pend-, pens, -pense, -pending, -pended

1. A tendency to demonstrate a particular behavior.
2. A natural inclination or tendency to behave in a certain way: 'She had a propensity to talk too much."
3. A tendency towards a particular way of behaving; especially, a bad one.
4. Etymology: "a disposition to favor", from propense, "inclined, prone" (1528), from Latin propendere, "to incline to, to hang forward, to weigh over"; from pro-, "forward" + pendere, "to hang".

Of, relating to, or characteristic of numerous centipedes of the family Scolopendridae, especially the larger ones.