| aeon | (noun) (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe | Synonyms: eon |
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| (noun) an immeasurably long period of time | Synonyms: eon |
| (noun) the longest division of geological time | Synonyms: eon |
| aztreonam | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections; has minimal side effects | Synonyms: Azactam |
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| bandoneon | (noun) a type of concertina popular in South America | - |
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| bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| buteonine | (noun) any hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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| chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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| chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chamaeleon |
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| (noun) a changeable or inconstant person | - |
| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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| dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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| (noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
| eon | (noun) (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe | Synonyms: aeon |
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| (noun) an immeasurably long period of time | Synonyms: aeon |
| (noun) the longest division of geological time | Synonyms: aeon |
| eonni | (noun) an older other woman, especially a sister, used by a female | - |
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| escutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: scutcheon |
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| (noun) (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed | - |
| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: finger plate, scutcheon |
| galleon | (noun) a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries | - |
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| gudgeon | (noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: Gobio gobio |
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| (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: goby |
| habergeon | (noun) (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk | - |
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| leoncita | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: lion marmoset, lion monkey, tamarin |
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| leone | (noun) the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| luncheon | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, lunch, tiffin |
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| mezereon | (noun) small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs | Synonyms: Daphne mezereum, February daphne |
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| micropaleontology | (noun) the paleontology of microfossils | - |
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| napoleon | (noun) a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream | - |
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| napoleoniana | (noun) items related to the life of Napoleon (engravings, paintings, books, etc.). | - |
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| neon | (noun) a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts | Synonyms: atomic number 10, Ne |
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| neonate | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: newborn |
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| neonatology | (noun) that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates | - |
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| neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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| nickelodeon | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: jukebox |
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| nucleon | (noun) a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus | - |
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| nucleonics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei | Synonyms: atomic physics, nuclear physics |
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| paeony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: peony |
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| palaeontologist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: fossilist, paleontologist |
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| palaeontology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: fossilology, paleontology |
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| paleontologist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: fossilist, palaeontologist |
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| paleontology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: fossilology, palaeontology |
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| pantheon | (noun) (antiquity) a temple to all the gods | - |
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| (noun) a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes | - |
| (noun) all the gods of a religion | - |
| peon | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: drudge, galley slave, navvy |
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| peonage | (noun) the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged | - |
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| (noun) the condition of a peon | - |
| peony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: paeony |
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| pigeon | (noun) wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs | - |
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| pigeonhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: cubbyhole |
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| (noun) a specific (often simplistic) category | - |
| pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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| pleonasm | (noun) using more words than necessary | - |
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| pleonaste | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: ceylonite |
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| prostheon | (noun) craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla | Synonyms: alveolar point, prosthion |
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| scutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: escutcheon |
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| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: escutcheon, finger plate |
| simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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| smidgeon | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| someone | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, soul |
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| stoolpigeon | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie |
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| sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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| surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| threonine | (noun) a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition | - |
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| truncheon | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick |
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| widgeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, wigeon |
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| wigeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, widgeon |
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