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1. ab-, comb. form View full entry 1904
...Prefixed to the names of units (esp. of electrical and magnetic quantities) in the practical system to form the names of the corresponding units in the centimetre-gram-second electromagnetic system, as abampere...
2. acousto-, comb. form View full entry 1928
...Forming words (chiefly in scientific and technical contexts) relating to sound waves or acoustics....
3. -adelic, comb. form View full entry 1967
...Forming adjectives designating something which embodies in a psychedelic way that which is denoted or implied by the first element....
4. adreno-, comb. form View full entry 1909
...Forming terms relating to the adrenal gland or adrenaline (epinephrine)....
5. agglutino-, comb. form View full entry 1900
...Forming terms relating to agglutination (agglutination7)....
6. agit-, comb. form View full entry 1978
...Prefixed to the name of a style of popular music to denote music or musicians expressing radical or alternative political and social ideas in the genre indicated by the second element; as...
7. -alike, comb. form View full entry 1935
...With a verb, denoting someone or something that performs the action expressed by the verb in a similar or identical manner to another....
8. alterna-, comb. form View full entry 1992
...Forming compounds denoting a form or genre of popular music considered unorthodox or outside of the mainstream, as alterna-funk, alterna-metal, alterna-pop, etc. Cf. alternative music...
9. Amer-, comb. form View full entry 1926
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing (esp. a people or language) of American origin or subject to American influence. See also Amerasian, Amerenglish...
10. anarcho-, comb. form View full entry 1907
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘anarchist (or anarchistic) (and) ——’....
11. apico-, comb. form View full entry 1926
...comb. form of apical, as in apico-basal, apico-dental, apico-palatal adjs., apico-alveolar adj. and n....
12. -ati, comb. form View full entry 1985
...Forming nouns (often humorous nonce-words) designating elite or prominent groups of people who are associated with what is specified by the stem word, as glamourati, soccerati, etc....
13. atto-, comb. form View full entry 1961
...Prefixed to the name of a unit of measurement to denote a factor of 10−18, as attomole, atto-second, etc. Symbol a....
14. audio-, comb. form View full entry 1922
...Forming words relating to sound or hearing....
15. -babble, comb. form View full entry 1982
...Used as the second element in compounds denoting various types of confusing or pretentious jargon, esp. that characteristic of a specified field or group. See also eco-babbleeco-4, ...
16. bacterio-, comb. form View full entry 1920
...Forming terms (chiefly ns. and adjs.) to do with bacteria, as bacteriocidal, bacteriophage, bacteriorhodopsin...
17. bis-, comb. form1 View full entry 1931
...The prec. adv. used in late Latin, French, Italian, before s, c, or a vowel, in place of bi-; hence occas. in English, as in ...
18. -bot, comb. form View full entry 1966
...Forming nouns (sometimes nonce-formations) denoting a type of robot or automated device. Also in extended use, referring to a person regarded as an automaton. Cf. bot1....
19. Brit-, comb. form View full entry 1977
...Prefixed to nouns (freq. forming nonce-words) to denote things which are British in origin; British-made, British-based. In later use: spec. designating music, art, design, etc., created by (young) British people...
20. cami-, comb. form View full entry 1908
...abbreviated form of camisole2b, used in Comb., as cami-bocker(knicker)bockercami-knickersalso cami-knickscami-petticoat, etc....
