English words starting with ia

Meanings of Ia:

suffix

Forming nouns adopted unchanged from latin or greek (such as mania, militia ), and modern latin terms (such as utopia ).

abbreviation

Iowa (in official postal use).

Meanings of Iamb:

noun

Another term for iambus.

Meanings of Iambi:

noun

A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

Usage examples:

Of the five kinds of feet illustrated here, the iambus is by far the most often used in english ver…

Meanings of Iambics:

noun

Iambic verse as a genre.

Usage examples:

Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, ana…

adjective

Of or using iambuses.

Usage examples:

The epilogue is written in the finest iambic verse

Meanings of Iambs:

noun

Another term for iambus.

Meanings of Iambus:

noun

A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

Usage examples:

Of the five kinds of feet illustrated here, the iambus is by far the most often used in english ver…

Meanings of Iambuses:

noun

A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

Usage examples:

Of the five kinds of feet illustrated here, the iambus is by far the most often used in english ver…

Meanings of Ian:

suffix

Forming adjectives and nouns such as antediluvian and bostonian.

determiner

The form of the indefinite article used before words beginning with a vowel sound.

abbreviation

Andaman and nicobar islands.

Meanings of Iapetus:

proper noun

A satellite of saturn, the seventeenth closest to the planet, having one bright icy side and one very dark side, discovered by cassini in 1671 (diameter 1,440 km).

Meanings of Iatrochemistry:

noun

A school of thought of the 16th and 17th centuries which sought to understand medicine and physiology in terms of chemistry.

Usage examples:

In 1608, oswald croll published his basilica chymica, a treatise devoted to a predominantly paracel…

Meanings of Iatrogenic:

adjective

Relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment.

Usage examples:

Drugs may cause side effects which can lead to iatrogenic disease