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 |
|---|---|
| hyperglycistia | medical, excess sugar in the tissues |
| hyperhepatia | medical, excessive liver activity |
| hyperidrosis | medical, excessive perspiration |
| hyperin | chemistry, glycoside from Hypericum |
| hyperinsulinize | medical, to treat with excess insulin |
| hyperisotonic | physiology, above isotonic concentration |
| hyperkaliemia | medical, excess potassium in the blood |
| hyperleptoprosopic | anthropometry, extremely narrow-faced |
| hyperleucocytosis | medical, extreme excess of white cells |
| hyperleucocytotic | medical, of hyperleucocytosis |
| hyperlithuria | medical, excess uric acid in the urine |
| hypermakroskelic | anthropometry, having very long legs |
| hypermegasoma | medical, excessive size of the body |
| hypermetaplasia | medical, excessive metaplasia |
| hypermicrosoma | medical, extreme smallness of the body |
| hypermixolydian | Greek music, mode above the Mixolydian |
| hypermyotonia | medical, excessive muscular tone |
| hypermyotrophy | medical, excessive muscular development |
| hypermyriorama | showman's elaborated myriorama exhibition |
| hypernatronemia | medical, excess sodium in the blood |
| hyperneuria | medical, excessive nervous activity |
| hyperodontogeny | dentistry, excessive development of teeth |
| hyperorthognathic | craniometry, extremely straight-jawed |
| hyperorthognathous | craniometry, with very vertical jaws |
| hyperorthognathy | craniometry, extreme orthognathism |
| hyperotretan | zoology, of the Hyperotreta (hagfishes) |
| hyperotretous | zoology, hagfish-like, of the Hyperotreta |
| hyperovaria | medical, excessive ovarian activity |
| hyperovarianism | medical, overactivity of the ovaries |
| hyperovarism | medical, ovarian hyperfunction |
| hyperpathic | medical, of hyperpathia, excess pain sense |
| hyperpencil | geometry, pencil of lines in hyperspace |
| hyperpepsinia | medical, excess of pepsin |
| hyperphalangeal | anatomy, having extra phalanges |
| hyperphalangism | anatomy, excess number of phalanges |
| hyperpharyngeal | anatomy, above the pharynx |
| hyperphospheremia | medical, excess phosphorus in the blood |
| hyperpiesia | medical, abnormally high blood pressure |
| hyperpiesis | medical, abnormally high blood pressure |
| hyperpietic | medical, of hyperpiesis |
| hyperpietist | medical, a patient with hyperpiesis |
| hyperpinealism | medical, overactivity of the pineal gland |
| hyperpituitary | medical, of pituitary overactivity |
| hyperplatyrrhine | anthropometry, extremely broad-nosed |
| hyperpotassemic | medical, of excess blood potassium |
| hyperpulmonary | medical, excessively pulmonary |
| hypersystole | medical, excessive cardiac systole |
| hypersystolic | medical, of hypersystole |
| hypertensinase | biochem, enzyme destroying hypertensin |
| hyperthermalgesia | medical, excess sensitivity to heat pain |
| hyperthermesthesia | medical, heightened sense of heat |
| hyperthermy | medical, hyperthermia, raised body heat |
| hyperthyroidize | medical, to render hyperthyroid |
| hypertocicity | medical, excessive fecundity |
| hyperuresis | medical, excessive urination |
| hypervenosity | medical, excess of venous blood |
| hyphaeresis | grammar, omission of a letter or syllable |
| hyphedonia | psych, diminished capacity for pleasure |
| hyphodrome | botany, leaf with concealed venation |
| hyphomycetic | mycology, of the Hyphomycetes |
| hyphomycosis | medical, infection by hyphomycete fungi |
| hypnesthesis | medical, dulled sensibility as in sleep |
| hypnesthetic | medical, of hypnesthesis |
| hypnobate | a sleepwalker, somnambulist |
| hypnody | medical, somnolence, sleepiness |
| hypnoetic | psych, of thought under hypnosis |
| hypnogenetically | in a sleep-inducing manner |
| hypnogia | medical, drowsiness, hypnagogic state |
| hypnograph | instrument for recording sleep |
| hypnoidization | psych, inducing a hypnoid state (Sidis) |
| hypnoidize | psych, to induce a hypnoid state |
| hypnosperm | botany, a resting spore |
| hypnosporic | botany, of a hypnospore, resting spore |
| hypoacusia | medical, impaired hearing |
| hypoacussis | medical, hypoacusis, dulled hearing |
| hypoadenia | medical, deficient glandular activity |
| hypoadrenia | medical, adrenal insufficiency |
| hypoalkaline | chemistry, deficiently alkaline |
| hypoalkalinity | chemistry, subnormal alkalinity |
| hypoalonemia | medical, deficiency of salts in the blood |
| hypoantimonate | chemistry, salt of hypoantimonic acid |
| hypobarism | medical, disorder from low air pressure |
| hypobasis | botany, lower part of a basal structure |
| hypobatholithic | geology, lying beneath a batholith |
| hypobenthonic | ecology, of the hypobenthos |
| hypobenthos | ecology, life of the deep sea bottom |
| hypobranchiate | zoology, having gills on the underside |
| hypobulic | psych, of hypobulia, deficient will |
| hypocatharsis | medical, mild purgation |
| hypocathartic | medical, mildly purgative |
| hypocathexis | psychoanalysis, deficient cathexis |
| hypocephalus | Egyptology, disk laid under a mummy head |
| hypochil | botany, lower part of an orchid lip |
| hypochilium | botany, basal part of orchid labellum |
| hypochloridemia | medical, deficient blood chlorides |
| hypochloruria | medical, deficient chlorides in urine |
| hypochnose | plant pathology, disease from Hypochnus |
| hypochrosis | medical, deficiency of pigmentation |
| hypocistis | pharmacy, astringent extract of Cytinus |
| hypocleidian | anatomy, of the hypocleidium of a furcula |
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