surliertexan's Ancient Greek words

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• ACAROLOGIESnounAncient Greek7 findersThe study of ticks and mites.
• ACAROLOGYnounAncient Greek14 findersThe study of ticks and mites.
• AGONISTICadjectiveAncient Greek59 findersOf or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
• ALEXITHYMIAnounAncient Greek12 findersA deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
• ALEXITHYMICnounAncient Greek2 findersA person who has difficulty feeling, processing or understanding emotions
• ALGESIAnounAncient Greek4 finderssensitivity to pain
• ALOGIAnounAncient Greek11 findersA general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia.
• ANATEXISnounAncient Greek12 findersThe metamorphism of plutonic rock into magma in the lower levels of the crust
• APODYTERIUMnounAncient Greek10 findersThe apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.
• APOPHYGEnounAncient Greek4 findersA curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
• ARCTOPHILEnounAncient Greek31 findersOne who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them.
• ARCTOPHILIAnounAncient Greek10 findersthe love of teddy bears
• ATRESIAnounAncient Greek15 findersA condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent.
• BALNEARYnounAncient Greek13 findersA room for bathing.
• CHABAZITEnounAncient Greek2 findersAny of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.
• CLEPSYDRAnounAncient Greek33 findersSynonym of water clock, especially ancient Greek and Roman forms.
• COENOBIUMnounAncient Greek5 findersA conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
• CRAPULOUSadjectiveAncient Greek69 findersCharacterized by excessive eating or drinking.
• DIAPENTEnounAncient Greek3 findersThe interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
• ELOGIUMnounAncient Greek7 findersa eulogy
• EUDAEMONnounAncient Greek51 findersA good or benevolent spirit.
• EUDAEMONICadjectiveAncient Greek126 findersOf or pertaining to a eudaemon.
• EUTAXYnounAncient Greek19 findersGood or established order or arrangement.
• HAPLONTnounAncient Greek2 findersAny haplontic organism; any organism whose zygotes undergo zygotic meiosis (meiosis immediately after the fusion of cell nuclei).
• KYPHOTICadjectiveAncient Greek84 findersRelating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
• NARTHEXnounAncient Greek105 findersA western vestibule leading to the nave in some Christian churches.
• NEOLOGISMnounAncient Greek168 findersA word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
• ORGIASTICadjectiveAncient Greek98 findersRelating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.
• PAROECIOUSadjectiveAncient Greek6 findersHaving the male and female reproductive organs growing beside or near each other, as in certain cryptogams.
• PHLOGISTICadjectiveAncient Greek32 findersInflammatory; pertaining to inflammations and fevers.
• PHYLEnounAncient Greek41 findersA local division of the people; a clan or tribe.
• PTYXISnounAncient Greek46 findersThe way in which an individual leaf is folded in the bud.
• SYBARITEnounAncient Greek182 findersA person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
• TRIGLYPHnounAncient Greek203 findersA vertically channeled tablet of the Doric frieze.

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