syn·od 
(sĭnəd)
(sĭnəd)n.
1. A council or an assembly of church officials or churches; an ecclesiastical council.
2. A council or an assembly.
[Middle English, from Latin synodus, from Greek sunodos, meeting, assembly : sun-, syn- + hodos, way, course.]
synod·al (sĭnə-dl) adj.
- commission merchant
- commission plan
- commissural
- commissure
- commissurotomy
- commit
- commitment
- commitment ceremony
- committable
- committal
- committee
- committeeman
- committee of the whole
- committeewoman
- commix
- commixture
- commode
- commodifiable
- commodification
- commodify
- commodious
- commodiously
- commodiousness
- commoditization
- commoditize