| acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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| acronym | (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: initialism |
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| acrophony | (noun) naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter | - |
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| agony | (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: excruciation, suffering |
| agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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| alimony | (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: maintenance |
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| amphictyony | (noun) an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center | - |
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| anonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: nom de guerre, pseudonym |
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| anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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| antimony | (noun) a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite | Synonyms: atomic number 51, Sb |
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| antiphony | (noun) alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts | - |
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| (noun) a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | Synonyms: antiphon |
| antonym | (noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: opposite, opposite word |
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| antonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings | - |
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| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| balcony | (noun) a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet | - |
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| (noun) an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium | - |
| barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the estate of a baron | - |
| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
| bonyness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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| briony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: bryony |
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| brony | (noun) an adult, male fan of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | - |
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| bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
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| cacophony | (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din |
| calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
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| carbonyl | (noun) a compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide | - |
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| ceremony | (noun) the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | - |
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| (noun) any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | - |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
| chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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| colony | (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | - |
| (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | - |
| (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: dependency |
| (noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | - |
| colophony | (noun) translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments | - |
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| cony | (noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: coney, rabbit |
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| (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: coney, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
| (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, das, dassie, hyrax |
| cosmogony | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogeny, cosmology |
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| crony | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, pal, sidekick |
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| cronyism | (noun) favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications) | - |
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| deinonychus | (noun) swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot; of the Cretaceous | - |
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| diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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| ebony | (noun) a very dark black | Synonyms: coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
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| (noun) tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork | Synonyms: Diospyros ebenum, ebony tree |
| (noun) hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys | - |
| eponym | (noun) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary) | - |
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| (noun) the person for whom something is named | - |
| eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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| euphony | (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: music |
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| felony | (noun) a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
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| gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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| (noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
| goony | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goonie |
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| hagionym | (noun) The name of a Saint taken as a proper name. | - |
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| harmony | (noun) an agreeable sound property | - |
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| (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| (noun) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords | Synonyms: musical harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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| heteronym | (noun) two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation | - |
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| holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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| holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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| homonym | (noun) two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings | - |
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| homonymy | (noun) the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning | - |
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| homophony | (noun) part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style) | - |
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| (noun) the same pronunciation for words of different origins | - |
| hyponym | (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: subordinate, subordinate word |
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| hyponymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: subordination |
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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 |
| loony | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
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| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| neotony | (noun) the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species | - |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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| polyphony | (noun) music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments | Synonyms: concerted music, polyphonic music |
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| pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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| (noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
| ponycart | (noun) a cart with an underslung axle and two seats | Synonyms: donkey cart, pony cart, tub-cart |
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| ponytail | (noun) a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
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| pseudonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: anonym, nom de guerre |
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| quadraphony | (noun) a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels | Synonyms: quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system |
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| radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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| retronym | (noun) a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate | - |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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