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1. -cide, -cidal (kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; to cut down) words: magistricide to vulpicide, part 2 of 2   (four matching results)
   
   
2. brevi- (short) words: abbreviate to unabridged  (four matching results)
   
   
3. Capnophobia, Fear of Smoking words, part 2 of 4   (three matching results)
   
   
4. ambi-, amb- (Latin: both, on both sides; around, about)  (three matching results)
   
   
5. Professional-Egyptian scribe story, part 2 of 2; [plus 7 pix]   (three matching results)
   
   
6. -cide, -cidal (kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; to cut down) words: aborticide to lupicide, part 1 of 2   (three matching results)
   
   
7. -cise, -cis, -cide (Latin: a suffix; to cut, cut)  (two matching results)
   
   
8. entomo-, entom- (Greek: insect, bug; literally, "cut up, cut in pieces"; an insect because it appears to be segmented)  (two matching results)
   
   
9. temno-, temn- (Greek: to cut, cutting; literally, a piece cut off)  (two matching results)
   
   
10. Chemical Elements words: indium to mendelevium, part 4 of 8   (two matching results)
    
    
11. insecto-, insect-, insecti- (Latin: a bug; literally, "cut into," from insectum, with a notched or divided body; literally, "that which is cut up, segmented" [as the bodies of the first invertebrates to which the term was applied or appeared to be])  (two matching results)
    
    
12. koly-, coly- (Greek: hinder, inhibiting, to cut short, stop)  (one matching result)
    
    
13. cryo-, cry-, kryo-, kry- (cold, freezing) words: cryomorphology to urinocryoscopy, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
14. croustico-, crousto-, crusto-, croust-, crust-, kroustico-, krousto-, kroust-, krust- (Greek: to stretch; stretch out; to beat, strike)  (one matching result)
    
    
15. adeno-, aden- (gland, glandular) words: blennadenitis to thyroadenitis, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
16. xylo-, xyl- (Greek: wood; the first element of various scientific and technical words that refer to wood)  (one matching result)
    
    
17. pnigo-, pnig-, pnigmato-, pnigmat- (Greek: choke, stifle, smother)  (one matching result)
    
    
18. multi-, mult- (many, much) words: multangular to multungulate   (one matching result)
    
    
19. adeno-, aden- (gland, glandular) words: adenalgia to anadenia, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
20. costo-, cost-, costi- (Latin: rib, ribs; side; coast)  (one matching result)
    
    
21. stratio-, strati-, strato-, strat- stratus (Latin: horizontal layer; "stretched, spread out"; layer, cloud layer)  (one matching result)
    
    
22. soli-, sol- (Latin: one, alone, only)  (one matching result)
    
    
23. -ectomy, -ectome, -ectomize (Greek: a suffix; cut, surgical removal of)  (one matching result)
    
    
24. fa-,-fess (talk, speak, say, spoken about) words: affability to professor   (one matching result)
    
    
25. glypto-, -glyph (carving, engrave; write) words: aglyphous to triglyph   (one matching result)
    
    
26. cuti-, cut-, cutan-, cutis (Latin: skin)  (one matching result)
    
    
27. sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional (Latin: to cut)  (one matching result)
    
    
28. tri-(three, thrice, threefold) dictionary words: trinal to trisyllable, part 3 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
29. carpo-, carp-, -carp, -carpic, -carpium, -carpous, -carpus (Greek: fruit [or similar reproductive result]; to cut, to pluck)  (one matching result)
    
    
30. abort-, aborti- (miscarry, perish by an untimely birth) dictionary words: abort to proabortionist, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
31. myrmeco-, myrmec-, myrme-, myrmic-, myrmi- (Greek: ant, ants)  (one matching result)
    
    
32. lustr-, lust- (Latin: light up, shine)  (one matching result)
    
    
33. castrat-, castra- (Latin: to cut, geld, spay; to remove the testicles or ovaries of)  (one matching result)
    
    
34. phallo-, phall-, phalli- (Greek: an image of the male organ of generation; a stick of wood cut as a symbol of the male organ and carried in Bacchic processions; the penis)  (one matching result)
    
    
35. -tom, -toma, -tomic, -tomize, -tome, -tomical, -tomically, -tomist, -tomous, -tomy (Greek: often used as a suffix; cut, incision; section)  (one matching result)
    
    
36. bentho-, benth- (deep, depth; sea bottom) words: abyssobenthic to zoobenthos  (one matching result)
    
    
37. sex (Latin: sexus; originally it meant "division" and is related to secare, "to cut" Don t confuse this "sex" element with another one that means "six")  (one matching result)