WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
-sci-, root.
sci., an abbreviation of:
- -sci- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "to know.'' This meaning is found in such words as: conscience, conscious, omniscience, omniscient, prescience, prescient, science, scientific.
sci., an abbreviation of:
- science.
- scientific.
'-sci-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Bachelor of Science
- Christian Science
- Christian Scientist
- Church of Christ, Scientist
- Master of Science
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- adscititious
- behavioral science
- big science
- biobehavioral science
- cognitive science
- computer science
- conscious
- creation science
- domestic science
- earth science
- environmental science
- exact science
- food science
- hard science
- information science
- library science
- life science
- materials science
- military science
- natural science
- neuter
- nice
- oblivious
- physical science
- poli sci
- political science
- poly sci
- quasi-scientific
- quasi-scientifically
- reader
- rocket science
- rocket scientist
- sci-fi
- sci.
- science fiction
- scientific
- scientific method
- scientistic
- scientize
- sciolism
- vet. sci.