Words ending with onym
5 letter words ending with onym
- -onym — indicating a name or word
6 letter words ending with onym
- anonym — an anonymous person or publication
- eponym — A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
- euonym — (rare) A name well suited to a person, place or thing so named.
- exonym — A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
- oronym — A word or phrase that sounds the same as another word or phrase.
7 letter words ending with onym
- acronym — An acronym is a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name. An example of an acronym is NATO which is made up of the first letters of the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'.
- allonym — a name, often one of historical significance or that of another person, assumed by a person, esp an author
- antonym — The antonym of a word is a word which means the opposite.
- aptonym — A proper name that aptly describes the occupation or character of the person, especially by coincidence.
- autonym — a piece of literature published under the real name of an author
8 letter words ending with onym
- bacronym — Alternative spelling of backronym.
- ethnonym — The name of an ethnic group.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- polyonym — a word with the same meaning as another word; synonym
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
9 letter words ending with onym
- anacronym — An acronym the original meaning of which is not known to most speakers.
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
10 letter words ending with onym
- anachronym — Synonym of backronym.
11 letter words ending with onym
- anthroponym — a personal name.
- autoantonym — (rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
- charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
On this page, we collect all words that ending in ONYM. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 44 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that ends in ONYM that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.