(medicine) Relating to or involving abiotrophy; relating to or involving the functional loss of an organ or cells not due to an injury.
acarophobia
acarophobia
noun
(medicine) The fear of itching or of small crawling insects that cause itching, such as mites or lice.
achloropsia
achloropsia
noun
Inability to distinguish the colour green.
acrophobias
acrophobias
noun
plural of acrophobia
acrophonies
acrophonies
noun
plural of acrophony
acrotrophic
acrotrophic
adj
(biology, of an insect) Having nutritive cells at the top of the follicular tube
actinograph
actinograph
noun
A recording actinometer.
actinophore
actinophore
noun
(biology) A cartilaginous spine that supports the fin rays of fish
actinophrys
actuaryship
actuaryship
noun
The role or status of actuary.
adiamorphic
adiaphorism
adiaphorism
noun
The belief that certain religious doctrines or ceremonies are indifferent, i.e. do not matter.
adiaphorist
adiaphorist
noun
One who believes in adiaphorism.
adiaphorite
adiaphorite
Noun
One who believes in adiaphorism; an adiaphorist.
adiaphorous
adiaphorous
adj
neither harmful nor beneficial
admiralship
admiralship
noun
The state, property, or office of being an admiral.
advisership
advisership
noun
The status or office of an adviser.
aerographic
aerographic
adj
Relating to aerography.
aerophagist
aerophagist
noun
(medicine) A person who gulps in air.
aerophilous
aerophilous
adj
(biology, of unicellular organisms) Living in an aerobic environment
Synonym of aerophilic
aerophysics
aerophysics
noun
(physics) The physics of the design and construction of aerodynamic devices
agoraphobia
agoraphobia
noun
(rare) An aversion to markets.
The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
agoraphobic
agoraphobic
adj
Of, pertaining to or suffering from agoraphobia.
noun
One who suffers from agoraphobia.
agyrophobia
agyrophobia
noun
fear of crossing the street
ailurophile
ailurophile
noun
A person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover.
ailurophobe
ailurophobe
noun
A person with an irrational fear or hatred of felines.
airgraphics
airgraphics
noun
(dated) aerography; meteorology
airmanships
albitophyre
allographic
allographic
adj
Relating to allographs or allography.
allomorphic
allomorphic
adj
Pertaining to allomorphism or to allomorphs.
allotrophic
allotrophic
adj
Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion.
Of or pertaining to an allotroph.
almonership
almonership
noun
The rank or office of an almoner.
alnagership
alnagership
noun
The role or status of an alnager.
amateurship
amateurship
noun
The quality or character of an amateur.
amorphinism
amorphinism
noun
withdrawal symptoms from morphine
amphibrachs
amphibrachs
noun
plural of amphibrach
amphibryous
amphicarpia
amphicarpic
amphicarpic
adj
(botany) Producing fruit of two kinds, either in shape or in time of ripening.
amphicarpus
amphichroic
amphichroic
adj
(chemistry) Exhibiting or producing two colours, as substances which may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.
amphichrome
amphichromy
amphicrania
amphicrania
noun
(pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.
amphicyrtic
amphidromia
amphidromia
noun
An ancient Greek postnatal festive ceremony.
amphidromic
amphidromic
adj
Alternative form of amphidromical
Alternative form of amphidromous
Relating to a tidal node
amphierotic
amphigories
amphigories
noun
plural of amphigory
amphigouris
amphikaryon
amphimacers
amphimacers
noun
plural of amphimacer
amphimorula
amphipleura
amphiprotic
amphiprotic
adj
(chemistry) Able to both donate and accept a proton, and thus able to react both as an acid and a base; amphoteric.
amphirhinal
amphistylar
amphithuron
amphithyron
amphitricha
amphitropal
amphitropal
adj
(botany) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.
amphivorous
amphoricity
amphoricity
noun
(rare) The quality of being amphoric.
amphoriskoi
amphoriskos
ampitheater
ampitheater
noun
Misspelling of amphitheater.
amyotrophia
amyotrophia
noun
Alternative form of amyotrophy
amyotrophic
amyotrophic
adj
(medicine) Characterized by amyotrophy (atrophy of the muscles)
anamorphism
anamorphism
noun
(computer science) a generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras
anaphorical
anaphorical
adj
Synonym of anaphoric
anastrophia
androphobia
androphobia
noun
Fear of or aversion to men.
androsphinx
androsphinx
noun
A sphinx with the head of a man.
angiography
angiography
noun
(medicine) A medical imaging technique in which an X-ray image is taken to visualize the inside of blood vessels and organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins and the heart chambers.
anguimorpha
anosphrasia
anosphresia
antatrophic
anthotropic
anthropical
anthropical
adj
Alternative form of anthropic
anthropidae
anthropoids
anthropoids
noun
plural of anthropoid
antipharmic
antipharmic
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Serving as an antidote.
antiphonary
antiphonary
adj
Pertaining to an antiphon or antiphony.
antiphrases
antiphrases
noun
plural of antiphrase
plural of antiphrasis
antiphrasis
antiphrasis
noun
(rhetoric) Use of a word or phrase in a sense not in accord with its literal meaning, especially for ironic or humorous effect
antiprophet
antistrophe
antistrophe
noun
(rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
(rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
The lines of this part of the choral song.
The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
apanthropia
apanthropia
noun
Alternative form of apanthropy
aparthrosis
aphaniptera
aphoruridae
aphrodesiac
aphrodisiac
aphrodisiac
adj
Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.
noun
Something, generally a food or drug, having such an effect.
aphrodisian
aphrodisian
Adjective
Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus.
aphrodision
aphrodistic
aphroditeum
aphroditous
aphrogeneia
apomorphine
apomorphine
noun
(pharmacology) A crystalline morphine derivative that is a dopamine agonist, used as an emetic and is injected subcutaneously in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₇H₁₇NO₂·HCl·1/2H₂O to treat episodes of immobility associated with advanced Parkinson's disease.
aporhyolite
aporrhaidae
aporrhiegma
apostrophia
apostrophic
apostrophic
adj
(orthography) Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
(rhetoric) Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
apparatchik
apparatchik
noun
(historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
approaching
approaching
adj
That approaches or approach.
adv
Nearly.
noun
The act of coming closer; an approach.
verb
present participle of approach
archbishops
archbishops
noun
plural of archbishop
archdapifer
archesporia
archesporia
noun
plural of archesporium
archetypist
archetypist
noun
A proponent of the Jungian concept of archetypes.
archipelago
archipelago
noun
(by extension) Something scattered around like an archipelago.
(collective) A group of islands.
(now rare) The Aegean Sea.
archisphere
archonships
archonships
noun
plural of archonship
archoptosis
archpontiff
archpriests
archpriests
noun
plural of archpriest
archprimate
archprimate
noun
The chief primate of a Christian church.
archpuritan
archvampire
areographic
areographic
adj
(astronomy) Of or pertaining to areography
argiphontes
arkadelphia
arrhephoria
artisanship
artisanship
noun
The property of being an artisan.
artophorion
artophorion
noun
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The tabernacle on the high altar in an Eastern Orthodox church
aspheterism
aspheterism
noun
(dated, rare) The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should benefit from private possession.
aspheterize
aspheterize
verb
(dated, rare, transitive) To donate into common ownership, in line with the doctrine of aspheterism.
asphyxiator
asphyxiator
noun
One who or that which asphyxiates.
astraphobia
astraphobia
noun
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
astrophobia
astrophobia
noun
A fear of stars and celestial space.
ataxiagraph
ataxiagraph
noun
An instrument that measures the degree of ataxia in a patient
athwartship
athwartship
adj
(nautical) Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
adv
Alternative form of athwartships
atmospheric
atmospheric
adj
(painting) Translucent or hazy.
Evoking a particular emotional or aesthetic quality.
Of, relating to, produced by, or coming from the atmosphere.
atrophiated
atrophiated
adj
(obsolete) Atrophied.
auditorship
auditorship
noun
The office or function of auditor.
augitophyre
auriphrygia
auriphrygia
Noun
Properly, gold embroidery; ecclesiastically, an ornamental band on various vestments; an orphrey: used especially of the orphrey of a miter, which is a richly adorned band around its lower edge.
austrophile
authorships
authorships
noun
plural of authorship
autographic
autographic
adj
Containing or relating to an autograph.
automorphic
automorphic
adj
(geology) Describing a mineral, in an igneous rock, that is bounded by its own crystal face; euhedral, idiomorphic
(mathematics) Describing a number whose square ends in the number itself; circular
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to automorphy or an automorphism
Marked by automorphism, the ascription to others of one's own characteristics.
autotrophic
autotrophic
adj
(biology) Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as a source of energy.
auxographic
auxotrophic
auxotrophic
adj
(biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself