imbiber

a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) ;

imbibing

the act of consuming liquids ;

imbibition

the act of consuming liquids ; (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel ;

imbrication

covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) ;

imbroglio

a very embarrassing misunderstanding ; an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation ;

imf

a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies ;

imidazole

an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor ;

imide

any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO- ;

iminazole

an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor ;

imipramine

a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression ;

imitation

copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else ; a copy that is represented as the original ; the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations ; a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect ;

imitation leather

fabric made to look like leather ;

imitative electronic deception

the introduction of electromagnetic energy into enemy systems that imitates enemy emissions ;

imitator

someone who copies the words or behavior of another ; someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another ;

immaculate conception

(Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived ; Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854 ;

immaculate conception of the virgin mary

(Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived ;

immaculateness

the state of being spotlessly clean ;

immanence

the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain ;

immanency

the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain ;

immanuel kant

influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804) ;

immateriality

the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter ; complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration ;

immatureness

not having reached maturity ;

immaturity

not having reached maturity ;

immediacy

lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" ; the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" ; immediate intuitive awareness ;

immediate allergy

an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact ;

immediate apprehension

immediate intuitive awareness ;

immediate constituent

a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate ;

immediate memory

what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it ;

immediate payment

prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check ;

immediateness

lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" ; the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" ;

immenseness

unusual largeness in size or extent or number ;

immensity

unusual largeness in size or extent or number ;

immersion

the act of wetting something by submerging it ; a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged ; complete attention; intense mental effort ; (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse ; sinking until covered completely with water ;

immersion foot

resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet ;

immersion heater

a heating element that is immersed in the liquid that is to be heated (as in a hot-water tank) ;

immigrant

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there ;

immigrant class

recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds ;

immigration

migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) ; the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony" ;

immigration and naturalization service

an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States ;

imminence

the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon ;