cit-, citat- +
(Latin: talk, speak, say; to put into quick motion, to excite, to provoke, to call urgently; to summon, to summon forth, to arouse, to stimulate; used in the sense of "stimulating")
resuscitator
1. A breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration.
2. Something that resuscitates, as an apparatus that forces oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen, and carbon dioxide into the lungs of a person who has undergone partial asphyxiation.
solicit
1. To try to get something by making insistent requests or pleas.
2. To plead with or to petition a person or group for something.
3. To attempt to draw someone into participating in illegal or immoral acts.
solicitation
1. The act of enticing a person to do something wrong or immoral.
2. Request for a sum of money.
3. An entreaty (earnest or urgent request) addressed to someone of superior status.
solicitor
1. A term for a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents.
2. A petitioner who solicits contributions, or trade, or votes.
3. The chief officer for legal matters in a city, town, or county, or in a government department.
solicitous
1. Expressing an attitude of concern and consideration.
2. Full of eagerness to do something.
3. Paying very careful attention to details.
solicitously
1. In a concerned and solicitous manner.
2. A reference to someone who is showing care and helpful attention to, or for, somebody else.
solicitousness
1. A feeling of excessive concern.
2. Full of concern or fears.
solicitude
1. Concern and consideration shown for someone or something.
2. A cause of concern or uneasiness.
3. The state of being solicitous; that is, care or concern, as for the well-being of another person.
suscitate
1. To rouse, to excite, or to call into life and action.
2. To arouse to greater activity.
thermoexcitatory
Stimulating the formation of heat in the body.
thermoexcitory
Stimulating or exciting the production of heat.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
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