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 |
|---|---|
| liberomotor | physiology, of free or unrestrained movement |
| libidinization | psychoanalysis, investing with libido |
| libroplast | botany, a plastid of the liber or bast |
| licheniasis | medical, a lichenous skin disease |
| lienectomy | surgery, excision of the spleen |
| lienocele | medical, hernia of the spleen |
| lienomalacia | medical, softening of the spleen |
| lienomedullary | medical, of spleen and bone marrow |
| lienomyelogenous | medical, arising in spleen and marrow |
| lienotoxin | medical, a toxin acting on the spleen |
| lignatile | biology, living or growing on wood |
| lignescent | botany, becoming woody |
| lignicoline | biology, growing on wood |
| ligninsulphonate | chemistry, a salt of lignin sulphonic acid |
| lignosulphite | chemistry, a lignin sulphite liquor product |
| ligulin | chemistry, a blue plant colouring reagent |
| liliated | heraldry, adorned with fleurs-de-lis |
| limacel | zoology, the internal shell of a slug |
| limacelle | zoology, rudimentary internal slug shell |
| limbiferous | botany, bearing a limb or border |
| limitanean | Roman history, of the frontier or limes |
| limnal | limnology, pertaining to lakes |
| limnanth | botany, a plant of the genus Limnanthes |
| limnanthaceous | botany, of the family Limnanthaceae |
| limnobiologically | limnology, in a limnobiological manner |
| limnophobia | medical, morbid dread of lakes |
| limnorioid | zoology, resembling the genus Limnoria |
| lindoite | petrology, a pale granitic dike rock |
| lineameter | an instrument for measuring lines |
| lineocircular | botany, linear and circular in outline |
| lineograph | an instrument for drawing lines |
| lineolated | botany, marked with fine lines |
| linguaeform | zoology, tongue-shaped |
| linguanasal | phonetics, made with tongue and nose |
| linguatuline | zoology, of the Linguatulina, tongue-worms |
| linguatuloid | zoology, resembling Linguatula |
| linguliferous | geology, bearing Lingula brachiopod shells |
| linguopapillitis | medical, inflammation of the tongue papillae |
| linneon | biology, a Linnaean species, opposed to jordanon |
| linolate | chemistry, a salt of linolic acid |
| linolenin | chemistry, the glyceride of linolenic acid |
| linolic | chemistry, linolic (linoleic) acid |
| linolin | chemistry, the glyceride of linolic acid |
| linometer | instrument for measuring fineness of flax fibre |
| linonophobia | medical, morbid dread of string |
| liodermia | medical, abnormally smooth glossy skin |
| liomyofibroma | medical, tumour of smooth muscle and fibre |
| liomyoma | medical, smooth-muscle tumour, leiomyoma |
| lionced | heraldry, ending in lions' heads |
| liotrichine | ornithology, of the babbler group Liotrichi |
| lipacidemia | medical, fatty acids in the blood |
| lipaciduria | medical, fatty acids in the urine |
| liparoid | medical, fatty, resembling fat |
| liparomphalus | medical, fatty swelling of the navel |
| liparous | medical, fat, obese |
| lipocele | medical, hernia containing fat |
| lipoceratous | medical, of the nature of adipocere |
| lipocere | medical, adipocere, grave-wax |
| lipochondroma | medical, tumour of fat and cartilage |
| lipochromic | biochemistry, of the lipochrome pigments |
| lipochromogen | biochemistry, precursor of a lipochrome |
| lipoclasis | medical, the splitting up of fat |
| lipoclastic | medical, fat-splitting |
| lipodystrophia | medical, disordered fat metabolism |
| lipoferous | physiology, carrying or conveying fat |
| lipographic | of lipography, omission of a letter in writing |
| lipohemia | medical, excess of fat in the blood |
| lipoidaemia | medical, lipoids in the blood |
| lipoidic | biochemistry, of the nature of a lipoid |
| lipomorph | biochemistry, a fat-like body |
| lipomyoma | medical, tumour of fat and muscle |
| lipomyxoma | medical, tumour of fat and mucous tissue |
| lipopectic | medical, fixing or storing fat |
| lipopexia | medical, storage of fat in the tissues |
| lipopod | zoology, a footless animal, one of the Lipopoda |
| lipothymial | medical, of lipothymia, fainting |
| lipotrophy | medical, increase of body fat |
| lipotropism | biochemistry, lipotropic action on fat |
| lipotype | ecology, a species absent from a given region |
| lipovaccine | medicine, a vaccine suspended in oil |
| lipsanographer | one who writes about relics, lipsanography |
| liquidogenic | botany, produced in or carried by liquid |
| lirellous | lichenology, having lirellae, linear apothecia |
| lissoflagellate | zoology, a member of the Lissoflagellata |
| lissotrichan | anthropology, straight-haired |
| listeriasis | medical, infection with Listeria |
| litaneutical | liturgy, pertaining to litanies or supplication |
| lithanode | electricity, a form of storage-battery plate |
| lithatic | medical, pertaining to lithic (uric) acid |
| lithiastic | medical, of lithiasis, stone formation |
| lithite | zoology, a statolith particle in an otocyst |
| lithobioid | zoology, resembling Lithobius centipedes |
| lithocenosis | surgery, removal of stone fragments from the bladder |
| lithochromatics | printing in colours from stone, chromolithography |
| lithochromatographic | printing, of lithochromatography |
| lithochromatography | printing in colours from stone |
| lithochromography | printing in colours from stone |
| lithoclase | geology, a fissure or joint in rock |
| lithoclastic | surgery, of the crushing of calculi |
| lithoculture | the art of working or cultivating stone |
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