| achy | (adjective) causing a dull and steady pain | Synonyms: aching |
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| achylia | (noun) absence of gastric juices (partial or complete) | Synonyms: achylia gastrica |
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| aeschynanthus | (noun) a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex | - |
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| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| anchylosis | (noun) abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint | Synonyms: ankylosis |
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| archduchy | (noun) the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess | - |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| bitchy | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: cattish, catty |
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| blotchy | (adjective) marred by discolored spots or blotches | - |
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| (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, splotched |
| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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| (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
| brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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| brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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| brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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| chlorenchyma | (noun) parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts | - |
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| churchyard | (noun) the yard associated with a church | Synonyms: God's acre |
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| chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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| chyle | (noun) a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats | - |
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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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| chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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| chylomicron | (noun) a microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood | - |
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| chylous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylaceous |
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| chyme | (noun) a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum | - |
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| chymosin | (noun) an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate | Synonyms: rennin |
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| diarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: dyarchy |
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| duchy | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: dukedom |
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| dyarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: diarchy |
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| ecchymosis | (noun) the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin | - |
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| (noun) the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise | - |
| entelechy | (noun) (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality | - |
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| eparchy | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: exarchate |
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| (noun) a province in ancient Greece | - |
| grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| gynarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynecocracy |
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| hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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| (noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |
| itchy | (adjective) causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch | - |
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| (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, fretful, restless |
| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| logomachy | (noun) argument about words or the meaning of words | - |
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| matriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchate |
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| mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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| monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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| naumachy | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachia |
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| oligarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a few people | - |
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| pachycephalosaur | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaurus |
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| pachycephalosaurus | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaur |
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| pachycheilia | (noun) an abnormal thickness of the lips | - |
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| pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
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| pachyderma | (noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | Synonyms: nevoid elephantiasis |
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| pachydermal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermatous, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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| pachydermatous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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| (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, indurate |
| pachydermic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermous |
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| pachydermous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermic |
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| pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
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| pachytene | (noun) the third stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| parenchyma | (noun) animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels | - |
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| (noun) the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems | - |
| patchy | (adjective) irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc. | - |
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| patriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchate |
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| paunchy | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, potbellied |
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| peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| pitchy | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, sooty |
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| (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: resinous, resiny, tarry |
| preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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| psychomachy | (noun) a conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil). | - |
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| raunchy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy |
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| (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, salacious |
| (adjective) earthy and sexually explicit | - |
| scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
| (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
| screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| stachyose | (noun) a tetrasaccharide found in the tubers of the Chinese artichoke | - |
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| starchy | (adjective) consisting of or containing starch | - |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, stiff |
| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
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| tachycardia | (noun) abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute) | - |
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| tachygraphy | (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, stenography |
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| tachylite | (noun) a basic or basalt glass | - |
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| tachymeter | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tacheometer |
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| tauromachy | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: bullfighting |
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| techy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy |
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| tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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| touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |
| vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
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