The act of killing one’s mother | Matricide |
Murder of an infant | Infanticide |
The study of languages | Philology |
The scientific study of plants and their structure | Botany |
Study of religion | Theology |
Study of poisons | Toxicology |
The study of ancient writing and scriptures | Palaeography |
Study of fossils | Paleontology |
The study of truth and knowledge | Philosophy |
The study of coins | Numismatics |
Study of various aspects of ageing | Gerontology |
Study of sound and sound waves | Acoustics |
A study of races | Ethnology |
The study of rocks and soil | Geology |
Study of handwriting | Graphology |
Study of election trends in voting | Psephology |
A scientific study of the relationship between plants and their environment | Ecology |
Study of human populations | Demography |
Study of birds | Ornithology |
study of the teeth | Odontology |
Study of insects | Entomology |
Study of celestial bodies | Astronomy |
The study of the evolution of mankind | Anthropology |
The study of the nature of beauty | Aesthetics |
Study of ancient things like old fossils tombs, buried towns | Archaeology |
The study of the disease. | Pathology |
The study of Human Mind | Psychology |
The study of mental disease. | Psychopathology |
Science of crimes and criminals | Criminology |
Study of ocean and ocean phenomena | Oceanology |
A very expensive and elaborately built tomb | Mausoleum |
A place where coins and medals are made | Mint |
A piece of a living tissue or plant that is transplanted surgically | Graft |
Plants of a particular region | Flora |
Rearing of silk worms | sericulture |
The act of washing oneself | Ablutions |
A speech made without preparation | Extempore |
A loud appeal or demand | Clamour |
The date when both, day and night are of approximately equal length | Equinox |
A group of stars having a particular shape | Constellation |
One who has the ability to do many different things | Versatile |
One who mediates in a deal or complex situation | Negotiator |
One who does something not professionally but for pleasure | Amateur |
A person having significant experience in an occupation | Veteran |
Feeling or showing extreme tiredness | Weary |
Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen | Ominous |
A person in love with himself | Narcissist |
A shortened version of a larger work | Abridgement |
Adjust or make right; correct, amend | Rectify |
Having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth | Vain |
Sharp and direct | Acerbic |
An excessively intense desire for returning to past or lost conditions | Nostalgia |