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1. puber-, pubo-, pub-, pubio- (Latin: adult, mature; sign of [sexual] maturity, especially the growth of pubic hair; extended to mean the "pubic bone")  (13 matching results)
   
   
2. talo-, tal- (Latin: the ankle, anklebone)  (six matching results)
   
   
3. algesi-, -algia (pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting) words: acromelagia to xiphoidalgia, A-X  (five matching results)
   
   
4. necro-, necr- (dead, death): adiponecrosis to thrombonecrosis  (five matching results)
   
   
5. zygomatico- (Greek: the malar bone or the arch that the malar bone forms with the other bones to which it is connected)  (five matching results)
   
   
6. phalango-, phalang- (Greek via Latin: bone between two joints of a finger or toe; line of battle; from phalanx, heavy infantry in close order [from Greek antiquity])  (four matching results)
   
   
7. algesi-, -algia (pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting) words: neogamalgia, and xiphoidalgia, part 3 of 3   (four matching results)
   
   
8. tessara-, tessera- (four; cube) dictionary words: tessara to tesseratomy, part 1 of 1   (four matching results)
   
   
9. sacro-, sacr- (Latin: bone at the lower end of the spine; os sacrum, "sacred bone")  (three matching results)
   
   
10. ilio-, ili- (Greek > Latin: [ile, ileum, or ilium [singular], ilia [plural], groin, flank, lower part of the body, gut, bowels, abdomen, loins, from Greek eileos, verbal of eilein to roil or twist up tightly; previously used interchangeably with ileum, but later used with os, bone [os ilium] to denote the bone of the soft parts], hip bone)  (three matching results)
    
    
11. -penia- [singular], -penias [plural], -penic, pen-, penia- (Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia)  (three matching results)
    
    
12. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Ichthyosaur to Muttaburrasaurus [plus one pix], part 6 of 10   (two matching results)
    
    
13. malleo-, malle- (Latin: hammer)  (two matching results)
    
    
14. spheno-, sphen- (Greek: wedge; the sphenoid bone, a wedge-shaped bone found at the base of the skull)  (two matching results)
    
    
15. dys- words (bad, harsh, wrong; ill; hard to, difficult at; slow of; disordered; used as a prefix): dysmetria to trichothiodystrophy, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
16. glotto-, glot-, -glott (Greek: tongue; by extension, "speech, language")  (two matching results)
    
    
17. pan-, panto- (all, every, entire) words: panimmunity to panzootic, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
18. sequest-, sequestr- (Latin: to give up for safe keeping; a depository, trustee; to shut up illegally)  (two matching results)
    
    
19. Prefixes a-, an- words: abacterial to alexia, part 1 of 4   (two matching results)
    
    
20. sterno-, stern- (Greek: chest, breast, sternum, the breast bone)  (one matching result)
    
    
21. Apollo, god of the Sun, words from myths   (one matching result)
    
    
22. algo-, alg- (Greek: pain)  (one matching result)
    
    
23. -mancy, -mancer (Greek: divination, prophecy) words: pedomancy to spasmatomancy, part 8 of 9   (one matching result)
    
    
24. multi-, mult- (many, much) words: multangular to multungulate   (one matching result)
    
    
25. hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heterolysis to heterozoic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
26. coccygo-, coccyg-, coccyge-, coccyo-, coccy- (Greek: cuckoo; the end of the vertebral column in man and in some apes; the rudiment of a tail)  (one matching result)
    
    
27. dys- words (bad, harsh, wrong; ill; hard to, difficult at; slow of; disordered; used as a prefix): acrodysesthesia to dysmentia, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
28. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Dachongosaurus to Eudkelosaurus [plus one pix], part 4 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
29. vor-, -vorous (eat, eating; consume, ingest) dictionary words: offivorous to zoosuccivore, part 3 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
30. ped-, -pedia (foot, feet) words: palmiped to velocipede, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
31. phospho-, phosphor- (light, light bringer, shine; morning star) words: dephosphorize to tribophosphoroscope   (one matching result)
    
    
32. antro-, antr- (Greek: cave, cavern; in medicine, of or pertaining to a [bodily] cavity or sinus; a term in anatomical nomenclature, especially to designate a cavity or chamber within a bone)  (one matching result)
    
    
33. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): oculopathy to pathogens, part 4 of 6 medical words   (one matching result)
    
    
34. humero-, humer- (Latin: shoulder, upper arm; pertaining to the bone that extends from the shoulder to the elbow)  (one matching result)
    
    
35. os-, oss-, ost-, oste- os [singular] or ossa [plural] (Latin: bone)  (one matching result)
    
    
36. calcaneo-, calcane- (Latin: heel bone [back of the tarsus])  (one matching result)
    
    
37. malaco-, malac-, malako-, -malacia (Greek: soft, softness; abnormal softening, soft-bodied)  (one matching result)
    
    
38. ischio-, ischi- (Greek: hip, hip-joint, hip-bone; haunch)  (one matching result)
    
    
39. -mancy, -mancer (Greek: divination, prophecy) words: halomancy to lychnomancy, part 5 of 9   (one matching result)
    
    
40. grapho-, graph-, -graphy (to scratch; write, record, draw, describe) words: photochronographr to rupography, part 9 of 11   (one matching result)
    
    
41. hyo- (Greek: denoting u-shaped [upsilon-shaped]; hyoid bone, literally, "mere" or "simple" y, ypsilon)  (one matching result)
    
    
42. myelo-, myel- (Greek: bone marrow; the spinal cord and medulla oblongata; the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)  (one matching result)
    
    
43. coxa-, coxo-, cox- (Latin: hip [anatomy], hip-bone, hip joint)  (one matching result)
    
    
44. ulno-, uln- (Latin: elbow; larger bone of the forearm)  (one matching result)
    
    
45. labrum (Latin: a lip)  (one matching result)
    
    
46. concho-, conch-, conchi- (Greek > Latin: shell, sea shells; shell-like bone or cavity of the body)  (one matching result)
    
    
47. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Aachenosaurus to Azendohsaurus [plus one pix], part 2 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
48. calci-, calc-, calcane-, calcio-, calco-, calx (Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread [derived from calx, calcis, limestone, lime, pebble; from Greek words halix and psephos meaning "small stone, pebble"])  (one matching result)
    
    
49. cryo-, cry-, kryo-, kry- (cold, freezing) words: cryomorphology to urinocryoscopy, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
50. scapulo-, scapul-, -scapula, -scapular (Latin: the flat, triangular bone in the back of the shoulder; the shoulder blade)  (one matching result)
    
    
51. osteo-, oste-, ost- (Greek: bone)  (one matching result)
    
    
52. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Naashoiobitosaurus to Piatnitzkysaurus [plus one pix], part 7 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
53. mastoido-, mastoid- (Greek: breast; "breast-shaped")  (one matching result)
    
    
54. osseo-, osse-, ossi- (Latin: bone, bony)  (one matching result)
    
    
55. acro-, acr- words: acroneurosis to polyacron, part 2 or 2   (one matching result)
    
    
56. fenestra-, fenestr- (Latin: window; in anatomy, a small opening in a bone)  (one matching result)
    
    
57. -agra, -agras (Greek: a suffix; in medicine, a painful seizure; catch, booty, prey; seizure; a catching, a hunting for prey or food; also the prey itself)  (one matching result)
    
    
58. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Bactrosaurus to Ctenosaurus [plus one pix], part 3 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
59. gelo-, gel- (Latin: to freeze; then, congeal; and finally, gelatin)  (one matching result)
    
    
60. halo-, hal- (salt) words: euhaline to stenohaline   (one matching result)
    
    
61. laryngo-, laryng- (Greek: throat, upper part of the windpipe; the vocal-chord area of the throat; the musculocartilaginous structure below the tongue root and hyoid bone and above the trachea)  (one matching result)
    
    
62. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Fabrosaurids to Hypselosaurus [plus one pix], part 5 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
63. aesth-, esth- (feeling, sensation, perception) words: palinesthesia to zonesthesia, part 5 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
64. stylo-, styl-, styli- (Greek: column; pillar; pillarlike implement or structure, especially the styloid process of the temporal bone)  (one matching result)
    
    
65. Cremation of Sam McGee Poem  (one matching result)
    
    
66. algesi-, -algia (pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting) words: acromelagia to audioanalgesia, part 1 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
67. mal- words (bad, badly, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective) words: malabsorption to malversation   (one matching result)
    
    
68. fibul- (Latin: clasp, outer bone of the leg)  (one matching result)