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 |
|---|---|
| colyone | physiology, an inhibitory internal secretion |
| colyonic | physiology, of colyones, inhibitory |
| colytic | physiology, inhibiting, restraining |
| comenic | chemistry, comenic acid from meconic acid |
| comephorous | biology, bearing hair or a tuft |
| comiferous | botany, bearing a coma or tuft of hairs |
| comitatensian | Roman history, of the comitatenses field troops |
| commation | rhetoric, a short clause, diminutive of comma |
| commodatary | law, borrower under a commodatum |
| comoid | botany, resembling a coma or tuft |
| companator | theology, holder of the companation doctrine |
| comparascope | optics, comparison microscope |
| complanation | math, finding area of a curved surface |
| compole | electrical, commutating pole of a dynamo |
| compromissary | law, of an arbitration compromis |
| comptonite | mineralogy, a variety of thomsonite |
| conamarin | chemistry, bitter principle of hemlock |
| concassation | pharmacy, crushing or pounding |
| conchate | botany, shell-shaped |
| conchinin | chemistry, quinidine alkaloid |
| conchitis | medical, inflammation of a concha |
| conchometer | conchology, instrument for measuring shells |
| conchyliferous | geology, containing shells |
| condensance | electrical, reactance of a condenser |
| condictious | civil law, of a condictio or claim |
| condylopod | zoology, a jointed-footed animal, arthropod |
| condylopodous | zoology, having jointed feet |
| conferval | botany, of the alga Conferva |
| congeliturbate | soil science, frost-churned material |
| congredient | philosophy, moving together with (Whitehead) |
| congruist | theology, adherent of congruism |
| congruistic | theology, of congruism |
| conhydrin | chemistry, alkaloid from hemlock |
| conicein | chemistry, coniceine, hemlock alkaloid |
| conidioid | mycology, resembling a conidium |
| conidiophorous | mycology, bearing conidia |
| coniospermous | botany, having dust-like seeds |
| coniroster | ornithology, a cone-billed bird |
| connarite | mineralogy, hydrous nickel silicate |
| conocarp | botany, a conical fruit or receptacle |
| conoplain | geology, a conical erosion plain |
| conoscope | optics, instrument for interference figures |
| consertal | petrology, interlocking crystal texture |
| contoise | heraldry, scarf worn on a knight's helm |
| contrafacture | music, contrafactum, new text to a melody |
| contramure | fortification, an outer wall |
| contrapletal | logic, of contrapletes, opposed terms |
| contraplete | logic, one of a pair of opposed terms |
| contraposaune | music, 32-ft contra-trombone organ stop |
| converginerved | botany, having converging nerves |
| convolvulad | botany, a plant of the Convolvulus family |
| convolvulic | chemistry, acid from Convolvulus |
| convolvulinic | chemistry, convolvulinic acid |
| convolvulinolic | chemistry, acid from convolvulin |
| conyrin | chemistry, conyrine, a hemlock alkaloid |
| copaibic | chemistry, copaibic acid from copaiba |
| copaivic | chemistry, of copaiva balsam |
| copelate | zoology, of the Copelata tunicates |
| copelidine | chemistry, a pyridine base |
| copellidine | chemistry, a base from coal tar |
| copepodan | zoology, of the copepods |
| copepodous | zoology, copepod-like |
| copiopia | medical, eyestrain from overuse |
| copiopsia | medical, fatigue of vision |
| coplanation | geology, joint planation of a surface |
| copolymerism | chemistry, state of being copolymeric |
| copolymerous | chemistry, forming a copolymer |
| copopsia | medical, fatigue of vision (Gr. kopos) |
| coppaelite | petrology, a melilite-leucite rock |
| coproite | paleontology, fossil excrement substance |
| coprolagnist | psychiatry, one affected with coprolagnia |
| coprophobic | medical, having morbid fear of filth |
| coprostasia | medical, fecal stasis, constipation |
| coprostasophobia | medical, morbid fear of constipation |
| coptine | chemistry, an alkaloid from Coptis |
| coracial | ornithology, of the Coraciae, roller-like |
| coracine | ichthyology, a fish of the genus Coracinus |
| coracocostal | anatomy, of coracoid and ribs |
| coracohyoid | anatomy, of coracoid and hyoid |
| coracomorph | ornithology, bird of the Coracomorphae |
| coracomorphic | ornithology, of the Coracomorphae |
| coracoprocoracoid | anatomy, of coracoid and procoracoid |
| coracoradialis | anatomy, the coraco-radial muscle |
| coracosteon | anatomy, the coracoid bone |
| coralene | decorative art, coral-like beadwork |
| corallidomous | zoology, boring into or dwelling in coral |
| cordaitaceous | botany, of the Cordaitaceae |
| cordicole | ecclesiastical, worshipper of the Sacred Heart |
| corditis | medical, inflammation of the spermatic cord |
| cordyl | zoology, club-shaped tentacle of a hydroid |
| corectome | surgery, instrument for excising the iris |
| coreductase | biochemistry, a reducing enzyme |
| coregonoid | ichthyology, whitefish-like |
| corelysis | surgery, breaking up of iris adhesions |
| coremorphosis | surgery, forming an artificial pupil |
| coreometer | medical, instrument measuring the pupil |
| coreplastic | surgery, of coreplasty of the pupil |
| coreplasty | surgery, plastic operation on the pupil |
| coretomy | surgery, incision of the iris |
| coriin | chemistry, a substance from hides |
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