| actinia | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinian, actiniarian |
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| actinian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actiniarian |
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| actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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| brainiac | (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| erwinia | (noun) rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants | - |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| gloxinia | (noun) any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers | - |
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| hominian | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominid |
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| laciniate | (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: fringed |
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| leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| miniature | (adjective) being on a very small scale | - |
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| (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
| (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
| miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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| miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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| miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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| miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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| miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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| peridinian | (noun) flagellate with a thick test composed of plates | - |
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| platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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| (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
| rhizoctinia | (noun) any fungus now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia | - |
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| sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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| sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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| trichiniasis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichinosis |
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| ursinia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ursinia grown for their yellow- or orange- or white-rayed flowers | - |
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| vaccinia | (noun) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | Synonyms: cowpox |
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| (noun) a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar | Synonyms: vaccina, variola vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia |