Word origins

• symmictDescribing a sedimentation unit that lacks structure and is composed of various-sized particles that are mixed to a greater extent in the lower section.
• sympatryThe use of the same (or overlapping) geographical areas, by populations of related species, without interbreeding.
• sympelmousOf birds: having the tendons of the deep flexors of the toes blended in one before separating to proceed one to each of the four digits.
• symperasmaA conclusion that includes a brief summary of the foregoing arguments; a concluding summary.
• symphoriaBringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
• symphoricClumsy; accident-prone.
• symphronisticIdentical in terms of intellect or signification.
• symphytismcoalescence; compounding of two words.
• sympiezometerA type of barometer whereby the liquid is suspended below air or other gas rather than a vacuum, so that the atmospheric pressure acts against the weight of the liquid and the pressure of the gas.
• symplesiteA triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
• symploceThe repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
• sympoiesiscollective creation or organization
• symposiarchThe master of a feast.
• symposiastSomeone participating at a banquet or drinking party.
• syn-identical
• synadelphicActing together, as different members of an animal body.
• synadelphiteAn orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, lead, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.
• synaeresisThe contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.
• synalephaThe suppression of a vowel at the end of word when it is followed by another word beginning with a vowel.
• synallagmaticImposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; bilateral.
• synallaxineHaving the outer and middle toes partially united (said of certain birds related to the creepers).
• synamphoteronA composite.
• synangiumThe divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
• synapheaThe metrical continuity between one colon and another.
• synaptaseEmulsin.
• synapteA litany in the Greek church.
• synapticulaOne of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals.
• synapticulumSynonym of synapticula.
• synapto-synapse
• synarchyJoint rule or sovereignty.
• synathroesmusPiling up of terms, especially adjectives, often as invective.
• synaxarionA compilation of hagiographies in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.
• syncerebrumThe supraesophageal glanglia or brain of many invertebrates.
• synchoresisA concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater power.
• synclasticcurved toward the same side in all directions
• syncopateto omit a vocalic or consonantal sound or a syllable from a word; to use syncope
• syncranterianHaving teeth in one continuous row.
• syncraticOf a decision, made jointly instead of individually.
• syncrisisA figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared.
• syndesmo-ligament
• syndesmographydesmology (study of the ligaments).
• syndyasmianPertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
• syndyasticrelated to coupleship, the requirement to realize intimacy with a partner
• synechiaAn eye condition in which the iris adheres either to the cornea (anterior synechia) or to the lens (posterior synechia).
• synechismThe tendency to regard things such as space, time, and law as continuous.
• synechologyThe metaphysical doctrine of the connection of things by causation.
• synecphonesisA contraction of two syllables into one.
• synecthranAn organism that lives in the home of another organism in order to exploit it, and is treated with hostility or indifference.
• synedrionAn assembly that holds formal sessions.
• syneisaktismThe practice, from early Christian until mediaeval times, of a man and woman living together in a non-legalised relationship while observing vows of chastity.
• synesisA grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word.
• syngnomeA figure of speech in which the speaker shows mercy, clemency, or forgiveness to an adversary or offender, often in a context of having suffered injury or injustice.
• synizesisThe fusion of two syllables into one without the formation of a recognized diphthong, especially to fit a certain poetic meter.
• synneurosissyndesmosis
• synochusA continuous fever.
• synoecismThe unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.
• synomosyA group of political or other conspirators bound together by oath; a secret society.
• synophrysThe condition in which the eyebrows grow together.
• synteresisAn aspect of one's conscience by which one can judge wrong from right and decide on what makes good conduct (as distinguished from syneidesis).
• syntereticPreserving health; prophylactic.
• synthetonA set phrase linking two or more non-synonymous words by conjunction.
• synthrononA structure, in the apse, containing the cathedra and seating for priests assisting a bishop.
• synthronosThe bishop's throne in the apse of an Eastern Orthodox church.
• syntomicFlat, of finite presentation, and locally a complete intersection.
• syntonyA condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency.
• SyntycheA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• synusiaA layer of vegetation consisting of species with shared life forms.
• synzeugmaA type of zeugma in which a verb joins and governs two phrases by coming between them; a synonym of mesozeugma.
• syringocoeleThe central canal of the spinal cord.
• syringotomyThe incision of a fistula, such as the anal fistula.
• syssitiaIn Ancient Greece, a common meal shared by men and youths in social or religious groups.
• tacho-speed, velocity
• tachy-fast
• tachydidaxyA short or rapid method of instructing; speed teaching.
• tachygraphyThe art and practice of rapid writing.
• tachyhydriteAn evaporite, consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium chloride, with the chemical formula CaMg₂Cl₆·12H₂O.
• TaenarumA town of southern ancient Greece near present-day Tainaron.
• taenicideA medicine that destroys tapeworms.
• taeniformShaped like a ribbon; ribbonlike.
• taenifugeA medicine to expel tapeworms from a body.
• taeniodontAny of a group of extinct mammals of the suborder Taeniodonta
• taenioidShaped like a ribbon; ribbonlike.
• taeniopterygidAny member of the Taeniopterygidae of willowflies or winter stoneflies.
• tafoneA small cave-like feature found in granular rock such as sandstone.
• tagmaA specialized, structured, grouping of functionally related segments, or analogous subunits, into units such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen, particularly in various Arthropoda and Vertebrata.
• tainioliteA monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing fluorine, lithium, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.
• talantonA talent (ancient unit of weight and money)
• tany-Stretch.
• -taphgrave; burial
• tapho-grave; burial
• taphofloraThe remains of dead plants.
• taphophileA person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones
• taphophobeA person with an irrational fear of being buried alive.
• taphophobiaa fear of being buried alive
• taphophobicRelating to a fear of being buried alive
• TaphosIn Homeric Greece, a group of islands in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania, inhabited by the piratical Taphians.
• taphrogenyThe process of trench formation by the downward folding of the Earth's crust.
• tartemorionAn Ancient Greek silver coin.
• taseometerAn instrument for measuring physical strain in a structure.
• tasimeterAn instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists of a small rod or disk of carbon forming part of an electrical circuit, whose resistance (varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured) causes variations in the strength of the current, which are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer.