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ANALOGISMnounAncient Greek12 findersAn argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
ANTALGICadjectiveAncient Greek16 findersalleviating pain
ATONIAnounAncient Greek20 findersLack of muscle tone.
BACCHANTnounAncient Greek25 findersA priest of Bacchus.
CHILIASTnounAncient Greek13 findersSynonym of millenarian: a person who believes the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will involve his physical rule on Earth for 1000 years.
CHRYSOLITEnounAncient Greek32 findersOriginally, any of various green-coloured gems; later specifically peridot.
CLADEnounAncient Greek136 findersA group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
CYNOSUREnounAncient Greek111 findersAlternative letter-case form of Cynosure: Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.
DISTICHnounAncient Greek9 findersA couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
DOLERITEnounAncient Greek8 findersA type of fine-grained basaltic rock.
ENCOMIASTnounAncient Greek7 findersA person who delivers an encomium or eulogy.
EOLITHnounAncient Greek7 findersCrudely chopped flints, believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation.
EOLITHICadjectiveAncient Greek14 findersof or relating to the early period of the Stone Age marked by the use of eoliths.
EPIGEANadjectiveAncient Greek4 findersThat lives on or near the surface of the land.
EUCRITEnounAncient Greek5 findersAn achondritic meteoritic rock consisting chiefly of pigeonite and anorthite
GYROIDALadjectiveAncient Greek35 findersSpiral in arrangement or action.
HEDONICadjectiveAncient Greek130 findersOf or relating to pleasure
HELIODORnounAncient Greek15 findersA richly coloured form of golden beryl found in southwest Africa.
HYDROPICadjectiveAncient Greek32 findersDropsical; pertaining to or suffering from dropsy (edema).
HYPHAnounAncient Greek13 findersAny of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.
ISOPLETHnounAncient Greek10 findersA line drawn on a map through all points having the same value of some measurable quantity.
MANTICadjectiveAncient Greek29 findersRelating to divination; prophetic.
NOMADICadjectiveAncient Greek151 findersOf or relating to nomads. Of or related to itinerant herdsmen. Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal.
OPHIOLITEnounAncient Greek9 findersAn assemblage of mafic and ultramafic rock fragments of the ocean lithosphere that has been tectonically moved onto a continental margin or island.
PARENCHYMAnounAncient Greek14 findersThe functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
PHATICadjectiveAncient Greek132 findersPertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
PHRENITISnounAncient Greek6 findersMadness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; encephalitis, encephalomeningitis, or meningitis.
PILCROWnounAncient Greek27 findersThe symbol ¶. A symbol designating the beginning of a new paragraph. A symbol designating a paragraph break.
PLECTRUMnounAncient Greek96 findersA small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
PLEUSTONnounAncient Greek2 findersThe organisms that live floating at the surface of water.
PTYALINnounAncient Greek19 findersA form of amylase found in saliva that breaks down starch into maltose and dextrin.
RHYTIDOMEnounAncient Greek3 findersThe dead layers of plant bark (undergoing or having undergone secondary growth) external to that of the last formed periderm .
RHYTONnounAncient Greek41 findersA container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head.
SPONGIFORMadjectiveAncient Greek51 findersLike a sponge, porous, full of holes.
THERIACAnounAncient Greek1 finderAlternative spelling of theriac.

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