अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश
अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश
द प्रोजेक्ट गुटेनबर्ग का ऑनलाइन अंग्रेजी-अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश
शब्दकोश
A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French
origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.
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.
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.
A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its
characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from
its use in writing.
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 to denote the salts formed from those acids whose
names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous
acid, etc.
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.
-knives
(pl. )
of Pocketknife
-la
(pl. )
of Interoperculum
-lae
(pl. )
of Lingula
-lae
(pl. )
of Pseudostella
-las
(pl. )
of Plumula
-lea
(pl. )
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.
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory
force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling,
underling.
An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.
Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in
naming minerals and rocks.