13-Letter Words Starting I & Ending NS

• the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

• a portrayal of something as ideal

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

• something that exists only as an idea

• an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion

• the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

• the state or an instance of being imperfect

• (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego

• (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects

• the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

• a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

• excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety

• a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Indocin)

• a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

• the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

• arousal to violent emotion

• the act of setting something on fire

• (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)

• an act of blowing or breathing on or into something

• material with which something is impregnated

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance

• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant