| HOMOGONY | • homogony n. (Botany) The condition of having homogonous flowers. • HOMOGONY n. the condition of having flowers with uniform stamens and pistils. |
| HOMOTONY | • homotony n. The quality of being homotonous. • HOMOTONY n. harmony of tone. |
| MONOGONY | • monogony n. (Obsolete) asexual reproduction. • MONOGONY n. asexual reproduction. |
| MONOLOGY | • monology n. The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. • monology n. (Rare, countable) A work consisting of a single part (As opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.). • MONOLOGY n. the act of uttering a monolog. |
| MONOPODY | • monopody n. (Poetry) A measure of a single metrical foot. • MONOPODY n. a measure consisting of a single metrical food. |
| MONOPOLY | • monopoly n. A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (Company, cartel etc.)… • monopoly n. An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession. • monopoly n. The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control. |
| MONOSOMY | • monosomy n. A genetic disorder with the presence of only one chromosome (instead of the typical two in humans) from a pair. • MONOSOMY n. a condition of having one unpaired chromosome. |
| MONOTONY | • monotony n. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety. • monotony n. (Mathematics) The property of a monotonic function. • monotony n. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch. |
| NOMOLOGY | • nomology n. The study of laws. • nomology n. The study of general physical and logical laws. • nomology n. The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology. |
| NONWOODY | • nonwoody adj. Not woody. • NONWOODY adj. not woody. |
| NOSOLOGY | • nosology n. A treatise or written classification of diseases. • nosology n. The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease. • nosology n. The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease. |
| OENOLOGY | • oenology n. The scientific study of wines and winemaking. • œnology n. Obsolete form of oenology. • OENOLOGY n. the science dealing with wine and winemaking, also ENOLOGY, OINOLOGY. |
| OINOLOGY | • oinology n. Alternative form of oenology. • OINOLOGY n. the study of wines, also OENOLOGY, ENOLOGY. |
| ONCOLOGY | • oncology n. The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment… • ONCOLOGY n. the science of tumors. |
| ONCOTOMY | • oncotomy n. (Surgery) The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumour, with a cutting instrument. • ONCOTOMY n. incision into a tumour. |
| ONTOLOGY | • ontology n. (Uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics… • ontology n. (Uncountable, philosophy) In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things… • ontology n. (Countable, philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental… |
| OXYMORON | • oxymoron n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together… • oxymoron n. (Loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms. • OXYMORON n. (Greek) a self-contradictory expression. |
| POLYZOON | • polyzoon n. (Obsolete) A bryozoan. • POLYZOON n. one of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan. |
| SONOBUOY | • sonobuoy n. (Nautical, military) A buoy that sends a radio signal when it detects the sound of underwater objects… • SONOBUOY n. a buoy that detects and transmits underwater sounds. |