yhpez's Ancient Greek words

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• AMPHIBOLEnounAncient Greek27 findersAny of a large group of structurally similar hydrated double silicate minerals, containing various combinations of sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and aluminium.
• ANTIDROMICadjectiveAncient Greek6 findersflowing in the opposite direction from normal
• ANTIPODESnounAncient Greek310 findersThe place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.
• APOSTOLICadjectiveAncient Greek127 findersPertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.
• AXIOMATICadjectiveAncient Greek567 findersSelf-evident or unquestionable.
• BENTHOSnounAncient Greek34 findersThe flora and fauna at the bottom of a body of water.
• BOREALadjectiveAncient Greek164 findersOf, relating to, or coming from the north.
• CHILIAGONnounAncient Greek4 findersA polygon with a thousand vertices and a thousand edges.
• CHIRALadjectiveAncient Greek235 finders(geometry, physical chemistry) that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
• CIRSOIDadjectiveAncient Greek1 findervaricose
• ECOPHOBIAnounAncient Greek66 findersFear of one’s home.
• ECOPHOBIASnounAncient Greek22 findersFear of one’s home.
• EUTAXYnounAncient Greek19 findersGood or established order or arrangement.
• GONIMOBLASTnounAncient Greek1 finderA sporogenous filament (or bundle of such filaments) in the fertilized carpogonium of red algae.
• JACINTHnounAncient Greek29 findersA translucent, reddish type of zircon used as a gemstone; a hyacinth.
• MESARAICadjectiveAncient Greek1 findermesenteric
• METANOIAnounAncient Greek74 findersA fundamental change of mind.
• PARACMEnounAncient Greek4 findersA point beyond the highest or greatest.
• PHYLAXISnounAncient Greek50 findersProtection against infectious disease.
• PSILOCINnounAncient Greek15 finders4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic alkaloid found in most psychedelic mushrooms.
• QUINSYnounAncient Greek43 findersA peritonsillar abscess; a painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection a
• REGOLITHnounAncient Greek119 findersThe layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated cele
• 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.
• SCHOLIONnounAncient Greek4 findersA scholium.
• SCOLIONnounAncient Greek5 findersAny of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre.
• SIDEROLITEnounAncient Greek1 finderAn iron meteorite; a siderite.
• SKIAGRAMnounAncient Greek4 findersA picture or image created from shadows, especially with X-rays.
• STEGANOPODnounAncient Greek3 findersAny of the Steganopodes, a former suborder of birds having four toes webbed together.
• TETRAPLEGICnounAncient Greek8 findersA quadriplegic.
• THEOMANCYnounAncient Greek20 findersA kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles.
• WHELMverbAncient Greek112 findersTo bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.

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