| amnio | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amniocentesis |
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| amniocentesis | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amnio |
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| amnion | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnios, amniotic sac |
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| amnios | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnion, amniotic sac |
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| amniote | (noun) any member of the Amniota | - |
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| anion | (noun) a negatively charged ion | - |
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| anionic | (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
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| bagnio | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bathhouse |
| blennioid | (noun) elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins | Synonyms: blennioid fish |
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| bunion | (noun) a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe | - |
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| ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| coronion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible | - |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| crinion | (noun) point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead | Synonyms: trichion |
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| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| dominion | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: rule |
| fanion | (noun) a small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position | - |
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| feloniousness | (noun) The property of relating to, or having the nature of a serious criminal offense. | - |
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| goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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| gonion | (noun) the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw | - |
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| gonioscopy | (noun) an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma | - |
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| harmoniousness | (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmony |
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| (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: consonance |
| hydramnios | (noun) an abnormality of pregnancy; accumulation of excess amniotic fluid | - |
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| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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| impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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| ingeniousness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| inharmoniousness | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: disharmony |
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| inion | (noun) the craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance) | - |
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| intercommunion | (noun) participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) | - |
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| junior | (noun) the younger of two persons | - |
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| (noun) a third-year undergraduate | - |
| (noun) term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male | - |
| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| manioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: cassava |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca |
| manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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| minion | (noun) a servile or fawning dependant | - |
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| niobite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: columbite |
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| niobium | (noun) a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium | Synonyms: atomic number 41, Nb |
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| onion | (noun) an aromatic flavorful vegetable | - |
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| (noun) bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb | Synonyms: Allium cepa, onion plant |
| (noun) the bulb of an onion plant | - |
| onionskin | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: flimsy |
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| opinion | (noun) the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) | Synonyms: ruling |
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| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: persuasion, sentiment, thought, view |
| (noun) a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people | Synonyms: popular opinion, public opinion, vox populi |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, impression, notion |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, legal opinion |
| (noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: view |
| parsimoniousness | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| pernio | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, chilblains |
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| pinion | (noun) wing of a bird | Synonyms: pennon |
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| (noun) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | Synonyms: flight feather, quill, quill feather |
| (noun) a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack | - |
| pneumoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumonoconiosis |
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| pneumonoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumoconiosis |
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| pogonion | (noun) the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin | - |
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| quaternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternity, tetrad |
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| reunion | (noun) the act of coming together again | Synonyms: reunification |
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| (noun) a party of former associates who have come together again | - |
| rhinion | (noun) the anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones | - |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
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| seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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| seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
| senior | (noun) an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation | - |
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| (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: elder |
| senioritis | (noun) tiredness with the final year of high school | - |
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| seniority | (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: longevity |
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| (noun) higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service | Synonyms: higher rank, higher status, senior status |
| signior | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signor |
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| sphenion | (noun) the anterior tip of the parietal bone | - |
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| stephanion | (noun) the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus | - |
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| ternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| unceremoniousness | (noun) an unceremonial manner | - |
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| union | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting |
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| (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union |
| (noun) a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) | - |
| (noun) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts | - |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union |
| (noun) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations | - |
| (noun) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | Synonyms: join, sum |
| (noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: conglutination |
| (noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: unification |
| (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock |
| unionisation | (noun) act of forming labor unions | Synonyms: unionization |
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| unionism | (noun) the system or principles and theory of labor unions | Synonyms: trade unionism |
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| unionist | (noun) a worker who belongs to a trade union | Synonyms: trade unionist, union member |
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| unionization | (noun) act of forming labor unions | Synonyms: unionisation |
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