crypto-, crypt-
(Greek: hidden, secret)
cryptodynamic
Relating to hidden force.
cryptofauna
The fauna of protected or concealed microhabitats.
cryptogam
A lower plant, lacking conspicuous reproductive structures such as flowers or cones or a plant that does not have apparent reproductive organs.
cryptogamia, cryptogamy
A large division of the vegetable kingdom, being the last class in the Linnean Sexual system, and comprising those plants that have no stamens or pistils, and therefore no proper flowers; including ferns, mosses, algae, lichens, liverworts, horsetails, club mosses, and fungi.
cryptogamist
One who is proficient in cryptogamic botany, i.e., the study of plants, such as ferns and mosses, that have no true flowers or seeds.
cryptogenic, cryptogene
Of unknown, indeterminate, or obscure cause or origin.
cryptogram, cryptogramic, cryptogrammatic
A piece of cryptographic (secret) writing; anything written in cipher, or in such a form or order that a key is required in order to know how to understand and put the letters together.
cryptogram, cryptograph
1. A message or writing in code or cipher.
2. A machine for writing or deciphering encoded messages.
cryptographer, cryptographist
Someone who specializes in the science or study of secret writing.
cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptographal
1. A reference to the science or study of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems.
2. Characterized by the procedures and methods of making and using secret languages; such as, codes or ciphers.
cryptography, cryptology
1. The science or study of secret writing, especially codes and ciphers.
2. The procedures and methods of making and using codes and ciphers.
3. The procedures and methods of making and using secret languages; such as, codes or ciphers.
A spy is deciphering a coded message.
cryptoinfection
A nonapparent, latent, or hidden infection.
cryptolalic
A reference to a form of secret speech.
cryptolinguism
The special language of the analysis of codes and coding methods and the composition of coded or secret messages.
cryptolinguist
1. Someone who specializes the language of writing, transcribing,, or decoding secret messages.
2. A specialist in the language of secret codes and their analysis or interpretations.
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "secret, hidden, confidential, concealed":
ceal-;
clandesti-;
myster-;
occult-;
orgy;
stego-, stegano-.
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