Etymology · Ancient Greek
κρυπτός
13 English words descend from Ancient Greek κρυπτός, most common first.
- cryptA cave or cavern.
- encryptTo conceal information by means of a code or cipher.
- decryptTo convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
- decryptionThe process reversing an encryption; the process which converts encrypted data into its original form.
- kryptonThe chemical element (symbol Kr) with an atomic number of 36. It is a colourless, odourless noble gas that only reacts with fluorine. It is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
- cryptologyThe science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
- -cryptCryptography.
- cryptidineOne of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C₁₁H₁₁N.
- cryptogamAny plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.
- onychocryptosisingrown toenail
- reencryptTo encrypt again.
- signcryptTo employ signcryption
- unencryptto decrypt