| clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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| (noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
| (noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
| clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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| colic | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: gripes, griping, intestinal colic |
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| colonic | (noun) a water enema given to flush out the colon | Synonyms: colonic irrigation |
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| comedogenic | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogen, comedogenic substance |
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| comic | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comedian |
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| congeneric | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
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| conic | (noun) (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone | Synonyms: conic section |
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| conspecific | (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
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| cosec | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosecant |
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| cosmetic | (noun) a toiletry designed to beautify the body | - |
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| critic | (noun) a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art | - |
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| (noun) anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something | - |
| (noun) someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments | - |
| cynic | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: faultfinder |
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| dec | (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, declination |
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| deictic | (noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs | Synonyms: deictic word |
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| demographic | (noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) | - |
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| demoniac | (noun) someone who acts as if possessed by a demon | - |
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| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| diabetic | (noun) someone who has diabetes | - |
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| diacritic | (noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
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| dialectic | (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
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| (noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
| diaphoretic | (noun) used to produce perspiration | - |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| disc | (noun) a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disk |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| (noun) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored | Synonyms: disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disk, saucer |
| diuretic | (noun) any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water | Synonyms: diuretic drug, water pill |
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| doc | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doctor, Dr., MD, medico, physician |
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| dolichocephalic | (noun) an adult with a long narrow head | - |
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| domestic | (noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household | Synonyms: domestic help, house servant |
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| dynamic | (noun) an efficient incentive | Synonyms: moral force |
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| dyslectic | (noun) a person who has dyslexia | Synonyms: dyslexic |
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| dyslexic | (noun) a person who has dyslexia | Synonyms: dyslectic |
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| dyspeptic | (noun) a person suffering from indigestion | - |
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| eccentric | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball |
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| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, type |
| ecclesiastic | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, divine |
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| eclectic | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclecticist |
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| ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
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| egocentric | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| elastic | (noun) a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material | - |
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| (noun) a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together | Synonyms: elastic band, rubber band |
| electric | (noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
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| electrolytic | (noun) a fixed capacitor consisting of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte | Synonyms: electrolytic capacitor, electrolytic condenser |
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| emetic | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: nauseant, vomit, vomitive |
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| encaustic | (noun) a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
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| endemic | (noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
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| (noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
| entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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| epic | (noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic poem, epos, heroic poem |
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| epidemic | (noun) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | - |
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| epileptic | (noun) a person who has epilepsy | - |
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| eristic | (noun) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious) | - |
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| (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, disputant |
| erotic | (noun) an erotic person | - |
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| esthetic | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful | Synonyms: aesthetic |
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| ethic | (noun) the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group | Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation |
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| (noun) a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct | Synonyms: ethical code |
| ethnic | (noun) a person who is a member of an ethnic group | - |
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| etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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| eutectic | (noun) a mixture of substances having a minimum melting point | - |
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| fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
| fanatic | (noun) a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | Synonyms: fiend |
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| fisc | (noun) a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse | - |
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| floc | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floccule |
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| franc | (noun) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes | - |
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| frolic | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, gambol, play, romp |
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| garlic | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: ail |
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| (noun) bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves | Synonyms: Allium sativum |
| generic | (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
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| (noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
| geodesic | (noun) (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere) | Synonyms: geodesic line |
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| graphic | (noun) an image that is generated by a computer | Synonyms: computer graphic |
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| guaiac | (noun) hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum | Synonyms: guaiacum, lignum vitae |
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| haematinic | (noun) a medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia | Synonyms: hematinic |
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| haemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| harmonic | (noun) any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | - |
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| (noun) a tone that is a component of a complex sound | - |
| havoc | (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: mayhem |
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| helminthic | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, vermifuge |
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| hematinic | (noun) a medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia | Synonyms: haematinic |
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| hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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| hemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile |
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| hepatic | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: liverwort |
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| heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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| (noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
| heroic | (noun) a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter | Synonyms: heroic meter, heroic verse |
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| heterocyclic | (noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocycle, heterocyclic compound |
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| heuristic | (noun) a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule |
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| hieratic | (noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests | Synonyms: hieratic script |
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| hieroglyphic | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| honorific | (noun) an expression of respect | - |
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| hypercatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
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| hypnotic | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: soporific |
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| hypochondriac | (noun) a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments | - |
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| hypodermic | (noun) a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections | Synonyms: hypo, hypodermic syringe |
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| hysteric | (noun) a person suffering from hysteria | - |
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| iambic | (noun) a verse line consisting of iambs | - |
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| illogic | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence |
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| insomniac | (noun) someone who cannot sleep | Synonyms: sleepless person |
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| ipecac | (noun) a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning) | - |
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| isometric | (noun) a line connecting isometric points | Synonyms: isometric line |
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| italic | (noun) a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right | - |
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| (noun) a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right | - |
| kalpac | (noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus | Synonyms: calpac, calpack |
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| kc | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second, kilohertz |
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| ketorolac | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Torodal) that is given only orally | Synonyms: Torodal |
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| kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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| lac | (noun) resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax | - |
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| lilac | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers | - |
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