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Posted By: wwh Words ending in -eric - 07/08/01 05:06 PM
Here are a few more words ending in "-eric" I challenge all to find more

number= number of pixels down
percentage= number in percantage of space the frame ocupies down
asteric= asteric representing the remander of the window down

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 ...


Posted By: Bingley Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/09/01 05:11 AM
atmospheric, stratospheric

Bingley
Posted By: belligerentyouth Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/10/01 08:42 AM
...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)



Posted By: Anonymous Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/10/01 04:21 PM
then there's always the simple, yet eloquent, eric the 'alf word

idly wondering if this qualifies as a quadruple yart on "Full Monty", and thus thinking perhaps it should've been posted in "Animal Safari"
Posted By: wwh Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/10/01 06:55 PM
Cara, dear, somehow you reminded me of the seasoning and coloring agent, turmeric.

Posted By: teresag Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/11/01 12:15 AM
wwh, I'm surprised you didn't list choleric.
Or dysenteric. Or mesenteric.
Or just plain enteric.


Posted By: doc_comfort Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/11/01 08:30 AM
And what about Eric the half a bee?

Posted By: Faldage I know them ALL - 07/11/01 12:39 PM
*eric. YCLIU in your M-W Online

Posted By: Anonymous Re: Words ending in -eric - 07/11/01 03:57 PM
And what about Eric the half a bee?

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.



Posted By: Faldage Re: Eric the half - 07/11/01 04:02 PM
*I got it.

Posted By: Bingley Re: Eric the half - 07/12/01 04:27 AM
As did I, mainly because I was trying to think of some subtle way of working a reference in myself.

Bingley
Posted By: teresag backing into words - 07/13/01 01:12 PM
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.)


Posted By: maverick Re: backing into words - 07/13/01 04:38 PM
Seems like poets might find the back-end route easier

What about actors, darling?

I, too, am ambi~whatever~you~said, though strangely dysfunctional at crossword type anagrams and so on.

Posted By: Bingley Re: backing into words - 07/14/01 03:23 AM
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.

Bingley
Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: backing into words - 07/14/01 05:05 AM
Seems like poets might find the back-end route easier

Mav's a poet, and he don't know it! Or is that archie's gig?.... And a touch of the thespian, to boot?

-eric words

America.
And isn't tumeric a spice?




Posted By: Cameron Re: Words ending in -eric - 08/11/01 09:55 PM
Chimeric
: relating to, derived from, or being a genetic chimera or its genetic material <a chimeric cat> <chimeric genes>


etheric
hysteric (noun)

-Cameron Bobro

Posted By: Cameron Re: Words ending in -eric - 08/11/01 10:15 PM
ceric

: of, relating to, or containing cerium especially with a valence of four

polymeric and of course generic...

I guess this thread must be a continuation of an earlier thread, surely these were mentioned! Sorry if that's the case, but I'm having fun.

-CB

Posted By: teresag Re: backing into words - 08/12/01 03:27 PM
*And what shall we call these two newly-discerned classes of wordophile?*

I'd like to recommend ambi-verbal, ventro-verbal and dorso-verbal.

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