| benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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| bison | (noun) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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| (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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| (noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
| comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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| (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
| (noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
| cortisone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone | Synonyms: Cortone Acetate |
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| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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| garrison | (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: fort |
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| (noun) the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place | - |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
| grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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| hydrocortisone | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, cortisol, Hydrocortone |
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| imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| (verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
| imprisoned | (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, confined, jailed |
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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 |
| isoniazid | (noun) antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: INH, Nydrazid |
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| jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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| (verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
| liaison | (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, link |
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| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement |
| maisonette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonnette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonnette |
| maisonnette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonette |
| mellisonant | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, sweet |
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| misoneism | (noun) hatred of change or innovation | - |
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| nonpoisonous | (adjective) safe to eat | Synonyms: non-poisonous, nontoxic |
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| (adjective) not producing poison | Synonyms: non-poisonous |
| orison | (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: petition, prayer |
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| poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
| (verb) administer poison to | - |
| (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
| (verb) kill with poison | - |
| (verb) kill by its poison | - |
| (verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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| poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
| (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
| poisonously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: venomously |
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| prednisone | (noun) a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant | Synonyms: Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten, Orasone |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| prisonlike | (adjective) resembling a prison | - |
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| quadrisonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadriphonic |
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| unimprisoned | (adjective) free from confinement or physical restraint | Synonyms: unconfined |
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| unison | (noun) (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves | - |
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| (noun) occurring together or simultaneously | - |
| (noun) corresponding exactly | - |
| venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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