-naires

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  questionnaire \ques`tion`naire"\, n.; pl. {-naires} (F. ?). [F.]
     1. same as {Questionary}.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. A list of questions, usually on a printed form, to be
        answered by an individual. The forms often have blank


        spaces in which the answers can be written. Sets of such
        forms are distributed to groups and the answers used for
        various purposes, such as to obtain statistical
        information for social science, political, or marketing
        research, or to obtain information about a patient for the
        use of medical practitioners.
        [PJC]