inuit
- n a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
inula helenium
- n tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally
inulin
- n used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function
inunction
- n anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
inundation
- n the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
plains fertilized by annual inundations - n an overwhelming number or amount
invagination
- n the condition of being folded inward or sheathed
- n the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
the invagination of the blastula
invalidation
- n (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)
kamet
- n a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
invalidator
- n an official who can invalidate or nullify
my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was