Word.ws English Dictionary

-quinil

/ˈkwɪ.nɪl/

-quinil suffix: used to form names of quinoline derivatives used as benzodiazepine receptor full, partial, or inverse agonists.

Suffix

-quinil

  1. Used to form names of quinoline derivatives used as benzodiazepine receptor full, partial, or inverse agonists.

Origin of -quinil

From quin(oline) + -il (of unknown origin).

Questions about -quinil

What does -quinil mean?
-quinil means used to form names of quinoline derivatives used as benzodiazepine receptor full, partial, or inverse agonists.
What part of speech is -quinil?
-quinil is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -quinil?
-quinil is pronounced /ˈkwɪ.nɪl/.

Words near -quinil in the dictionary

  1. -ptile
  2. -punk
  3. -pœia
  4. -quel
  5. -quine
  6. -quinil
  7. -racil
  8. -rama
  9. -rd
  10. -rds
  11. -red

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -quinil (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: “-quinil.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/-quinil. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.