Not or without.
Towards, of, in, into or at; marking some ongoing process or state; movement onwards or away.
Forming singular words of various types.
The plural of certain nouns of Latin or Greek origin.
Informal terms in spoken English.
Off, away, or from.
The abdomen.
Able to be.
Forming adjectives and nouns.
Spiny or thorny.
A mite or tick.
Groups of animals.
Families of seed-bearing plants.
Forming adjectives.
Acetic acid or the acetyl group.
Acid; sharp or sour.
Inclined to, given to, or having as a capacity.
Sound or hearing.
A tip, height, or extremity.
Acrylic.
A ray or beam.
A condition of the hearing.
Motion or direction to; reduction or change into; addition, increase, or intensification.
Collective numerals; nymphs.
Indicating a direction towards some part of the body.
Denoting an action, its result, or something associated with it.
A gland.
Fat or fatty tissues.
Forming a variety of words based on Portuguese, Spanish, or Italian originals.
The adrenal glands.
Forming plurals.
A substance present in the blood, especially in excess.
Air or another gas; the atmosphere; aircraft.
Before or previously.
Africa; African and …
Forming nouns.
Leading or promoting.
Pain in some part of the body.
Farming; cultivation.
A person excessively fond of something.
A person characterized by or linked to the idea in the stem.
Forming adjectives and some nouns.
An aldehyde.
White or bright.
An aldehyde.
Orders of plants.
Pain, usually in a specified part of the body.
Pain.
A collection or group.
Other; different.
Aluminium.
On both sides; around.
The CONH2- group in chemical compounds.
The amine group, NH2—.
The amnion.
Variously two, both, on both sides, or around.
Starch.
Variously up, back, or again.
Things associated with a person, place, or field of interest.
A state or quality; a process or action.
A person or thing to be treated in a specified way.
Male or maleness.
Maleness.
Saturated straight-chain (aliphatic) hydrocarbons.
Forming adjectives.
The wind.
Blood or seed vessels.
A container.
English or British; English or British and …
Unequal, asymmetrical, dissimilar.
Bent or crooked; stiff or fixed.
Forming adjectives and nouns.
Before or preceding.
Nearer the front of the body; forward in time.
A flower or flowers.
Coal or carbon; a carbuncle.
Human, or of a human being.
Human, or humankind.
Acting against, resisting, or opposing something; the opposite or reverse of something.
A point or apex.
Away from; separate from.
A period following some activity.
Water.
Forming adjectives.
Forming nouns.
A spider or spiders.
A tree or trees.
Chief; principal; pre-eminent of its kind.
Ancient or prehistoric times.
Government; rule of a particular type; a chief or ruler.
Forming nouns.
The planet Mars.
Silver.
Forming adjectives and corresponding nouns.
Connected with; pertaining to.
A place or container connected with, or employed for, some purpose.
Arsenic.
An artery.
A joint.
Forming nouns.
Forming adjectives.
A bag or sac.
An enzyme.
A disease or other medical condition.
A person connected with a pursuit or activity.
Inferior; a poor imitation.
A star or other celestial body; outer space; star-shaped.
Forming nouns.
Forming adjectives.
Forming verbs.
An atheroma.
An event long in duration, usually for fund-raising purposes.
Groups of people.
Forming adjectives, and some nouns.
Possibility, potential, or ability.
An action, or an instance of an action.
Characteristic or predisposed.
In units of measurement, a factor of 10-18.
Hearing or sound.
Gold.
Austria; Austria and …
Australia; Australia and …; southern.
Self; oneself; by itself.
An automobile or motor vehicle.
Growth or increase.
A bird or birds; flight.
An axis.
Nitrogen; the chemical radical -N=N-.
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