| DIMINUENDO | • diminuendo n. (Music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly. • diminuendo n. (Music) A passage having this mark. • diminuendo n. (Metaphoric) The gradual dying away of something. |
| DIMINUTION | • diminution n. A lessening, decrease or reduction. • diminution n. The act or process of making diminutive. • diminution n. (Music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values. |
| IMPOUNDING | • impounding v. Present participle of impound. • impounding n. An act of impoundment. • IMPOUND v. to seize and retain in legal custody. |
| INBOUNDING | • inbounding v. Present participle of inbound. • INBOUND v. to return a basketball to play from out of bounds. |
| INDIGENOUS | • indigenous adj. Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion. • indigenous adj. Innate, inborn. • Indigenous adj. Alternative letter-case form of indigenous (“native, relating to the native inhabitants of a land”). |
| INDUCTIONS | • inductions n. Plural of induction. • INDUCTION n. the act of inducing. |
| INDURATION | • induration n. Hardness. • induration n. Process of becoming hard. • induration n. (Medicine) Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration. |
| INQUIRENDO | • inquirendo n. (Law) An authority to inquire. • INQUIRENDO n. the authority to inquire into something e.g. for the benefit of the Crown. |
| INUNDATION | • inundation n. The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. • inundation n. The state of being inundated; flooding. • inundation n. (Figurative) An overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx. |
| MUNITIONED | • munitioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of munition. • MUNITION v. to furnish with war material. |
| NIDULATION | • nidulation n. The time of remaining in the nest. • nidulation n. The building of a nest. • NIDULATION n. nest-building. |
| NONLIQUIDS | • nonliquids n. Plural of nonliquid. • NONLIQUID n. something that is not a liquid. |
| OUTFINDING | • outfinding v. Present participle of outfind. • OUTFIND v. to surpass in finding. |
| OUTWINDING | • outwinding v. Present participle of outwind. • OUTWIND v. to unwind. |
| PUNDIGRION | • PUNDIGRION n. (obsolete) a play on words, a pun. |