| allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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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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| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| neurotropism | (noun) an affinity for neural tissues | - |
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| papism | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: popery |
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| (noun) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome | Synonyms: Roman Catholicism, Romanism |
| phototropism | (noun) an orienting response to light | - |
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| priapism | (noun) condition in which the penis is continually erect; usually painful and seldom with sexual arousal | - |
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| sinapism | (noun) a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient | Synonyms: mustard plaster |
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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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| trophotropism | (noun) an orienting response to food | - |
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| tropism | (noun) an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source | - |
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