Vocabulary : Intwist to Inundate
Intwist : To twist into or together; to interweave.
Inuendo : See Innuendo.
Inulin : A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.
Inuloid : A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.
Inumbrate : To shade; to darken.
Inuncted : Anointed.
Inunction : The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.
Inunctuosity : The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay.
Inundant : Overflowing.
Inundate : To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. ;; To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.
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