Word origins

• tragopogonEither of two goat's-beards (Tragopogon pratensis (meadow salsify) or Tragopogon porrifolius (common salsify); or (in later use) any other member of the genus Tragopogon.
• explicativeExplanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
• radialisA radial muscle, artery, or nerve.
• luminometerphotometer
• trifoliateHaving or comprising three leaves, or (loosely) trifoliolate (with three leaflets) or having leaves with three parts, as the clover plant.
• SanitasA kind of cleanable cloth-backed wallpaper.
• vestigateTo investigate.
• orchidectomySynonym of orchiectomy.
• AmabelA female given name from Latin.
• demulcentSoothing or softening.
• jocoseGiven to jesting; habitually jolly.
• enharmonicDescribing two or more identical or almost identical notes that are written differently when in different keys. (Whether they are identical and what the exact equivalences are depends on the tuning used.)
• stavesacreA highly toxic, perennial plant with purple flowers (Staphisagria macrosperma, syn. Delphinium staphisagria).
• cestusA leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal.
• ℞A prescription.
• £sdThe pre-decimal pounds, shillings, pence.
• 6toSixmo, sexto.
• -aMarks singular nouns, with a foundation in Greek or Latin, often implying femininity, especially when contrasted with words terminating in -us.
• a-Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
• abactionCarrying away by force, especially of animals.
• abaculusA small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.
• abalienateTo make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
• abalienationThe act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.
• AbderiteAn inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
• AbdiasObadiah (biblical prophet)
• abdicativeCausing, or implying, abdication.
• abditiveHaving the quality of hiding
• abdominoscrotal musclethe cremaster muscle.
• abdominovaginalRelating to the abdomen and the vagina
• abduceTo draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
• abducens muscleRectus lateralis muscle of the eye; muscle that moves the eye away from the center of the face.
• abducens oculiMusculus rectus lateralis bulbi.
• Abernethy's fasciaA layer of tissue that separates the iliac artery from the iliac fascia.
• aberranceState of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude.
• abessiveOf, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
• abevacuationAn abnormal evacuation.
• abhominalInhuman; obsolete form of abominable.
• abieteneA volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana).
• abieticOf, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
• abietic acidA yellowish resin acid isolated from rosin and used in varnishes and esters for plasticizers; C₁₉H₂₉COOH.
• abietiteA substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies alba).
• abigeatTheft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
• abjectureabjection; forlornness
• abjudgeTo confiscate by judicial decision.
• abjugateTo unyoke; set free; uncouple.
• abjunctiveExceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,
• ablactateTo wean.
• ablaqueationThe act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
• ablegationExpulsion; banishment.
• abludeTo be unlike; to differ.
• ablutophobeA person who fears bathing.
• ablutophobiaA pathological fear of washing or bathing.
• ablutophobicOf or pertaining to or suffering from ablutophobia.
• abrasableabradable
• abraseRubbed smooth or blank.
• abreptionA snatching away.
• abrogablecapable of being abrogated.
• abrotanumA bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer, southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.
• abscindTo cut off.
• abscisionA cutting away.
• abscopalDenoting the effect that irradiation of a tissue has on remote nonirradiated tissue.
• absentialOf or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
• absinthiateTo impregnate with wormwood.
• absinthinThe principal compound found in wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), having a bitter taste: C₁₅H₂₀O₄
• absonantDiscordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable.
• abstergentCleansing, detergent.
• abstortTo wrest by force or persuasion.
• abstrictTo cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint
• abstrictionA method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
• abstrudeTo thrust away.
• abstrusiveOf abstruse quality.
• absumptionDestruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
• AbundiusA male given name from Latin, of historical usage.
• acanthopodiousHaving spinous petioles.
• AccaophoriA member of a group of 4th century penitants who wore coarse clothing and used water for the Eucharist instead of wine. They have been considered offshoots of the Manichaeans and Marcionists, and were outlawed by Theodosius I along with the Encratites and Hydroparastatæ, with whom they are often confused.
• accelero-acceleration
• accensionThe act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
• acceptilationGratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
• accrementalRelated to growth or increase by successive additions, particularly in size or volume, often through the gradual deposition of material. This term is used to describe processes or structures that grow by accretion, such as the formation of shells, tree rings, or the buildup of biological tissues.
• accrescentGrowing; increasing.
• accumbentLeaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
• accusativalOf or pertaining to the accusative case.
• -aceousOf, relating to, resembling or containing the thing suffixed
• acephaliA people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
• acerbSour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, such as unripe fruit.
• acerbateEmbittered; having a sour disposition or nature.
• acericPertaining to, or obtained from, the maple.
• aceroseHaving the nature of chaff; chaffy.
• acersecomicA person who does not cut their hair.
• acervalPertaining to a heap.
• acetariousUsed in salads or as salad
• acetifyTo convert into acid or vinegar.
• acetimeterAn instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar
• aceto-Containing a methyl group bonded to a carbonyl group (CH₃CO-); e.g., acetophenone
• acetousHaving a sour taste; sour; acid.
• acetractIn botanical medicine, a vinegar extract of herbs.
• achaenocarpAny dry indehiscent fruit.
• aciculiformNeedle-shaped; acicular.
• aciculiteA sulfide of bismuth, lead, and copper.
• aciculumA needlelike spine or bristle, specially the seta of an annelid