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Ba
- bacchus [BAK uhs] (Greek > Latin: an ancient Greek and Roman god of wine and revelry; earlier called Dionysus by the Greeks)
- bacci-, bacc-, baccato- (Latin: berry)
- bacillo-, bacill-, bacilli- (Latin: rod, staff; a rod-shaped bacterium)
- bacterio-, bacteri-, bacter-, -bacteria, -bacterial, -bacterially, -bacterium (Greek: rod-shaped micro-organism; used in biomedical terminology)
- balano-, balan- (Greek: acorn)
- ballo-, ball-, balo-, bolo-, bol-, -bola, -bole, -bolic, -bolism, -bolite, -boly (Greek: throw, send, put)
- balneo-, balne- (Latin: bath, bathing; wash, washing)
- bambaci- (Greek > Latin: bambacinum, cotton fabric; from bombax, cotton; from Latin, bombyx, silk, silkworm; from Greek, bombux, silkworm)
- bapti- (Greek: dip, immersion, dipping in water)
- barba-, barb-, barbat- (Latin: beard, beardlike)
- barbar- (Greek > Latin: foreign, strange, outlandish)
- baro-, bary- (weight, heavy; pressure) words: abarognosis to thermobarograph
- bas-, bat- (Greek: step, go)
- baso-, basi-, ba- (Greek: step; foot for stepping; ground, foundation, base; to go, to walk)
- bat- (Latin: beat, strike, hit)
- bathmo-, bathm- (Greek: a step or degree; rank; by steps)
- batho-, bathy- (Greek: deep, depth)
- batracho-, batrach- (Greek: frog)
Be
- beat- (Latin: happy; blessed)
- bell-, bel- (Latin: pretty, beautiful)
- belli-, bell- (Latin: war, fight)
- belono-, belon- (Greek: needle)
- bene-, ben-, beni- (Latin: good, well)
- bentho-, benth- (deep, depth; sea bottom) words: abyssobenthic to zoobenthos
- berserk (bear skin) words
- beta (Greek: B; second letter of the Greek alphabet)
Bi
- bi-, bin-, bino-, bis- (Latin: two, twice, double, twofold; a number used as a prefix)
- bib-, bibi- (Latin: drink)
- biblio-, bibl- (book) words: Bible to bibliography, part 1 of 3.
- biblio-, bibl- (book) words: biblioklept to monastery-library thefts, part 2 of 3.
- biblio-, bibl- (book) words: bibliokleptomaniac to unbiblical, part 3 of 3.
- bili-, bil- (Latin: bile)
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: abiocoen to Amphibion, part 1 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: amphibiosis to autobiosphere, part 2 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: bioaccumulation to biochrome, part 3 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biochron to biodynamics, part 4 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: bioecologist to biofraud, part 5 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biofuel to biogravics, part 6 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biohacker to biolistics, part 7 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biolite to biolytic, part 8 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biometrics to bionomics, part 10 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: bionic to biophylaxis, part 11 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biophysics to biopyoculture, part 12 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biorational to biosomes, part 13 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biosonar to biotaxy, part 14 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biotechnology to biozone, part 15 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: calobiosis to eremobiontic, part 16 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: eubiosphere to hypobiosis, part 17 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: i-biology to myrmecosymbiosis, part 18 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: necrobiosis to stenobiontic, part 19 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: symbiosis to zoobiosis, part 20 of 20.
- bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive): biomacromolecule to biometrician, part 9 of 20.
Bl
- blasto-, blast-, -blast, -blastic (Greek: germ, bud; shoot, formative cell or layer; of or pertaining to an embryonic or germinal stage of development)
- -ble, -bul, (Latin: a suffix; result of the act of, means of, place for)
- -blem (Greek: a suffix; insertion; literally, "something thrown in")
- blenno-, blenn- (Greek: mucus)
- blep- (Greek: look, see)
- blepharo-, blephar- (Greek: eyelid; of or pertaining to the eyelid[s] or eyelash[es])
Bo
- bolo- (Greek: throw; that which is thrown)
- bomb (Greek > Latin [a hollow, deep sound, a humming, a buzzing] > Italian [explosive shell]: booming, humming sound)
- bon- (Latin: good)
- borborygmo-, borborygm- (Greek > Latin: intestinal rumblings, to rumble; gurgling, and splashings)
- boreal (Greek > Latin: north, northern)
- bos- (Latin: cow)
- bosci, bosc- (Greek > Latin: to feed, graze)
- botano-, botan- (Greek > Latin: plants, plant life [originally, "herb, grass, pasture"])
- bothr- (Greek: pit, ditch)
- botryo-, botry- (Greek: cluster, cluster of grapes, clusterlike, grapes)
- botul-, botuli- (Latin: [botulus] sausage)
- bou-, bu- (Greek: cow, ox)
- bovo-, bov-, bos- (Latin: cow)
Br
- brachio-, brachi- (Greek: arm [especially the upperarm from the shoulder to the elbow])
- brachyo-, brachy-, -brachy, -brach (Greek: short, shortness, small [also expressed as "slow"])
- bracte-, bract- (Latin: thin plate)
- brady- (Greek: slow, slowness; delayed, tardy)
- branchio-, branchi- (Greek: gills)
- brepho-, breph- (Greek: fetus; infant)
- brevi- (short) words: abbreviate to unabridged
- broma- (food) words: abros to bromatotoxin.
- bromo-, brom- (Greek: stench, stink, bad odor; unpleasant bodily odor; bromine)
- broncho-, bronch-, bronchi-, bronchio- (Greek: windpipe [trachaea], bronchi)
- bronto-, bront- (Greek: thunder)
- bruxo-, brux- (Greek: grinding or gnashing the teeth; rubbing the teeth together)
- brycho-, brych-, bryco-, bryc-, bryko-, bryk- (Greek: to eat nosily or greedily; to eat with much noise, tear in pieces)
- bryo-, bry- (Greek: moss; blossom; also to swell, teem; young one; to be full, swell, bloom, cause to burst forth)
- bryto-, bryt- (Greek: beer)
Bu
- bubo-, bub- (Latin: owl)
- bubo-, bubon- (Greek > Latin: groin, swollen gland)
- bucco-, bucc- (Latin: cheek)
- buco-, buc- (Greek: rural, rustic, pastoral)
- bufo- (Latin: toad)
- bul-, boul- (Greek: will)
- -bula, -bulum (Latin: a suffix; result of the act of, means of, place for)
- bulbo- (Greek > Latin: onion, bulbous root, bulb)
- bull-, bulli- (Latin: bubble, blister; boil)
- 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)
- butyro-, butyr- (Greek > Latin: butter; from bou[s] , "ox, cow" plus tyro[s], "cheese")
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