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Word
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Definition
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| abecedism | word created from the initials of words in a phrase
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| ablaut | variation in root vowel of words to change meaning
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| acronym | word formed from initial letters of another word
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| acrophonic | using a symbol for the initial sound of a thing
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| acroteleutic | phrase or words at the end of a psalm
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| adversative | word or phrase expressing opposition
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| allolalia | speech disorder featuring randomly spoken words
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| alveary | beehive; area of the ear where wax collects; word-list
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| anacrusis | syllable prior to the normal rhythm of a verse
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| annomination | pun; play on words
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| apheresis | taking away a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word
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| aphesis | loss of initial unaccented vowel from beginning of a word
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| apocope | cutting off the last sound of a word
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| arithmogram | number composed of numerical values of letters in a word
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| auslaut | final sound of a word or syllable
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| bahuvrihi | compound word whose second part is a noun but that acts as an adjective
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| biverbal | of, like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense
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| cacology | bad choice of words or faulty pronunciation
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| calligram | design using the letters of a word
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| calque | word or expression introduced into a language by literally translating it
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| catachresis | incorrect usage of a word
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| cheville | unnecessary word used to extend line of verse
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| cledonism | circumlocution used to avoid speaking unlucky words
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| cohyponym | word which is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
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| definiens | word or words used in a dictionary definition
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| diectasis | extending line of verse by adding extra syllable
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| dysphemism | replacement of an inoffensive by an offensive word
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| echoism | the formation of imitative words
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| eclipsis | omission of sounds or words in speech
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| ecthlipsis | omitting one or more sounds in pronouncing a word
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| epenthesis | insertion of extra sound into a word
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| epeolatry | worship of words
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| epithesis | addition of one or more letters to a word
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| etymology | study of origins of words
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| etymon | true origin of a word
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| euphonism | custom of using pleasing sounding words
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| euphonym | euphonious synonym
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| eutony | pleasantness of the sound of a word
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| flexiloquent | speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning
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| grammalogue | word represented by a single sign; logogram
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| grammatolatry | worship of letters and words
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| hadeharia | constant use of the word “hell”
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| hapax | word which occurs only once
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| haplography | omission of words or lines in recopying text
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| haplology | omission of a doubled or similar sound or syllable in a word
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| heteronym | word having same spelling but different sound and meaning
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| heterophemy | accidental use of word different from that meant
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| holophrase | single word expressing sentence or phrase
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| homograph | words spelled the same but of different meaning
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| homonym | words having the same sound but different meanings
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| hypernym | word representing a class of words or things
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| hyphaeresis | omission of sound or letter from a word
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| hyponym | term which is a member of a larger class
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| iconomatic | using pictures to represent sounds of words; rebus-writing
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| ideophone | word that is spoken but not written
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| illocution | an act which is performed by speaking words
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| inkhornism | pedantic word or expression
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| isonym | word having the same derivation or form as another
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| largiloquent | talkative; full of words
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| lethologica | inability to remember the right word
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| lexicology | study of words and their meanings
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| lexigram | sign which represents a word
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| lexigraphy | art of definition of words
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| lexigraphy | system of writing in which each sign represents a word
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| lexiphanic | bombastic; sesquipedalian; using many long words
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| loan-word | word borrowed from another language
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| loganamnosis | obsession with trying to recall forgotten words
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| logocracy | government of words
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| logodaedalus | artificer in words
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| logogogue | one who issues laws or rules regarding words
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| logogram | single sign standing for word or phrase
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| logogriph | riddle in which word is found from other words' letters
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| logomachy | contention about words or in words
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| logomancy | divination using words
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| logophile | a lover of words
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| logorrhea | excessive flow of words; uncontrollable garrulity
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| logotype | body of text with frequently occurring word or syllable
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| malapropism | misapplication of words without mispronunciation
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| meronym | word whose relation to another is a part to the whole
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| metanalysis | incorrect placement of 'n' at start of word following a nindefinite article
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| metaplasm | alteration in spelling of a word by adding, removing, or transposing letters
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| metathesis | transposition of sounds or letters of a word
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| metonymy | figurative use of word to name an attribute of its subject
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| monepic | comprising only one word or single-word sentences
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| monoptote | word with one form for all cases; indeclinable noun
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| multiloquence | talkativeness; use of many words
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| neoterism | introduction of new things, especially words
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| nomenclator | lexicon; word-list; one who assigns names
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| notarikon | making words from letters taken from throughout a sentence
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| oligosyllable | word of few syllables
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| onomatomania | irresistible desire to repeat certain words
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| onomatophobia | fear of hearing a certain word
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| orthology | correct use of words
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| oxytone | word bearing acute accent on last syllable
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| palabra | a word; talk
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| palilalia | disorder characterized by rapid repetition of words
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| paragoge | addition of a sound to end of word
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| paragraphia | writing of different letters and words than intended
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| paramnesia | abnormality of memory; inability to remember meaning of word
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| paranym | euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion
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| paraphasia | disorder in which one word substituted for another
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| parasynesis | corruption of forms of words
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| parasynthesis | derivation of words using hyphenated compounds
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| paresis | omission of an element from a word
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| paronym | word from same root or having same sound as another
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| paroxytone | having an acute accent on the next to last syllable
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| pauciloquent | of few words; speaking little
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| penacute | having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable; paroxytone
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| polyonym | name consisting of several words
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| polysemant | word with many meanings
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| portmanteau | word formed by blending two existing words
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| proclisis | pronunciation of word dependent on following word
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| provection | transfer of last letter of one word to first of next
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| pundigrion | play on words; pun
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| quatch | a word; a sound
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| radix | root; root-number or numerical base; root word or stem
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| rebus | picture puzzle representing a word
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| repetend | figures, words, notes or numbers that are repeated
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| rhema | word; verb
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| rhematic | of words or verbs; forming a word or words
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| rheme | speech element that expresses an idea
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| rhopalic | having each word one syllable longer than that before
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| semanteme | word expressing an idea, such as a noun
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| semantology | science of meanings of words
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| sesquipedalian | tending to use long or cumbersome words
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| skothending | rhyme in which final consonant is same but preceding vowel differs
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| syncategorematic | meaningless or unable to form a term without other words
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| syncope | omission of a sound from middle of a word
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| synsemantic | of a word, having no meaning outside a specific context
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| telestich | poem where final letters of each line spell a word
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| tetragrammaton | sacred word or acronym of four letters
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| tmesis | separation of word into parts by an intervening word
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| trionym | name consisting of three words
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| univocalic | having only one vowel; written passage using only one vowel
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| verbalism | undue attention to words alone
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| verbatim | word for word
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| verbicide | destroying the meaning of a word
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| verbigeration | morbid and purposeless repetition of certain words
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| verbile | one whose mental processes are stimulated by words
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| verbomania | craze for words
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| wordbound | unable to find expression in words
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