| acupuncture | (noun) treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin | Synonyms: stylostixis |
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| adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| (noun) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence | - |
| (noun) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | - |
| (noun) a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another | - |
| adjunction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: junction |
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| adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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| compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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| conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
| (adjective) bound in close association | - |
| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| defunct | (adjective) having ceased to exist or live | - |
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| (adjective) no longer in force or use; inactive | - |
| defunctness | (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: extinction |
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| disfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: dysfunction |
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| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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| (adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
| (adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
| (adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
| disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| dysfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: disfunction |
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| dysfunctional | (adjective) impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ | - |
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| (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: nonadaptive |
| dysfunctionality | (noun) The condition of functioning incorrectly or abnormally. | - |
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| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| expunction | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunging |
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| function | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: office, part, role |
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| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: purpose, role, use |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) | Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function |
| (noun) a relation such that one thing is dependent on another | - |
| (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: officiate |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: go, operate, run, work |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: serve |
| functional | (adjective) designed for or capable of a particular function or use | - |
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| (adjective) involving or affecting function rather than physiology | - |
| (adjective) relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: operative, running, working |
| (adjective) designed for or adapted to a function or use | - |
| (adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: operable, operational, usable, useable |
| functionalism | (noun) a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment | - |
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| (noun) any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose | - |
| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| functionality | (noun) capable of serving a purpose well | - |
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| functionally | (adverb) with respect to function | - |
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| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| functioning | (adjective) performing or able to perform its regular function | - |
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| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
| injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
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| (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment |
| inunct | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, oil |
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| inunction | (noun) anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | Synonyms: unction |
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| junction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: adjunction |
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| (noun) the place where two or more things come together | - |
| (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, juncture |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, conjunction |
| juncture | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: occasion |
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| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, junction |
| (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, crossroads |
| keratoconjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva | - |
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| malfunction | (noun) a failure to function normally | - |
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| (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| misfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: malfunction |
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| multifunctionality | (noun) The condition of having multiple functions. | - |
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| nondisjunction | (noun) meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells | - |
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| nonfunctional | (adjective) not having or performing a function | - |
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| (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: malfunctioning |
| perfunctorily | (adverb) in a set manner without serious attention; as a formality | Synonyms: pro forma |
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| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| punctilio | (noun) strict observance of formalities | - |
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| (noun) a fine point of etiquette or petty formality | - |
| punctilious | (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: meticulous |
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| punctiliously | (adverb) in a punctilious manner | - |
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| punctiliousness | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, scrupulousness |
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| punctual | (adjective) acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed | Synonyms: on time |
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| punctuality | (noun) the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time | Synonyms: promptness |
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| punctually | (adverb) at the expected or proper time | Synonyms: on time |
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| punctuate | (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: mark |
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| (verb) interrupt periodically | - |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, stress |
| punctuation | (noun) the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases | - |
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| (noun) the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases | Synonyms: punctuation mark |
| (noun) something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions | - |
| punctum | (noun) (anatomy) a point or small area | - |
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| puncturable | (adjective) capable of being punctured | - |
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| puncture | (noun) the act of puncturing or perforating | - |
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| (noun) a small hole made by a sharp object | - |
| (noun) loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object | - |
| (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
| (verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
| (verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
| (verb) make by piercing | - |
| punctured | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, pierced |
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| punctureless | (adjective) being without punctures or incapable of being punctured | - |
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| rambunctious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| subjunction | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, supplementation |
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| subjunctive | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs | - |
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| (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
| thermojunction | (noun) a junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears | - |
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| unction | (noun) anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | Synonyms: inunction |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, salve, unguent |
| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness |
| (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: fulsomeness, smarm |
| unctuous | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy |
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| unctuously | (adverb) in an unctuous manner | Synonyms: fulsomely, smarmily |
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| unctuousness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction |
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| unfunctional | (adjective) not related to or suitable for everyday needs or activities | - |
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| unpunctual | (adjective) not punctual; after the appointed time | - |
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| venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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