| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
| bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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| (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
| bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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| bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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| dogma | (noun) a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
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| (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: tenet |
| dogmatism | (noun) tendency to assert principles as undeniably true | - |
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| dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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| enigma | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, riddle |
| enigmaticness | (noun) Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable. | - |
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| (noun) The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character. | - |
| frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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| hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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| kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
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| kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| magma | (noun) molten rock in the earth's crust | - |
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| pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| phragmacone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmocone |
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| pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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| pragmatic | (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
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| pragmatics | (noun) the study of language use | - |
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| pragmatism | (noun) the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | Synonyms: realism |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | - |
| pragmatist | (noun) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of philosophical pragmatism | - |
| rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| sigma | (noun) the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| smegma | (noun) a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin | - |
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| stigma | (noun) a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease | - |
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| (noun) an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stain |
| (noun) the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil | - |
| stigmata | (noun) marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ | - |
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| stigmatic | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatist |
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| stigmatisation | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: branding, stigmatization |
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| stigmatism | (noun) normal eyesight | - |
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| (noun) (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point | - |
| (noun) the condition of having or being marked by stigmata | - |
| stigmatist | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| stigmatization | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: branding, stigmatisation |
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| strongman | (noun) a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence | - |
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| (noun) a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| syntagma | (noun) a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit | Synonyms: syntagm |
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| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| wigmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells wigs | - |
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| wingman | (noun) the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation | - |
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| workingman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workman |
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| zeugma | (noun) use of a verb with two or more complements, playing on the verb's polysemy, for humorous effect | - |
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