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 |
|---|---|
| emanium | chemistry, Giesel's name for actinium |
| emballonurine | zoology, of the sheath-tailed bats |
| embatholithic | geology, ore deposit within a batholith |
| embelic | chemistry, of embelic acid from Embelia |
| embiid | entomology, a web-spinner insect |
| embolemia | medical, emboli in the blood |
| embolimeal | chronology, intercalary |
| embolomerism | paleontology, embolomerous vertebrae |
| embolomerous | paleontology, vertebrae built of two rings |
| embrectomy | surgery, excision of an ectopic embryo |
| embryoctonic | medical, destructive to the embryo |
| embryoferous | biology, embryo-bearing |
| embryotega | botany, lid over the seed micropyle |
| embryotrophe | embryology, nutriment of the embryo |
| embryulcus | surgery, hook for extracting a fetus |
| emetatrophia | medical, wasting from vomiting |
| emetomorphine | chemistry, emetic morphine derivative |
| emmenia | medical, the menses |
| emmenic | medical, of menstruation |
| emmeniopathy | medical, disorder of menstruation |
| emmensite | explosives, Emmens's picric explosive |
| emmetropism | ophthalmology, normal refraction of the eye |
| emotiometabolic | physiology, of metabolism due to emotion |
| emotiomotor | physiology, of movement due to emotion |
| emotiomuscular | physiology, of muscular action from emotion |
| emotiovascular | physiology, of vascular change from emotion |
| empetrous | botany, growing among rocks |
| empirema | logic, syllogism drawn from experience |
| emplectic | masonry, of emplecton rubble walling |
| emprosthotonic | medical, of forward tetanic spasm |
| empyesis | medical, suppuration, pustular eruption |
| empyocele | medical, pus-filled scrotal tumor |
| emuscation | horticulture, clearing moss from trees |
| emydosaurian | zoology, of the Emydosauria (crocodiles) |
| enalid | ecology, a plant growing in the sea |
| enalite | mineralogy, a thorium silicate |
| enantiobiosis | biology, antagonistic symbiosis |
| enantioblastous | botany, embryo opposite the hilum |
| enantiomeride | crystallography, mirror-image counterpart |
| enantiopathia | medicine, treatment by contraries |
| enantiotropy | chemistry, reversible polymorphic change |
| encardion | gemology, stone bearing a heart figure |
| encarditis | medical, inflammation within the heart |
| encarpa | architecture, sculptured fruit festoons |
| encarpium | architecture, a fruit festoon ornament |
| encatarrhaphy | surgery, implanting by suture |
| encephalasthenia | medical, weakness of the brain |
| encephalodialysis | medical, dissolution of brain tissue |
| encephalolith | medical, a brain concretion |
| encephalomalacosis | medical, softening of the brain |
| encephalomalaxis | medical, softening of the brain |
| encephalomere | embryology, a brain segment |
| encephalomeric | embryology, of a brain segment |
| encephalonarcosis | medical, narcosis of the brain |
| encephalophyma | medical, tumor of the brain |
| encephalopsychesis | medical, psychic action of the brain |
| encephalopyosis | medical, suppuration of the brain |
| encephalosepsis | medical, septic decay of the brain |
| encephalothlipsis | medical, compression of the brain |
| encheiria | medical, a manual operation |
| enchodontoid | zoology, of the fossil fish Enchodus |
| enchondrosis | medical, cartilaginous growth |
| enchylematous | biology, of the enchylema (cell fluid) |
| enchymatous | biology, of the cell contents |
| encomiologic | prosody, of the encomiologic verse |
| encorbellment | architecture, projection on corbels |
| encrinoid | zoology, resembling an encrinite |
| endamebiasis | medical, Endamoeba infection |
| endamebic | medical, of Endamoeba |
| endamoebiasis | medical, Endamoeba infection |
| endangeitis | medical, inflammation of vessel lining |
| endangitis | medical, inflammation of vessel lining |
| endaortic | medical, within the aorta |
| endarch | botany, xylem maturing outward |
| endoappendicitis | medical, inflammation of appendix lining |
| endoauscultation | medical, auscultation from within |
| endobatholithic | geology, within a batholith |
| endobronchitis | medical, inflamed bronchial lining |
| endocarpic | botany, of the endocarp |
| endoceratite | paleontology, fossil of Endoceras |
| endoceratitic | paleontology, of endoceratites |
| endochylous | botany, containing cell sap within |
| endoclinal | geology, dipping inward |
| endocline | geology, an inward-dipping structure |
| endocoelar | anatomy, of the endocoele |
| endocoele | anatomy, an internal body cavity |
| endocoeliac | anatomy, within the body cavity |
| endocolitis | medical, inflamed colon lining |
| endocondensation | cytology, condensation within the cell |
| endoconidium | mycology, a spore formed internally |
| endocorpuscular | biology, within a corpuscle |
| endocrinopath | medical, one with endocrine disease |
| endocritic | medical, of internal secretion |
| endocyemate | zoology, of the Endocyemata (mesozoans) |
| endocystitis | medical, inflamed bladder lining |
| endodynamomorphic | psychology, shaped by inner dynamics |
| endoenteritis | medical, inflamed intestinal lining |
| endoesophagitis | medical, inflamed esophageal lining |
| endofaradism | medical, faradism applied internally |
| endogalvanism | medical, galvanism applied internally |
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