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 |
|---|---|
| deflectionization | philol., loss of inflections |
| deflectionize | philol., to strip of inflections |
| deflexionize | philol., to strip of inflexions |
| deflocculent | chem., a deflocculating agent |
| deganglionate | physiol., to remove the ganglia of |
| degelatinize | chem., to remove gelatin |
| degerminate | milling, to remove the germ from grain |
| deglycerin | chem., to remove glycerin |
| deglycerine | chem., to remove glycerine |
| dehematize | med., to deprive of blood |
| dehepatize | med., to deprive of liver action |
| dehydrochlorinate | chem., to remove hydrogen chloride |
| dehydrocorydaline | chem., alkaloid from corydaline |
| dehydrogeniser | chem., agent that removes hydrogen |
| dehydrogenizer | chem., agent that removes hydrogen |
| dehydromucic | chem., dehydromucic acid |
| dehydrosparteine | chem., alkaloid from sparteine |
| deincrustant | boiler compound preventing scale |
| delacrimation | med., a flowing of tears |
| dellenite | petrol., rock from Dellen, Sweden |
| delphinite | mineral., epidote from Dauphine |
| delphinoidine | chem., alkaloid from delphinium |
| delphocurarine | chem., a curare-like alkaloid |
| deltaite | mineral., a phosphate mineral |
| deltarium | paleont., plate over a brachiopod delthyrium |
| deltation | geol., the building of a delta |
| delusterant | textiles, agent that dulls lustre |
| demargarinate | chem., to remove margarin |
| dementholize | chem., to remove menthol |
| demethylchlortetracycline | chem., demeclocycline antibiotic |
| demipectinate | biology, half pectinate, partly comb-like |
| demipronation | anatomy, half pronation of the forearm |
| demogenic | sociology, of a society based on territory, not kinship |
| demorphism | geology, the wearing down of rocks, weathering |
| demulsibility | petroleum testing, resistance to emulsification |
| demutization | medical, teaching the deaf-mute to speak |
| denarcotization | pharmacy, removal of narcotine from opium |
| dendral | biology, of or living in trees, arboreal |
| dendraxon | neurology, nerve cell with a branching axon |
| dendroceratine | zoology, of the sponge group Dendroceratina |
| dendroclastic | ecology, tree-breaking, destructive of trees |
| dendrocoelan | zoology, a flatworm of the Dendrocoela |
| dendrocoele | zoology, a flatworm with branched intestine |
| dendrocoelous | zoology, having a branched intestine |
| dendrodic | paleontology, of tree-like tooth structure (Dendrodus) |
| dendrogaean | biogeography, of the Dendrogaean region |
| dendrolater | religion, a tree-worshipper |
| dendrolene | horticulture, sticky compound for banding trees |
| dendrologous | botany, pertaining to trees or dendrology |
| dendrophil | biology, a tree-loving organism |
| denitrificant | bacteriology, a denitrifying agent or organism |
| denitrize | chemistry, to remove nitrogen from |
| dentagra | medical, toothache; also a dental forceps |
| dentaphone | acoustics, hearing aid conducting sound via the teeth |
| denticete | zoology, a toothed whale of the Denticeti |
| dentiloquy | speech uttered through the teeth |
| dentimeter | dentistry, instrument for measuring teeth |
| dentinalgia | medical, pain in the dentine, toothache |
| dentinasal | anatomy/phonetics, relating to teeth and nose |
| dentirostrate | ornithology, having a notched or toothed bill |
| dentonasal | anatomy/phonetics, relating to teeth and nose |
| dentosurgical | dentistry, pertaining to dental surgery |
| denumerant | math, number of solutions of a Diophantine equation |
| denumerantive | math, relating to denumerants |
| denumeration | math, the act of counting off |
| denumerative | math, serving to count, countable |
| deoppilant | medical, a remedy removing obstructions |
| deorsumvergence | ophthalmology, downward turning of an eye |
| deoxidator | chemistry, a deoxidizing agent |
| deozonizer | chemistry, apparatus for destroying ozone |
| depancreatize | physiology, to remove the pancreas from |
| dephlegmatize | chemistry, to free from water, dephlegmate |
| dephlegmedness | chemistry, state of being freed from water |
| deplasmolysis | cell biology, reversal of plasmolysis |
| deplethoric | medical, tending to reduce plethora |
| depsid | chemistry, a depside, phenolic-acid ester |
| depthing | horology, setting the depth of wheel engagement |
| deradelphus | teratology, twin monster united at the neck |
| deradenitis | medical, inflammation of the neck glands |
| deradenoncus | medical, tumour of the cervical glands |
| dereistically | psychology, in a manner detached from reality |
| derencephalocele | medical, brain hernia at the neck |
| derencephalus | teratology, monster with brain exposed at the neck |
| dermahemia | medical, congestion of blood in the skin |
| dermalith | medical, a calcareous concretion in the skin |
| dermamycosis | medical, fungous disease of the skin |
| dermamyiasis | medical, fly-larva infestation of the skin |
| dermanaplasty | surgery, repair of skin by grafting |
| dermapostasis | medical, abscess of the skin |
| dermapterous | zoology, of the earwigs, Dermaptera |
| dermaskeleton | zoology, the dermal skeleton, exoskeleton |
| dermatagra | medical, a gouty affection of the skin |
| dermataneuria | medical, disordered nerve supply of the skin |
| dermatatrophia | medical, atrophy of the skin |
| dermatauxe | medical, hypertrophy or thickening of the skin |
| dermathemia | medical, congestion of blood in the skin |
| dermatherm | medical, instrument for skin temperature |
| dermatocele | medical, a pendulous tumour of the skin |
| dermatocellulitis | medical, inflammation of skin and cellular tissue |
| dermatoconiosis | medical, skin disease caused by dust |
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