| biennial | once every two years. | |
| biannual | twice a year. | |
| prolepsis | an occurrence or assignment before the actual or expected time; (rhet.) the anticipation of possible objections. | |
| apophasis | (rhet.) mentioning a subject while disavowing any intention of doing so. | |
| enantiosis | (rhet.) a figure of speech whose intent is at odds with its appearance; irony. | |
| tmesis | the transposition of a word or words into the middle of a compound word. | |
| battology | excessive repetition of words. | |
| enallage | (rhet.) a substitution of grammatical forms, as plural for singular. | |
| hypallage | (rhet.) the interchange of a syntactic relation. | |
| dextrocardia | a condition in which the heart is on the right side of the chest, possibly with reflection of its chambers as well. | |
| hyperbaton | (rhet.) unusual word ordering, often emphatic. |