deca- [DEK uh], dec-, deka-, dek- (Greek: ten; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)

deca- [DEK uh], dec-, deka-, dek- (Greek: ten; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements). In the metric [decimal] system, deca- is used to show whole units: ten [U.S.] and tenfold [U.K.]; 10¹ [10]. The metric symbol for deca- is da.

decachord:

decade:

decagon:

decagonal:

decagram:

decagramme (British):

decahedra:

decahedral:

decahedron:

decahedrous:

decaliter:

decalitre (British):

Decalog:

Decalogue:

Decameron:

decameter:

decametre (British):

decangular:

decanormal:

decapeptide:

decapod:

decapoda:

decapodal:

decapodan:

decapodous:

decarch:

decarchy:

decastyle:

decasyllabic:

decasyllable:

decathlon:

decem-, decim-, deci-, dec- (Latin: ten; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

In the metric [decimal] system, deci- [DE si] is used to show 1/10 of a unit, as10^-1 [0.1]; tenth [U.S.] and tenth part [U.K.]. The metric symbol is d.

December:

decemvir:

decemviral:

decemvirate:

decennaries:

decennary:

decenniad:

decennial:

decennially:

decennium:

decibel:

decigramme (British):

deciliter:

decilitre (British):

decillion:

decimal:

decimalism:

decimalist:

decimalization:

decimalize:

decimally:

decimate:

decimation:

decimeter:

decimetre (British):

decimvir:

duodecennial:

duodecimal:

duodecimo:

quindecennial:

undecennary:

undecennial:

decibels (Latin: "ten" plus "bel" [Alexander Graham Bell]; a list of decibel levels and the examples that show the various decibel scales).

A decibel (pronounced: DES uh buhl), also known as a dB, is a unit for measuring the relative intensity of sounds, equal to one-tenth of a bel. A bel is used in physics to measure the difference in the intensity level of sounds to normal human ears, equal to ten decibels. It is estimated that 0 dB corresponds roughly to the quietest sound that can be heard by a healthy young adult. Normal conversation has a level of 60-70 dB, while sounds above about 100 dB tend to be uncomfortably loud and can damage our ears if heard for a long time. Sounds with a level above 120 dB can damage peoples' ears within quite a short time, perhaps only a few minutes.

When the level of a sound is increased by 10dB, the subjective loudness roughly doubles, whereas the sound power actually increases by a factor of 10. The smallest detectable change in level is about 1dB. The system was named after Alexander Graham Bell [1847-1922], who is given credit for being the inventor of the telephone.

"Numerous studies have shown prolonged exposure to 85 decibels or more can cause permanent hearing loss. Other physiological damage can occur at lower levels."

"A single, explosive noise is capable of damaging hair cells, but hearing loss is usually the result of continual exposure to volumes over 80-85 decibels."

Harvard Medical School Health Letter,
(Vol. II, No. 8, 1986), pp. 1-4.

Decibel or dB Levels
180 decibels, equivalent to a rocket launching pad [hearing loss inevitable].

140 decibels, equivalent to a gunshot blast, jet plane take-off at close range [approximately 200 feet], air raid siren [any length of exposure time is dangerous and is at the threshold of pain].

130 decibels, equivalent to sound vibrations felt, as with thunder or near a four-engine jet at thirty meters.

125 decibels, equivalent to a diesel engine room.

120 decibels, equivalent to an amplified rock concert in front of speakers, sand-blasting, thunderclap [immediate danger], a nearby airplane engine, some rock or hard-metal cacophony groups, pneumatic hammer at one meter, thunderclap over head [at around 120 dB, the sensation of hearing is replaced by that of pain].

110 decibels, equivalent to deafening factory noises and some musical boxes turned up too loudly, discotheque, thunder, rock-n-roll band.

108 decibels, equivalent to the coqui frog croak of Puerto Rico [up to 108 dB].

105 decibels, In a Malaysian surgical-glove factory, making surgical-latex gloves by dipping porcelain models of the human hand into liquid latex, which when dried, is blown off the hands by air jets. Before modifications to the air jets, the gloves were blown off every 30 seconds at a deafening 125 decibels.

100 decibels, equivalent to a chain saw, pneumatic drill, printing plant, jackhammer, speeding express train, some car horns at five meters, farm tractor, riveting machine, some noisy subways [about 20 feet].

90 decibels, equivalent to a police whistle, heavy traffic, truck traffic, noisy home appliances subway-rail train, pneumatic drill [or hammer] at one meter, walk-man ear phone [average volume], rock drill at 100 feet, some motorcycles at 25 feet, shouted conversation.

80 decibels, equivalent to heavy city traffic [25-50 feet], alarm clock at two feet, factory noise, vacuum cleaner, heavy truck, loud-radio music, garbage disposal.

70 decibels, equivalent to typewriter, average factory noise, busy traffic [at one meter], office tabulator, noisy restaurant [constant exposure], quiet vacuum cleaner, TV.

60 decibels, equivalent to an air conditioner at twenty feet, conversation [at one meter], sewing machine, large transformer, ordinary or average street traffic.

50 decibels, equivalent to quiet radio, average home, light traffic at a distance of 100 feet, refrigerator, gentle breeze, average office, non-electric typewriter, ordinary spoken voice.

40 decibels, equivalent to quiet office, living room, bedroom away from traffic, residential area [no traffic]; many computer hard drives range an average of 40-50 dB, soft whisper [five feet].

30 decibels, equivalent to quiet conversation, soft whisper, quiet suburb, speech in a broadcasting studio.

20 decibels, equivalent to whispering, ticking of a watch [by the ear], rural area [without loud farm machinery or other excessive noises].

10 decibels, equivalent to the rustling of leaves.

0-1 decibels, equivalent to the faintest sounds that can be heard, the threshold of audibility.

There are professional acoustic engineers who are in the business of "noisebusting" machinery used by individuals and production lines. Some noisebusting is pure decibel reduction to meet safety standards. OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (a U.S. government agency), has limited workers' exposures to eight hours per day at sound levels of 90 decibels, four hours at 95 decibels and two hours at 100 decibels, with special limits for quick, sharp sounds, such as explosions.

"Listen to This" by Richard Wolkomir
(The Reader's Digest, January, 1997),
from Smithsonian, by Richard Wolkomir
(February,1996).

dei-, div- (Latin: God, god [deity, divine nature]).

adieu (French):

Goodbye (literally, "I commend you to god.").

deicide, deicidal:

The act of killing a god or goddess.

deific:

1. Making someone divine or giving him/her the status of a god or goddess.
2. With a divine nature or the status of a god or goddess.

deification:

1. The action or process of making someone a god or goddess.
2. The condition of having been made a god or goddess.

deiform:

1. Having the form of a god; godlike in form.
2. Conformable to the character or nature of God; godlike, divine, holy.

deify, deified, deifying:

1. To make someone into a god.
2. To honor or adore someone or something as if he, she, or it were divine.

deiparous:

Bearing or bringing forth a god (giving birth to a god).

deism, deist, deistic, deistical:

A belief in God based on reason rather than revelation, and involving the view that God has set the universe in motion but does not interfere with how it runs. Deism was especially influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Deity:

God in monotheistic belief.

deity:

1. A god, goddess, or other divine being.
2. Someone or something that is treated like a god.
3. The condition or status of a god or goddess.

divinal:

Pertaining to divination; divinatory, magical.

divination:

1. The methods or practices of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or by supernatural powers.
2. A prophecy or prediction; soothsaying or augury.
3. A premonition or feeling of forboding about something that is going to happen.

divine:

1. Being God or a god or goddess.
2. Connected with, coming from, or caused by God or a god or goddess.
3. Connected with the worship or service of God or a god or goddess.
4. To learn or discover something by intuition, inspiration, or other apparently supernatural means.
5. A member of the clergy, especially one who is knowledgeable about theology.
6. God, or whatever else is believed to be the underlying creative and sustaining force in the universe.

divinely:

By God or a god or goddess.

diviner, divining:

Someone who searches for underground water, metal, or minerals using something such as a divining rod.

divinity:

1. The quality associated with being God, a god, or a goddess.
2. The study of religion, especially the Christian religion.
3. God, a god, or a goddess.

divinize:

To deify.

indivinable:

Not divinable; incapable of being divined.

predivination:

The divining of events beforehand.

predivine:

To divine beforehand, presage, prognosticate.

semidivine:

Half divine; a demigod.

deipno-, deipn- (Greek: dinner; dining).

deipnosophist, deipnosophistic, deipnosophism:

1. One who is learned in the art of dining; also said to be, one who is an adept conversationalist at the dinner table.
2. A master of the art of dining: taken from the title of the Greek work of Atheneus, in which a number of learned men are represented as dining together and discussing subjects that range from the dishes before them to literary criticism and miscellaneous topics of every description.

deipno-diplomatic: A reference to dining and diplomacy.

deipnophobia:

An abnormal fear of dining, dinner conversation, and of carrying on a conversation while eating. Individuals who have this fear usually eat their meals in silence and request silence from their companions at the table.

delo-, del- (Greek: visible, clear, clearly seen; obvious).

adelomorphous:

Not a clearly defined form. In the past this term was applied to certain cells of the gastric glands.

adelopod, adelopode:

An animal whose feet are not apparent.

delomorphous, delomorphic:

With definite form; applied to oxyntic cells of the gastric glands.

delotikos:

Indicative.

delotos:

Demonstrable.

epidelos:

Clearly seen.

eudelos:

Quite clear, manifest.

peridelos:

Very clear, conspicuous.

delta, delt- (Greek: triangular; fourth letter of the Greek alphabet).

delta:

deltaic:

deltoid:

delto-, delt- (Greek: writing-tablet).

deltiologist:

A collector of post cards.

deltiology:

The hobby of collecting post cards.

demento-, dement- (Latin: insanity, madness).

Literally, a being out of one's mind; mad, raving, crazy.

demi- (Latin: half; used as a prefix).

demigod:

demigoddess:

demilune:

demimonde:

demirelief:

demirep:

demisemiquaver:

demitasse:

demiurge:

1. A very strong, driving, and influential force or personality.
2. In history, a public magistrate in some ancient Greek states.
3. When capitalized, Demiurge in Gnostic and Platonic philosophies, refers to the creator and controller of the material world.

demivolt:

demo-, dem-, demio-, -demic, -deme, -demically (Greek: people).

From district, country, land, and the people who inhabit those territories.

demagogue, demagog, demagogical:

1. A political leader who gains power by apealing to people's emotions and prejudices rather than their rationality.
2. In ancient times, a popular leader who represented the ordinay people.

demagoguery:

The character, behavior, tactics, or rhetoric of a demagogue.

democracy:

1. The free and equal right of every person to participae in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
2. A country with a government that has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens.
3. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes.

democrat:

Someone who believes in democracy and the democratic system of government and argues in favor of them.

democratic, democratically:

Characterized by free and equal participation in government or in the decision-making processes of an organization or group.

democratize, democratized, democratization, democratizing:

1. To put a country under the control of its citizens by allowing hem to participate in a government of decision-making processes in a free and equal way.
2. To take steps toward establishing the features of liberal democracy in a state.
3. To put an organization under the control of its members by giving them free and equal decision-making powers.

demographer:

Someone who studies human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death.

demographic, demographically:

Relating to demography or demographics.

demographics:

The characteristics of a human population or part of it; especially its size, growth, density, distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death (requires a plural verb).

demography:

The study of human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution; as well as, statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death.

demomania:

The apparent excessive attachment to the "common people".

demomaniac:

Someone who is perceived to have an excessive attachment to the "common people".

demophil:

Having a fondness or love of people; a friend of the people.

demophile:

A person who has a fondness for people.

demophilia:

Having a special interest in the lives and habits of the masses.

demotic:

1. Relating to or involving ordinary people.
2. Relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics, the writing system used in ancient Egypt. Literally, "of the people".

endemic:

1. Used to describe a disease occurring within a specific area, region, or locale.
2. Characteristic of a particular place or among a particular group or area of interest or activity. Literally, "in the people".

epidemic, epidemical:

An outbreak of a disease that spreads more quickly and more extensively among a group of people than would normally be expected.

epidemicity:

The quality of being epidemic.

epidemiography:

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

epidemiologist:

A specialist in the medical study of causes and transmissions of diseases among people.

epidemiology:

1. The scientific and medical study of the causes and transmission of disease within a population.
2. The origin and development characteristics of a particular disease.

pandemia:

Of or belonging to the whole people, public, general.

pandemic:

1. General, universal; especially, of a disease.
2. Prevalent over the whole of a country or continent, or over the whole world. Distinguished from epidemic, which may connote limitation to a smaller area.
3.

plutodemocracy:

1. Plutocratic government which masquerades as democracy.
2. A country or state that purports to be a democracy but where power lies with the rich.

theodemocracy:

A democracy under divine, or religious, rule.

demono-, demon-, -demonic, -demon, -demonical, -demoniac, daemono-, -daemonic, -daemonical, -daemon, -daemoniac, -daemonia, -daemoniacally, -daimon, -daimonic (Greek: devil, demon [evil spirit]; an intermediary spirit between gods and men which could be good or evil).

" … a daemon and a demon are not one and the same thing. And it is daemon, in its Platonic sense of a being intermediary between gods and men — not demon with its Judaeo-Christian import of an unclean, evil, or malignant spirit that we must keep in mind."

Webster's New International Dictionary 2nd Ed., by J.L. Lowes
(Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1950).

ademonist:

cacodemon:

cacodemonia:

cacodemoniac:

cacodemonic:

daemon:

Daemonelux:

daemonic:

daemonurgy:

daemony:

demon:

demoniac:

demonian:

demonianism:

demonic:

demonize:

demonocracy:

demonolatry:

demonologic:

demonological:

demonologist:

demonology:

demonomancy:

demonomania:

demonopathy:

demonophobia:

demonurgy:

eudemon:

eudemonia:

pandemonism:

pandemonium:

polydaemonism:

polydaemonistic:

polydemonism:

polydemonistic:

dendro-, dendr-, dendri-, -dendria, -dendrite, -dendritic, -dendra, -dendron (Greek: tree, tree-like structure).

acrodendrophilous, acrodendrophile, acrodendrophily:

In biology, describing a species that lives or thrives in treetop habitats.

dendral:

Pertaining to or of the nature of a tree; arboreal.

dendranthropology, dendranthropologic, dendranthropological:

Study based on the theory that man came from trees.

dendraxon:

A terminal filament of the neuraxon of a nerve cell.

dendric:

Pertaining to or possessing a dendron.

dendriceptor:

In neurology, a receptive point at an end of the branching processes of a dendrite where it can enter into contact with and be stimulated by the axon endings of other neurons.

dendriform, dendroid:

Like a tree; in the form of a tree.

dendrite, dendron:

1. In medicine, One of the two types of branching protoplasmic processes of the nerve cell (the other being the axon); dendritic process, dendron, neurodendrite, neurodendron.
2. A crystalline tree-like structure formed during the freezing of an alloy.

dendritic:

1. Dendroid; tree-like structures or markings.
2. Relating to the dendrites of nerve cells.

dendrochore:

That part of the Earth's surface covered by trees.

dendrochronologist:

A specialist in dating by examining tree rings.

dendrochronology:

1. A method of dating using annual tree-rings; tree-ring chronology.
2. The science of tree-ring analysis and its implications.
3. In archaeology, a method of dating wooden objects by analyzing the pattern of their annual rings and comparing this pattern to an established tree-ring sequence for the region.

dendroclastic:

Breaking or destroying trees; a destroyer of trees.

dendroclimatology:

1. The determination of past climatic conditions from the study of the annual growth rings of trees.
2. The study of past climates by the examination of the annual growth rings in (ancient) timber.

dendrocolous, dendrocole:

Living in, or growing on, trees.

Dendrogaea:

A biogeographical region including all of the neotropical region except temperate South America.

dendrogram, dendrograph, dendrography:

1. A tree-like figure used to graphically represent a hierarchy.
2. In biology, a branching diagram used to show relationships between members of a group.
3. A family tree with the oldest common ancestor at the base, and branches for various divisions of lineage.

dendrohydrology:

In hydrology, the study of tree-ring configuration to determine hydrologic occurrences; variations in the width reveal variations in precipitation or water flow.

dendroid, dendroidal; dendriform:

1. Shaped or formed like a tree; tree-like; aborescent.
2. In biology, of or relating to a tree or its growth patterns; resembling a tree.
3. Something showing many branches.

dendrolatry, dendrolatrous:

The worship of trees.

dendrolite:

A petrified or fossil tree or part of a tree.

dendrologist:

A specialist in the identification and classification of trees and shrubs.

dendrology, dendrologic, dendrological:

In forestry, the branch of forestry that focuses on the identification and classification of trees and shrubs.

dendrometer:

An instrument for measuring the diameters and heights of trees or logs, based on principles concerning the relation of the sides of similar triangles.

dendrophagous, dendrophagus, dendrophage, dendrophagy:

Feeding mainly on the wood of trees.

dendrophilous, dendrophilia, dendrophile, dendrophily:

1. In biology, thriving in trees; living in orchards.
2. Growing on or twining around trees.
3. In psychiatry, a love of trees; sometimes interpreted as a fondness for phallic symbols.

dendrophobia:

An irrational fear of trees.

dendrophysis:

In mycology, a hypha or filament that branches out on trees; found in fungi belonging to the family Cyphellaceae.

epidendral, epidendrous, epidendric:

Growing on trees or existing on trees.

philodendrist:

One who has a special fondness for trees.

philodendron:

A climbing evergreen plant characterized by smooth, shiny, leaves; often grown as a houseplant; found in tropical America. Via Modern Latin, from Greek, philodendros, "loving trees" because it climbs trees in its native habitat.

rhododendron:

An evergreen shrub of the heath family that is native to southern Asia but is widely grown in temperate regions for its cluster of brightly colored flowers. Via Latin, "oleander", from Greek, rhodon, "rose" plus dendron, "tree".

telodendria, telodendron:

One of the terminal branches into which the axon of a nerve cell divides.

densi-, dens- (Latin: thick, thickly set, crowded).

condensable:

condensation:

condense:

dense:

densely:

denseness:

densimeter:

density:

dentin- (Latin: the substance that immediately surrounds the tooth pulp and makes up the major part of the tooth; derived from Latin den[s], dent[is], "tooth").

dento-, dent-, denta-, dentino-, denti-, dentin- (Latin: tooth, teeth).

dandelion (French):

dental:

dentalgia:

dentaphone:

dentate:

denticle:

denticulate:

denticulated:

dentification:

dentiform:

dentifrice:

dentigerous:

dentilabial:

dentilingual:

dentimeter:

dentinalgia:

dentine:

dentinitis:

dentinogenesis:

dentinogenic:

dentinoid:

dentiparous:

dentist:

dentistry:

dentition:

dentofacial:

dentographydentoid:

dentoid:

dentoiden:

dentolingual:

dentomechanical:

dentonomy:

dentosurgical:

dentotropic:

denture:

Edentata:

edentate:

edentulous:

indent:

indentation:

indention:

indenture:

interdental:

mastodon:

orthodontist:

peridontal:

soricident:

trident:

deon-, deont- (Greek: duty, that which is binding).

deontology:

The science of duty; that branch of knowledge which deals with moral obligations. Coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in 1826.

deorsum- (Latin: downwards).

dermo-, derm-, derma-, dermato-, dermat-, -derm, -derma, -dermatic, -dermatous, -dermis, -dermal, -dermic, -dermoid, -dermatoid (Greek: skin).

adermia:

adermogenesis:

anetoderm:

anetodermal:

anetodermics:

anthropodermic:

blastoderm:

cacodermia:

cynoderma:

derma:

dermabrasion:

dermagen:

dermagraph:

dermagraphia:

dermagraphy:

dermahemia:

dermal:

dermalaxia:

dermalgia:

dermametropathism:

dermanaplasty:

dermaskeleton:

dermatalgia:

dermataneuria:

dermatergosis:

dermatic:

dermatitis:

dermatocele:

dermatochalasis:

dermatoconiosis:

dermatodysplasi:

dermatoglyphics:

dermatograph:

dermatographia:

dermatographic:

dermatographism:

dermatography:

dermatoheteroplasty:

dermatologist:

dermatology:

dermatolysis:

dermatome:

dermatomycosis:

dermatomyositis:

dermatoneurosis:

dermatopathia:

dermatopathic:

dermatopathology:

dermatopathy:

dermatophyte:

dermatophytosis:

dermatoplasty:

dermatosclerosis:

dermatosis:

dermatotherapy:

dermatotrophy:

dermatotropic:

dermatozoon:

dermatozoonosis:

dermatrophi:

dermatrophy:

dermiatrics:

dermic:

dermis:

dermitis:

dermochrome:

dermoglyphics:

dermograph:

dermographia:

dermographic:

dermographism:

dermography:

dermohemia:

dermoid:

dermoidectomy:

dermolipoma:

dermolysis:

dermometer:

dermometry:

dermomycosis:

dermonecrotic:

dermoneurosis:

dermonosology:

dermopathic:

dermopathy:

dermophobe:

dermophyte:

dermoplasty:

dermoptera:

dermoreaction:

dermoskeleton:

dermostenosis:

dermosyphilopathy:

dermotactile:

dermotoxin:

dermotropic:

dermovaccine:

dermovirous:

diadermic:

echinoderm:

ectoderm:

ectodermosis:

endermic:

endoderm:

epidermatoplasty:

epidermis:

epidermization:

epidermoid:

epidermoidal:

epidermosis:

geroderma:

gerodermia:

hypodermic:

intradermal:

intradermia:

intradermic:

leioderma:

leproderm:

leprodermia:

leprodermic:

leptoderm:

leptodermia:

leptodermic:

leucoderma:

liparodermia:

melanoderma:

mesoderm:

mesodermal:

neurodermatosis:

pachyderm:

pachydermia:

photodermia:

pyoderma:

scleroderma:

sclerodermal:

scrofuloderm:

scrofuloderma:

somatoderm:

staitinodermia:

streptodermatitis:

syphiloderm:

taxidermic:

taxidermist:

taxidermy:

toxicoderma:

toxicodermatitis:

transdermal:

transdermic:

xeroderma:

xerodermia:

xerodermic:

dero-, der- (Greek: neck).

desmo-, desm- (Greek: band, bond; ligament).

deutero-, deuter-, deut- (Greek: two; second [in a series]).

dexter-, dextra-, dextro- (Latin: right, right hand, to the right; therefore, "skillful, fortunate").

ambidexterity:

ambidextrous:

dexter:

dexterity:

dexterous:

dextrad:

dextral:

dextrality:

dextraural:

dextraurality:

dextren:

dextrocardia:

dextrocardiogram:

dextrocerebral:

dextroclination:

dextrocularity:

dextroduction:

dextrogastria:

dextrogyral:

dextrogyration:

dextromanual:

dextropedal:

dextrophobia:

dextroposition:

dextrorotation:

dextrorotatory:

dextrosinistral:

dextrotorsion:

dextrotropic:

dextrous:

dextroversion:

dextroverted:

sinistrodexterit:

sinistrodextral:

sinistrodextrous:

di-, dicho-, dich- (Greek: number two; twice, divided, double; unalike; a number used as a prefix).

diadelphous:

diarchy:

dibrachia:

dicephalous:

dicephaly:

dicheilia:

dicheria:

dichogamous:

dichogamy:

dichogeny:

dichotic:

dichotomy:

dichroism:

dichromatic:

dichromatism:

dichromic:

dichromophil:

dichromophilism:

dicyclic:

didactylism:

didactylous:

digametic:

digamous:

digamy:

digastric:

digenetic:

diglossia:

diglot:

diglyph:

digram:

digraph:

dihedral:

dihysteria:

dilemma:

dimeter:

dimorphic:

dimorphism:

dimorphobiotic:

dimorphous:

dioxide:

diphonia:

diphthong:

diphyllous:

diploid:

diploma:

dipodia:

dipolar:

Diptera:

dipteral:

Dipterocarpus:

dipterous:

dipteryx:

dipus:

disyllable:

ditheism:

dittograph:

diurnal:

divide:

dizygotic:

dia-, di- (Greek: through, thoroughly, across, entirely, utterly; used as a prefix).

adiathermance:

adiathermancy:

diabetes:

diabetic:

diabolic:

diachronous:

diacoustic:

diacoustics:

diacritic:

diacritical:

diadem:

diadochokinesia:

diadochokinesis:

diadochokinetic:

diagnosis:

diagnostic:

diagnosticate:

diagnostication:

diagonal:

diagram:

diagrammatic:

diagraph:

diaheliotropism:

diakinesis:

dialect:

dialectic:

dialectologist:

dialectology:

dialog:

dialogic:

dialogist:

dialogue:

dialysis:

diamagnetic:

diamagnetism:

diameter:

diaphanous:

diaphragmatic:

diarrhea:

diarrhoea:

diarthrosis:

diathermancy:

diathermanism:

diathermanous:

diathermic:

diathermy:

diatribe:

diatropism:

diabolo-, diabol- (Greek: devil, demon [literally, "to throw across;" then, "to attack, to slander"]).

adiabolist:

devil:

deviltry:

diablerie:

1. Sorcery; witchcraft.
2. Representation of devils or demons, as in paintings or fiction.
3. Devilish conduct; deviltry.

diabolepsy:

diabolical:

diabolism:

diabolist:

diabolize:

diabology:

diabolology:

diabolonian:

monodiabolism:

monodiabolistic:

polydiabolism:

polydiabolistic:

dicho- (Greek: two, divided; a number used as a prefix).

dictyo- (Greek: net, netlike).

didym- (Greek: twin; testicle).

digit (Latin: finger, toe).

digit:

digital:

digitaliform:

digitalis:

digitate:

digitation:

digiti (plural):

digiti pedis:

digitiform:

digitigrade:

digitorium:

digitus (singular):

digitus medius:

digitus minimus:

interdigit:

interdigitation:

paradigitate:

prestidigitate (French):

prestidigitation:

prestidigitator:

sexdigitism:

diko-, dik-, dico-, dic- (Greek: a judge; right, order, law, manner; justice).

dino-, din- (Greek: fearful, frightful; terrible, powerful).

Dinocera:

Dinornis:

dinosaur:

Dinosaura:

dinothere:

Dinotherium:

dino-, din- (Greek: whirling; full of eddies; to whirl around; by extension: dizziness).

diphther- (Greek > Latin > French: leather, prepared hide, membrane).

An infectious disease characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages. Coined by the French physician Pierre Bretonneau [1778-1862]. The disease was so called by Bretonneau because it is characterized by the formation of a false membrane.

diphtheria:

diphtherial:

diphtheritic:

diphtheritis:

diphteroid:

diphtherotoxin:

diplo-, dipl- (Greek: double [two-fold]).

diplobacillus:

diplobacteria (plural):

diplobacterium (singular):

diploblastic:

diplocardia:

diplocardiac:

diplococcus:

diplogaster:

diplogenesis:

diplogram:

diploic:

diploid:

diploma:

diplomyelia:

diploneural:

diplophonia:

diplopia:

diplopiaphobia:

diplopodia:

diploscope:

diplosomia:

dipso-, -dipsia, -dipsy, -dipsias (Greek: thirst, thirsty [toward "drink"]).

adipsa:

adipsia:

adipsous:

adipsy:

anadipsia:

dipisa:

dipsesis:

Thirst; being thirsty.

dipsetic:

dipsia:

dipsogen:

dipsogenic:

dipsomania:

dipsomaniac:

dipsomanophobia:

dipsopathy:

dipsophobia:

dipsorexia:

dipsosis:

dipsotherapy:

dysdipsia:

paradipsia:

pollakidipsia:

polydipsia:

dis-, di-, dif- (Latin: [apart, asunder]; [away, from]; [utterly, completely]; used as a prefix).

This prefix is used with a great number of words. The meaning of dis- varies with different words; dif-, assimilated form of dis- before f; di-, form of dis- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v

Separation [apart, asunder]:

disable:

disadvantaged:

disagree:

disagreeable:

disappear:

disappoint:

disapprove:

disarm:

disarmament:

disassociate:

disaster:

disastrous:

disciple:

discipline:

disclaim:

disconnect:

discontent:

discord:

discourse:

disequilibrium:

dishonest:

disinfect:

disinfectant:

dissatisfy:

dissect:

dissemble:

disseminate:

dissent:

dissertation:

disservice:

dissident:

dissimilar:

dissimulate:

dissipate:

dissociate:

dissoluble:

dissolute:

dissolve:

dissonance:

dissuade:

distribute:

Removal [away, from]:

differ:

difference:

differentiate:

difficile:

difficult:

diffident:

difform:

difformity:

diffuse:

diffusion:

Negation, deprivation, undoing, reversal [utterly, completely]; di-, form of dis- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v:

difference:

differentiate:

difficile:

difficult:

diffident:

difform:

difformity:

diffuse:

diffusion:

digest:

digestion:

digress:

digression:

dilatediffer:

diligent:

dilute:

dilution:

diluvial:

diluvium:

diminish:

direct:

diversion:

divorce:

discip- (Latin: discipulus, pupil, apprentice).

According to Dr. Ernest Klein in his A comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Elsevier Publishing Co., New York, 1966: "Folk etymology has associated Latin discipulus with discere, 'to learn', although derivatively the two words are not related."

disciple:

1. One who follows or attends upon another for the purpose of learning from him; a pupil or scholar.
2. One of the personal followers of Jesus Christ during his life; especially, one of the Twelve Disciples.
3. Also applied in the New Testament to the early Christians generally; hence, in religious use, a professed follower of Christ, a Christian or believer.
4. One who follows, or is influenced by, the doctrine or example of another; one who belongs to the "school" of any leader of thought.
5. Someone who strongly believes in the teachings of a leader, a philosophy, or a religion, and is loyal to the group of his choice.

disciplinarian:

Someone who insists that rules are obeyed strictly, and who punishes people who break them.

disciplinary:

Relating to the enforcing of rules and the punishing of people who break them.

discipline:

1. The practice or methods of enduring that people obey rules by teaching them to do so and punishing them if they do not.
2. A controlled orderly state, especially in a class of school children.
3. The ability to behave in a controlled and calm way even in a difficult or stressful situation.
4. Mental self-control used in directing or changing behavior, learning something, or training for something.
5. A branch of instruction or education; a department of learning or knowledge; a science or art in its educational aspect; a subject or field or activity, e.g., an academic subject.
6. Instruction having for its aim to form the pupil to proper conduct and action; the training of scholars or subordinates to proper and orderly action by instructing and exercising them in the same; mental and moral training; also used figuratively of the training effect of experience, adversity, etc.
7. The order maintained and observed among pupils, or other persons under control or command; such as, soldiers, sailors, the inmates of a religious house, a prison, etc.

disciplined:

Showing orderliness and control in the way something is done or someone behaves.

discipliner:

One who disciplines or subjects to discipline; an adherent of a system of discipline.

discipular:

Of, belonging to, or of the nature of, a disciple.

discipulate:

The state of a disciple; discipleship, pupilage.

indisciplinable:

Incapable of being disciplined; not amenable to discipline; intractable.

interdisciplinary, pluridisciplinary:

Of or pertaining to two or more disciplines or branches of learning; contributing to or benefiting from two or more disciplines.

multidisciplinary, multidisciplined:

Combining many academic approaches, fields, or methods.

transdisciplinary:

Of or pertaining to more than one discipline or branch of learning; interdisciplinary.

undisciplined:

Not subjected to discipline; untrained.

disco-, disc-, disko-, disk- (Greek > Latin: disk).

Round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate".

distric- (Latin: political or geographical division).

diversi- (Latin: different, separate, opposite; literally, turned away [from each other]).

diverticul- (Latin: [from di-, "apart" and vertere, "to turn"] by-road, digression, deviation; to turn away, go in different directions).

Used in the specialized sense of "tubular pocket or pouch that branches off from a bodily cavity or canal".

diverticula:

Plural of diverticulum.

diverticular:

Relating to a diverticulum.

diverticularization:

The act of forming diverticula, pockets, etc.

diverticulectomy:

Excision of a diverticulum.

diverticulitis:

1. Inflammation of a diverticulum, especially of the small pockets in the wall of the colon which fill with stagnant fecal material and become inflamed; rarely, they may cause obstruction, perforation, or bleeding.
2. Inflammation of a diverticulum, especially inflammation related to colonic diverticula, which may undergo perforation with abscess formation; sometimes this is called left-sided or L-sided appendicitis.

diverticulogram:

A roentgenogram of a diverticulum.

diverticuloma:

Development of a granulomatous mass in the wall of the colon.

diverticulopexy:

1. Surgical fixation of a diverticulum in a new position following its separation from the initial adjacent or adherent structures.
2. A plastic operation to obliterate a diverticulum.

diverticulosis:

1. The presence of diverticula, particularly of colonic diverticula, in the absence of inflammation.
2. Presence of a number of diverticula of the intestine, common in middle age; the lesions are "acquired pulsion diverticula".

diverticulum (singular), diverticula (plural):

1. A circumscribed pouch or sac of variable size occurring normally or created by herniation of the lining mucous membrane through a defect in the muscular coat of a tubular organ.
2. A sac or pouch in the walls of a canal or organ.
3. A pouch or sac opening from a tubular or saccular organ; such as, the gut or bladder.

doc-, doct- (Latin: teach, instruct).

docile:

docility:

doctor:

doctoral:

doctorate:

doctorial:

doctrinal:

doctrinate:

doctrine:

document:

documentary:

indoctrinate:

indoctrination:

indoctrinator:

docho-, doch- (Greek: take, receive).

dodeca-, dodec- (Greek: twelve).

dodecadactylitis:

dodecadactylon:

dodecagon:

dodecahedral:

dodecahedron:

dodecaphonic:

dodecaphony:

dodecarchy:

dodecasyllabic:

dodecasyllable:

dodecatheon:

duodecahedral:

dolicho-, dolich- (Greek: long; used in extended senses as, "abnormally long").

dolo-, dol- (Greek: guile, deceipt, deception).

doloro-, dolor-, dolori- , dol- (Latin: feel pain, sorrow, grief; mourning).

condole:

condolence:

dole:

doleful:

dolor (singular):

dolores (plural):

dolorific:

dolorifuge:

dolorimeter:

dolorimetry:

dolorogenic:

dolorogenous:

dolorology:

dolorous:

indolence:

indolent:

domo-, dom-, domato-, domat- (Greek > Latin: house, home ["master, lord" of the house]).

condominium, condominial:

In architecture; 1. An individually owned unit of real estate, especially an apartment or townhouse, in a building or on land that is owned in common by the owners of the units.
2. A building or complex containing condominium apartments or townhouses. In politics;
3. A country governed by two or more different countries with joint responsibility.
4. The system under which a country or state is ruled by two or more other nations.

danger:

Etymologically, danger is a parallel formation of dominion. It comes from Vulgar Latin domniarium "power or sway of a lord, dominion, jurisdiction", a derivative of Latin dominus "lord, master". English got the word from Old French dangier and Anglo-Norman daunger, keeping the word's original sense until the 17th century. There were notions of being in someone's danger (that is, "in his power, at his mercy") and of being in danger of something (that is, "liable to something unpleasant, such as loss or punishment").

Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto
(New York: Arcade Publishing,1990).

domain:

1. The scope of a subject.
2. An area of activity over which somebody has influence.
3. Territory ruled by a government or a leader.
4. An area of land owned and controlled by a person, family, or organization.
5. In law, rights relating to the ownership of land.
6. In computerese, domain name, the sequence of words, phrases, abbreviations, or characters that identifies a specific computer or network on the Internet and serves as its address.

domatium:

A small structure developed in certain plants; especially on their leaves, serving as a shelter for insects, mites, or fungi.

domatologist:

One who studies houses.

domatology:

The science or study of houses.

domatophobia:

An excessive fear of being confined in a house; a form of claustrophobia.

domatophobiac:

Someone who has an uncontrollable fear of being confined in a house.

domestic:

1. Relating to or used in the home or everyday life within a household.
2. Relating to or involving the family or people living together within a household.
3. In agriculture, not wild, kept as a farm animal or as a pet.
4. Produced, distributed, sold, or occurring within a country.
5. Relating to the internal affairs of a nation or country.
6. Enjoying home and family life.
7. A domestic is someone who is employed to do housework in another person's home or other duties in a large household.

domesticate, domesticated, domestication, domesticable, domestically:

1. In agriculture, to accustom an animal to living with or near people, usually as a farm animal or pet.
2. To accustom someone to home life or housework.
3. In biology, to cultivate plants or raise animals, selectively breeding them to increase their suitability for human requirements.
4. The adaptation of plants and animals for life in intimate association with man.

domesticity:

Life as it is lived at home.
2. A fondness for home life or familiarity with home life.
3. The concerns of the home and family.

domicile, domiciled, domiciling, domiciles:

1. The house, apartment, or other place where someone lives.
2. In law, someone's true, fixed, and legally recognized place of residence, especially in cases of prolonged absence that require the person to prove a continuing and significant connection with the place.

domiciliary:

1. Relating to a home or homes.
2. Provided for or attending to people in their own homes.

domicolous, domicole:

Living in a tube, nest, or other domicile.

domiculture:

That which relates to household affairs; the art of housekeeping, cookery, etc.; domestic economy.

domify:

To divide (the heavens) into twelve equal parts or "houses" by means of great circles; to locate (the planets) in their respective "houses". Also domifying and domification.

dominance:

1. In ecology, the ability of a given species, because of its size, population density, or fitness, to predominate within a community and affect or control other species there.
2. As a behavior, a situation in which an individual animal has higher status in a group in terms of access to food, space, or mates, so that others consistently defer or give way to this individual.
3. In genetics, the tendency of certain (dominant) alleles to mask the expression of their correcponding (recessive) alleles (any of two or more alternative forms of a gene occupying the same chromosomal locus; such as that which determines flower petal color in peas).

dominant:

In control or command over others.
2. More important, effective, or prominent than others.
3. Relating to a single plant or animal species that is preponderant within a specific community or over a specific period.

dominate, domination:

1. To have control, power, or authority over someone or something.
2. To be the most important aspect or element of something.
3. To have a prevailing influence on someone or something.

dominatrix:

1. A female dominator; mistress, lady.
2. A dominant woman partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.

domineer:

To rule tyrannically, or behave in an overbearing way.

domineering:

Showing a desire or tendency to exercise excessive control or authority over others.

dominion:

1. Ruling power, authority, or control.
2. Someone's area of influence or control.
3. The land governed by a ruler.

dominule:

A dominant organism in a microhabitat.

dungeon:

This word comes ultimately from Latin dominus "lord, master". This was derived from dominium "property" (source of English dominion), that in post-classical times became domino or domnio, meaning "lord's tower". In Old French this became donjon, the term for a "castle keep", and eventually, by extension, a "secure (underground) cell". The form dungeon developed the specialized sense of strong closed cell, underground place of confinement; based on the French donjon (large tower of a castle).

Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto
(New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990).

The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart, Ed.
(Bronx, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1988).

major domo:

1. The chief man servant in a large household, especially a royal or noble household, responsible for managing domestic affairs.
2. Someone responsible for managing the affairs of others, and making arrangements for others (in this case, it is considered a humorous application).

myrmecodomatia:

Plant structures inhabited by ants or termites.

myrmecodomus:

A reference to a plant that gives shelter to ants.

polydomous, polydomic:

Referring to colonies of social insects that occupy more than one nest.

predominance, predominant, predominantly:

1. Greater or greatest importance, power, or influence.
2. The state of being the commonest or greatest in number or amount.

predominate:

1. To be the most common or greatest in number or amount.
2. To have greater importance, power, or influence than others.
3. To dominate or control someone or something.

zoodomatia:

An animal community.

dor-, do-, don- (Greek > Latin: gift).

donate:

donation:

donee:

donor:

Dorothea:

Dorothy:

Eudora:

Fedora:

Isidore:

Pandora:

Theodore:

dorm-, dormi- (Latin: sleep, sleeping).

dorm:

An abbreviated form for dormitory.

dormant, dormancy:

1. Lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive.
2. Latent but capable of being activated.
3. Temporarily quiescent.
4. In a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes; a state in which viable seeds, spores or buds fail to germinate even under favorable conditions.

dormer:

1. A sleeping chamber, dormitory.
2. A resting place; a repository.

dormeuse:

1. A travelling-carriage adapted for sleeping.
2. A hood or nightcap.
3. A kind of couch or settee.

dormient:

Sleeping, dormant.

dormifacient:

Bringing about sleep or aiding in attaining sleep; a dormifacient agent.

dormious:

Sleepy.

dormitary:

1. Causing sleep, dormitive.
2. A sleep-producing medicine; a narcotic.

dormitation:

1. Sleeping, falling asleep, drowsiness.
2. Numbness; loss of sensibility.

dormition:

Sleeping; falling asleep; figuratively, death (of the righteous).

dormitive:

1. Causing sleep; soporific.
2. A soporific medicine; a narcotic.

dormitory:

1. A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of people.
2. A building for housing a number of people, as at a school or resort for sleeping and shelter.

dormouse:

Any of various small, squirrellike Old World rodents of the family Gliridae; a family that contains about twenty species of small arboreal nocturnal rodents that feed mostly on fruit, seeds, and insects; many hibernate during the winter. Dormice are noted for their hibernation practices. From Anglo-Norman dormeus, inclined to sleep, hibernating, from Old French dormir, to sleep.

obdormition:

1. A falling asleep, or the condition of being asleep.
2. Numbness of a limb, etc. due to pressure on a nerve; the condition of being "asleep".

dorso-, dors-, dorsi-, -dorsal (Latin: back, on the back, pertaining to the back, near the back).

antedorsal:

centrodorsal:

dorsa:

dorsad:

dorsal:

dorsalgia:

dorsalis:

dorsiduct:

dorsiferous:

dorsiflexion:

dorsigerous:

dorsispinal:

dorsoanterior:

dorsocephalad:

dorsodynia:

dorsointercostal:

dorsolateral:

dorsolumbar:

dorsomedian:

dorsonasal:

dorsoposterior:

dorsoscapular:

dorsoventral:

dorsum:

endorse:

endorsee:

endorsement:

endorser:

iliodorsal:

lumbodorsal:

middorsal:

dos-, dot- (Greek: to give; to dose; a giving, gift).

anecdotage:

anecdote:

anecdotes:

anecdotic:

anecdotist:

antidotally:

antidote:

apodosis:

dosage:

dosages:

dose:

doses:

dosimeter:

dosimetry:

dosing:

doul-, dulo-, dul- (Greek: slave, servile, slavish; servitude; serving).

doula [DOO luh]: A modern version of the Greek word for a slave or servant is now defined as a woman who is experienced in childbirth and who provides physical, emotional and informational assistance and support to a mother before, during, and/or after childbirth. [As seen in Encarta World English Dictionary; St. Martin's Press] .

A doula supports a woman and her family in achieving the kind of birth that they desire. A doula works in homes, hospitals, and birth centers; and gives, emotional, physical, and informational support. A careprovider, be he/she a midwife, OB/gyn, or family practitioner, will take care of a woman's prenatal care and birth. A doula is supposed to ensure that someone is always available to look after the mother-to-be emotionally. These objectives are facilitated by communication between the laboring woman, her partner, and her clinical care providers.

As a supportive companion (other than a friend or loved one) a doula is professionally trained to provide birth-labor support. She performs no clinical tasks. A doula also refers to lay women who are trained or experienced in providing postpartum care—mother and newborn care, breastfeeding support and advice, cooking, child care, errands, and light cleaning—for the family. To distinguish between the two types of doulas, one may refer to "birth doulas" and "postpartum doulas".

doule, dule:

Bondwoman

doulios, dulios:

Servile, slavish.

dulocracy, doulocracy:

The rule of slaves.

doulos, dulos:

Bondman.

dulia, douleia; dulian, dulosis:

Servitude, service; specifically, the inferior kind of veneration paid by Roman Catholics to saints and angels.

hierodule:

A temple slave in ancient Greece.

drama- (Greek > Late Latin: to do, to accomplish).

docudrama:

A dramatized film (usually for television) which is based on a semi-fictional interpretation of real events; a documentary drama.

drama:

1. Original meaning is "deed, act, action represented on the stage" from Greek, dran, "to do, to accomplish".
2. A play in prose or verse, especially one recounting a serious story.
3. Dramatic art of a particular kind or period; such as, a Shakespearean drama.
4. A real-life situation or succession of events having the dramatic progression or emotional content typical of a play.

dramatic:

1. Of or relating to drama or the theater.
2. Striking (immediately or vividly impressive), as in appearance or effect.

dramatis personae:

1. The characters in a play or story.
2. A list of the characters in a play or story.

dramatist:

A writer of plays; a playwright.

dramatization:

The action of dramatizing; conversion into drama; a dramatized version.

dramatize:

1. To make into a drama; that is, to adapt for presentation as a drama.
2. To present or regard in a dramatic or melodramatic way.

dramaturge:

A dramatist; a maker of plays; a playwright.

dramaturgic:

Pertaining to dramaturgy; dramatic, histrionic, theatrical.

dramaturgist:

A composer of a drama; a playwright.

dramaturgy:

The art of the theater.

duodrama:

A dramatic piece for two performers only.

hippodramatic:

Of a dramatic nature or character in connection with a circus; probably based on the idea that a circus takes place in what is known as a "hippodrome" where horses run or perform.

melodrama:

A dramatic presentation marked by heavy use of suspense, sensational episodes, romantic sentiment, and a conventionally happy ending.

melodramatic:

1. Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama.
2. Highly emotional or sentimental; histrionic (excessively dramatic or emotional).

monodrama:

A dramatic piece for a single performer. Now especially an opera for one singer.

psychodrama:

A form of psychotherapy in which a patient acts or performs extempore with or in front of fellow patients and therapists in a way that dramatizes the patient&$146;s problems or difficulties; an extempore psychotherapeutic play of this kind.

sociodrama:

An improvised play acted by or for those involved in a situation of social tension in order to portray different perceptions of the same situation and represent objectively what each experiences in his or her role; a form of psychiatric treatment based on this type of play.

theodrama:

A drama in which the actors are gods.

undramatic, undramatical, undramatically:

1. Lacking the essential qualities of drama.
2. Not gifted with or exhibiting dramatic power; not adapted for the production of drama.

drepano-, drepan-, -drome, -dromic, -dromical (Greek: sickle).

drepo-, drep- (Greek: pluck; pick at).

dromo-, drom-, -drome, -dromic, -dromical, -dromous (Greek: running, course; race, racecourse).

acrodrome:

adromia:

aerodrome:

aerodromic:

airdrome:

anadromous:

anadromy:

antidromic:

catadromous:

diadromous:

dromedary:

dromic:

dromograph:

dromomania:

dromond:

dromophobia:

dromotropic:

dromotropism:

heterodromous:

hippodrome:

hippodromic:

homodromous:

katadromous:

lampadedromy:

loxodromic:

monodromia:

monodromic:

oceanodromous:

orthodromic:

palindrome:

palindromic:

potanadromous:

prodromal:

prodrome:

syndrome:

droso-, dros- (Greek: dew).

drosograph:

drosometer:

drosophila:

drosophile:

drosophilous:

drosophily:

drosopterin:

drosphilous:

dryo-, dry- (Greek: oak tree; by extension, "tree").

dryad:

A forest nymph.

Dryophyllum, dryophyllum:

A genus of widely distributed, Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary trees supposed to be ancestors of modern oaks and beeches.

Dryope:

From a Greek myth, a playmate of the wood nymphs, beloved by Apollo. She was a daughter of king Dryops, eponymous ancestor of the Dryopes, or Dryopians, a Greek tribe originally of Thessaly.

Dryophyllum, dryophyllum:

A genus of widely distributed, Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary trees supposed to be ancestors of modern oaks and beeches.

dryotomos:

Woodcutter.

druid:

An ancient Celtic priest or soothsayer. Compounded of daru-, dru, "oak", and wid-, "know"; hence literally meaning "they who know the oak"; so called with reference to their practices with mistletoe.

phellodrys:

An evergreen oak.

drypto-, drypt- (Greek: torn; worn).

dulci-, dulc- (Latin: sweet, pleasant, charming).

dulcet:

dulciana:

dulcifluous:

dulcify:

dulcigenic:

dulciloquent:

dulciloquy:

dulcimer:

Dulcinea:

dulcitude:

edulcorate:

duo-, du- (Latin: two; a number used as a prefix).

conduplicate:

deuce:

double:

doubloon:

doubt:

duagenarian, duogenarian, duagenary, duogenary:

A reference to a person who is twenty to twenty-nine years old; someone who is in his/her twenties.

dual:

dualism:

dualist:

dualistic:

duality:

dualize:

dualpurpose:

duarchy:

dubious:

duet:

dulogue:

duo:

duodecennial:

duodecimal:

duomachy:

duopoly:

duotone:

duple:

duplex:

duplexity:

duplicate:

duplication:

duplicative:

duplicator:

duplicities:

duplicitous:

duplicity:

indubitable:

reduplicate:

duodecim-, duodec- (Latin: twelve).

duodecimal:

duodecimo:

duodeno-, duoden- (Latin: first part of the small intestine; based on duodecim, "twelve", because its length is approximately twelve finger-breadths).

duodenal:

duodenectomy:

duodenitis:

duodenogram:

duodenohepatic:

duodenoscopy:

duodenotomy:

duodenum:

gastroduodenostomy:

duro-, dur-, dura- (Latin: hard [as wood], lasting).

dour:

dura mater:

durability:

durable:

durably:

durance:

duraplasty:

durate:

duration:

durematoma:

duress:

during:

duroarachnitis:

durometer:

durosarcoma:

endurable:

endurance:

endure:

enduring:

indurate:

indurated:

induration:

obduracy:

obdurary:

obdurate:

dyna-, dyn-, dynamo-, -dyne, -dynamia, -dynamic (Greek: power, strength, force, mightiness).

adynamandrous, adynamandry:

Having non-functioning male reproductive organs.

adynamogynous, adynamogyny:

Having non-functioning female reproductive organs.

adynamia:

adynamic:

aerodynamics:

aerodyne:

dynamic:

dynamical:

dynamically:

dynamics:

dynamism:

dynamist:

dynamite:

dynamiter:

dynamo:

dynamogenesis:

dynamogenic:

dynamograph:

dynamometer:

dynamometry:

dynamoscope:

dynastic:

dynasty:

dynatherm:

dynatron:

dyne:

electrodynamics:

hydrodynamics:

hypodynamia:

neurodynamia:

neutrodyne:

photodynamic:

thermodynamics:

toxicodynamics:

dyo-, dy- (Greek > Latin: two; a number used as a prefix).

dyarchy:

dyotheism:

e- (Latin: out of, from; used as a prefix).

ebulli- (Latin: to bubble, to bubble up; to boil).

ebullient, ebullience, ebulliency:

1. Bubbling; boiling.
2. Overflowing with enthusiasm, high spirits, etc.; exuberant.

ebullioscope:

An instrument for indicating the boiling point of liquids.

ebullition:

1. The act of boiling up; sudden outburst; effervescence.
2. An outburst, as of some emotion.

eburn-, ebur- (Latin: ivory).

ec- (Greek: out of, away from; used as a prefix).

ecdemo-, ecdem- (Greek: away from home).

ecclesi-, ecclesiastico- (Greek: called out; church).

ecclesia:

ecclesial:

ecclesiarch:

ecclesiast:

Ecclesiastes:

ecclesiastic:

ecclesiastical:

ecclesiastically:

ecclesiasticism:

ecclesiasticize:

ecclesiography:

ecclesiolatry:

ecclesiologically:

ecclesiologist:

ecclesiology:

echidno-, echidn- (Greek: viper).

echidnase:

echidnin:

Echidnophaga:

echidnotoxin:

echidnovaccine:

echino-, echin- (Greek: spiny, prickly; sea urchin; hedgehog; [spiny] seed husk).

echinate:

echinidium:

echinite:

echinochrome:

echinocyte:

echinoderm:

Echinodermata:

Echinoderms:

Echinodorus:

echinoid:

echinosis:

echinus:

echo-, ech- (Greek: sound, noise; especially a returned sound; repetition, imitation).

anecho:

anechoic:

catecheses (plural):

catechesis (singular):

catechetical:

catechism:

catechist:

catechization:

catechize:

catechizing:

catechumen:

echo:

echoacousia:

echoacusis:

echocardiogram:

echocardiograph:

echocardiography:

echoed:

echoencephalography:

echoes:

echoesis:

echogenic:

echogram:

echograph:

echographer:

echographia:

echography:

echoic:

echoism:

echokinesia:

echokinesis:

echolalia:

echolocation:

echomimia:

echomotism:

echopathy:

echophonia:

echophony:

echophotony:

echophrasia:

echopraxia:

echoscope:

ecto-, ect- (Greek: outside, external, beyond).

ectobiology:

ectoblast:

ectocardia:

ectocytic:

ectoderm:

ectodermal:

ectodermatosis:

ectodermic:

ectodermoidal:

ectoenzyme:

ectogenic:

ectogenous:

ectoglobular:

ectogony:

ectohormone:

ectomorph:

ectomorphic:

ectomorphy:

ectoophage:

ectoophagous:

ectoophagy:

ectoparasite:

ectophage:

ectophagous:

ectophagy:

ectophyte:

ectophytic:

ectoplasm:

ectoplasmatic:

ectoplastic:

ectosarc:

ectoscopy:

ectoskeleton:

ectosphere:

ectosuggestion:

ectosymbiont:

ectotherm:

ectothermal:

ectothermic:

ectotoxemia:

ectotoxin:

ectotrophic:

ectotropism:

ectozoa:

ectozoon:

-ectomy, -ectome, -ectomize (Greek: a suffix; cut, surgical removal of).

adrenalectomy:

apicoectomy:

appendectomy:

arthrectomy:

bursectomy:

cardiectomy:

celiectomy:

celiomyomectomy:

costectomy:

craniectomy:

cryptectomy:

cystectomy:

gastrectomy:

glossectomy:

hysterectomy:

laryngectomy:

lumpectomy:

mammectomy:

mastectomy:

mastoidectomy:

neurectomy:

oophorectomy:

ostectomy:

osteoectomy:

ovariectomy:

pneumectomy:

pneumonectomy:

thoracectomy:

thyroidectomy:

tonsillectomy:

uvulectomy:

ectro- (Greek: abortion, untimely birth; primarily used to mean "congenital absence" or "defect" of a part which is normally present).

ectrocardia:

ectrocheiry:

ectrochiry:

ectrodactylia:

ectrodactylism:

ectrodactyly:

ectrogenic:

ectrogeny:

ectromelia:

ectromelic:

ectromelus:

ectrometacarpia:

ectrometatarsia:

ectrophalangia:

ectropody:

ectrosis:

ectrosyndactly:

ectrosyndactylia:

ectrotic:

eda- (Greek: soil).

ede-, edema-, oedema- (Greek: swell, swelling).

ede-, edeo-, edo-, aedoeo-, aedoe-, aidoio-, aidoi- (Greek: genitals; pertaining to the external genitals; privy parts, pudenta).

edif- (Latin: to build, to erect a building; a building, sanctuary, temple; originally, "to build a hearth").

-ee (Latin: a suffix; a person who; a thing which).

appointee:

devotee:

divorcee:

draftee:

employee:

nominee:

payee:

refugee:

trainee:

transferee:

vendee:

-eer (Latin: a suffix; a person who).

auctioneer profiteer

ego (Latin: I).

Don't confuse this ego with another one that means "goat".

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

-Benjamin Whichcote

alterego:

alteregoism:

ego:

egoaltruistic:

egocentric:

egocentricity:

egocentrism:

egodystonic:

egoism:

egoist:

egomania:

egomaniac:

egotheism:

egotism:

egotist:

egotistic:

egotistical:

egotropic:

superego:

eido-, eid-; ido-, id- (Greek: image, figure, form, shape; literally, "that which is seen").

eidetic:

1. Related to or having total visual recall of anything previously seen; characterized by exact visualization of events or of objects previously seen.
2. In psychiatry, pertaining to or characterized by clear visualization (even by a voluntary act) of objects previously seen. Eidetic images (also known as primary memory images) are clearer and richer in detail than the usual memory images and are also more intense and of better quality. Except that the subject recognizes the eidetic image as a memory experience, the phenomenon is analogous to a hallucination. Visual eidetic imagery is more common than auditory.

An eidetic person can readily reproduce in his/her mind, with great accuracy and detail, what he/she has seen recently or from some past event. Eidetic imagery has been said to be one of the most important elements for the mastery of chess.

eidogen:

A substance that is capable of modifying the form (development) of an embryonic organ already in the process of formation.

eidograph:

An instrument for enlarging or reducing drawings.

eidolic:

Of the nature of an eidolon.

eidolism:

A belief in ghosts and their power to affect men.

eidoloclast:

One who demolishes idols.

eidolon:

1. A ghostly figure or image.
2. An idealized image of something or someone.
3. An unsubstantial image, spectre, phantom.
4. In art, a small winged figure, human or combining human with animal elements, often found in Greek vase paintings.

An Eidolon named Night
On a black throne reigns upright.

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) in his poem, "Dreamland".

eidonometer:

An instrument for measuring visual acuteness of the perception of form.

eidoptometry:

Measurement of visual perceptions.

eidos (singular), eide (plural):

1. In philosophy, form; species.
2. Idea; used by Plato.
3. The formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas; criteria for interpreting experience, etc.

eidouranion:

A contrivance for illustrating the motions of the heavenly bodies.

eueides:

Shapely, comely.

idyl, idyll:

A short poem, descriptive of some picturesque scene or incident, chiefly in rustic life.

kaleidophone:

An instrument for exhibiting the phenomena of sound-waves, by means of a vibrating rod or plate having a reflector at the end.

kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopical:

An optical instrument, consisting of from two to four reflecting surfaces placed in a tube, at one end of which is a small compartment containing pieces of colored glass: on looking through the tube, numerous reflections of these are seen, producing brightly-colored symmetrical figures, which may be constantly altered by rotation of the instrument.

kaleidoscopic:

Of or belonging to the kaleidoscope; exhibiting brightly colored or continually varying figures like those seen in the kaleidoscope.

opeidoscope:

An instrument invented by Prof. A. E. Dolbear (West Virginia), consisting of a tube closed at one end by a tense membrane, having attached to its center a small mirror, to show the musical vibration caused by speaking or singing at the open end.

phoneidoscope, phoneidoscopic:

An instrument for exhibiting the color-figures produced by the action of sound-vibrations upon a thin film, e.g. of soap-solution.

eisodo-, eisod-, esodo-, esod- (Greek: an entry).

eisoptro- (Greek: mirror).

eisoptrophobia:

eisoptrophobic:

-el (Latin: a suffix; little).

elasmo- (Greek: to drive, strike, beat out; general application is "beaten metal, metal plate").

-ellus, -ella, -ellum (Latin: a suffix; little).

-elc- (Greek: a suffix; ulcer, sore).

electro-, electr-, electri- (Latin: electric, electricity [amber, resembling amber], generated from amber which when rubbed vigorously [as by friction], produced the effect of static electricity, as described by Dr. William Gilbert [1540-1603] in a treatise on the magnet in 1600).

The word "electricity" was first used by the English physician Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) in 164
6. The word "electrode" was coined by the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867). The words "electrolysis" and "electrolyte" were introduced by Faraday at the suggestion of the Reverend William Whewell. Cf. cyber- for electronics.

dielectric:

electric:

electrical:

electricity:

electrify:

electroacoustics:

electroacupuncture:

electroanalgesia:

electroanalysis:

electroanesthesia:

electroappendectomy:

electrobasograph:

electrobiology:

electrobioscopy:

electrocardiogram:

electrocardiograph:

electrocardiography:

electrocardiophonograph:

electrocardioscopy:

electrocatalysis:

electrocautery:

electrochemistry:

electrochromatography:

electrocision:

electrocoagulation:

electrocochleography:

electrocute:

electrocution:

electrode:

electrodeposit:

electrodermal:

electrodermatome:

electrodiagnosis:

electrodiagnostics:

electrodialysis:

electrodynamic (s):

electroencephalogram:

electroencephalograph:

electroencephalography:

electroexcision:

electrogastroenterostomy:

electrogastrogram:

electrogastrograph:

electrogastrography:

electrogenesis:

electrogoniometer:

electrogram:

electrograph:

electrography:

electrogustometry:

electrohemostasis:

electrohysterogram:

electrohysterography:

electroimmunodiffusion:

electrojet:

electrokinetic:

electrolepsy:

electrolithotrity:

electroluminescence:

electroluminescent:

electrolysis:

electrolyte:

electrolytic:

electrolyze:

electromagnet:

electromagnetic:

electromanometer:

electrometer:

electrometrogram:

electromigratory:

electromotion:

electromotive:

electromyogram:

electromyograph:

electromyography:

electron:

electronarcosis:

electronegative:

electroneurography:

electroneurolysis:

electroneuromyography:

electronic:

electroolfactogram:

electroosmosis:

electroparacentesis:

electropathology:

electrophile:

electrophilic:

electrophoresis:

electrophorus:

electrophotometer:

electrophysiologic:

electrophysiology:

electroplax:

electroplexy:

electropositive:

electroradiometer:

electroretinography:

electrorheological:

electrorheologist:

electrorheology:

electrosalivogram:

electroscission:

electroscope:

electrosection:

electrosome:

electrostatic:

electrostethograph:

electrosurgery:

electrotaxis:

electrothanasia:

electrotherapeutics:

electrotherapeutist:

electrotherapist:

electrotherapy:

electrotherm:

electrothermal:

electrotome:

electrotomy:

electrotonic:

electrotropism:

electroureterography:

electrovagogram:

electrovalence:

electrovalent:

electroversion:

electrovert:

electrum:

eleo-, elaeo-, elaio- (Greek: oil, olive oil).

eleoma:

A tumor or swelling caused by the injection of oil into the tissues.

eleometer:

An instrument for determining the percentage of oil in a mixture; also, the specific gravity of oils.

eleopathy:

A rare condition in which there is boggy swelling of the joints, said to be due to a fatty deposit following contusion; or possibly a condition resulting from the injection of paraffin oil as a form of malingering.

eleotherapy:

The treatment of diseases by the administration of oils given internally or applied externally; oleotherapy.

eleuthero-, eleuther- (Greek: free, freedom).

eleutherarch:

Eleutherian:

eleutherism:

eleutherodactyl:

Eleutherodactylous:

eleutheromania:

eleutheropetalous:

eleutherophilia:

eleutherophobia:

eleutherophyllous:

meleutherosepalous:

elysian (Latin: [from Greek, Elysium] the abode of the happy souls after death).

elytro-, elytr-, elytri- (Greek: covering, wrapping; by extension, "sheath, casing" and "sheath, vagina").

em- (Greek: in).

embolo-, embol-, emboli- (Greek > Latin: that which is thrust into something; wedge, stopper; interpolation, obstruction; from "throw in" or "throw into").

emboli:

emboliform:

embolism:

embololalia:

embolomycotic:

embolophrasia:

emesi-, -emea, -emesis, eme- (Greek: vomit; barf; puke; regurgitate).

antiemesia:

antiemetics:

autemesia:

dysemesia:

emesia:

emesis:

emetatrophia:

emetic:

emeticology:

emetomania:

emetomorphine:

emetophobia:

emetotherapy:

hematemesis:

hyperemesis:

matutemia:

tyremesis:

emeto-, emet-, emeti-, -emetic (Greek: vomit, regurgitate).

-emia, -aemia (Greek: a suffix; blood, usually a diseased condition of the blood).

anoxemia:

chloremia:

erytheremia:

hydemia:

hyperaemia:

hyperemia:

hyperlipoproteinemia:

leukemia:

melanaemia:

melanemia:

pachyaemia:

pachyemia:

sapraemia:

sapremia:

septicemi:

uraemia:

uremia:

xanthemia:

empori- (Greek > Latin: traveler, trader, merchant; a trading place, market; pertaining to trade or traveling).

emporia (plural):

emporiatric:

emporiatrician:

emporiatrics:

emporium (singular):

en-, em-, el- (Greek: in, into, inward; within; used as a prefix).

The en- changes to em- before b, p, or ph.

embolism:

embryo:

empathy:

emphasis:

emphysema:

emporium:

encephalitis:

encircle:

encyclical:

encyclopedia:

enemy:

energy:

engrave:

enopscilium:

enopsilosis:

enpodonyx:

enthusiasm:

enzootic:

enzyme:

enantio- [en- plus anti--] (Greek: opposite, opposing, over against).

-ence, -ency (Latin: a suffix; state, quality, or condition of).

A suffix that forms nouns.acquiescence

confidence:

fluency:

influence:

insolence:

iridescence:

transience:

encephalo-, encephal- (Greek: brain; that which is inside the head).

anencephalia:

anencephalic:

anencephalology:

electroencephalogram:

encephalalgia:

encephalatrophy:

encephalitis:

encephalogram:

encephalography:

encephaloid:

encephalology:

encephalomalacia:

encephalomyelitis:

encephalomyocarditis:

encephalon:

encephalopathy:

endo-, end- [before vowels or "h"] (Greek: within, inside, into, in, on, inner; used as a prefix).

endaortic:

endo-abdominal:

endobiotic:

endocardial:

endocarditis:

endocranial:

endocyst:

endocystic:

endocyte:

endoderm:

endodermal:

endodontia:

endodontics:

endodontitis:

endodontitist:

endoepidermal:

endogam:

endogastrectomy:

endogastric:

endogastritis:

endogenous:

endoparasite:

endophasia:

endophyte:

endophytic:

endopodite:

endorhinitis:

endoscope:

endoscopic:

endoscopy:

endoskeletal:

endoskeleton:

endosoma:

endosome:

endosymbiont:

endosymbiosis:

endothermal:

endothermia:

endothermic:

endothermy:

endotoxemia:

endotoxic:

endotoxin:

endotoxoid:

endovaccination:

endovasculitis:

endovenous:

endocrino-, endocrin- (Greek: pertaining to internal secretion or to the bodily organs responsible for internal secretion).

endothelio- (Greek > Latin: layer of simple cells lining the inner surface of the circulatory organs).

eneto-, enet- (Greek: injection).

ennea-, enne- (Greek: nine).

enneacotahedron:

ennead:

enneaeteric:

enneagon:

enneagynous:

enneahedron:

enneander:

enneapennate:

ennearchy:

enneatic:

-enni, -ennial, -ennium (Latin: a suffix; year, years).

bicentennial:

biennial:

biennium:

centennial:

centennium:

decennary:

decennial:

decennium:

duodecennial:

millennial:

millennium:

novennial:

octennial:

perennial:

quadrennial:

quadrennium:

quadricentennial:

quincentennial:

quindecennial:

quinquenniad:

quinquennial:

quinquennium:

semicentennial:

septennary:

septennate:

septennial:

septennium:

sesquicentennial:

sexennial:

sexennium:

tercentennial:

tricennial:

tricentennial:

triennial:

triennium:

undecennial:

vicennial:

enso-, ens- (Latin: sword).

-ent, -(ient); -ant, -(iant) (Latin: suffix; person who, that which).

entero-, enter- (Greek: intestine, gut).

dysentery:

enteralgia:

enterectomy:

enteric:

enteritis:

enteroantigen:

enterobacteriotherapy:

enterocinesia:

enterocinetic:

enterocutaneous:

enterodynia:

enterogastric:

enterogastritis:

enterogenous:

enterogram:

enterograph:

enterography:

enterohepatitis:

enterokinesia:

enterokinetic:

enterology:

enterolysis:

enteromycosis:

enteroneuritis:

enteronitis:

enteropathy:

enteroplasty:

enteroptosis:

enterorrhagia:

enterorrhea:

enterotomy:

enterotoxemia:

enterotoxin:

enterotropic:

enterozoic:

enterozoon:

gastroenteritis:

gastroenterostomy:

mesentery:

ento-, ent- [before vowels or "h"] (Greek: within, inside, inner; used as a prefix).

Used in many words related to anatomy and biology. entoblast

entochondral:

entocondyloid:

entocranial:

entocuneiform:

entocyst:

entocyte:

entoderm:

entodermal:

entodermic:

entogastric:

entoglossal:

entometatarse:

entoparasite:

entoparasitic:

entoperipheral:

entophyte:

entophytic:

entoplasm:

entoplastic:

entoplastral:

entoplastron:

Entoprocta:

entoproctous:

entopterygoid:

entoptic:

entoptoscopy:

entorganism:

entosarc:

entoseptum:

entosternal:

entosternite:

entosternum:

entotic:

entotympanic:

entozoa:

entozoon:

entomo-, entom- (Greek: insect, bug; literally, "cut up, cut in pieces"; an insect because it appears to be segmented).

dientomophilous:

dientomophily:

entomogenous:

entomological:

entomologist:

entomology:

entomophagous:

entomophagy:

entomophilous:

entomophily:

entomophobia:

entomophyte:

entomotomy:

eo-, eoso-, eos- (Greek: dawn [east], daybreak; early; primarily used to indicate "early, primeval").

eoan:

Eoanthropus:

Eocene:

Eocine:

Eogaea:

Eogene:

Eohippus:

eohippus:

eolith:

eolithic:

eophobia:

eophyte:

Eos:

eos:

eosophobia:

Eozoic:

eozoon:

eosino- (Greek: daybreak, dawn, red of the dawn sky; used in naming chemical compounds, especially pertaining to red stain or dye).

-eous (Latin: a suffix; composed of, of the nature of).

A suffix that forms adjectives. aqueous gaseous vitreous

epano-, epan- (Greek: again; occurring in some rhetorical terms).

epanadiplosis:

1. A doubling; a rhetorical figure wherein a sentence begins and ends with the same word; as "Severe to his servants, to his children severe".
2. Use of a word at both the beginning and the end of a sentence; such as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."

epanalepsis, epanaleptic:

1. A phrase or words repeated later on in a speech or text as a rhetorical device.
2. A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening material.

epanastrophe:

A figure by which the end-word of one sentence becomes the first word of the next.

epanodos:

1. A balanced rhetorical figure in which the second part reiterates the first part; such as, "Treason doth never prosper!/What's the reason?/For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." [John Harington].
2. The repetition of a sentence in an inverse order.
3. A return to the regular thread of discourse after a digression; also, a repetition in inverse order.

epanorthosis, epanorthotic:

1. A figure in which a word is recalled, in order to substitute a more correct or stronger term.
2. The immediate rephrasing of something said or written in order to emphasize or to correct it.
3. The changing of a word or phrase in order to give it more weight or intensity; as, for instance, "hundreds of people, no thousands, enjoyed the procession".

epeiro-, epeir-, epiro-, epir- (Greek: land; mainland; continent).

ependymo-, ependym- (Greek > Latin: membrane lining the central canal of the spinal cord and the ventricles of the brain).

epi-, ep- [before vowels or "h"] (Greek: above, over, on, upon; besides; in addition to; toward; among; used as a prefix).

anepigraphous:

Without an inscription; no inscription.

epibasal:

Upper segment of a zygote or embryo, ultimately giving rise to the shoot.

epibasidium:

The part of a heterobasidium which bears sterigmata and is separated by a septum from the hypobasidium.

epibenthic:

Living on the sea bed or on the lake floor.

epibenthos:

1. The community of organisms living at the surface of the sea bed or lake floor.
2. Fauna and flora of sea-bottom between low-water mark and hundred-fathom line or the 200-meter line.

epibiont, epibiontic, epibiotic, epibiosis:

1. Living attached to another organism.
2. Surviving, applied to endemic species that are relics of a former flora or fauna; growing on the exterior of living organisms; living on a surface, as of the sea bottom. An antonym is hypobiotic.

epiblast:

The outer layer of a gastrula in the embryo of some grasses, a small structure opposite the scutellum, thought to be a rudimentary cotyledon.

epicalyx:

epicanthus:

epicardium:

epicarp:

epicene:

1. Belonging to or having the characteristics of both male and female; such as, "an epicene statue".
2. Effeminate; unmanly.
3. Sexless; neuter.
4. In linguistics, having only one form of the noun for both the masculine and the feminine genders.

Also, epicenism. [Middle English, having only one form of the noun for either gender, from Latin epicoenus, previously from Greek epikoinos, "in common"; from epi + koinois, "common"].

epicenter:

epicentral:

epicotyl:

epicranial:

epicranium:

epicritic:

epicure:

epicutis:

epicycle:

epicycloid:

epidemic:

epidemical:

epidemiography:

epidemiologist:

epidemiology:

epidendric:

epidermal:

epidermatoplasty:

epidermis:

epidermitis:

epidermodysplasia:

epidermoid:

epidermolysis:

epidermomycosis:

epifaun:

epifilter:

epifocal:

epigastralgia:

epigastric:

epigastrium:

epigeal:

epigean:

epigenesis:

epigenetic:

epigenous:

epigeotropic:

epigeotropism:

epiglottis:

epigone:

epigram:

epigrammatic:

epigraph:

epigrapher:

epigraphic:

epigraphist:

epigraphy:

epilepsy:

epileptic:

epileptoid:

epilithic:

epilithophyte:

epilithophytic:

epilog:

epilogue:

epiphyll:

epiphyte:

epiphytes:

epiphytology:

epiphytotic:

episode:

episodic:

epistemology:

epitaph:

epithet:

epithetic:

epithetical:

epitome:

epitomize:

epixylous:

epizoic:

epizoicide:

epizoology:

epizoon:

epizoonosis:

epizootic:

epizootiology:

eponym:

One who gives, or is supposed to give, his name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders of tribes or cities. Also in Latin form eponymus.

eponymic:

eponymy:

eponyous:

epornithic:

epornithology:

epiro- (Greek: land, mainland).

episio-, episi- (Greek: denotes the vulva or region of the pubes).

episioclisia:

episioelytrorrhaphy:

episiohematoma:

episioitis:

episioperineoplasty:

episioperineorrhaphy:

episioplasty:

episiorrhagia:

episiorrhaphy:

episiotenosis:

episiotomy:

epistemo-, epistem- (Greek: knowledge, understand, believe).

epistemic:

epistemolater:

epistemolatry:

epistemology:

epistemonic:

epistemophilia:

epsilon (Greek: the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet).

equ-, equi- (Latin: same, equal, similar, even).

adequacy:

adequate:

coequal:

coequate:

Ecuador:

equable:

equal:

equalitarian:

equality:

equalize:

equalizer:

equanimity:

equate:

equation:

equator:

equatorial:

equiangular:

equidistant:

equilateral:

equilibrium:

equinimity:

equinoctial:

equinox:

equipotential:

equipotentiality:

equitable:

equity:

equivalence:

equivalent:

equivocal:

equivocate:

equivocation:

equivocator:

equivogue:

inequality:

inequity:

iniquity:

equ-, eque-, equi- (Latin: horse).

equerry:

eques:

equestrian:

equestrianism:

equestrienne:

equid:

Equidae:

equine:

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a horse.
2. Of or belonging to the family Equidae, which includes the horses, asses, and zebras.

equiod:

Equisetophyta:

equitation:

Equus:

eremo-, erem-, eremi- (Greek: lonely, solitary; hermit; desert).

eremic:

Pertaining to deserts or sandy regions.

eremiophobia, eremophobia:

1. In psychology, an irrational fear of being alone and of uninhabited places.
2. In biology, unable to thrive in desert areas.

eremite, eremitic, eremitical, eremitish:

Someone who lives in solitude, especially for religious reasons.

eremitism:

The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.

eremobic:

Growing or living in isolation; having a solitary existence.

eremobiologist:

A specialist in the science of desert life.

eremobiology:

The study, or science, of desert life.

eremobionic:

Living in desert regions.

eremobryoid:

A moss-like plant that grows in the desert.

eremochaetous:

Having no regularly arranged system of bristles; applied to flies.

eremologist:

One who studies deserts.

eremology:

The study of deserts.

eremophile, eremophilous, eremophily:

1. Thriving in desert regions.
2. A morbid desire to be alone.

eremophobe:

A person who is abnormally fearful of being alone or of being in uninhabited places.

eremophyte, eremophytic:

A desert plant.

ereuth- (Greek: the color red; blushing).

ergasio-, ergasi-, ergas-, ergat- (Greek: work).

ergo-, erg- (Greek: work).

allergies:

allergy:

energetic:

energy:

erg:

ergasia:

ergasiaphyte:

ergasiapophyte:

ergasiapophytic:

ergasiatrics:

ergasiatry:

ergasidermatosis:

ergasiology:

ergasiomania:

ergasiomaniac:

ergasiophobia:

ergasiophobic:

ergasthenia:

ergastic:

ergatandromorph:

ergatandromorphic:

ergatandrous:

ergate:

ergatocracy:

ergatogyne:

ergatogynomorph:

ergatogynomorphic:

ergatogynomorphous:

ergatogynous:

ergatoid:

ergatomorphic:

ergocardiogram:

ergocardiograph:

ergocardiography:

ergocheiron:

ergodermatosis:

ergodic:

ergodynamograph:

ergodynamorph:

ergoesthesiograph:

ergogenic:

ergogram:

ergograph:

ergographic:

ergology:

ergomania:

ergomaniac:

ergometer:

ergometry:

ergonometrics:

ergonomic:

ergonomically:

ergonomics:

ergonomist:

ergonomy:

ergophile:

ergophillia:

ergophobia:

ergostat:

ergotherapy:

ergotocracy:

ergotropy:

George:

kilerg:

neurergic:

stigmergy:

synergagogy:

synergetic:

synergism:

synergistic:

synergogy:

telergy:

erio- (Greek: wool).

-ernus (Latin: a suffix added to noun stems to form adjectives meaning "belonging to").

eros- (Latin: gnawed off, consumed).

err-, errat- (Latin: wander, stray, rove).

aberrant:

aberration:

arrant:

err:

errant:

errantic:

erratum:

erroneous:

error:

inerrant:

unerring:

eruci-, eruc- (Latin: caterpillar).

eruciform:

eruciphile:

eruciphilous:

eruciphily:

erucivore:

erucivorous:

erucivory:

erythro-, erythr- (Greek: the color red, ruddy; blushing).

erythralgia:

erythremia:

erythrin:

erythrism:

erythrocyte:

erythroderma:

erythrodermatitis:

erythrogenic:

erythron:

erythropathy:

erythrophages:

erythrophilous:

erythrophobia:

erythrophyll:

erythropia:

zooerythrin:

-esce, -escent, -escence (Latin: a suffix; beginning to be, becoming; to be somewhat).

A suffix that forms nouns and adjectives.

adolescence:

adolescent:

calescent:

coalescent:

convalescence:

convalescent:

crescent:

effervescence:

effervescent:

efflorescence:

florescence:

florescent:

fluorescence:

fluorescent:

frondescence:

fructescence:

incandescence:

incandescent:

juvenescence:

juvenescent:

luminescence:

luminescent:

nascence:

nascent:

obsolescence:

obsolescent:

pearlescence:

pearlescent:

pubescence:

pubescent:

rejuvenescence:

rejuvenescent:

revirescence:

revirescent:

senescence:

senescent:

virilescence:

virilescent:

eschato-, eschat- (Greek: last, furthest, remotest, outermost).

eschatologist:

One who preaches about the last days; such as, death, resurrection, judgment, immortality, the end of the world, etc.

eschatology:

1. A branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind.
2. A belief, or a doctrine, concerning ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, or the Final Judgment of God.

-ese (Latin: names of nations or their language).

A suffix used to form adjectives or nouns; such as, Chinese, Portuguese, etc.

-ese (Latin: an enzyme that accelerates synthetic action as used in chemistry).

A suffix denoting a chemical enzyme.

-esis (Latin: process of action).

Denoting a process of action as shown below in just a few of many words using this suffix:

abiogenesis:

The supposed origination or evolution of living organisms from lifeless matter without the action of living parents.

aesthesis, esthesis:

The perception of the external world by the senses.

agamogenesis:

Asexual reproduction.

angiogenesis:

The development of new blood-vessels.

kinesthesis, kineaesthesis:

The sense of muscular effort that accompanies a voluntary motion of the body.

parasynesis:

Misunderstanding or misconception of a word, resulting in an alteration or corruption of it.

synanthesis:

Simultaneous ripening of the stamens and pistils in a flower.

eso-, es-, eis- (Greek: inward, into; within).

esocataphoria:

esodeviation:

esoethmoiditis:

esogastritis:

esophagostenosis:

esophagotome:

esophoria:

esotoxin:

esotropia:

esotropic:

esophago-, esophag- (Greek: gullet, throat [passage from the mouth to the stomach], that which carries food; the path along which food travels from the mouth to the stomach).

esophagalia:

esophageal:

esophagectomy:

esophagism:

esophagitis:

esophagocardiomyotomy:

esophagocele:

esophagocologastrostomy:

esophagocoloplasty:

esophagoduodenostomy:

esophagodynia:

esophagogastric:

esophagogastroplasty:

esophagogastroscopy:

esophagogastrostomy:

esophagogram:

esophagography:

esophagology:

esophagomalacia:

esophagometer:

esophagostoma:

esophagotomy:

esophagotrachea:

esophagus:

presbyesophagus:

estiv-, aestiv- (Latin: pertaining to summer; heat).

estival, aestival:

A reference to an early summer season.

estivation, aestivation, estivate, aestivate:

1. Passing the summer or dry season in a dormant or torpid state.
2. The manner in which plant structures are folded prior to expansion or opening.

-et (French: a suffix; small).

booklet:

eaglet:

floweret:

giblet:

leaflet:

owlet:

piglet:

ringlet:

starlet:

eta (Greek: the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet).

ethero-, ether-, aethero-, aether-, aither-(Greek > Latin: burn, shine, to kindle; light up; the heavens; the upper air, the sky).

ether:

etherated:

ethereal:

ethereality:

etherealization:

etherealize:

ethereally:

etherealness:

etherean:

ethereous:

etherial:

etheriality:

etherialization:

etherially:

etherian:

etheric:

etherical:

etherification:

etheriform:

etherify:

etherious:

etherism:

etherization:

etherize:

etherized:

etheromania:

etheromaniac:

etherous:

ethyl:

ethmo-, ethm- (Greek: strainer, sieve).

ethno-, ethn- (Greek: people, race, nation; group of people living together; community, family).

ethnarch:

ethnarchy:

ethnic:

ethnically:

ethnicity:

ethnobiology:

ethnobotanic:

ethnobotanical:

ethnobotanist:

ethnobotany:

ethnocentric:

ethnocentricity:

ethnocentrism:

ethnodicy:

ethnogenic:

ethnogenist:

ethnogeny:

ethnographer:

ethnographic:

ethnographical:

ethnography:

ethnohistorian:

ethnohistory:

ethnolinguistic:

ethnologic:

ethnological:

ethnologist:

ethnology:

ethnomusicologist:

ethnomusicology:

ethnopsychology:

ethnozoology:

polyethnic:

etho-, eth-, ethi- (Greek: custom, habit; character, manners; usage).

cacoethes:

ethic:

ethical:

ethicality:

ethicize:

ethics:

ethnic:

ethnocentricity:

ethnography:

ethogram:

ethograph:

ethologist:

ethology:

ethos:

polyethism:

ethyl- (Greek: upper air, purer air [alcohol and sufuric acid]).

In scientific terminology, "volatile, clean-smelling, euphoria-producing liquid composed of alcohol and sufuric acid".

etio-, aetio- [British: aetio-, atio-] (Greek: cause, causation, originating, that which causes or originates something).

aetiological:

etiogenic:

etiolated:

etiolation:

etiologic:

etiological:

etiologist:

etiology (aetiology):

etiopathic:

etiopathology:

etiopathy:

-ette, -et (French: a suffix; small).

cigarette:

dinette:

kitchenette:

novelette:

etym- (Greek: truth, true meaning, real [the root meaning, true meaning or literal meaning of a word]).

etyma:

etymography:

etymological:

etymologist:

etymologiz:

etymology:

etymon:

eu- (Greek: good, well, normal; happy, pleasing; used as a prefix).

eubiotics:

eucalyptus:

eucentric:

eucharist:

euchromatopsy:

eudaemonia:

eudaemoniac:

eudaemonism:

eudemon:

eudemonia:

eudemoniac:

eudemonism:

eudipsia:

eudora:

euesthesia:

Eugene:

Eugenia:

eugenics:

eugnosia:

eugnostic:

eugonic:

euhaline:

euhydrophile:

euhydrophilous:

euhydrophily:

eukinesia:

eukinesis:

eukinetic:

eulogy:

eumetria:

eumorphics:

eumorphism:

eunomy:

euosmia:

eupepsia:

eupepsy:

eupeptic:

euphagia:

euphemise:

euphemism:

euphemistic:

euphile:

euphilous:

euphonic:

euphony:

euphoretic:

euphoria:

euphoric:

euphoristic:

euphoropsis:

eupnea:

eupneic:

eupnoea:

eupotamic:

eupraxia:

eupyrexia:

eurhythmia:

eurhythmics:

eustatic:

eusthenia:

eusthenuria:

eutelegenesis:

euthanasia:

euthenic:

euthenics:

eutherapeutic:

euthermic:

euthrophication:

euthymia:

euthyroid:

euthyroidism:

eutocia:

eutrophia:

eutrophic:

eutrophy:

eunuch (Greek > Latin: literally, guardian of the bed).

eunuch:

1. a castrated man employed as a harem attendant or functionary in certain Oriental courts.
2. A castrated man, employed in Asia, and later in Greece, to take charge of the women and to act as a chamberlain.
3. A man or boy deprived of the testes or the external genital organs, especially one castrated before puberty (so that male secondary sex characteristics fail to develop).

eunuchism:

The condition of being a eunuch or of having undeveloped sexual organs in which testicular hormones are not produced.

eunuchoidism:

A deficiency of the testes or of testicular secretion, with impaired sexual power and eunuch-like symptoms.

eureka! (Greek: "I have found!").

Eureka! An exclamation of delight at any discovery; is said to have originally been uttered by Archimedes of the Greek city-state of Syracuse in Sicily. As philosopher, mathematician, and mechanical inventor, he figured out how to test the purity of the tyrant King Hiero's "gold" crown.

The Greek mathematician, Archimedes (circa 287-212 B.C.), was commissioned by King Hiero II of Syracuse to find out whether the goldsmith who made a new crown for him had fraudulently mixed some silver in with the gold that the king gave him for construction of the crown.

According to the legend, Archimedes decided to go to the public bath to contemplate the problem. He supposedly got into his bath and observed the water going up as he got into it. He apparently came to the conclusion that a body must remove its own bulk of water when it is immersed and that if silver is less dense than gold, then a given weight of silver would have more bulk than an equal weight of gold and so it would remove more water. Thus it was that Archimedes figured that a pure-gold crown would displace less water if it were immersed than one made from a bulkier alloy or mixture.

To put it another way, he figured that by measuring the water displaced by the crown and then the water displaced by an equal weight of gold, he could tell whether the crown was pure gold or not.

Over joyed by the result of his thought processes, Archimedes is reported to have jumped out of the bath shouting heureka! heurekai! "I have found! I have found!" (now translated as, "I have found it! I have found it!") and ran home naked to try out his theories. When he made the test, it proved that the goldsmith did indeed cheat the king.

The above anecdote about the bath can be traced back to the Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius, who lived two centuries after Archimedes. There is no contemporary source for the legend or folk tale. It is probably true that Archimedes did determine the proportion of gold and silver in a crown for King Hiero by weighing it in water; however, writers continue to embellish the tale with fictitious details.

Did you know that "Eureka" is the state motto of California, which refers to the discovery of gold by the "forty-niners" (1849, that is)? It's written on the state flag. Eureka is also a city in northern California near the remaining redwood-tree forests that have been considerably depleted by various lumber companies; and it is said to be the name of a college in Illinois.

By the way, Archimedes is also given credit for discovering the basic laws of hydrostatics and of levers and pulleys. In addition, he invented the catapult and the Archimedean screw; and his mathematical discoveries included the doctrine of limits.

The "Archimedes' principle" is the explanation by Archimedes of the principle of buoyancy. As stated earlier, he noted that an object placed in water apparently loses an amount of weight equal to the weight of the water displaced by the object; this led to the statement that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it disperses.

Webster's Word Histories
(Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., 1989).

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ivor H. Evans

New York:

Harper and Row, Publishers, 1981).

The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart, Ed.
(Bronx, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1988).

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology edited by Christopher Morris
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992).

eury- (Greek: wide, broad; used as a prefix).

aneurysm:

aneurysmectomy:

aneurysmograph:

aneurysmoplasty:

aneurysmotomy:

eurybaric:

eurybath:

eurybathic:

eurybenthic:

eurybenthous:

eurybiontic:

eurycephalic:

eurychoric:

eurychorous:

Eurydice:

eurygnathic:

eurygnathism:

euryhaline:

euryhydric:

eurylumic:

euryopia:

euryphage:

euryphagous:

euryphagy:

euryphotic:

eurypterid:

eurysome:

eurytherm:

eurythermal:

eurythermic:

eurythermophilic:

eurythmics:

eurytopic:

eurytrophic:

eurytropic:

euryxenous:

euthy- (Greek: straight).

ev- (Latin: age; from aevum, "space of time, eternity").

ex- (e-, ef-). (Latin: [out of, from]; [upward]; [completely, entirely]; [to remove from, deprive of]; [without]; [former]; used as a prefix).

out of, from:

educate:

educe:

efface:

effluent:

egress:

emit:

evict:

excerpt:

excise:

exit:

exonerate:

exorbitant:

expand:

expatriate:

expect:

expectorate:

expedient:

expedite:

expel:

expire:

upward:

effervesce:

exalt:

excel:

extol:

completely:

entirely:

execute:

exterminate:

to remove from, deprive of:

effete:

expropriate:

without:

exanimate:

former:

ex-convict:

ex-president:

ex-, ec-, e- (Greek: out of, out, outside; away from; used as a prefix).

This is a prefix that is supposed to be used with words or roots of Greek origin. The ex- form is used before vowels or "h"; ec- goes before consonants.

eccentric:

eccentricity:

ecclesia:

ecclesiastic:

ecclesiastical:

eclectic:

eclipse:

ecliptic:

ecsomatice:

ecstasy:

ecstatic:

ectoderm:

ectogenous:

ectopia:

exarch:

exegate:

exegesis:

exodont:

exodontist:

exodus:

exosmosis:

exostosis:

exa- [EKS uh] (Greek: from hexa-, "six"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

This is a prefix that is used in the metric [decimal] system as one-quintillion [U.S.] or trillionfold [U.K.], 10¹⁸ [1 000 000 000 000 000 000]. The metric symbol for exa- is E.

excito- (Latin: to summon forth, arouse, stimulate; used in the sense of "stimulating").

exo-, ex- (Greek: outer, outside, external; used as a prefix).

exobiology:

exobiotic:

exocardia:

exocardiac:

exocardial:

exocarp:

exocentric:

exocuticle:

exocytosis:

exoderm:

exodermis:

exogamous:

exogamy:

exogastric:

exogastritis:

exogenous:

exonym:

exopathic:

exopathy:

exophytic:

exoplasm:

exopodite:

exoskeletal:

exoskeleton:

exosphere:

exothermal:

exothermic:

exotoxin:

exotoxins:

exotropia:

exotropic:

extra-, extro- (Latin: beyond, outside, on the outside, outward, external; used as a prefix).

extracellular:

extracerebral:

extracontinental:

extracorporeal:

extracurricular:

extrafamilial:

extragalactic:

extragovernmental:

extrajudicial:

extramarital:

extramundane:

extramural:

extraneous:

extraordinary:

extraplanetary:

extraprofessional:

extrasensory:

extrasocial:

extrasolar:

extraterritorial:

extravagant:

extraversion:

extrofloral:

extrospection:

extroversion:

extrovert:

extroverted:

extro- (Latin: beyond, outside; used as a prefix).

fabrillo-, fibrill-, fibrilo-, fibril- (Latin: small fiber or filament).

fac-, fact-, feas-, -feat, -fect, -feit, -facient, -faction, fic-, -fy, facil- (Latin: make, do, build, cause, produce; forming, shaping).

absorbifacient:

affair:

affect:

affected:

affection:

artifact:

artifice:

artificial:

artificially:

benefaction:

benefactor:

beneficent:

beneficial:

beneficiary:

benefit:

calorifacient:

certificate:

certify:

chafe:

chauffeur:

clarify:

coefficient:

confection:

confetti:

configuration:

confit:

counterfeit:

counterfeiter:

defacto:

defeat:

defect:

defective:

deficient:

deficit:

deify:

diffect:

difficacious:

difficult:

difficulty:

dignify:

discomfit:

disfigure:

diversify:

edification:

edifice:

edify:

effect:

effectual:

efficacious:

efficacy:

efficient:

effigy:

ex post facto:

exemplify:

facient:

facile:

facileness:

facilitate:

facilitation:

facility:

facsimile:

An abbreviated form of "fax" is normally used for "facsimile messages").

fact:

faction:

factious:

factitious:

factor:

factory:

factotum:

factual:

faculty:

falsify:

fashion:

feasance:

feasibility:

feasible:

feasibly:

feat:

feature:

febrifacient:

feckless:

fetish:

fiction:

fictitious:

figment:

figure:

forfeit:

fortify:

fructify:

glorify:

gratify:

horrific:

horrify:

identify:

imperfect:

imperfection:

indemnify:

infect:

infection:

inflect:

intensify:

ipso facto:

justify:

liquefy:

magnificence:

magnificent:

magnificently:

magnifico:

magnify:

malefactor:

malefic:

1. Having an unfavorable or malignant influence.
2. Malicious, evil.

maleficence:

maleficent:

malfeasance:

manufacture:

misfeasance:

modify:

mollify:

mortify:

munificence:

munificent:

nonfeasance:

notify:

nullify:

office:

official:

officiate:

officious:

olfactory:

orifice:

pacific:

pacifist:

pacify:

perfect:

perfecto:

personify:

petrify:

pluperfect:

pontiff:

pontificate:

prefect:

proficiency:

proficient:

proficiently:

profit:

prolific:

putrefy:

qualify:

ramify:

rarefy:

ratify:

rectify:

refectory:

sacrifice:

sanctify:

satisfaction:

satisfy:

savoirfaire:

scientific:

significant:

signify:

simplify:

solidify:

somnifacient:

specific:

specify:

stratify:

stupefy:

suffice:

sufficient:

superficial:

surface:

surfeit:

terrific:

terrify:

testify:

typify:

unify:

verify:

vilify:

vivify:

facio-, faci- (Latin: face, pertaining to the face; form, make, set in place, do).

falc- (Latin: honeycomb).

fav-, falx- (Latin: sickle).

fellat- (Latin: suck, to suck).

autofellatio:

felatio:

fellate:

fellated:

fellating:

fellation:

fellator:

fellatrice:

fals-, fall- (Latin: false, deception, untrue).

default:

fallacious:

fallacy:

false:

falsetto:

falsification:

falsify:

falter:

fault:

faulty:

infallible:

fanati- (Latin: pertaining to a temple, an ardent devotee, inspired [by a god]; enthusiastic).

fan [short for "fanatic"]:

fanatic:

fanatical:

fanatically:

fanaticalness:

fanaticism:

fanaticized:

fanaticizing:

fascinat-, fascina- (Latin: to enchant, bewitch, charm).

fascinate 1. Originally, to put under a spell or to bewitch. In later use disconnected from the notion of witchcraft: To deprive of the power of escape or resistance, as serpents are said to do through the terror produced by their look or merely by their perceived presence.
2. To attract or hold motionless, as by a fixed look or by inspiring terror. To attract and retain the attention of (a person) by an irresistible influence.
3. Now usually, to attract and to hold spellbound by delightful qualities; to charm, enchant. To hold the attention of by being very interesting or delightful; to attract and retain the attention of (a person) by an irresistible influence.

fascination:

Strong attraction; charm; allure.

logofascinated:

Fascinated by words.

fascio-, fasci-, fasc-, fascia- (Latin: band, bandage; bundle, bunch; used in the extended sense of "pertaining to the fascia", the band or sheet of fibrous tissue providing a subcutaneous covering for the body).

faun-, fauni-, fauna-, -fauna (Latin: animal; a collective name for the animals of a certain region or time).

avifauna (singular) avifaunae (plural), avifaunal: All the birds present in a region, environment, or period of time.

defaunated:

Deprived of animals, used specifically of the removal of intestinal symbiotic protozoa from insects.

epifauna, epifaunal:

1. In ecology, animals that live on the sea floor, or attached to other animals or objects under water.
2. The total animal life inhabiting a sediment surface or water surface; any encrusting fauna.

faun:

In Roman mythology, a rural god, often depicted as a creature with the body of a man and the legs and horns of a goat. The Greek equivalent is satyr.

Fauna:

An ancient Italian rural goddess of fruitfulness in Roman mythology, the sister of Faunus.

fauna singular, faunae plural; faunal:

1. The animal life of a particular region or period, considered as a whole.
2. A catalog or list describing the animals of a particular region or period.
3. The name fauna was introduced into zoology by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (Karl von Linne (1707-78).

faunal:

A reference to animals or animal life.

faunalturbation:

Archaeology, A disturbance of the soil surface by animals, especially by the burrowing and tunneling of gophers, mice, rabbits, and the like.

faunation:

The assemblage of animal species in a particular area.

faunist:

A person who studies or writes about animal life; a naturalist.
2. A student or writer about faunae.

faunistics, faunistic:

The study of all or part of the animal species of a particular locality or region.

faunizone:

In geology, a body of strata characterized by a distinctive assemblage of animal fossils.

faunoiphilia:

An abnormal desire to watch animals copulate.

faunological:

Of or pertaining to faunology.

faunology:

That department of zoology that deals with the geographical distribution of animals; zoogeography.

faunula:

1. The animal population of a small geographical area or microhabitat.
2. The population of a micro-environmental niche; such as, intestine, bark, etc.

faunule:

In paleontology, a small community of fauna, especially a group of animal fossils found only in a single stratum or in a succession of thin strata.

Faunus:

In Roman mythology, the god of nature, farming (agriculture and cattle-raising), fertility, hunting, and herding. He was also considered the guardian of the secret lore of nature. His priests were the Luperci and his social festival was the Lupercalia. The Greek equivalent to Faunus is Pan.

ichthyofauna:

The fish fauna, or fish-life, of a sea or region.

infauna, infaunal:

The total animal life within a sediment; endobenthos. Those bottom-dwelling forms that burrow.

macrofauna:

1. Widely distributed fauna.
2. Fauna of a macrohabitat (a habitat that contains a variety of environments and ecological niches capable of supporting a wide range of plants and animals).
3. In zoology, animals visible to the naked eye.

meiofauna:

1. The smaller, invertebrate fauna of sea bottoms.
2. In zoology, a classification of animals that are intermediate in size between those that can easily be seen with the naked eye (macrofauna) and those that are microscopic (microfauna).

microfauna:

1. Small animals not visible to the naked eye.
2. A localized group of animals.
3. The animals of a microhabitat (a small, specialized, habitat).

piscifauna:

Collective term for the native fishes (of any district or country); the fish-fauna.

febr- (Latin: a fiber; a general term designating an elongated, threadlike structure).

afebric:

afebrile:

antefebrile:

antifebrile:

febricant:

febricide:

febricity:

febricula:

febriculose:

febriculosity:

febrifacient:

febriferous:

febrific:

febrificide:

febrificulous:

febrifugal:

febrifuge:

febrile:

febriphobia:

febris:

februs:

febri-, febr- (Latin: fever).

febril-, febrill- (Latin: a minute fiber or filament; often a component of a compound fiber).

feco-, fec-, faeco-, faec-, feci- (Latin: excrement, dung; from faeces, plural of faex, "dregs, sediment").

caryofecia:

defecalgesiophobia:

defecate:

defecation:

faecal:

faeces:

fecal:

fecalith:

fecaloid:

fecaloma:

fecaluria:

fecanalgia:

feces:

fecogenous:

feculence:

feculent:

feli-, felin-, felino- (Latin: cat).

felicide:

The killing of a cat or cats.

felid:

An animal of the feline or cat family.

Felidae:

Cats; cosmopolitan family containing about thirty-five species of small to large carnivorous mammals including the cheetah, cougar (puma), ocelot, lynx, bobcat, lion, tiger, leopard, and jaguar; most are terrestrial and arboreal.

feliform:

Having the body or shape of a cat.

feline, felinely:

1. Belonging to or typical of animals of the cat family, including lions, tigers, and domestic cats. Similar to a cat; especially, in graceful movement or stealthiness.

felineness:

The state of being feline.

felinity:

The quality of being feline; a cat-like disposition; the typical qualities of the cat-tribe.

felinophile:

A fondness or love of cats.

felinophobia:

An abnormal fear or hatred of cats.

philofelinist:

Someone who has a fondness for cats.

fem-, femi- (Latin: woman).

effeminate:

female:

femicide:

feminality:

femineity:

feminine:

femininity:

feminism:

feminist:

feminity:

feminize:

femme fatale:

femoro-, femur- (Latin: thigh).

femto- [FEM toh] (Danish and Norwegian: fifteen; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

It is used in the metric [decimal] system as quadrillionth [U.S.] and thousand-billionth part [U.K.], 10^-15 [0.000 000 000 000 001]. The metric symbol for femto- is f.

femtoampere:

femtogram:

femtojoule:

femtoliter:

femtometer:

femtomole:

femtosecond:

femtovolt:

-fend- (Latin: a suffix; ward off, strike, keep off, defend, guard, protect; from fendere [found only in compounds]).

defend:

defendant:

defense:

defensible:

defensive:

fen:

fence:

fencer:

fencing:

fender:

offend:

offense:

offensive:

fenestra-, fenestr- (Latin: window; in anatomy, a small opening in a bone).

-fer, -ferous (Latin: a suffix; bear, carry; produce).

afferent:

aquifer:

auriferous:

circumference:

confer:

conferee:

conference:

conferred:

conferring:

conifer:

coniferous:

crucifer:

cruciferous:

defer:

deference:

deferential:

deferment:

deferred:

deferring:

differ:

difference:

different:

differential:

differentiate:

differentiated:

differentiating:

differentiation:

differently:

efferent:

ferriferous:

ferry:

fertile:

fertility:

fetiferous:

fructiferous:

herbiferous:

infer:

inference:

inferential:

inferred:

inferring:

interfere:

interference:

Jennifer:

lactiferous:

Lucifer:

odoriferous:

offer:

offered:

offering:

prefer:

preferable:

proffer:

refer:

referee:

reference:

referenda (plural):

referendum (singular):

referent:

referral:

referred:

referring:

sanguiferous:

somniferous:

suffer:

sufferable:

sufferance:

suffered:

sufferer:

suffering:

suffers:

transfer:

transferable:

transferal:

transferee:

transference:

transferor:

transferred:

transferring:

vociferate:

vociferous:

fermento-, ferment- (Latin: substance containing enzymes that break down carbohydrates).

ferro-, ferr-, ferri- (Latin: iron; pertaining to, or containing iron).

ferreous:

ferric:

ferriferous:

ferroalloy:

ferrochromium:

ferroconcrete:

ferrocyanide:

ferromagnetic:

ferromanganese:

ferrometer:

ferrotherapy:

ferrotype:

ferrous:

ferruginous:

ferrule:

ferv- (Latin: to boil; hot; to begin to boil, to be hot; deeply earnest; ardent).

effervesce:

1. To break into violent chemical action.
2. To give off bubbles of gas; especially, as the result of chemical action; to bubble.
3. Of the gas itself; to issue fort in bubbles.
4. To stir up, excite, exhilarate.

effervescence, effervescency:

The action of bubbling up as if boiling; the tumultuous rise of bubbles of gas from a fluid; especially, as the result of chemical action (without necessarily implying heat).

effervescent:

That which has the property of rising in bubbles.

effervescible:

Capable of producing effervescence; ready to effervesce; becoming heated, excited.

effervescing:

That which effervesces.

effervescingly:

In an effervescing manner, sparklingly.

effervescive:

Tending to or characterized by effervescence.

ferment:

1. Originally, leaven or yeast; hence, generally an agent that causes fermentation. Modern chemists recognize two classes of ferments: organized ferments, which are living vegetable organisms, as the yeast plant and other microscopic fungi; and unorganized or chemical ferments, which are certain compounds of organic origin, as diastase, pepsin, etc. (now replaced in scientific use by enzyme).
2. Agitation, excitement, tumult; a figurative form of "fermentation"; to work up into a ferment or agitation; to excite, stir up; to exacerbate, to foment, to inflame.
3. To undergo the action of a ferment; to suffer fermentation; to "work".

fermentable, fermentability :

Capable of being fermented; capable of causing fermentation.

fermentarian:

A name applied in reproach by Latin Christians to those of the Greek church, as using fermented bread in the Eucharist.

fermentation:

1. A process of the nature of that which results from the operation of leaven on dough or on saccharine liquids.

The features superficially recognizable in the process in these instances are an effervescence or internal commotion, with evolution of heat, in the substance operated on, and a resulting alteration of its properties. Before the rise of modern chemistry, the term was applied to all chemical changes exhibiting these characters; in Alchemy, it was the name of an internal change supposed to be produced in metals by a "ferment", operating after the manner of leaven. In modern science the name is restricted to a definite class of chemical changes peculiar to organic compounds, and produced in them by the stimulus of a "ferment".

2. The state of being excited by emotion or passion; agitation, excitement, working. Sometimes (with a more complete metaphor); a state of agitation tending to bring about a purer, more wholesome, or more stable condition of things.

fermentatious:

A reference to a disease that is produced by some morbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment.

fermented:

A reference to a liquor that has been through the process of fermentation; also, a reference to leavened bread (leaven is a substance; such as, yeast or cream of tartar, that is added to batters and doughs to produce fermentation to make the bread rise so it is light or lighter).

fervent:

1. Hot, burning, glowing, boiling.
2. Of persons, their passions, dispositions, or actions; ardent, intensely earnest. From 17th century almost exclusively with reference to love or hatred, zeal, devotion or aspiration.
3. Now rare: Of conflict, uproar, formerly also of pestilence, a wild beast, etc.; hot, fierce, raging.

fervently:

With warmth of feeling; ardently, earnestly, hotly, passionately. Now rare except in expressions of love, desire, prayer, etc.

fervescence:

An increase in body temperature above normal; a fever.

fervescent:

Growing hot.

fervid:

1. Intensely fervent or zealous; impassioned.
2. Extremely hot; burning, glowing.

fervidly:

Done with intense fervency or zealousness.

fervor:

1. Intensity of emotion; ardor.
2. Warmth or glow of feeling, passion, vehemence, intense zeal; and instance of the same.
3. Intense heat, glowing condition.

fervour:

Chiefly the British spelling variation of fervor.

feto-, fet-, feti-, foeto-, foet- (Latin: an unborn offspring, fetus).

effete:

fetal:

fetalism:

fetalization:

fetation:

feticidal:

feticide:

feticulture:

fetiferous:

fetography:

fetologist:

fetology:

fetometry:

fetoscope:

fetoscopy:

fetus:

fibrino-, fibrin- (Latin: an insoluble protein that is an essential part of blood coagulation).

fibro-, fibr- (Latin: fiber [an elongated, threadlike structure]; a combining form denoting a relatioinship to fibers).

angiofibrosis:

fibremia:

fibrenemia:

fibriform:

fibril:

fibrilation:

fibrin:

fibrinogen:

fibrinogenesis:

fibrinoid:

fibrinolysis:

fibroadipose:

fibroid:

fibromyalgia:

fibromyositis:

fibrosis:

fibrositis:

fibrous:

fibul- (Latin: clasp, outer bone of the leg).

fili- (Latin: son, daughter; offspring [family member]).

affiliate:

affiliation:

filial:

filiality:

filiate:

filiation:

filicidal:

filicide:

filiety:

filari- (Latin: thread).

From the family, Filarioidea, a superfamily or order of nematode parasites, the adults being threadlike worms which invade the tissues and body cavities where the female deposits embryonated eggs [prelarvae] known as microfilariae. These microfilariae are ingested by blood-sucking insects in whom they pass their developmental stage and are returned to a human by the bites of such insects.

filo-, fil- (Latin: thread, string).

fimbri-, fimbr-, fimi-, fim- (Latin: dung, excrement).

fimbricole:

fimbricolous:

fimbriphilous:

fimbrivore:

fimbrivorous:

fimbrivory:

fimetarius:

fimicole:

fimicolous:

fimiphilous:

fimiphily:

fimivore:

fimivorous:

fimivory:

fin- (Latin: end, last, limit, boundary, border).

ad infinitum:

affinity:

confine:

define:

definite:

definitely:

definition:

definitive:

fina:

finale:

finalism:

finalist:

finality:

finalization:

finalize:

finally:

finance:

financial:

fine:

finesse:

finish:

finite:

finitely:

finiteness:

finitude:

indefinite:

infinite:

infinitely:

infinitesimal:

infinitive:

infinitude:

infinity:

paraffin:

refine:

refinement:

refinery:

unfinished:

firm- (Latin: strong, firm).

affirm:

affirmable:

affirmation:

affirmative:

affirmatively:

confirm:

confirmable:

confirmation:

confirmative:

confirmed:

firm:

firmament:

infirm:

infirmary:

infirmities:

infirmity:

reaffirm:

reaffirmation:

reaffirmed:

reaffirming:

reaffirms:

fissi-, fiss-, -fid (Latin: split, cloven, cleft).

fissur- (Latin: to split; a cleft or groove).

fistulo-, fistul-, fistuli (Latin: pipe; an abnormal passage or communication, usually between two internal organs, or leading from an internal organ to the surface of the body).

flagello-, flagell- (Latin: to whip, a whip, whiplike appendage).

biflagellate:

choanoflagellate:

dinoflagellate:

flagella:

flagellant:

flagellar:

flagellate:

flagellation:

flagelliform:

flagellum:

microflagellate:

nanophytoflagellate:

phytoflagellate:

silicoflagellate:

zooflagellate:

flagr- (Latin: fire; burn, blaze).

conflagrate:

conflagration:

conflagrative:

deflagrate:

deflagration:

flagrancy:

flagrant:

flagrantly:

in flagrante delicto:

inflagrante:

flam- (Latin: fire, burn, blaze).

flamboyant:

flame:

flamiferous:

flamingo:

flamivomous:

flammable:

inflame:

inflammable:

inflammation:

inflammatory:

flat- (Latin: blow, a puff of wind; accumulation of gas in the stomach or bowels).

afflatus:

conflate:

conflation:

deflate:

deflation:

flatulence:

flatulency:

flatulent:

flatulogenic:

flatulogenous:

flatulopetic:

flatus:

inflate:

inflation:

inflationary:

inflationism:

perflation:

reflate:

sufflate:

flavo-, flav-, flavi- (Latin: the color [reddish] yellow).

flect-, flex- (Latin: bend, curve, turn).

anteflexion:

biflex:

circumflex:

deflect:

deflection:

flection:

flex:

flexibility:

flexible:

flexuous:

flexure:

genuflection:

inflect:

inflection:

inflexible:

reflect:

reflection:

reflective:

reflex:

retroflex:

retroflexion:

flic-, flig- (Latin: strike, destroy, dashed down, damaged).

afflict:

afflicted:

affliction:

conflict:

confliction:

inflict:

infliction:

profligacy:

profligate:

flocc-, floccu- (Latin: tuft or cluster, as of wool).

floccillation, floccitation:

Semiconscious picking at bedclothes in association with fever, stupor, and delirium. Also known as carphologia.

floccinaucinihilipilification:

Something that is totally and absolutely valueless. It is a combination of: flocci, a "tuft of wool"; pili, the plural of pilus, a "hair"; nihili, "nothing"; nauci, "worthless" plus the suffix -fication, to make the combination a noun.

floccipend:

To treat as of trivial value.

floccose, floccosely:

1. In biology, pertaining to a growth consisting of short and densely but irregularyly interwoven filaments.
2. Woolly; bearing flocci; specifically, in botany, having tufts of soft woolly hairs, which are often deciduous.

flocculable:

Capable of being woolly or flocky.

flocculate:

1. To cause (soil) to form lumps or masses.
2. To cause (clouds) to form fluffy masses.
3. To form lumpy or fluffy masses.

floccule:

A small, loosely held mass or aggregate of fine particles suspended in or precipitated from a solution.

flocculence:

Resemblance to shreds or tufts of cotton.

flocculent:

1. Having a fluffy or woolly appearance.
2. Composed of or containing wooly masses.
3. A reference to a fluid or culture containing whitish shreds of mucus.
4. Flaky, waxy, and woollike, as the secretion covering some insects.

flocculose:

Minutely floccose.

flocculus:

1. A small, fluffy mass or tuft.
2. A tuft of fine hairs on the legs of certain insects.
3. In anatomy, either of two small lobes on the lower posterior border of each lobe of the cerebellum.
4. In astronomy, any of various masses of gases appearing as bright or dark patches on the sun's surface.

floccus:

A tuft or flock of wool, or something likened thereto, as the tuft of hair at the end of the tail of certain mammals.

flori-, flor-, flora-, -florous (Latin: flower; full of flowers, abounding in flowers; flora, plants of a general region or period).

defloration:

effloresce:

efflorescence:

efflorescent:

Flora:

flora:

florabunda:

floral:

Florence:

florescence:

florescent:

floriculture:

florid:

Florida:

floriferous:

florin:

florish:

florist:

floristics:

florology:

florula:

inflora:

inflorescence:

macrofloria:

microflora:

multiflorous:

uniflorous:

fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu- (Latin: flow, wave).

affluence:

affluent:

afflux:

circumfluent:

confluence:

confluent:

conflux:

effluence:

effluent:

effluvium:

efflux:

fluctuate:

fluctuation:

flue:

fluency:

fluent:

fluently:

fluid:

fluidic:

fluidics:

fluidity:

fluidize:

fluidness:

flume:

flush:

fluvial:

fluvioglacial:

fluviology:

flux:

fluxion:

influence:

influent:

influenza:

influx:

mellifluous:

millifluent:

reflux:

superfluity:

superfluous:

fluvio-, fluvi- (Latin: river, stream).

fluvial:

1. Pertaining to rivers and river activities; found or living in a river.
2. Produced by a river or stream.

fluvialist:

One who explains certain phenomena in geology or physical geography by the action of existing streams.

fluviated:

Overflowed by a river, marshy.

fluviatic:

Growing or living in streams.

fluviatile:

1. Inhabiting rivers and streams; fluvial.
2. Of or pertaining to a river or rivers; found, growing, or living in rivers; formed, caused, or produced by the action of rivers.

fluviation:

1. The formation of rivers.
2. A river system.

fluvicoline:

Inhabiting or frequenting rivers or streams; said of certain birds, fishes, mollusks, etc.

fluvioaeolian:

In geology, produced or caused by the action of streams and wind.

fluvioglacial, glaciofluvial:

Pertaining to streams flowing from a glacier, or to deposits laid down from glacial streams; glaciofluvial.

fluviograph:

An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.

fluviolacustrine:

Pertaining to or produced by the action of both rivers and lakes.

fluviologist:

A specialist in the study of rivers.

fluviology:

1. The study of rivers.
2. The facts and conditions relating to a river or a river-system.

fluviomarine:

1. Inhabiting rivers and the sea.
2. Applied to deposits formed by river-currents at the bottom of the sea.

fluviometer:

An instrument for measuring the rise and fall of rivers.

fluvioterrestrial:

1. Inhabiting streams and the surrounding land.
2. Pertaining to the land-surface of the globe and its rivers.

fluviovolcanic:

In geology, a reference to the combined action of volcanoes and streams, as in beds of volcanic ash deposited by a river.

fluviraption:

Erosion as a result of running water or wave action.

interfluvial:

Situated between (the valleys of) adjacent watercourses.

multifluvian:

Having many rivers flowing into it.

subfluvial:

Extending under a river.

transfluvial, transfluvian:

Situated or dwelling across or beyond a river:

focus [plural: foci] (Latin: hearth, fireplace; fire, flame; central point, center).

The word "focus" was introduced into mathematics by Johannes Kepler in 1604 with the meaning of any "central point".

folio-, foli-, folii- (Latin: leaf).

bifoliate:

bifoliation:

defoliate:

defoliation:

exfoliate:

foil:

foliaceous:

foliage:

foliar:

foliate:

foliated:

foliating:

foliation:

foliature:

folic:

folicaulicole:

folicaulicolous:

folicole:

folicolous:

foliicole:

foliicolous:

foliiferous:

folio:

foliolate:

foliole:

foliose:

folium:

folivore:

folivorous:

folivory:

folligerous:

graminifolious:

latifoliate:

multifoliate:

perfoliate:

portfolio:

trifolium:

foll-, folli- (Latin: bag).

for-, fora- (Latin: to bore, to pierce).

forbi-, forb- (Greek: phorbe, fodder, from pherbein, to graze; by extension: fodder, food; any herb other than grass, a broadleaf herb; a weed).

forb:

A broad-leaved herb other than a grass, especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow.

forbicolous, forbicole:

Living on broad-leaved plants; herbicolous.

forbivorous, forbivore, forbivory:

Feeding on broad-leaved plants.

forbiphilous:

forbiphily:

form-, -form, forma-, format- (Latin: shape, form, figure, appearance).

biform:

conform:

conformation:

conformer:

conformist:

conformity:

cordiform:

deform:

deformed:

deformity:

dentiform:

formal:

formalism:

formalist:

formality:

formalization:

formalize:

format:

formation:

formative:

formless:

formula:

formulate:

inform:

informal:

informant:

information:

informative:

informed:

informer:

nonconformist:

oviform:

perform:

performance:

performed:

reform:

reformation:

transform:

transformation:

transformational:

uniform:

formic-, form-, -formic (Latin: ant).

chloroform:

formaldehyde:

formic:

Formica:

formicarian:

formicarium:

formicary:

formicate:

formication:

formicative:

Formicidae:

formicide:

formicine:

formicivore:

formicivorous:

formiphagia:

formiphagy:

formiphobia:

formivore:

formivorous:

iodoform:

fornic, -fornix (Latin: arch; whoredom [from "arch, vault; brothel"; fornication]).

Brothels were called fornices, i.e. "arches", because prostitutes used to gather "under the arches" of certain buildings in ancient Rome to make contact with their customers.

fornicate:

fornication:

fornicator:

fornicatress:

fort-, forc- (Latin: power, strength, strong).

comfort:

comfortable:

comfortless:

comfortlessly:

discomfort:

effort:

enforce:

enforceable:

enforcement:

force:

force majeure:

forcible:

forcibly:

fort:

forte:

fortification:

fortifier:

fortify:

fortifying:

fortissimo:

fortitude:

fortress:

reinforce:

fortu-, fortun- (Latin: chance, fate, luck).

foss-, fossili-, fossil- , fossor- (Latin: to dig, dug out, dug up; digging; ditch, trench).

fove-, fovei- (Latin: pit).

frag-, frang-, fract-, fring- (Latin: break).

diffract:

diffraction:

fracas:

fractal:

fractile:

fraction:

fractional:

fractionize:

fractious:

fracture:

fragible:

fragile:

fragility:

fragment:

fragmental:

fragmentary:

fragmentate:

fragmentation:

fragmentize:

frail:

frailty:

frangible:

frangile:

infraction:

infrangible:

infringe:

infringement:

irrefragable:

refactory:

refract:

refraction:

refractor:

refractory:

saxifrage:

suffrage:

frater-, frat- (Latin: brother [family member]).

archconfraternity:

A confraternity empowered to aggregate or affiliate other confraternities of the same nature, and to impart to them its indulgences and privileges.

confrater:

A member of a brotherhood.

confraternity:

1. A group of people united in a common profession or for some purpose, often a group of Christians who have joined together to perform charitable acts.
2. A brotherhood; an association of men united for some purpose or in some common profession; a guild; especially, a brotherhood devoted to some particular service that is religious or charitable.

confraternization:

Fraternization together, recognition of each other as brethern.

fraternal, fraternalism, fraternally:

1. Existing between brothers or felt by one brother for another; brotherly.
2. Relating to or organized as a fraternity (organization of males).
3. Used to describe twins that have developed from two separate ova, rather than a single ovum.

fraternity:

1. A social society for men who are students at a college or university, with a name consisting of individually pronounced Greek letter.
2. A group of people with something in common, e.g., being in the same job or sharing the same pastime.
3. Brotherly love, or feelings of friendship and mutual support between people.

fraternize, fraternization, fraternizer:

1. To spend time with other people socially, especially people with whom you should not be friendly [those considered to be "enemies"].
2. To enter into a sexual relationship with a person of a different rank against military regulations.

fratricide, fratricidal:

1. The crime in which someone kills his or her own brother.
2. A reference to the person who kills his/her own brother.

fratry, fratery:

By some modern writers. it is used as the name of a room in monastic establishments supposed to have served as the common-room of the "brethern".

interfraternal:

Existing or carried on between brothers.

nonfraternization:

An absence of fraternization.

fren- (Latin: rein, bridle, bit; by extension, a connecting fold of membrane).

frica-, frict-, -frice (Latin: a rubbing, rub).

affriction:

The action of rubbing one thing upon another.

antifriction:

That which prevents friction.

dentifrice:

A powder or other preparation for rubbing or cleansing the teeth; a tooth-powder or tooth-paste; also applied to liquid preparations.

fricative:

A speech sound produced by forcing an air stream through a narrow opening and resulting in audible high-frequency vibrations; such as, "f" or "s".

friction:

1. The rubbing of one body (or thing) against another; attrition.
2. The resistance which any body meets with in moving over another body.
3. The rubbing of two objects against each other when one or both are moving.
4. In physics, the resistance encountered by an object moving relative to another object with which it is in contact.
5. In medicine, deliberate rubbing of a body part as a way of stimulating blood circulation, warming, or relieving pain.
6. Disagreement or conflict, stopping short of violence, between individuals, groups, or nations with differing aims or views.

frictionless:

Free from or without friction.

frigo-, frig- (Latin: cold, frost).

frigid, frigidity, frigidly, frigidness:

1. Very cold, with a very cold temperature.
2. Sexually unresponsive.
3. Lacking emotional warmth; without or behaving without warmth, friendliness, or enthusiasm.

frigideserta:

Tundra; the open communities of cold arctic or alpine regions.

frigolabile:

1. Capable of being destroyed by low temperatures.
2. Easily affected or injured by cold.

frigophile, frigophilic, frigophily:

1. Thriving in cold environments.
2. Preferring or having a fondness for cold places.

frigorie:

A power rating used in refrigeration, equivalent to the extraction of 1 000 calories per hour.

frigorific:

Producing, or generating, extreme cold.

frigorimeter:

An instrument designed specifically for the measurement of low temperatures.

frigorism:

Very poor blood circulation caused by long exposure to cold.

frigostabile:

Incapable of being destroyed by low temperatures.

frigostable:

Resistant to cold or low temperatures.

frigotherapy:

The use of cold in treatment of diseases.

frisson (singular), frissons (plural):

1. A shudder or shiver, as of excitement, fear, or pleasure.
2. A brief intense reaction, usually a feeling of excitement, recognition, or terror, accompanied by a physical shudder or thrill.
3. This word comes from the Late 18th century via French, literally "shiver," from Latin frigere "to be cold". Its relationship to cold, frigere, is based on the fact that when people are cold, they usually shiver.

refrigerant:

1. Cooling or freezing.
2. In medicine, reducing fever.

refrigerate:

1. To cool or chill (a substance).
2. To preserve (food) by chilling.

refrigerator:

A cabinet or room for storing substances, as food, at a low temperature.

frimbri- (Latin: fiber; fringe, border).

fronto- (Latin: forehead).

frug-, fruct- (Latin: fruit).

frutic-, frut- (Latin: shrub).

fuci-, fuc- (Greek > Latin: rock lichen, seaweed; red paint, rouge).

fucivorous, fucivore, fucivory:

Feeding on seaweed.

fug-, -fuge, -fugit (Latin: drive away, flee, fly, run away).

centrifugal:

Eheu fugaces labuntur anni. "Alas, the fleeting years glide by." As seen in Horace's Odes.

febrifuge:

fugacious:

fugitive:

Fugit hora. "The hour flies." or "Time flies." As seen in Ovid.

Fugit irreparabile tempus. "We cannot stop time in its tracks." or "Irrecoverable time flies away." Tempus fugit is a shortened version of this proverb (or motto), as seen in Vergil.

Fugite fures omnes. "Fly (Flee) all you thieves."

fugue:

refuge:

refugee:

solifugal:

subterfuge:

Tempus fugit. "Time flies (flees)." As seen in Vergil.

vermifuge:

funct-, fungi- (Latin: to perform, execute, discharge; performance, service, execution).

defunct:

1. No longer in existence; having ceased its functions; dead, extinct.
2. No longer operative, valid, or functional.

defunctive:

Of or pertaining to defunction or dying. Also, becoming defunct; dying.

dysfunction:

A medical abnormality in the functioning of an organ or other part or system of the body.

dysfunctional:

1. Failing to perform the function that is normally expected.
2. Unable to function emotionally as a social unit.
3. In medicine, unable to function normally as a result of disease or impairment.

function:

1. An action or use for which something is suited or designed.
2. An activity or role assigned to someone or something.
3. A social gathering or ceremony, especially a formal or official occasion.
4. A quality or characteristic that depends upon and varies with another.

functional:

1. Having a practical application or serving a useful purpose.
2. In good working order or working at the moment.
3. Without apparent organic or structural cause.

functional illiterate:

Someone whose reading and writing abilities are inadequately developed to meet everyday needs.

functionalism:

1. Belief that the intended function of something should determine its design, construction, and choice of materials, or a 20th-century design movement based on this.
2. Any philosophy or system that gives practical and utilitarian concerns priority over esthetic concerns.

functional literacy:

The level of skill in reading and writing that an individual needs to cope with everyday adult life.

functionary:

Someone who performs official duties; especially, a person whose duties are regarded as trivial.

functor:

Someone or something that performs a function.

fungible:

1. Capable of being interchanged.
2. A description of commodities that can be traded or substituted for an equal amount of like commodity, usually to satisfy a contract.

hyperfunction, hyperfunctional:

In medicine, over-activity or over-production (in a gland or other part of the body).

hypofunction, hypofunctional:

In medicine, diminished or insufficient activity or production (in a gland or other part of the body).

malfunction, malfunctioning:

Faulty functioning.

multifunction, multifunctional:

Having or fulfilling many functions.

perfunctory, perfunctorily, perfunctoriness:

1. Done as a matter of duty or custom, without thought, attention, or genuine feeling.
2. Done hastily or superficially.

underfunction:

Primarily in medicine, to exhibit underfunction; to have a diminished capacity for acting and responding.

funi-, fun- (Latin: rope, cord).

funambulant:

A rope-walker, a funambulist.

funambulate:

To walk on a stretched rope.

funambulation:

The action of walking on a rope.

funambulatory:

Pertaining to rope-walking.

funambule:

A rope-walker.

funambulism:

Rope-walking.

funambulist:

A performer on the tight (or slack) rope, a rope-walker, a rope-dancer.

funambulous:

Of or pertaining to a rope-walker.

funicular:

1. Of or pertaining to a rope or its tension; depending on or worked by a rope.
2. Resembling a cord.
3. Pertaining to the funis or umbilical cord.

funiculitis:

1. Inflammation of the spermatic cord.
2. Inflammation of that portion of a spinal nerve root that lies within the intervertebral canal.

funiculoepididymitis:

Inflammation of the spermatic cord and the epididymis.

funiculopexy:

Surgical fixation of the spermatic cord to the surrounding tissues in the correction of undescended. testes.

funiculus, funicle, funicular:

1. A little rope.
2. A cord: in anatomical nomenclature, a general term for a cordlike structure or part.
3. The umbilical cord (funis); hence; in botany, a little stalk by which a seed or ovule is attached to the placenta.
4. A term for the part of the antenna which lies between the scape and the club in certain insects.
5. Applied to the primitive cord or bundle of nerve fibres, bound together in a sheath of connective tissue, called the perineurium or neurilemm.

funiform:

Having the form of a cord or rope.

funiliform:

1. Resembling a rope or cord.
2. Tough, cylindrical, and flexible, like a chord; as the roots of arborescent monocotyledones.

funipendulous:

Hanging from a rope; connected with a hanging rope.

funipotent:

Playing tricks with ropes.

funis, funic:

1. An cordlike structure.
2. The umbilical cord.

funisitis:

Inflammation of the umbilical cord.

funer-, funero-, fun- (Latin: burial; death rites, burial ceremony).

fungi-, fung- (Latin: mold, mushroom).

1. Any of a group of plants including mushrooms, molds, mildews, etc.

2. In medicine, a spongy, morbid growth.

fungal:

fungi (plural):

fungicide:

fungicole:

fungicolous:

fungiform:

fungistasis:

fungistat:

fungistatic:

fungitoxic:

fungitoxicity:

fungivorous:

fungoid:

fungosity:

fungous:

fungus (singular):

furcat-, furca- (Latin: fork).

bifurcate:

To divide into two parts or branches; two forks.

furcate:

As a verb, to divide into branches, fork; as an adjective, divided into branches, forked.

fus-, fun-, fund-, fut-, found- (Latin > French: pour, melt, blend).

affusion:

circumfuse:

circumfusion:

confound (through French):

confuse:

confusion:

diffuse:

diffusion:

effuse:

effusion:

effusive:

foundry:

funnel:

fuse:

fusible:

fusion:

futile:

infuse:

infusion:

interfuse:

interfusion:

profound (through French):

profuse:

profusion:

refund:

refuse:

suffuse:

suffusion:

transfuse:

transfusion:

fusc- (Latin: dark, brown, tawny).

fuso-, fusi-, fus- (Latin: spindle, spindlelike).

-fy (Latin: a suffix; make, do, build, cause, produce).

galacto-, galact-, -galaxy (Greek: milk).

agalactia:

agalactosis:

agalactous:

agalorrhea:

androgalactozemia:

antigalactic:

dysgalactia:

extragalactic:

galactagogue:

galactase:

galactia:

galactic:

galactin:

galactodendron:

galactoid:

galactometer:

galactophage:

galactophagist:

galactophagous:

galactophorous:

galactopoietic:

galactorrhea:

galactorrhoea:

galactose:

galactostasis:

galactrophic:

galaxy:

ischiogalactic:

metagalactic:

metagalaxy:

galeo-, galea-, galeat-, galei-, galer- (Latin: helmet, helmet shaped, to cover with a helmet; cap).

Used primarily in zoology and botany. Phases of sense development seem to have been:

1. weasel

2. weasel's skin or hide

3. leather

4. helmet made of leather

galea:

A headache that hurts your whole head.

galeanthropy:

The delusion that one is a cat.

galeophilia:

A fondness for cats.

galeophobia:

An abnormal aversion, fear, or hatred of cats.

galeopithecus:

A flying lemur.

galeo-, gale- (Greek: pole cat, skunk; cat; marten; weasel).

galeo-, gale- (Greek: shark).

galeod:

A shark.

galeoid:

Resembling a shark or dog-fish.

gall-, galli- (Latin: gallnut; a globulous excrescence; to form into a ball; a swelling).

gall-, galli- (Latin: a swelling; a sore place).

gall-, galli- (Latin: pertaining to domestic fowls or poultry; such as, chickens [the rooster and the hen]).

gallo-, Gall- (Latin: of or pertaining to Gaul).

Gaul was a region which is now modern-day France and Northern Italy. It apparently comes from the Germanic root meaning "foreigner, stranger" and includes English Wales, Welsh, Wallachian, and Walloon.

Gallic:

Gallo-Romance:

Gallomania:

Gallophile:

Gallophilia:

Gallophobe:

Gallophobia:

gameto-, gamet- (Greek: from gamet[e], "wife" and gamet[es], "husband" [from gamein, "to marry"]; used chiefly as "pertaining to a gamete, a mature reproductive cell").

gamma (Greek: the third letter of the Greek alphabet).

ganglio-, gangli- (Greek > Latin: swelling, a knot; center of a cavity; nerve center; pertaining to a mass of nerve tissue).

According to Galen [Galenius or Galenos], Clausius [Clarissmus], a Greek physician and medical scientist in Rome c. A.D. 130-201; the proper sense of the element is "anything gathered into a ball," conglobatus.

ganglia:

gangliated:

gangliform:

ganglion:

ganglionated:

ganglionectomy:

ganglioneuroma:

ganglioneuromatosis:

ganglionic:

ganglionitis:

ganglionostomy:

ganglioplegic:

ganglioside:

gangliosidosis:

gastro-, gastr-, gastero-, gaster-, gastri-, -gastria- (Greek: stomach, belly).

agastria:

arachnogastria:

digastric:

endogastric:

endogastritis:

engastrimyth:

engastrius:

epigastric:

epigastrium:

gastral:

gastralgia:

gastralgic:

gastralium:

gastrectomy:

gastric:

gastrilegous:

gastriloquist:

gastrin:

gastritis:

gastroblast:

gastrocardiac:

gastrocentral:

gastrochaena:

gastrocolic:

gastrocutaneous:

gastrodermal:

gastrodermis:

gastroduodenal:

gastroduodenitis:

gastroenteric:

gastroenteritis:

gastroenterocolostomy:

gastroenterologist:

gastroenterology:

gastrogenic:

gastrohepatic:

gastrointestinal:

gastrolith:

gastrologer:

gastrological:

gastrologist:

gastrology:

gastrolysis:

gastromancy:

gastronomic:

gastronomist:

gastronomy:

gastrophilus:

gastropod:

gastroptosis:

gastropulmonary:

gastrorrhagia:

gastrotherapy:

gastrotomy:

gastrotoxin:

melanogaster:

microgastria:

neogastropod:

philogastric:

photogastroscope:

polygastria:

transgastric:

-gate- (Latin: a suffix; [from agere to set in motion, drive, lead; to do, act).

gato- (Latin [cattus] > Spanish: cat).

gatomania:

An abnormal or excessive love of cats.

gatophilia:

A special fondness for cats.

gatophobia:

A detestation, hatred, or abnormal fear of cats.

gehenna- (Hebrew > Greek > Latin: hell or hellfire).

gehenna:

Hell, the place of future fiery torment for the dead. The word comes from "the Valley of Hinnom"; shortened from Ge Ben-Hinnom, "the Valley of the Son of Hinnom", a valley South West, and South of Jerusalem, where children were burnt in sacrifice to Baal or Molech [Moloch]. It came to be regarded as a place of unquenchable fire, possibly from the fires of Moloch.

Moloch [MOH luhk] or Molech (Hebrew, melech: king). He was the god of the Ammonites, to whom children were made "to pass through the fire" as sacrifices. Children were dedicated ("passed over") and burned to Molech at the Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem.

During the monarchical period of the Hebrews, the site was an infamous high place (called "topheth" and derived from an Aramaic word meaning "fireplace"), where some of the kings of Judah engaged in forbidden religious practices, including human sacrifice by fire; as mentioned earlier.

Probably because of these associations with fiery destruction and judgment, the word "Gehenna" came to be used metaphorically as a designation for hell or eternal damnation. As such, Gehenna is to be distinguished from Hades, which is either the bode of all the dead in general or the place where the wicked await the final judgment. In the New Testament, Gehenna designates the place or state of the final punishment of the wicked. It is variously described as a fiery furnace, an unquenchable fire, or an eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

gehenne:

1. A hell, place of torment.
2. Judicial torture.

gehennical:

Belonging to gehenna.

gela-, gelati-, geli- (Latin: freezing, frosty).

gelo-, geloto-, gelato-, gelat- (Greek: laughter, laughing).

dacrygelosis:

A condition of alternating between crying and laughing.

gelastic:

gelogenic:

gelomancy:

geloplegia:

geloscopy:

gelotherapy:

gelotolepsy:

gelotometer:

gelo-, gel- (Latin: to freeze; then, congeal; and finally, gelatin).

Later it came to mean "to congeal"; having to do with "congealing" or with "gelatin, a protein derived from the partial hydrolysis of animal skin, connective tissue, and bone".

gemin- (Latin: twin; double).

bigeminal:

Existing or arranged in two pairs; specifically in medicine, applied to the corpora quadrigemina of the brain, lying beneath the cerebral hemispheres.

Gemini:

A constellation, otherwise 'Castor and Pollux'; also the third sign of the zodiac, with which this constellation was anciently identical.

geminiflorous:

Having flowers in pairs.

geminous:

Double; occurring in pairs.

trigeminal, trigeminus:

Triple; pertaining to the fifth cranial nerve (nervus trigeminus); called the fifth pair of cranial nerves because of their division into three branches; also called 'trifacial'.

trigeminy:

The condition of occurring in threes, especially the occurrence of three pulse beats in rapid succession.

gemm-, gemmu-, gemmi- (Latin: bud).

gen- (Latin: [from agere] to set in motion, drive, lead).

genio-, geni- (Greek: chin).

genial:

geniocheiloplasty:

genioglossal:

genioglossus:

geniohyoid:

genion:

genioplasty:

genito- (Latin: reproductive organs).

geno-, gen-, genit-, gener- (Greek > Latin: race, kind; line of descent; pertaining to sexual relations, reproduction, or heredity; and more recently, a gene or genes).

genu-, geni-, gen- (Latin: knee).

genicula (plural):

genicular:

geniculate:

geniculum (singular):

genu:

genuclast:

genucubital:

genuflect:

genuflection:

genuflexion:

genuglyphics:

genupectoral:

genus, genesis-, -gen, -genesis, -genetic, -genic, -geny, -genous (Latin: birth, descent, origin, creation, inception, beginning, race, sort, kind, class).

agenesis:

autogenous:

benign:

biogenesis:

congenial:

cosmogony:

degenerate:

degeneration:

digenesis:

digenous:

dysgenics:

endogenous:

engender:

erogenous:

eugenic:

exogenous:

gender:

genealogical:

genealogist:

genealogy:

general:

generate:

generated:

generating:

generation:

generative:

generator:

generic:

generous:

genesiology:

genesis:

genetal:

genetical:

genetically:

genetics:

genetrix:

genial:

genitive:

genius:

genocidal:

genocide:

genomic imprints:

genre:

geogenous:

hematogenous:

hemogeneous:

heterogeneous:

homogenize:

indigenous:

malign:

malignancy:

malignant:

miscegenation:

ontogenesis:

ontogenetic:

ontogenize:

parthenogenesis:

parthenogenetic:

pathogenesis:

philoprogenitive:

photogenic:

phylogenesis:

phylogenetic:

phylogenetically:

phylogenic:

phylogeny:

primogeniture:

progeny:

regenerate:

regeneration:

telegenic:

transgenic:

ultimogeniture:

geny- (Greek: jaw, chin, cheek).

geo-, ge- (Greek: earth, world).

geoaesthesia, geoesthesia:

The capacity of a plant to perceive and to respond to gravity.

geobenthos:

1. The sum total of all terrestrial life.
2. That part of the bottom of a stream or lake not covered by vegetation.

ageotropic:

ageotropism:

amphigean:

apogee:

apogeotropism:

apogeotropy:

archaeogeology:

archeogeological:

archeogeology:

biogeocoenology:

biogeographical:

biogeographic:

biogeography:

biogeosphere:

diageotropic:

diageotropism:

endogean:

epigean:

geobiologist:

geobiology:

geobiontic:

geobionts:

geobios:

geobotanist:

geobotany:

geocarpic:

geocarpy:

geocentric:

geochemical:

geochemist:

geochemistry:

geochronological:

geochronologist:

geochronology:

geochronometry:

geocole:

geocolous:

geocryptophyte:

geode:

geodesic:

geodesist:

geodesy:

geodetic:

geodiatropic:

geodiatropism:

geodic:

geogenous:

geognostic:

geognosy:

geogony:

geographer:

geographic:

geographical:

geographically:

geography:

geohydrology:

geoid:

geoisotherm:

geologic:

geological:

geologically:

geologise:

geologist:

geologize:

geology:

geomagnetic:

geomagnetically:

geomagnetism:

geomancy:

geomantic:

geomantist:

geomedicine:

geometric:

geometrical:

geometrically:

geometrician:

Geometridae:

geometry:

geomorph:

geomorphological:

geomorphologist:

geomorphology:

geonastic:

geonasty:

geonyctitropic:

geonyctitropism:

geophagia:

geophagism:

geophagist:

geophagous:

geophagy:

geophilous:

geophone:

geophysical:

geophysicist:

geophysics:

geophyte:

geopolitical:

geopolitically:

geopolitician:

geopolitics:

geoponic:

geoponics:

George:

geoseism:

geosphere:

geospherics:

geostationary:

geostrophic:

geosynchronous:

geotaxis:

geotectnology:

geotectonics:

geothermal:

geotropic:

geotropism:

hydrogeology:

hypogean:

hypogeous:

isogeotherm:

isogeothermal:

paleogeography:

perigee:

phytogeographist:

phytogeography:

thermogeographic:

thermogeography:

gephyro-, gephyr- (Greek: bridge).

ger-, ges-, gest- (Latin: carry, produce).

Don't confuse this ger- with another Greek gero-, ger- that means "old age".

belligerent:

congest:

congested:

congestion:

congestive:

digest:

digestible:

digestion:

egest:

exaggerate:

exaggerated:

exaggerating:

exaggeration:

gestation:

gesticulate:

gesture:

indigestion:

ingest:

ingestion:

progestion:

suggest:

suggestion:

germ-, germin- (Latin: bud, sprout, a growing thing in its early stages).

germano- (Latin: pertaining to the Teutonic people of central Europe [possibly from a Celtic word meaning "neighbor"], similar to Old Irish gair, "neighbor"; pertaining to Germany).

gero-, geri-, ger-, geronto-, geront- (Greek: old age, old man, old people).

Man is an illogical creature who wants a long life but never to be old.
-Anonymous

acrogeria:

Reduction or loss of subcutaneous fat and collagen of the hands and feet, giving the appearance of premature aging.

agerasia:

1. Old age accompanied by good health and vigor.
2. Youthful appearance in old people.

eugeria:

Normal, healthy, and happy old age.

geranosis:

Disease characteristic of old age.

geransis:

The process of growing old.

gerascophobia, gerasophobia:

An abnormal fear of, or aversion to, growing old.

gerathymia:

Mental depression of the elderly.

geratology:

In biology, the study of the decline and senescence of populations.

geriatrician, geriatrist:

A doctor who specializes in medical care for senior citizens.

geriatrics, geriatric, geriatry:

1. The branch of medicine that deals with the illnesses and medical care of senior citizens.
2. The branch of medicine concerned with the medical problems and care of the aged. Included are all aspects of aging, including physiological, pathological, psychological, economic, and sociological problems. The importance of geriatrics is emphasized by the fact that the expected lifespan is increasing.

geriatrician:

An expert in geriatrics.

gerocomia:

Medical care of the elderly.

geroderma, gerodermia:

1. Atrophy of the skin, as seen in old age.
2. Dystrophy of the skin and genitals, producing the appearance of old age.

gerodontics, gerodontia:

1. The practice of dentistry among old people.
2. A reference to changes in the dental tissues that come with age.
3. The branch of dentistry focusing on the needs of senior citizens.
4. Also called dental geriatrics and geriodontics.

gerodontist, geriodontist:

A dentist specializing in gerodontics.

gerodontology:

The study of dentistry in relation to the aging, aged, or elderly.

geromarasmus:

The wasting of the body, as that which is sometimes associated with old age.

geromorphism, geromorphic:

1. Appearing prematurely old or the condition of appearing old while still young.
2. Appearing older than one really is; premature senility.

geronta (singular); gerontae (plural):

An elderly female; elderly women.

gerontal:

Senile; old age.

gerontalism:

Impersonating or adopting the characteristics of an older person; it is sometimes reported as a paraphilia when sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent upon playing such a role and being treated as an older person by the sexual partner.

gerontarchical:

A reference to government by elders.

gerontic:

1. Pertaining to old age, senile.
2. A combination of the scientific principles of aging with basic nursing methods to provide a comprehensive understanding. This broad concept relies on a logical scientific approach using specialized knowledge about aged persons.
3. Of or relating to the last phase of life.

gerontocracy, gerontocrat, gerontocratic:

1. A system of government in which the elders are chosen as rulers.
2. A group of elders who make up a government; a governing group of elders.

gerontogeous:

A reference to plants, etc. belonging to the Old World (i.e. the eastern hemisphere).

gerontology:

1. The study of the phenomena of old age.
2. The study of aging as a biologic, sociological, and psychological process; geriatric medicine.
3. The scientific study of the process and problems of aging and of age-related diseases on humans.

gerontologist:

One who specializes in gerontology.

gerontomorphosis:

1. Evolutionary development that produces extreme specialization and, ultimately, extinction of a species or race, as with the dinosaurs.
2. In biology, a degree of evolutionary specialization of a species that decreases its ability to adapt and ultimately leads to its extinction.

gerontomorphic:

Of, pertaining to, or designating anatomical specialization most fully represented in the mature male of a species.

gerontophile:

A person who loves old people.

gerontophilia, gerontophilic, gerontophilism, gerontophily, gerophilia:

A special fondness or love for old people.

gerontophobia, gerophobia:

A pathologic fear of aging or of old people.

gerontotherapeutics:

1. The science concerned with treatment of the aged.
2. Therapeutic management of aging persons designed to retard and prevent the development of many of the aspects of senescence [the process or condition of growing old, especially the condition resulting from the transitions and accumulations of the deleterious aging processes].

gerontotherapy:

Treatment of disease in the aged; geriatric therapy.

gerontu (singular); geronti (plural):

An elderly male; elderly men.

geroprophylaxis:

An attempt to prevent the effects of biological aging.

geropsychiatry:

A subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with mental illness in the elderly.

phylogerontic, phylogerontism:

Pertaining to the old age or stage of decay of a race or type of organism.

progeria, progerian, progeric:

1. Premature appearance of old age.
2. A fatal disease of children characterized by symptoms usually associated with senility.

psychogeriatrics, psychogeriatric, geropsychiatry:

1. Pertaining to mental illness or disturbance in old people.
2. Of a person: old and mentally ill or disturbed.

geus-, geuma-, -geusia, -geusic, -geustia (Greek: taste).

ageusia [uh GYOO see uh]: Loss of the sense of taste; a.k.a., gustatory anesthesia.

ageusic [uh GYOO sik]: A reference to the loss of the sense of taste.

ageustia [uh GYOOS tia]: A loss of the sense of taste.

allotriogeusia [al aht" ree oh GYOO see uh]: Perverted taste for non-nutritious or unusual substances.

ambageusia [am buh GYOO see uh]: Loss of taste from both sides of the tongue.

amblygeusia [am bli GYOO see uh]:

amblygeustia [am bli GYOOS tee uh]: A diminution in the sense of taste.

cacogeusia [kak oh GYOO see uh]: A bad taste in the mouth.

dysgeusia [dis GYOO see uh]: Impairment or perversion of the gustatory sense, or sense of taste.

geumaphobia [gyoo" muh FOH bee uh: A fear of unfamiliar tastes or flavors. There is a disorder known as "gustatory agnosia", in which food becomes tasteless or even has a disgusting taste. People who have this condition may also lose their ability to smell or may find that formerly pleasant odors have become offensive. With an inability to smell, such phobics may fear that they are unaware that they are eating or drinking something that formerly caused them anxieties. Also geumatophobia and geumophobia.

glycogeusia [gligh koh GYOO see uh]: A subjective sweet taste.

hemiageusia [hem" ee uh GYOO see uh]: Loss of taste from one side (half) of the tongue.

hemiageustia [hem" ee uh GYOOS tee uh]: Loss of taste from one side (half) of the tongue.

hemigeusia [hem" ee GYOO see uh]: Taste from one side (half) of the tongue.

hypergeusia [high pur GYOO see uh; high pur JYOO see uh]: An abnormal acuteness, or excess, of the sense of taste.

hypogeusia [high poh GYOO see uh]: Blunting the sense of taste; diminished acuteness of the sense of taste.

oxygeusia [ahk" si GYOO see uh] : An excessive sharpness or acuteness of the sense of taste.

parageusia [par uh GYOO see uh; par uh JYOO see uh]: Disordered or perverted sense of taste.

parageusic [par uh GYOO sik; par uh JYOO sik]: A reference to a disordered or perverted sense of taste; parageusis.

parageustic [par uh GYOO stik; par uh JYOO stik]: A reference to a disordered, false, or perverted sense of taste; parageusis.

picrogeusia [pi" kruh GYOO see uh]: A bitter taste.

pseudogeusesthesia [syoo doh gyoo" es THEE zia]: A false impression or subjective loss of taste.

pseudogeusia [syoo doh GYOO see uh]: A subjective taste sensation not produced by an external stimulus.

psychogeusic [sigh" koh GYOO sik]: Relating to some mental perception of taste.

gi-, gu- (Latin: [from agere] to set in motion, drive, lead).

gibb-, gibbo-, gibboso- (Latin: hump, humpbacked).

gibbosity:

The condition of having a humpback.
2. A hump or gibbus, as the deformity of Pott's disease.

gibbous:

1. Humped; protuberant, swelling, or hunchbacked.
2. One reference is to the moon or a planet when the illuminated portion exceeds a semicircle, but is less than a circle.
3. Of persons and animals: Hunch-backed; having a hump. Of a part of the body: Hump-shaped.

gibbus:

Hump; protuberance, swelling.

giga- [GIG uh or JIG uh] , gig- (Greek: "giant"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

Used in the extended sense of billion [U.S.] or thousand million fold [U.K.] in the metric [decimal] system: 10⁹ [1 000 000 000]. The metric symbol is G.

gigabit:

gigabyte:

gigacycle:

gigaelectrovolt:

gigaflop:

A billion calculations per second.,

gigahertz:

gigajoules:

gigameters (British: gigametres):

gigapascal:

gigavolt:

gigawatt:

gigohm:

giganto-, gigant- (Greek: giant; giantlike; very large).

gigantesque:

gigantic:

gigantism:

gigantoblast:

gigantocyte:

gigantomachia:

gigantomachy:

gigantosoma:

gingivo-, gingiv- (Latin: the gums of the mouth).

gingiva:

gingivae:

gingival:

gingivalgia:

gingivectomy:

gingivitis:

gingivobuccoaxial:

gingivoglossitis:

gingivolabial:

gingivolinguoaxial:

gingivoplasty:

gingivostomatitis:

glabr-, glab-, glabi- (Latin: smooth, hairless).

deglabrate:

deglabrated:

glabella (singular):

glabellad:

glabellae (plural):

glabellar:

glabelloinial:

glabello-occipital:

glabellum:

glabrate:

glabreate:

glabreity:

glabrescent:

glabretal:

glabrify:

glabrirostral:

glabrity:

glabrous:

glaci- (Latin: ice).

fluvioglacial:

Pertaining to streams flowing from a glacier, or to deposits laid down from glacial streams; glaciofluvial.

glacial:

1. Relating to, referring to, or derived from a glacier.
2. Pertaining to those geological intervals characterized by cold climate conditions and advancing ice sheets and caps.

glaciate:

To cover with ice or a glacier.

glacier:

A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting; it moves slowly outward from the center of accumulation or down a mountain slope, or valley, until it melts or breaks away.

glaciofluvial:

Used of sediments transported by ice and deposited from the melted waters of a glacier.

glaciologist:

One who specializes in the scientific study of glaciers and their phenomena.

glaciology:

The scientific study of the formation, movements, etc. of glaciers.

glacis:

Through French: a gradual slope; an embankment sloping gradually up to a fortification, so as to expose attackers to defending gunfire.

niveoglacial:

Pertaining to the combined action of snow and ice.

gladi- (Latin: sword).

gladiate, sword-shaped, as a leaf of an iris.

gladiator:A person, usually a professional combatant, a captive, or a slave, trained to entertain the public by engaging in mortal combat with another person, or a wild animal, in the ancient Roman arena; now more like a person engaged in a controversy or debate, especially in public; a disputant.

gladiolous, gladiola:

In botany, any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus, native chiefly to tropical and southern Africa and having sword-shaped leaves and showy, variously colored, irregular flowers arranged in one-sided spikes; also called sword lily.

gladiatary:

gladiate:

gladiator:

gladiatorial:

gladiatorian:

gladiatorism:

gladiatorship:

gladiatory:

gladiatrix:

gladiature:

gladioli (plural):

gladiolus (singular) [also: gladiola]:

gladius:

Orca gladiator:

gland-, glans- (Latin: acorn; in medicine, gland, glans).

Used in medicine to mean "gland", an aggregation of cells, specialized to secrete or excrete materials not related to their ordinary metabolic needs. Also, "glans" is a general term for a small rounded mass, or glandlike body. The plural of "glans" is "glandes".

glauco-, glauc- (Greek > Latin: a silvery color, or bluish green; gleaming, bright; gray).

glio-, gli-, -glia (Greek: glue).

glia:

gliacyte:

glial:

glioblast:

glioblastoma:

glioblastosis:

glioma:

gliomata:

gliomatosis:

gliomatous:

gliomyxoma:

glioneuroma:

gliosarcoma:

gliosis:

microglia:

neuroglia:

neurogliacyte:

neuroglial:

neurogliar:

neurogliomatosis:

oligodendroglia:

glob-, glom- (Latin: ball, round).

agglomerate:

agglomeration:

conglomerate:

conglomeration:

globe:

globoid:

globular:

globule:

glomeration:

hemoglobin:

glom- (Latin: ball, round).

glosso-, gloss- (Greek: tongue; language, speech).

aglossal:

aglossia:

aglosstomia:

anklyoglossia:

baryglossia:

brachyglossia:

bradyglossia:

cacoglossia:

cynoglossum:

gloss:

glossa:

glossal:

glossalgia:

glossarist:

glossary:

glossdynamometer:

glossectomy:

glossematics:

glossitis:

glossocinesthetic:

glossocoma:

glossograph:

glossographer:

glossography:

glossokinaesthetic:

glossolalia:

glossology:

glossomantia:

glossopathy:

glossophagine:

glossophobia:

glossoplegia:

glossoplegic:

glossopyrosis:

glossoscopy:

glossospasm:

glossotomy:

hypoglossal:

hypoglossally:

isogloss:

pachyglossal:

pachyglossia:

tachyglossus:

xenoglossia:

xenoglossy:

glotto-, glot-, -glott (Greek: tongue; by extension, "speech, language").

They're skinny, thick, colored, sometimes sticky, occasionally nubbed flabs of flesh that dangle in the mouths of virtually every mammal, bird, reptile, fish and amphibian on Earth. Tongues, as we know these universal appendages, can zap prey, slurp water, groom a friendly shoulder, shovel food, taste, twist and enable their owners to make precise sounds.

The tongue presents a great anatomical puzzle. It is essentially solid muscle, but muscle by itself is usually useless. A muscle, that can perform work only by contracting, becomes useful when attached to something rigid like bone. When the muscle shortens, it pulls bones this way or that, providing the owner all sorts of mobility. For example, chameleons have a bone at the base of their tongues. Squeezing muscles against it makes the long tongue squirt out with extra force.

A tongue's muscles mingle at all sorts of angles, butting into each other head-on, stringing through a central core, curling around the outside like vines. For a given motion, one muscle group tenses and another one pulls the tensed group as if it were one. In a split second, groups trade roles so the tongue can flick the opposite way.

"What a Mouthful!"
(International Wildlife, March-April, 1995), pp. 45-4
8.

anthropoglot:

diglot:

epiglottis:

glottal:

glottis:

glottitis:

glottochronological:

glottochronology:

glottogonic:

glottogonist:

glottological:

glottology:

monoglot:

monoglottic:

polyglot:

proglottic:

proglottid:

proglottidean:

proglottides:

gluco-, gluc-, gluk- (Greek: sweet, sweetness).

glucogenesis:

glucogenic:

glucohemia:

glucokinetic:

glucolysis:

glucolytic:

glucose:

glut- (Greek: buttock; muscles of the buttocks; sometimes it means "round").

gluteal:

glutei:

gluteus:

intergluteal:

interglutium:

glutin- (Latin: glue).

glutto-, glutt- (Latin: to swallow, gulp down).

deglutition:

The act of swallowing.

ingluvies:

In zoology, the crop, maw [stomach, mouth, or gullet of a voracious animal].

glut:

To swallow, gulp down; greedily eating too much. Also, a furry, northern animal (Gulo gulo) related to the marten and weasel but larger; the American variety is the wolverine.

glutteny:

An obsolete form of gluttony.

glutton:

One who greedily eats too much; devouring, voracious.

gluttonize:

The act of swallowing, gulping down.

gluttonous:

Inclined to eat too much and to do it greedily.

gluttony:

The habit or act of eating too much. The vice of excessive eating; said to be "one of the seven deadly sins".

glycero-, glycer- (Greek: sweet; used in the specialized sense of "sweet, syrupy liquid").

glyco-, glyc- (Greek: sweet, sugar).

aglycositosis:

glycemia:

glycerine:

glycine:

glycobiology:

glycobrosis:

glycoclastic:

glycogen:

glycogenesis:

glycogenolysis:

glycogeusia:

glycohemia:

glycolimia:

glycolipid:

glycolysis:

glycolytic:

glycopathia:

Glycophagus:

glycophagus:

glycophilia:

glycoproteins:

glycorrhea:

glycosites:

glycositosis:

glycostatic:

glycotaxis:

glycotropic:

hyperglycemia:

hypoglycemia:

hypoglycositosis:

proteoglycans:

gnatho-, gnath-, -gnatha, -gnathan, -gnath, -gnathia, -gnathic, -gnathous (Greek: jaw).

Cynognathas:

eurygnathism:

gnathalgia:

gnathic:

gnathion:

gnathism:

gnathitis:

gnathocephalus:

gnathodynamia:

gnathodynamics:

gnathodynamometer:

gnathodynia:

gnathography:

gnathology:

gnathoplasty:

gnathopod:

gnathoschisis:

gnathosoma:

gnathostatics:

gnathostomatous:

gnathotheca:

hemignathous:

holognathous:

macrognathia:

menognathous:

orthognathic:

orthognathism:

orthognathist:

orthognathous:

prognathism:

prognathous:

gno-, gnos-, gnoto-, -gnostic, -gnosia, -gnomic, -gnomonic, -gnomical, -gnomy, -gnosia, -gnostic, -gnosis (Greek: know, learn, discern).

abaragnosia:

acognosia:

acognosy:

agnogenetic:

agnogenic:

agnosia:

agnosic:

agnostic:

agnosticism:

atopognosia:

atopognosis:

The inability to locate a sensation of touch or feeling.

baragnosia:

baragnosis:

chirognomic:

chirognomy:

craniognomic:

diagnose:

diagnosed:

diagnosis:

diagnostic:

diagnostician:

diagnostics:

dysanagnosia:

dysgnosia:

geognosis:

gnosis:

gnotobiology:

gnotobiota:

gnotobiote:

gnotobiotic:

gnotobiotics:

gnotophoresis:

ignoramus:

ignorance:

ignorant:

ignore:

logagnosia:

pathognomic:

pathognomy:

physiognomy:

pragmatagnosia:

prognosis:

prognostic:

prognosticate:

prognosticated:

prognosticating:

prognostication:

prognosticator:

pyrognomic:

syngignoscism:

toxignomic:

gon-, gonio-, -gon, -gonal, -gonally, -gony (Greek: corner, bend, angle).

agonic:

decagon:

diagon:

diagonal:

dodecagon:

enneagon:

goniometer:

goniometry:

hendecagonal:

heptagon:

hexagon:

isogonic:

nonagon:

octagon:

orthogonal:

oxygon:

pentagon:

polygon:

tetragon:

trigon:

trigonometry:

gonado-, gonad- (Latin: ovary or testis; based on Greek gonos, "seed" and gone, "that which generates; origination; seed; semen").

agamogony:

Asexual reproduction.

agonad, agonadal:

Absence of gonads.

amphigonadism:

Possession of both ovarian and testicular tissue; true hermaphroditism.

amphigony:

Sexual reproduction.

autogony:

Spontaneous generation.

bibliogony:

The production of books.

cosmogony:

The generation or creation of the existing universe.

geogony:

The theory of the origin of the earth.

gonad:

An organ that produces sex cells; a testis or an ovary.

gonadal:

Relating to a gonad.

gonadectomy, gonadectomize:

1. Excision of ovary or testis.
2. To deprive of the gonads, or testis, by surgical excision.
3. Castration.

gonadial:

Pertaining to a gonad.

gonadogenesis:

The development of the gonads in the embryo, especially the development of gonads typical of one or the other sex.

gonadoinhibitory:

Inhibiting or preventing gonadal activity.

gonadokinetic:

Stimulating gonadal activity.

gonadopathy:

Any disease affecting the gonads.

gonadopause:

The loss of gonadal activity that accompanies the aging process.

gonadotherapy:

Medical treatment of gonadal disease.

gonadotrophic:

Stimulating activity of gonads, applied especially to hormones of the anterior pituitary gland.

gonadotropic, gonadotropism:

Promoting the growth and/or function of the gonads.

gonaduct:

The duct of a gonad; an oviduct or seminal duct.

gonocele:

Spermatocele; cyst of the epididymis containing spermatozoa.

gonochorism:

Differentiation of the gonads with normal development of the reproductive organs appropriate to the sex; the opposite of hermaphroditism.

gonococcus:

An individual microorganism that causes gonorrhea.

gonocyte:

1. The primitive reproductive cell of the embryo.
2. A secondary gamete-producing cell.

gonomery:

The condition in which the paternal and the maternal chromosomes remain in separate groups and do not completely fuse, as occurs in certain hybrids.

gonophage:

A bacteriophage having the gonococcus as its natural host.

gonophore:

Any structure serving to store up or conduct the sexual cells; oviduct, spermatic duct, uterus, or seminal vesicle; an accessory generative organ.

gonorrhea:

1. A contagious catarrhal inflammation of the genital mucous membrane, transmitted chiefly by coitus and due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae; which may involve the lower or upper genital tract, especially the urethra, endocervix, and uterine tubes, or spread to the peritoneum and rarely to the heart, joints, or other structures by way of the bloodstream.
2. It is marked in males by urethritis with pain and purulent discharge, but is commonly asymptomatic in females; although it may extend to produce suppurative salpingitis, oophoritis, tubo-ovarian abscess, and peritonitis. Bacteremia occurs in both sexes, resulting in cutaneous lesions. arthritis, and rarely meningitis or endocarditis.
3. Formerly called blennorrhagia and blennorrhea.

gonotoxemia:

Toxic condition resulting from the hematogenous dissemination of gonococci and the effects of the absorbed endotoxin.

hypergonadism:

1. Excessive internal secretion of gonads.
2. A clinical state resulting from enhanced secretion of gonadal hormones.

hypogonadism:

Inadequate gonadal function, as manifested by deficiencies in gametogenesis and/or the secretion of gonadal hormones; results in atrophy or deficient development of secondary sexual characteristics and, when occurring in prepubertal males, in altered body habitus characterized by a short trunk and long limbs.

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hypogonadotropic:

Indicating inadequate secretion of gonadotropins and its consequences.

theogony:

The generation of the gods; especially an account or theory, or the belief or study, of the genealogy or birth of the deities of pagan mythology.

gony-, gon- (Greek: knee).

gonalgia:

gonarthritis:

gonarthron:

gonarthrotomy:

gonitis:

gonocampsis:

gonybatia:

gonycampus:

gonyoncus:

gov-, gover- (Greek > Latin: to steer or pilot a ship; to govern; governor).

From Greek, kubernan, "to steer" and is related to words beginning with cyber-. From the Greek, Latin picked it up as gubernare, and guvernator, "to steer or pilot a ship" from which we also get "gubernatorial".

antigovernment:

govern:

governable:

governance:

governess:

governing:

government:

governor:

governs:

grad-, -grade, -gred, -gree, -gress (Latin: walk, step, take steps, move around; walking or stepping).

aggradation:

aggression:

aggressive:

aggressor:

biodegradable:

centigrade:

congress:

congressional:

degradation:

degrade:

degree:

digitigrade:

Walking on the toes or digits.

digress:

digression:

egress:

gradate:

gradation:

gradational:

grade:

grades:

gradient:

gradual:

gradualism:

gradually:

graduate:

graduated:

graduation:

ingredient:

ingress:

pinnigrade:

plantigrade:

Walking upon the soles of the feet.

progress:

progression:

progressive:

pronograde:

regress:

regression:

regressive:

retrogradation:

retrograde:

retrogress:

retrogression:

saltigrade:

tardigrade:

Moving slowly; a reference to sloths.

transgress:

transgressed:

transgression:

transgressor:

unguligrade:

Moving on the tips of the digits.

vermigrade:

Moving in a wormlike manner.

gran- (Latin: grain, particle).

grand (Latin: large, great).

aggrandize:

grand:

grandeur:

grandiflora:

grandiloquence:

grandiloquent:

grandiose:

grandiosity:

granulo-, granul-, granuli- (Latin: particle, grain; grain, kernel).

grat-, gra-, grac- (Latin: beloved, pleasing, dear, agreeable; grateful, thankful, pleased).

agree:

congratulate:

congratulation:

disagree:

disgrace:

disgraceful:

grace:

graceful:

graceless:

gracious:

grateful:

gratification:

gratify:

gratis:

gratitude:

gratuitous:

gratuity:

gratulate:

ingrate:

ingratiate:

grav-, griev- (Latin: heavy, weighty).

aggravate:

aggravated:

aggravation:

grave:

gravid:

gravimeter:

gravimetric:

gravimetry:

gravisphere:

gravitate:

gravitating:

gravitation:

gravitational:

gravitometer:

gravity:

grief:

grievous:

gravid- (Latin: pregnant, pregnancy [from grav-, heavy]).

decigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the tenth time.

gravid:

gravida:

A pregnant woman.

gravidic:

gravidism:

graviditas:

gravidity:

The condition of being pregnant.

gravidocardiac:

gravidopuerperal:

ingravidate:

multigravida:

A pregnant woman who has had two or more previous pregnancies.

nonigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the ninth time.

octigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the eighth time.

primigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the first time.

quartigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the fourth time.

quintigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the fifth time.

secondigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the second time.

septigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the seventh time.

sextigravida:

tertigravida:

A woman who is pregnant for the third time.

unigravida:

greg-, -gregate, -gregation (Latin: assemble, gather, gather together).

aggregate:

aggregation:

congregate:

congregating:

congregation:

Congregationalist:

congregator:

desegregate:

desegregation:

desegregationist:

egregious:

gregarious:

segregate:

segregation:

segregationist:

gust-, gusti- (Latin: taste, tasting).

degust:

degustation:

disgust:

disgusted:

disgusting:

gust:

gustation:

gustatious:

gustatism:

gustative:

gustatory:

gustful:

gustin:

gusto:

gustometer:

gustometry:

ingustable:

ragout:

gutt-, gutti-, guttu- (Latin: drop).

guttur:

guttural:

gutturalism:

gutturalize:

gutturonasal:

gutturophony:

gutturotetany:

gutturo-, guttur- (Latin: throat).

gymno-, gymn- (Greek: naked, nude, uncovered, bare, exposed, unclad, disrobed, undressed).

gymnasiarch:

From Greek antiquity, an Athenian official whose duty was to supervise athletic schools and games.

gymnasium:

Via Latin, "school", from Greek gumnazein or (gymnazein), "to exercise naked" (a custom in ancient times); hence, "to train", from gumnos or (gumnos), "naked". 1. A large room equipped for physical exercise or training of various kinds, e.g., in a school or a private club.
2. In Europe, principally Germany and other German-speaking countries, a secondary school where the emphasis is on academic subjects rather than on technical training.

The ancient Greeks placed a high value on both physical and mental fitness. Each important city in Greece had a public area set aside in which young men would gather to exercise, compete in sports, and receive training in philosophy, music, and literature. Living in a warm climate and not wanting to be encumbered in their activities by unnecessary clothing, the Greeks would typically do their exercising in the nude. The name given to the exercise area was therefore gymnasion, literally "school for naked exercise", from the verb gymnazein, "to exercise naked", a derivative of the adjective gymnos, "naked". The Greek gymnasion, became the Latin gymnasium, which was used in two distinct senses to mean both "an exercise ground" and "a public school".

Webster's Word Histories

Springfield, Massachusetts:

Merriam-Webster Inc., 1989, p. 208.

gymnast, gymnasiast:

Someone who is good at gymnastics, especially someone involved in gymnastics as a competitive sport.

gymnastic:

Relating to or involving gymnastics or demonstrating athleticism and agility.

gymnastics:

1. Exercise using equipment such as bars, rings, and vaulting horses, designed to develop agility and muscular strength.
2. The competitive sport in which athletes perform a series of exercises on pieces of gymnastic equipment.
3. The performance of a series of complex mental or physical operations of a particular kind, usually rapidly and with great agility and skill.

gymnanthous:

Having naked flowers that are without both calyx and corolla.

gymnobiblism:

The opinion that the bare text of the Bible, without note or comment, may be safely put before the unlearned as a sufficient guide to religious truth. So gymnobiblical (adjective), pertaining to, or holding, this opinion; and gymnobiblist, a believer in gymnobiblism.

gymnocarpous, gymnocarpic:

Not protected or covered during basidiocarp development; naked or uncovered fruit.

gymnocryptosis:

Telling others about one's intimate sexual experiences. The word may apply to women or men, and does not necessarily imply boasting.

gymnogenous:

A reference to certain birds that are naked when hatched.

gymnogynomania:

The obsession of the "peeping Tom"; male voyeurism. A male voyeur is called a gymnogynomaniac.

gymnogynous:

In botany, having an uncovered ovary (seed).

gymnopedia, gymnopaedia, gymnopedic, gymnopaedic:

The distinctive epithet (in ancient Greece) of the dances or other exercises performed by naked boys at public festivals.

Historically this word applies, says the Century Dictionary (1914), to ancient Greek "dances and gymnastic exercises performed, as at public festivals, by boys or youths unclothed." The festivals where this naked dancing took place and the dancing itself were known as gymnopaedia (primarily a British spelling) or gymnopedia (primarily an American spelling).

gymnophily:

1. Having a special fondness for being in the nude.
2. An abnormal interest in nakedness.

gymnophobia:

1. A pathological fear of being naked.
2. A morbid dread of seeing a naked person or of an uncovered part of the body.

gymnophoria:

The sense that someone is mentally undressing you, or that a person is viewing you naked even though you are clothed. Also, apodyopsis.

gymnopterous:

Having naked wings, without hairs or scales; having sheathless wings.

gymnorespia:

An aversion for the naked body.

gymnorhinal:

In zoology, having nostrils without feathers, as certain birds.

gymnoscopic:

A reference to a desire to see naked bodies.

gymnoscopy:

Sexual pleasure derived from viewing the nakedness of the opposite sex.

gymnosophist:

One of a sect of ancient Hindu philosophers of ascetic habits (known to the Greeks through the reports of the companions of Alexander), who wore little or no clothing, denied themselves meat, and gave themselves up to mystical contemplation.

gymnosophism, gymnosophy:

The supposed practices of Indian monks, as described by some confused early Chkristian writers. The term is Greek for "naked sages". Actually, only the ascetic Jains practiced Nudism, while Buddhists wore saffron robes.

gymnosperm, gynospermous:

In botany, having seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary or carpel.

gymnospore:

An uncovered spore.

gymnothesaurist:

Denotes someone who collects pictures of partly clothed women or men (or both?).

gyro-, gyr- (Greek: turning, spinning, whirling, bend, circular motion; originally, "circle, curved, ring").

dextrogyrate:

dextrogyrating:

dextrogyration:

gyral:

gyrate:

gyration:

gyre:

Gyrinidae:

gyrocompass:

gyromancy:

gyroplane:

gyroscope:

gyrospasm:

gyrostabilizer:

sinistrogyrate:

sinistrogyrating:

sinistrogyration:

habili-, habil- (Latin: clothe, clothing; that which may be easily handled, suitable, fit, proper).

habiliment:

habilitate:

habilitation:

habit:

rehabilitate:

rehabilitation:

habit-, hab-, -hibit (Latin: dwell; have, hold).

cohabit:

cohabitation:

exhibit:

exhibition:

habeas corpus:

habiliments:

habit:

habitable:

habitant:

habitat:

habitation:

habitual:

habituate:

habitude:

Homo habilis:

inhabit:

inhabitant:

inhibit:

inhibition:

prohibit:

prohibition:

prohibitive:

rehab:

rehabilitate:

hagio-, hagi- (Greek: sacred, holy).

autohagiographer:

One who speaks or writes in a smug or self-aggrandizing way about his/her life or accomplishments. Said to be coined by Bernard Lewis, professor emeritus at Princeton University.

autohagiography:

A self-aggrandizing writing about one's life or accomplishments.

hagiarchy:

hagiocracy:

hagiograph:

hagiographa:

hagiographer:

hagiographic:

hagiography:

hagiolatry:

hagiolith:

hagiologist:

hagiology:

hagioscope:

hades (Greek: the lower world [originally, invisible, to make invisible]).

hadephobia:

An abnormal, excessive, fear of hell with the idea that one may go there after death and judgement day.

Hades:

1. A Greek god whose name means, "The Unseen". He was lord of the underworld, the abode of the dead.
2. The Greek word "Hades" was used to translate several Hebrew words in the Bible, namely, "the pit, stillness, death, those who bring death, deep darkness,", and, most commonly, "Sheol".
2. In Homer, the name of the god of the lower world, but in later times transferred to his kingdom abode, or house, so that it became a name for the nether world; Greek, used to render Hebrew "sheol", the abode of the dead or departed spirits. Introduced into English use c. 1600, in connexion with theological controversies about the fifth article of the Apostles Creed.
3. In Greek myth, the oldest name of the god of the dead, also called Pluto.
4. The kingdom of Hades, the lower world, the abode of departed spirits or shades.

Hadean:

A descriptive word meaning place of the dead or hellish.

hal-, hali-, -haled, -haling, -halant, -halent, -halation (Latin: breathe, breath).

From Latin halitus, "breath" and related to halare, "to breathe".

exhalation:

exhale:

halitophobia:

A pervasive fear of having bad breath or an exaggerated fear of having halitosis. Some halitophobics avoid social activities and live in a state of self-enforced solitude.

halitosis:

halitus:

inhalation:

inhale:

hallucina-, hallucino-, hallucinat- (Greek > Latin: to wander in mind, dream).

hallucinate:

hallucinated:

hallucinates:

hallucinating:

hallucination:

hallucinational:

hallucinative:

hallucinatory:

hallucinogen:

hallucinogenic:

hallucinosis:

haplo-, hapl- (Greek: simple, simply; single, once).

haplobiont:

haplodermatitis:

haplodiploid:

haplodiploidy:

haplodont:

haplography:

haploid:

haplology:

haplometrosis:

haplometrotic:

haplomitosis:

haplopathic:

haplopathy:

haplopetalous:

haplophase:

haplophyte:

haplopia:

haplosis:

haplozygous:

haptic:

hapto-, hapt-, -hapte (Greek: touch, fasten, contact, seizure; binding, attaching).

haptalgesia:

Having pain when touched (painful to the touch).

hapten:

In immunology, a small molecule, having at least one of the determinant groups of an antigen, that can combine with an antibody but is not immunogenic unless it acts in conjunction with a carrier molecule.

haptephobia:

An irrational fear, or hatred, of being touched or of making physical contact. Also haphephobia.

hapteron:

In botany, a dislike holdfast; an organ that attaches the stem of various aquatic plants or marine algae to the substrate.

haptic:

1. Tactile; of, pertaining to, or relating to the sense of touch or tactile sensations.
2. Having a greater dependence on sensations of touch than on sight, especially as a means of psychological orientation.

haptics:

1. The studies of the properties of touch, including particularly the hand.
2. The science of touch, or the sense of contact.
3. The study of touch and tactile sensations, especially as a means of communication.
4. The science of touch, pertaining not only to passively perceived cutaneous sensations of touch and pressure, but including also the active component of exploration via these senses.

haptobenthos:

Those aquatic organisms that live closely applied to, or growing on, submerged surfaces.

haptodysphoria:

An unpleasant sensation derived from touching certain objects.

haptometer:

An instrument for measuring sensitivity to touch.

haptonastic, haptonasty:

A reference to growth movement of a plant in response to a touch or contact stimulus.

haptophobia:

An excessive fear or hatred of being touched.

haptophonia:

1. In psychology, a delusion in which an individual hears voices or other noises emanating from a part of his body, usually as the result of a physical sensation or touch.
2. The hearing of noises or voices in response to tactile or haptic stimulation.

haptotropism, haptotropic:

1. An orientation response to a touch or contact stimulus.
2. The phenomenon whereby plant organs, as the tendrils of climbing plants, exhibit tropic movements in response to the stimulus of touch.

kinohapt:

An esthesiometer for applying several stimuli to the skin at different distances and frequencies.

harmarto-, harmart- (Greek: sin, to miss the mark; error; that part of theology that deals with sin).

harmartiology:

A theological treatment of the doctrine of sin.

haust- (Latin: to draw out, to drink).

hebdoma- (Greek: seventh).

hebdomad:

A group of seven things; a week

hebdomadal:

1. Occurring every seventh day, weekly.
2. Doing duty for a week.

hebdomadary:

A member of a chapter or convent, who took his (or her) weekly turn in the performance of the sacred offices of the Roman Catholic Church.

hebe-, heb- (Greek: youth, pubescence, puberty [the period during which the secondary sex characteristics begin to develop and the capability of sexual reproduction is attained; by extension, young man]).

ephebe:

1. An ephebus or ephebos (singular), ephebi (plural); "one approaching manhood".
2. Among the Greeks, a young citizen from eighteen to twenty years of age, during which he was occupied chiefly with garrison (military) duty.

ephebian:

From the Greek word ephebe (epi- "at, upon" plus hebe- "early manhood"). One source suggests that in ancient Athens (335 B.C.), an ephebe was a young citizen undergoing physical and military training. To be a citizen, it was necessary that every legitimate son of pure Athenian parentage who had reached the age of eighteen had to be enrolled in an ephebic college and undergo its two year course of rigorous training in military and civic duties and activities.

At the end of the first year the ephebians gave a display of their skill in military tactics and drills before the citizens of Athens in the state theater. At the close of this display each ephebian received a spear and a shield and took his oath of allegiance.

ephebic:

1. A term relating to the period of puberty or to a youth or early manhood.
2. A reference to the ephebi.

ephebiatrics:

1. The branch of medicine that treats the development and pathology of adolescence; the specialty of diseases of adolescents.
2. A branch of medicine consisting of the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of youth (18-25 years).

ephebology:

The study of the morphological and other changes incidental to puberty.

ephebophilia:

In psychiatry, a paraphilia in which sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent upon the partner being an adolescent.

ephebus:

A citizen between eighteen and twenty years. From Greek history, a youth, through Latin (epi + hebe) youth, early manhood.

Hebe:

The goddess of youth in Greek mythology; representing youth and the strength of youth.

hebeanthous:

Having the corolla of the flower pubescent.

hebecarpous:

Having pubescent fruit.

hebecladous:

Having pubescent branches.

hebegynous:

Having pubescent ovaries.

hebepetalous:

Having pubescent petals.

hebephobia:

A fear of young people or youth.

hebephrenia, hebephrenic:

1. Adolescent insanity. Coined by the German psychiatrist Ewald Hecker in 1871.
2. A pubescent or adolescent psychological disorder characterized by silly behavior, volatile emotions, hallucinations, and mental deterioration.
3. From a psychiatric dictionary: A syndrome characterized by shallow and inappropriate affect, giggling, and silly, regressive behavior and mannerisms; a subtype of schizophrenia now renamed disorganized schizophrenia.

hebetic:

A reference to puberty; youth, youthful.

hebiatrics:

Adolescent medicine.

heboidophrenia:

A term for simple schizophrenia.

hecto- [HEK toh], hect-, hecato-, hecaton-, hekto-, hekt- (Greek: a hundred; many; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

In the metric [decimal] system, hecto- is used to show whole units; a hundred [U.S.] and hundredfold [U.K.], 10 [100]. The metric symbol for hecto- is h.

hecatophyllous:

hectare:

hectogram:

hectograph:

hectoliter:

hectometer:

hektare:

hektometer:

-hedral (adj.), -hedron (n.). (Greek: a suffix; face, faces; surface, surfaces).

cathedral:

dodecahedron:

enneacotahedron:

hexahedral:

hexahedron:

holohedral:

holohedron:

icosahedral:

icosahedron:

pentahedral:

polyhedral:

polyhedron:

tetartohedral:

tetartohedron:

tetrahedral:

tetrahedrally:

tetrahedrite:

tetrahedron:

helc-, elc- (Greek: ulcer, sore).

helico-, helic-, helici-, heli-, helix- (Greek: spiral, coil; twisted, bent; spiral-shaped; a coil; by extension, "snail").

helical:

heliciform:

helicity:

helicograph:

helicogyrate:

helicogyre:

helicoid:

helicon:

helicopter:

helix:

helio-, heli- (Greek: sun).

anheliophile:

anheliophilous:

anheliophily:

aphelion:

apheliotropic:

apheliotropism:

diaheliotropic:

diaheliotropism:

heliocentric:

heliograph:

heliography:

heliogravure:

heliolatrist:

heliolatry:

heliolith:

heliolithic:

heliology:

heliometer:

heliometry:

heliophil:

heliophile:

heliophilic:

heliophilous:

heliophily:

heliophobia:

heliophobic:

heliophyll:

heliophyllous:

heliophyte:

Helios [god of the sun]:

heliosciophyte:

helioseismology:

heliosis:

heliostat:

heliotaxis:

heliotherapy:

heliothermic:

heliotrope:

heliotropism:

helioxerophile:

helioxerophilous:

helioxerophily:

perihelion:

helmintho-, helminth-, helminthi-, -helminth (Greek: worm).

antihelmintic:

Helminth:

Helminthic:

helminthicide:

helminthoid:

helminthologist:

helminthology:

helminthophobia:

helminthophobic:

helminthous:

Nemathelminth:

nemathelminthiasis:

nemathelminthic:

Platyhelminth:

platyhelminthes:

helo-, hel- (Greek: nail, stud, wart, corn).

helo-, hel- (Greek: marsh, meadow).

helobious:

Living in marshes.

helohylophile, helohylophilous, helohylophily:

Thriving in wet or swampy forests.

helolochmophile, helolochphilous, helolochphily:

Thriving in meadow thicket habitats.

helophile, helophilous, helophily:

Thriving in marshes.

helophyte:

1. A perennial plant with renewal buds, commonly on rhizomes, buried in soil or mud below water level.
2. Any marsh or bog plant.

heloplankton:

The floating vegetation of a marsh.

helobious:

helodric:

helohylophile:

helohylophilous:

helohylophily:

helophile:

helophilous:

helophily:

helophyte:

heloplankton:

hemi- (Greek: half).

hemero-, hemer- (Greek: day).

cathemeral:

Ephemera:

ephemera:

ephemeral:

ephemerality:

ephemerally:

ephemeralness:

ephemeran:

Ephemerid:

ephemerid:

Ephemerida:

Ephemeridae:

ephemerides:

ephemeris:

ephemerist:

ephemeromorph:

ephemeron:

ephemerous:

hemeralope:

hemeralopia:

hemeralopic:

hemeranthous:

hemeranthy:

hemeraphonia:

Hemerobaptism:

Hemerobaptist:

Hemerobius:

Hemerocallis:

Hemerocampa:

hemerocology:

hemerologium:

hemerology:

hemerophile:

hemerophilous:

hemerophily:

hemerophyte:

nycterohemeral:

nyctohemeral:

hemero-, hemer- (Greek: tame, cultivated).

hemerocology:

The study of the ecology of cultivated areas and culture communities.

hemerophile, hemerophilous, hemerophily:

Thriving in habitats influenced by the activities of man or under cultivation.

hemerophyte:

A cultivated plant.

hemo-, haemo-, hem-, haem-, hema-, haema-, hemato-, haemato-, hemat-, haemat-, -hemia, -haemia, -hemic, -haemic (Greek: blood).

anhematosis:

anhemolytic:

haemachrome:

haemacyte:

haemaphobia:

haemapoietic:

haematidrosis:

haematobic:

haematobium:

haematochrome:

haematocytozoon:

haematogenous:

haematolysis:

haematophagous:

haematophyte:

haematothermal:

haematothermic:

haematozoon:

haemophage:

haemophagous:

haemophagy:

haemoplastic:

haemopoiesis:

haemopoietic:

haemotoxin:

haemotropic:

hemadynamometry:

hemaphobia:

hemarthrosis:

hematidrosis:

hematocyst:

hematologist:

hematology:

hematolysis:

hematoma:

hematomancy:

hematophagous:

hematophagy:

hematophobia:

hematopoiesis:

hematopoietic:

hematozoon:

hemoglobin:

hemoglobinuria:

hemoid:

hemophile:

hemophilia:

hemophilic:

hemophobia:

hemorrhage:

hemorrhoidal:

hemorrhoids:

hemostat:

pseudohemophilia:

hemoglobino-, hemoglobin-, hemoglobini- (Greek "blood " plus Latin "sphere ": oxygen-carrying protein of the red corpuscles).

hendeca-, hendec- (Greek: eleven; used as a prefix).

henodecasyllable:

A verse or a line of eleven syllables.

hendecagon:A plane figure having eleven sides and eleven angles.

hendecahedron:

A solid figure contained by eleven faces.

hendecandrous:

In botany, having eleven stamens.

hendecaphyllous:

In botany (of a leaf) consisting of eleven leaflets.

hendecarchy, [after heptarchy]: A government of eleven persons.

hendecacolic:

hendecagon:

hendecagonal:

hendecagynous:

hendecahedral:

hendecahedron:

hendecandrous:

hendecaphyllous:

hendecasemic:

hendecasyllabic:

hendecasyllable:

hendiadys:

heno-, hen- (Greek: one; used as a prefix).

henotheism:

A kind of polytheism in which one god of the pantheon is raised over the others. Coined by Friedrich Max Mueller (1823-1900), professor of comparative philology at Oxford, in his "Lecture on the Origin and Growth of Religion" (1878). It is also defined as, "the worship of one of a group of gods, in contrast with monotheism, which teaches that only one god exists." A henotheist is an adherent of henotheism.

hendiadys:

A figure of speech in which two words connected by a conjunction are used to express a single notion that would normally be expressed by an adjective and a noun [or expressed by two nouns or two adjectives joined, rather than by an adjective-noun combination] such as "grace and favor" instead of "gracious favor"; or as Virgil wrote: "We drink from cups and gold" (instead of "golden cups").

henopoeia:

A figure of speech by which a number of things are considered as one.

henotic:

Tending to make into one; unifying; reconciling, harmonizing.

henism:

henogenesis:

henogeny:

henotheism:

henotheist:

henotic:

hepato-, hepat-, hepatico- (Greek: liver).

hepatalgia:

hepatatrophia:

hepatectomy:

hepatic:

hepaticoduodenostomy:

hepaticoenterostomy:

hepaticogastrostomy:

hepaticolithotomy:

hepaticolithotripsy:

hepaticopulmonary:

hepaticostomy:

hepaticotomy:

hepatism:

hepatitis:

hepatocyte:

hepatodynia:

hepatofugal:

hepatogastric:

hepatogenic:

hepatogenous:

hepatogram:

hepatography:

hepatohemia:

hepatoid:

hepatolith:

hepatologist:

hepatology:

hepatolysis:

hepatolytic:

hepatoma:

hepatomalactia:

hepatomegaly:

hepatomelanosis:

hepatometry:

hepatopath:

hepatopathy:

hepatoportal:

hepatotherapy:

hepatotomy:

hepatotoxicity:

hepatotoxin:

hepatotropic:

hepatoxcopy:

parahepatitis:

hepta-, hept- (Greek: seven; used as a prefix).

heptachord:

heptachromic:

heptad:

heptadactylism:

heptagon:

heptagynous:

heptahedron:

heptahydrate:

heptaldehyde:

heptameter:

heptandrous:

heptangular:

heptarchy:

heptatonic:

-her-, -hes- (Latin: stick to, cling to, cleave to).

adhere, adheres, adhered, adhering, adherency:

1. To stick fast, to cleave, to become or remain firmly attached, to a substance, as by a glutinous surface, or by grasping, etc.; to stick tightly as if by suction or glue.
2. To cleave to a person or party; to be a close companion, partizan, or follower.
3. To cleave to an opinion, practice, or method; to continue to maintain or observe. to adhere to a decision, etc.; to confirm or approve it by a subsequent decision.

adherence:

1. The action of sticking or holding fast (to anything, or together).
2. Attachment (to a person or party); adhesion.
3. Persistence in a practice or tenet; steady observance or maintenance.

adherent:

1. Sticking fast (to), clinging, attached materially.
2. In botany, united to each other, though normally not only distinct but belonging to distinct whorls of the plant or flower; joined by not united.

adherescent:

Tending to adhere; adhesive.

adhering:

The act or process of sticking, clinging, or remaining attached.

adhesion, adhesively:

1. The action of sticking (to anything) by physical attraction, viscosity of surface, or firm grasping.
2. The grip (of a wheel on a track, etc.) produced by friction, or the friction itself.
3. The action of attaching oneself, or of remaining attached, to a person, party, or tenet, as a partizan, supporter, or follower.
4. A mass of fibrous connective tissue joining two surfaces that are normally separate.

adhesive:

1. Having the property of sticking; sticky.
2. Furnished with an appliance for adhesion; such as, with glue on an envelope flap or on a postage stamp, etc.

cohere, cohered, cohering:

1. To cleave or stick together; especially said of the constituent parts of a material substance. Said of the substance, mass, or body whose parts so stick together.
2. To stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation.
3. When referring to people: to stick together; to unite or remain united in some action.

coherence:

1. The action or fact of cleaving or sticking together; cohesion.
2. Logical connexion or relation; congruity, consistency.

coherency, coherencies:

The quality of being coherent or of hanging together in any respect.

coherent:

1. That which sticks or clings firmly together; especially united by the force of cohesion.
2. In botany, sticking to but not fused with a part or an organ of the same kind.
3. Of thought, speech, reasoning, etc. in which all the parts are consistent, and hang well together.

cohesion:

The action or condition of cohering; cleaving or sticking together; specifically, the force with which the molecules of a body or substance cleave together.

cohesive, cohesiveness:

Having the property of cohering; characterized by cohesion.

hesitant, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitantly:

Reluctant to do or say something because of indecision or lack of confidence.

hesitate:

Etymologically, to hesitate means "to become stuck". It comes from Latin haesitare, a derivative of haerere, "hold fast, stick" from which the English words in this unit come. The basic idea of hesitate refers to being "held back", or in speech of "stammering", and so of being unable to act or speak promptly or decisively.

hesitater:

One who hesitates, wavers, or is irresolute; a waverer.

hesitation:

1. The action of hesitating; a pausing or delaying in deciding or acting, due to irresolution; the condition of doubt in relation to action.
2. The state of being reluctant or undecided.
3. Embarrassed halting in utterance; stammering.

incoherence, incoherency:

1. Lacking connexion; incompatibility, incongruity of subjects or matters.
2. A lack of coherence or connexion in thought or language; incongruity, inconsistency; want of logical or rational consistency or congruity.

incoherent, incoherently, incoherentness:

1. Without physical coherence or cohesion; consisting of parts which do not stick or cling together; unconnected, disjoined, loose.
2. Consisting of or forming a group or series of incongruous parts; not connected or unified by any general principle or characteristic; inconsistent, uncoordinated.
3. When referring to thought and mental phenomena, language, literary compositions, etc.; in which there is no logical connexion or natural sequence of ideas; inconsistent, rambling, disjointed.
4. Unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear or orderly manner.

incohesion:

Lacking cohesion.

incohesive:

The inability to stick together.

inhere. inherence, inherency: To exist, abide, or have its being, as an attribute, quality, etc., in a subject or thing; to form an element of, or belong to the intrinsic nature of, something.

inherent, inherently:

Existing in something as a permanent attribute or quality; forming an element, especially a characteristic or essential element of something; belonging to the intrinsic nature of that which is spoken of; indwelling, intrinsic, essential.

herb- (Latin: green crop, grass).

herbaceous:

herbage:

herbal:

herbarium:

herbary:

herbicide:

herbiferous:

Herbivore:

herbivore:

herbivorous:

herborist:

herborize:

hered- (Latin: heir).

hernio-, herni- (Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls").

hernia, hernial:

A condition in which part of an internal organ projects abnormally through the wall of the cavity that contains it, especially the projection of the intestine from the abdominal cavity. It may be present at birth, especially in the region of the navel, or caused by muscular strain or injury, or result from a congenital weakness in the cavity wall.

herniate:

To project through an abnormal opening in the wall of a body cavity, or through a normal or potential opening that has become abnormally enlarged.

hernioid:

Resembling hernia.

herniolaparotomy:

Laparotomy (surgical incision through the flank) for the treatment of hernia.

herniopuncture:

Surgical puncture of a hernia.

herniorrhaphy, hernioplasty:

The surgical repair of an abnormal opening in the wall of a body cavity.

herniotomy:

A surgical operation for the repair of hernia; also called celotomy and kelotomy.

herpes (Greek: reptile, to creep, crawl, creeping animal; a skin disease).

Herpes may refer to either the "disease" or to "reptiles". The diseases are usually either "herpes simplex" or "herpes zoster".

herpeto-, herpet-, herp- (Greek: creeping thing, reptile; snake).

batrochoherpetomachia:

batrochoherpetomachy:

herpes:

herpesian:

herpetic:

herpetiform:

herpetism:

herpetofauna:

herpetogeny:

herpetography:

herpetoid:

herpetologic:

herpetological:

herpetologist:

herpetology:

herpetophobia:

herpetotomy:

herpism:

herpobenthic:

herpobenthos:

herpon:

hesperian (Greek > Latin: west, evening).

hesper:

Hesperia:

hesperian:

Hesperian:

Hesperides:

hesperidia (plural):

hesperidium (singular):

hex-, hexa- (Greek: six; a number used as a prefix).

hexacanth:

hexactinal:

hexactine:

hexacyclic:

hexad:

hexadactylia:

hexadactylism:

hexadactyly:

hexadecimal:

hexagon:

hexahedral:

hexahedron:

hexameter:

hexaphyllous:

hexaploid:

hexaploidy:

hexapod:

Hexapoda:

hexapody:

hexarchy:

hexasyllable:

hexathlon:

hexavaccine:

hexavalent:

hexode:

hi-, hiat- (Latin: to stand open).

hidero-, hider-, hidro-, hidr-, -hidrosis, -hidrotic (Greek: sweat, sweat gland).

acrohyperhidrosis:

anhidrosis:

anhidrotic:

antihidrotic:

cacidrosis:

chromhidrosis:

cyanephidrosis:

dyshidrosis:

ephidrosis:

hemathidrosis:

hidradenitis:

hidroadenitis:

hidrocystoma:

hidropathy:

hidroplankton:

hidropoiesis:

hidropoietic:

hidrorrhea:

hidroschesis:

hidrosis:

hidrotherapy:

hidrotic:

hyperephidrosis:

hyperhidrosis:

hypohidrosis:

kak(h)idrosis:

maschalephidrosis:

olighidria:

osmidrosis:

phosphorhidrosis:

podobromhidrosis:

podohidrosis: