The asterisk symbol (*) is the wildcard .

When you put the asterisk after the stem of a word, your search will return documents containing any word beginning with that stem.

For example:

Termin*  Search results containing the words termination, terminated, terminal, etc.

Litig*  Search results containing the words litigator, litigation, litigious, etc.

Eat*  Search results containing the words eat, eaten, eatery,eaters, eating