| anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| (noun) a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system | - |
| antiepileptic | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic drug |
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| antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
| (adjective) clean and honest | - |
| (adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
| (noun) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues | - |
| antisepticize | (verb) disinfect with an antiseptic | - |
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| apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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| (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
| apocalyptical | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| aseptic | (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: sterile |
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| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptically | (adverb) in a cryptic manner | Synonyms: enigmatically, mysteriously |
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| dyspeptic | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, liverish |
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| (adjective) suffering from dyspepsia | - |
| (noun) a person suffering from indigestion | - |
| 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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| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| epileptic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy | - |
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| (noun) a person who has epilepsy | - |
| fiberoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fibre-optic, fibreoptic |
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| fiberoptics | (noun) the transmission of light signals via glass fibers | Synonyms: fiber optics, fibre optics, fibreoptics |
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| fibreoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fiberoptic, fibre-optic |
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| fibreoptics | (noun) the transmission of light signals via glass fibers | Synonyms: fiber optics, fiberoptics, fibre optics |
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| glyptics | (noun) the art of engraving on precious stones | Synonyms: lithoglyptics |
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| haptic | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: tactile, tactual |
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| haptically | (adverb) by touch | Synonyms: tactually |
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| lithoglyptics | (noun) the art of engraving on precious stones | Synonyms: glyptics |
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| narcoleptic | (adjective) of or relating to narcolepsy | - |
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| (noun) a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | - |
| (noun) a person who has narcolepsy | - |
| neuroleptic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic, antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| optic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, ophthalmic, optical |
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| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optical, visual |
| (noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: eye, oculus |
| optical | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, ophthalmic, optic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving light or optics | - |
| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optic, visual |
| optically | (adverb) in an optical manner | - |
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| optician | (noun) a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision | Synonyms: lens maker |
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| optics | (noun) optical properties | - |
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| (noun) the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light | - |
| orthoptic | (adjective) of or relating to normal binocular vision | - |
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| orthoptics | (noun) treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles) | - |
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| panoptic | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, wide |
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| (adjective) including everything visible in one view | Synonyms: panoptical |
| panoptical | (adjective) including everything visible in one view | Synonyms: panoptic |
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| panopticon | (noun) a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791 | - |
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| (noun) an area where everything is visible | - |
| peptic | (adjective) relating to or promoting digestion | - |
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| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| sceptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, skeptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, skeptical, unbelieving |
| sceptically | (adverb) with scepticism; in a sceptical manner | Synonyms: skeptically |
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| scepticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, skepticism |
| septic | (adjective) containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms | Synonyms: infected |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or caused by putrefaction | - |
| septicaemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicemia |
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| septicemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicaemia |
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| septicemic | (adjective) characteristic of septicemia | - |
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| skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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| skeptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, sceptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, unbelieving |
| skeptically | (adverb) with scepticism; in a sceptical manner | Synonyms: sceptically |
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| skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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| (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
| styptic | (adjective) tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | Synonyms: hemostatic |
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| (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent, astringent drug |
| synaptic | (adjective) (neuroscience) of or involving synapses | - |
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| synoptic | (adjective) presenting a summary or general view of a whole | - |
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| (adjective) presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament | Synonyms: synoptical |
| synoptical | (adjective) presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament | Synonyms: synoptic |
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| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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