How to Use Words Ending in -al or -ar and Their Related Forms

Abstract

This article contains a collection of certain words ending in -al or -ar which are used in the technical literature. The said words are presented irrespective of their origin and their related forms are obtained by attaching additional suffixes. The selected words can be found in The American Heritage® Dictionary (2006) at Dictionary.com (2012). The website also provides additional references, like the Collins English Dictionary (2009), for some rarely used related forms. The words ending in -al are shown in Table 1 and the words ending in -ar are shown in Table 2.