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 |
|---|---|
| hemautograph | medical, self-recording of the blood |
| hemautographic | medical, of hemautography |
| hemautography | medical, self-recording of blood flow |
| hemellitene | chemistry, a trimethylbenzene |
| hemellitic | chemistry, hemellitic acid |
| hemiablepsia | medical, blindness in half the field |
| hemiageusia | medical, loss of taste on one side |
| hemiageustia | medical, one-sided loss of taste |
| hemialbumosuria | medical, hemialbumose in the urine |
| hemiamb | prosody, a half-iambic line |
| hemiamblyopia | medical, dim vision in half the field |
| hemiamyosthenia | medical, one-sided muscular weakness |
| hemianacusia | medical, deafness in one ear |
| hemianalgesia | medical, loss of pain sense on one side |
| hemianosmia | medical, loss of smell on one side |
| hemiapraxia | medical, apraxia on one side |
| hemiasynergia | medical, one-sided asynergia |
| hemiataxy | medical, ataxia of one side |
| hemiathetosis | medical, athetosis of one side |
| hemiauxin | botany, a partial auxin |
| hemiazygous | anatomy, the hemiazygos vein |
| hemibasidium | mycology, an imperfect basidium |
| hemibathybian | ecology, of intermediate sea depths |
| hemibenthic | ecology, partly bottom-dwelling |
| hemibenthonic | ecology, partly bottom-dwelling |
| hemibranchiate | ichthyology, having half-gills |
| hemicanities | medical, grayness of hair on one side |
| hemicardiac | medical, affecting half the heart |
| hemicatalepsy | medical, catalepsy of one side |
| hemicataleptic | medical, of hemicatalepsy |
| hemicentrum | anatomy, half a vertebral centrum |
| hemicephalous | teratology, having half a head |
| hemichromatopsia | medical, half-field color blindness |
| hemiclastic | petrology, partly fragmental |
| hemidactylous | zoology, with dilated toe-pads |
| hemidiapente | music, an imperfect fifth |
| hemidiaphoresis | medical, sweating on one side |
| hemidomatic | crystallography, of a hemidome |
| hemidysergia | medical, one-sided dysergia |
| hemidysesthesia | medical, impaired sensation one side |
| hemielytral | entomology, of the hemelytron |
| hemielytron | entomology, hemipteran forewing |
| hemiepilepsy | medical, epilepsy of one side |
| hemigastrectomy | surgery, removal of half the stomach |
| hemigeusia | medical, loss of taste on one side |
| hemiglobin | biochem, methemoglobin |
| hemiglossal | anatomy, of half the tongue |
| hemihedric | crystallography, hemihedral |
| hemihydrosis | medical, sweating on one side |
| hemihypalgesia | medical, reduced pain sense one side |
| hemihyperesthesia | medical, heightened sensation one side |
| hemihyperidrosis | medical, excess sweating on one side |
| hemihypertonia | medical, increased tone on one side |
| hemihypoesthesia | medical, reduced sensation one side |
| hemihypotonia | medical, reduced tone on one side |
| hemikaryon | cytology, a half-nucleus |
| hemikaryotic | cytology, of a hemikaryon |
| hemilethargy | medical, lethargy of one side |
| hemiligulate | botany, half-ligulate |
| hemimelus | teratology, fetus with partial limbs |
| hemimetabole | entomology, incompletely metamorphic |
| hemimetamorphic | entomology, of partial metamorphosis |
| hemimetamorphous | entomology, incompletely metamorphic |
| hemimorph | crystallography, a hemimorphic crystal |
| hemimorphy | crystallography, hemimorphism |
| hemineurasthenia | medical, one-sided neurasthenia |
| hemiope | medical, one having half-vision |
| hemiorthotype | crystallography, monoclinic form |
| hemiparanesthesia | medical, anesthesia of one side |
| hemiparaplegia | medical, one-sided lower paralysis |
| hemipic | chemistry, hemipic (hemipinic) acid |
| hemipinnate | botany, half-pinnate |
| hemiplankton | ecology, part-time plankton |
| hemipodan | ornithology, of the button-quails |
| hemiprismatic | crystallography, half-prismatic |
| hemiquinonoid | chemistry, half-quinonoid |
| hemiramph | ichthyology, a halfbeak fish |
| hemiramphine | ichthyology, of the halfbeaks |
| hemisaprophyte | botany, a partial saprophyte |
| hemisaprophytic | botany, partly saprophytic |
| hemiscotosis | medical, dimness in half the field |
| hemistater | numismatics, a half-stater coin |
| hemistrumectomy | surgery, removal of half the thyroid |
| hemiteratic | teratology, of minor malformation |
| hemiteratics | teratology, study of minor malformations |
| hemiteria | teratology, a minor malformation |
| hemitery | teratology, minor malformation |
| hemitremor | medical, tremor of one side |
| hemitrichous | biology, hairy on one side only |
| hemitype | biology, a partial type specimen |
| hemitypic | biology, of a hemitype |
| hemivagotony | medical, one-sided vagotonia |
| hemoalkalimeter | medical, measures blood alkalinity |
| hemochromogen | biochem, a hemoglobin derivative |
| hemochromometer | medical, measures blood color |
| hemochromometry | medical, measurement of blood color |
| hemoclasia | medical, destruction of blood cells |
| hemoclasis | medical, hemolysis |
| hemoclastic | medical, causing destruction of blood cells |
| hemocoelom | zoology, blood-filled coelomic cavity |
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