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 |
|---|---|
| yajenin | chemistry, a second alkaloid of yage |
| yohimbinize | pharmacy, to treat with yohimbine |
| zeburro | zoology, a zebra and burro hybrid |
| zeuctocoelomatic | zoology, of the Zeuctocoelomata |
| zeuctocoelomic | zoology, of the Zeuctocoelomata |
| zeuzerian | entomology, of the moth genus Zeuzera |
| zincuret | old chemistry, a zinc compound (cf. sulphuret) |
| zingiberone | chemistry, the ginger ketone, zingerone |
| ziphian | zoology, of the beaked whales (Ziphius) |
| zoanthacean | zoology, of the Zoanthacea, colonial anemones |
| zoanthodemic | zoology, of a zoanthodeme, a colony of zooids |
| zodiophilous | botany, pollinated by animals (zoidiophilous) |
| zoeaform | zoology, shaped like a zoea larva |
| zoehemera | geology, a hemera marked by an animal fauna |
| zoiatrics | medicine, veterinary science |
| zonite | zoology, a body segment of a myriapod |
| zonociliate | zoology, having a girdle of cilia |
| zonolimnetic | limnology, of a particular depth zone of a lake |
| zonuroid | zoology, resembling the girdled lizards |
| zoobenthoic | ecology, of the zoobenthos, bottom-living animals |
| zoocoenocyte | biology, an animal coenocyte, a multinucleate cell |
| zoocystic | zoology, of a zoocyst, an encysted stage |
| zoocytial | zoology, of a zoocytium, a protozoan colony matrix |
| zoogeologist | geology, one versed in zoogeology |
| zoomantist | one who practises zoomancy, divination by animals |
| zoomechanical | zoology, of animal mechanics |
| zoomechanics | zoology, the mechanics of animal bodies |
| zoometrical | zoology, of zoometry, the measurement of animals |
| zoonist | zoology, adherent of the zoon (organism) doctrine |
| zoopantheon | the animal gods of a mythology collectively |
| zooperal | biology, of zoopery, experiment on living animals |
| zooperist | biology, one who experiments on living animals |
| zoophiliac | psychology, one affected with zoophilia |
| zoophilitic | of zoophilism, love of animals |
| zoophobous | biology, shunning or repelling animals |
| zoophysicist | zoology, one versed in zoophysics |
| zoosis | medicine, disease caused by an animal parasite |
| zoospermatic | biology, of zoosperms, spermatozoa |
| zoospermium | biology, a spermatozoon |
| zoosporocyst | botany, a cyst producing zoospores |
| zoothecial | zoology, of a zoothecium, a sheath of zooids |
| zoototemism | anthropology, totemism with animal totems |
| zootrophy | biology, the nutrition of animals |
| zophorus | architecture, a frieze bearing figures |
| zygadenin | chemistry, alkaloid from Zygadenus, the death camas |
| zygolabialis | anatomy, of the cheekbone and the lip |
| zygophyceous | botany, of the Zygophyceae, conjugate algae |
| zygopteron | entomology, a damselfly of the Zygoptera |
| zygosporange | botany, a zygosporangium |
| zygosporophore | botany, a stalk bearing zygospores |
| zygostyle | zoology, a yoke-shaped terminal style |
| zygous | biology, yoked or paired, as in homozygous |
| zymochemistry | chemistry of fermentation |
| zymomin | chemistry, a ferment principle (cf. zymome) |
| zymotize | medicine, to infect with a zymotic disease |
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