Here are a few more words ending in "-eric" I challenge all to find more
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cleric - a member or the clergy
climacteric
cremasteric - a neurological test. Stroking the inner surface of male thigh causes cremasteric muscle to contract, causing testicle on that side to be lifted noticeably.
steric (ie., spatial) effects (a word used in molecular chemistry)
esoteric adj. 1 a) intended for or understood by only a chosen few, as an inner group of disciples or initiates (said of ideas,
isomeric - molecules made up of the same atoms, but differering in arrangement
tautomerism (noun) tautomeric (adj.) n. 5< TAUTO3 + Gr meros, a part + 3ISM6 Chem. the property of some substances of being in a condition of equilibrium between two isomeric forms and of reacting readily to form either
... divided into three circles, regions or associations: the Exoteric Circle, the Mesoteric Circle and the Esoteric Circle. The Exoteric Circle is the association ...
...and ionospheric will we're on thew subject. The ionosphere is really useful because the ionisation caused by the sun's rays helps transmit radio waves.. so I once read.
One for Australians.. xeric (known to Aussies as bloody dry)
oh, that's sorta what i was trying to esoterically allude to. that'll teach me to try to be silly... OTOH, i cracked myself up, so i guess in the end it wasn't a total bust.
wwh, in a private message that I'm confident he won't mind my revealing, admitted that he finds it difficult to think of words "back-end first." I seem to be ambi-verbal, i.e.. I can think of words either starting or ending with a particular sequence of letters fairly easily.
I'm wondering, do others find one way harder or easier? (Seems like poets might find the back-end route easier.)
What say you? And what shall we call these two newly-discerned classes of wordophile? (I just love categorizing.)
I definitely find it easier to supply a missing end than a missing beginning. If I'm doing a crossword and the beginning of a word is missing I have to laboriously try different possibilities working my way through the alphabet, but a missing end will be instantly retrieved from wherever I store these things.
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Or is that archie's gig?.... And a touch of the thespian, to boot?
