Word.ws English Dictionary

-steine

UK/stɪ.iːn/US/stəˌin/

-steine suffix: used to form names of mucolytics other than bromhexine derivatives.

Suffix

-steine

  1. Used to form names of mucolytics other than bromhexine derivatives.

Origin of -steine

From acetylcysteine.

Questions about -steine

What does -steine mean?
-steine means used to form names of mucolytics other than bromhexine derivatives.
What part of speech is -steine?
-steine is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -steine?
-steine is pronounced /stɪ.iːn/ (UK).

Words near -steine in the dictionary

  1. -stat
  2. -static
  3. -statin
  4. -stats
  5. -stein
  6. -steine
  7. -step
  8. -ster
  9. -steric
  10. -steride
  11. -sterone

Source and license

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