Word origins

• anatopismA thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
• anatrepticRebutting; overthrowing; defeating; applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
• anchi-Almost, nearly, near, nigh, like, resembling.
• anchialineBeing or relating to a landlocked body of water with a subterranean connection to the ocean.
• anchieutecticHaving a composition that crystallizes as a single phase.
• anchihalinePertaining to independent or semi-independent bodies of water near to the sea, especially in coastal hollows.
• ancistroidHook-shaped.
• ancyliteA basic carbonate mineral of strontium and rare earth elements.
• andro-human
• androeciousHaving masculine reproductive organs.
• androeciumThe set of a flower's stamens.
• -andrymale mate(s), husband(s)
• anemo-wind
• anemoiaNostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.
• anencephalousWithout a brain.
• angiocarpiandescribing an angiocarpous plant
• angiotomydissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body
• anhistousWithout definite structure.
• anhypostasiaThe quality of Jesus Christ's humanity, such that it has its existence entirely from the hypostatic union, rather than from any independent human personhood (or hypostasis). The concept does not deny Jesus's personhood, but denies that Jesus's humanity has any personhood apart from the one hypostasis in which his humanity and divinity are united.
• anidolicPertaining to nonimaging transfer of light, particularly in the domain of indoor natural lighting.
• aniso-unequal; not the same; not the selfsame: forming compounds words; often formed to contrast with similar words in iso-).
• ankyroidHook-shaped; uncinate.
• ano-anus
• anoiconometonWant of proper arrangement; a figure in which words are confused and set without order.
• anomalureA rodent of any species of the family Anomaluridae, having membranes between their front and hind legs like those of a flying squirrel, found in central Africa
• anopsologyA raw food diet based on the sensory pleasure instinct.
• anorchiaAn intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
• anorexia nervosaAn eating disorder characterized by self-starvation due to an irrational fear of gaining weight.
• antalgicalleviating pain
• antanaclasisThe repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of paronomasia.
• antenairesisAlternating, reciprocal, or continuing subtraction used in the Euclidean algorithm.
• anterosThe counterlove or affectionate response a philerast gives to the love of an erastes.
• antherozoidOne of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
• antho-Forms words relating to flowers
• anthocaulusA polyp that develops asexually on the skeletons of some coral species.
• -anthousHaving flowers with a specific behavior or appearance.
• anthra-Derivatives of anthracene.
• anthracomancyDivination by studying burning coals
• anthracothereAny of several artiodactyl ungulates, of the extinct family †Anthracotheriidae, related to the hippopotamus.
• -anthropeOne who transforms into (usually an animal).
• anthropo-Forming words related to men or people.
• anthropodicyAn attempt, or an argument attempting, to justify that human beings are fundamentally good despite the commission of evil acts by some people.
• anthropomancydivination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.
• anthroponosisAny disease that is spread from humans to animals.
• anthroponymyThe study of personal names.
• anthropophobiaA profound fear of human beings, or of human society.
• -anthropyhumanity; mankind
• anthypophoraA device in which the author poses an opposing argument, then immediately refutes it.
• anti-Against, opposed to.
• antibromicHaving the power to eliminate offensive smells.
• anticlasticcurved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
• antigropelosWaterproof leggings.
• AntikamniaA proprietary analgesic based on acetanilide.
• AntilegomenaCertain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical.
• antilogousOf the contrary name or character; opposite.
• antimetaboleThe technique of repeating a phrase while reversing the order of certain elements or its grammatical structure, as a form of juxtaposition.
• antiopelmousOf birds: having a zygodactylous foot with one tendon to flex the third toe and another, trifurcate tendon to flex the first, second and fourth toes.
• antipathousSynonym of antipathic.
• AntipaxosAn island of the Ionian Sea, Greece, south of Paxos.
• antiscionThe mirror image, or shadow, of a planet, based upon a line of reference which is the axis of 0 Cancer/0 Capricorn (the position of the sun at the solstices).
• antistrophonA counterargument as a retort
• antitypousresistant to blows; hard
• antlophobiaThe fear of floods or inundation.
• anypothetonAn idea which is discovered to be true in itself, or which supports itself; that which is absolutely or necessarily true; as opposed to a hypothesis requiring further support. The result or conclusion of a philosophical argument or investigation according to Plato's "hypothetical method."
• AnytusA male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
• ApameneSynonym of Apamean.
• apanthropinisationThe broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity.
• apantomancyDivination by chance meetings with any objects that present themselves, most commonly animals; for example, the superstition associated with a black cat crossing one's path.
• aparithmesisThe enumeration of parts or particulars.
• apastronThe point of greatest separation between a celestial object and the star which it orbits.
• apeiro-infinite
• apeirotheismThe belief in the existence of an infinite number of gods.
• apellaThe popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.
• apellaiAn initiation family-festival which was dedicated to Apollo
• aphaereticOf the nature of apheresis.
• aphagiaThe condition of difficulty in swallowing.
• aphanisisThe disappearance of sexual desire, supposed to be the foundation of all neuroses.
• aphantasiaA condition where one does not possess a functioning "mind's eye" and cannot visualize imagery.
• aphenphosmphobiaA morbid fear of being touched.
• aphoristicOf, relating to, or containing aphorisms, epigrams, or maxims; gnomic.
• aphroditoidThe analogue of the geoid for the planet Venus; the Venusian geoid. The gravitational and rotational equipotential surface for Venus. The surface that provides the datum line (the equivalent for sea level) for Venus.
• AphroditusA male Aphrodite, from Cyprus, represented as a herm with a phallus, who in later mythology became known as Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite.
• aphroniaThe lack of practical judgment.
• aphthaCandidiasis, oral thrush, thrush (fungal infection of the mucous membranes of the mouth caused by any species of yeast from the genus Candida).
• AphthartodocetismThe doctrines of the Aphthartodocetae. A Christological doctrine that taught that Christ's body was naturally incorruptible and not subject to physical suffering, associated with the 6th-century Monophysite theologian Julian of Halicarnassus.
• AphthartodocetistA follower or proponent of Aphthartodocetism, the Christological doctrine that taught Christ's body was naturally incorruptible and not subject to physical suffering, associated with Julian of Halicarnassus
• aphthitaliteAn evaporite consisting of mixed potassium and sodium sulphates; also found in the fumaroles of volcanos.
• aphthongA letter or combination of letters employed in spelling a word but not pronounced; a silent letter or polygraph
• apneusticOf or relating to apneusis.
• apocarteresissuicide by starvation
• apocopationA word formed by removing the end of a longer word.
• apocopicOf or pertaining to apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable.
• apocrisisrescript; technical response
• apodeicticAffording proof; demonstrative.
• apodemicA kind of methodical guidebook for travelers, offering practical advice and instructions on what to see.
• apodictAn apodictic proposition; a non-mathematical axiom.
• apodioxisEmphatic rejection or dismissal of an opponent or an opposing proposition.
• apodyopsisThe act of gazing at a person and imagining them naked; a mental undressing.
• apodyteriumThe apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.
• apohermIn an orbit around the planet Mercury, the point that is most distant from Mercury.