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1. Greek Alphabet, Alpha to Omega words  (nine matching results)
   
   
2. sal-, sali- (salt) dictionary words: cum grano salis to soused, part 1 of 1   (six matching results)
   
   
3. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaur Background Information [plus 2 pix], part 1 of 10   (four matching results)
   
   
4. Chemical Elements words: scandium to thorium, part 7 of 8   (four matching results)
   
   
5. legi-,-lectic (read, recite) words: collect to sortilege   (four matching results)
   
   
6. phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: acrophonic to dysphonia, part 1 of 5   (four matching results)
   
   
7. soli-, sol- (Latin: one, alone, only)  (three matching results)
   
   
8. tribo-, trib- (Greek: friction, rub, rubbing, grind, wear away; spend, waste time; be busy)  (three matching results)
   
   
9. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Fabrosaurids to Hypselosaurus [plus one pix], part 5 of 10   (three matching results)
   
   
10. phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: agraphobia to anthropophobia, part 2 of 13   (three matching results)
    
    
11. robor-, rob- (strengthening, invigorate) dictionary words: corroborant to unrobust, part 1 of 1   (three matching results)
    
    
12. Chemical Elements words: actinium to bromine, part 1 of 8   (three matching results)
    
    
13. Chemical Elements words: erbium to hydrogen, part 3 of 8   (three matching results)
    
    
14. abacus: historical background   (three matching results)
    
    
15. sen-, sene-, seni-, sir- (Latin: old age, old, elder)  (two matching results)
    
    
16. libra-, liber- (balance, level, even): deliberate to libration  (two matching results)
    
    
17. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: pagophilous to philogynist, part 7 of 10   (two matching results)
    
    
18. peri- (Greek: around, about, near, enclosing; used as a prefix)  (two matching results)
    
    
19. pater-, patri-, -patria (father, dad; fatherland, country) words: allopatric to sympatria  (two matching results)
    
    
20. decor- (proper, dignified, fitting) words: decent to redecorate  (two matching results)
    
    
21. Cyber (helmsman, governor) words: biocybernetics to cyborg  (two matching results)
    
    
22. laconi-, lacon- (Latin: concise, abrupt; literally, resembling the style of the Lacedaemonians or Spartans)  (two matching results)
    
    
23. myria-, myrio-, myri- (Greek: ten thousand; very numerous, countless; a number often used as a prefix)  (two matching results)
    
    
24. sanct- (Latin: sacred, holy)  (two matching results)
    
    
25. mater-, matri-, matro- matr- (Latin: mother, mama, mom; mum (British)  (two matching results)
    
    
26. electro-, electr-, electri- (Latin: electric, electricity [amber, resembling amber], generated from amber which when rubbed vigorously [as by friction], produced the effect of static electricity, as described by Dr William Gilbert [1540-1603] in a treatise on the magnet in 1600)  (two matching results)
    
    
27. Capnomania and fumimania, tobacco or smoking addictions, part 4 of 4   (two matching results)
    
    
28. potash (Dutch > New Latin: potassium carbonate)  (two matching results)
    
    
29. plano- (drifting, wandering, or roaming): angioplany to superplanetary with planet words from Greek and Latin myths   (two matching results)
    
    
30. eco-, oeco- (house, household affairs; environment) words: autecology to economy, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
31. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: philology to pyroxylophilous, part 8 of 10   (two matching results)
    
    
32. Chemical Elements: cadmium to einsteinium, part 2 of 8   (two matching results)
    
    
33. domo-, dom-, domato-, domat- (Greek > Latin: house, home ["master, lord" of the house])  (two matching results)
    
    
34. veter- old, many years, aged; part 1 of 1   (two matching results)
    
    
35. gods and goddesses from Latin and Greek myths: words from mythology   (two matching results)
    
    
36. veno-, ven- (Latin: poison)  (one matching result)
    
    
37. leg-, lex (Latin: pertaining to the law, legal)  (one matching result)
    
    
38. stauro-, staur- (Greek: upright stake; hence, "rood, cross"; cross-shaped, crosslike, crossed)  (one matching result)
    
    
39. veri-, ver- (Latin: true, truth, real, truthfulness)  (one matching result)
    
    
40. -mancy, -mancer (Greek: divination, prophecy) words: chresmomancy to cyclomancy, part 3 of 9   (one matching result)
    
    
41. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Dachongosaurus to Eudkelosaurus [plus one pix], part 4 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
42. Chemical Elements words: indium to mendelevium, part 4 of 8   (one matching result)
    
    
43. discip- (Latin: discipulus, pupil, apprentice)  (one matching result)
    
    
44. fa-,-fess (talk, speak, say, spoken about) words: affability to professor   (one matching result)
    
    
45. arch-, archi-, -arch (chief, principal leader, first in position or rank) words: archabbey to archvillain  (one matching result)
    
    
46. serendipity (Arabic: the gift of finding interesting things by chance; the faculty of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidently)  (one matching result)
    
    
47. Historical Perspectives of Ablutions   (one matching result)
    
    
48. Chemical Elements words: plutonium to samarium, part 6 of 8   (one matching result)
    
    
49. -her-, -hes- (Latin: stick to, cling to, cleave to)  (one matching result)
    
    
50. pali-; palim-, palin- (Greek: recurrence, repetitious; back, backward, again; returning, repeating)  (one matching result)
    
    
51. deon-, deont- (Greek: duty, that which is binding)  (one matching result)
    
    
52. typho-, typh-, -typhoidal (smoke, mist, vapor, cloud, fog; in medicine, fever accompanied by stupor or a clouding of the mind resulting from a fever) dictionary words: antityphoid to typhus, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
53. grapho-, graph-, -graphy (to scratch; write, record, draw, describe) words: accelerograph to axonography, part 1 of 11   (one matching result)
    
    
54. acous-, -acoustical words: acouasm to acoutometer, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
55. api- (Latin: bee)  (one matching result)
    
    
56. phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: odynophonia to phonocatheterization, part 3 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
57. tacit-, taci-, tace- (Latin: silent, silence; unspoken; quiet)  (one matching result)
    
    
58. acme, -acmic (Greek: highest point; prime, best time)  (one matching result)
    
    
59. umbra-, umbro-, umbr-, umbel- (Latin: shade, shadow)  (one matching result)
    
    
60. techno-, -techny (art, skill, craft): agrotechnology to zymotechnology  (one matching result)
    
    
61. port-, portat- (carry, bring, bear) words: apport-transportation   (one matching result)
    
    
62. gallo-, Gall- (Latin: of or pertaining to Gaul)  (one matching result)
    
    
63. conio-, coni-, -coniosis, -conite, konio-, koni-, kono-, kon- (Greek: dust; as seen in many words)  (one matching result)
    
    
64. butyro-, butyr- (Greek > Latin: butter; from bou[s] , "ox, cow" plus tyro[s], "cheese")  (one matching result)
    
    
65. orchido-, orchid- (testes, testicles) words: anorchism to vaso-orchidostomy   (one matching result)
    
    
66. gram- (write, written): words accelerogram to fathogram, part 1 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
67. larcen-, latro- (Latin: theft, robbery, felony; from latrocinium, service of mercenaries; freebooting, robbery; latro, "a mercenary soldier; robber")  (one matching result)
    
    
68. miso-, mis-, -misia (hate, hater, hatred; disgust for; revulsion of) words: iatromisia to nomomisia  (one matching result)
    
    
69. adelpho-, adelph-, -adelphia, -adelphous (Greek: brother)  (one matching result)
    
    
70. costo-, cost-, costi- (Latin: rib, ribs; side; coast)  (one matching result)
    
    
71. The planet Jupiter, words from myths   (one matching result)
    
    
72. mania-, -mania (mental disorder; excessive enthusiasm) words: ecdemiomania to krauomania, part 2 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
73. lud-, ludi-, lus- (Latin: play, make sport of, jest; sportive; pastime)  (one matching result)
    
    
74. acro-, acr- words: acroneurosis to polyacron, part 2 or 2   (one matching result)
    
    
75. vulpi-, vulp- (Latin: fox)  (one matching result)
    
    
76. palli-, pallio, pallit- (Latin: mantle, covering; cloak)  (one matching result)
    
    
77. idio-, idi- (peculiar, personal, private) words: iidiopathic to idioxanthic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
78. anima-, anim- (animal life; breath; soul; mind) words: anima to unanimous   (one matching result)
    
    
79. Sesquipedalian words or the use of obscure sespuipedalia verbal usages; sesqui-, part 1 of 2, groups 1-17   (one matching result)
    
    
80. Plankton words: phytoplankton to zooplankton, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
81. plaud-, plaus-, plod-, plos- (Latin: applause, to clap, strike, beat, to clap the hands)  (one matching result)
    
    
82. hades (Greek: the lower world [originally, invisible, to make invisible])  (one matching result)
    
    
83. arm- (Latin: weapon)  (one matching result)
    
    
84. Professional-Egyptian scribe story, part 2 of 2; [plus 7 pix]   (one matching result)
    
    
85. caco-, kako- words (bad, harsh, wrong; incorrect; unpleasant): alexicacon to kakistocracy   (one matching result)
    
    
86. Prefixes a-, an- words: asemia to tritanopia, part 4 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
87. pan-, panto- (all, every, entire) words: pan to panic, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
88. Prefixes a-, an- words: abacterial to alexia, part 1 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
89. Prefixes a-, an- words: anopia to asemasia, part 3 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
90. iatro-, -iatria (physician; heal, cure, treat; medical healing): aniatros to iatrogenesis, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
91. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: abrakophile to autophilous, part 1 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
92. testi- (witness; oval male gonad) dictionary words: attest to testosterone, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
93. agora-, -gor- (Greek: assembly, market place; open space, public speaking; originally, "to unite")  (one matching result)
    
    
94. ultim- (Latin: end, last, final)  (one matching result)
    
    
95. antero- (Latin: before, in front of; fore, prior, preceding; used as a prefix)  (one matching result)
    
    
96. phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: tabophobia to zoophobia, part 13 of 13   (one matching result)
    
    
97. exulans, exulant, exulate words: taxonomic terms  (one matching result)
    
    
98. tracheo-, trache- (Greek: windpipe; originally, "rough" artery)  (one matching result)
    
    
99. pejor- (Latin: worse)  (one matching result)
    
    
100. -onym, -nym (name) words: acronym to typonym   (one matching result)
     
     
101. auspic-, auspec- (Latin: from auspex [genitive form auspicis] avi-, stem of avis, "bird" plus -spex, "observer", from specere, "to look, observe")  (one matching result)
     
     
102. phono-, -phonia- (sound, voice, speech) words: phonodynamograph to phony, part 4 of 5   (one matching result)
     
     
103. gram- (write, written) words: grammar to nephrogram, part 2 of 3   (one matching result)
     
     
104. 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)
     
     
105. ampho-, amph-, amphi- (Greek: around, about, both, on both sides of, both kinds)  (one matching result)
     
     
106. -ial (Latin: a suffix that forms English adjectives from Latin adjectives ending with -is or-ius with meanings that include "pertaining to" or "relating to", or "characterized by")  (one matching result)
     
     
107. livid-, liv- (Latin > French: bluish, livid; bluish color)  (one matching result)
     
     
108. mend- (Latin: defect, blemish)  (one matching result)
     
     
109. ceno-, cene-, cen-, ceoen- ceoene-, coeno-, coen-, coino-, coin-, kaino-, kain-, koino-, koin- (Greek: common, shared)  (one matching result)
     
     
110. Chemical Elements words: mercury to platinum, part 5 of 8   (one matching result)
     
     
111. ubi- (Latin: where)  (one matching result)
     
     
112. cerauno-, kerauno- (Greek: thunderbolt, thunder, lightning [literally, "smasher, crusher"])  (one matching result)
     
     
113. cris-, crit-, cri- (Greek: a separating, putting apart; a decision; to judge)  (one matching result)
     
     
114. papyro-, papyr- (Greek: papyrus [singular], papyri [plural]; paper, papyros > Latin > Old French; papyrus, an Egyptian rush [a reed plant] from which material was made for writing or drawing Used in the sense of "fibrous material on which to write or draw")  (one matching result)
     
     
115. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Naashoiobitosaurus to Piatnitzkysaurus [plus one pix], part 7 of 10   (one matching result)
     
     
116. doul-, dulo-, dul- (Greek: slave, servile, slavish; servitude; serving)  (one matching result)
     
     
117. verbo-, verb- (word) dictionary words: adverb to verbal [plus one pix], part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
     
     
118. mania-, -mania (mental disorder; excessive enthusiasm) words: ablutomania to dysmorphomania, part 1 of 4   (one matching result)
     
     
119. Chemical Elements words: thulium to zirconium, part 8 of 8   (one matching result)
     
     
120. epi-, ep- [before vowels or "h"] (Greek: above, over, on, upon; besides; in addition to; toward; among; used as a prefix)  (one matching result)
     
     
121. rap-, rav- (Latin: tearing away, seizing, swift, rapid; snatch away, seize, carry off; from Latin rapere, "to seize by force and carry off")  (one matching result)
     
     
122. stigma-, stig-, stix- (Greek > Latin: mark, reproach [from Greek, "puncture, brand, mark, point"])  (one matching result)
     
     
123. tri-(three, thrice, threefold) dictionary words: tritagonist to trixenous, part 4 of 4   (one matching result)
     
     
124. Sesquipedalian words or the use of obscure sesquipedalia verbal usages; sesqui-, part 2 of 2, groups 18-34   (one matching result)
     
     
125. lustr-, lust- (Latin: light up, shine)  (one matching result)
     
     
126. porno-, porn- (Greek: harlot, prostitute)  (one matching result)
     
     
127. alexo-, alex-, alexi- (Greek: defend, protect, ward off, keep off)  (one matching result)
     
     
128. Prefixes a-, an- words: alogia to anonymous, part 2 of 4   (one matching result)
     
     
129. somni-, somno-, somn-, -somnia, -somniac (Latin: sleep; dream)  (one matching result)
     
     
130. -ine [suffix] (similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, of the nature of) words: belluine to cypseline, part 2 of 7   (one matching result)
     
     
131. Neptune, a planet and a Roman god of the sea, words from myths   (one matching result)
     
     
132. dic-, dict- (talk, speak, say) wods: abdicant to vindictive  (one matching result)