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 |
|---|---|
| amphibichnite | paleontology, fossil amphibian footprint |
| amphibiety | biology, amphibious character |
| amphibiontic | biology, living in water and on land |
| amphiblestritis | medical, inflammation of the retina |
| amphiboline | mineralogy, of amphibole |
| amphibologism | rhetoric, an ambiguous expression |
| amphibolostylous | botany, with styles of doubtful form |
| amphibryous | botany, growing on all sides, of monocots |
| amphicarpium | botany, an amphicarpous fruit |
| amphicarpogenous | botany, fruiting above and below ground |
| amphicentric | anatomy, of a rete with one entering vessel |
| amphichrom | botany, plant with two flower colors |
| amphichrome | botany, plant bearing two flower colors |
| amphichromy | botany, bearing flowers of two colors |
| amphicondylous | zoology, with two occipital condyles |
| amphicreatinine | chemistry, a base from muscle extract |
| amphicyrtic | convex on both sides |
| amphicyrtous | botany, convex on both surfaces |
| amphicytula | embryology, the fertilized ovum cell |
| amphide | chemistry, Berzelius's binary compound |
| amphidesmous | zoology, with ligaments on both sides |
| amphidiarthrosis | anatomy, joint of mixed movement |
| amphierotic | psychology, attracted to both sexes |
| amphierotism | psychology, bisexuality |
| amphigam | botany, cryptogam of obscure reproduction |
| amphigastrula | embryology, a type of gastrula |
| amphigonia | biology, sexual reproduction |
| amphigonium | biology, organ of sexual reproduction |
| amphikaryon | cytology, nucleus with double chromosome set |
| amphikaryotic | cytology, having a diploid nucleus |
| amphilogism | rhetoric, ambiguous speech |
| amphimictical | biology, of amphimixis |
| amphimorula | embryology, morula from a fertilized ovum |
| amphineurous | zoology, of the Amphineura |
| amphinucleus | cytology, centrosome-bearing body |
| amphipeptone | chemistry, a peptone of digestion |
| amphipneust | zoology, animal with gills and lungs |
| amphipneustic | zoology, breathing by gills and lungs |
| amphipodal | zoology, of the amphipod crustaceans |
| amphipyrenin | cytology, substance of the nuclear membrane |
| amphirhinal | zoology, having two nostrils |
| amphirhine | zoology, having paired nostrils |
| amphisbaenous | zoology, like an amphisbaena lizard |
| amphispermous | botany, pericarp closely fitting the seed |
| amphisporangiate | botany, bearing both kinds of sporangia |
| amphistomoid | zoology, resembling Amphistoma flukes |
| amphistylar | architecture, columned at both ends |
| amphistyly | zoology, a mode of jaw suspension |
| amphitene | cytology, the zygotene stage of meiosis |
| amphithalamus | architecture, chamber beside a bedroom |
| amphithect | biology, bilaterally symmetrical |
| amphitokal | zoology, of amphitoky |
| amphitokous | zoology, producing both sexes |
| amphitoky | zoology, parthenogenesis yielding both sexes |
| amphitriaene | zoology, sponge spicule triaened at both ends |
| amphitricha | bacteriology, flagellate at both poles |
| amphodarch | antiquities, overseer of a city quarter |
| amphodelite | mineralogy, a variety of anorthite |
| amphodiplopia | medical, double vision in both eyes |
| amphogenous | biology, producing young of both sexes |
| amphogeny | biology, production of both sexes |
| amphorophony | medicine, amphoric sound of the voice |
| amplexicaudate | zoology, having a clasping tail |
| amplexicauline | botany, clasping the stem |
| amplexifoliate | botany, with stem-clasping leaves |
| amurcosity | quality of amurca, olive-oil dregs |
| amyatonic | medical, lacking muscular tone |
| amyctic | medical, irritant or scarifying |
| amyelencephalia | medical, absence of brain and cord |
| amyelencephalic | medical, lacking brain and spinal cord |
| amyelencephalous | medical, without brain or spinal cord |
| amyelic | medical, having no spinal cord |
| amygdalinic | chemistry, of amygdalin |
| amygdalolith | medical, a tonsillar calculus |
| amygdaloncus | medical, swelling of the tonsil |
| amygdalopathy | medical, disease of the tonsils |
| amygdalothripsis | medical, crushing of the tonsils |
| amygdalotome | medical, instrument for cutting tonsils |
| amygdonitrile | chemistry, mandelonitrile |
| amygdophenin | chemistry, an antipyretic phenetidine ester |
| amylan | chemistry, a starch-like carbohydrate |
| amylemia | medical, starch in the blood |
| amylenol | chemistry, alcohol derived from amylene |
| amylidene | chemistry, the divalent amyl radical |
| amyloclastic | biochemistry, starch-splitting |
| amylocoagulase | biochemistry, starch-coagulating enzyme |
| amylodyspepsia | medical, inability to digest starch |
| amyloleucite | botany, starch-forming leucoplast |
| amylom | botany, starch-storing tissue |
| amylophosphate | chemistry, salt of amylophosphoric acid |
| amylophosphoric | chemistry, amylophosphoric acid |
| amyloplastid | botany, starch-forming plastid |
| amylopsase | biochemistry, pancreatic amylase |
| amylosis | medical, disordered starch metabolism |
| amylosynthesis | botany, formation of starch |
| amynodont | paleontology, member of the Amynodontidae |
| amyotaxia | medical, muscular ataxia |
| amyous | medical, deficient in muscle |
| amyrol | chemistry, alcohol from amyris oil |
| amyxorrhoea | medical, deficiency of mucus secretion |
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