acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
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adiaphoron | (noun) (Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit. | - |
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(noun) a religious ceremonial or ritual observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden nor enjoined by the scriptures. | - |
adoxography | (noun) fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects | - |
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agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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agrapha | (noun) sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels | - |
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agraphia | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: anorthography, logagraphia |
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agraphic | (adjective) relating to or having agraphia | - |
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agraphon | (noun) (usually plural) a saying of Jesus not in the canonical gospels but found in other New Testament or early Christian writings. | - |
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allograph | (noun) a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme | - |
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(noun) a signature written by one person for another | - |
allographic | (adjective) of or relating to an allograph | - |
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anaphase | (noun) the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
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anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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anaphor | (noun) a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent | - |
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anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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anaphylaxis | (noun) hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance | - |
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anemograph | (noun) An instrument which records wind velocities. | - |
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anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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anemography | (noun) recording anemometrical measurements | - |
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angiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram | - |
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anorthography | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, logagraphia |
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aphaeresis | (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: apheresis |
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aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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aphakia | (noun) absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts) | - |
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aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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(noun) someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes | - |
aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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aphasia | (noun) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | - |
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aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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(adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
(noun) someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language | - |
aphelion | (noun) apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun | - |
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apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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(noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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aphesis | (noun) the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' | - |
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aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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aphid | (noun) any of various small plant-sucking insects | - |
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aphonia | (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: voicelessness |
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aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
aphorize | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorise |
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aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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aphrodisia | (noun) a desire for heterosexual intimacy | - |
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aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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(noun) a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | - |
aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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aquaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of drowning | - |
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aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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arteriography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of arteries | - |
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arthrography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of a joint after injection of radiopaque contrast medium; produces an arthrogram | - |
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astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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(noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
(verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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bathyscaph | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaphe |
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bathyscaphe | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaph |
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bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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bibliographic | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographical |
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bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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biogeographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographical |
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biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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biogeography | (noun) dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants | - |
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biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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biographic | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographical |
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biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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biographism | (noun) reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography. | - |
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biography | (noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | Synonyms: life, life history, life story |
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bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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calligraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphical |
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calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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cardiograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart | Synonyms: electrocardiograph |
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(noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: ballistocardiograph |
cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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cardiography | (noun) diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram) | Synonyms: electrocardiography |
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cartographer | (noun) a person who makes maps | Synonyms: map maker |
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cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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