Could take a page out of the biologist's book. "what's this thing?" Transcriptase - enzyme (-ase) which transcribes - DNA to RNA. "What about this" Reverse transcriptase - does the reverse of transcriptase.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme - does exactly what it says on the tin. You can lex it even further:
- Angio - heart (from ango, vessel)
- Tens - from hypertension, vis tendo, tendere, to stretch.
- (-in) - suffix associated with polypeptides:
- Convertere - turn around, from:
- Con - with
- Vert - turn
- En - inside
- Zyme - from zume/zymē - leavened, loosely, biological thing which causes leavening
It just makes so much sense! Lexemes are so cool. Like digging into linguistic source code.