-crazy
-crazy
combining word
inordinately devoted to or manic over what is indicated: boy-crazy/ kill-crazy/ speed-crazy
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- -creep
-creep combining word a gradual increase in the thing named: my cost-of-living allowance put me into bracket-creep on my income tax/ in somalia we saw mission-creep (1980s+)
- -cule
variant of -cle1 : animalcule; molecule; reticule. -cule2 variant of -cle2 : ridicule. origin -cule suffix indicating smallness animalcule word origin from latin -culus, diminutive suffix; compare -cle
- -cy
a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially -nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy). a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself: captaincy; […]
- -cyst
variant of cysto-, as final element in a compound word: statocyst. -cyst combining form indicating a bladder or sac otocyst word origin from greek kustis bladder
- -cyte
variant of cyto- as final element in a compound word: leucocyte. -cyte combining form indicating a cell spermatocyte word origin from new latin -cyta, from greek kutos container, body, hollow vessel -cyte suff. cell: leukocyte.