| NAUSEA | Word from the Greek for "ship" |
| TESSELLATION | Word, from the Greek for "four", thus the Latin for "cube, die, square", for the act or art of perfectly interlocking, mosaicking or tiling shapes, leaving neither spaces nor gaps (12) |
| BENTHOS | Word, from the Greek for "depths", for the assemblage of flora and fauna inhabiting the sea floor (7) |
| BIOTA | Word, from the Greek for "life" or "by way of life", for the animal and plant life, aka flora and fauna, of a given habitat, period or region (5) |
| ARISTOLOGY | An unusual word, from the Greek for "breakfast, lunch" plus "study", for the art or science of good eating and entire experience of dining (10) |
| ACHROMAT | Word, from the Greek for "without colour", for a lens engineered to minimise the rainbow- like effect of optical aberration (8) |
| EPHEMERAL | Word, from the Greek for "lasting only a day", for something fugacious, momentary, short-lived or transient, such as a bubble, cherry blossom, fashion or sunset, or, most notably, the green-drake whic |
| HYSTERIA | Word from the Greek for "suffering in the womb" |
| NECROPOLIS | Word from the Greek for "city of the dead" |
| CATACLYSM | Word from the Greek for the Genesis Flood |
| ACME | Word from the Greek for "highest point" that was adopted by Warner Bros as the name of a corporation in Looney Tunes cartoons (4) |
| POLYGLOT | Word, from the Greek for "many-tongued", for a multilinguist; or, a book written in many languages (8) |
| CRATON | Word, from the Greek for "strength", for an inherently stable ancient part of Earth's continental lithosphere (6) |
| MICROBE | Word from the Greek for "little life" |
| ATOM | Word from the Greek for "uncuttable," ironically |
| EPITOME | Word from the Greek for "abridgment" |
| THERAPY | Word from the Greek for "healing" |
| ECSTASY | Word from the Greek for "trance" |
| AROMA | Word from the Greek for "spice" |
| IRONY | Word from the Greek for "feigned ignorance" |
