English dictionary: words starting with necro

Relating to a corpse or death.

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Necromancy

noun

Disease caused by the gram-negative anaerobic bacterium fusobacterium necrophorum, affecting domestic and wild animals and (less commonly) humans; an instance or form of this.

noun

Gradual degeneration and death of cells in the body tissues.

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Diabetic necrobiosis typically causes discrete pretibial plaques, not the confluent skin changes se…

adjective

Produced by contact with dead bodies; arising from dead bodies; (medicine) designating a wart-like form of tuberculosis of the skin acquired by contact with infected human or bovine tissue, seen especially in pathologists, abattoir workers, and butchers (now historical).

adjective

Designating a reaction to a plant pathogen in which there is necrosis of the cells surrounding the site of infection, isolating the pathogen and preventing its further spread.

noun

Worship of or excessive reverence for the dead.

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There is a strain of elvis worship that veers close to necrolatry

adjective

Of the nature of, relating to, or characterized by necrology; = "necrological".

adverb

With reference to necrology (or, more generally, death or dying); by means of a necrology or obituary.

noun

An obituary notice.

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In the second necrology, possibly written slightly later and at san isidoro about 1150, fernando's …

noun

The author of an obituary notice.

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But for the moment, i am pleased to have been given this chance to contrive my own fable and plead …

noun

An obituary notice or article.

noun

An obituary notice.

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In the second necrology, possibly written slightly later and at san isidoro about 1150, fernando's …

noun

A person who practises necromancy; a wizard or magician.

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Dr faustus, a necromancer of the 16th century

noun

A person who practises necromancy; a wizard or magician.

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Dr faustus, a necromancer of the 16th century

noun

The art or practice of necromancy.

adjective

Engaging in or characterized by necromancy; necromantic.

noun

The supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future.

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Alchemy, necromancy, and other magic practices

adjective

Relating to witchcraft or black magic, especially the supposed practice of communicating with the dead.

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Necromantic spells

adverb

In a necromantic manner; by, or as if by, necromancy; with regard to necromancy.

noun

A feldspar having an unpleasant odour, said to be a variety of orthoclase.

adjective

That feeds on dead bodies or decaying animal tissue; characterized by such behaviour.

noun

The condition of being necrophagous; the eating of dead bodies or decaying animal tissue.

noun

A person who is sexually attracted to corpses.

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A necrophile who works in a morgue

noun

Sexual intercourse with or attraction towards corpses.

noun

A person who is sexually attracted to or has sex with dead bodies

adjective

Feeding or growing on dead animal tissue; necrophagous.