Little did I envision the difficulties encountered in building a list of -cide words. In general, such words are a combined form, signifying \u27killer\u27 or \u27killing\u27 (from the Latin caedere, to cut or kill). There are, however, three groups of exceptions: (1) development from other, similar roots; (2) neologisms, many of which are nonsensical; and (3) accidents of etymology
