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 |
|---|---|
| phrenocolic | anatomy, of diaphragm and colon |
| phrenodynia | medical, pain in the diaphragm |
| phrenogastric | anatomy, of diaphragm and stomach |
| phrenoglottic | anatomy, of diaphragm and glottis |
| phrenogram | record traced by a phrenograph |
| phrenohepatic | anatomy, of diaphragm and liver |
| phrenopericardiac | anatomy, of diaphragm and pericardium |
| phrenoplegy | medical, sudden loss of mental power |
| phrenosinic | chem, of phrenosin, a cerebroside |
| phrenosplenic | anatomy, of diaphragm and spleen |
| phrenotropic | pharmacology, acting on the mind |
| phryganeoid | zoology, resembling the caddis flies |
| phrymaceous | botany, of the family Phrymaceae |
| phrynid | zoology, a whip-spider of Phrynidae |
| phrynoid | zoology, toadlike |
| phthalacene | chem, a phthalic hydrocarbon |
| phthalan | chem, a phthalic ring compound |
| phthalanilic | chem, of phthalanilic acid |
| phthalazin | chem, phthalazine |
| phthaleine | chem, a phthalein dye |
| phthaleinometer | chem, meter using a phthalein indicator |
| phthinoid | medical, of consumptive type |
| phthiocol | chem, pigment of the tubercle bacillus |
| phthirophagous | zoology, louse-eating |
| phthisiogenesis | medical, the origin of tuberculosis |
| phthisiogenetic | medical, producing tuberculosis |
| phthisiogenic | medical, causing tuberculosis |
| phthisiotherapeutic | medical, of treatment of consumption |
| phthisipneumonia | medical, pulmonary consumption |
| phthisipneumony | medical, pulmonary consumption |
| phycic | chem, of phycic acid from algae |
| phycitol | chem, an alcohol obtained from algae |
| phycochrom | botany, blue-green algal pigment |
| phycochromophyceous | botany, of the blue-green algae |
| phycocyanogen | chem, source of phycocyanin |
| phycography | botany, descriptive account of algae |
| phygogalactic | medical, checking the flow of milk |
| phylacobiosis | biology, guard-symbiosis among ants |
| phylacobiotic | biology, of guard-symbiosis |
| phylephebic | paleontology, adult stage in phylogeny |
| phyllamania | botany, abnormal excess of leaves |
| phyllamorph | botany, a leaf-like structure |
| phyllin | chem, a chlorophyll derivative |
| phyllobranchial | zoology, of leaf-like gills |
| phyllobranchiate | zoology, having leaf-like gills |
| phyllocaridan | zoology, crustacean of the Phyllocarida |
| phyllocerate | chem, salt of a chlorophyll acid |
| phylloclad | botany, a flattened leaflike stem |
| phyllocladioid | botany, resembling a phylloclade |
| phyllocladous | botany, bearing phylloclades |
| phyllocyanic | chem, of phyllocyanin, chlorophyll blue |
| phyllocystic | zoology, of the hydrophyllium cavity |
| phyllodination | botany, conversion of leaves to phyllodes |
| phyllodiniation | botany, conversion of leaves to phyllodes |
| phyllomorphic | botany, leaf-shaped |
| phyllophagan | zoology, a leaf-eating insect |
| phyllophore | botany, the leaf-bearing growing point |
| phyllopodan | zoology, a phyllopod crustacean |
| phyllopode | botany, persistent leaf-base in Isoetes |
| phylloporphyrin | chemistry, porphyrin from chlorophyll |
| phyllopyrrole | chemistry, pyrrole from chlorophyll |
| phyllorhinine | zoology, of the leaf-nosed bats Phyllorhina |
| phylloscopine | zoology, of the leaf-warblers Phylloscopus |
| phyllosome | zoology, leaf-shaped spiny-lobster larva |
| phyllospondylous | zoology, having leaf-like vertebrae |
| phyllostomatoid | zoology, resembling the leaf-nosed bats |
| phyllostomous | zoology, leaf-nosed, of Phyllostoma |
| phyllotactical | botany, of leaf arrangement |
| phyllozooid | zoology, leaf-like zooid of a siphonophore |
| phylogerontic | biology, of racial old age of a stock |
| phylogerontism | biology, senescence of a phyletic line |
| phylography | biology, descriptive account of phyla |
| phylology | biology, study of phyla or races |
| phyloneanic | biology, of the neanic phylogenetic stage |
| phylonepionic | biology, of the nepionic phyletic stage |
| phymatic | medical, of a phyma or tubercle |
| phymatoid | medical, resembling a tubercle |
| phymatorhysin | chemistry, pigment of tuberculous tissue |
| phymatosis | medical, disease marked by tubercles |
| physagogue | medical, agent expelling flatus |
| physalian | zoology, of Physalia, the man-of-war |
| physcioid | botany, like the lichen genus Physcia |
| physeterine | zoology, of the sperm whales |
| physiatrical | medical, of physical treatment |
| physicomorph | theology, deity conceived as physical force |
| physicomorphic | theology, conceiving deity in physical terms |
| physicomorphism | theology, nature-forms ascribed to deity |
| physicophilosophy | philosophy of physical nature |
| physicotherapeutic | medical, of physical therapeutics |
| physicotherapeutics | medical, treatment by physical agents |
| physicotherapy | medical, treatment by physical means |
| physiform | of natural form, nature-shaped |
| physiophilist | adherent of physiophilosophy |
| physiopsychic | psychology grounded in physiology |
| physiopsychical | of physiological psychology |
| physiopsychology | psychology based on physiology |
| physiotypy | nature-printing from the object itself |
| physitism | theology, worship of physical nature |
| physocarpous | botany, having inflated fruit |
| physocele | medical, hernia distended with gas |
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