"Pedo-" is a word in ENGLISH
Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp,
pedireme, pedometer.
Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.
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One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening …
Read the complete definitionCombining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the …
Read the complete definitionThe combining form of the Greek word meaning air.
Read the complete definitionConsisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See …
Read the complete definitionCombination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, …
Read the complete definitionA compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used …
Read the complete definitionA salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.
Read the complete definitionA salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of …
Read the complete definitionA terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.
Read the complete definitionA prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, …
Read the complete definitionA combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish.
Read the complete definitionThe act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under …
Read the complete definitionA combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Read the complete definitionThe combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.
Read the complete definitionThe trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
Read the complete definitionA combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.
Read the complete definitionA combining form of azote
Read the complete definitionA salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite.
Read the complete definitionThe positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms …
Read the complete definitionA combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; …
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