| acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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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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| androgeny | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgenesis |
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| androgyny | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: bisexuality, hermaphroditism |
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| anthropogeny | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogenesis |
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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 |
| astheny | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: asthenia |
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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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| autogeny | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogenesis, spontaneous generation |
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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 |
| beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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| benny | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| biogeny | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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| blenny | (noun) small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks | Synonyms: combtooth blenny |
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| bliny | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: blini |
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| botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
| briny | (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: main |
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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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| bunny | (noun) (usually informal) especially a young rabbit | Synonyms: bunny rabbit |
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| (noun) a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit | Synonyms: bunny girl |
| 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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| calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| 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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| company | (noun) a social gathering of guests or companions | - |
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| (noun) an institution created to conduct business | - |
| (noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: troupe |
| (noun) small military unit; usually two or three platoons | - |
| (noun) crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship | Synonyms: ship's company |
| (noun) a unit of firefighters including their equipment | - |
| (noun) a band of people associated temporarily in some activity | Synonyms: party |
| (noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: caller |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, fellowship, society |
| 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 |
| cosmogeny | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogony, cosmology |
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| cosmogony | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogeny, cosmology |
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| cranny | (noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall) | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, crevice, fissure |
| crony | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, pal, sidekick |
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| cryogeny | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogenics |
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| cytogeny | (noun) the origin and development and variation of cells | Synonyms: cytogenesis |
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| destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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| disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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| dittany | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, fraxinella, gas plant |
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| djinny | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, genie, jinnee, jinni |
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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 | - |
| eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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| endogeny | (noun) a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth | - |
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| epiphany | (noun) a divine manifestation | - |
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| euphony | (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: music |
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| fanny | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| (noun) external female sex organs | Synonyms: female genital organ, female genitalia, female genitals |
| felony | (noun) a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
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| funny | (noun) an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) | Synonyms: funny remark, funny story, good story |
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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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| granny | (noun) a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure | Synonyms: granny knot |
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| (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, nan, nanna |
| (noun) an old woman | - |
| gunny | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: burlap |
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| halfpenny | (noun) an English coin worth half a penny | Synonyms: ha'penny |
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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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| hinny | (noun) hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass; usually sterile | - |
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| hominy | (noun) hulled corn with the bran and germ removed | - |
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| homogeny | (noun) (biology) similarity because of common evolution | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |