Cide Words
Have you ever noticed the connection between words like suicide, homicide, genocide, pesticide and fungicide? They all end in –cide, of cour, but their meanings are linked too. They all concern death, destruction, extermination and deliberate killing. The –cide ending originates from the Latin word caedere meaning to kill. Remember that next time you consider ordering a glass of cider!
The five examples above are not the only –cide words, however. (Although they are perhaps the most common.) On this page you'll find about 160 such words (almost 200 if you count variant spellings) culled from a variety of dictionaries.
The words below are divided into the following eight categories: Killing One's Relatives, Murdering Other People, Killing Animals, Killing Incts, Medicine (Killing Dias), Killing Plants, Miscellaneous Killing, and Extreme Killing. Killing One's Relations
Here are 13 words for killing members of one's family. Generally the word can be ud both for the act of killing, and the killer: an uxoricide is one who commits uxoricide.
Killing onelf suicide, lfcide
Killing one's father patricide
Killing one's mother matricide
Killing one's parent(s) parenticide
Killing one's brother fratricide
Killing one's sister sororicide
Killing one's husband mariticide, viricide
Killing one's wife uxoricide
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Killing one's son or
daughter
filicide, prolicide
Killing a clo relative parricide
Killing Other People – Murder
Killing a man, or any
person
homicide
Killing a woman femicide, gynecide, gynaecide
Killing an infant infanticide
Killing a fetus aborticide, feticide, foeticide
Killing old men nicide Killing a king regicide Killing a lord or master hericide Killing a philosopher philosophicide Killing a prophet or poet vaticide Killing a czar czaricide Killing a bishop episcopicide Killing an apprentice prenticecide
Killing a Brahmin Brahminicide, Brahmanicide
Killing a Spartacus member Sparticide
Killing a modernist modernicide
Killing a guest or host hospiticide
Killing a favorite nepoticide
Killing a friend ambicide
Killing an enemy hosticide
Killing a heretic hereticide, heretocide
Killing a tyrant tyrannicide
Killing of Christ Christicide
Killing Animals – Slaughter
There are terms for the killing of many types of animal. Here, in alphabetical order of animal, are 33 such –cide words:
Killing of bears ursicide
Killing of birds avicide, birdicide
Killing of boars apricide
Killing of bulls tauricide
Killing of cats felicide
Killing of chickens or
turkeys
gallinicide
Killing of cows vaccicide
Killing of deer cervicide
Killing of dogs canicide
Killing of elephants elephanticide
Killing of fish piscicide
Killing of fowls gallicide
Killing of fox vulpicide
Killing of goats hiricide
Killing of kangaroos macropocide
Killing of leeches hirudicide
Killing of mice muricide
Killing of moles talpicide
Killing of oxen bovicide
Killing of partridges perdricide
Killing of poultry poultrycide
Killing of rats raticide
Killing of reptiles herpecide, herpicide Killing of rodents rodenticide
Killing of als alicide
Killing of rpents rpenticide
Killing of snails/molluscs molluscacide Killing of sparrows sparrowcide
Killing of vermin verminicide
Killing of whales ceticide
Killing of wolves lupidide
Killing Incts
Killing of incts incticide
Killing of adult incts adulticide, imagocide, imagicide
Killing of inct larvae larvicide
Killing of inct eggs ovicide
Killing of pests pesticide
Killing of ants formicide, formicicide Killing of aphids aphidicide, aphicide Killing of bedbugs cimicide
Killing of bees apicide
Killing of fleas pulicide, pulicicide
Killing of flies muscacide, muscicide Killing of gnats or mosquitos culicicide, culicide
Killing of lice lousicide, pediculicide Killing of mites acaricide, miticide关于禁毒的作文
Killing of mosquitos anophelicide, mosquitocide Killing of spiders or scorpions arachnidcide
Killing of ticks tickicide
Killing of wasps vespacide Medicines And Drugs That Exterminate
In the same way that fungicide is ud to kill fungal spores, there are thousands of
medicines and drugs ud to kill all manner of bacteria and dias. The words for
such substances often end in –cide, for example:
Amebae amebacide, amebicide, amoebicide Animal parasites epizocide
Anthrax anthracocide
Bacilli bacillicide
Bacteria bactericide, bacteriacide, bacteriocide Blood corpuscles globulicide
Blood flukes schistosomacide, schistosomicide Cancerous cells tumorcide
Cells cytocide
Diarrhea-causing parasites trichomonacide
Fever (reducing fever) febricide
Germs germicide
Gonorrhea gonococcide, gonoccocide
Intestinal worms helminthicide, vermicide
Leukocytes leukocide, leucocide
Malarial parasites gametocide, plasmodicide, schizonticide Microbes microbicide
Nematode worms nematocide, nematicide, nemacide Oxyuris worms oxyuricide
Parasites parasiticide
Parasitic bacteria treponemicide
Protozoans protozoacide
Roundworms ascaricide, filaricide, lumbricide
Scabies scabicide, scabieticide
Sleeping sickness infection trypanocide, trypanosomacide
Sperm spermicide, spermatocide, spermatozoicide Spirilla bacteria spirillicide
Spirochetes bacteria spirocheticide, spirochaeticide
听鬼故事Spores fungicide, sporicide
24色穿搭口诀Staph staphylocide, staphylococcide, staphylococcicide
Streptococci bacteria streptococcicide
Tapeworms taenicide, taeniacide, teniacide, tenicide Toxins toxicide, toxinicide
Tuberculosis bacilli tuberculocide
Virus viruscide, virucide
Killing Plantlife
发现教学法Killing of algae algaecide, algicide
Killing of flowers floricide
Killing of plants herbicide, phytocide
Killing of weeds weedicide
Other Death, Annihilation, and Obliteration
Killing a god deicide
Killing of a giant gianticide
Killing of a monster monstricide
Killing putrid things putricide
Destruction of books tomecide
Destroying words logocide, verbicide
Destruction of a culture ethnocide
Destruction of ancient
petracide
樟树皮buildings/monuments
Destruction of laws legicide
Destruction of liberty liberticide
Destruction of life biocide
Ruining a suitor's chances suitorcide
Ruining someone's reputation famicide
Killing the mind (brainwashing) menticide
Killing a faith fideicide
Killing facts (distorting the truth) facticide
Killing someone with a motor vehicle autocide
Extreme Death, Killing, Destruction, and Extermination
And finally, we've saved the best (or worst) for last. The five words refer to killing on a massive scale:
如何制作豆腐Destruction of everything onmicide Destruction of the entire world mundicide Destruction of the natural world ecocide
Killing of all people populicide
Extermination of an entire racial, political, or cultural
genocide
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