Word origins

• anagapesisRenewal of love; the rekindling of affection after decline or estrangement.
• anagignoskomenaThe deuterocanonical books, those books present in the Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible.
• anaglyptaA thick, embossed wallpaper.
• anaglyptographAn instrument for making accurate engravings of any embossed object, such as a medal.
• anaglyptographyThe art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; used in representing coins, bas reliefs, maps etc.
• anagnorisisThe moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement.
• anagogicsMystical interpretations or studies, especially of the Scriptures.
• anagrammatiseTo produce an anagram of; to transpose the letters of.
• anagraphAn inventory; a record.
• anaktoronA palace that only hierophants were permitted to enter as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
• analcimeA sodium aluminosilicate with a chemical formula NaAlSi₂O₆·H₂O, having a zeolite structure, found in alkaline basalts.
• analemmaA figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year at the same hour of mean solar time every day.
• analepsisA form of flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have already been narrated
• anallacticBeing or involving a special kind of convex lens for a telescope that reduces the stadia constant to zero.
• analogismAn argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
• analogonAn analogue.
• analvosPart of the habit of a senior monk in the Eastern Orthodox Church, similar to a scapular.
• anamorphosisA distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
• anancasmObsessive-compulsive behaviour.
• anandrousLacking stamens; devoid of the male part.
• anankasticImperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
• anankeNecessity beyond all supplications or sway. Conceived as the ultimate dictator of all fate and circumstances, to which even the gods must ultimately pay homage and deference.
• anantapodotonA rhetorical device in which a main clause is suggested by the introduction of a subordinate clause, but where the expression trails off.
• ananthousDestitute of flowers; flowerless, nonflowering
• anaphiaTactile anesthesia; the total or partial absence of the sense of touch.
• anaphoresisThe movement of electrically charged particles towards an anode.
• anaplerosisThe replenishment of a deficiency, or refilling of the space left by a destroyed part.
• anapleroticForming intermediates of a metabolic pathway (eg. the tricarboxylic acid cycle).
• anapneaResumption of breathing after a period of halted respiration.
• anapodotonA special kind of ellipsis in which a main clause implied by a subordinate clause is left out.
• anapoiesisRecreation.
• anapsidPertaining to the group of reptiles whose skulls do not have openings near the temples, originally considered as a specific subclass
• anaptoticHaving lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; uninflected
• anarcho-Denoting to anarchy and anarchism.
• anargyrosSynonym of unmercenary (“a saint who performed good deeds without accepting payment”).
• anarthrousNot having an article (especially of Greek nouns).
• anasarcaSevere generalised oedema.
• anastalticstyptic
• anastasisa recovery from a debilitating condition, especially irradiation of human tissue
• AnastenariaA religious ritual performed in Southern Bulgaria and Northern Greece involving trance and dancing on fire.
• anastropheUnusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
• anastylosisThe reassembly of ruined monuments or other artifacts from remaining fragments in an archeologically responsible way (with use of modern materials when needed).
• anasyrmaThe gesture of lifting up the skirt or kilt to expose the buttocks or genitalia.
• anatexisThe metamorphism of plutonic rock into magma in the lower levels of the crust
• anatocismcompound interest
• anatopismA thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
• anatrepticRebutting; overthrowing; defeating; applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
• anatripsisThe use of friction or rubbing as therapy, a form of massage
• anaulacorhizeOf the root of a tooth, spongy; porous.
• Anaxaretea rich and beautiful maiden of Cyprus, who, disdaining the love of Iphis, was changed to stone.
• 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
• AndrocydesAndrocydes of Cyzicus, a Greek painter of the 4th century BCE.
• 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.
• anepigraphA work with no (known) title; an anepigraphous work.
• anerithmon gelasmaThe "uncountable laughter" of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.
• anesisRemission of disease symptoms.
• angio-vessel; relating to blood vessels, lymph vessels, or both.
• 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.
• AnicetusOne of the sons of Heracles and Hebe, his brother is Alexiares. Along with their father, Anicetus and Alexiares are the guardians and gatekeepers of the gates of Mount Olympus.
• 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
• anoiaExtreme mental deficiency.
• 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.
• antagonyantagonism (opposition, contest)
• antalgicalleviating pain
• antanaclasisThe repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of paronomasia.
• antanagogeAnswering the charge of an adversary by a countercharge.
• antenairesisAlternating, reciprocal, or continuing subtraction used in the Euclidean algorithm.
• anterosThe counterlove or affectionate response a philerast gives to the love of an erastes.
• -anthflower
• AntheiaOne of the Charites worshipped in Athens.
• anthelionA faint, white halo rarely seen in the sky opposite the sun on the parhelic circle
• anthemionAn ornamental design consisting of palmettes or lotus flowers.
• antherozoidOne of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
• Anthesteriaa Dionysian flower festival in ancient Athens
• anthippasiaA traditional cavalry display in Ancient Athens; in particular, a series of contests occurring later in the democratic period as a contest between tribal cavalry units at Athenian festivals such as the Olympieia and Panathenaea.
• antho-Forms words relating to flowers
• anthocaulusA polyp that develops asexually on the skeletons of some coral species.
• anthorismA description or definition contrary to that which is given by the opposing party.
• -anthousHaving flowers with a specific behavior or appearance.