|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
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 ...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
atmospheric, stratospheric
Bingley
Bingley
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 1,055
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 1,055 |
...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)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
|
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"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Cara, dear, somehow you reminded me of the seasoning and coloring agent, turmeric.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 60
journeyman
|
|
journeyman
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 60 |
wwh, I'm surprised you didn't list choleric.
Or dysenteric. Or mesenteric.
Or just plain enteric.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 618
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 618 |
And what about Eric the half a bee?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
*eric. YCLIU in your M-W Online
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
|
|
Anonymous
Unregistered
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
As did I, mainly because I was trying to think of some subtle way of working a reference in myself.
Bingley
Bingley
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 60
journeyman
|
|
journeyman
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 60 |
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.)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
Seems like poets might find the back-end route easierWhat about actors, darling?   I, too, am ambi~whatever~you~said, though strangely dysfunctional at crossword type anagrams and so on.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
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
Bingley
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189 |
Seems like poets might find the back-end route easierMav's a poet, and he don't know it!  Or is that archie's gig?.... And a touch of the thespian, to boot? -eric wordsAmeric a. And isn't tumeric a spice?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 12
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 12 |
Chimeric : relating to, derived from, or being a genetic chimera or its genetic material <a chimeric cat> <chimeric genes> etheric hysteric (noun) -Cameron Bobro
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 12
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 12 |
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
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 60
journeyman
|
|
journeyman
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 60 |
*And what shall we call these two newly-discerned classes of wordophile?*
I'd like to recommend ambi-verbal, ventro-verbal and dorso-verbal.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,331
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
802
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
