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 |
|---|---|
| inestivation | biology, absence of aestivation |
| inface | geology, inward-facing scarp of a cuesta |
| infarctate | medical, affected with infarction |
| inferobranch | zoology, having gills beneath the mantle |
| inferomedian | anatomy, below and toward the midline |
| infinitation | logic, making a term infinite (negative) |
| infracanthal | anatomy, below the canthus of the eye |
| infracentral | anatomy, below the centrum of a vertebra |
| infracephalic | anatomy, below the head |
| infraclavicle | anatomy, bone beneath the clavicle |
| infraclusion | dentistry, tooth below the occlusal plane |
| infracotyloid | anatomy, below the cotyloid cavity |
| infraglacial | geology, beneath a glacier |
| infragular | zoology, below the gular region |
| inframammillary | anatomy, below the mammilla |
| inframercurial | astronomy, within Mercury's orbit |
| inframercurian | astronomy, within Mercury's orbit |
| inframolecular | physics, below the molecular level |
| infrapapillary | anatomy, below the papilla |
| infraperipherial | below the periphery |
| infraprotein | chemistry, a derivative below protein |
| infrapubian | anatomy, below the pubis |
| infraradular | zoology, below the radula |
| infrarimal | anatomy, below the rima glottidis |
| infrascapularis | anatomy, muscle below the scapula |
| infrastigmatal | entomology, below the stigma |
| infrastipular | botany, below the stipules |
| infrasutral | anatomy, below a suture |
| infraterrene | lying beneath the earth's surface |
| infratonsillar | anatomy, below the tonsil |
| infratracheal | anatomy, below the trachea |
| infratubal | anatomy, below a tube |
| infraturbinal | anatomy, below the inferior turbinate |
| infravaginal | anatomy, below the vagina |
| infraventral | anatomy, below the ventral surface |
| ingluviitis | veterinary, inflammation of the crop |
| ingravescence | medical, a growing worse of disease |
| inninmorite | petrology, rock named for Inninmore, Mull |
| inoblast | histology, a fibre-forming cell |
| inochondritis | medical, inflammation of fibrocartilage |
| inochondroma | medical, fibrocartilaginous tumor |
| inocystoma | medical, fibrous cystic tumor |
| inocyte | histology, a fibre cell |
| inoepithelioma | medical, fibrous epithelioma |
| inogenesis | biology, formation of fibrous tissue |
| inogenic | biology, producing fibrous tissue |
| inogenous | biology, of fibrous origin |
| inoglia | histology, fibrous neuroglia |
| inohymenitic | medical, fibromembranous |
| inolith | medical, a fibrous concretion |
| inoma | medical, a fibrous tumor |
| inomyoma | medical, fibromyoma |
| inomyositis | medical, fibrous inflammation of muscle |
| inomyxoma | medical, fibromyxoma |
| inoneuroma | medical, fibroneuroma |
| inosclerosis | medical, hardening of fibrous tissue |
| inoscopy | medical, examination of fibrin/fibrous tissue |
| inosic | chemistry, pertaining to inosite (muscle sugar) |
| inparabola | geometry, an inscribed parabola |
| inpolygon | geometry, an inscribed polygon |
| inpolyhedron | geometry, an inscribed polyhedron |
| inquilinity | zoology, state of being an inquiline |
| inspissosis | medical, abnormal thickening of a fluid |
| instipulate | botany, destitute of stipules |
| insulance | electrical, insulation resistance |
| insulination | medical, treatment with insulin |
| intagliotype | printing, a photomechanical intaglio process |
| integripallial | zoology, having an entire pallial line |
| integripalliate | zoology, with an entire pallial line |
| integropallial | zoology, having an entire pallial line |
| integropalliate | zoology, with an entire pallial line |
| intensitometer | physics, instrument for measuring intensity |
| interacinous | anatomy, situated between the acini |
| interapophysal | anatomy, between the apophyses |
| interarcualis | anatomy, muscle between vertebral arches |
| intercilium | anatomy, the space between the eyebrows |
| intercoccygean | anatomy, between the coccygeal segments |
| intercostohumeral | anatomy, intercostohumeral (nerve) |
| intercrescence | biology, mutual growing-together of parts |
| intercrinal | anatomy, situated between the hairs |
| interferric | physics, between iron parts or surfaces |
| intergential | anthropology, between gentes or clans |
| interjugal | anatomy, between the jugal bones |
| interjugular | anatomy, between the jugular veins |
| interloculus | zoology, a space between loculi |
| intermalar | anatomy, between the malar bones |
| intermastoid | anatomy, between the mastoid processes |
| intermesenterial | anatomy, between mesenteries |
| interministerium | New Latin, interval between two ministries |
| intermutule | architecture, space between mutules |
| internobasal | anatomy, between internal and basal parts |
| interparenchymal | anatomy, between parenchyma |
| interpetalous | botany, situated between petals |
| interproglottidal | zoology, between proglottids of a tapeworm |
| interprotoplasmic | biology, between protoplasmic masses |
| interradium | zoology, interradial area of an echinoderm |
| interramicorn | zoology, between the rami of the bill |
| interrena | anatomy, the interrenal (adrenal) body of fishes |
| interscendent | mathematics, between algebraic and transcendental |
| intersomnious | medical, occurring between periods of sleep |
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