i

the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet ; the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" ; a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks) ;

i-beam

girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' ;

i. a. richards

English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979) ;

i. f. stone

United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) ;

i. m. pei

United States architect (born in China in 1917) ;

i.d.

a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" ;

i.e.d.

an explosive device that is improvised ;

i.q.

a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100) ;

i.w.w.

a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I ;

i chronicles

the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC ;

i corinthians

a New Testament book containing the first epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth ;

i esdra

an Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah ;

i john

the first New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle ;

i kings

the first of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel ;

i maccabees

an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus ;

i peter

the first New Testament book traditionally attributed to Saint Peter the Apostle ;

i samuel

the first of two books in the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David ;

i thessalonians

a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's first epistle to the Thessalonians ;

i timothy

a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's first epistle to Timothy; contains advice on pastoral matters ;

ia

a state in midwestern United States ;

iaa

Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals; seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests; responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing Western tourists in Yemen ; a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots ;

iaea

the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy ;

iago

the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife ;

iamb

a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables ;

iambic

a verse line consisting of iambs ;

iambus

a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables ;

ian douglas smith

Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919) ;

ian fleming

British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964) ;

ian lancaster fleming

British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964) ;

ian smith

Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919) ;

ian wilmut

English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944) ;

ianfu

a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" ;

iapetus

(Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology ;

ibadan

a large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria; site of a university ;

ibda-c

a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO ;

iberia

a peninsula in southwestern Europe ; an ancient geographical region south of the Caucasus Mountains that corresponded approximately to the present-day Georgia ;

iberian

a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times) ; a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus ;

iberian peninsula

a peninsula in southwestern Europe ;

iberis

Old World herbs and subshrubs: candytuft ;

ibero-mesornis

sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Cretaceous period having a vestigial tail; found in Spain; considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds ;