Dictionary
Found: 111,717 words.
A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.
A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.
-gen
2 defs
A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.
A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.
A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.
-gies
2 defs
of Lethargy
of Archipelago
of Archipelago
A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.
A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
A variant of -hood.
A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the...
of Pathopoela
See -able.
-ic
2 defs
A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc.
-ical
2 defs
Alt. of ical
A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.
A suffix used to denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycoli...
-ies
4 defs
of Boothy
A suffix. See the Note under -ine.
-ine
2 defs
A suffix, indicating that those substances of whose names it is a part are basic, and alkaloidal in their nature.
-ing
3 defs
A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing.
A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or...
See -ize.
-ish
2 defs
A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; w...
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hy...
A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensual...
-ite
3 defs
A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.
A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis.
An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.
A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.
of Pocketknife
of Interoperculum
-lae
2 defs
of Lingula
of Plumula
of Mausoleum
A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet.
-ling
2 defs
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.
Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
Alt. of -lite
A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.
A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.
-men
18 defs
of Bedesman
A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment,...
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry.