Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In phytogeography, shade-loving; adapted to live in shade.
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sciophilous’.
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• De rerum natura
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Interesting words in nature and natural science (in any language!).
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You can add species names that you lov...lagerstätte, parthenogenesis, bushbaby, lepidoptera, dinoflagellate, pupation, chrysalis, ephemeroptera, deinococcus radio..., homoplasy, sciophilous, syncytium and 218 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Shunning or Drawn
Words that describe 'shunning' or 'drawn to' behavior, mostly of plants and animals.
lucifugous, lucifugal, solifugous, heliophobous, chionophobous, heliophobic, ombrophobous, heliophilous, leucophilous, nidifugous, nidicolous, finifugal and 31 more...
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Oh Me
These may or may not describe me. My aboulomania won't let me say.
aboulomania, ablutomania, bruxomania, choreomania, dinomania, drapetomania, dromomania, ecdemomania, eleutheromania, erotomania, gamomania, graphomania and 44 more...
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ananda's list
selcouth, arenicolous, eximious, sciophilous, cynosure, manumit, eclode, diapason, anacrustic, stramash, unguiculation, clishmaclaver and 38 more...
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Prolagus Σκιά + φίλος = "shade-loving". Mar 25, 2008