| A | B |
|---|
| technocracy | governed by technology |
| polytechnic | providing instruction in many technical areas |
| technical | having to do with skill |
| technique | a move using skill or art |
| technology | study and use of science or skills |
| pyrotechnics | fireworks |
| Pyrex | heat-resistant glassware |
| pyrogenic | producing or produced by heat or fever |
| apyretic | without fever |
| pyre | a pile of wood on which a dead body is burned for a funeral |
| pyrometer | thermometer or instrument for measuring temperature (to see if someone has a fever |
| pyromania | madness for (obsessed with) fire |
| kleptomania | madness for steal |
| bibliomania | madness for books |
| monomania | madness for one thing |
| maniac | a person who is mad (crazy) |
| megalomania | madness of thinking one is greater than others |
| pyrophobia | fear of fire |
| claustrophobia | fear of close places |
| arachnophobia | fear of spiders |
| hydrophobia | fear of water |
| photophobia | fear of having your picture taken or fear of lights |
| acrophobia | fear of heights |
| acronym | a word with the edge (first letter) of each letter stands for another word (ex. NASA) |
| acrobat | one who performs at tall heights |
| acropolis | fortified upper part of an ancient Greek city |
| acrolith | a pointed stone |
| acrocephaly | an abnormal condition in which the skull is pointed |
| hydrocephalus | water on the brain |
| megacephalic | having a large head |
| cephalopod | octopus |
| microcephaly | head which is abnormally small multilingual |
| multiform | having many shapes |
| multicolored | being many colored |
| multiplication | to add many times |
| multitude | a group of many people |
| morphology | study of many forms |
| amorphous | without form (like fog) |
| anthropomorphic | man-shaped |
| morpheme | any word or part of a word that shows meaning |
| protomorphic | first form |
| pseudomorph | false form |
| pseudoscience | false science |
| pseudonym | false name |
| pseudocarp | a fruit made up of more than the ripened seed case and its contents |
| acrocarpous | having fruit at the end of the stalk |
| carpology | study of fruit |
| endocarp | the pit of a fruit (seed) |
| endocrine | gland within the body (internal glands) |
| endothermic | absorption of heat |
| endomorph | form when person is heavier |
| endocardial | within the heart area |
| toxicology | study of poisons |
| antitoxin | a remedy for poison |
| toxin | a poison |
| toxicant | an item used as a poison |
| intoxicated | to be filled with poison |
| toxicogenic | causing poison or produced by a toxic substance |
