6 Letter Words That Start With IN

innate

Adjective : Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.

Adjective : (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.

Adjective : Instinctive; coming from instinct.

induce

Verb : (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.

Verb : (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

Verb : (transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).

incite

Verb : (transitive) To call into action.

invoke

Verb : (transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

Verb : (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

Verb : (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

infirm

Adjective : Weak or ill, not in good health.

Adjective : Irresolute; weak of mind or will.

Adjective : Frail; unstable; insecure.

infuse

Verb : (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

Verb : (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).

Verb : (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).

induct

Verb : To bring in as a member; to make a part of.

Verb : To formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, etc.

Verb : To introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood or cults).

indite

Verb : (transitive) To write (something, especially a literary or artistic work); to compose.

Verb : (transitive) To physically make (letters and words) on a writing surface; to inscribe.

Verb : To dictate (something); to prompt.

insane

Adjective : Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.

Adjective : Used by or relating to insane people.

Adjective : Causing insanity or madness.

infamy

Noun : The state of being infamous.

Noun : A reprehensible occurrence or situation.

Noun : (law) A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.

insure

Verb : (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.

Verb : (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance

Verb : (chiefly US, transitive, dated) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee. [(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).]

indigo

Noun : A purplish-blue color.

Adjective : having a deep purplish-blue colour

Noun : An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.

intend

Verb : (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

Verb : To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

Verb : To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

insist

Verb : (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.

Verb : (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.

Verb : (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

incept

Verb : (transitive) To begin.

Verb : (transitive) To take in or ingest.

Verb : (transitive) To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own.

intent

Noun : Something that is intended.

Adjective : Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.

Adjective : Unwavering from a course of action.

insult

Verb : (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

Noun : (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

Noun : (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).

indeed

Verb : (modal) Truly; in fact; actually.

Verb : (degree, after the adjective modified) In fact.

inform

Verb : (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.

Verb : (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.

Verb : (formal, transitive) To direct, guide.

intact

Adjective : Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied, or otherwise damaged.

Adjective : (of females) Virginal; having an intact hymen.

Adjective : (of males, chiefly intactivism) Uncircumcised; having an intact foreskin.

in line

Adjective : (idiomatic) Suitable or appropriate; keeping with expectations, norms, ideals, or rules.

Adjective : (of three or more objects) Positioned in a straight line.

Verb : one behind another; in a queue

invest

Verb : To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

Verb : To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

Verb : (intransitive) To make investments.

inflow

Noun : The act or process of flowing in or into.

Noun : Anything which flows in or into.

Verb : To flow in.

inured

Adjective : accustomed to something, especially something unpleasant

in vain

Verb : (idiomatic) Without success or a result; ending in failure.

Adjective : (idiomatic) Unsuccessful, failed.

Verb : (idiomatic) In a disrespectful manner, without honoring the proper meaning; insincerely or without proper respect.

injury

Noun : Damage to the body of a living thing.

Noun : Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.

Noun : The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

invert

Verb : (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

Verb : (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

Verb : (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

indent

Noun : A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

Noun : A stamp; an impression.

Noun : A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.

inward

Adjective : Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.

Adjective : Not superficially obvious, inner, not expressed, especially relating to mental or spiritual faculties as opposed to external ones.

Adjective : Moving or tending toward the inside.

insert

Verb : (transitive) To put in between or into.

Noun : An image inserted into text.

Noun : A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.

income

Noun : Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

Noun : (business, commerce) Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.

Noun : That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

intern

Noun : A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

Noun : A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

Verb : (intransitive) To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.

intake

Noun : The quantity taken in.

Noun : An act or instance of taking in.

Noun : The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.

inhale

Verb : (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

Verb : (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in the form of aerosols/smoke, sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.

inject

Verb : (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.

Verb : (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

Verb : (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.

invade

Verb : (transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.

Verb : To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.

Verb : To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.

ingest

Verb : (transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.

Verb : (transitive) To bring or import into a system.

Noun : The process of importing data or other material into a system.

inbred

Adjective : (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.

Noun : (vulgar) A person born of incest.

Adjective : (genetics) Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

in kind

Verb : (of paying or giving) With goods or services (as opposed to cash).

Verb : (idiomatic) In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.

incarn

Verb : (intransitive, rare) To become flesh, to incarnate.

Verb : (transitive, dated) To heal; to cover with flesh or to become covered with flesh.

invect

Verb : (transitive) To subject to invective; to censure or rail against.

Verb : (transitive) To import or introduce.

insect

Noun : An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.

Noun : (derogatory) A contemptible or powerless person.

Noun : (archaic or loosely) Any small arthropod similar to an insect, including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc.

invent

Verb : To design a new process or mechanism.

Verb : To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

Verb : (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.

instar

Noun : Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.

Noun : An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.

Noun : (by extension) A stage in development.

incult

Adjective : (now rare) Rough, unrefined.

Adjective : (obsolete) Uncultivated, wild.

indign

Adjective : (archaic) Unworthy, undeserving.

Adjective : (obsolete) disgraceful

Adjective : (obsolete) unbecoming

indice

Noun : (obsolete) index

Noun : (obsolete) indication

insoul

Verb : (obsolete) To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on.

incest

Noun : Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.

Noun : (loosely) Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual activities.

indict

Verb : To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

Verb : (law) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

infest

Verb : (transitive) To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.

Verb : (pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal.

Adjective : (obsolete) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

invite

Verb : (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

Noun : (informal) An invitation.

Verb : (transitive) To request formally.

influx

Noun : A flow inward or into something; a coming in.

Noun : That which flows or comes in.

Noun : (obsolete) influence; power.

intone

Verb : (transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.

Verb : (intransitive) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

Verb : (transitive) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.

indaba

Noun : (South Africa) (by extension) Any conference, discussion, or meeting.

Noun : (South Africa) A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders.

Noun : (South Africa) Chiefly in one's own or someone's indaba: a concern, matter, or problem.

incend

Verb : (obsolete) To inflame; to excite.

incant

Verb : To recite an incantation.

Verb : (rare) To state solemnly, to chant.

infall

Noun : (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.

Noun : The act or process of falling in.

Noun : An incursion; an inroad.

infact

inmate

Noun : A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

Noun : A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.

Noun : (uncommon) Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.

inborn

Adjective : Innate, possessed by an organism at birth.

Adjective : Inherited or hereditary.

incise

Verb : (transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

inlaid

Adjective : (of a design) Set into a surface in a decorative pattern.

Adjective : (of the surface of an item) Having an inset decorative pattern.

inmost

Noun : That which is inmost; the core.

inhere

Verb : (uncommon) To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.

intuit

Verb : (ambitransitive) To know intuitively or by immediate perception.

in fact

Verb : in reality or actualit

in time

Noun : (UK, childish) The time when pupils are expected to re-enter the school for lessons.

Noun : (broadcasting) Synonym of inpoint.

in love

Adjective : marked by foolish or unreasoning fondnes

in view

Adjective : at or within a reasonable distance for seein

inable

Adjective : (obsolete, now nonstandard) Unable, not able.

Verb : (obsolete, now nonstandard) To enable.

insume

Verb : (obsolete) To take in; to absorb.

intice

Verb : Archaic spelling of entice. [(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.]

inwork

Noun : (rare) Indoor work; work done inside the home.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To work in or into.

Verb : (intransitive, archaic) To work or operate within.

inmacy

Noun : (obsolete) The state of being an inmate.

in situ

Adjective : In its original position or place.

Verb : In its original position or place.

inside

Noun : The interior or inner part.

Verb : Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.

Verb : Indoors.

instep

Noun : (anatomy) The arched part of the top of the foot between the toes and the ankle.

Noun : A section of any footwear covering that part of the foot.

Noun : In horses, the hind leg from the ham to the pastern joint.

infect

Verb : (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.

Verb : (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.

Verb : (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.

inland

Adjective : Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.

Adjective : Limited to the land, or to inland routes; not passing on, or over, the sea.

Verb : Into, or towards, the interior of the land, away from the coast.

inhume

Verb : (transitive) To bury in a grave.

in case

Verb : if there happens to be nee

incuse

Adjective : Hammered or pressed in (usually on a coin).

Noun : An impression hammered or pressed (onto a coin).

Verb : (transitive) To hammer or press (usually onto a coin).

indole

Noun : (organic chemistry) An organic compound, C₈H₇N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications.

Noun : (organic chemistry) Any of the derivatives of indole.

Adjective : (obsolete) guileless

inched

Adjective : (nonstandard, in combination) Being a certain number of inches in length.

inarch

Verb : To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete.

incony

Adjective : (obsolete) unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate

infers

Verb : (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

Verb : (transitive, often proscribed) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.

Verb : (obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in, to adduce.

in tune

incent

Verb : (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).

Verb : (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something).

infelt

Adjective : (archaic) Felt inwardly or emotionally; heartfelt.

inveil

Verb : (transitive) To cover with a veil.

injust

Adjective : (rare and dated or now nonstandard) Unjust, unfair.

infang

Verb : (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To draw or take in.

Verb : (transitive, dialectal or obsolete, Scotland) To cheat; gull; take in.

Verb : (transitive, dialectal or obsolete, Scotland) To seize; get into one's clutches.

infant

Noun : A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

Noun : (law) A minor.

Noun : (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.

indian

Adjective : Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.

Noun : (countable) A person from India.

Adjective : Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

injure

Verb : (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

Verb : (transitive) To damage or impair.

Verb : (transitive) To do injustice to.

in toto

Verb : In total.

inroad

Noun : (figuratively, usually in the plural) Often followed by in, into, or on: initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem.

Noun : (military, also figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.

Verb : (intransitive, archaic) To make advances or incursions.

insula

Noun : (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.

Noun : (neuroanatomy) A structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.

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