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1. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words  (nine matching results)
   
   
2. necro-, necr- (dead, death): adiponecrosis to thrombonecrosis  (eight matching results)
   
   
3. lipo-, lip- (fat, fatty): lipodystrophy to myolipoma, part 2 of 2   (seven matching results)
   
   
4. lipo-, lip- (fat, fatty): adenolipoma to lipodology, part 1 of 2   (seven matching results)
   
   
5. agglutino-, aggluto-, agglutin- (Latin: ad-, "to, toward, near" plus gluten, glutinis, "glue, beeswax")  (seven matching results)
   
   
6. adipo-, adip- (fat, lard, fleshy): adipis to hyperadiposis   (five matching results)
   
   
7. aniso-, anis- (unequal, dissimilar, uneven) words: aniseikonia to anisotropy   (five matching results)
   
   
8. hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heterolysis to heterozoic, part 2 of 2   (four matching results)
   
   
9. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest): acridophage to dysphagia, part 1 of 4   (four matching results)
   
   
10. oto-, ot-, -otic (Greek: ear; relationship to the ear)  (four matching results)
    
    
11. Plankton words: phytoplankton to zooplankton, part 2 of 2   (four matching results)
    
    
12. chemo-, chem- (chemical actions or chemicals) words: agrichemical-thermochemistry   (four matching results)
    
    
13. -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)  (four matching results)
    
    
14. pino-, pin- (Greek: a combining form confused between three Greek roots and may mean "hunger", "dirt", or "drink"; and there is one Latin form referring to the "pine tree")  (three matching results)
    
    
15. opsono-, opson-, -opsony (Greek: to buy food; to purchase provisions, such as food)  (three matching results)
    
    
16. spleno-, splen-, splenico-, spleni-, -splenism, -splenia, -splenic (Greek: spleen, "the inward parts;" the elongated accessory lymphatic organ of the vascular [blood] system)  (three matching results)
    
    
17. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biometrics to bionomics, part 10 of 20   (two matching results)
    
    
18. luco-, luc-, luci-, lux, -lucence, -lucent (Latin: light, shine)  (two matching results)
    
    
19. allelo-, allel- (Greek: one another, of one another; literally, "the other"; reciprocally; in mutual relation)  (two matching results)
    
    
20. adeno-, aden- (gland, glandular) words: adenalgia to anadenia, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
21. pineal-, pinea- (Latin: pine tree, relating to the pine; shaped like a cone)  (two matching results)
    
    
22. gonado-, gonad- (Latin: ovary or testis; based on Greek gonos, "seed" and gone, "that which generates; origination; seed; semen")  (two matching results)
    
    
23. cryo-, cry-, kryo-, kry- (cold, freezing) words: cryomorphology to urinocryoscopy, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
24. delo-, del- (Greek: visible, clear, clearly seen; obvious)  (two matching results)
    
    
25. gamo-, gam- (marriage, union; wedding) words: adelphogamy to geitonogamy, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
26. oxy- (sharp, pointed, keen; acidic, pungent) words: oxymora to paroxysm, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
27. gamo-, gam- (marriage, union; wedding) words: hercogamy to xenogamy, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
28. acro-, acr- words: acroneurosis to polyacron, part 2 or 2   (two matching results)
    
    
29. vitello-, vitell- (Latin: yolk, yolk of an egg)  (two matching results)
    
    
30. chondro-, chondr-, chrondrio-, chondri-, -chondriac, -chondrias, -chondromatous, -chondroma, -chondromas, -chondromata (Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage)  (two matching results)
    
    
31. Prefixes a-, an- words: alogia to anonymous, part 2 of 4   (two matching results)
    
    
32. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biophysics to biopyoculture, part 12 of 20   (two matching results)
    
    
33. pilo-, pil-, pili- (Latin: hair)  (two matching results)
    
    
34. ambo- (Latin: both; the two)  (one matching result)
    
    
35. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biochron to biodynamics, part 4 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
36. photo- (light) words: aphotesthesia to photoerythema, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
37. Apollo, god of the Sun, words from myths   (one matching result)
    
    
38. xylo-, xyl- (Greek: wood; the first element of various scientific and technical words that refer to wood)  (one matching result)
    
    
39. multi-, mult- (many, much) words: multangular to multungulate   (one matching result)
    
    
40. priap- (Greek, Priapos > Latin Priapus: god of procreation shown with a large penis; by extension, it means "penis")  (one matching result)
    
    
41. decibels (Latin: "ten" plus "bel" [Alexander Graham Bell]; a list of decibel levels and the examples that show the various decibel scales)  (one matching result)
    
    
42. testi- (witness; oval male gonad) dictionary words: attest to testosterone, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
43. pass-, pati- (suffering, feeling; enduring): compassion to ncompassionate   (one matching result)
    
    
44. stratio-, strati-, strato-, strat- stratus (Latin: horizontal layer; "stretched, spread out"; layer, cloud layer)  (one matching result)
    
    
45. -cide, -cidal (kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; to cut down) words: magistricide to vulpicide, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
46. hormo-, hormono-: chemicals from body organs, to rouse or to set in motion; part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
47. -cole, -colous (inhabit, live, dwell) words: agaricole to hylocole, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
48. homo-, hom- (same, equal, like, similar) words: homonym to homozygote, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
49. neurono-, neuron- (Greek: sinew; nerve fiber; nerve cell or nerve cells)  (one matching result)
    
    
50. zoo-, -zoon (animal, living being; life) dictionary words: zoophile to zooxanthella, part 5 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
51. pimelo-, pimel-, pimele- (Greek: [soft] fat)  (one matching result)
    
    
52. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): oculopathy to pathogens, part 4 of 6 medical words   (one matching result)
    
    
53. tracheo-, trache- (Greek: windpipe; originally, "rough" artery)  (one matching result)
    
    
54. thermo-, -thermy (heat, hot, warm) dictionary words: haematothermia to synthermal, part 2 of 6   (one matching result)
    
    
55. iso-, is- (equal, same) words: geoisotherm to isohyetal, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
56. cellulo-, celluli-, cellul- (Latin: small storeroom)  (one matching result)
    
    
57. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: bioaccumulation to biochrome, part 3 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
58. lemmo-, lemm-, lemma- (Greek: sheath, husk)  (one matching result)
    
    
59. lyso-, lyo-, ly-, -lysin, -lys-, -lysis, -lytic, -lyt-, -lyz- (Greek: loosening, dissolving, dissolution)  (one matching result)
    
    
60. testi-, test- (Latin: a witness, one who stands by; testicle, one of the two oval male gonads supported in the scrotum by its tissues and suspended by the spermatic cord)  (one matching result)
    
    
61. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: namatophilous to oxyphilous, part 6 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
62. terato-, terata-, terat-, tera- (Greek > Latin: marvel, omen, monster; malformation)  (one matching result)
    
    
63. oxy- (sharp, pointed, keen; acidic, pungent) words: anoxia to oxymel, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
64. homo-, hom- (same, equal, like, similar) words: homatomic to homomorphic, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
65. allo-, all- (Greek: different, other, another; divergence)  (one matching result)
    
    
66. vor-, -vorous (eat, eating; consume, ingest) dictionary words: gallivorous to nucivorous, part 2 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
67. -cide, -cidal (kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; to cut down) words: aborticide to lupicide, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
68. gland-, glans- (Latin: acorn; in medicine, gland, glans)  (one matching result)
    
    
69. cyto-, cyt-, -cyte, cytio- (Greek: cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cell" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow])  (one matching result)
    
    
70. orchido-, orchid- (testes, testicles) words: anorchism to vaso-orchidostomy   (one matching result)
    
    
71. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: Echidnophaga to lithophage, part 2 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
72. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: necrobiosis to stenobiontic, part 19 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
73. endothelio- (Greek > Latin: layer of simple cells lining the inner surface of the circulatory organs)  (one matching result)
    
    
74. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: pagophagia to zoophagous, part 4 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
75. phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: cacohydrophobia to cypriphobia, part 5 of 13   (one matching result)
    
    
76. crypto-, crypt- (secret, hidden) words: allocryptic to xylocryptite  (one matching result)
    
    
77. idio-, idi- (peculiar, personal, private) words: idiobiology to idioneural, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
78. adelpho-, adelph-, -adelphia, -adelphous (Greek: brother)  (one matching result)
    
    
79. dendro-, dendr-, dendri-, -dendria, -dendrite, -dendritic, -dendra, -dendron (Greek: tree, tree-like structure)  (one matching result)
    
    
80. photo- (light) words: photoesthesia to sthenophotic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
81. -ose (-iose)  (one matching result)
    
    
82. xeno-, xen- (Greek: foreign, foreigner, strange, stranger; and by extension, guest)  (one matching result)
    
    
83. thermo-, -thermy (heat, hot, warm) dictionary words: thermopile to xerothermic, part 6 of 6   (one matching result)
    
    
84. tri-(three, thrice, threefold) dictionary words: tritagonist to trixenous, part 4 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
85. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: macrophagous to ostreophagous, part 3 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
86. sensi-, sensi- (feeling, perceptions through the senses) dictionary words: aftersensation to sensitization, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
87. Chemical Elements: cadmium to einsteinium, part 2 of 8   (one matching result)
    
    
88. andro-, andr- (man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen) words: adynamandrous to andron, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
89. acro-, acr- words: acroagnosis to acromyotonia, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
90. alexo-, alex-, alexi- (Greek: defend, protect, ward off, keep off)  (one matching result)
    
    
91. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biosonar to biotaxy, part 14 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
92. zoo-, -zoon (animal, living being; life) dictionary words: zoacanthosis to zoodynamics, part 2 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
93. nycti-, nyct- (night; dark, darkness) words: acronychal to Nyx   (one matching result)
    
    
94. Prefixes a-, an- words: asemia to tritanopia, part 4 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
95. clono-, clon-, -cloner, -clonal, -clonally (Greek: twig; later, in modern usage: "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica")  (one matching result)
    
    
96. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biotechnology to biozone, part 15 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
97. Prefixes a-, an- words: abacterial to alexia, part 1 of 4   (one matching result)