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• -haemia

  chiefly british variant of -hemia: leukocythaemia. -aemia combining form denoting blood, esp a specified condition of the blood in names of diseases leukaemia word origin -haemia combining form variants of -aemia -haemia suff. variant of -emia.

• -haired

  adjective having hair as specified long-haired

• -handed

  adjective having a hand or hands as specified broad-handed, a four-handed game of cards made as specified for either left- or right-hand operation or positioning

• -head

  a native english suffix meaning “state of being” (godhead; maidenhead), occurring in words now mostly archaic or obsolete, many being superseded by forms in -hood. -head combining form indicating a person having a preoccupation as specified breadhead -head combining word addicted to or using the narcotic specified: acidhead/ pothead (1911+ narcotics)

• -headed

  -headed combining word having a head, esp a mind, of the specified defective sort (1386+) related terms airheaded, balloonheaded, bigheaded, boneheaded, bullheaded, fatheaded, flatheaded, meatheaded, mush-headed, muttonheaded, numbheaded, pigheaded, pinheaded, pointy-headed, woolly-headed

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