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 |
|---|---|
| thyraden | pharmacy, a dried thyroid preparation |
| thyreoadenitis | medical, inflammation of the thyroid gland |
| thyreoantitoxin | medical, an antitoxin of the thyroid |
| thyreoarytenoid | anatomy, thyroarytenoid, older thyreo- spelling |
| thyreocervical | anatomy, thyrocervical |
| thyreocolloid | medical, the colloid of the thyroid |
| thyreoepiglottic | anatomy, thyroepiglottic |
| thyreogenic | medical, of thyroid origin |
| thyreogenous | medical, produced by the thyroid |
| thyreoglobulin | chemistry, thyroglobulin |
| thyreohyal | anatomy, thyrohyal, part of the hyoid |
| thyreohyoid | anatomy, thyrohyoid |
| thyreoidal | medical, thyroidal, older thyreo- spelling |
| thyreoideal | medical, thyroidal |
| thyreoidean | anatomy, thyroid, adjective |
| thyreoidectomy | surgery, thyroidectomy |
| thyreoitis | medical, thyroiditis |
| thyreolingual | anatomy, of the thyroid and the tongue |
| thyreoprotein | biochemistry, protein of the thyroid |
| thyreosis | medical, thyroid disease |
| thyreotomy | surgery, cutting the thyroid cartilage |
| thyroadenitis | medical, inflammation of the thyroid gland |
| thyroantitoxin | medical, an antitoxin of the thyroid |
| thyrocarditis | medical, thyroid disease with heart trouble |
| thyrocele | medical, goitre, a tumour of the thyroid |
| thyrocolloid | medical, the colloid of the thyroid |
| thyrocricoid | anatomy, of thyroid and cricoid cartilages |
| thyroepiglottidean | anatomy, of thyroid cartilage and epiglottis |
| thyrogenous | medical, produced by the thyroid |
| thyrohyoidean | anatomy, of thyroid cartilage and hyoid |
| thyroidean | anatomy, thyroid, adjective |
| thyroidism | medical, disorder from thyroid activity |
| thyroprivia | medical, thyroid deficiency |
| thyroprivic | medical, from loss of thyroid function |
| thyroprivous | medical, lacking thyroid function |
| thyroprotein | biochemistry, protein of the thyroid |
| thyrotherapy | medical, treatment with thyroid extract |
| thyrotome | surgery, knife for the thyroid cartilage |
| thyroxinic | chemistry, of thyroxine |
| thyrsiflorous | botany, bearing flowers in a thyrse |
| tibiocalcanean | anatomy, of tibia and calcaneus |
| tibiometatarsal | anatomy, of tibia and metatarsus |
| tibiopopliteal | anatomy, of tibia and popliteal space |
| tibioscaphoid | anatomy, of tibia and scaphoid |
| tigellate | botany, having a tigella |
| tigellum | botany, the embryo stem of a seedling |
| tiglic | chemistry, tiglic acid, from croton oil |
| tiglinic | chemistry, tiglinic acid, from croton oil |
| tigrolysis | histology, dissolution of tigroid bodies |
| tigrolytic | histology, of tigrolysis |
| tilaite | petrology, an olivine pyroxene rock |
| tilicetum | botany, a linden (Tilia) plant community |
| tilmus | medical, floccillation, plucking at bedclothes |
| timazite | petrology, an altered andesite |
| timbrologist | philately, a student of postage stamps |
| timbromanist | philately, a stamp collector |
| timbrophilic | philately, of stamp collecting |
| timbrophilism | philately, stamp collecting |
| timbrophilist | philately, a stamp collector |
| tintometry | measurement of colour with a tintometer |
| titanaugite | mineralogy, a titanium rich augite |
| titanifluoride | chemistry, a titanium fluoride double salt |
| titanocolumbate | chemistry, a titanium columbium salt |
| titanocyanide | chemistry, a titanium cyanide compound |
| titanofluoride | chemistry, a titanium fluoride double salt |
| titanoniobate | chemistry, a titanium niobium salt |
| tjosite | petrology, a dark igneous rock |
| tocogony | biology, sexual reproduction (Greek tokos, birth) |
| tocokinin | biochemistry, a hormone exciting uterine contraction |
| tocometer | medical, instrument measuring labor contractions |
| toddite | mineralogy, a niobate mineral named after Todd |
| toellite | petrology, a dike rock named from Toell |
| tokodynamometer | medical, gauge of uterine contraction force |
| tolamine | chemistry, an amine of the toluene series |
| tolfraedic | Old Norse reckoning, the hundred counted as 120 |
| tolidine | chemistry, a dimethylbenzidine |
| tolipane | chemistry, a compound of the tolyl series |
| toluidino | chemistry, combining form of toluidine |
| toluido | chemistry, combining form for the toluido group |
| tolunitrile | chemistry, the nitrile of toluic acid |
| toluquinaldine | chemistry, a methylated quinaldine |
| tolusafranine | chemistry, a safranine dye from toluidine |
| toluylenediamine | chemistry, the diamine of toluylene |
| toluylic | chemistry, of toluylic acid |
| tolylenediamine | chemistry, the diamine of tolylene |
| tomosis | plant pathology, a splitting or cracking of tissue |
| tonitrocirrus | meteorology, cirrus spreading from a thundercloud |
| tonitrophobia | medical, morbid fear of thunder |
| tonitruone | acoustics, an instrument imitating thunder |
| tonoclonic | medical, at once tonic and clonic |
| tonotactic | biology, showing tonotaxis |
| tonsbergite | petrology, a syenite from Tønsberg, Norway |
| tonsillectome | surgery, instrument for excising the tonsils |
| tonsillectomic | medical, of tonsillectomy |
| tonsilomycosis | medical, fungal infection of the tonsils |
| topaesthesia | medical, ability to localize a touch |
| topalgia | medical, pain fixed in one spot |
| topazfels | petrology, German Topasfels, a topaz-quartz rock |
| topazite | petrology, a topaz-bearing quartz rock |
| topesthesia | medical, localization of a touch |
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