agronomy | (noun) the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production | Synonyms: scientific agriculture |
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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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astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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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 |
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 |
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) | - |
physiognomy | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, smiler, visage |
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taxonomy | (noun) practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships | - |
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(noun) (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification | - |
(noun) a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc | - |
toponomy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponymy |
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(noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponymy |
troponomy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponymy |
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