English Words: -

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-ifysuffix

Forms transitive verbs meaning "to make" from adjectives and nouns.

-ignsuffix

Deliberate misspelling of -ing.

-ilidesuffix

A sematilide derivative used as a Class III antiarrhythmic.

-illiardsuffix

Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of large numbers as 10⁶ⁿ⁺³.

-illionsuffix

Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million.

-ilysuffix

Forms adverbs from nouns and verbs whose derived adjectives are suffixed with -y.

-imalsuffix

Used to form names of numerical bases (radixes).

-imibesuffix

Used to form names of acyl CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase inhibitors used as antihyperlipidemics.

-imundosuffix

nonsense suffix added to adjectives to give emphasis.

-in-waitingsuffix

Depending on the expected arrival of a result, confirmation, etc.

-inasuffix

Alternative form of -ine (forming feminine nouns).

-inatorsuffix

A person or thing that does (something).

-indasuffix

A component of some female given names.

-inesuffix

Of or pertaining to.

-ingsuffix

Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.

-inosuffix

The fermionic supersymmetric partner of a boson (a bosino), symbolized by a tilde over the nonsupersymmetric particle symbol.

-iod-interfix

Alternative form of io-.

-ioidprefix

Used to form an adjective meaning "resembling" from nouns ending in -ium/-ia.

-iotsuffix

Of or relating to an island or peninsula in Greece or the Hellenic sphere.

-ioursuffix

Suffix added to verbs to form nouns.

-ioussuffix

Alternative spelling of -ous.

-irudinsuffix

Used to form names of hirudin derivatives.

-isationsuffix

British standard spelling of -ization.

-isesuffix

Alternative form of -ize used in certain words; see the usage notes.

-isersuffix

Alternative form of -izer.

-isessuffix

third-person singular simple present indicative of -ise

-ishsuffix

Typical of, similar to, being like.

-ismsuffix

Used to form nouns of action, process, or result based on the accompanying verb ending in -ise or -ize.

-ismussuffix

Alternative form of -ism.

-istsuffix

Added to words to form nouns denoting:

-istasuffix

Forms nouns denoting one who follows a principle; an adept.

-isticsuffix

Used to form adjectives from nouns or from other adjectives, with the meaning "of or pertaining to" the preceding component.

-isticalsuffix

Used to form adjectives meaning of or relating to corresponding nouns ending in -istic or -ist; most often redundant with respect to the latter which can also become adjectives through the addition of -ic alone, or with no change to the root noun. Hence, theist, theistic and theistical can all be used as the adjective form of theism.

-isticallysuffix

Used to form adverbs describing action in the manner of the root adjective; use is identical irrespective of whether the root adjective ends with -istic or -istical.

-isticssuffix

Synonym of -logy (“branch of learning; a study of a particular subject”).

-isyprefix

Used to form nouns denoting condition, action, or process.

-itansuffix

Forming adjectives, typically from a place ending in -polis.

-itatesuffix

Forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.

-itesuffix

Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.

-itessuffix

plural of -ite

-itidessuffix

plural of -itis

-itionsuffix

Alternative form of -tion (with interfix -i-)

-itioussuffix

Forms adjectives denoting "pertaining to, characterized by, having the nature of, resembling, tending to."

-itissuffix

Denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection.

-itolsuffix

Forming the names of polyhydric alcohols (sugar alcohols).

-itudesuffix

Used to forms nouns of state, condition or quality.

-itysuffix

Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.

-iumsuffix

Used to form the names of metal elements, after the style of early-named elements, as well as the isotopes of hydrogen.

-ivesuffix

An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to, or serving to; as: affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

-izationsuffix

Forms nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing/making what is denoted by the noun/adjective.

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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 7. 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.

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