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- tribo-, trib- (Greek: friction, rub, rubbing, grind, wear away; spend, waste time; be busy) (18 matching results)
- trit- (Latin: tritus, past participle of terere, to rub; thresh, grind; to wear away) (four matching results)
- frica-, frict-, -frice (Latin: a rubbing, rub) (three matching results)
- lumen-, lumin- (light, shine; torch, lamp; heavenly body) words: bioluminescence to unilluminated (three matching results)
- phospho-, phosphor- (light, light bringer, shine; morning star) words: dephosphorize to tribophosphoroscope (three matching results)
- bursa-, burso-, burs- (Latin: bag, sac, saclike, purse; in anatomy and medicine, a bodily cavity, especially one located between joints or at points of friction between moving structures; filled with a viscid fluid and situated at the various places in the tissues at which friction would otherwise develop) (two matching results)
- -tripsy, -tripsis, -tripic (Greek: often used as a suffix; crush; from Greek, "massage, rub, rubbing, friction, grind") (two matching results)
- -her-, -hes- (Latin: stick to, cling to, cleave to) (two matching results)
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): acroleukopathy to cytopathy, part 1 of 6 medical words (one matching result)
- Capnophobia, Fear of Smoking words, part 4 of 4 (one matching result)
- 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) (one matching result)
- meteoro-, meteor- (upraised, high up in the air, lofty) words: agrometeorology to telemeteorograph (one matching result)
- phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: earphone to neurophonia, part 2 of 5 (one matching result)