-ward
/wəd/(also -wards)
suffix
Added to nouns of place or destination and to adverbs of direction:
1 (usually -wards) (Forming adverbs) towards the specified place or direction: eastwards homewards
2 (usually -ward) (Forming adjectives) turned or tending towards: onward upward
Origin
Old English -weard, from a Germanic base meaning 'turn'.
- roomy
- Rooney, Mickey
- Rooney, Wayne
- roo rat
- 'roo rat
- roorbach
- roorback
- Roorkee chair
- roose
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt elk
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Rooseveltian
- Roosevelt Island
- Rooseveltism
- rooseveltite
- Roosevelt's elk
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Rooshian
- roosing
- rooskie
- roost
- rooster
- rooster comb
- roosterfish