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• anagram go
  a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
  
• anaphor go
  a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition
  
• antonym, opposite word, opposite go
  a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
  
• back-formation go
  a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
  
• charade go
  a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
  
• cognate, cognate word go
  a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
  
• content word, open-class word go
  a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
  
• contraction go
  a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
  
• deictic, deictic word go
  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
  
• derivative go
  (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word
  
• diminutive go
  a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
  
• dirty word go
  a word that is considered to be unmentionable
  
• disyllable, dissyllable go
  a word having two syllables
  
• form, descriptor, word form, signifier go
  the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
  
• four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word go
  any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive
  
• function word, closed-class word go
  a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
  
• guide word, guideword, catchword go
  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
  
• head, head word go
  (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
  
• headword go
  a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)
  
• heteronym go
  two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation
  
• holonym, whole name go
  a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part
  
• homonym go
  two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
  
• hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word go
  a word that is more generic than a given word
  
• hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word go
  a word that is more specific than a given word
  
• key word go
  a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
  
• hybrid, loanblend, loan-blend go
  a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
  
• loanword, loan go
  a word borrowed from another language
  
• meronym, part name go
  a word that names a part of a larger whole
  
• metonym go
  a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
  
• monosyllable, monosyllabic word go
  a word or utterance of one syllable
  
• neologism, neology, coinage go
  a newly invented word or phrase
  
• nonce word, hapax legomenon go
  a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion
  
• oxytone go
  word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
  
• palindrome go
  a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
  
• primitive go
  a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
  
• paroxytone go
  word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
  
• partitive go
  word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
  
• polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word go
  a word having more than one meaning
  
• polysyllable, polysyllabic word go
  a word of more than three syllables
  
• proparoxytone go
  word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
  
• quantifier go
  (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')
  
• quantifier, logical quantifier go
  (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
  
• reduplication go
  a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
  
• retronym go
  a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate
  
• substantive go
  any word or group of words functioning as a noun
  
• synonym, equivalent word go
  two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
  
• term go
  a word or expression used for some particular thing
  
• language, terminology, nomenclature go
  a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
  
• trisyllable go
  a word having three syllables
  
• troponym, manner name go
  a word that denotes a manner of doing something
  
• vocable, spoken word go
  a word that is spoken aloud
  
• classifier go
  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
  
• written word go
  the written form of a word
  
• syncategorem, syncategoreme go
  a syncategorematic expression