English words starting with ony

Meanings of Onycha:

noun

An ingredient of incense used in mosaic ritual, consisting of the opercula of marine molluscs, which emit a penetrating aroma when burnt.

Meanings of Onychia:

noun

Originally: †a whitlow affecting a fingernail or toenail; = paronychia (obsolete). later: disease, especially inflammation or infection, of the nail matrix, resulting in deformity or loss of the nail plate.

Meanings of Onychite:

noun

Onyx marble.

Meanings of Onychogryposis:

noun

Excessive growth, accompanied by thickening and curvature, of one or more nails (usually toenails).

Meanings of Onychomancy:

noun

Divination from the fingernails.

Meanings of Onychomycosis:

noun

Fungal infection of a nail, claw, or hoof; an instance of this.

Meanings of Onychopathy:

noun

Disease of the fingernails or toenails; an instance of this.

Meanings of Onychophagia:

noun

The action or habit of biting one's nails.

Meanings of Onychophagist:

noun

A person who bites his or her nails, especially habitually or compulsively.

Meanings of Onychophagy:

noun

= onychophagia .

Meanings of Onychophora:

plural noun

A small phylum of terrestrial invertebrates which comprises the velvet worms such as peripatus. they share characteristics with the arthropods and annelids, having a long, soft segmented body with stubby legs (lobopods).

Usage examples:

Other ecdysozoan phyla include nematoda, tardigrada, and onychophora; this classification thus remo…

Meanings of Onychophoran:

noun

A terrestrial invertebrate of the small phylum onychophora, which comprises the velvet worms.

Usage examples:

A number of fossils from the cambrian have been described which look more or less like onychophorans.

adjective

Relating to or denoting onychophorans.

Usage examples:

In that time, the first undoubted fossil annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, echinoderms, molluscs, …

Meanings of Onymancy:

noun

= onychomancy .

Meanings of Onymatic:

adjective

Onomastic.

Meanings of Onymity:

noun

The condition of being onymous, or named.

Meanings of Onymous:

adjective

Having a name; named.

Meanings of Onyxes:

noun

A semi-precious variety of agate with different colours in layers.

Usage examples:

An onyx ashtray