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 |
|---|---|
| stenocranial | craniometry, narrow-skulled |
| stenocrotaphia | craniometry, narrowness of the temporal region |
| stenogastric | zoology, having a narrow stomach or abdomen |
| stenogastry | entomology, narrowness of the abdomen |
| stenophile | ecology, an organism tolerating only narrow conditions |
| stenorhyncous | zoology, narrow-snouted, stenorhynchous |
| stenosepalous | botany, having narrow sepals |
| stenosphere | geology, a narrow or rigid shell of the earth |
| stenostomia | medical, narrowness of the mouth |
| stenothermophilic | biology, thriving only in a narrow warm range |
| stenothorax | medical, a narrow chest |
| stenotropic | ecology, adapted to a narrow range of conditions |
| stentorphone | acoustics, a powerful horn loudspeaker |
| stephanic | craniometry, of the stephanion |
| stephanome | biology, a crown-shaped body, Greek stephanos |
| sterad | physics, the steradian, unit of solid angle |
| stercoraemia | medical, faecal matter in the blood |
| stercorean | of dung, faecal, from Latin stercus |
| stercoremia | medical, faecal matter in the blood |
| stercoreous | of the nature of dung, faecal |
| stercorol | chemistry, a sterol found in faeces |
| sterculiad | botany, a plant of the sterculia family |
| stereagnosis | medical, loss of recognition by touch |
| sterelminthic | zoology, of the solid-bodied worms |
| sterelminthous | zoology, of the solid-bodied worms |
| stereocampimeter | ophthalmology, instrument mapping each eye's field |
| stereochromatic | art, of stereochromy, water-glass painting |
| stereochromatically | art, by stereochromy |
| stereofluoroscopy | medical, fluoroscopy in three dimensions |
| stereogastrula | embryology, a solid gastrula |
| stereogoniometer | crystallography, gauge of crystal angles in space |
| stereoisomeride | chemistry, a stereoisomer |
| stereomatrix | printing, a mould for casting stereotype plates |
| stereomer | chemistry, a stereoisomer |
| stereomeric | chemistry, of stereoisomers |
| stereomerical | chemistry, stereoisomeric |
| stereomerism | chemistry, stereoisomerism |
| stereomicrometer | optics, a micrometer for stereoscopic measurement |
| stereoneural | zoology, having a solid nerve mass |
| stereophantascope | optics, a stereoscope giving moving images |
| stereophotomicrograph | a stereoscopic photomicrograph |
| stereophotomicrography | the making of stereoscopic photomicrographs |
| stereophysics | physics, the physics of solid bodies |
| stereoplanula | embryology, a solid planula larva |
| stereoplasma | biology, the solid framework of protoplasm |
| stereoplasmic | biology, of stereoplasm |
| stereopter | optics, a stereoscopic viewing instrument |
| stereornithic | palaeontology, of the Stereornithes |
| stereotelemeter | surveying, a stereoscopic range finder |
| stereotelescope | optics, a telescope giving stereoscopic vision |
| stereotropic | biology, responding to contact with a solid |
| sterid | chemistry, a sterol-derived lipid |
| steride | chemistry, a sterid, sterol-derived lipid |
| sterin | chemistry, a sterol |
| sternad | anatomy, toward the sternum |
| sternofacial | anatomy, of the sternum and the face |
| sternofacialis | anatomy, a rare muscle from sternum to face |
| sternoglossal | anatomy, of the sternum and the tongue |
| sternohumeral | anatomy, of the sternum and the humerus |
| sternohyoidean | anatomy, of the sternohyoid muscle |
| sternomancy | divination by the marks on the breastbone |
| sternomaxillary | anatomy, of the sternum and the maxilla |
| sternonuchal | anatomy, of the sternum and the nape |
| sternopericardiac | anatomy, of the sternum and the pericardium |
| sternothere | zoology, a mud turtle of the genus Sternothaerus |
| sternoxiphoid | anatomy, of the sternum and the xiphoid process |
| stetharteritis | medical, inflammation of the chest arteries |
| stethogoniometer | medical, gauge of the angles of the chest wall |
| stethometric | medical, of chest measurement |
| stethometry | medical, measurement of the chest |
| stethophone | medical, a stethoscope for both ears |
| stethophonometer | medical, instrument gauging chest sounds |
| stethospasm | medical, spasm of the chest muscles |
| sthenochire | medical, strength of the hand, Greek sthenos and cheir |
| stibethyl | chemistry, an ethyl compound of antimony |
| stibiate | chemistry, to combine with antimony; an antimonate |
| stichically | prosody, line by line |
| stichid | botany, a spore-bearing branchlet in red algae |
| stichocrome | neurology, a nerve cell with Nissl bodies in rows |
| stictiform | botany, resembling the lichen genus Sticta |
| stigmarioid | palaeobotany, resembling Stigmaria |
| stigmeology | grammar, the art of punctuation |
| stigmonose | botany, plant disease caused by insect punctures |
| stigonomancy | divination by writing on the bark of a tree |
| stion | horticulture, stock and scion grown as one plant |
| stionic | horticulture, of the stock and scion union |
| stioning | horticulture, the forming of a stion by grafting |
| stipiture | ornithology, an emu-wren of the genus Stipiturus |
| stitchdown | shoemaking, a construction with the upper stitched out |
| stolonization | biology, the production of stolons |
| stomacace | medical, ulcerative inflammation of the mouth |
| stomapodiform | zoology, shaped like a stomatopod larva |
| stomapodous | zoology, of the Stomapoda, the mantis shrimps |
| stomatocace | medical, ulceration of the mouth |
| stomatodaeal | embryology, of the stomodaeum, the mouth pit |
| stomatograph | medical, instrument recording the form of the mouth |
| stomatography | anatomy, description of the mouth |
| stomatolalia | medical, speech with the nasal passages blocked |
| stomatomalacia | medical, softening of the mouth tissues |
| stomatomenia | medical, vicarious menstruation from the mouth |
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