(medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function of organ or cell, not due to injury.
altropathy
amphitryon
amyotrophy
amyotrophy
noun
(pathology) atrophy of muscles
anastrophy
aortopathy
aortopathy
noun
(pathology) Any disease of the aorta
apanthropy
apanthropy
noun
An aversion to human company; love of solitude.
apothecary
apothecary
noun
(archaic in US, dated in UK) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
(archaic or historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
(uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
arthropody
asyntrophy
atrophying
atrophying
verb
present participle of atrophy
autography
autography
noun
(countable, rare) An autobiography.
A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
Writing in one's own handwriting.
autotrophy
autotrophy
noun
(biology) The synthesis of food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy
auxotrophy
auxotrophy
noun
(biology) The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation.
biotherapy
biotherapy
noun
(medicine) Any of several unrelated therapies that use natural biological processes, especially those that use parts of the immune system.
(medicine) The use of living organisms (such as maggots or leeches) in the control of disease or the healing of wounds.
boanthropy
boanthropy
noun
(psychiatry) The delusion that one is an ox or cow.
bryophytes
bryophytes
noun
plural of bryophyte
bryophytic
bryophytic
adj
Of or pertaining to bryophytes, the green, seedless land plants that make up the division Bryophyta, including mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
cacotrophy
cacotrophy
noun
(medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition.
carpophyte
carpophyte
noun
(botany) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization.
charophyta
chromatype
chromatype
noun
Alternative form of chromotype
chromotype
chromotype
noun
(historical) A photographic picture in the natural colours
(historical) A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph
chromotypy
chromotypy
noun
The production of chromotypes
coprophyte
coprophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant that lives on dung.
copyrights
copyrights
noun
plural of copyright
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyright
cormophyta
cormophyte
cormophyte
noun
(now informal, botany) Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
cryptolith
cyrtograph
cystophora
cystophore
cytotrophy
dermopathy
dermopathy
noun
(pathology) disease of the skin
dermophyte
dermophyte
noun
dermatophyte
diastrophy
dystrophia
dystrophia
noun
dystrophy
dystrophic
dystrophic
adj
(of a spring, lake &c) Having brownish acidic waters due to humus
Affected with dystrophy
ectomorphy
ectomorphy
noun
The condition of being ectomorphic
epistrophy
eremophyte
eremophyte
noun
(biology) Any plant that grows in a desert or steppe environment
ericophyte
erotopathy
erotopathy
noun
An abnormality related to sexual desire
erythropia
ethography
ethography
noun
The study and recording of moral behaviour and human manners
fetography
graphotype
graphotype
noun
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or zinc oxide is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
verb
To produce a design by this process.
heliotropy
heliotropy
noun
heliotropism
helpworthy
helpworthy
adj
Deserving or worthy of help.
heteropoly
heterotopy
heterotopy
noun
(biology) A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to take place over thousands of years by the gradual displacement of germ cells.
(biology) A deviation from the natural position; abnormal placement.
heterotype
hippometry
hogrophyte
hydropathy
hydropathy
noun
The therapeutic use of water, either internally or externally.
hydrophyte
hydrophyte
noun
(botany) A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed.
hydropotes
hyetograph
hyetograph
noun
A graphical representation of rainfall over time.
hygrophyte
hygrophyte
noun
(biology) Any plant that thrives on very wet but not submerged ground.
hylotropic
hymenopter
hymenopter
noun
(archaic) hymenopteran
hypaethron
hypaethron
noun
An open court.
hypaethros
hyperbaton
hyperbaton
noun
(grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
(rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.
hyperstoic
hypertonia
hypertonia
noun
(medicine) An abnormal increase in tightness of muscle tone, common in cerebral palsy.
hypertonic
hypertonic
adj
(anatomy) Having a very high muscular tension; spastic.
(of a solution) Having a greater osmotic pressure than another.
hypertonus
hypertonus
noun
(medicine) An excessive level of muscle tone.
hypertoxic
hypertoxic
adj
(rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.
hypnotiser
hypnotiser
noun
Alternative form of hypnotizer
hypnotizer
hypnotizer
noun
One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
hypocenter
hypocenter
noun
(US) Alternative spelling of hypocentre
hypocentre
hypocentre
noun
(geology) The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.
(military) The point on the surface below an atmospheric explosion; ground zero
hypocrater
hypocrital
hypocrital
adj
(dated) hypocritical
hypocrites
hypocrites
noun
plural of hypocrite
hypocritic
hypocritic
adj
Synonym of hypocritical
noun
A hypocrite.
hyponitric
hypopteral
hypopteron
hypopteron
noun
(biology) the tuft of axillary feathers of a bird's wing
hypoptilar
hypotarsal
hypotarsal
adj
Relating to the hypotarsus.
hypotarsus
hypotarsus
noun
(anatomy) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
hypotensor
hypothenar
hypothenar
adj
(anatomy) Of the muscles of the little finger.
(anatomy) Of the ulnar fleshy side of the palm.
noun
(technical) Ulnar fleshy side of the palm, formed by the underlying three muscles of the little finger.
Any of those muscles: the abductor, flexor, or opponens digiti minimi.
hypotheria
hypothermy
hypothermy
noun
Alternative form of hypothermia
hypotralia
hypotricha
hypotrophy
hypotrophy
noun
a degeneration in the functioning of an organ due to the reduction of the volume of the cells
hypsometer
hypsometer
noun
An instrument that measures altitude indirectly by measuring the boiling point of water (which varies with atmospheric pressure).
hypsometry
hypsometry
noun
The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.
keepworthy
keepworthy
adj
Worth keeping.
keratophyr
lipotrophy
macrophyte
macrophyte
noun
(biology) Any normal macroscopic plant, especially an aquatic one.
metamorphy
metamorphy
noun
The quality of being metamorphic.
metatrophy
metropathy
metropathy
noun
(medicine) Synonym of metropathia
microphyte
microphyte
noun
(biology) Any microscopic plant or alga
myoatrophy
necropathy
nephrocyte
nephrocyte
noun
(biology) a specialized cell, especially in arthropods, whose function involves the accumulation or formation of waste or excretory products
nephrotomy
nephrotomy
noun
(surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in, a kidney.
neuropathy
neuropathy
noun
(medicine) Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).
(medicine) Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy.
nitrophyte
nitrophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant that tolerates or thrives in a nitrogen-rich soil.
nosotrophy
nosotrophy
noun
(obsolete) The care and nursing of the sick.
notaryship
notaryship
noun
The state of being a notary.
oariopathy
ombrophyte
ombrophyte
noun
(biology) Any plant that is adapted to rainy conditions or habitats
ontography
ontography
noun
The study of how living creatures react to the physiographic environment.
ophiolatry
ophiolatry
noun
snake worship
opotherapy
opotherapy
noun
organotherapy
optography
optography
noun
The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye.
orotherapy
orotherapy
noun
(medicine, archaic) The use of serum to treat disease.
orthopaedy
orthopaedy
noun
Alternative form of orthopedy
orthopathy
orthopathy
noun
An alternative-medicine philosophy advocating a vegetarian raw-food diet with periods of intermittent fasting.
orthophony
orthophony
noun
The art of correct articulation / speaking
orthophyre
orthophyre
noun
(geology) a porphyritic rock that contains phenocrysts of orthoclase embedded in feldspar
orthoplasy
orthoplasy
noun
(historical) A theory of evolution, stating that that individual modifications supplement, protect, or screen organic characters and keep them alive until useful congenital variations arise and survive by natural selection, and that this process, combined in many cases with 'tradition', gives direction to evolution.
orthopraxy
orthopraxy
noun
Correct practice or action
Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.
orthotropy
orthotropy
noun
The condition of being orthotropic.
panatrophy
panatrophy
noun
(pathology) atrophy of all parts of a structure or the body; general atrophy
paratrophy
patchworky
patchworky
adj
Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.
pedatrophy
pedotrophy
pedotrophy
noun
The nourishment of children
pennyworth
pennyworth
noun
(dated) A good bargain.
A small value or quantity.
The amount that can be bought for a penny.
periphyton
periphyton
noun
(ecology) A mixture of algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, and detritus that is attached to submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems.
petroglyph
petroglyph
noun
(archaeology) A rock carving, especially one made in prehistoric times.
petrohyoid
petrohyoid
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to the petrous, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.
noun
(anatomy) A muscle of this kind.
phagocyter
phasotropy
phenocryst
phenocryst
noun
(mineralogy) Any relatively large crystal embedded in a more fine-grained or glassy igneous rock
phonometry
phonometry
noun
The measurement of sound.
phonotyper
phorometry
photodromy
photogyric
photometry
photometry
noun
(astronomy) The measurement of the intensity and spectrum of light from stars.
(physics) The measurement of various aspects of light, especially its intensity.
phototropy
phototropy
noun
phototropism
physiocrat
physiocrat
noun
(economics, now historical) Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws.
physometra
physometra
noun
distension of the uterus due to the presence of gas or air
phytograph
phytolatry
phytolatry
noun
The worship of plants.
phytometer
phytometer
noun
Any plant used as a phytometric standard
phytometry
phytometry
noun
The measurement of physiological responses of plants
polychrest
polychrest
noun
(medicine) A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
polyhistor
polyhistor
noun
Someone gifted or learned to a great extent or in multiple disciplines; a great scholar.
polyrhythm
polyrhythm
noun
(countable, music) A rhythm performed as part of a piece of music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously.
(countable, music) Music containing two or more conflicting pulses.
(uncountable, music) Music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously.
porphyrite
porphyrite
noun
A rock with a porphyritic structure.
pothookery
prehistory
prehistory
noun
(humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
(often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
The study of those times.
The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.