English Words: -
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A suffix combined with a noun to create a word for a person with an intense and/or unhealthy fixation on the referent of the noun.
Blood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.
Used to form names of compounds with the structure Ar–CH(OH)CH₂NH–R used as combined alpha and beta blockers.
Added to an adjective or verb to form a noun indicating a state or condition, such as result or capacity, associated with the verb.
Added to verbs and adjectives to form nouns conveying a condition or quality associated with the verb.
Variant of -an, usually with differentiation (germane, humane, urbane), but sometimes alone (mundane).
Used to form an adjective meaing "of or pertaining to" from a noun ending in -aneus and -aneum.
Used to form an abstract noun from an adjective, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.
Chemical suffix denoting a substance (usually an alkaloid or amine) derived from a particular base, often a plant or amino acid.
Alternative form of -a-palooza (“forms the name of a promotional event such as a presentation”).
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter - contains 703 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 15 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "-" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.