back-formation

back-formation, back formation['bækfɔr'meiʃən]

• n.
  • 【语言学】
  • 逆构词，逆成词，反成(指脱落一词的词缀以构成新词，如typewrite是typewriter的逆构词)
  • 逆序构词法，反成法

• radioactivity
• balboas
• deproteinates
• sink differences
• vector meson
• irreplaceablenesses
• ministate
• put your money on sb/sth
• high-flowns
• Shoulder-Hand Syndromes
• crouch over sb/sth
• goodwills
• pulverisation
• leapfroggers
• forel
• beat ... down
• jaguar
• recollectedly
• fish sticks
• be forfeit
• the order of the day
• decarbonater
• carboxides
• spring box mold
• stipules
• syllogizer
• Cagniard de la Tour, Charles
• keep one's hands off
• insolence
• abominating
• under the standard of
• residentiaryship
• tuberculinize, tuberculized
• USMA
• broadnesses
• opal-CT
• Xanadu
• pocket square
• rit
• upper-level disturbance
• cloud testing
• birdbanding
• surface-active agent
• dannys
• blow a Gallic gasket
• soft state
• pessimum
• hayer
• trusty and well-beloved
• explosion door
• defaunation
• Carinthian
• uncommunicably
• leading lady
• thibets
• par avance
• absorptiometer
• vacuousnesses
• DPM
• Ire.
• Padma Shri
• vibratest
• play on / upon sth
• gynandromorphism
• philter
• (be) in the firing line
• waverings
• Rouche's theorem
• critical facility
• oil crop
• snuffless
• beheaders
• universal developer
• marcescence
• designates
• whithersoever
• mesotherm
• superoxide
• spryly
• debt-for-nature swap
• geld
• attackest
• densitometries
• cimmerians
• have money to burn
• positive catalyst
• contrastive linguistics
• adjuster neuron
• Hastie, William Henry
• word-watch
• stand by one's guns
• high-alloy steel
• escalader
• a pile of shot
• at full strength
• socketless
• force feeder
• Swift,Jonathan
• Huggins' equation
• serve one's/its turn