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| -head | (SUFFIX.) | A variant of -hood. | | | -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 form -head. | | | -ias | (PL. ) | of Pathopoela | | | -ible | () | See -able. | | | -ic | () | A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc. | | | -ic | () | 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 s | | | -ical | (A.) | See Stratographic. | | | -ical | (A.) | Alt. of ical | | | -ics | () | A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics. | | | -ide | () | 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, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, gluc | | |
| -ies | (PL. ) | of Seigniory | | | -ies | (PL. ) | of Smithery | | | -ies | (PL. ) | of Phalanstery | | | -ies | (PL. ) | of Boothy | | | -in | () | A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc. | | | -in | () | A hypothetical compound, C2H2N4 which may be regarded as benzene with four CH groups replaced by nitrogen atoms; also, any of various derivatives of the same. There are three isomeric varieties. | | | -in | () | A suffix. See the Note under -ine. | | | -ine | () | A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction. | | | -ine | () | A suffix, indicating that those substances of whose names it is a part are basic, and alkaloidal in their nature. | | | -ine | () | A suffix, used to indicate hydrocarbons of the second degree of unsaturation; i. e., members of the acetyline series; as, hexine, heptine, etc. | | |
| -ing | () | A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing. | | | -ing | () | A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing. | | | -ing | () | A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing. | | | -ion | () | 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 process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled ov | | | -ise | () | See -ize. | | | -ish | () | 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; whitish, somewhat white. | | | -ish | () | A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish. | | | -ism | () | 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, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism. | | | -ist | () | 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 sensuality. | | | -ite | () | 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. | | |
| -ite | () | A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing. | | | -ite | () | A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, etc. | | | -itis | () | A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis. | | | -ive | () | An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive. | | | -ize | () | A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize. | | | -ized | (IMP. & P. P.) | of Listerize | | | -ized | (IMP. & P. P.) | of Margaryize | | | -ized | (IMP. & P. P.) | of Mercerize | | | -ized | (IMP. & P. P.) | of Parchmentize | | | -ized | (IMP. & P. P.) | of Suberize | | |
| -ized | (IMP. & P. P.) | of Tubercularize | | | -izing | (P. PR. & VB. N.) | of Listerize | | | -izing | (P. PR. & VB. N.) | of Margaryize | | | -izing | (P. PR. & VB. N.) | of Mercerize | | | -izing | (P. PR. & VB. N.) | of Parchmentize | | | -izing | (P. PR. & VB. N.) | of Suberize | | | -kies | (PL. ) | of Husky | | | -knives | (PL. ) | of Pocketknife | | | -l/ | (PL. ) | of Amygdala | | | -la | (PL. ) | of Peplum | | Pages for '': 101 ~ 150
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