<B>intromittent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that intromits. </DL>
<A NAME="intromitter">
<B>intromitter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that intromits. </DL>
<A NAME="intron">
<B>intron, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a segment of DNA that has no specific genetic code; intervening sequence. <BR> <I>Ex. One possibility is that some of the introns are promoters--regions of DNA where the enzyme RNA polymerase first binds to a gene before transcribing it. Introns may also play a role in control of gene expression (Thomas H. Maugh II).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="intropunitive">
<B>intropunitive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inflicting punishment upon oneself, especially subconsciously; having feelings of guilt and self-blame. <BR> <I>Ex. an intropunitive criminal.</I> noun <B>intropunitiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="introrse">
<B>introrse, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) turned or facing inward, toward the axis. A violet has introrse anthers. adv. <B>introrsely.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="introscope">
<B>introscope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument that allows a view of the interior of a tube or cavity by means of an adjustable objective lens and a system of mirrors to reflect light rays into the tube. </DL>
<A NAME="introspect">
<B>introspect, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to look within; be introspective. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to look into; examine. </DL>
<A NAME="introspection">
<B>introspection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the examination of one's own thoughts and feelings. <BR> <I>Ex. Philosophical people are given to introspection. I was forced to make an introspection into mine own mind (John Dryden).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="introspectional">
<B>introspectional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with introspection. </DL>
<A NAME="introspectionism">
<B>introspectionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine that introspection and the mental content of experience is the chief subject matter of psychological study. adj., n. <B>introspectionist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="introspective">
<B>introspective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inclined to examine one's own thoughts and feelings; characterized by introspection. <BR> <I>Ex. an introspective essay.</I> adv. <B>introspectively.</B> noun <B>introspectiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="introversion">
<B>introversion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tendency to be more interested in one's own thoughts and feelings than in what is going on around one; tendency to think rather than act. <DD><B> 2. </B>an inward turn or bent. </DL>
<A NAME="introversive">
<B>introversive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, characterized by, or inclined to introversion; introvertive. adv. <B>introversively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="introvert">
<B>introvert, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person more interested in his own thoughts and feelings than in what is going on around him; person tending to think rather than act and so having qualities attributed as shy and unsociable. <BR> <I>Ex. They grew up to be shy little introverts, heavily dependent on each other (Newsweek).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> characterized by introversion. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to direct (one's thoughts or feelings) inward or upon oneself. <DD><B> 2. </B>to turn or bend inward. <BR> <I>Ex. introverted toes.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to turn (a tubular organ or part) back within itself; infold. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be or become an introvert. </DL>
<A NAME="introverted">
<B>introverted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by introversion. </DL>
<B>intrude, </B>verb, <B>-truded,</B><B>-truding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to thrust oneself in; come unasked and unwanted. <BR> <I>Ex. If you are busy, I will not intrude. Do not intrude upon the privacy of your neighbors.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to give (something) unasked and unwanted; force in. <BR> <I>Ex. Do not intrude your opinions upon others.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Geology.) to thrust in; force in. <BR> <I>Ex. rock melted by heat and intruded into fissures.</I> noun <B>intruder.</B> adv. <B>intrudingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intrusion">
<B>intrusion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of intruding; coming unasked and unwanted. <BR> <I>Ex. Excuse my intrusion; I didn't know that you were busy. Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I would be private? (Joseph Addison).</I> (SYN) encroachment, infringement. <DD><B> 2. </B>an unlawful entry or seizure of land or rights belonging to another. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Geology.) <DD><B> a. </B>the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata. <DD><B> b. </B>the molten rock forced in and solidified in place. </DL>
<A NAME="intrusive">
<B>intrusive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>intruding; coming unasked and unwanted. <BR> <I>Ex. Let me shake off the intrusive cares of day (James Thomson).</I> (SYN) obtrusive. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Geology.) forced into fissures or between strata while molten. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Phonetics.) inserted without any etymological or historical basis. <BR> <I>Ex. The "r" pronounced by some speakers in "the idear of it" is called an intrusive "r."</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (Geology.) an intrusive rock or formation. adv. <B>intrusively.</B> noun <B>intrusiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intrust">
<B>intrust, </B>transitive verb. =entrust.</DL>
<A NAME="intubate">
<B>intubate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-bated,</B> <B>-bating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to insert a tube into some body opening, especially as a treatment. <DD><B> 2. </B>to treat by inserting a tube. noun <B>intubation.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intuit">
<B>intuit, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ited,</B> <B>-iting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to know or receive knowledge by immediate perception; know by intuition. <BR> <I>Ex. Afterward, Dr. Schmeidler asked the agent and the percipient ... to tell her what each had intuited about the other (New Yorker).</I> adj. <B>intuitable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intuition">
<B>intuition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the immediate perception or understanding of truths, facts, or events, without reasoning. <BR> <I>Ex. By experience with all kinds of people the doctor had developed great powers of intuition.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an act of immediate perception. <BR> <I>Ex. to regard a happy guess as an intuition.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a truth, fact, or event perceived or understood immediately and without reasoning. </DL>
<A NAME="intuitional">
<B>intuitional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by intuition; based on intuition. adv. <B>intuitionally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intuitionalism">
<B>intuitionalism, </B>noun. =intuitionism.</DL>
<A NAME="intuitionalist">
<B>intuitionalist, </B>noun. =intuitionist.</DL>
<A NAME="intuitionism">
<B>intuitionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the doctrine that truth and reality are intuitively recognized. <DD><B> 2. </B>the doctrine that perceived objects are intuitively known to have actual existence. n., adj. <B>intuitionist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intuitive">
<B>intuitive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>perceiving or understanding immediately and without reasoning. <BR> <I>Ex. The lawyers had great respect for the judge's intuitive mind.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>acquired by intuition; instinctive; natural. <BR> <I>Ex. intuitive knowledge. The artist's understanding of color seems to have been intuitive. Basing his argument on wholly intuitive premises, he may develop it with impeccable logic (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of the nature of an intuition. <BR> <I>Ex. Her perception of right seemed almost intuitive.</I> adv. <B>intuitively.</B> noun <B>intuitiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intuitivism">
<B>intuitivism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the doctrine that the fundamental principles of ethics are reached by intuition. <DD><B> 2. </B>intuitive perception; insight. </DL>
<A NAME="intuitivist">
<B>intuitivist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a follower of intuitivism in ethics. </DL>
<A NAME="intumesce">
<B>intumesce, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-mesced,</B> <B>-mescing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to swell up; bubble up; become tumid, as with heat. </DL>
<A NAME="intumescence">
<B>intumescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of swelling up or bubbling up. <DD><B> 2. </B>swollen state. <DD><B> 3. </B>a swollen mass or growth, such as a tumor. </DL>
<B>intussuscept, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to take within, as in telescoping one part of the intestine into another part; invaginate. </DL>
<A NAME="intussusception">
<B>intussusception, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of taking within, as of ideas; reception. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) <DD><B> a. </B>the taking in of foreign matter, especially food, by a living organism and converting it into living tissue. <DD><B> b. </B>new materials or particles interpolated among old parts already in place. <DD><B> 3. </B>the inversion of one part of the intestine and its slipping into an adjacent part, occurring especially in infants; invagination. <DD><B> 4. </B>a serious intestinal obstruction of horses, characterized by an introverting of the bowel. </DL>
<A NAME="intussusceptive">
<B>intussusceptive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by intussusception. </DL>
<B>Inuit, </B>noun, pl. <B>-it</B> or <B>-its.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an Eskimo of North America. The Eskimos of Siberia are called Yuit. Also, <B>Innuit.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="inulase">
<B>inulase, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enzyme that converts inulin into fructose. </DL>
<A NAME="inulin">
<B>inulin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white, starchlike substance obtained from the roots of various composite plants, especially elecampane and dahlia, used as a substitute for starch in foods for persons who have diabetes. </DL>
