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 |
|---|---|
| pneumatophobia | morbid dread of spirits |
| pneumatophonic | of sounds ascribed to spirits |
| pneumatophony | spiritualism, sound produced by spirits |
| pneumatophoric | botany, of a pneumatophore or air-root |
| pneumatorrhachis | medical, gas in the spinal canal |
| pneumatoscope | medical, instrument for testing respiration |
| pneumatosic | medical, of pneumatosis, gas in the tissues |
| pneumatostatics | physics, the statics of gases |
| pneumatotactic | biology, responding to gases |
| pneumatotherapeutics | medical, treatment by compressed air |
| pneumatotherapy | medical, treatment by air or gases |
| pneumatria | medical, distension of the body by gas |
| pneumobacillus | bacteriology, Friedlander's pneumonia bacillus |
| pneumocele | medical, a hernia containing air or lung |
| pneumochirurgia | medical, surgery of the lung |
| pneumococcemia | medical, pneumococci in the blood |
| pneumodynamic | medical, of the dynamics of respiration |
| pneumodynamics | medical, dynamics of the breath |
| pneumoencephalitis | medical, inflammation of lung and brain |
| pneumoenteritis | medical, inflammation of lungs and intestine |
| pneumohydropericardium | medical, air and fluid in the pericardium |
| pneumohydrothorax | medical, air and fluid in the pleural cavity |
| pneumolith | medical, a calculus in the lung |
| pneumolithiasis | medical, formation of lung concretions |
| pneumomalacia | medical, softening of the lung |
| pneumomycosis | medical, fungal disease of the lungs |
| pneumonalgia | medical, pain in the lungs |
| pneumonectasia | medical, dilatation of the lung, emphysema |
| pneumonedema | medical, oedema of the lung |
| pneumonocace | medical, ulceration or gangrene of the lung |
| pneumonocarcinoma | medical, carcinoma of the lung |
| pneumonocele | medical, hernia of the lung |
| pneumonocentesis | medical, surgical puncture of the lung |
| pneumonocirrhosis | medical, fibrosis of the lung |
| pneumonodynia | medical, pain in the lung |
| pneumonoenteritis | medical, inflammation of lung and bowel |
| pneumonoerysipelas | medical, erysipelatous pneumonia |
| pneumonolith | medical, a lung calculus |
| pneumonolithiasis | medical, formation of stones in the lung |
| pneumonomelanosis | medical, blackening of the lung |
| pneumonomycosis | medical, fungal disease of the lung |
| pneumonoparesis | medical, paresis of the lung |
| pneumonopexy | medical, surgical fixation of the lung |
| pneumonophorous | zoology, bearing lungs |
| pneumonophthisis | medical, pulmonary consumption |
| pneumonopleuritis | medical, inflammation of lung and pleura |
| pneumonorrhaphy | medical, suture of the lung |
| pneumonosis | medical, any disease of the lung |
| pneumonotherapy | medical, treatment of lung disease |
| pneumoperitonitis | medical, peritonitis with gas in the belly |
| pneumopleuritis | medical, inflammation of lung and pleura |
| pneumopyothorax | medical, air and pus in the pleural cavity |
| pneumorrhachis | medical, gas in the spinal canal |
| pneumotactic | physiology, regulating the rhythm of breathing |
| pneumotyphoid | medical, typhoid with pneumonia |
| pnigerophobia | medical, morbid dread of smothering |
| podargine | ornithology, of the frogmouths (Podargus) |
| podargue | ornithology, a frogmouth |
| podarthral | anatomy, of the joints of the foot |
| podarthritis | medical, inflammation of the foot joints |
| podarthrum | zoology, the ankle-joint of a bird's foot |
| podaxonial | zoology, of the Podaxonia |
| podeon | entomology, the pedicel of the abdomen |
| podilegous | entomology, collecting pollen on the legs |
| poditic | zoology, of a podite or limb-joint |
| podobranchial | zoology, of a podobranch, a limb gill |
| podobranchiate | zoology, bearing podobranchs |
| podocarpous | botany, having stalked fruit |
| podocephalous | botany, with flowers in a stalked head |
| pododerm | veterinary, the corium of the hoof |
| podogyn | botany, a gynophore, stalk of the ovary |
| podolite | mineralogy, a carbonate-apatite |
| podometry | measurement of the feet or of paces |
| podophthalmate | zoology, stalk-eyed |
| podophthalmatous | zoology, having stalked eyes |
| podophthalmian | zoology, a stalk-eyed crustacean |
| podophthalmic | zoology, having eyes on stalks |
| podophthalmitic | zoology, pertaining to stalked eyes |
| podophyllic | chemistry, of podophyllin from Podophyllum |
| podoscapher | user of a podoscaph, a water-walking float |
| podoscopy | medical, examination of the feet |
| podosomatous | zoology, of the Podosomata |
| podostemad | botany, a plant of the Podostemaceae |
| podostomatous | zoology, of the Podostomata |
| poduran | entomology, a springtail of the Poduridae |
| poechore | biogeography, a semi-arid steppe region |
| poechoric | biogeography, of the semi-arid steppe |
| poecilite | petrology, a rock of poikilitic texture |
| poecilocyttarous | entomology, building nests of varied material |
| poecilogonous | zoology, having varied modes of development |
| poecilomere | geology, a variegated constituent of a rock |
| poecilopodous | zoology, of the Poecilopoda |
| pogoniasis | medical, excessive growth of the beard |
| poikilocythemia | medical, irregularly shaped red blood cells |
| poimenic | theology, pastoral |
| polaristrobometer | optics, gauge of rotation of polarized light |
| poliadic | classical, of a city's guardian deity |
| poliencephalitis | medical, inflammation of the brain's grey matter |
| poliencephalomyelitis | medical, grey matter of brain and cord inflamed |
| polimetrum | surveying, an old angle-measuring instrument |
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