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-ably
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
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-ana
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scalige…
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-ate
unknown · 78% connection
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulph…
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-gram
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
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-ics
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athl…
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-ism
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idio…
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-ite
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrou…
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-ive
unknown · 78% connection
An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective,…
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-mo
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a shee…
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-one
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.
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-ose
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix indicating that the substance to the name of which it is affixed is a member of the carbohydrate group; as in cellulose, sucr…
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-some
adjective · 78% connection
An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted i…
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Alkalamide
noun · 78% connection
One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another p…
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Alkaloid
adjective · 78% connection
Alt. of Alkaloidal
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Amine
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radic…
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Basylous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.
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Belladonna
noun · 78% connection
an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally
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Binomial
adjective · 78% connection
Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other th…
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