-ite

Definitions

• (sometimes) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
• Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
• (chiefly) Used to form demonyms.
• Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
• Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
• (biology) Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
• Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
• (chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.