Nouns starting with I

• Ixobrychus exilis — Noun – English ～ small American bittern
• Ixobrychus — Noun – English ～ bitterns
• ixodes — Noun – English ～ type genus of the family Ixodidae
• Ixodes dammini — Noun – English ～ a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis
• Ixodes dentatus — Noun – English ～ usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
• ixodid — Noun – English ～ ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
• Ixodidae — Noun – English ～ hard ticks
• Iyar — Noun – English ～ the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May)
• Iyyar — Noun – English ～ the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May)
• Izanagi — Noun – English ～ the god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami
• Izanami — Noun – English ～ sister and consort of Izanami; mother of the islands and gods of Japan
• izar — Noun – English ～ a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body
• izmir — Noun – English ～ a port city in western Turkey
• izzard — Noun – English ～ the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard"
• Islamic Jihad — Noun – English ～ a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon
• Islamic Jihad — Noun – English ～ an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells; "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981"
• International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders — Noun – English ～ a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Iwo Jima — Noun – English ～ a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
• Iwo Jima — Noun – English ～ the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
• inside job — Noun – English ～ some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim; "the police decided that the crime was an inside job"

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