| adrenocorticotropic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotrophic |
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| adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| aeolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: eolotropic |
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| allotropic | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropical |
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| allotropical | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropic |
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| allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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| ametropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia | - |
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| ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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| anthropic | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropical |
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| anthropical | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropic |
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| atropine | (noun) a poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides | - |
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| cecropia | (noun) North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees | Synonyms: cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia |
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| chloropicrin | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: nitrochloroform |
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| corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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| emmetropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina | - |
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| emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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| eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| esotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose | Synonyms: convergent strabismus, cross-eye, crossed eye |
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| europium | (noun) a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 63, Eu |
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| exotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, walleye |
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| extropic | (adjective) of or relating to extropy | - |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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| groping | (adjective) acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence | - |
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| gropingly | (adverb) in an uncertain groping manner | - |
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| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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| hypermetropia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
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| hypermetropic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hyperopic |
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| hyperopia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, longsightedness |
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| hyperopic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hypermetropic |
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| isentropic | (adjective) with unchanging entropy; at constant entropy | - |
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| isometropia | (noun) equality of refractive power in the two eyes | - |
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| isotropic | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropous |
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| isotropically | (adverb) in an isotropic manner | - |
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| lipotropic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipophilic |
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| luteotropin | (noun) gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | Synonyms: lactogenic hormone, prolactin |
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| malapropism | (noun) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | Synonyms: malaprop |
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| meteortropism | (noun) an effect of climate on biological processes (as the effect on joint pains etc.) | - |
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| misanthropic | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropical |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropical |
| misanthropical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropic |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropic |
| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| neuropil | (noun) the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded | Synonyms: neuropile |
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| neuropile | (noun) the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded | Synonyms: neuropil |
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| neurotropic | (adjective) (of a virus, toxin, or chemical) tending to attack or affect the nervous system preferentially | - |
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| neurotropism | (noun) an affinity for neural tissues | - |
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| pantropic | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropical |
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| pantropical | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropic |
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| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| philanthropically | (adverb) in a philanthropic manner | - |
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| philanthropist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: altruist |
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| phototropism | (noun) an orienting response to light | - |
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| propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: proximity |
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| propionaldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propanal |
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| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| propitiation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, placation |
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| (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
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| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | - |
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| propitiously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: auspiciously |
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| propitiousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: auspiciousness |
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| psychotropic | (adjective) affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes | Synonyms: psychoactive |
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| ropiness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| roping | (noun) capturing cattle or horses with a lasso | - |
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| semitropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropical, subtropic, subtropical |
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| semitropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, subtropic, subtropical |
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| semitropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: subtropics |
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| somatotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, STH |
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| subtropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropical |
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| subtropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropic |
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| subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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| theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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| (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
| thermotropism | (noun) an orienting response to warmth | - |
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| thyrotropin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotrophin, thyrotropic hormone, TSH |
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| trophotropic | (adjective) of or relating to trophotropism | - |
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| trophotropism | (noun) an orienting response to food | - |
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| tropic | (adjective) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) | Synonyms: tropical |
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| (adjective) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics | Synonyms: tropical |
| (noun) either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics | - |
| tropical | (adjective) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) | Synonyms: tropic |
| (adjective) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense | - |
| (adjective) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics | Synonyms: tropic |
| tropically | (adverb) in a tropical manner | - |
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| tropicbird | (noun) mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land | Synonyms: boatswain bird, tropic bird |
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| tropics | (noun) the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate | Synonyms: Torrid Zone, tropical zone |
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| tropism | (noun) an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source | - |
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| unpropitious | (adjective) not propitious | - |
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| unpropitiously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: inauspiciously |
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| unpropitiousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: inauspiciousness |
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