Suffixes

-cide

-cycle

-cracy

-ic

-ism

-ist

-ography

-oid

-ology

-omics

-onomy

-onym

-philia

-phobia

-scope

-stan

-ware

-ic is an suffix used in science to refer to chemical compounds having a valence higher than that of a specified element in compounds or ions named with adjectives ending in -ous .

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-ic with a ` backward on c pronounced "itch" in croatian/bosnian/serbian means "son of" or "by" in surnames. example milosevic.