Word.ws English Dictionary

-orphan

UK/ˈɔː.fan/US/ˈɔɹˌfæn/

-orphan suffix: used to form names of morphinan derivates used as opioid receptor antagonists/agonists.

Suffix

-orphan

  1. Used to form names of morphinan derivates used as opioid receptor antagonists/agonists.

Forms of -orphan

alternative form-orph-

Origin of -orphan

Contraction of morphinan.

Questions about -orphan

What does -orphan mean?
-orphan means used to form names of morphinan derivates used as opioid receptor antagonists/agonists.
What part of speech is -orphan?
-orphan is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -orphan?
-orphan is pronounced /ˈɔː.fan/ (UK).

Words near -orphan in the dictionary

  1. -oria
  2. -ories
  3. -orium
  4. -oriums
  5. -orph-
  6. -orphan
  7. -orphine
  8. -orphone
  9. -ors
  10. -ory
  11. -os

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -orphan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “-orphan.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/-orphan. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.