|
|
intelligence service |
Noun
|
a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy |
|
|
intelligence agency |
Noun
|
a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy |
|
|
international intelligence agency |
Noun
|
an intelligence agency outside the United States |
|
|
international law enforcement agency |
Noun
|
an international administrative unit responsible for law enforcement |
|
|
inferior court |
Noun
|
any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court |
|
|
intelligentsia |
Noun
|
an educated and intellectual elite |
|
|
inspectorate |
Noun
|
a body of inspectors |
|
|
infantry |
Noun
|
an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot |
|
|
industrialism |
Noun
|
an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship |
|
|
institute |
Noun
|
an association organized to promote art, science, or education |
|
|
institute |
Verb
|
to advance or set forth in court |
|
|
institute |
Verb
|
to set up or lay the groundwork for |
|
|
immigrant class |
Noun
|
recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds |
|
|
industrial bank |
Noun
|
a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
|
|
industrial loan company |
Noun
|
a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
|
|
imagism |
Noun
|
a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality |
|
|
international law |
Noun
|
the body of laws governing relations between nations |
|
|
interplanetary space |
Noun
|
the part of outer space within the solar system |
|
|
interstellar space |
Noun
|
the space between stars |
|
|
intergalactic space |
Noun
|
the space between galaxies |
|
|
isogonic line |
Noun
|
an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same |
|
|
isogonal line |
Noun
|
an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same |
|
|
isogone |
Noun
|
an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same |
|
|
inner city |
Noun
|
the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city |
|
|
isohel |
Noun
|
an isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine |
|
|
isotherm |
Noun
|
(meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time |
|
|
industrial park |
Noun
|
a tract of land at a distance from city center that is designed for a cluster of businesses and factories |
|
|
ionosphere |
Noun
|
the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere |
|
|
irredenta |
Noun
|
a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another |
|
|
irridenta |
Noun
|
a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another |
|
|
isobar |
Noun
|
(meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time |
|
|
isochrone |
Noun
|
an isogram connecting points at which something occurs or arrives at the same time |
|
|
isoclinic line |
Noun
|
an isogram connecting points of equal magnetic inclination |
|
|
isogram |
Noun
|
a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable |
|
|
isopleth |
Noun
|
a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable |
|
|
isarithm |
Noun
|
a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable |
|
|
island of Jersey |
Noun
|
the largest of the Channel Islands |
|
|
island of Guernsey |
Noun
|
a Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey |
|
|
incentive |
Noun
|
a positive motivational influence |
|
|
incentive |
Noun
|
an additional payment, or other remuneration, to employees as a means of increasing output |
|
|
irrational motive |
Noun
|
a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic |
|
|
irrational impulse |
Noun
|
a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation |
|
|
itchy feet |
Noun
|
very strong or irresistible impulse to travel |
|
|
international waters |
Noun
|
the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation |
|
|
ice floe |
Noun
|
a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea |
|
|
ice mass |
Noun
|
a large mass of ice |
|
|
impairer |
Noun
|
an agent that impairs |
|
|
inclined fault |
Noun
|
a geological fault in which one side is above the other |
|
|
inclusion body |
Noun
|
any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) |
|
|
index fossil |
Noun
|
a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found |