honorific

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

honorific
    adj 1: conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social
           status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized
           profession"
    n 1: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many
         honorifics"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Honorific \Hon`or*if"ic\, a. [See {Honor}, {-fy}, and {-ic}.]
   Conferring honor; tending to honor. --London Spectator.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "honorific":
      appellation, appellative, attentive, binomen, binomial name,
      byname, byword, cap in hand, ceremonious, cognomen, cognominal,
      courteous, cryptonym, deferential, denomination, designation,
      diminutive, dutiful, empty title, epithet, epithetic, eponym,
      euonym, formal, handle, honor, honorable, honorary, hypocoristic,
      hyponym, in name only, label, moniker, name, namesake, nomen,
      nomen nudum, nominal, nominative, proper name, proper noun, quasi,
      regardful, respectful, scientific name, secret name, self-called,
      self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, style, tag,
      tautonym, title, titular, titulary, trinomen, trinomial name,
      would-be