-cide

Usage

• arboricide

  the killing of trees

• avicide

  the killing of birds

• fratricide

  The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

• fungicide

  Anything that kills fungi.

• genocide

  systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

• germicide

  an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

• herbicide

  a chemical that kills plants

• insecticide

  An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray.

• mariticide

  the killing of a husband—or one who does so

• parricide

  the killing of a parent or one who does so

• pesticide

  chemical which kills pests, such as insects or rodents

• regicide

  someone who commits regicide

• rodenticide

  a chemical agent that kills rodents

• sororicide

  The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister.

• suicide

  The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

• uxoricide

  the killing of a wife, or the one who does so

• verbicide

  distorting the correct sense of a word

• vermicide

  A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.