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  1. arch- love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Chief; highest; most important: archenemy.
  2. Extreme or most characteristic of its kind: archconservative.
  3. Variant of archi-.

Wiktionary

  1. chief, highest, most extreme

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin archi-, from Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (archi-), from ἄρχω (archō, "to begin, to lead, to rule, to govern"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English arche-, from Old English ærce- and from Old French arche-, both from Latin archi-, from Greek arkhi-, archi-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Interestingly, as in a string of recent Spielberg offerings, this arch- emotionalising instantly disappears when the director gets out the heavy weaponry: Spielberg is still a peerless constructor of battle and fighting scenes, managing to impart a visceral brutality that is also sensitive to the human cost.”

    The Guardian: War Horse – review

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. segmental arch
  2. lancet
  3. lancet arch
  4. camber
  5. camber arch
  6. bell arch
  7. sydney harbor bridge
  8. three-centered arch
  9. trefoil arch
  10. trimmer arch
  11. Tudor arch
  12. neural arch
  13. proscenium arch
  14. skew arch
  15. pectoral arch
  16. pier arch
  17. pointed arch
  18. rampant arch
  19. Roman arch
  20. round arch
  21. rowlock arch
  22. safety arch
  23. scheme arch
  24. scoinson arch
  25. sconcheon arch
  26. semicircular arch
  27. shoulder girdle
  28. shouldered arch
  29. skeen arch
  30. skene arch
  31. straight arch
  32. diminished arch
  33. drop arch
  34. flat arch
  35. four-centered arch
  36. Gothic arch
  37. horseshoe arch
  38. instep
  39. keel arch
  40. metatarsal arch
  41. moorish arch
  42. new river gorge bridge
  43. ogee arch
  44. squinch
  45. abutment arch
  46. basket-handle arch
  47. bayonne bridge
  48. broken arch
  49. corbel arch
  50. drop-arch
  1. safety-arch
  2. archi-
  3. four-centered
  4. arched
  5. key
  6. platband
  7. keystone
  8. subhyoid
  9. extradosed
  10. intrados
  11. pelvis
  12. tympanum
  13. arch
  14. arch-stone
  15. headstone
  16. pedicle
  17. pier
  18. rib
  19. rise
  20. skewback
  21. fauld
  22. imperfect arch
  23. cope
  24. haunches of an arch
  25. counter-arch
  26. haunch-stone
  27. hyparcuale
  28. scheam-arch
  29. skene-arch
  30. bowstring bridge
  31. glossohyal
  32. scheme-arch
  33. arch-solid
  34. braced arch
  35. arch-
  36. arches
  37. archy
  38. arche
  39. archway
  40. enarched
  41. epipubis
  42. gill-bar
  43. gill-raker
  44. gueulette
  45. isospondyli
  46. ogee
  47. amphistylic
  48. crown
  49. false arch
  50. flying buttress
  1. lamina arcus vertebrae
  2. overarch
  3. spandrel
  4. thrust
  5. vault
  6. zygosphene
  7. arch-confraternity
  8. archivolt
  9. basibranchial
  10. basihyal
  11. branchial
  12. epihyal
  13. extrados
  14. hemapophysis
  15. Ilium
  16. interhyal
  17. invert
  18. lagging
  19. lancet-window
  20. pelvisternum
  21. post-temporal
  22. Romanesque
  23. roof
  24. springer
  25. stage
  26. striking-plate
  27. stylohyal
  28. arcogenous
  29. mesocoracoid arch
  30. tymp-arch
  31. thyrohyal
  32. malar
  33. flatfoot
  34. jack arch
  35. mayan arch
  36. expanse
  37. eyebrow
  38. inverted arch
  39. ewe-necked
  40. ex-
  41. enarch
  42. epibranchial
  43. impost
  44. liberty
  45. mandibulohyoid
  46. diadem
  47. hyo-
  48. hyoglossal
  49. hyoid
  50. hyoid arch
  1. hyoid bone
  2. hyomandibular
  3. hyostylic
  4. hypobranchial
  5. hypohyal
  6. imbow
  7. imbowment
  8. mandibular arch
  9. concamerate
  10. concameration
  11. concaved
  12. corbel
  13. coussinet
  14. cove
  15. cross-springer
  16. cusp
  17. grass table
  18. hanse
  19. headway
  20. heaven
  21. hemal arch
  22. hood molding
  23. laminated arch
  24. coign
  25. camerate
  26. ceratobranchial
  27. ceratohyal
  28. chancel arch
  29. cheekbone
  30. coom
  31. couplet
  32. epial
  33. episternal
  34. extravisceral
  35. furnace-oven
  36. guglia
  37. gutta-band
  38. hagiasterium
  39. haplodoci
  40. holobranch
  41. holostyly
  42. hyposternal
  43. infrapharyngeal
  44. intermutule
  45. interstitium
  46. ischiopubis
  47. lonja
  48. miter-arch
  49. neo-roman
  50. neurosteite
  1. ogival
  2. outspan
  3. paleostylic
  4. perial
  5. perivertebral
  6. pharyngohyal
  7. phyllospondyli
  8. posthyoidean
  9. postmandibular
  10. pulvinar
  11. r. a.
  12. rowlock
  13. spline
  14. tetrapylon
  15. thoracacromial
  16. tisar
  17. torrent-bow
  18. trefoiled
  19. turning-piece
  20. up-sweep
  21. vihara
  22. xenomi
  23. bowed
  24. butment
  25. buttress
  26. geostatic arch
  27. manteltree
  28. minar
  29. multifoil
  30. nasio-bregmatic
  31. neuro-central
  32. neuroid
  33. ornitholite
  34. overvault
  35. parabema
  36. pawkily
  37. pawky
  38. peak-arch
  39. pectorimyon
  40. pelvimyon
  41. pier-arch
  42. pigeonholed
  43. pleuroid
  44. postclavicle
  45. posterotemporal
  46. proscenium-arch
  47. proscenium-box
  48. reed
  49. roach
  50. rood-arch
  1. roof-stay

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Words tagged ‘arch-’

  1. arch-enemy
  1. arch-fiend
  1. archbishop
  1. archbishopric
  1. archdiocese

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