-onym, -onymy, -onymic, -onymically, -onymous, -onymously, -nym +

A name which matches or sounds like its owner’s occupation or character.

Some actual names include: Dan Druff, a barber; Felicity Foote, a dance teacher; James Bugg, an exterminator; Will Snow, an arctic explorer; and William Wordsworth, the poet.

A surname used as, or derived from, a formal title of nobility; such as, Thomas Harold Andre Le Duc.

A word that means its opposite.

An example is the word fast, which when referring to a fast runner means a runner who runs rapidly or swiftly; but when it refers to a fast color, it means a color that doesn't run at all.

Based on information from Word and Phrase Origins

A word which can take two, or more, opposite meanings; for example, overlook means "to watch over carefully" or "to fail to notice".

1. Literally, one’s own name as opposed to a pseudonym; hence, a book or work published under the author’s real name.
2. The name given to itself by a tribe, social group, or people, as distinguished from a name given by foreign tribes or by anyone else.
3. A word that describes itself; such as, "pronoun is a pronoun", "polysyllabic is polysyllabic", "abbrv. is an abbreviation", "word is a word", etc.

1. The use of a person's own name instead of a pseudonym when writing, etc.
2. The publication of a book, etc. and the utilization of an author's real name.

Making use of one's own name as an author, actor, entertainer, etc.

Taking a word which already exists and creating a phrase, usually humorous, using the letters of the word as initials; and so the process is the opposite of producing an acronym.

An example: SURFSIDE: Small Unified Reactor Facility with Systems for Isotopes, Desalting, and Electricity.

Another example of a bacronym: BANANA or "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody"; and GOD or "Guaranteed Overnight Delivery".

Having just two names.

1. An example of bad nomenclature or terminology; especially, in biology and botany.
2. The wrong name for something; especially, in the classification of plants and animals.
3. A name, especially a taxonomic name, that is considered linguistically undesirable.

1. Characteristic of a taxonymic name that is objectionable for linguistic reasons.
2. Reference to a wrong (bad) name for something, especially in the classification of plants and animals.

A word that changes its meaning and pronunciation when capitalized; such as, polish and Polish, august and August, concord and Concord and as shown in the two poems below:

A name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or physical trait of the character; such as, “Long John Silver” for someone who is tall and has silver hair.

Words with the same consonant pattern; such as, macroevolutionary and microevolutionary; spectrophotometer and spectrophotometry.

Each pair of words has seventeen consonants with the same consonant patterns.

1. Any word which can be its own antonym.
2. A word that generates two opposite meanings.

More popularly, they are known as Janus-faced words because the Greek god Janus had two faces which looked in opposite directions.

An additional example includes: "cleave", meaning "adhere" and "separate.