| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| misogyny | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogynism |
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| monogyny | (noun) having only one wife at a time | - |
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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 |
| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| mutiny | (noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) | - |
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| (verb) engage in a mutiny against an authority | - |
| nanny | (noun) female goat | Synonyms: nanny-goat, she-goat |
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| (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nurse, nursemaid |
| neoteny | (noun) an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species | - |
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| neotony | (noun) the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species | - |
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| ninepenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 3/4 in or 7 cm long | - |
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| ninny | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, poop |
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| nonresiny | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresinous |
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| ontogeny | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis |
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| orogeny | (noun) the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust) | - |
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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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| palaeobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: paleobotany |
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| paleobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: palaeobotany |
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| palimony | (noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends | - |
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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 |
| parthenogeny | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogenesis |
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| (noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogenesis, virgin birth |
| patrimony | (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: birthright |
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| (noun) a church endowment | - |
| penny | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: cent, centime |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound | - |
| peony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: paeony |
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| philogyny | (noun) admiration for women | - |
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| phony | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender |
| phylogeny | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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| pinny | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinafore |
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| polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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| polygyny | (noun) a form of polygamy in which a man has multiple wives | - |
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| polyphony | (noun) music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments | Synonyms: concerted music, polyphonic music |
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| pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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| (noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
| progeny | (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, offspring |
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| punny | (adjective) provoking laughter by means of word play | - |
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| puny | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: runty, shrimpy |
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| (adjective) inferior in strength or significance | - |
| pyrotechny | (noun) the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnics |
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| quadraphony | (noun) a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels | Synonyms: quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system |
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| radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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| rainy | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: showery |
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| resiny | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, tarry |
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| ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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| runny | (adjective) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape | Synonyms: fluid |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| satiny | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| scrawny | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubby, stunted |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| scrutiny | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a prolonged intense look | - |
| shanny | (noun) European scaleless blenny | Synonyms: Blennius pholis |
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| shawny | (noun) showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States | Synonyms: Hydrophyllum virginianum, Indian salad, John's cabbage, Shawnee salad, Virginia waterleaf |
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| sheeny | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, kike, yid |
| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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| sixpenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
| snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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| sonny | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, laddie, sonny boy |
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| spiny | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spinous |
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| (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny |
| stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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| stony | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky |
| sunny | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, gay |
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| symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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| (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
| synchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing |
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| syntony | (noun) the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment. | - |
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| tawny | (adjective) of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather | Synonyms: tawny-brown |
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| teeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| tetany | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetanilla |
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| theogony | (noun) the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods | - |
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| theophany | (noun) a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person | - |
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| thorny | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny |
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| (adjective) bristling with perplexities | - |
| threepenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/4 in long | - |
| tinny | (adjective) of or containing tin | - |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy |
| (adjective) thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance | - |
| tiny | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite |
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| towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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| tunny | (noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters | Synonyms: tuna |
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| (noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | Synonyms: tuna, tuna fish |
| tuppeny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, threepenny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| twopenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny |
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| tyranny | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, despotism |
| uncanny | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: preternatural |
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| (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, unearthly, weird |
| unfunny | (adjective) not funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor | - |
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| villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
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| (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |
| weeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy |
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| whinny | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
| whiny | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiney |
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| winy | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winey |
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| zany | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, clownlike |
| (noun) a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect | - |
| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat |