There are 115 English roots starting with [F]. There are 341 words in the top 5,000 most frequently used English words. There are 1186 words in total. |
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Root | Meaning | Words(Top5,000) | Other words | |
fabr (fabr-) |
fabric, make, fashion |
fabric ***, forge ☆ | fabricate, fabrication, fabricative, fabricator |
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fac (fac, fact, -fect, fic) |
do, make | affair ****, affect ****, affection **, artifice ☆, artificial ***, benefactor ☆, beneficial **, benefit ****, defeat ***, defect ☆, deficiency ☆, deficient ☆, deficit ***, difficult ****, difficulty ****, edifice ☆, effect ****, effective ****, effectively ****, efficiency **, efficient ***, face ****, facial ☆, facilitate **, facility ****, fact ****, faction ☆, factor ****, factory ****, faculty **, fashion ****, fashionable ***, feat **, feature ****, infect **, infected **, infection ****, infectious **, insufficient ☆, manufacture **, manufacturer ***, perfect ****, perfection ☆, perfectly ****, proficiency ☆, proficient ☆, profit ****, profitable **, sacrifice ***, satisfaction ***, suffice ☆, sufficient ***, sufficiently ☆, surface **** |
affectation, affecting, affectional, affectionate, affectionately, affectionateness, affectionless, artefact, artifact, artificially, benefaction, benefice, beneficially, beneficialness, beneficiary, benefiter, calefaction, calefactory, chafe, confect, confection, confectionary, confectionery, counterfeit, defection, defective, defectively, defectiveness, defector, disaffect, dissatisfaction, edificial, effectible, effection, effectiveness, effectivity, effector, effects, effectual, effectuality, effectuate, effectuation, efficacious, efficacity, efficacy, efficiently, enface, enfacement, facade, facet, face-to-face, facette, faciend, facile, facilely, facileness, facilitation, facilitative, facilitator, facilitatory, facinorous, facsimile, factional, factionary, factious, factitious, factorability, factorable, factorial, factorize, factorship, factotum, factual, facture, fashioned, fax, feasible, feckless, fiat, forfeit, ineffective, inefficient, inofficious, interoffice, laissez-faire, malefaction, manufacturing, non-profit, olfaction, omnificence, omnificent, parfait, perfecta, perfectibility, perfectible, perfectionist, perfective, perfector, pluperfect, prefect, prefectural, prefecture, prequalification, profitability, profiteer, profiterole, quasiperfect, refactorable, refashion, refect, refection, refectory, reinfect, remanufacture, resurface, reunification, satisfactorily, satisfactory, semelfactive, suboffice, subprefect, sufficiency, superficial, superficiality, superficially, superficialness, superficies, surfaceless, surfacer, surfeit, surficial, transfection, trifacial, trifecta, uniface, unifacial, unifactorial, unification |
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fair | fair | fair ****, fairly ****, fairness ☆, unfair ***, unfairly ** |
fairway, unfairness | |
fall | to fail, decay, die, drop from a height |
fall **** | ||
fall (fall-, false-) |
false, deceive | fail ****, failure ****, false ****, fault **** | default, fallacious, fallacy, fallible, falsehood, falsely, falseness, falsetto, falsify, falsity |
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famili | close attendant, family |
familiar ****, family ****, unfamiliar ☆ | familial, familiarity, familiarize, familiarly, familiarness, materfamilias, paterfamilias, unfamiliarity, unfamiliarly |
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fan | fan | fan **** | fandom, fanlike, fanner, fannish |
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fantas | appearance, image, perception |
fantastic ***, fantasy *** | fantasticality, fantasticalness |
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far | far, remote, long ago |
far ****, further ***, furthermore *** | faraway, furtherance, furtherer |
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far (far-, fat-, fam-) |
say, speak, talk, rumor, report |
confess **, confession **, fable ☆, fabulous ☆, fairy ☆, fame ***, famous ****, fatal **, fate ***, infamous **, infancy ☆, infant **, preface ☆, profess ☆, profession ****, professional ****, professor **** |
affable, bifarious, confab, confabulate, confessable, confessionary, defamation, defame, efable, fabler, fabulously, fabulousness, fairily, fairy-like, fama, famed, fameless, famously, fatalism, fatalistic, fatalistically, fatality, fatally, fatalness, fateful, fess, ineffability, infamously, infamousness, infamy, infanthood, infantile, infantility, infantilize, infantlike, infantry, nefarious, prefacer, prefatorial, prefatory, professionally, professorial, professorially, professorship |
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fare | fare, journey | fare ***, farewell ☆, ferry ☆, warfare ☆, welfare ** |
farer, seafaring, thoroughfare, wayfarer |
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fascin | charm, fascinate |
fascinate ☆, fascinated ☆, fascinating ***, fascination ☆ |
fascinatedly, fascinatingly, fascinative |
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fast | fast | breakfast ****, fast ****, steadfast ☆ | fasten, fastener, fastness, steadfastly, steadfastness, stedfastly, stedfastness |
fat | fat | fat **** | fatness | |
fatigue | fatigue | fatigue ** | fatigable, fatigueless | |
favor | favor | favor ***, favorable ☆, favour ***, favourable **, favourite *** |
favorableness, favorably, favourableness, favourably, unfavourable |
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fear | fear | fear ****, fearful ☆ | fearer, fearless, fearlessly, fearlessness, fearsome, fearsomely, fearsomeness |
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feather | feather | feather *** | featherless, featherlike, feather-like, feathery |
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feder (feder-) |
treaty, agreement, contract, league, pact treaty, agreement, contract, league, pact |
federal *** | confederacy, confederation, federacy, federalize, federally, federate, federation |
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fee | livestock, cattle |
fee ****, fellow **** | feeless | |
feeble | feeble | feeble ☆ | feebleness, feebly, foible |
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feel | feel | feel ****, feeling **** | feelingly, feelingness | |
femin | women, female | female ****, feminine ☆, feminist ** | femininity, feminism, feministic |
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fend | strike, hit, thrust |
defence ***, defend ****, defender **, defense ***, defensive **, fence ****, offence ***, offend ***, offender **, offense ***, offensive *** |
defenceless, defendant, fend, fender, forfend, inoffensive, offenceless, offending, offenseless, offensively, offensiveness |
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fer | bear, carry | circumference ☆, conference ****, differ **, difference ****, different ****, differently ***, fertile ☆, fertilise ☆, fertility ☆, fertilize ☆, infer **, offer ****, offering ***, prefer ****, preference ***, refer ****, referee ☆, reference ****, suffer ****, suffering ***, transfer **** |
aquifer, confer, conifer, defer, differentiate, fer, fertilization, inference, lucifer, preferential, preferrer, referendum, sufferer, vociferous |
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fest | infest | infest ☆, manifest ☆ | flea-infested, infested, manifestable, manifestation, manifestative, manifester, manifestly, manifestness |
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fest (-fest-) |
joyful, merry | feast ☆, festival ***, festive ☆ | balloonfest, festiveness, festivity, jazzfest, peacefest, songfest, talkfest |
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fetch | fetch | fetch ** |
fever | fever | fever *** | fevered, feverish, feverishness, feverless, feverously |
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few | few | few **** | ||
fid (fid-, fis-) |
trust, faith | confide ☆, confidence ****, confident ****, confidential ☆, confidently ☆, defy ☆, faith ****, faithful **, faithfully **, fidelity ☆ |
confidante, confidentiality, confidentially, confidentialness, confider, deffident, defiance, diffident, fealty, fiance, fiancee, fid, fiduciary, infidel, infidelity, perfidious, perfidy |
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field | field | field **** | afield | |
fierce | fierce | fierce ** | ||
fig (fig-) |
form, shape | configure ☆, faint ***, faintly ☆, fiction ****, fictional ☆, figure **** |
configuration, disfigure, effigy, feign, feigned, feint, fictionally, fictioneer, fictionist, fictitious, fictive, fig-, figment, figurine, nonfiction, transfigure |
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fight | fight | fight ****, fighter **, fighting *** | ||
fil (fil-) |
thread, line, spin |
filament ☆, file ****, profile *** | defile, fil, filigree, fillet, profilist |
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film | film, membrane | film ****, flimsy ☆ | filmy | |
filter | filter | filter ** | filtratable, filtrate, filtration, infiltrate |
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fin | end, boundary | affinity ☆, confine **, define ****, definite **, definitely ****, definition ****, final ****, finale ☆, finally ****, finance ****, financial ****, financially ☆, fine ***, finely **, finish ****, finished **, finite ☆, infinite ☆, refine ☆, unfinished ☆ |
affine, confined, confinedly, confinedness, definability, definable, definably, definer, defining, definiteness, definitional, definitionally, definitive, definitude, fin, finality, finalize, financier |
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find | find | find ****, finding **** | refind | |
finger | finger | finger **** | fingerer, fingerless, fingerprint |
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fire | fire | fire **** | afire, fiery, fireable, fireless, firer, misfire, wildfire |
firm (firm-) |
firm, strong | affirm ☆, confirm ****, confirmation ☆, farm ****, farmer ****, farming ***, firm ***, firmament ☆, firmly **, infirm ☆ |
confirmable, confirmative, confirmatory, confirmer, farmable |
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fish | fish | fish ****, fishing ***, goldfish ☆ | archerfish, catfishing, fishable, fisher, fishery, fishlike, fishy, Lionfish |
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fit | suitable, fit | fit *** | fitful, fitly, fitness, fittable |
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fix | attach | fix ****, fixed ***, fixture ☆, prefix ☆, suffix ☆, terrific **, traffic **** |
affix, crucifix, fixation, Pacific, transfix |
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fla | blow | flavor **, flavour **, inflate ☆, inflation ** | afflation, afflatus, conflate, deflagration, deflate, deflation, fla, flamingo, flatulence, flatulent, flatus, flavorer, flavorless, flavorsome, flavoured, flavourer, flavourist, flavourless, flavoursome, flute, insufflation, souffle, sufflate |
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flag | flag | flag **** | flagger, flagless | |
flame | flame | flame ***, inflame ☆ | aflame, flagrance, flagrancy, flagrant, flagrantness, flameless, flamelike, inflamed, inflammation |
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flap (flap, flip) |
flap, flip | flap ☆ | fillip, flip, flop, floppy |
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flash | flash | flash *** | flashy | |
flat | dwelling, hall, floor |
flat *** | ||
flaw | flaw | flaw ** | flawless, flawlessly, flawlessness, flawy |
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flect (flect-, flex) |
bend | flexibility ***, flexible ***, inflection ☆, reflect ****, reflection ** |
circumflex, deflect, flect, flex, flexibleness, flexibly, flexile, flexion, flexor, genuflection, inflect, inflective, inflex, inflexible, inflexional, reflective, reflex, reflexibility, reflexible, reflexive, reflexively, reflexiveness, reflexivity, reflexly, reflexness |
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flict | strike, hit | afflict ☆, conflict ****, inflict ** | flict, profligacy, profligate |
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float | float | float *** | afloat, floatability, floatable, floating, flotage, flotation |
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flood | flood | flood *** | floodable, flooder, flooding, floodless, floodlike |
floor | floor | floor **** | ||
flora (flora-, flos-, flor) |
flower | flora ☆, floral ☆, flour ***, flourish ☆, flower **** |
cauliflower, deflower, florescent, Florid, florist |
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flow | flow | flow **** | flowage | |
flu (flu-) |
flow | flu ***, fluctuate ☆, fluent ☆, fluid **, flux ☆, influence ****, influenza ☆ |
affluence, affluent, confluence, effluent, flu, fluctuation, fluence, fluency, fluidity, flush, fluvial, influencer, influent, influx, refluent, superfluous, uninfluenced |
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fly | fly, winged insect |
butterfly ☆, flea ☆, flight ****, fly **** | flea-infested, flee, fleer |
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foc (foc-, focus-) |
hearth | focal ☆, focus ****, fuel **** | bifocal, focally, focusable, focuser, focusless, fueler, fueller |
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fog | fog | fog ☆, foggy ☆ | ||
fold | fold | fold ***, unfold ** | ||
folk | folk, common people |
folk **** | folk dance, folkish, folkishness, folklike, Folklore |
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follow | follow | follow ****, follower ☆, following **** | followable | |
font | spring | fountain ☆ | font, fontal, fontanelle |
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food (food, feed) |
food, nourish | feed ****, food ****, foster *** | breastfeed, feedable, feedback, feedbag, fosterage, fosterer, superfood |
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fool | fool | fool ***, foolish ** | ||
foot | foot | foot ****, football **** | footage, footballer, footless |
fora | bore, drill | interfere ***, interference ☆ | foralite, foramen, foraminifer, perforation |
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fore | fore | afford ****, before ****, beforehand ☆, first ****, firstly **, for ****, fore ☆, forecast **, forehead ☆, foresee ☆, forever ****, forth ***, forward ****, straightforward **, therefore **** |
first-person, forearm, forebear, forebode, forecastle, foreclose, foredoom, forefather, forefinger, forefront, foreground, forehand, forejudge, Foreman, foreman., forenoon, forerunner, foreseeable, foretell, forethought, forewarn, foreword, forgetful, forgettable, forgetter, forwardly, forwardness, forwards |
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fores (fores-, forest-) |
outside, forest | foreign ****, foreigner **, forest ****, forum ** | foreignly, foreignness, fores, forestal, foresteal, forested, forestless |
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fork | fork | fork *** | ||
form | shape, figure, image |
conform ☆, deformed ☆, form ****, formal ****, formally ☆, format **, formation **, formula **, formulate ☆, inform ****, informal ***, information ****, platform ****, reform ***, transform ****, transformation **, uniform *** |
cruciform, cuneiform, deform, deformity, disinformation, formability, formable, formably, formality, formalize, formalness, formational, formative, ill-informed, informality, informally, misinformation, multiform |
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former | former | former ****, formerly ** | foremost | |
fort | strong, chance, powerful, luck |
comfort ****, comfortable ****, comfortably **, effort ****, enforce **, enforcement **, force ****, forceful ☆, forcible ☆, fort ☆, fortress ☆, fortunate **, fortunately ***, fortune ****, reinforce ***, uncomfortable ***, unfortunate **, unfortunately **** |
comfortableness, comforter, comforting, comfortingly, comfortless, comfortlessly, comfortlessness, comfy, effortless, effortlessly, effortlessness, enforceability, enforceable, enforcedly, enforcer, forcefully, forte, fortify, fortitude, misfortune, reinforcement, reinforcer, uncomfortableness, uncomfortably |
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fossil | fossil | fossil ** | fossiliferous, fossilize, fossillike |
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four | four | forty ***, four ****, fourteen ***, fourth **** | ||
fox | fox | fox ** | foxlike, foxy | |
frag (frag-, frang-, -fring-, fract-) |
break | fraction **, fracture ☆, fragile **, fragment ***, infringe ☆ |
defray, diffract, fract, fractal, fractious, frag, fragilely, fragileness, fragility, frangible, infraction, refract, refraction, refractory, refrain |
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fragr | fragrant, sweet odor |
fragrant ☆ | fragrance, fragrantly, fragrantness |
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frai (fric-, frict-, frai) |
⑴rub ⑵peace, safety |
afraid ****, fray ☆, friction ☆ | affray, dentifrice | |
frank | frank, free | franchise **, frankly ** | franchisee, franchisement, franchiser, frank |
fraud | cheating, deceit |
defraud ☆, fraud ** | fraudster, fraudulent, fraudulently |
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free | free | free ****, freedom ****, freely ** | freelance, freeman, freeware, freeway, freewill |
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freeze | freeze | freeze ****, freezing ☆, frost ☆, frozen *** | freezable, freezer, frosted, frostlike, frosty |
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frequent | often, regular, repeated; |
frequency ***, frequent ***, frequently **** | frequentable, frequentation, frequenter, frequentness, infrequence, infrequency, infrequent, infrequently |
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fresh | fresh | fresh ****, freshly **, freshman ☆ | freshmanship, refresh | |
friend | friend, lover | friend ****, friendly ****, friendship *** | befriend, friendless, friendlessness, friendlily, friendliness, unfriendly |
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frig | cold | fridge ***, refrigerator ** | frig, frigid, frigorific, refrigerate |
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Frigg | Frigg, the god of love |
Friday *** | Frigg | |
fright | fright, fear | fright ☆, frighten ***, frightened **, frightening ***, frightful ☆ |
affright, frightenedly, frighteningly, frightfulness |
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frog | frog | frog *** | ||
from | from, fro, frame |
frame ****, fro ☆, from **** | framable, frameable, frameless, framer, framework |
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front | forehead | confront ***, confrontation **, front ****, frontier ☆ |
confrontational, forefront, frontage, frontal, prefrontal |
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frown | frown, scowl, snort |
frown ** | frowner, frowningly | |
fruit (fruit, frug-) |
fruit, useful | frugal ☆, fruit **** | fructose, frugality, frugally, frugalness, frugivorous, fruitage, fruited, fruitful, fruitless, fruitlessly, fruitlessness, fruitlike, fruity, grapefruit |
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frust | injury, in vain, in error |
frustrate **, frustration *** | frustrated |
fry | fry | fry *** | fried, frying | |
fug (fug-, fugit-) |
flee | fugitive ☆, refuge **, refugee *** | centrifugal, centrifuge, fugacious |
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full | full | fill ****, fulfilment ☆, full ****, fully **** | fillable, filler, filling, fulfil, fullness, fulness, landfill |
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fun | fun | fond **, fun ****, funny **** | fondness, funnily, funniness, unfunny |
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funct | do, perform, execute |
function ****, functional ** | functionality, functionally, functionary, functionless, fungibility, fungible, non-fungible, unction |
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fund | bottom, found | found ****, foundation ***, founder ***, fund ****, fundamental ***, fundamentally ☆, funding ***, profound ** |
co-founder, foundational, foundationally, foundationary, foundationless, fundament, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, fundamentality, fundamentalness, funder, fundless, fundus, fundy, profundity, unfounded |
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fur | fur | fur *** | furry | |
furn | provide, furnish |
furnishing ☆, furniture ****, perform ****, performance ****, performer *** |
furnish, performing, underperform |
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fus (fus-, fund-) |
pour, melt, cast |
confound ☆, confuse ***, confusion **, fusion ☆, profuse ☆, refund ☆, refusal **, refuse **** |
confusability, confusable, confusing, confusingly, diffusion, effuse, effusion, effusive, fund, fuse, infuse, infusion, perfusion, profusion, suffusion, transfusion |
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