| archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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| bacon | (noun) back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried | - |
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| beacon | (noun) a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes | Synonyms: radio beacon |
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| (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon light, lighthouse, pharos |
| (noun) a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance | Synonyms: beacon fire |
| (verb) guide with a beacon | - |
| (verb) shine like a beacon | - |
| catholicon | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: cure-all, nostrum, panacea |
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| chawbacon | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| con | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| (noun) an argument opposed to a proposal | - |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
| (adverb) in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc. | - |
| (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: learn, memorise, memorize |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
| emoticon | (noun) a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email | - |
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| falcon | (noun) diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight | - |
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| (verb) hunt with falcons | - |
| gerfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon |
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| gyrfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gerfalcon |
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| helicon | (noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: bombardon |
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| icon | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: ikon, image, picture |
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| (noun) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church | Synonyms: ikon |
| (noun) (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface | - |
| lexicon | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: mental lexicon, vocabulary |
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| (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: dictionary |
| macon | (noun) fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry | Synonyms: maconnais |
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| neocon | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neoconservative |
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| onomasticon | (noun) a list of proper nouns naming persons or places | - |
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| orthicon | (noun) a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons | Synonyms: image orthicon |
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| panopticon | (noun) a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791 | - |
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| (noun) an area where everything is visible | - |
| pantechnicon | (noun) a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture) | - |
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| racon | (noun) a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position | Synonyms: radar beacon |
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| silicon | (noun) a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors | Synonyms: atomic number 14, Si |
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| soupcon | (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch |
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| subdeacon | (noun) a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | - |
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| zircon | (noun) a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent | Synonyms: zirconium silicate |
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