-ure
/jə/ /jʊə/suffix
Forming nouns:
1Denoting an action, process, or result: censure closure scripture
2Denoting an office or function: judicature
3Denoting a collective: legislature
Origin
From Old French -ure, from Latin -ura.
- fire dragon
- firedrake
- fire drill
- fire-drilling
- fire dropper
- fired-up
- fire-eater
- fire-eating
- fire ecologist
- fire ecology
- fire edge
- fire engine
- fire-engine red
- fire escape
- fire exit
- fire extinguisher
- fire-extinguishing
- fire-eyed
- fire fan
- fire fang
- fire-fanging
- fire fiend
- firefight
- firefighter
- firefighting