| abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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| (noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
| adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
| adornment | (noun) the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | - |
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| (noun) a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness | - |
| alignment | (noun) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | - |
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| (noun) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition |
| apportionment | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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| assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
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| (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
| (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
| (noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
| (noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
| attainment | (noun) the act of achieving an aim | - |
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| (noun) arrival at a new stage | - |
| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, skill |
| cantonment | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, encampment |
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| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| disheartenment | (noun) a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted | - |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, dismay |
| disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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| disownment | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disowning |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| enjoinment | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, injunction |
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| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| enmity | (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: hostility, ill will |
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| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, hostility |
| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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| ginmill | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, saloon, taproom |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| gunman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| (noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gun |
| gunmetal | (noun) a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water) | - |
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| imprisonment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: internment |
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| (noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | - |
| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration |
| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| inmate | (noun) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) | - |
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| (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inpatient |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, yard bird, yardbird |
| internment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: imprisonment |
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| (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, poundage |
| (noun) confinement during wartime | - |
| ironman | (noun) a strong man of exceptional physical endurance | Synonyms: iron man |
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| ironmonger | (noun) a store selling hardware | Synonyms: hardware store, ironmonger's shop |
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| (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: hardwareman |
| ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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| mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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| militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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| nm | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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| nonmetal | (noun) a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties | - |
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| obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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| penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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| pyinma | (noun) relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous | - |
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| rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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| (noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| secernment | (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: discrimination |
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| (noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secretion |
| spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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| stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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| sustainment | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
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| trainman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman |
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| trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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| unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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| unmalleability | (noun) a lack of malleability | - |
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| unmanageableness | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
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| unmanliness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness |
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| unmasking | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: expose |
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| unmentionable | (noun) a garment worn under other garments | Synonyms: undergarment |
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| unmercifulness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: mercilessness |
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| unmindfulness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency |
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| unmusicality | (noun) The state or condition of being lacking in musical ability. | - |
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