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- AGORAA place for gathering.
- ARCHONA chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
- CATAPHORSemicoma.
- CATIONA positively charged ion: one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- CHALAZIONA cyst in the eyelid, caused by inflammation of a blocked meibomian gland.
- ESCHATOLOGYA system of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.
- EXOCARPThe outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits; the skin or epicarp.
- GARUMA fermented fish sauce popular as a condiment in Ancient Rome.
- HYOIDShaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
- IAMBA metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
- ICOSAHEDRONA polyhedron with twenty faces.
- ISOCHRONALHaving the same duration.
- NOUSThe mind or intellect, faculty for rationality or reason using the necessary common sense or awareness.
- OMPHALOSAn ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
- PLYOMETRICSA form of exercise that involves the rapid stretching and contracting of muscles to develop muscular power.
- PRAXISThe practical application of any branch of learning.
- SEMAPHOREAny equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.
- SPHYGMICOf or pertaining to the circulatory pulse.
- SYBARITEA person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
- SYBARITICOf or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
- TOPIARYOf, or relating to art of topiaries.