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 |
|---|---|
| uvuloptosis | medical, falling of the uvula |
| vaccigenous | medical, producing vaccine |
| vaccinella | medical, an abortive vaccinia vesicle |
| vaginalectomy | surgery, excision of the tunica vaginalis |
| vaginervose | botany, with irregularly wandering veins |
| vaginicoline | zoology, living in a sheath |
| vaginicolous | zoology, living in a sheath |
| vaginipennate | zoology, sheath-winged, beetle-like |
| vaginocele | medical, hernia into the vagina |
| vaginopexy | surgery, fixation of the vagina |
| vaginotome | surgical knife for the vagina |
| vagoaccessorius | anatomy, the vagus-accessory nerve |
| vagodepressor | medical, lowering pressure through the vagus |
| vagogram | medical, a tracing of vagus nerve action |
| vagolysis | surgery, freeing or severing the vagus |
| vagotony | medical, overactivity of the vagus nerve |
| vagotropism | medical, a drug's affinity for the vagus |
| valeramid | chemistry, valeramide, amide of valeric acid |
| valsoid | mycology, resembling the fungus genus Valsa |
| vanillal | chemistry, vanillic aldehyde (vanillin) |
| vanillaldehyde | chemistry, vanillin |
| vanillinic | chemistry, vanillinic acid |
| vapocauterization | surgery, cauterization by steam |
| vapographic | of vapography, imaging by vapour |
| vapography | the making of images by vapour |
| vaporograph | an image produced by vapour |
| vaporographic | of a vaporograph |
| vapotherapy | medical, treatment by vapour |
| varical | medical, of a varix |
| varicellate | zoology, bearing small varices |
| varicoblepharon | medical, varicose swelling of the eyelid |
| varicula | medical, a varix of the conjunctiva |
| varindor | electronics, a variable inductor |
| variolosser | electronics, vario- + losser, a variable-loss device |
| variolovaccinia | medical, variola and vaccinia combined |
| vasculomotor | medical, vasomotor, controlling vessel calibre |
| vasiferous | botany, bearing vessels or ducts |
| vasocorona | anatomy, crown of vessels of the spinal cord |
| vasoganglion | anatomy, a network of small vessels |
| vasohypertonic | medical, raising vessel tone |
| vasohypotonic | medical, lowering vessel tone |
| vasoligature | surgery, tying of the vas deferens |
| vasoneurosis | medical, a neurosis of the blood vessels |
| vasoparesis | medical, partial paralysis of the vessels |
| vasopuncture | surgery, puncture of the vas deferens |
| vasoreflex | medical, a reflex acting on the vessels |
| vasorrhaphy | surgery, suture of the vas deferens |
| vasosection | surgery, cutting of the vas deferens |
| vasotripsy | surgery, crushing of the vas deferens |
| vegetalcule | biology, a microscopic plant organism |
| vellosin | chemistry, vellosine, an alkaloid of pao pereira bark |
| velumen | botany, a velvety covering of down |
| venine | chemistry, venin, the toxic principle of venom |
| veniplex | anatomy, a plexus of veins |
| venoauricular | anatomy, of the veins and the auricle |
| venosclerosis | medical, hardening of the veins |
| venosinal | anatomy, of the sinus venosus |
| ventricolumna | anatomy, the ventral column of the spinal cord |
| ventricolumnar | anatomy, of the ventral column of the cord |
| ventricornu | anatomy, the ventral horn of the spinal cord |
| ventricornual | anatomy, of the ventral horn |
| ventriculitic | palaeontology, of the fossil sponge Ventriculites |
| ventriculopuncture | surgery, puncture of a brain ventricle |
| ventriduct | anatomy, to turn toward the ventral side |
| ventrine | anatomy, ventral, of the belly |
| ventripyramid | anatomy, the ventral pyramid of the medulla |
| ventroaxial | anatomy, of the belly side and the axis |
| ventroaxillary | anatomy, of the belly side and the armpit |
| ventrocystorrhaphy | surgery, bladder sutured to the abdominal wall |
| ventrohysteropexy | surgery, uterus fixed to the abdominal wall |
| ventroinguinal | anatomy, of the belly and the groin |
| ventromyel | anatomy, ventral part of the spinal cord |
| ventroptosia | medical, sagging of the abdomen |
| ventroptosis | medical, sagging of the abdomen |
| ventroscopy | medical, inspection of the abdominal cavity |
| ventrosuspension | surgery, fixing the uterus to the abdominal wall |
| ventrotomy | surgery, incision through the abdominal wall |
| veratral | chemistry, of veratric acid or veratrole |
| veratralbin | chemistry, veratralbine, an alkaloid of Veratrum |
| veratroidine | chemistry, an alkaloid from Veratrum |
| veratroyl | chemistry, the acyl radical of veratric acid |
| veratrylidene | chemistry, the divalent veratryl radical |
| veriscope | optics, an early motion-picture projector |
| vernin | chemistry, vernine, a nucleoside from vetch seedlings |
| verrucano | geology, an Alpine conglomerate named from Monte Verruca |
| verruciferous | botany, bearing warts |
| vertebrarium | anatomy, the vertebral column taken as a whole |
| vertebrodymus | teratology, twins joined along the vertebral column |
| vertebromammary | anatomy, of the vertebrae and the breast |
| verticilliaceous | mycology, of or like the genus Verticillium |
| verticilliose | botany, arranged in whorls or verticils |
| vesicocavernous | anatomy, of the bladder and the corpus cavernosum |
| vesicoclysis | medical, irrigation or injection of the bladder |
| vesicofixation | surgery, fixation of the bladder |
| vesicopubic | anatomy, of the bladder and the pubis |
| vesicosigmoid | anatomy, of the bladder and the sigmoid colon |
| vesicotomy | surgery, incision of the bladder |
| vesiculase | biochemistry, a coagulating enzyme of the seminal vesicles |
| vesiculigerous | biology, bearing vesicles |
| vesiculobronchial | medicine, of mixed vesicular and bronchial breath sounds |
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