Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A scientific or medical word built out of Greek and Latin roots. This is the biggest group in the list, about a third of everything.
Medicine gives us anconitis, inflammation of the elbow, and adenalgy, pain in a gland. Chemistry gives us acetylsalicylic. Anatomy, botany and zoology all do the same thing.
Once you know the roots they are completely predictable, which is why no dictionary lists them all. You can keep making new ones forever.
18,355 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Field and meaning |
|---|---|
| spirol | chemistry, an old name of a pyrrole base |
| spirole | chemistry, 19th century name of a pyrrole base |
| spiroloculine | micropaleontology, of the foraminifer Spiroloculina |
| splanchnapophysial | anatomy, of a splanchnapophysis |
| splanchnapophysis | anatomy, a skeletal element supporting the viscera |
| splanchnectopia | medical, displacement of a viscus |
| splanchnemphraxis | medical, obstruction of a visceral organ |
| splanchnesthesia | medical, visceral sensation |
| splanchnesthetic | medical, of visceral sensation |
| splanchnoblast | embryology, the visceral germ layer |
| splanchnoderm | anatomy, the visceral layer of the mesoderm |
| splanchnodiastasis | medical, separation or displacement of viscera |
| splanchnodynia | medical, pain in the viscera |
| splanchnographer | anatomy, one who describes the viscera |
| splanchnographical | anatomy, of the description of the viscera |
| splanchnolith | medical, an intestinal concretion |
| splanchnologic | anatomy, of splanchnology |
| splanchnomegalia | medical, enlargement of the viscera |
| splanchnomegaly | medical, enlargement of the viscera |
| splanchnopathy | medical, disease of the viscera |
| splanchnoptosia | medical, prolapse of the viscera |
| splanchnosclerosis | medical, hardening of the viscera |
| splanchnoscopy | medical, examination of the viscera |
| splanchnoskeletal | anatomy, of the visceral skeleton |
| splanchnosomatic | anatomy, of the viscera and the body wall |
| splanchnotomical | anatomy, of dissection of the viscera |
| splanchnotribe | surgery, instrument for crushing the intestine |
| splenadenoma | medical, adenoma of the spleen |
| splenalgic | medical, of pain in the spleen |
| splenalgy | medical, pain in the spleen |
| splenatrophia | medical, atrophy of the spleen |
| splenatrophy | medical, wasting of the spleen |
| splenectama | medical, distension of the spleen |
| splenectasis | medical, enlargement of the spleen |
| splenectomist | medical, surgeon who removes spleens |
| splenectopy | medical, displacement of the spleen |
| splenelcosis | medical, ulceration of the spleen |
| splenemia | medical, congestion of the spleen with blood |
| splenemphraxis | medical, obstruction of the spleen |
| spleneolus | anatomy, a small accessory spleen |
| splenepatitis | medical, inflammation of spleen and liver |
| splenicterus | medical, jaundice of splenic origin |
| splenification | medical, change of tissue to a spleenlike state |
| spleniform | anatomy, shaped like a spleen |
| splenoblast | medical, a spleen-cell precursor |
| splenoceratosis | medical, horny hardening of the spleen |
| splenocleisis | surgery, closing the spleen in an omental pocket |
| splenodiagnosis | medical, diagnosis from the spleen's reaction |
| splenohemia | medical, congestion of the spleen with blood |
| splenolaparotomy | surgery, opening the abdomen to reach the spleen |
| splenolymph | anatomy, splenic lymph |
| splenolymphatic | anatomy, of the spleen and lymph system |
| splenolysin | medical, agent dissolving spleen cells |
| splenolysis | medical, destruction of spleen tissue |
| splenomalacia | medical, softening of the spleen |
| splenomyelogenous | medical, arising in spleen and bone marrow |
| splenoncus | medical, tumour of the spleen |
| splenonephric | anatomy, of the spleen and kidney |
| splenoparectama | medical, enlargement of the spleen |
| splenoparectasis | medical, enlargement of the spleen |
| splenopexia | surgery, fixation of a displaced spleen |
| splenopexis | surgery, fixation of a displaced spleen |
| splenopneumonia | medical, pneumonia with splenization of lung |
| splenoptosia | medical, downward displacement of the spleen |
| splenoptosis | medical, downward displacement of the spleen |
| splenorrhagia | medical, haemorrhage from the spleen |
| splenotyphoid | medical, typhoid marked by splenic swelling |
| splenulus | anatomy, a small accessory spleen |
| splenunculus | anatomy, an accessory spleen |
| spodogenic | medical, produced by waste or ash matter |
| spondaize | prosody, to make a verse spondaic |
| spondean | prosody, spondaic |
| spondylarthrocace | medical, caries of the vertebral joints |
| spondylexarthrosis | medical, dislocation of a vertebra |
| spondylioid | anatomy, vertebra-shaped |
| spondylium | zoology, spoon-shaped plate in a brachiopod shell |
| spondylocace | medical, caries of the vertebrae |
| spondylodiagnosis | medical, diagnosis from the vertebrae |
| spondylodidymia | medical, twinning joined along the spine |
| spondylodymus | medical, twin monster joined at the spine |
| spondyloid | anatomy, like a vertebra |
| spondylopyosis | medical, suppuration of a vertebra |
| spondyloschisis | medical, congenital cleft of a vertebral arch |
| spondylotomy | surgery, cutting through a vertebra |
| spongilline | zoology, of the freshwater sponge Spongilla |
| sponginblast | zoology, cell that secretes spongin |
| sponginblastic | zoology, of spongin-forming cells |
| spongioblastic | histology, of the spongioblast cells |
| spongiolin | chemistry, the substance of sponge fibre |
| spongiopiline | medical, sponge and rubber cloth for poultices |
| spongioplasmic | cytology, of the spongioplasm |
| spongophore | zoology, a sponge-bearing structure |
| sporadin | zoology, a free gregarine trophozoite |
| sporadosiderite | meteoritics, stony meteorite with scattered iron |
| sporangidium | botany, a small sporangium |
| sporangite | palaeobotany, a fossil spore case |
| sporidiiferous | botany, bearing sporidia |
| sporidiole | botany, a little sporidium |
| sporocystid | zoology, of the sporocyst stage |
| sporoduct | botany, a duct conveying spores |
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