| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| -mas | A holiday, sacred day. |
| -'er | Variant form of -er used in words ending with an abbreviation or (sometimes) a number. |
| -bound | Moving or travelling towards. |
| -er | (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun. |
| -ate | (in adjectives) having the specified thing |
| -polises | plural of -polis |
| -ise | Alternative form of -ize used in certain words; see the usage notes. |
| -onym | name |
| -er | (added to a proper noun) Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym. |
| -ise | Suffix used in loanwords from French to form abstract nouns of quality or function. |
| -lepsy | a specified form of fit or seizure |
| -by | (in place names) habitation |
| -year-old | Suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years. |
| -therm | (biology) used to name types of animal having a specified form of body temperature mechanism |
| -saurus | Denoting something having the qualities of a dinosaur |
| -er | (obsolete no longer productive) Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns. |
| -ismus | Forming compound nouns describing a condition or system. |
| -lept | (palynology) Having pollen grains with one or more leptomata, thin edges near the pole |
| -onymy | Used to form nouns describing the the study, formation, or use of words or names |
| -ant | (nowadays sciences chiefly medicine) The agent noun derived from verb. |
| -er | Person or thing connected with. |
| -ile | (non-productive) tending to, or capable of |
| -genesis | origin |
| -eme | A suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure. |
| -er | (added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative. |
| -colous | Having a specified habitat. |
| -morphous | having a specified shape or form |
| -ium | (chemistry) Used to form the names of metal elements, after the style of early-named elements, as well as the isotopes of hydrogen. |
| -fu | (slang) Used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge |
| -statin | Used to form the names of statin drugs |
| -derm | skin or covering |
| -a | plural of -um |
| -adic | (mathematics _ computing) Having a specified adicity. |
| -er | (added to certain adverbs) More; used to form the comparative. |
| -a | (Northern England) Same as -er in Standard English. |
| -er | (added to a verb or imitative sound) Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs. |
| -exia | (pathology) Forms the names of functional diseases or of conditions such as pyrexia or cachexia. |
| -morphy | Shaped or formed as described by the first element. |
| -uret | (obsolete chemistry) -ide |
| -a | Marks singular nouns, with a foundation in Greek or Latin, often implying femininity, especially when contrasted with words terminating in -us. |
| -er | (added to a verb) Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs, especially in legal terms. |
| -gonal | Used to form adjectives describing related nouns ending in -gon. |
| -ocracy | Alternative form of -cracy Used following a consonant. |
| -lings | (now _ UK _ dialectal) forming adverbs, generally of condition or situation |
| -a | Changes an element or substance into an oxide. |
| -head | Used to create nouns indicating a state, similar to the suffix -hood. |
| -thermal | Relating to heat or temperatures. |
| -ene | (organic chemistry) An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond; an alkene. |
| -er | (added to a verb or noun) Used to form diminutives. |
| -etic | Used to form adjectives, meaning "pertaining to", derived from nouns, most of which end in -esis |
| -a | (slang) Alternative form of -'ve |
| -head | Used to form (usually derogatory) words for people who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject, activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way. |
| -ene | a single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms |
| -er | (originally _ public school slang) Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words. |
| -plinerved | (botany of leaves) Indicating that the main nerves are lateral and arise from a point distinctly above the base of the leaf. Combined with a numerical prefix: 3-plinerved, 5-plinerved, etc. |
| -kun | (anime and manga fandom) Appended to a young man's name or nickname to indicate familiarity. |
| -derma | a specified type of skin or skin disease |
| -leptic | Of or relating to a condition of seizing, as in nympholeptic. |
| -a | Marks nouns, with a foundation in Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, implying femininity. |
| -adenia | Pertaining to diseases of the glands. |
| -er | lbl en fiction Junior, child, younger person. {{rfex |
| -a | Added for metrical reasons to poetry and verse |
| -ren | (non-standard humorous) Used to form the plural of nouns. |
| -teen | Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen. |
| -a | (slang) clitic form o' |
| -a | (informal) to (infinitive marker) |
| -woman | A woman who is an expert in an area. |
| -pathy | suffering, feeling |
| -phily | liking for |
| -genous | Producing or yielding. |
| -aire | One whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency. |
| -centrism | A focus on, or belief in the superiority of, one culture, people, place, or other thing. |
| -esque | In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives. |
| -dromous | running or moving in a specified manner |
| -mentum | (politics) Used in compounds with a candidate's name to indicate that their campaign is gaining momentum. |
| -plasia | (medicine) Growth or formation |
| -bot | automatic systems, computer programs and machines |
| -onium | (physics) designating an onium particle |
| -lytic | used in adjectives relating to nouns with the suffix -lysis |
| -ways | towards, in the direction towards. |
| -omas | plural of -oma |
| -phile | Forming nouns and adjectives meaning "loving", "friendly", or "friend". |
| -tropism | (science) movement, turning. |
| -lingual | speaking or using a number of languages |
| -rix | (dated) Appended to words, chiefly verbs, to form female agent nouns. |
| -more | (Archaic) Used to form a comparative of certain adjectives and adverbs, usually ending in -er. |
| -ville | Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city. |
| -cardia | Used to describe conditions of the heart |
| -assed | (slang vulgar) Adjective intensifier. |
| -el | Suffix forming nouns, originally denoting an instrument, from verbs, usually spelt -le except after n and e. |
| -ary | of or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also. |
| -omata | plural of -oma |
| -el | Suffix, originally diminutive, in words of mostly Romance origin. |
| -centesis | (medical) Puncture and aspiration of |
| -like | Having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns). |
| -manship | Expertise, involvement, or special status in an area. |
| -lith | Alternative form of -lite |
| -yl | (organic chemistry) A univalent radical or functional group formed from a given molecule. Thus propyl from propane, benzyl from benzene, and so forth. |
| -chrome | having a specified colour |
| -ergy | work |
| -os | Used to form plurals of some Hebrew and Yiddish loanwords, usually ending in -a or -ah. |
| -angular | angular, having (specified kind or number of) angles |
| -astic | Used to form adjectives from nouns, often with the meaning meaning "of, or relating to". |
| -sexual | Forms a noun or adjective describing a state or style of sexuality |
| -oth | Used to form plurals of some Hebrew loanwords ending in -a or -ah. |
| -max | Denotes maximum dimensions of a vessel that can travel through the given canal. |
| -amundo | (slang) An intensifier. |
| -end | Forming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions. |
| -gyny | the state of having a specific number of wives |
| -ylene | (organic chemistry) used to form the names of bivalent radicals |
| -angle | (geometry of a two-dimensional shape) having the specified number of internal angles |
| -tide | Time; added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival. |
| -ish | (appended to many kinds of words) Typical or similar to. |
| -stomy | A surgical procedure forming a hole, used for access, nutrition, or waste elimination. |
| -pants | (informal usually pejorative) Used with adjectives ending in -y to form nicknames based on a negative quality of a person. |
| -ese | Used to form adjectives and nouns describing things and characteristics of a city, region, or country, such as the people and the language spoken by these people. |
| -phone | A type of sound. |
| -type | impressed form; stamp; print |
| -opia | (medicine ophthamology) vision (used to form names of visual defects) |
| -ov | 1=A romanization of the Russian possessive suffix -ов. |
| -ylidene | (organic chemistry) Forms the names of divalent radicals or groups connected through a carbon double bond |
| -chezia | (literally and figuratively forms nouns) defecation |
| -bie | Combined with a descriptor conveying a characteristic (such as skill, experience, or social position) to form words for people. |
| -ee | Added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (ie, to whom or to which an action is done). |
| -philia | liking; love (for something) |
| -bility | -ability |
| -ee | Used to form diminutives. |
| -illion | Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000. Thus we have the names billion, trillion, etc. |
| -or | Creates an agent noun, indicating a person who does something. |
| -philiac | someone with tendency towards something, or an abnormal attraction to something |
| -selves | Used in forming intensive and reflexive forms of the plural personal pronouns. |
| -ia | Used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers, and rarely collections of things (such as militaria, deletia). |
| -dynia | (medicine) pain |
| -ia | Used in forming plurals of nouns in -ium and -ion. |
| -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning of or pertaining to. |
| -phasia | Used to form the names of disorders and phenomena relating to words and speech. |
| -style | column(s); forming adjectives |
| -fag | (Internet slang) A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to form a word for a specific type of person, often with a derogatory or irreverent connotation. |
| -pnea | (physiology) breathing, respiration |
| -odont | -toothed |
| -cidal | Used to make adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -cide. |
| -philic | Synonym of -philous |
| -biosis | (biology) a specified way of living |
| -pounder | Something or someone weighing so many pounds. |
| -lock | (no longer productive) action or proceeding, practice, ritual |
| -cide | killing |
| -ica | a collection of things that relate to a specific place, person, theme, etc. |
| -geddon | Denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word. |
| -ess | Suffix appended to words to make a female form.<br />Examples: |
| -ive | An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive. |
| -wad | Added to a variety of vulgar term and insults for an obnoxious person to create new insults. |
| -nik | Creates a nickname for a person who exemplifies, endorses, or is associated with the thing or quality specified (by the base form), often a particular ideology or preference. |
| -phage | Something that eats, or consumes. |
| -ical | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning "of or pertaining to"; adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also. |
| -cocci | plural of -coccus |
| -ay | Used in the game of Pig Latin. |
| -graph | that writes |
| -aholic | Alternative form of -holic |
| -meister | An expert on the specified subject. |
| -sky | Alternative spelling of -ski |
| -furter | (chiefly American) German-style food, especially wursts or sausages. |
| -odontia | (dentistry and medicine): |
| -tome | An instrument for cutting. |
| -phyl | Alternative form of -phyll |
| -ion | (non-productive) an action or process, or the result of an action or process |
| -tome | A section or segment. |
| -kin | (now chiefly dialectal) Used to form adjectives expressing resemblance or likeness to, similar to -like. |
| -pterous | Having wings (of a specified size, type or number). |
| -wich | in placenames, village, settlement, hamlet |
| -kin | (now _ archaic) Forming diminutives of nouns. |
| -ally | Forms adverbs; usually of adjectives ending in -ic. |
| -tropy | (science) exhibiting a behavior. |
| -crasy | Lending a sense of temperament; constituent pattern. |
| -mobile | Used to form nouns meaning a particular type of vehicle, particularly one to transport the person or thing described by the word to which the suffix is attached. |
| -crat | A participant in a specified form of government. |
| -yne | (organic chemistry) An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one triple bond; an alkyne. |
| -micin | (biochemistry) Applied to aminoglycosides derived from bacteria of the genus Micromonospora. |
| -shire | a combining form used in the names of British counties. |
| -nema | (chiefly biology) Characteristic of, pertaining to, or possessing a filiform structure. |
| -ome | A mass of something. |
| -eous | Used with nouns to form adjectives with the sense of resembling to or having the characteristics of the suffixed term; similar to -ous. |
| -phagia | eating, biting or swallowing |
| -ome | (biology) The complete whole of a class of substances for a species or an individual. |
| -eous | Used to form adjectives meaning resembling or having characteristics of the related term. |
| -ial | Forms an adjective from a noun. |
| -cracy | rule |
| -speak | Indicates a manner of speech or writing typical of or characterized by the root term. |
| -coel | A cavity. |
| -coel | (possibly nonstandard) altform -cele tumor; hernia |
| -wick | Alternative form of -wich |
| -thermic | Relating to heat or temperatures. |
| -ancy | a condition or quality |
| -son | Added to a stem (usually a given name or surname) to form a patronymic or matronymic surname |
| -biont | (biology) a discrete living organism that has a specified mode of living |
| -elect | Used after a title to indicate the person who has been elected to hold the title before officially taking the position. |
| -crete | indicating a material functionally similar to concrete |
| -enchyma | (biology) cellular tissue |
| -rrhagia | (medicine) Forming nouns indicating excessive discharge or haemorrhage from an organ. |
| -anth | (biology) flower |
| -coele | Alternative spelling of -coel |
| -faction | production, process, making |
| -on | (physics maths and biology) Forming nouns denoting subatomic particles (proton), quanta (photon), molecular units (codon), or substances (interferon). |
| -agog | Alternative form of -agogue |
| -rrhaphy | (surgery) suture |
| -opsia | (ophthalmology) Forming compound nouns denoting specific deficiencies of sight. |
| -rrhea | flowing |
| -tion | (non-productive) Used to form nouns meaning "the action of (a verb)" or "the result of (a verb)". Words ending in this suffix are almost always derived from a similar Latin word; a few (eg. gumption) are not derived from Latin and are unrelated to any verb. |
| -es | Used to form the regular plural of nouns |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -es | Used to form the third person singular present of verbs |
| -phyll | leaf |
| -gramme | Alternative form of -gram |
| -mania | compulsion or obsession. |
| -rrhoea | Alternative form of -rrhea |
| -androus | (botany) having a specified number of stamens |
| -rrhœa | Obsolete spelling of -rrhea |
| -andry | male mate(s), husband(s) |
| -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or practice. |
| -grapher | someone who writes about a specified subject, or in a specified manner |
| -tastic | (slang) Fantastic; used to form adjectives conveying praise or celebration, sometimes sarcastically. |
| -stan | home of; place where one stays; used especially in place names |
| -and | (now chiefly dialectal Scotland) Used to form the present participle of verbs, equivalent to -ing. |
| -ice | forms abstract nouns |
| -inda | A component of some female given names. |
| acharya | (suffix) A title of honour, meaning "learned" or "honoured". |
| -ambulist | walker, one who walks |
| -and | <span class="use-with-mention">A suffix forming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions, such as <span class="mention">compiland</span>.</span> |
| -uretic | urine |
| -gaze | (music) Denotes a genre of music which makes heavy use of distortion effects and wall of sound production. |
| -riffic | Used to form intensified adjectives from nouns and adjectives. |
| -maniac | Indicating a person who experiences a type of compulsion or obsession. |
| -clase | (mineralogy) fracture (having a fracture of such a form) |
| -let | a diminutive suffix; for example: |
| -ric | (no longer productive) A termination denoting jurisdiction, or a district over which government is exercised. |
| -nym | Used to form nouns describing types of word or name |
| -agogue | (medicine) something that stimulates a flow |
| -person | Someone who is an expert in an area. |
| -mere | Forming nouns with the sense of part, segment |
| -agogy | leading |
| -een | (Ireland) Used to form the diminutives of nouns in Hiberno-English. |
| -ridden | Figuratively construed as "repeatedly subject to" or "unable to escape from" (example: hagridden, bedridden.) |
| -parous | parous; relating to parity (the number of times a woman has given birth). |
| -ian | (as an adjective) From, related to, or like. |
| -acal | Used to form an adjective from a noun, as in maniacal |
| -mane | Forming compound nouns with the sense ‘person who has a mania for’. |
| -ane | Variant of -an, usually with differentiation (germane, humane, urbane), but sometimes alone (mundane). |
| -ers | (informal originally school slang) Used to form mostly adjectives used informally |
| -arium | A place associated with a specified thing. |
| -sphere | (mathematics) Used to form nouns indicating a sphere of x dimensions |
| -cratic | used to form adjectives, of or befitting -cracy |
| -form | Having the shape or form of; looking like. |
| -genic | producing or generating something |
| -sson | Alternative form of -son |
| -stasis | (physiology) slowing down, stopping; from stasis. |
| -archy | form of government or rule |
| -form | Related to formic acid in some way. |
| -gasm | Describing an intensely pleasurable experience or thing. |
| -ae | plural of -a |
| -iana | Alternative form of -ana |
| -ite | (sometimes pejorative) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc. |
| -craft | Denoting a skill of a particular kind |
| -nomics | The rules of a discipline |
| -ptile | (botany forming adjectives and nouns) type of leaf |
| -graphical | Used to form adjectives meaning of or relating to corresponding nouns ending in '-graphy' or '-graph'. |
| -æ | archaic spelling of -ae |
| -topia | Paradise. |
| -coccus | any spherical microorganism |
| -ite | forming adjectives |
| -nomics | (economics) Used, with a combining form to form nouns meaning the economics, economic practises, or economic philosophy of a specified person or state |
| -verse | Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element. |
| -phagous | Used to form adjectives meaning "eating" or "feeding on". |
| -algia | pain, suffering |
| -soft | Used in the names of software houses. |
| -oholic | Used to make nouns and adjectives describing someone who is addicted to something or feels a compulsion to do something. |
| -a-thon | Alternative form of -athon |
| -pod | Related to or resembling a foot or similar limb. |
| -gerous | Bearing or producing. |
| -stat | forming nouns naming scientific instruments that act to render the prefixed element stationary or static in some respect |
| -ed | Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant. |
| -kins | Forming (often intentionally childish or twee) diminutives of nouns. |
| -ed | Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants. |
| -topic | place |
| -phagy | (forming nouns) feeding on; consumption of. |
| -ie | Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names. |
| -nasty | (botany) relating to a nastic change |
| -ed | Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun. |
| -malacia | (medical) used to denote an abnormal "softening of the tissues"; malacia |
| -èd | (poetic) Alternative spelling of -ed, indicating that the last syllable is fully enunciated. |
| -dermatous | having a specified type skin |
| -chan | (anime and manga fandom) Appended to a person's name or nickname to indicate familiarity or cuteness. |
| -men | plural of -man |
| -landia | (humorous) A fictional or metaphorical place relating to the person or thing being suffixed. |
| -ometer | Alternative form of -meter |
| -carp | part of a fruit or fruiting body |
| -idine | (chemistry) Denotes a chemical compound related to others; alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists. |
| -oi | plural of -os |
| -opsy | (medicine) examination |
| -henge | Used to refer to derivatives of Stonehenge. |
| -dar | (usually humorous) Forming nouns denoting a putative ability to detect a thing. |
| -urgy | technique for working with something |
| -ometry | Forming compound nouns describing "the action or process of measuring" something, frequently with corresponding nouns in -ometer. |
| -splain | (slang) A suffix combined with a descriptive adjective or noun to create a verb meaning someone who fits that description condescendingly explaining something to someone who does not fit that description (especially, something the listener has more experience of). |
| -gate | Combined with keywords to form the names of scandals. |
| -genin | (chemistry) Used to form words for the aglycone (non-saccharide) residues of steroidal glycosides. |
| -glot | language |
| -ry | Alternative form of -ery |
| -holic | Denotes addiction to the substance or activity of the stem word. |
| -sies | A diminutive modifier used to add an element of childishness, informality, or levity to a word. |
| -ford | Indicating a place on a river suitable for crossing or fording. |
| -gate | Used to form place names. |
| -some | Characterized by some specific condition or quality. |
| -town | Used to form names of townships derived from names of persons or other things. |
| -tron | Used to name various electronic devices |
| -plast | A small body, structure, particle, or granule, especially of living matter |
| -some | Used to form a word indicating a group with a certain small number of members |
| -cene | (geology) Related to the geologic period called the Cenozoic, the current one. |
| -ienne | ; indicates a female variant of a noun ending in -ian |
| -fication | Alternative form of -ification |
| -some | a body |
| -kind | Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively. |
| -man | Someone (implied male) who is an expert in an area. |
| -mance | to carry out a specified form of divination |
| -amine | (organic chemistry) An amine. |
| -some | a chromosome |
| -punk | Denotes a fictional and aesthetic genre based on the noun to which it is suffixed, usually involving ahistorical or anachronistic technology and its effects on society. |
| -xeny | guest, stranger, host |
| -ier | variant of -er for adjectives ending in y |
| -uria | (pathology) Referring to the state or condition of the urine. |
| -one | a ketone |
| -mancer | A practitioner of a specific type of divination. |
| -eer | Used to create an agent noun denoting someone associated with, concerned with, or engaged in a specified activity. |
| -meal | (rare or no longer productive) Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time. |
| -ies | Used to form the plural forms of nouns endings in consonant-y: |
| -meal | Denotes a powder made of ground cereal. |
| -mer | (chemistry) Used to form words relating to chemical structure, denoting parts of a molecule, for example, monomer (one part), dimer (two parts), polymer (many parts). |
| -omics | (biology) used to form nouns meaning a study of the totality of something; e.g. genomics, proteomics |
| -zygous | (biology) Having or originating from a specified state as a result of conditions in the zygote stage of development. |
| -morph | shape, form, structure |
| -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed. |
| -ine | (chiefly _ non-productive) Of or pertaining to. |
| -st | (Archaic) Verb suffix for the second-person singular; Alternative form of -est |
| -born | (usually hyphenated preceded by a noun or adjective) Born in or native to the place indicated. |
| -oic | (organic chemistry) used to form the names of carboxylic groups and acids |
| -log | Used to denote discourse of a specified kind. |
| -women | plural of -woman |
| -otic | (pathology) having disease or abnormal condition (e.g., epizootic). |
| -choron | (geometry) Used to form the names of 4-dimensional solids bounded by a certain number of cells/polyhedra (polychora). |
| -ine | |
| -ferous | |
| -fix | (grammar) Forming nouns denoting a morpheme used in word formation joined to a word in the specified way (e.g.: 'in'fix = "attached within", 'circum'fix = "attached around"). |
| -st | Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "first" |
| -grave | Signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave, burgrave. |
| -mantic | Adjective form of -mancy. |
| -iasis | (pathology) A pathological condition or process. |
| -iety | Forming nouns denoting the quality or condition of being what is indicated by the first element of the word. |
| -st | Excrescent suffix (adding sound but largely not changing the meaning). |
| -oic acid | (functional group suffix) A carboxylic acid functional group. |
| -onomics | Alternative form of -omics |
| -orama | Used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first. |
| -ex | Used to construct company and product names that borrow meaning from the root word. |
| -onomy | Alternative form of -nomy |
| -id | (not productive except in zoology) of or pertaining to; appended to various foreign words to make an English adjective or noun form. Often added to words of Greek, sometimes Latin, origin. |
| -diene | (organic chemistry) An unsaturated hydrocarbon with two double bonds; a diene |
| -id | (chiefly _ botany astronomy) Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources, the names of meteors (e.g. Perseid), and the names of certain dynasties (e.g. Solomonid). |
| -proof | Used to form adjectives denoting an impervious or impenetrable quality. |
| -oid | Of similar form to, but not the same as. Having the likeness of. Forms adjectives and nouns. |
| -all | Obsolete spelling of -al |
| -zoan | (zoology) Used to categorise animals based on their evolutionary origin, life history, growth-form or ecological preferences. |
| -scope | Used to make terms denoting an instrument used for viewing or examination. |
| -sis | forming nouns of action or process |
| -all | Relating to the whole of something. |
| -phonic | Forms adjectives relating to sound |
| -machy | Forming nouns with the sense of ‘battle, fight’. |
| -path | Used to form nouns indicating someone with a particular disorder |
| -tude | Alternative form of -itude |
| -gamous | Having the specified number or form of marriage. |
| -able | An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning: |
| -tuple | (mathematics) A tuple containing the specified number of terms. |
| -logs | plural of -log |
| -most | Furthest; -est; used to form superlatives of certain adjectives, especially directional and inherently-comparative ones. |
| -nazi | Forming blended nouns denoting people seen as controlling. |
| -dom | Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the suffixed word. |
| -ist | Added to words to form nouns denoting: |
| -uous | Alternative form of -ous |
| -valent | Having one or more valences. |
| -bury | A placename suffix indicating a fortified place. |
| -tort | To make something change its shape. |
| -iatric | Of or relating to a physician. |
| -gamy | Used to form nouns describing forms of marriage. |
| -merous | (biology forming adjectives) Having parts of the specified quality. |
| -metry | Forming nouns relating to measures and measurement. |
| -ule | (rare scientific) Diminutive suffix. |
| -ista | Forms nouns denoting one who follows a principle; an adept. |
| -to-be | Future, later, expectant. |
| -mageddon | Alternative form of -geddon |
| -iatrician | A medical practicioner. |
| -corn | horn(s) |
| -iatrics | Forms a noun meaning a specialty medical field of practice. |
| -logue | Used to denote discourse of a specified kind. |
| -holism | a form of addiction, either physical dependency or obsessive dependency. |
| -est | Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs. |
| -th | (no longer productive) Forming nouns from verbs of action. |
| -est | (Archaic) Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. |
| -ette | Used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something. |
| -ey | Alternative form of -y |
| -burg | Synonym of lang=en |
| -logues | plural of -logue |
| -th | Used to form the ordinal numeral when the final term of the spelled number is not first, second, or third. |
| -clinal | having a specified slope |
| -phrenia | mental disorder. |
| -nymy | Alternative form of -onymy |
| -th | (Archaic) A variant of -eth, used to form the archaic third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs. |
| -ennial | Combining form denoting years. |
| -le | A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repetition or continuousness: |
| -sama | (anime and manga fandom) Appended to a person's name or nickname to convey honour and respect. |
| -le | A suffix forming adjectives from verbs with the meaning of "prone to", "tending to", "apt to", "capable of"; compare -ative: |
| -logy | A branch of learning; a study of a particular subject. |
| -petal | travelling away from |
| -pexy | fixing (in place), fastening |
| -le | A suffix forming agent nouns from verbs: |
| -morphic | having a specific shape or form |
| -le | A suffix forming diminutives from other nouns; compare -ling: |
| -tard | (slang) Used to form words conveying an attitude of contempt or doubt over the subject's intelligence. |
| -sauce | (slang) Used to add emphasis to adjectives, especially those that relate to cool- or uncoolness. |
| -ander | (botany forming nouns) stamen |
| -acious | Used to form adjectives from nouns. |
| -chory | method of plant dispersal |
| -fugal | travelling out from |
| -n't | Negates the meaning of the clause in which it occurs. |
| -red | (no longer productive) A suffix forming nouns of condition or state. |
| -tainment | Denoting material created in part to entertain, while also serving another purpose. |
| -emia | (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of -aemia |
| -hood | A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being. |
| -ol | (organic chemistry) An alcohol or phenol. |
| -caine | (organic chemistry pharmacology) A synthetic alkaloid used as an anesthetic. |
| -ality | (compound affix) -al + -ity |
| -thermy | heat |
| -ino | (physics) The fermionic supersymmetric partner of a boson (a bosino), symbolized by a tilde over the nonsupersymmetric particle symbol. Contrast with 's-' |
| -ol | Indicating an oily substance |
| -phyte | A taxonomic group of plants or algae, e.g. arthrophyte, cyanophyte. |
| -poly | (economics) Pertaining to the number of sellers in a market. |
| -istic | Used to form adjectives from nouns or from other adjectives, with the meaning "of or pertaining to" the preceding component. |
| -lalia | Forming nouns denoting abnormal or disordered forms of speech. |
| -styly | Pertaining to styles. |
| -acity | having the quality of |
| -cephalic | (type or number of) head |
| -ty | Nonproductive suffix indicating single-digit integer multiples of ten |
| -istical | Used to form adjectives meaning of or relating to corresponding nouns ending in '-istic' or '-ist'; most often redundant with respect to the latter which can also become adjectives through the addition of -ic alone, or with no change to the root noun. Hence, theist, theistic and theistical can all be used as the adjective form of theism. |
| -sploitation | exploitation of a specific demographic, person, or thing, particularly in media. |
| -wide | Throughout the specified area. |
| -ose | full of, like |
| -age | Forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance. |
| -ar | Of, near, or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also. |
| -ty | Alternative form of -ity Used to form abstract nouns from adjectives |
| -istically | Used to form adverbs describing action in the manner of the root adjective; use is identical irrespective of whether the root adjective ends with -istic or -istical. |
| -biotic | Used to form adjectives describing a method of living |
| -ose | (chemistry) Used to form the names of sugars. |
| -cha | (informal used only after a [t] sound) Alternative form of ya |
| -ar | Forming nouns such as vicar, exemplar, bursar, etc. |
| -ass | (North America slang vulgar) Intensifies an adjective |
| -free | free from; devoid of; without |
| -ern | (nonstandard outside fossilized words) Added to the names of directions to form adjectives. |
| -ar | Forming nouns such as beggar, liar, pedlar, etc. |
| -ola | Used to form the names of several commercial companies and products. |
| -cline | A specified form of slope or gradation. |
| -arian | A believer in something. |
| -ola | Used to form words relating to oil or oiliness |
| -anthropy | humanity; mankind |
| -ast | someone associated with something |
| -naut | Forms nouns meaning a voyager, farer, or tripper |
| -oon | Forming nouns, mainly in borrowed words. |
| -trope | (science) something that turns, affects, changes, responses, moves. |
| -iatry | Forms names of specialized fields of medical practice. |
| -treme | Having a trema (hole or aperture) or tremata of the type, position or number specified by the prefix |
| -lin | (dialectal) Alternative form of -ling |
| -poiesis | production, creation or formation |
| -meter | Used to form the names of measuring devices. |
| -arch | leading, leader |
| -self | Used in forming intensive and reflexive forms of the singular personal pronouns. |
| -ostomy | Alternative form of -stomy |
| -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs. |
| -itis | (pathology) Suffix denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection. |
| -burger | Used to make the names of hamburgers served in buns with the addition of the specified foodstuff, or with that foodstuff used in place of the usual meat. |
| -ing | Used to form present participles of verbs. |
| -strophy | Used to form nouns indicating a turn or twist of the indicated kind |
| -ery | Art, craft or practice |
| -ing | Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives. No longer productive in either sense. |
| -ance | Added to the stem of a verb to form a noun indicating a state or condition, such as result or capacity, associated with the verb. |
| -morphism | the state of having a specified shape or form |
| -ïng | (rare chiefly Netherlands nonstandard) Alternative spelling of -ing |
| -core | Applied to various (often specialised and underground) genres of music. |
| -wise | in the direction or orientation of |
| -work | Denoting a craft involving a particular material or tool |
| -iot | Of or relating to an island or peninsula in Greece or the Hellenic sphere. |
| -blast | an immature cell or tissue |
| -sion | Variant of -tion, most common in words inherited directly from Latin with an accusative singular ending in -sionem. |
| -rices | plural of -rix |
| -pathic | Adjectival form of suffix -pathy. |
| -tomy | Cutting, incision, section |
| -ide | Any of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside. |
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.