Italian sandwich
— Noun
– English
~ a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
idiot savant
— Noun
– English
~ person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory)
international scale
— Noun
– English
~ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
image scanner
— Noun
– English
~ an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
iris scanning
— Noun
– English
~ biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye; "the structure of the iris is very distinctive"
Ixodes scapularis
— Noun
– English
~ parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
ill-scented
— Adjective
– English
~ offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
incentive scheme
— Noun
– English
~ a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something
infant school
— Noun
– English
~ British school for children aged 5-7
information science
— Noun
– English
~ the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Isles of Scilly
— Noun
– English
~ an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates
Irish Sea
— Noun
– English
~ an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
Ionian Sea
— Noun
– English
~ an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy
Inland Sea
— Noun
– English
~ an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima
in due season
— Adverb
– English
~ at the appropriate time; "we'll get to this question in due course"
inverse secant
— Noun
– English
~ the inverse function of the secant; the angle that has a secant equal to a given number
in secret
— Adverb
– English
~ in secrecy; not openly; "met secretly to discuss the invasion plans"; "the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library"; "they arranged to meet in secret"
Interior Secretary
— Noun
– English
~ the position of the head of the Department of the Interior; "the position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849"
Interior Secretary
— Noun
– English
~ the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department; "President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior"
internal secretion
— Noun
– English
~ the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect