Words that rhyme with ideonomy

n 1: the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production [syn: agronomy, scientific agriculture]

n 1: the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole [syn: astronomy, uranology]

n 1: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence [syn: autonomy, liberty] 2: personal independence [syn: autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency]

n 1: the system of production and distribution and consumption [syn: economy, economic system] 2: the efficient use of resources; "economy of effort" 3: frugality in the expenditure of money or resources; "the Scots are famous for their economy" [syn: economy, thriftiness] 4: an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" [syn: economy, saving]

n 1: a particular style of cookery (as of a region); "New England gastronomy" 2: the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food

n 1: the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning

n 1: substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

n 1: intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman [syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal intercourse]

n 1: a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc 2: (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification 3: practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

n 1: surgical removal of all or part of the stomach

n 1: surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (as the lung or brain)

n 1: surgical removal of a kidney

n 1: surgical removal of the spleen

n 1: surgical removal of one of both ovaries [syn: oophorectomy, ovariectomy]

n 1: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings [syn: polysemy, lexical ambiguity] [ant: monosemy]

n 1: the nomenclature of regional anatomy [syn: toponymy, toponomy] 2: the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language [syn: toponymy, toponomy]

n 1: (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size)

n 1: Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance [syn: Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus] 2: an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra [syn: Ptolemy, Ptolemaic dynasty]

n 1: surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine [syn: enterostomy, enterotomy]

n 1: surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis