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-Ency
- - A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.
-Form
- - A suffix used to denote in the form or shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
-Gram
- - A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
-Hood
- - A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.
-Itis
- - A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis, nephritis.
-Less
- - A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
-Ling
- - A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.