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 |
|---|---|
| crystalloblastic | petrology, of metamorphic crystal growth |
| crystallogenical | crystallography, of crystal formation |
| crystallograph | a drawing or record of a crystal |
| crystallogy | the science of crystals |
| crystallology | the science of crystals |
| crystallomagnetic | physics, magnetic properties of crystals |
| crystallophobia | medical, morbid fear of glass or crystals |
| crystallophyllian | geology, of crystalline schist rocks |
| crystallose | chemistry, soluble saccharin (sodium salt) |
| crystograph | photography, picture printed on glass |
| crystoleum | photography, colored print behind glass |
| crystosphene | geology, buried sheet of ground ice |
| ctenodactyl | zoology, the comb-toed gundi rodent |
| ctenoidian | ichthyology, a ctenoid-scaled fish |
| ctenolium | zoology, comb on scallop byssal notch |
| cubicone | geometry, a cone of the third degree |
| cubicontravariant | math, cubic contravariant of a form |
| cubitocutaneous | anatomy, of the ulna and the skin |
| cubitodigital | anatomy, of forearm and digits |
| cubitometacarpal | anatomy, of ulna and metacarpus |
| cubitopalmar | anatomy, of forearm and palm |
| cubitoplantar | anatomy, of forearm and sole |
| cubocube | old algebra, the sixth power |
| cubocuneiform | anatomy, cuboid and cuneiform bones |
| cubododecahedral | crystallography, cube-dodecahedron form |
| cubometatarsal | anatomy, cuboid and metatarsus |
| cucoline | chemistry, an alkaloid of Cocculus |
| cucullaris | anatomy, hood-shaped trapezius muscle |
| cuculoid | ornithology, cuckoo-like |
| culmigenous | botany, growing on grass stems |
| culpose | law, involving culpa, negligent |
| cultellation | surveying, stepped horizontal measurement |
| cultrirostral | ornithology, having a knife-shaped bill |
| cumaceous | zoology, of the Cumacea crustaceans |
| cumaphyte | ecology, a plant living in surf |
| cumaphytic | ecology, of surf-dwelling plants |
| cumaphytism | ecology, adaptation to wave action |
| cumarone | chemistry, coumarone (benzofuran) |
| cumbraite | petrology, dolerite from Cumbrae |
| cumenyl | chemistry, radical of cumene |
| cumic | chemistry, cumic (cuminic) acid |
| cumidin | chemistry, cumidine, amine of cumene |
| cuminoin | chemistry, condensation product of cuminol |
| cuminole | chemistry, cuminic aldehyde |
| cumol | chemistry, cumene |
| cumulite | petrology, globular crystallite cluster |
| cuneoscaphoid | anatomy, cuneiform and scaphoid bones |
| cuorin | biochemistry, phosphatide of heart muscle |
| cuprammonia | chemistry, copper-ammonia solution |
| cuprein | chemistry, cupreine, a cinchona alkaloid |
| cupreine | chemistry, alkaloid of cuprea bark |
| cuprocyanide | chemistry, double cyanide of copper |
| cuproid | chemistry, copper-like (cupr- + -oid) |
| cuproiodargyrite | mineralogy, cupriferous iodargyrite |
| cupromanganese | metallurgy, copper-manganese alloy |
| cuproplumbite | mineralogy, copper-lead sulphide |
| cuprose | chemistry, containing copper |
| curculionist | entomology, a student of weevils |
| curiage | physics, quantity expressed in curies |
| curiegram | physics, curie-gram, radium unit |
| curiescopy | medicine, examination by radium rays |
| curine | chemistry, an alkaloid of curare |
| curiological | of picture-writing depicting the thing |
| curvulate | descriptive biology, slightly curved |
| cuscohygrin | chemistry, cuscohygrine, coca alkaloid |
| cuscutaceous | botany, of the dodder family |
| cuselite | petrology, dike rock named from Cusel |
| cusparidine | chemistry, angostura-bark alkaloid |
| cusparine | chemistry, alkaloid of angostura bark |
| custerite | mineralogy, a calcium silicate mineral |
| cuticolor | descriptive, skin-colored |
| cutidure | farriery, the skin-hoof junction |
| cutisector | surgery, tool to cut sections of skin |
| cutleriaceous | botany, of the Cutleriaceae brown algae |
| cutocellulose | botany, cutinized cellulose |
| cyamelid | chemistry, cyamelide, cyanic acid polymer |
| cyamoid | botany, bean-shaped |
| cyanacetic | chemistry, cyanoacetic acid |
| cyananthrol | chemistry, an anthracene dye compound |
| cyanauric | chemistry, of gold-cyanide compounds |
| cyanbenzyl | chemistry, the cyanobenzyl radical |
| cyancarbonic | chemistry, cyanocarbonic acid |
| cyanemia | medical, blueness of the blood |
| cyanephidrosis | medical, blue-colored sweating |
| cyanformate | chemistry, salt of cyanformic acid |
| cyanformic | chemistry, cyanformic acid |
| cyanhidrosis | medical, blue perspiration |
| cyanhydrate | chemistry, hydrocyanic acid compound |
| cyanhydric | chemistry, hydrocyanic |
| cyanhydrin | chemistry, a cyanohydrin |
| cyanicide | metallurgy, cyanide-consuming substance |
| cyanidrosis | medical, blue perspiration |
| cyanoaurate | chemistry, a gold cyanide salt |
| cyanoauric | chemistry, of aurocyanic acid |
| cyanobenzene | chemistry, benzonitrile |
| cyanocarbonic | chemistry, cyanocarbonic acid |
| cyanochlorous | descriptive, blue-green |
| cyanochroia | medical, blueness of the skin |
| cyanochroic | medical, blue-colored, cyanotic |
| cyanocrystallin | chemistry, blue crystalline pigment |
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