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 |
|---|---|
| tophous | medical, of the nature of a tophus |
| tophyperidrosis | medical, localized excessive sweating |
| topoalgia | medical, pain localized to one spot |
| topodeme | biology, a deme of one locality |
| topognosia | medical, sense of the place touched |
| topognosis | medical, localization of a sensation |
| topographometric | surveying, topographic and metric |
| toponeural | zoology, of a local nerve or nerve canal |
| toponeurosis | medical, a localized nerve disorder |
| topopolitan | biology, confined to one locality |
| topotaxis | biology, movement oriented to a source |
| topsailite | petrology, a lamprophyre from Topsail, Newfoundland |
| tordrillite | petrology, a rock from the Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska |
| toreumatology | art history, the study of chased metalwork |
| torfaceous | botany, growing on peat |
| tormodont | zoology, having teeth set in sockets |
| tornarian | zoology, of the tornaria larva |
| torsigraph | engineering, an instrument recording torsion |
| torsiogram | engineering, the record made by a torsiograph |
| torsoocclusion | surgery, closing a vessel by twisting it |
| tortricoid | entomology, resembling a tortricid moth |
| tortulaceous | botany, of the moss family Tortulaceae |
| toryhillite | petrology, a rock named from Tory Hill |
| totanine | zoology, of the sandpiper genus Totanus |
| tourmalite | petrology, a tourmaline-quartz rock |
| tovariaceous | botany, of the family Tovariaceae |
| toxalbumic | medical, of a toxalbumin |
| toxalbumose | biochemistry, a poisonous albumose |
| toxanaemia | medical, toxins in the blood |
| toxanemia | medical, anaemia caused by a toxin |
| toxicoderma | medical, skin eruption from a poison |
| toxicodermatitis | medical, dermatitis from a poison |
| toxicodermatosis | medical, skin disease due to a toxin |
| toxicodermia | medical, toxic disease of the skin |
| toxicodermitis | medical, toxic dermatitis |
| toxicohaemia | medical, blood poisoning |
| toxicohemia | medical, blood poisoning |
| toxicol | chemistry, an -ol compound of a poisonous principle |
| toxicopathy | medical, disease caused by a poison |
| toxicophagy | medical, the eating of poisons |
| toxicotraumatic | medical, from a poisoned wound |
| toxifer | biology, a poison-bearing organism |
| toxihaemia | medical, toxins in the blood |
| toxihemia | medical, toxaemia |
| toxinaemia | medical, toxins in the blood |
| toxiphagus | Greek-based coinage, a poison eater |
| toxiphobiac | medical, one with a morbid dread of poison |
| toxoglossate | zoology, having a poison-bearing radula |
| toxolysis | medical, destruction of a toxin |
| toxon | immunology, Ehrlich's weakly toxic fraction |
| toxone | immunology, a weak toxin fraction, toxon |
| toxophobia | medical, morbid fear of poison |
| toxosis | medical, a condition caused by a toxin |
| trabal | architecture, of a beam (Latin trabs) |
| trabecularism | anatomy, trabecular structure |
| tracheaectasy | medical, dilatation of the trachea |
| trachearian | zoology, of the tracheate arthropods |
| tracheidal | botany, of a tracheid |
| trachelagra | medical, gout or pain in the neck |
| trachelate | zoology, having a neck-like part |
| trachelectomopexia | surgery, excision and fixation of the cervix |
| tracheloacromialis | anatomy, muscle slip from neck to acromion |
| trachelobregmatic | craniometry, of the neck and the bregma |
| tracheloclavicular | anatomy, of the neck and clavicle |
| trachelocyllosis | medical, curvature of the neck, wryneck |
| trachelology | medical, the study of the neck or cervix |
| trachelomastoid | anatomy, muscle from neck to mastoid |
| trachelopexia | surgery, fixation of the uterine cervix |
| tracheloscapular | anatomy, of the neck and scapula |
| trachelotomy | surgery, incision of the uterine cervix |
| tracheochromatic | zoology, of colour produced by tracheae |
| tracheofissure | surgery, a slit made into the trachea |
| tracheolaryngotomy | surgery, incision of larynx and trachea |
| tracheolingual | anatomy, of the trachea and the tongue |
| tracheopathia | medical, disease of the trachea |
| tracheophonesis | medical, tracheal voice sound on auscultation |
| tracheophonine | ornithology, of the Tracheophonae |
| tracheophony | medical, tracheal resonance of the voice |
| tracheopyosis | medical, suppuration within the trachea |
| tracheorrhagia | medical, bleeding from the trachea |
| tracheoschisis | medical, a fissure of the trachea |
| tracheoscopist | medical, one who practises tracheoscopy |
| tracheostenosis | medical, narrowing of the trachea |
| trachomedusan | zoology, a jellyfish of the Trachymedusae |
| trachycarpous | botany, rough-fruited |
| trachychromatic | cytology, having coarse chromatin |
| trachyglossate | zoology, rough-tongued |
| trachyline | zoology, of the Trachylina jellyfishes |
| trachymedusan | zoology, of the Trachymedusae |
| trachyphonous | medical, rough-voiced, hoarse |
| trachypteroid | ichthyology, like the ribbonfish Trachypterus |
| trachyspermous | botany, rough-seeded |
| tractellate | zoology, having a tractellum |
| traguloid | zoology, like a chevrotain (Tragulus) |
| transcalescency | physics, transmission of radiant heat |
| transcalescent | physics, transmitting radiant heat |
| transcondyloid | anatomy, running across the condyles |
| transferrotype | photography, a print transferred from a ferrotype |
| transfission | biology, division across, transverse fission |
| transfrontal | surgery, passing across the frontal bone |
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