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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. -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....
3. anarcho-, comb. form View full entry 1907
...Prefixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘anarchist (or anarchistic) (and) ——’....
4. -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....
5. -erati, comb. form View full entry 1990
...Forming nouns (often humorous nonce-words) designating elite or prominent groups of people who are associated with what is specified by the stem word....
6. heredito-, comb. form View full entry 1859
...Forming adjectives chiefly relating to diseases or disorders with the sense ‘both hereditary and ——’....
7. -opolis, comb. form View full entry 1898
...Forming names or nicknames of cities or towns, in which the first element of the noun represents a major export, trade, etc., for which the city or town has become well known...
8. -reeler, comb. form View full entry 1913
...Following a numeral: forming compounds denoting films consisting of a specified number of reels. See reel7....
9. scientifico-, comb. form View full entry 1882
...used as comb. form of scientific, in hyphened nonce-formations with adjs., expressing the sense ‘scientific and (something else)’....
10. swagger-, comb. form View full entry 1887
...the verb swagger used in comb....
11. uranoso-, comb. form View full entry 1845
...Forming adjectives designating compounds that contain uranium in a lower valency together with another metal (or itself in a higher valency) or cation, as uranoso-ammonic,uranoso-potassic, uranoso-uranic,...
