S: (n) word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify) "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
S: (n) anagram (a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase)
S: (n) anaphor (a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent)
S: (n) antonym, opposite word, opposite (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 him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
S: (n) paronym (a word that strongly resembles another word in spelling)
S: (n) back-formation (a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it)
S: (n) charade (a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades)
S: (n) cognate, cognate word (a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language)
S: (n) contraction (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 contraction of `of the clock'"
S: (n) deictic, deictic word (a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs) "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
S: (n) derivative ((linguistics) a word that is derived from another word) "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"
S: (n) diminutive (a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness)
S: (n) dirty word (a word that is considered to be unmentionable) "`failure' is a dirty word to him"
S: (n) form, word form, signifier, descriptor (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something) "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
S: (n) guide word, guideword, catchword (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)
S: (n) head, head word ((grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent)
S: (n) headword (a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry))
S: (n) heteronym (two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation) "the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym"
S: (n) holonym, whole name (a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part) "`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'"
S: (n) homonym (two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings)
S: (n) key word (a significant word used in indexing or cataloging)
S: (n) loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid (a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root))
S: (n) loanword, loan (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)
S: (n) meronym, part name (a word that names a part of a larger whole) "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"
S: (n) metonym (a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing) "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card"
S: (n) reduplication (a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word))
S: (n) retronym (a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate) "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym"
S: (n) synonym, equivalent word (two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context)
S: (n) term (a word or expression used for some particular thing) "he learned many medical terms"
S: (n) terminology, nomenclature, language (a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline) "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
S: (n) classifier (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)
S: (n) written word (the written form of a word) "while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something"; "a craftsman of the written word"
S: (n) syncategorem, syncategoreme (a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition) "logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes"
Adjective
S: (adj) crude, primitive, rude (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness) "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
S: (adj) archaic, primitive (little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type) "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
W: (adj) late [Indirect via early] (at or toward an end or late period or stage of development) "the late phase of feudalism"; "a later symptom of the disease"; "later medical science could have saved the child"
S: (adj) primitive (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies) "primitive societies"
S: (adj) primitive, naive (of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style) "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"