| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| amnio | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amniocentesis |
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| amniocentesis | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amnio |
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| amnion | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnios, amniotic sac |
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| amnionic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amniotic |
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| amnios | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnion, amniotic sac |
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| amniote | (noun) any member of the Amniota | - |
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| amniotic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amnionic |
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| anion | (noun) a negatively charged ion | - |
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| anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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| (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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| bagnio | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bathhouse |
| blennioid | (noun) elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins | Synonyms: blennioid fish |
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| bunion | (noun) a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe | - |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumniously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: slanderously |
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| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| ceremoniously | (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremonially |
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| ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, company, keep company |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionable | (adjective) suggestive of companionship | - |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| coronion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible | - |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| crinion | (noun) point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead | Synonyms: trichion |
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| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| dominion | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: rule |
| euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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| (adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
| fanion | (noun) a small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position | - |
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| felonious | (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: criminal |
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| feloniousness | (noun) The property of relating to, or having the nature of a serious criminal offense. | - |
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| goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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| gonion | (noun) the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw | - |
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| gonioscopy | (noun) an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma | - |
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| harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
| (adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
| (adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
| harmoniously | (adverb) in a harmonious manner | - |
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| harmoniousness | (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmony |
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| (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: consonance |
| hydramnios | (noun) an abnormality of pregnancy; accumulation of excess amniotic fluid | - |
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| ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| ignominiously | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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| impecunious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched |
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| impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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| ingenious | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, cunning |
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| ingeniously | (adverb) in an ingenious manner | - |
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| ingeniousness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| inharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: unharmonious |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony of parts | - |
| inharmoniousness | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: disharmony |
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| inion | (noun) the craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance) | - |
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| intercommunion | (noun) participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) | - |
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| junior | (adjective) younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service | - |
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| (adjective) used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: next-to-last, third-year |
| (adjective) including or intended for youthful persons | - |
| (noun) the younger of two persons | - |
| (noun) a third-year undergraduate | - |
| (noun) term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male | - |
| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| manioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: cassava |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca |
| manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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| minion | (noun) a servile or fawning dependant | - |
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| niobite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: columbite |
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| niobium | (noun) a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium | Synonyms: atomic number 41, Nb |
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| nonionic | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionised, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| (adjective) not ionic | Synonyms: nonpolar |
| nonionised | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| nonionized | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionised, unionised, unionized |
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| nonunion | (adjective) not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union | - |
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| nonunionised | (adjective) not affiliated in a trade union | Synonyms: nonunionized, unorganised, unorganized |
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| nonunionized | (adjective) not affiliated in a trade union | Synonyms: nonunionised, unorganised, unorganized |
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| onion | (noun) an aromatic flavorful vegetable | - |
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| (noun) bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb | Synonyms: Allium cepa, onion plant |
| (noun) the bulb of an onion plant | - |
| onionskin | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: flimsy |
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| opinion | (noun) the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) | Synonyms: ruling |
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| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: persuasion, sentiment, thought, view |
| (noun) a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people | Synonyms: popular opinion, public opinion, vox populi |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, impression, notion |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, legal opinion |
| (noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: view |
| opinionated | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionative, self-opinionated |
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| opinionative | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionated, self-opinionated |
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| parsimonious | (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: penurious |
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| parsimoniousness | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| pernio | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, chilblains |
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| pinion | (noun) wing of a bird | Synonyms: pennon |
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| (noun) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | Synonyms: flight feather, quill, quill feather |
| (noun) a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack | - |
| (verb) cut the wings off (of birds) | - |
| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: shackle |
| pinioned | (adjective) bound fast especially having the arms restrained | - |
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| (adjective) (of birds) especially having the flight feathers | - |
| pneumoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumonoconiosis |
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| pneumonoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumoconiosis |
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| pogonion | (noun) the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin | - |
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| quaternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternity, tetrad |
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| reunion | (noun) the act of coming together again | Synonyms: reunification |
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| (noun) a party of former associates who have come together again | - |
| rhinion | (noun) the anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones | - |
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| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanious | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: ichorous |
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| seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
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| seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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| seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
| senior | (adjective) older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service | - |
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| (adjective) used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: fourth-year |
| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, elderly, older |
| (noun) an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation | - |
| (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: elder |