[W/K] :: liaison

  liaison \li`ai`son"\ (l[-e]`[asl]`z[^o]N"), n. [F., fr. L.
     ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See Ligature, and cf.
     Ligation.]
     1. A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; an
        interrelationship.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Specifically, An illicit sexual relation between a man and
        a woman; a sexual afffair.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Specifically: A process of communication between parts of
        an organization or between two organizations acting
        together for a common purpose.
        [PJC]
  
     4. Hence: A person whose function it is to maintain such
        communication.
        [PJC]
  
     5. (Phonetics) A pronunciation of a consonant sound that
        would be otherwise silent, such as the final consonant of
        certain French words, when the following word begins with
        a vowel sound.
        [PJC] Liane

  liaison
       n 1: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair,
             affaire, intimacy, involvement, amour]
       2: a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a
          liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: link, contact, inter-group
          communication]

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "liaison":
     accord, addition, adjunct, adulterous affair, adultery, affair,
     affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglomeration,
     agglutination, aggregation, alliance, amor, amour, approximation,
     articulation, assemblage, association, bond, bracketing, broker,
     closeness, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation,
     concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration,
     conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, contact,
     contiguity, contrariety, convergence, copulation, coupling,
     cuckoldry, dealings, deduction, disjunction, distributor,
     entanglement, eternal triangle, filiation, flirtation,
     forbidden love, gathering, go-between, hanky-panky, homology,
     hookup, illicit love, infidelity, intercommunication, intercourse,
     interlinking, intermediary, intermedium, intimacy, intrigue,
     jobber, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, link,
     linkage, linking, love affair, marriage, mediary, mediator, medium,
     meeting, merger, merging, middleman, mutual attraction, nearness,
     pairing, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation,
     relations, relationship, romance, romantic tie, similarity, splice,
     symbiosis, sympathy, tie, tie-in, tie-up, triangle, unfaithfulness,
     unification, union, wholesaler, yoking