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• -termer

  noun (in combination) a person serving a specified length of time in prison a short-termer

• -th

  a suffix forming nouns of action (birth) or abstract nouns denoting quality or condition (depth; length; warmth). -th2 a suffix used in the formation of ordinal numbers (fourth, tenth), in some cases, added to altered stems of the cardinal (fifth; twelfth). origin -th3 variant of -eth1 : doth. -eth2 suffix a variant of -th2 twentieth […]

• -there

  a combining form meaning “wild animal, beast,” used in the formation of compound words, usually denoting extinct mammals, as adaptions of zoological taxa ending in -therium or -theria: baluchithere.

• -therm

  variant of thermo- as final element in compound words: isotherm. -therm suff. an organism having a specified kind of body temperature: exotherm.

• -thermy

  a combining form meaning “heat,” “heat generation,” used in the formation of compound words: diathermy. -thermy combining form indicating heat diathermy derived forms -thermic, -thermal, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from new latin -thermia, from greek thermē -thermy suff. heat: diathermy.

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