. Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivorycolored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.""

I tire and can go funny - caused by medical treatment (wordplay)

Cardinal-bishop, university professor and nurses supply drugs

Iceboater

ICEBOAT a vehicle that sails on ice

Ichneumon

""ICONICAL pertaining to an icon, also ICONIC""

Destroying the image of Byzantium

The attacking of cherished institutions

Possibly game is destruction

Challenging person (wordplay)

Mencken, for one

He doesn't hold with imagery

New location on-line for image-worship

Electronic scanning device

The tube that made TV possible.

Television tube.

Some dice, geometrically

Twenty-sided solids

20-faced solids

Idealogy

Inventors' diaries (wordplay)

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.""

""(Mathematics) Maths (of a matrix, transformation, etc.) not changed in value following multiplication by itself [from Latin idem same + potent 1 ]""

IDEOGRAM a type of written symbol

In Paris it's handsome to see a friend of Sartre

A prodigy he misled, writing in ?symbols

GPO diary he coded, writing in symbols

Bodies of thought

Systematic schemes about life.

What schools have

I upset goodliest visionary

Philosopher lies to God, I suspect

Theorist, visionary

IDEOLOGIZE

Dogmatic types thought diaries might be read aloud

Hardliners

Idioblast

IDIOLECT an individual's distinctive form of speech

Clip of fool in 2 down in charge of disease with no known cause

Idolatry

Showing excessive admiration.

Inappropriately worshipful

Worshipping images

Idoneity

Lack of honor

Ignominy

Ignorance

Not no wing this way (wordplay)

There's no knowing this way

In an unlearned way

Perhaps a nun is good with dinosaurs

Herbivores of the early Cretaceous

Plant-eating dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period

Deceptive; misleading

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

""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).""

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

Imbolden

Imbosom

Imbower

Messy situations

Confused situations

Spread round mob - girl is to provide sandwich and pickles

Getting inconspicuous, how a poet introduced himself (wordplay)

Imidazole

Simulated takeoffs (wordplay)

They're knocked off (wordplay)

Form of entertainment.

Beyond recollection.

Indefinitely ancient.

Archaic museum rings Rome back for one before long

All-out baptisms

Baptismal acts

IMMOBILE stationary

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

Freeze in place

Hold still

Immoderateness.

Speed on one motorway way too high

Unreasonable setter's style and class

Excessive organising made me riot

Boastfully misrepresented my old times

As an egotist would

Immolate

Brunnehilde's scene.

This person's terribly emotional, not the first to be burning (wordplay)

Sacrifice

Immolator

IMMORAL promiscuous or unscrupulous

Gide opus, with "The"

Naughty Timmy and I have spoken of sinfulness

How gods live

Undyingly, imperishably

I, as in this everlasting flower

An everlasting.

Immovable

""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.""

Impaction

Excites

Imperator

Starchy prison meal's cooked

Male prison, dreadfully cold

Cold crime first found at end in drive

Incapable of being affected

High-handed, inwardly very resistant

Resistant and high-handed, very contained

Sudden inward detonations

Implosive

Impolicy

How boors behave

Allowed to come in, as foreign products

Like many foreign goods, I can be brought in as hand luggage (wordplay)

I am over the drink, can get it in and get able to carry it

Cameron swayed taking tip for power

The - of Being Earnest

Tip Cameron somehow to get power

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important.

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

Forcefully I am showing off only by half

I'm modelling Lycra yellow tops in striking fashion

Seat at an AOLer's desk (wordplay)

Hidden meaning needs runes, perhaps

Uncalled-for burden

Anything's belief (wordplay)

Little devil in hopeless (wordplay)

Hopelessly difficult to deal with

Not possibly.

Setter's after Scottish thinker's abscess

Impostume

Cheats and rogue start to make up stories

Deceptions.

Deceptions

Impotence

Suggest bottling old wine without strength

Shutting up one politician undoing reforms

Run to ruin

Ruin arch, crushing above

Mischievous maiden hiding in drain

Impower

P. T. Barnum, for one

One organising 21 had this in Oldham

Hurok or Bing.

Imitation (of a person)

Impact made by Rich Little (wordplay)

Sense in keeping promises for a change

What one might be for life (wordplay)

Put away for safety (wordplay)

MP inside or possibly doing bird

Unlikely to occur.

Tall child misbehaving with Nick Sharp

Doubtful that rascal Robert qualified

""IMPROBABLE Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. as, an improbable story or event.""

Impromptu

Not according to Hoyle

In an unseemly manner

Suggest a rodeo competitor has entered wrongfully

Can be made better

Is outwardly better when played by ear

Is outwardly better when spontaneous

Spontaneously created

One winging it

Demon dog is bound to be one deviating imaginatively (wordplay)

One able to wing it is person getting better all round

Goes outside the lines (wordplay)

Ad-libs

Riffs

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

Impulsion

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

Casanova's ladies

Don Juan's ladies.

Casanova's ladies

Inanition

Out of place

Without relevance

Totally irrelevant

Inbound

Incaution

Heedless of risks

Inception

Excessively close

Very close, resistant to outside influence

INCHOATE to {begin=v}

Of the beginning

The act of inciting or moving to action.

Inclosure

Imperfections affecting diamond clarity

Thoughtless insect (wordplay)

Thoughtless insect?

Incognita

Incognito

Rambling in rocky north-east? Nice!

Tossed coin, then ... er ... (not clear)

Difficult to understand

Caused to be inconvenienced

Inconvenienced

Incommode

During race, say, fences left unfinished

Failed, as a pass

Crooked election - MP's not finished

Variable Jiffy bags a disadvantage

Within a short time cheat, being fickle

Variable, as a nova

Incorpse

Incross

Process of brooding (wordplay)

Development period

Independent young reporter in state should see development

Office-space providers for startups

Hatchery installations

Serving for incubation.

One who inculcates.

Incursion

Search; inquiry; investigation.

Indagator

Judge's uncertainty (wordplay)

Inability to make up one's mind

State of uncertainty

Unseemly do on cruise trip

Unseemly.

Unseemly

Indecorum

Indention

A system of economic regulation in which wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to compenaste for the effects of inflation.

Sign (of something)

Justification when leader's ignored sign

In one state police rejected evidence

Weather vanes

Pointers.

Signals

New dictionary is sort of revealing

Indiction

Native ending up in debts

Native guide's in no trouble

Not foreign sounding, i.e. translated

Indigotin

Unwell, or just unwilling (wordplay)

Out of sorts

Hip set admitting woman's laid up

Makes unwilling.

The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness.

Indolence

In an indolent manner.

""Any one of a series of artificial blue dyestuffs, resembling indigo in appearance, and obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone. Simple indophenol proper has not yet been isolated.""

Induction

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

Far from articulate

Certain line a boxer takes (wordplay)

Harsh exile or ban possibly

Relentless smashing of Alex O"Brien

With single-minded determination

Notoriously

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

Infection

Liable to spread disease

(Of disease) liable to spread

(Of disease) catchable from others

Infeoff

""In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.""

Noun (-tion)

Inflation

Stress of left in disorder

Pitch is left in clinical condition

Disease found around port causing stress

Inflexion

Fashionable novels, when about fifty, can be an imposition

Inflictor

Advise colleague in casual fashion

Advise partner in a friendly way

Oh, this tuxedo? I just threw it on, Tom said...

Talking plants (wordplay)

Conveyers of news.

Tell the workers they'll split

INFORMED inform

Breach fashionable quarter (wordplay)

Infringement, for example

In part it's a violation

Having frequencies below those of audible sounds

Cars, if in no condition, cannot be heard

One of the Infusoria.