| hyponymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: subordination |
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| ignominy | (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, shame |
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| irony | (noun) incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | - |
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| (noun) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs | - |
| (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire |
| jenny | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jennet, jenny ass |
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| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| lanyard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: laniard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: laniard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: laniard |
| larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| litany | (noun) any long and tedious address or recital | - |
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| loony | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
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| lysogeny | (noun) the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | Synonyms: lysogenicity |
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| mahogany | (noun) a shade of brown with a tinge of red | Synonyms: burnt sienna, reddish brown, sepia, Venetian red |
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| (noun) any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish | Synonyms: mahogany tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture | - |
| malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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| matrimony | (noun) the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, spousal relationship, union, wedlock |
| matronymic | (noun) a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor | Synonyms: metronymic |
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| meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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| mephenytoin | (noun) a toxic anticonvulsant drug (trade name Mesantoin) used in the treatment of epilepsy when less toxic anticonvulsants have been ineffective | Synonyms: Mesantoin |
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| meronym | (noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole | Synonyms: part name |
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| meronymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole | Synonyms: part to whole relation |
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| metonym | (noun) a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing | - |
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| metonymy | (noun) substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') | - |
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| metronymic | (noun) a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor | Synonyms: matronymic |
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| microtoponym | (noun) a name of a "minor" or small natural feature (e.g., a field, path, bridge, ditch, etc.). | - |
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| minyan | (noun) the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age) | - |
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| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| misogyny | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogynism |
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| monogyny | (noun) having only one wife at a time | - |
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| monophony | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monody, monophonic music |
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| monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| mutiny | (noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) | - |
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| nanny | (noun) female goat | Synonyms: nanny-goat, she-goat |
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| (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nurse, nursemaid |
| neoteny | (noun) an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species | - |
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| neotony | (noun) the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species | - |
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| ninny | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, poop |
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| nyala | (noun) spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck | Synonyms: Tragelaphus angasi |
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| nybble | (noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nibble |
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| nyctalopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder | Synonyms: moon blindness, night blindness |
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| nyctophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of night or darkness | - |
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| nycturia | (noun) excessive urination at night; especially common in older men | Synonyms: nocturia |
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| nylghai | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghau |
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| nylghau | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai |
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| nylon | (noun) a group of synthetic fabrics, known generically as aliphatic polyamides | - |
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| (noun) a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers | - |
| nylons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, rayon stocking, rayons, silk stocking |
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| nymph | (noun) a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | - |
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| (noun) (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden | - |
| (noun) a voluptuously beautiful young woman | Synonyms: houri |
| nymphalid | (noun) medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast | Synonyms: brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, nymphalid butterfly |
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| nymphet | (noun) a sexually attractive young woman | - |
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| nympho | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nymphomaniac |
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| nympholepsy | (noun) a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable | - |
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| nympholept | (noun) a person seized by nympholepsy | - |
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| nymphomania | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in women | - |
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| nymphomaniac | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| nystatin | (noun) an antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes | Synonyms: Mycostatin, Nystan |
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| ontogeny | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis |
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| onycholysis | (noun) separation of a nail from its normal attachment to the nail bed | - |
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| onychophoran | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: peripatus, velvet worm |
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| onychosis | (noun) any disease or disorder of the nails | - |
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| onyx | (noun) a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos | - |
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| onyxis | (noun) toenail having its free tip or edges embedded in the surrounding flesh | Synonyms: ingrown toenail |
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| orogeny | (noun) the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust) | - |
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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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| palaeobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: paleobotany |
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| paleobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: palaeobotany |
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| palimony | (noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends | - |
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| paronychia | (noun) infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe | - |
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| paronym | (noun) a word that strongly resembles another word in spelling | - |
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| parsimony | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness |
| parthenogeny | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogenesis |
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| (noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogenesis, virgin birth |
| patrimony | (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: birthright |
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| (noun) a church endowment | - |
| patronym | (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronymic |
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| patronymic | (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronym |
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| penny | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: cent, centime |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound | - |
| pennycress | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi | - |
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| pennyroyal | (noun) Eurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves; yields an aromatic oil | Synonyms: Mentha pulegium |
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| (noun) erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine | Synonyms: American pennyroyal, Hedeoma pulegioides |
| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| pennywhistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: tin whistle, whistle |
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| pennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a penny | Synonyms: penn'orth |
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| 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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| pertainym | (noun) meaning relating to or pertaining to | - |
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| phenylacetamide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, acetanilide |
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| phenylalanine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body | - |
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| phenylamine | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline, aniline oil |
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| phenylbutazone | (noun) anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Butazolidin) | Synonyms: Butazolidin |
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| phenylephrine | (noun) a powerful vasoconstrictor used to dilate the pupils and relieve nasal congestion | - |
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| phenylethylene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, styrene, vinylbenzene |
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| phenylketonuria | (noun) a genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency | Synonyms: PKU |
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| phenylpropanolamine | (noun) an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections | - |
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| phenyltoloxamine | (noun) antihistamine included in some preparations used to treat coughing and nasal congestion | - |
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| phenytoin | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative | Synonyms: Dilantin, diphenylhydantoin |
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| philogyny | (noun) admiration for women | - |
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| phony | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender |
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| phylogeny | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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| pinny | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinafore |
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| pinyon | (noun) any of several low-growing pines of western North America | Synonyms: pinon |
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| polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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