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- ANOMIEAlienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
- ARCHONA chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
- AUTODIDACTA self-taught person.
- AXONA nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
- BOLUSA round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
- BOURSEA stock exchange. Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
- CADUCEUSThe official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snake
- CASTOREUMThe bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers, used as a scent mark, and as a tincture in some perfumes.
- CENOTAPHA monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
- COLLOIDGlue-like; gelatinous.
- CYGNETThe young of a swan.
- DIAPHRAGMIn mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs.
- DYSPHONIAA difficulty in producing vocal sounds.
- ELEGIACOf or relating to an elegy.
- ESCHATONThe apocalypse; the approach of Christ’s reign immediately preceding the end of the world; a conception of or circumstance pertaining to this era.
- GEODESYThe discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in thr
- NAUTICALOf, relating to, or characteristic of sailing, sailors, or the sea.
- NOUSThe mind or intellect, faculty for rationality or reason using the necessary common sense or awareness.
- ORGIASTOne who attends an orgy.
- ORGIASTICRelating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.
- OROGENYThe process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
- ORTHOPEDICSThe branch of medicine that deals with the prevention or correction of disorders of the bones and associated muscles and joints.
- PARABOLICOf, or pertaining to, or in the shape of a parabola or paraboloid.
- PHLOXAny flowering plant of the genus Phlox.
- PHOSGENEcarbonyl chloride
- PLAICESeveral similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth
- PRAXISThe practical application of any branch of learning.
- PROSCENIUMThe stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
- QUINCEThe pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
- SODOMITEOne who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
- SYBARITEA person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
- TELOSThe aim, purpose, or end goal.
- THORAXThe region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.