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 |
|---|---|
| anthracoxen | mineralogy, a bituminous resin |
| anthracyl | chemistry, the anthracene radical |
| anthradiol | chemistry, dihydroxy-anthracene |
| anthradiquinone | chemistry, anthracene diquinone |
| anthraflavic | chemistry, anthraflavic acid |
| anthrahydroquinone | chemistry, reduced anthraquinone |
| anthramin | chemistry, aminoanthracene |
| anthramine | chemistry, aminoanthracene |
| anthranil | chemistry, the anthranil ring compound |
| anthranyl | chemistry, the anthranil radical |
| anthraphenone | chemistry, an anthracene ketone |
| anthrapyridine | chemistry, anthracene-pyridine compound |
| anthraquinol | chemistry, reduced anthraquinone |
| anthraquinonyl | chemistry, anthraquinone radical |
| anthrasilicosis | medical, anthracosilicosis |
| anthratetrol | chemistry, tetrahydroxy-anthracene |
| anthrathiophene | chemistry, anthracene-thiophene compound |
| anthratriol | chemistry, trihydroxy-anthracene |
| anthraxylon | coal petrology, woody coal constituent |
| anthroic | chemistry, anthroic acid |
| anthrol | chemistry, hydroxyanthracene |
| anthropoclimatologist | student of human climatology |
| anthropodeoxycholic | chemistry, human deoxycholic acid |
| anthropogenist | student of human origins |
| anthropoidean | zoology, of the Anthropoidea |
| anthropolatric | theology, of man-worship |
| anthropolithic | paleontology, of fossil human remains |
| anthropolitic | paleontology, of anthropolites |
| anthropomantist | one who divines from human entrails |
| anthropomorphotheist | theology, one conceiving God in human form |
| anthropophysiography | descriptive science of human structure |
| anthropophysite | theology, ascribing human nature to God |
| anthropoteleological | philosophy, of man-centered teleology |
| anthropotheist | theology, holder of anthropotheism |
| anthropotheistic | theology, of anthropotheism |
| anthropotoxin | toxin given off by the human body |
| anthropurgic | geology, produced by human agency |
| anthroxan | chemistry, anthroxan from coumarin |
| anthroxanic | chemistry, anthroxanic acid |
| anthrylene | chemistry, divalent anthracene radical |
| anthypophoretic | rhetoric, of anthypophora |
| antiabrin | immunology, antibody to abrin |
| antialbumin | chemistry, product of albumin digestion |
| antialbumose | biochem, antibody to albumose |
| antialdoxime | chem, anti- stereoisomer of an aldoxime |
| antiamylase | biochem, inhibitor/antibody of amylase |
| antianaphylactogen | immunology, agent opposing anaphylactogen |
| antiantienzyme | immunology, antibody to an antienzyme |
| antibenzaldoxime | chem, anti- isomer of benzaldoxime |
| anticatalase | biochem, inhibitor of catalase |
| anticatalyzer | chem, a negative catalyst |
| antichloristic | chem, pertaining to antichlor |
| antichoromanic | medical, against choromania (dancing mania) |
| antichymosin | biochem, antibody to chymosin (rennin) |
| anticnemion | anatomy, the shin, front of the leg |
| anticonvellent | medical, checking convulsion; anticonvulsant |
| anticytolysin | immunology, antibody to a cytolysin |
| antidactyl | prosody, reversed dactyl, an anapaest |
| antidiastase | biochem, inhibitor of diastase |
| antidysuric | medical, relieving dysuria |
| antienzymic | biochem, of or like an antienzyme |
| antifibrinolysin | biochem, inhibitor of fibrinolysin |
| antifibrinolysis | biochem, opposition to fibrinolysis |
| antiglyoxalase | biochem, inhibitor of glyoxalase |
| antihemoglobin | immunology, antibody to hemoglobin |
| antihemolysin | immunology, antibody to a hemolysin |
| antiheterolysin | immunology, antibody to a heterolysin |
| antihydropin | pharmacy, a remedy for dropsy |
| antihypophora | rhetoric, reply countering a hypophora |
| antikenotoxin | immunology, antibody to kenotoxin |
| antiketogen | biochem, agent opposing ketone formation |
| antikinase | biochem, inhibitor of a kinase |
| antilactase | biochem, inhibitor of lactase |
| antilemic | medical, against plague; var. of antiloemic |
| antilobium | anatomy, the tragus of the ear |
| antiloemic | medical, counteracting plague or pestilence |
| antilogistic | logic, pertaining to an antilogism |
| antilogistically | logic, in the manner of an antilogism |
| antiluetin | pharmacy, an antisyphilitic preparation |
| antimallein | immunology, antibody to mallein |
| antimellin | biochem, antibody to mellin (an albumose) |
| antimeristem | botany, opposing meristematic growth |
| antimoniureted | chem, combined with antimony; antimoniuretted |
| antinial | craniometry, of the antinion |
| antinion | craniometry, point opposite the inion |
| antinosarian | medical, denier of specific disease entities |
| antiophthalmic | medical, remedy for eye disease |
| antiparabema | architecture, chamber opposite the parabema |
| antiparabemata | architecture, pl. of antiparabema |
| antiparagraphic | law/rhetoric, of a counter-plea |
| antiparastatitis | medical, inflammation of the parastatae |
| antipathogene | bacteriology, agent opposing a pathogene |
| antipeduncular | anatomy, opposite the peduncle |
| antipepsin | biochem, inhibitor of pepsin |
| antiperistatically | old physics, by way of antiperistasis |
| antiphlogistin | pharmacy, an antiphlogistic poultice |
| antipodagron | medical, remedy against gout (podagra) |
| antiprojectivity | mathematics, a reversed projectivity |
| antiprostatic | anatomy, of the antiprostate (Cowper's gland) |
| antiproteolysis | biochem, inhibition of proteolysis |
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