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Terminology

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

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Toponomy 76% connected

The designation of position and direction.

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Word 76% connected

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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Language 92% connected

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nomenclature 92% connected

A name.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Anagram noun · 86% connection

a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

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Antonym noun · 86% connection

a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…

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Back-formation noun · 86% connection

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

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Catchword noun · 86% connection

a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

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Charade noun · 86% connection

a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

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Classifier noun · 86% connection

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…

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Cognate noun · 86% connection

a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language

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Coinage noun · 86% connection

a newly invented word or phrase

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Contraction noun · 86% connection

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "‘won't’ is a contraction of ‘will not’"; "‘o'clock’ is a c…

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Deictic noun · 86% connection

a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the com…

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Derivative noun · 86% connection

(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"

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Diminutive noun · 86% connection

a word that is formed with a suffix (such as ‘-let’ or ‘-kin’) to indicate smallness

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Dissyllable noun · 86% connection

a word having two syllables

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form noun · 86% connection

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…

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Head noun · 86% connection

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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Head word noun · 86% connection

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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Heteronym noun · 86% connection

two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; "the word ‘bow’ is an example of a heteronym"

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Homonym noun · 86% connection

two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings

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-logy unknown · 78% connection

A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: doctrine, terms, theory, appellations, treatise.
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Antecedent noun · 78% connection

The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, an…

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Arrhenius theory of dissociation noun · 78% connection

(chemistry) theory that describes aqueous solutions in terms of acids (which dissociate to give hydrogen ions) and bases (which dissoc…

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Benthamism noun · 78% connection

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…

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Binomial noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms

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Bohr theory noun · 78% connection

(physics) a theory of atomic structure that combined Rutherford's model with the quantum theory; electrons orbiting a nucleus can only…

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Bosonic string theory noun · 78% connection

the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…

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Composition noun · 78% connection

Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement…

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Darwinian adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from cer…

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Empirical adjective · 78% connection

derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…

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Epigenesis noun · 78% connection

The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the paren…

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Eternal noun · 78% connection

One of the appellations of God.

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Feminine noun · 78% connection

Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress,…

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