illegitimate child
- n the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
illegitimate enterprise
- n an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
illiberality
- n a disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money
illicium anisatum
- n small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant
illicium floridanum
- n small shrubby tree with purple flowers; found in wet soils of southeastern United States
illicium verum
- n small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative
illimani
- n a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high)
illinois
- n a midwestern state in north-central United States
- n a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
- n the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami
illinois river
- n a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River
illiteracy
- n ignorance resulting from not reading
- n an inability to read
illness
- n impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism