This chapter discusses Ockham’s views of the formation and character of syncategorematic terms and the roles these views play in his metaphysics and philosophy of language. Ockham claims that thoughts are sentences composed of categorematic and syncategorematic terms and spoken and written descriptions are subordinated to them. He maintains that everything in his ontology can be signified by a categorematic term while syncategorematic terms do not signify. For Ockham, categorematic terms can be thought of as effects of causal contacts made with things and some contemporary scholars, and some of Ockham’s contemporaries, extend this picture to syncategorematic terms as well. This chapter argues that Ockham rejects this extension, denies that distinct true sentences are made true by distinct beings, and embraces the conclusion that there are more truths than truth-makers with profound consequences for his metaphysics.