| 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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| acronymic | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymous |
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| acronymous | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymic |
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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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| anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
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| (adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
| anonymously | (adverb) without giving a name | - |
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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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| antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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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 |
| bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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| (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| 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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| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| 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 | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| (noun) a compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide | - |
| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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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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| cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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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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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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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 | (adjective) of a very dark black | Synonyms: ebon |
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| (noun) a very dark black | Synonyms: coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
| (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 | - |
| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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| 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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| homonymic | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymous |
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| homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
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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 |
| lemony | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart |
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| loony | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
| 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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| metonymic | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymical |
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| metonymical | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymic |
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| metonymically | (adverb) in a metonymic manner | - |
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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 | - |
| moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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| (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
| 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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| onymous | (adjective) bearing a name | - |
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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 |