Medical

Prefix

a(n)-

ab-

acr(o)-

ad-

aden(o)-

aer(o)-

agr(o)-

alt-

alter-

am-

an(a)-

andr-

anem-

Anglo-

ante-

anthropo-

ant(i)-

aut(o)-

bar(o)-

bathy-

be-

ben-

bi-

bi(o)-

bibli(o)-

blast(o)-

brady-

brom(o)-

bronch(o)-

cac(o)-

cad/cas-

cardi(o)-

cent-, centi-

cephal(o)-

chrom(ato)-

chron(o)-

circum-

co-

colpo-

con-

contr-

cosm(o)-

counter-

crin(o)-

cryo-

crypt(o)-

cyt(o)-

culp-

dactyl(o)-

de-

dec(a)-, dek(a)-

deci-

dem(o)-

derm(at)-

di-

dia-

didact(o)-

dis-

dok,dox(o)-

dynam(o)-

dys-

eco-

ecto-

edaph(o)-

electr(o)-

embry(o)-

end(o)-, ent(o)-

enne(a)-

enter(o)-

eo-

ep(i)-, eph-

erg(o)-

erythr(o)-

erot(o)-

ethno-

eu-

Euro-

ex-

exo-

extra-

flor-

fore-

gyn-

hemi-

hemo-

hex(a)-

hydro-

hyper-

hyp(o)-

in-

in-1

inter-

intra-

kilo-

Litho-

Luso-

Mac- or Mc-

macro-

mal-

maxi-

Mc-

mega(l)-

meso-

meta-

micro-

mid-

milli-

mini-

mis-

mon(o)-

multi-

myco-

myri(a)-

non-

non-

O'-

oct(o)-,oct(a)-

omni-

oo- ("oo-oh")

out-

over-

pent(a)-

peri(o)-

phyto-

post-

pre-

pro-

psycho-

pyro-

quadr-, quart-

quinque-

quint(i)-

re-

rect(i)-

retro-

scler(o)-

semi-

sept(a)-

sex(i)-

Sino-

spasm(o)-

sperm-

spher(o)-

sphygm(o)-

splen(o)-

splanchn(o)-

schiz(o)-, schist(o)-

staphyl(o)-

stom(ato)-

styl-

sub-

super-

syn-

tach(y)-

tel(e)-

tel(o)-

theo-

trans-

tri-

twi-

ultra-

un1-

under-

uni-

up-

ur-

ur(o)-

vita-

with-

zoo- ("zoo-oh")









Suffix

able

-ad

-age

-agogy

-arch

-archy

-athlon

-cede, -ceed

-cele, -coele, -coel

-cele

-centesis

-cephalic

-chondrion

-cide

-city

-clude

-cracy

-cy

-cycle

-dom

-duce

-duct

-ectasia, -ectasis

-ectomy

-eme

-emia

-enchyma

-er

-er

-ergy

-esque

-ess

-esthesis, -esthesia

-fugal fuge

-ful

-fusion

-gate

-gnosis

-gon

-gress

-gry

-hedron

-holic

-hood

-ible

-ic

-ics

-icle

-id

–fy, –ify

-illion

-ish sort of;

-ism

-ist

-itis

-itude

-ity

-ium

-ive

-ize or -ise

-izzle

-ject

-join

-kinesis

-less

-let

-ly





-man

-mancy

-mania

-meter or -metre

-metry

-mit

-morphism

-ography or -ogram

-oid r

-ologist

-ology

-ome

-omics

-onomy

-onym

-osis

-ous

-pend

-phagy, -phagia

-philia

-phobia

-phone

-phyte



-place

-plete

#NAME?

-port

-pose

-potent (or -potence)

-pound

-press, -print

-proach

-science

-scope

-script

-semble

-sert

-ship circle

-side

-sist

-stan

-ster

-struct

-tail

-tain

-test

-th

-tom/-tome

-tory

-tropism

-us

-ville

-vious

-volve

-voke

-vore / -vorous

-ward/-wards

-ware

-where

-wise

-y

Meaning

not, without

away

high, up, hill

near, at

gland

air

relating to farming

high

another

love

out of

man

wind

English or British

before

relating to human beings

against

self

heaviness, heavy

deep

completely, excessively; forms transitive verbs

well

two

life

relating to books

bud, germination

slow

stench

relating to breathing

bad

a fall

heart

hundred or hundredth

head

colour

time

around

together

vagina

with, together

against, opposite



against, opposite

cry(shed tears)

frost, icy cold

hidden

cell (originally hollow receptacle)

fault

finger, digit

taking something away, the opposite

ten

one tenth

people

skin

two, double

through

apt at teaching

apart, separation, reverse, opposite

view, teaching

power, force

bad, deformed, abnormal

house

outer, external

soil

relating to Electricity

embryo

inside

nine

intestine

earliest, most

upon, above, around

work, labour

red

love

race, people

good

European

former

outside

outside, beyond, additional

relating to flowers

before, in advance

female

half

blood

six

water

excessive2, having more than three spatial dimensions (mathematics)

below2

intensively

not

between, mutual

within

thousand

Rock

Portuguese

son of (often used in last names)

large

bad

many ,most

McDonalds-like,

million, very large

middle

after, beyond

one millionth, very small

in the middle of

thousandth

small

bad, wrong

one, single

many

relating to fungi

Ten thousand

not

nine

(son) of (often used in last names)

eight

all

egg, ovum

more, to a greater degree

more than normal, too much

five

around, about, enclosing, near

relating to plants

after

before

for, in favour of

mind,mental

fire, flame

four

five

fifth, five

again, repeatedly

proper, straight

backward

hard

half, partial

seven

six

Chinese

spasm

seed

sphere, ball

pulsation

spleen

viscera

split

cluster, uvula

mouth

pillar

below, less than, under,2

extremely, more than,2

together, united, at the same time

rapid, accelerated

distance, distant

end

god

across, beyond

three

two

extremely, beyond

not, opposite, take

below, incompletely

one, single

higher

first, original

urine uric,

life

together, united

relating to animals









Meaning

capable, can do

group

forming a noun

leading

ruler, leader

rule, leadership

sporting event

go

body cavity

tumor, hernia

puncturing

relating to the head

small grainlike structure

murder, killing agent

practice



rule (in the context of rule by a king, rule by the people, etc.)

expressing the quality of an adjective

circle, cycle, unit of radio frequency

state or condition of

bring, lead

into

stretching out

surgical removal

linguistic unit

blood condition

cellular tissue

changes verb to noun (see also -or)

male

work

in the style of

female

sensation, feeling

driving or travelling away from, expelling

full of, having some or much

pour together

a scandal, often political (back-formed from the Watergate scandal)

knowing

geometric shape

to walk, entrance

adjective form of only 2 or 3 nouns in the English language

geometric solid

love, addiction

state/condition of, a group sharing characteristics

like -able, for Latin origins

(adjective)

Technology

originally referring to a spike-like formation

skin rash

to become, make

large numbers

approximately

doctrine, act, practice, condition

person

disease, inflammation



expressing state or condition

metallic element (exception: helium)

make the noun an adjective

to cause, to be, to become

used for hip hop slang

throw (in, out, etc)

join

movement (ability thereof)

lack of

diminutive, or denoting a relation to some part of the body

like, having the attributes of; In modern English, primarily changes adjectives to adverbs;

also changes some nouns to adjectives and some (past-tense) verbs to adverbs



person

divination by

an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

measuring device

measure

send

form

writing, description

esembling

one who studies a scientific subject

study, science

biological entity

area of biology

knowledge of

name, word

process, action, formation, diseased condition

quality from nature, chemical element

to hang

eating

attraction

fear

sound, audio; speaker of a language

plant, used in botany to create terms which categorise plants based on their life-history,

growth-form or ecological preferences

place

to fill

referring to city or big area

to move or to carry

put

power

put

impress, repress, imprint, reprint

near

knowing

from Greek skopos, view; instrument for viewing and observing spaces

written

same, similar

join

state of being

side

stop, stand

land, country

people

pile, build

to cut

to hold

witness

ordinal number, forming a noun

part or segment



to turn

inflammation

city, town from French



roll

to call

to devour

direction

software, stuff

location

direction

having the quality of, inclined to

Examples

atonality, asexuality, amoral, anarchy, anonymous

abduction, absolutism, ablution

Acropolis, acrobatics

adrenal

adenectomy

aeronautics, aerodrome, aeroplane, aerodynamics

agriculture

altitude

Alter-ego, alternate

amorous, amateur

anachronism

androgyny, androcentrism, android, androgen

anemometer

Anglo-Irish relations

antebellum

anthropology, anthropocentrism, anthropomorphic

antidote, antibody, anticlockwise

autonomy, autobiography, automobile, autopilot

barometer

Bathyscaphe, Bathysphere

bemuse, bespeak, bewail

Benediction, benign

bicycle, bijection, bicameralism

biology, biography, biopsy

Bibliophilia, bibliography

blastocyst

Bradycardia

Bromine, bromide

bronchitis

Cacophony, cacography

cadence, cascade

Cardiovascular, Cardiac arrest

Centenarian, centimeter, centipede

Cephalothorax

chromatic, chromosome

Chronology, chronic, chronicle

Circumcision, circumlocution, circumference

Cooperative, co-belligerence

Colpospasm

Connotation, Congress, congregation

Contradiction, contraception, controversy

cosmology, cosmopolitan, cosmotheism

counterpoint, Counter-Reformation

Endocrinology

cryogenics, cryoelectronics, cryostorage

cryptography, cryptozoology

cytoplasm, cytology

culpable, culprit

dactylogram

Decentralization, dehydration, Denazification

decamerous, December, decimeter

deciliter

demographics, democracy

dermatology, dermatitis

diurnal

diameter, diagnosis, diarrhea

didactic

dissent, discovery, disambiguation

doxology, dogma, orthodox

dynamic, dynamite, dynamo

dyspepsia, dystrophy, dysarthria

economy, ecology, ecosystem, ecotage

ectomorphic, ectoparasite

edaphic

electrocution, electroencephalogram

embryogenesis

endoscope, endothermic, entoblast

enneastyle, enneagram

enteritis

primitive eobacterium, eohippus

epitaxy, epicenter, ephemeral

ergonomics synergy, energy

erythrocite

erotic, erotomania

ethnology, ethnolinguistics, ethnocentrism

eulogy, euthanasia, eugenics, euphemism

Euro-MP, Eurocentric

ex-wife, ex-president

exoskeleton

extra-thin, extra-special extraordinary, extraterrestrial

florist

foreskin, foreshadowing

gynaecology, gynoid

hemimetabolous, hemisphere

hemophilia, hemophobia

hexapod, hexagonal, hexameter

hydrogen, hydry

hyperactive, hyperthyroidism

hypodermic, hypnosis

inflammable, invaluable

infallibility, illiteracy, immoral, irrelevant

intervention, international, internet

intramural, intravenous, intraocular

kilogram, kilowatt

lithosphere

lusophone

McCarthy, Kirsty MacColl

macrobiology, macroscopic

malpractice, malnutrition

maximal, maximum

often derogatory McJob, McPaper

Megabyte, megaphone, megalopolis

Mesoamerica, mesoscale

Metacarpal, metaphysics

microgram, microorganism, micronation

mid-term elections, Mid-Autumn Festival

milligram, milliliter

miniskirt, miniseries

miscarriage, misanthropy, misogyny, mistake

monolith, monorail, monotony, monocle

multiculturalism, multilingual

mycology, mycoprotein

myriagon, myriad

nonsense, non-denial denial

nonagon

O'Brian

octane, octopod, octagon, October

omnidirectional, omnivore, omnipotent

oocyte

outdo, outrun

overpopulation, over-consumption

pentagon

perimysium, pericardium, periosteum, perinatal

phytogeography, phytoplankton

postpartum depression, postmodernism

prediction, preview, precedent, prenatal care

pro-choice, protagonist

psychology, psychosomatic

pyromania

quadrangle, quadruplet, quartic, quartile

quinquesection,

quintiped, quintet

reduction, reflection, revolution

rectify, rectangle

retrograde, retrospective

scleroderma, atherosclerosis

semi-automatic, semi-detached

heptachord, September

sexivalent

Sino-American relations

spasmatic, spasmolysis

spermophile, spermine

spherical, atmosphere

sphygmomanometer, sphygmograph

splenomegaly

splanchnopathy

schizophrenia, schistocyte

staphylococcus, staphyloplasty

stomatitis, stomach

stylus, stylist, stylopodium

subset, subsonic, subway, subtitles

superhuman, Superego, supersonic

synergy, synchronicity, synesthesia

tachycardia, tachymeter, tachyon

telecommunications, television, telephoto lens, telodynamic

teloblast, telophase

theology, theogony

transfer, transubstantiation, transatlantic, Trans-Siberian railway

triangle, tricolor, triptych

twilight, twig, twin

certain limit ultramontanism, ultraviolet

something away unconstitutional, undelete

underestimate, underage, undercook

uniform, unification

upscale, update, upgrade, upheld

urtext

urinal

vitamin, vital

withhold, withstand

zoomorphic, zoology









Examples

usable, notable

triad, monad

marriage, mileage

pedagogy, demagogy

monarch, tetrarch

gynarchy, anarchy

pentathlon, decathlon

concede, succeed

mucocoel or mucocoele

hydatidocele

amniocentesis, rachicentesis

anencephaly, macrocephaly

mitochondrion

suicide, vespacide, regicide

atrocity

include, exclude, preclude

kakistocracy, democracy, androcracy

peccancy, agency, idiocy

epicycle, hydrocycle

freedom, kingdom

introduce, reduce, induce

induct, conduct

brochiectasis, telangiectasia

laryngectomy, vasectomy

lexeme, phoneme, morpheme

leukemia, anaemia

mesenchyma, karyenchyma

write, writer

widower

energy, synergy

Pythonesque, Romanesque

actress, waitress, stewardess, priestess

synesthesia, kinesthesis

centrifugal

hopeful, useful

transfusion, confusion, infusion

Watergate, nipplegate

prognosis, diagnosis

polygon, pentagon

digress, transgress, ingress

anger, hunger

icosahedron, tetrahedron

alcoholic

brotherhood

incredible, terrible, visible

neurotic

Physics,Aerodynamics,Forensics

icicle, popsicle

syphilid

basify, vilify

million, billion

greenish, tallish

Protestantism, alcoholism, Buddhism, southernism

dentist

hepatitis, gingivitis

attitude, certitude

normality, formality, banality

sodium, Calcium

defensive, aggressive

materialize, idolize

Americizzle

inject, reject, eject

disjoin, rejoin

telekinesis

homeless, useless

ringlet, hamlet, anklet

quick(adj) ?quickly(adv), state(n) ? stately(adj), abashed(v) ? abashedly(adv)





fireman, stateman

crystallomancy, bibliomancy, necromancy

kleptomania, megalomania, mythomania

barometer, thermometer

symmetry, geometry, isometry

commit, emit, limit

isomorphism, homomorphism

stenography, geography, ideogram

solenoid, hominoid

archaeologist

planetology, thyroidology, phthisiology

genome

proteomics

astronomy

antonym, consonym, heteronym

mitosis, osmosis, ostosis, psychosis

porous

impend, append, depend

monophagy

hemophilia

acrophobia, mysophobia

telephone, homophone; Anglophone

therophyte, halophyte



replace, displace

complete, deplete

Metropolis

import, export

propose, impose, depose

omnipotent, equipotent, impotence

impound, compound, expound, propound



approach, reproach

omniscience

microscope, telescope

manuscript, transcript

resemble, ensemble, assemble

assert, insert

friendship, relationship, dictatorship

aside, besides, inside

insist, resist, desist, persist, assist

Afghanistan

youngster, gangster

construct, destruct, obstruct

detail, retail

retain, obtain, detain

detest, attest, protest

tenth, millionth, growth

dermatome

history, repository

phototropism

ulcus (ulcer)

Nashville

obvious, envious

involve, revolve, evolve

invoke, revoke

carnivore, herbivore

southward, inward, outward

hardware, software, freeware

everywhere, nowhere, anywhere, somewhere

clockwise

runny, messy