अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी 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.

of Pocketknife

of Interoperculum

of Lingula

of Pseudostella

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.

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.