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1. -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....
2. aeolo-, comb. form View full entry 1830
...Forming the names of (obsolete) musical instruments in which reeds are made to vibrate by air, as aeolodicon, aeolodion, aeolomelodicon, aeolophon, etc....
3. aero-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...With reference to air or the air....
4. 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...
5. 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...
6. aqua-, comb. form View full entry 1887
...Latin aqua ‘water’ used as a combining form or quasi-, esp. in expressions referring to aquatic entertainment; aquacadeˈækwəkeɪd-cadeU.S....
7. astro-, comb. form View full entry 1652
...Forming terms relating to stars, other celestial objects, or outer space....
8. auto-, comb. form1 View full entry c1833
...Forming chiefly scientific terms relating to chemical, biological, or organic processes, with the sense ‘originating within or acting on the body or organism in question; self-produced; self-induced’;human activity or behaviour,...
9. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
10. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
11. brachy-, comb. form View full entry 1821
...comb. form of Greek βραχύς short....
12. break-, comb. form View full entry c1300
...With verb + object....
13. by-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...A Middle English variant spelling of the prefix bi-, be-, under which see most of the words, as, under be-, bycause, bydene,...
14. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
15. chill-, comb. form View full entry 1567
...completely chilled, thoroughly cold; also as , chill coldness....
16. chiro- | chir-, comb. form View full entry 1644
...= Greek χειρο- combining form of χείρ hand, appearing in Greek in a very large number of words; several of these were adopted in Latin with the spelling...
17. choke-, comb. form View full entry 1556
...in attributive relation to a n. = ‘choking, that chokes’....
18. chromo-, comb. form View full entry 1845
...Chem. Combining form of chromium, as in chromo-carbon, chromo-chloride, chromo-cyanotype, chromo-glucose, etc....
19. chryso-, comb. form View full entry 1612
...In general combinations and derivatives....
20. cine-, comb. form View full entry 1897
...In comb....
