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 |
|---|---|
| chromatodysopia | medical, defective colour vision |
| chromatone | chroma- + -tone, a colour-printing process |
| chromatopathia | medical, disease of skin pigmentation |
| chromatopathic | medical, of pigmentary disease |
| chromatopathy | medical, pigmentary skin disorder |
| chromatophile | cytology, readily stained |
| chromatophilous | cytology, taking stain readily |
| chromatophorous | zoology, bearing chromatophores |
| chromatoptometry | medical, measuring colour perception |
| chromatoscopy | examination by colour, spectroscopic viewing |
| chromatospheric | astronomy, of the chromosphere |
| chromazurine | chemistry, a blue dyestuff |
| chromdiagnosis | medical, diagnosis by colour reaction |
| chromidiogamy | cytology, fusion of chromidia |
| chromidiosome | cytology, a chromidial granule |
| chromiole | cytology, subunit of a chromomere |
| chromocentral | cytology, of the chromocentre |
| chromochalcography | printing, colour engraving on copper |
| chromocollograph | printing, a colour collotype print |
| chromocollography | printing, colour collotype process |
| chromocytometer | medical, instrument counting blood cells |
| chromodermatosis | medical, pigmentary skin disease |
| chromodiascope | optics, colour projection apparatus |
| chromogram | a colour photograph or record |
| chromoisomerism | chemistry, isomerism with colour change |
| chromolipoid | biochemistry, a pigmented lipoid |
| chromonemal | cytology, of the chromonema |
| chromonematal | cytology, of the chromonema |
| chromonemic | cytology, of the chromonema |
| chromophage | biology, a pigment-devouring cell |
| chromophorous | chemistry, bearing a chromophore |
| chromophotolithograph | printing, a colour photolithograph |
| chromoplasmic | cytology, of chromoplasm |
| chromopsia | medical, coloured vision |
| chromoptometer | instrument measuring colour perception |
| chromoptometrical | optics, of chromoptometry |
| chromosantonin | chemistry, a coloured santonin derivative |
| chromoscopic | of the chromoscope, colour viewing |
| chronisotherm | meteorology, curve of temperature over time |
| chronobarometer | recording barometer with a time trace |
| chronocrator | astrology, planet ruling a period |
| chronodeik | astronomy, apparatus for showing the time |
| chrysammic | chemistry, chrysammic acid from aloes |
| chrysamminic | chemistry, chrysamminic acid |
| chrysanilin | chemistry, chrysaniline dye |
| chrysanisic | chemistry, chrysanisic acid |
| chrysanthous | botany, golden-flowered |
| chrysatropic | chemistry, chrysatropic acid from belladonna |
| chrysazol | chemistry, a dihydroxyanthracene compound |
| chrysenic | chemistry, derived from chrysene |
| chrysid | entomology, a cuckoo-wasp of the Chrysididae |
| chrysochrous | zoology, golden-coloured |
| chrysohermidin | chemistry, pigment from Mercurialis |
| chrysophenin | chemistry, chrysophenine yellow dye |
| chrysopoetics | alchemy, the art of making gold |
| chrysorin | metallurgy, a gold-coloured brass alloy |
| chusite | mineralogy, an altered olivine |
| chylemia | medical, chyle in the blood |
| chylidrosis | medical, chyle-like sweat |
| chylocaulously | botany, with succulent stems |
| chylophyllously | botany, with succulent leaves |
| chymaqueous | physiology, of watery chyme |
| chytridial | mycology, of the chytrid fungi |
| cicatrisate | medical, to heal over with a scar |
| cichloid | ichthyology, cichlid-like |
| ciconian | ornithology, stork-like |
| ciconiform | ornithology, stork-shaped |
| ciconioid | ornithology, resembling a stork |
| cilectomy | medical, excision of the eyelash margin |
| ciliectomy | medical, excision of the ciliary body |
| ciliiferous | biology, bearing cilia |
| cilioflagellate | zoology, a ciliated flagellate organism |
| cilioscleral | anatomy, of ciliary body and sclera |
| ciliotomy | medical, division of the ciliary nerves |
| cillosis | medical, spasmodic twitching of the eyelid |
| cimicide | chemistry, a bedbug-killing agent |
| cimiciform | zoology, shaped like a bug, Cimex |
| cimicifugin | chemistry, resinoid of black cohosh |
| cincholoiponic | chemistry, cincholoiponic acid |
| cinchomeronic | chemistry, cinchomeronic acid |
| cinchonamin | chemistry, cinchonamine alkaloid |
| cinchonicin | chemistry, cinchonicine alkaloid |
| cinchonin | chemistry, cinchonine alkaloid |
| cinclis | zoology, a pore in a sea anemone's wall |
| cinenchym | botany, laticiferous tissue |
| cinene | chemistry, old name for dipentene |
| cineolic | chemistry, of cineol, eucalyptol |
| cinephone | film, a sound-picture apparatus |
| cineplasty | medical, kineplastic amputation |
| cinnamol | chemistry, old name for styrene |
| cinnolin | chemistry, cinnoline |
| cinnyl | chemistry, the cinnamyl radical |
| cinuran | entomology, a bristletail of the Cinura |
| cinurous | entomology, of the Cinura |
| cionectomy | medical, excision of the uvula |
| cionitis | medical, inflammation of the uvula |
| cionocranial | anatomy, of a columellate skull |
| cionocranian | anatomy, having a columellate skull |
| cionoptosis | medical, prolapse of the uvula |
| cionorrhaphia | medical, suture of the uvula |
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