-machy, -machia, -machist, -machic, -machical +
(Greek: a suffix; battle, war, contest, fight)
gamomachy, gamomachia
1. Marital conflicts.
2. Fighting between a husband and a wife.
gigantomachia
The war of the giants against the gods.
gigantomachize
To rise in rebellion like the giants against heaven.
gigantomachy
1. A war of giants against other giants or a contest resembling this.
2. War of giants against gods.
heresimachy, heresimach, heresimachia
Active opposition to heresy and heretics.
hieromachy, hieromachia
1. A war, or battle, between members of church clergy.
2. A quarrel, or strong arguments, between clerics.
3. A conflict of ecclesiastics.
hippomachia
A battle while on horseback.
hippomachy
Fighting on horseback.
hoplomachy
Fighting while heavily armoured.
iconomachy
1. A war against images or idols.
2. Hostility or opposition to images; especially, to their use in connecion with religious worship.
logomachy, logomachia
1. A dispute over or about words.
2. A controversy marked by verbiage.
3. Contention about words or an instance of this.
logomachy, logomachia, logomachical; logomachize
1. An argument about the uses and/or meanings of words.
2. A dispute about words; a semantic contention getting away from issues or reality.
3. Fighting about words.
4. A word game.
monomachy
1. A single combat.
2. A contest between two; such as, a duel.
naumachy
1. A naval battle; especially, a mock sea fight.
2. In Roman antiquity, a show or spectacle representing a sea fight; also, a place for such exhibitions.
ostomachy
A game played with fourteen pieces of bone; fighting with bones.
Related "war, war-like" or "battle" word units:
areo-;
belli-;
milit-.
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