| academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
| (noun) a school for special training | - |
| (noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
| adenoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the adenoids; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy | - |
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| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| agronomy | (noun) the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production | Synonyms: scientific agriculture |
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| alchemy | (noun) a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times | - |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry |
| allogamy | (noun) cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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| amygdalotomy | (noun) psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) | - |
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| anatomy | (noun) a detailed analysis | - |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | Synonyms: general anatomy |
| anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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| anomy | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomie |
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| (noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomie |
| antinomy | (noun) a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable | - |
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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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| apogamy | (noun) (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization | - |
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| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| army | (noun) a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state | Synonyms: ground forces, regular army |
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| (noun) a large number of people united for some specific purpose | - |
| astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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| autogamy | (noun) self-fertilization in plants | - |
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| autonomy | (noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: liberty |
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| (noun) personal independence | Synonyms: self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency |
| autotomy | (noun) spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack | - |
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| balmy | (adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: mild, soft |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| balsamy | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamic |
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| barmy | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: yeasty, zestful, zesty |
| beamy | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) broad in the beam | - |
| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| blasphemy | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: desecration, profanation, sacrilege |
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| (noun) blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred) | - |
| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
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| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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| chammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
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| cholecystectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain) | - |
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| cholelithotomy | (noun) removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder | - |
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| chummy | (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, thick |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy |
| clammy | (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: dank |
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| cleistogamy | (noun) the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers | - |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| cockamamy | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamie |
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| colostomy | (noun) a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| crummy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| diathermy | (noun) a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents | - |
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| dichotomy | (noun) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses | Synonyms: duality |
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| dormy | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormie |
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| dreamy | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: moony, woolgathering |
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| (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: lackadaisical, languid, languorous |
| dummy | (adjective) having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function | - |
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| (noun) a figure representing the human form | - |
| (noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank, blank shell |
| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead |
| (noun) a person who does not talk | Synonyms: silent person |
| (verb) make a dummy of | Synonyms: dummy up |
| economy | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: saving |
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| (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: thriftiness |
| (noun) the efficient use of resources | - |
| (noun) the system of production and distribution and consumption | Synonyms: economic system |
| embolectomy | (noun) surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery) | - |
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| endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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| endogamy | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: inmarriage, intermarriage |
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| enemy | (noun) an opposing military force | - |
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| (noun) any hostile group of people | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: foe, foeman, opposition |
| (noun) a personal enemy | Synonyms: foe |
| enterostomy | (noun) surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine | Synonyms: enterotomy |
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| enterotomy | (noun) surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine | Synonyms: enterostomy |
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| episiotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth | - |
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| eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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| eurhythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurythmics, eurythmy |
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| eurythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics |
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| exogamy | (noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: intermarriage |
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| filmy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| foamy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, frothing |
| gammy | (adjective) (British informal) sore or lame | - |
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| gamy | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, high |
| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| gastrectomy | (noun) surgical removal of all or part of the stomach | - |
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| gastroenterostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the stomach wall and the small intestines; performed when the normal opening has been eliminated | - |
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| gastromy | (noun) surgical incision into the stomach | - |
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| gastronomy | (noun) the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food | - |
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| (noun) a particular style of cookery (as of a region) | - |
| gastrostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening through the abdominal wall into the stomach (as for gastrogavage) | - |
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| germy | (adjective) full of germs or pathological microorganisms | - |
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| gloomy | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry |
| grimy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| gummy | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummed |
| haemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: hemorrhoidectomy |
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| hammy | (adjective) affectedly dramatic; overacted | - |
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| hemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: haemorrhoidectomy |
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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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| 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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| homy | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homely, homey |
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| hypernymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: superordination |
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| hyperthermy | (noun) abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer) | Synonyms: hyperthermia |
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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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| hypophysectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the pituitary gland | - |
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| hysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus | - |
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| hysterotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section) | - |
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| ileostomy | (noun) surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| infamy | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: opprobrium |
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| (noun) evil fame or public reputation | - |
| iridectomy | (noun) an eye operation that treats closed-angle glaucoma by surgical removal of part of the iris of the eye | - |
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| iridotomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that makes an incision in the iris of the eye in order to enlarge the pupil or to treat closed-angle glaucoma | - |
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| isogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of gametes of the same size and structure | - |
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| jejunostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding | - |
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| jemmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jimmy |
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| jimmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jemmy |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
| keratotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the cornea | - |
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| laminectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae | - |
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| laparotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the abdominal wall; often done to examine abdominal organs | - |
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| laryngectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
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| leucotomy | (noun) surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes | Synonyms: frontal lobotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
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| leukotomy | (noun) surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes | Synonyms: frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
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| lipectomy | (noun) plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue | Synonyms: selective lipectomy |
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| lithotomy | (noun) surgical removal of a stone (calculus) | - |
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| loamy | (adjective) consisting of or having the character of loam | - |
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