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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: undu-, und- + (Latin: > French: flow, wave, billow).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing": copi-; exuber-; hyper-; multi-; opulen-; ple-; pleio-; plethor-; poly-; super-; total-; ultra-.


Word Unit: ungu- + (Latin: nail, claw, hoof).

A cross reference, directly or indirectly, involving a word unit meaning "nail (finger, toe); claw": onych-.


Word Unit: unguent-, unction- (Latin: ointment; anoint; smear).

Word Unit: uni-, un- (Latin: one, single).

Word Unit: -uous + (Latin: a suffix; tending to, inclined to).

Word Unit: upsilon + (Greek: the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet).

Word Unit: uran-, urano- (Greek: heaven [s], vault of heaven; hence "the sky"; from Uranus, the god of the sky; in medicine, the palate, roof, or top of the mouth).

Word Unit: uranisc-, uranisco- + (Greek: roof of the mouth; literally, "little vault of heaven").

Word Unit: Uranus, words from myths (Uranus with Seventeen Sattelites; seventh planet from the sun).

Word Unit: urban, urb-, -urban, -urbia (Latin: city).

Word Unit: -ure (Latin: a suffix that denotes an act or result, result of the act of).

Word Unit: uretero-, ureter- (Greek: urinary canal).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.


Word Unit: urethro-, urethr- (Greek: urethra, a slitlike tube conveying urine from the internal urethral orifice of the bladder).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; vagino-; ventricul-.


Word Unit: urg-, [erg-], -urgy, -urgia, -urgical, -urgically, -urgist, -urge (Greek: work).

Cross references related to "work, toil" word families: argo-; ergasio-; ergo-; labor-; oper-; pono-.


Word Unit: urge-, urg- (to press hard, to push, to drive, to compel).

Word Unit: urin-, urino-, uric-, urico-, uri-, -uria, -urea, -ure (Latin: water, rain, wet; urine).

Word Unit: uro-, ur-, ure- (Greek: urine [water, rain, wet]).

Word Unit: uro-, ur-, -urous, -ura, -uroid, -urus, -uridae (Greek: tail, tail-like).

Related "tail" word units: caudo-; cerc-; peni-.


Word Unit: ursi-, urs- + (Latin: bear [the omnivorous animal, a.k.a. a carnivore]).

Related "bear, bears (animals)" word units: arcto-; Berserk.


Word Unit: us-, ut- (Latin: use, employ, practice).

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