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  2. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Concerning names ending in -illiard for numbers 10 6n+3, milliard is certainly in widespread use in languages other than English, but the degree of actual use of the larger terms is questionable. The terms "milliardo" in Italian, "Milliarde" in German, "miljard" in Dutch, "milyar" in Turkish, and "миллиард," milliard (transliterated) in ...

  4. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz. [32]

  5. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...

  6. List of Greek letters - Wikipedia

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    Archaic letter denoting the presence of /h/ prior to a long diphthong, with a normal or low pitch ᾟᾗ: Eta with subscript iota and circumflex and rough breathing: Archaic letter denoting the presence of /h/ prior to a long diphthong, with a high or falling pitch Ίί: Iota with acute: High pitch on short vowel or rising pitch on long vowel ...

  7. List of particles - Wikipedia

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    Quarks are the fundamental constituents of hadrons and interact via the strong force.Quarks are the only known carriers of fractional charge, but because they combine in groups of three quarks (baryons) or in pairs of one quark and one antiquark (mesons), only integer charge is observed in nature.

  8. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Corresponding letters also used in literature, these are not used in this wiki: m n p q . The hydrogen isotopes are exceptions where the common special names may be used: Protium (= hydrogen-1, 1 H). Deuterium, D, 2 D (= hydrogen-2, 2 H). Tritium, T, 3 T (= hydrogen-3, 3 H).

  9. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase; Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram