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4-letter words containing n, i

  • ipng — Internet Protocol version 6
  • iran — a republic in SW Asia. About 635,000 sq. mi. (1,644,650 sq. km). Capital: Teheran.
  • iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
  • isbn — International Standard Book Number
  • isdn — (communications)   (ISDN) A set of communications standards allowing a single wire or optical fibre to carry voice, digital network services and video. ISDN is intended to eventually replace the plain old telephone system. ISDN was first published as one of the 1984 ITU-T Red Book recommendations. The 1988 Blue Book recommendations added many new features. ISDN uses mostly existing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) switches and wiring, upgraded so that the basic "call" is a 64 kilobits per second, all-digital end-to-end channel. Packet and frame modes are also provided in some places. There are different kinds of ISDN connection of varying bandwidth (see DS level): DS0 = 1 channel PCM at 64 kbps T1 or DS1 = 24 channels PCM at 1.54 Mbps T1C or DS1C = 48 channels PCM at 3.15 Mbps T2 or DS2 = 96 channels PCM at 6.31 Mbps T3 or DS3 = 672 channels PCM at 44.736 Mbps T4 or DS4 = 4032 channels PCM at 274.1 Mbps Each channel here is equivalent to one voice channel. DS0 is the lowest level of the circuit. T1C, T2 and T4 are rarely used, except maybe for T2 over microwave links. For some reason 64 kbps is never called "T0". A Basic Rate Interface (BRI) is two 64K "bearer" channels and a single "delta" channel ("2B+D"). A Primary Rate Interface (PRI) in North America and Japan consists of 24 channels, usually 23 B + 1 D channel with the same physical interface as T1. Elsewhere the PRI usually has 30 B + 1 D channel and an E1 interface. A Terminal Adaptor (TA) can be used to connect ISDN channels to existing interfaces such as EIA-232 and V.35. Different services may be requested by specifying different values in the "Bearer Capability" field in the call setup message. One ISDN service is "telephony" (i.e. voice), which can be provided using less than the full 64 kbps bandwidth (64 kbps would provide for 8192 eight-bit samples per second) but will require the same special processing or bit diddling as ordinary PSTN calls. Data calls have a Bearer Capability of "64 kbps unrestricted". ISDN is offered by local telephone companies, but most readily in Australia, France, Japan and Singapore, with the UK somewhat behind and availability in the USA rather spotty. (In March 1994) ISDN deployment in Germany is quite impressive, although (or perhaps, because) they use a specifically German signalling specification, called 1.TR.6. The French Numeris also uses a non-standard protocol (called VN4; the 4th version), but the popularity of ISDN in France is probably lower than in Germany, given the ludicrous pricing. There is also a specifically-Belgian V1 experimental system. The whole of Europe is now phasing in Euro-ISDN. See also Frame Relay, Network Termination, SAPI.
  • isin — an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
  • isna — is not
  • isnt — Misspelling of isn't.
  • issn — International Standard Serial Number
  • ivan — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • iwan — a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.
  • jain — an adherent of Jainism.
  • jine — Eye dialect of join.
  • jini — (networking)   /jee'nee/ Sun's Java-based system for networking home appliances, desktop computers and other kinds of consumer electronics.
  • jink — jinks, prankish or frolicsome activities.
  • jinn — any of a class of spirits, lower than the angels, capable of appearing in human and animal forms and influencing humankind for either good or evil.
  • jins — Plural form of jin.
  • jinx — a person, thing, or influence supposed to bring bad luck.
  • join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
  • kain — sarong.
  • kiln — a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
  • kina — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, equal to 100 toea.
  • kind — of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person.
  • kine — kinescope (defs 1, 2).
  • king — one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne. Compare Roland.
  • kink — a twist or curl, as in a thread, rope, wire, or hair, caused by its doubling or bending upon itself.
  • kino — (in Europe) a motion-picture theater; cinema.
  • kins — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
  • kirn — a harvest celebration; a feast or party celebrating a successful harvest.
  • knit — to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
  • lain — past participle of lie2 .
  • lien — the spleen.
  • limn — to represent in drawing or painting.
  • lina — a female given name.
  • linc — 1.   (language)   A Burroughs/Unisys 4GL designed in New Zealand. 2. Laboratory Instrument Computer.
  • lind — Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
  • line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
  • ling — an elongated, marine, gadid food fish, Molva molva, of Greenland and northern Europe.
  • link — a torch, especially of tow and pitch.
  • linn — a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
  • lino — linoleum.
  • lins — a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
  • lint — minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
  • liny — full of or marked with lines.
  • linz — a province in N Austria. 4631 sq. mi. (11,995 sq. km). Capital: Linz.
  • lion — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
  • loin — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
  • main — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
  • mani — Manes.
  • mien — air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.: a man of noble mien.
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