| -enoic | <suffix> Suffix indicating an unsaturated acid. Origin: -ene + -ic (05 Mar 2000) |
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| -esis | Condition, action, or process. Origin: G. -esis, condition or process (05 Mar 2000) |
| -fugal | Movement away from the part indicated by the main portion of the word. Origin: L. Fugio, to flee (05 Mar 2000) |
| -fuge | Flight, denoting the place from which flight takes place or that which is put to flight. Origin: L. Fuga a running away (05 Mar 2000) |
| -genic | Producing, forming; produced, formed by. Origin: G. Genos, birth (05 Mar 2000) |
| -genin | <suffix> Suffix used to denote the basic steroid unit of the toxic substance, usually a steroid glycoside (e.g., the aglycon portion). (05 Mar 2000) |
| -graphy | <suffix> A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography. Origin: Gr, fr. Write. (29 Oct 1998) |
| -ia | Condition, used in formation of names of many diseases. Compare: -ism. Origin: G. -ia, an ancient noun-forming suffix (05 Mar 2000) |
| -iasis | A condition or state, especially an unhealthy one; in medical neologisms it has the same value as, and is sometimes interchangeable with, G. -osis. Origin: G. Suffix forming nouns from verbs (05 Mar 2000) |
| -iatrics | Suffix meaning healing. From the Greek iatros meaning healer or physician. Paediatrics is the healing of children. And geriatrics is the healing (or at least the treatment) of disorders characteristic of the aged. (12 Dec 1998) |
| -iatry | Suffix meaning medical treatment. From the Greek iatreia meaning healing, which came from iatros meaning treatment (or physician). Psychiatry is literally the medical treatment of the psyche. (12 Dec 1998) |
| -ic | 1. <suffix> A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc. 2. <chemistry> A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its highest valence, or with a valence relatively higher than in compounds where the name of the element ends in -ous; as, ferric, sulphuric. It is also used in the general sense of pertaining to; as, hydric, sodic, calcic. Origin: L. -icus, Gr., cf. F. -ique. (29 Oct 1998) |
| -ics | <suffix> A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc, as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics. The names sciences ending in ics, as mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc, are, with respect to their form, nouns in the plural number. The plural form was probably introduced to mark the complex nature of such sciences; and it may have been in imitation of the use of the Greek plurals, etc, to designate parts of Aristotle's writings. Previously to the present century, nouns ending in ics were construed with a verb or a pronoun in the plural; but it is now generally considered preferable to treat them as singular. In Greman we have die Mathematik, die Mechanik, etc, and in French la metaphysique, la optique, etc, corresponding to our mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc. "Mathematics have for their object the consideration of whatever is capable of being numbered or measured." (John Davidson) The citations subjoined will serve as examples of the best present usage. "Ethics is the sciences of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents." (Sir W. Hamilton) "All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it." (De Quincey) "Mechanics, like pure mathematics, may be geometrical, or may be analytical; that is, it may treat space either by a direct consideration of its properties, or by a symbolical representation." (Whewell) (29 Oct 1998) |
| -ide | <chemistry, suffix> A suffix used to denote: The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc. (29 Oct 1998) |
| -imine | <suffix> Suffix denoting the group ==NH. (05 Mar 2000) |
| -form |
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" kind: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" shape: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes" human body: alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" shape: the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" phase: (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system" a printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form" (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form" create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company" a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" class: a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" shape: give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character" an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night" shape: make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" imprint: establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children" mannequin: a life-size dummy used to display clothes a mold for setting concrete; "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation" assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads"
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| -otic |
of or relating to near the ear
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| -trophic |
of or relating to nutrition; "a trophic level on the food chain"
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| -trophy |
an award for success in war or hunting something given as a token of victory
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tropical: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics tropical: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"
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