Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/06

• autonomous, absolute, arbitrary, aristocratic, autarchic, autarkic, authoritarian, autocratic, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, discretional, discretionary, elective, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, free, free will, free-spirited, freewheeling, governmental, gratuitous, gubernatorial, heteronomous, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, neutral, nonaligned, nonmandatory, nonpartisan, offered, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, optional, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, proffered, republican, self-acting, self-active, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-determining, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, separate, sovereign, spontaneous, theocratic, third-force, third-world, totalitarian, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, willful

• autonomy, Declaration of Independence, absolute monarchy, aristocracy, autarchy, autarky, autocracy, autonomousness, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, free will, garrison state, gerontocracy, gratuitousness, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, independence, individualism, inner-direction, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, rugged individualism, self-action, self-activity, self-containment, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, social democracy, spontaneity, spontaneousness, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, unforcedness, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, welfare state

• autopsy, canvass, check, check out, check over, check up on, coroner, examine, give an examination, go over, inquest, inspect, look at, look over, medical examiner, monitor, mortality committee, necropsy, necroscopy, observe, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, pore over, post, postmortem, postmortem examination, review, run over, scan, scrutinize, set an examination, size, size up, study, survey, take stock of, take the measure

• autosuggestion, animal magnetism, hypnology, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotic suggestion, hypnotism, mesmerism, mesmerization, od, odyl, odylic force, posthypnotic suggestion, power of suggestion, self-hypnosis, self-suggestion, suggestibility, suggestion therapy, suggestionism

• autumn, aestival, arctic, autumnal, boreal, brumal, canicular, equinoctial, fall, harvest, harvest home, harvest time, hibernal, hiemal, midsummer, midwinter, out of season, seasonal, solstitial, spring, springlike, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, vernal, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry

• auxiliary, abetting, accessory, accident, accidental, acolyte, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, adscititious, adventitious, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, aiding, alter ego, ancillary, another, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, assistance, assistant, assisting, attendant, auxiliary verb, backing, best man, casual, circumstantial, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, collateral, complementary, contingency, contingent, contributory, copula, defective verb, deponent verb, deputy, executive officer, extra, farther, finite verb, fortuitous, fostering, fresh, further, girl Friday, happenstance, help, helper, helpful, helping, helpmate, helpmeet, impersonal verb, incidental, inessential, infinitive, instrumental, intransitive, intransitive verb, lieutenant, linking verb, man Friday, mere chance, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, modal auxiliary, more, neuter verb, new, nonessential, not-self, nurtural, nutricial, other, paranymph, paraprofessional, peripheral, plus, reserve, second, secondary, servant, serving, sideman, spare, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, support, supporter, supporting, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, supportive, surplus, transitive, tributary, ulterior, unessential, upholding, verb, verb phrase, verbal

• avail, abet, account, advance, advantage, aid, answer, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness, assist, bail out, be equal to, be handy, be of use, bear, bear a hand, befriend, behalf, behoof, benefit, benison, bestead, blessing, boon, break no bones, comfort, convenience, do, do good, do it, do no harm, do the trick, doctor, ease, favor, fill, fill the bill, fitness, fulfill, gain, get by, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give good returns, give help, go around, good, hack it, help, hold, interest, just do, lend a hand, lend one aid, make the grade, meet, meet requirements, pass, pass muster, pay, pay off, percentage, point, proffer aid, profit, protect, qualify, rally, reach, reclaim, redeem, relevance, relieve, remedy, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, satisfy, save, serve, serve the purpose, service, serviceability, set up, stand, stand up, stretch, succor, suffice, suitability, take in tow, take it, use, usefulness, value, welfare, well-being, work, work for, world of good, worth, yield a profit

• availability, access, accessibility, actual presence, applicability, approachability, being here, being there, come-at-ableness, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, existence, functionality, getatableness, gettableness, helpfulness, hereness, immanence, immediacy, indwellingness, inherence, obtainability, obtainableness, occurrence, openness, operability, penetrability, perviousness, physical presence, practicability, practical utility, practicality, presence, procurability, procurableness, profitability, reachableness, securableness, serviceability, spiritual presence, thereness, ubiety, usability, use, usefulness, utility, utilizability, whereness

• available, abandoned, accessible, adaptable, all-around, approachable, at hand, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, attainable, attendant, close by, come-at-able, convenient, deserted, disengaged, fallow, findable, forsaken, free, getatable, gettable, godforsaken, handy, idle, immanent, immediate, in view, indwelling, inherent, jobless, leisure, leisured, lumpen, nearby, obtainable, of all work, off, off duty, off work, on board, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, open, open to, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, penetrable, pervious, present, procurable, reachable, ready, securable, tenantless, to be had, to hand, unemployable, unemployed, unfilled, uninhabited, unmanned, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unstaffed, untaken, untenanted, untended, vacant, versatile, within call, within reach, within sight

• avalanche, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, blizzard, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, coast, copiousness, crystal, deluge, driven snow, embarras de richesses, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, flake, flood, flow, flurry, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glide, glissade, glissando, granular snow, great abundance, great plenty, gush, igloo, inundation, landslide, landslip, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, mantle of snow, maximum, mogul, money to burn, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, redundancy, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, shower, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slippage, slither, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, spate, stream, subsidence, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superflux, teemingness, wealth, wet snow

• avant garde, a la mode, advance guard, advanced, airhead, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, authentic, battle line, beachhead, bellwether, bridgehead, buccinator, bushwhacker, contemporary, creative, exploratory, explorer, far out, farthest outpost, fashionable, first line, firsthand, forebear, forefront, foregoer, forerunner, forward-looking, fresh, front, front line, front rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, imaginative, in, inaugural, innovation, innovator, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, lead runner, leader, line, messenger, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, new look, newfangled device, newfashioned, novel, novelty, now, original, outguard, outpost, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, preceding, precursor, predecessor, preliminary, present-day, present-time, progressive, railhead, revolutionary, scout, spearhead, stormy petrel, streamlined, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, trailblazer, trailbreaker, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, underived, unique, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, van, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, way out

• avarice, acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, cheapness, closefistedness, closeness, covetousness, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, envy, frenzy of desire, frugality, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gula, hardfistedness, hoarding, hoggishness, illiberality, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, invidia, ira, itching palm, lust, luxuria, meanness, miserliness, nearness, niggardliness, overgreediness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, piggishness, pride, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, sloth, sordidness, stinginess, superbia, swinishness, thrift, tight purse strings, tightfistedness, tightness, ungenerosity, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, wrath

• avaricious, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avid, bottomless, cheap, close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted, hoggish, illiberal, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mean, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, save-all, selfish, slakeless, sordid, stingy, swinish, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious

• avatar, Buddha, Christophany, Jagannath, Juggernaut, Kurma, Matsya, Narsinh, Parshuram, Rama, Satanophany, Vaman, Varah, angelophany, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, catabolism, catalysis, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, consubstantiation, disclosure, displacement, dissemination, embodiment, emergence, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, heterotopia, incarnation, indication, issuance, manifestation, materialization, materializing, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, occurrence, opening, permutation, pneumatophany, presentation, proof, publication, realization, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, sport, theophany, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation, unfolding, unfoldment

• Ave Maria, Angelus, Ave, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, aid prayer, appeal, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, chaplet, collect, communion, contemplation, devotions, entreaty, grace, impetration, imploration, intercession, invocation, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving

• avenge, avengement, avenging, chasten, chastise, compensate, correct, counterblow, even the score, get even with, launch a vendetta, pay back, pay out, punish, recompense, redress, repay, reprisal, requital, requite, retaliate, retribution, revanche, revenge, right, take revenge, vengeance, vindicate, wreckage

• avenue, Autobahn, US highway, access, aisle, alley, alleyway, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, belt highway, blind alley, blowhole, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, channel, chaussee, chute, circumferential, cloister, close, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corduroy road, corridor, county road, court, covered way, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, debouch, defile, dike, dirt road, door, drag, drive, driveway, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expressway, ferry, floodgate, flume, ford, freeway, gallery, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, inlet, interchange, intersection, interstate highway, junction, lane, local road, loophole, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, overpass, parkway, pass, passage, passageway, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, pore, port, portico, primary highway, private road, railroad tunnel, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, sally port, secondary road, sluice, speedway, spiracle, spout, state highway, street, superhighway, tap, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnpike, underpass, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir, wynd

• aver, acknowledge, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, avouch, avow, bear witness, certify, contend, declare, defend, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, give evidence, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, justify, lay down, maintain, manifesto, nuncupate, predicate, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put, put it, quote, recite, relate, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, testify, vouch, warrant, witness

• average man, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, Public, average, bourgeois, common man, common run, commoner, everyman, everywoman, generality, girl next door, homme moyen sensuel, little fellow, little man, ordinary Joe, ordinary run, pleb, plebeian, proletarian, roturier, ruck, run

• average, Everyman, Public, accustomed, amidships, as a rule, average man, average out, avoid extremes, balance, banal, besetting, bisect, bourgeois, center, central, common, common man, common run, commonplace, conventional, core, current, customarily, customary, dominant, double, epidemic, equatorial, equidistant, everyday, everyman, everywoman, fair, fairish, familiar, fold, garden, garden-variety, general, generality, generally, girl next door, golden mean, habitual, halfway, happy medium, homme moyen sensuel, household, in the main, indifferent, interior, intermediary, intermediate, juste-milieu, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-class, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midships, midway, moderate, no great shakes, norm, normal, normally, normative, nuclear, ordinarily, ordinary, ordinary Joe, ordinary run, pair off, pandemic, par, plastic, popular, predominant, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, rife, routine, ruck, rule, ruling, run, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, running, so so, so-so, split the difference, standard, stereotyped, stock, strike a balance, suburban, take the average, typical, typically, undistinguished, unexceptional, universal, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, usual, usually, vernacular, via media, wonted

• averse, abhorrent, afraid, allergic, anti, antipathetic, at odds, averse to, backward, balky, contrary, cursory, differing, disaffected, disagreeing, disenchanted, disgusted, disinclined, disobedient, displeased, forced, fractious, hating, hesitant, hostile, ill-disposed, indisposed, indocile, involuntary, loath, loathing, mutinous, not charmed, opposed, perfunctory, perverse, put off, quailing, recalcitrant, recoiling, refractory, reluctant, resistant, shrinking, sulky, sullen, uncongenial, unconsenting, uneager, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unwilling

• aversion, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, allergy, anathema, animosity, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, averseness, backwardness, bad books, bigotry, cold sweat, creeping flesh, cursoriness, despitefulness, detestation, disagreement, disfavor, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disobedience, displeasure, disrelish, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, dread, enmity, execration, fear, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, mutinousness, nausea, nolition, obstinacy, odium, opposition, peeve, perfunctoriness, pet peeve, phobia, race hatred, racism, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repellency, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revulsion, shuddering, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, xenophobia

• avert, about-face, anticipate, balk, bar, bear off, check, debar, deflect, deter, discourage, dishearten, divert, draw aside, ease off, edge off, estop, exclude, face about, fend, fend off, fly off, foil, forbid, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, gee, glance, glance off, go off, halt, haw, head off, help, jib, keep from, keep off, make way for, move aside, obviate, pivot, preclude, prevent, prohibit, remove, repel, right-about-face, rule out, save, sheer, sheer off, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, stave off, stay, steer clear of, step aside, stop, switch, thwart, transfer, turn aside, turn away, turn back, veer, veer off, volte-face, ward, ward off, wheel, whip, whirl

• avian, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avicular, birdlike, birdy, columbine, dovelike, goosy, hawklike, nesting, nidicolous, nidificant, oscine, passerine, psittacine, rasorial

• avid, a hog for, acquisitive, agog, alacritous, all agog, all-devouring, animated, anxious, ardent, athirst, avaricious, bottomless, breathless, bursting to, coveting, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, esurient, forward, full of life, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish, impatient, importunate, insatiable, insatiate, insistent, keen, limitless, lively, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, panting, piggish, pressing, prompt, quenchless, quick, rapacious, raring to, ravening, ravenous, ready, ready and willing, slakeless, sordid, spirited, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, vital, vivacious, vivid, voracious, wanting, wishful, zestful

• avidity, acquisitiveness, alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, avarice, avariciousness, avidness, breathless impatience, cheerful readiness, covetousness, cupidity, eagerness, elan, forwardness, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gust, gusto, hoggishness, impatience, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, itching palm, keen desire, keenness, life, liveliness, lust, overgreediness, piggishness, promptness, quickness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, readiness, sordidness, spirit, swinishness, verve, vitality, vivacity, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, zest, zestfulness

• avidly, animatedly, anxiously, avariciously, breathlessly, covetously, devouringly, eagerly, enthusiastically, graspingly, greedily, hoggishly, impatiently, keenly, piggishly, promptly, quickly, rapaciously, raveningly, ravenously, readily, swinishly, vivaciously, voraciously, with alacrity, with gusto, with open arms, with relish, with zest, wolfishly, zestfully

• avoid, abstain, abstain from, avert, be stuck-up, bilk, blench, blink, circumvent, cringe, debar, deflect, divert, do without, dodge, double, draw back, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, fade, fall back, fight shy of, flinch, forbear, forbid, forgo, give place to, hang back, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, jib, keep aloof, keep away from, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep off, keep remote from, leave alone, let alone, let go by, make way for, never touch, not meddle with, not touch, obviate, pass up, preclude, prevent, prohibit, pull back, quail, recoil, reel back, refrain, refrain from, retreat, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shun, shy, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand aloof from, start aside, start back, stay detached from, steer clear of, swerve, turn aside, turn away from, ward off, weasel, weasel out, wince, withhold

• avoidance, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, continence, cringe, dodge, duck, elusion, eschewal, evasion, fallback, fast, fish day, flinch, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, nephalism, plain living, pullback, pullout, recoil, refraining, refrainment, retreat, runaround, sexual abstinence, shunning, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, simple diet, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, vegetarianism, wince

• avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, deadweight, fatness, gravity, gross weight, heaviness, heft, heftiness, liveweight, neat weight, net, net weight, overbalance, overweight, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, tonnage, underweight, weight, weightiness

• avouch, acknowledge, admit, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avow, bear witness, certify, confess, confirm, contend, corroborate, countersign, declare, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, express the belief, give evidence, guarantee, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, maintain, make a promise, manifesto, own, pledge, plight, predicate, proclaim, profess, promise, pronounce, protest, put, put it, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, testify, troth, underwrite, vouch, vow, warrant, witness

• avow, accept, acknowledge, admit, admit everything, affirm, agree provisionally, allege, allow, announce, annunciate, argue, assent grudgingly, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, bear witness, certify, claim, come clean, concede, confess, contend, cop a plea, declare, defend, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, express general agreement, express the belief, give evidence, go along with, grant, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, let on, maintain, manifesto, not oppose, open up, out with it, own, own up, plead guilty, predicate, pretend, pretext, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, protest too much, purport, put, put it, recognize, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, spill, spill it, spit it out, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, tell all, tell the truth, testify, vindicate, vouch, vow, warrant, witness, yield

• avowal, acceptance, acknowledgment, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allowance, announcement, annunciation, appreciation, assertion, asseveration, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, compurgation, concession, conclusion, confession, creed, declaration, deposition, dictum, disclosure, enunciation, instrument in proof, ipse dixit, legal evidence, manifesto, owning, owning up, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, recognition, rite of confession, say, say-so, saying, shrift, stance, stand, statement, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, unbosoming, utterance, vouch, witness, word

• avowed, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, alleged, allowed, announced, approved, asserted, asseverated, attested, authenticated, averred, avouched, certified, claimed, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, declared, deposed, endorsed, enunciated, granted, hypocritical, in name only, manifestoed, notarized, ostensible, pledged, predicated, pretended, pretexted, professed, pronounced, purported, ratified, received, recognized, sealed, signed, so-called, specious, stamped, stated, sworn, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, underwritten, validated, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted

• await, abide, anticipate, approach, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be in store, be to be, be to come, bide, bide the issue, brew, come, come on, confront, count, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, expect, face, foresee, foretell, forthcome, gather, hang about, hang around, hang over, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, hope, hover, impend, lie ahead, lie over, linger, loiter, look, look for, look forward to, loom, lower, mark time, menace, near, overhang, plan, plot, predict, project, prophesy, sit tight, sit up, sit up for, stay, stay up, stay up for, stick around, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, take time, tarry, threaten, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wait for, wait on, wait up for, watch, watch and wait

• awake to, alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, cognizant of, conscious of, hep to, in the know, in the secret, informed of, let into, mindful of, no stranger to, on to, privy to, seized of, sensible of, sensible to, streetwise, undeceived, wise to

• awake, activate, agile, alert, alive, animate, annoy, apprehensive, arouse, aroused, attentive, au courant, awake to, awaken, awaken to, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, blow the coals, blow up, bright, call forth, call up, clear-sighted, clear-witted, clearheaded, cognizant, come alive, come into being, come into existence, come to, come to life, conscious, conversant, enkindle, enrage, excite, excited, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, get up, heat, heedful, ignite, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, keen, key up, kindle, knock up, knowing, lather up, light the fuse, light up, live again, madden, move, nimble, on guard, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, overexcite, prompt, qui vive, quick, quicken, ready, realize, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise again, rouse, roused, see the light, sensible, sentient, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, shake up, sharp, sleepless, smart, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirred up, summon up, turn on, unblinking, understand, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, up, up and about, vigilant, wake, wake up, wakeful, waken, warm, warm the blood, watchful, whip up, wide awake, wide-awake, work into, work up

• awaken, alert, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken to, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, become alive to, become aware of, become conscious of, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, break the spell, burst the bubble, call forth, call up, challenge, come alive, come into being, come into existence, come to, come to know, come to life, correct, debunk, disabuse, disappoint, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, enkindle, enlighten, enrage, excite, expose, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, get hep to, get next to, get up, get wise to, have it reported, heat, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, key up, kindle, knock up, lather up, learn, let down easy, let in on, light the fuse, light up, live again, madden, move, overexcite, pique, prick the bubble, put straight, quicken, raise, raise up, rally, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise again, rouse, see the light, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, set right, set straight, shake up, show up, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, tell the truth, turn on, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, unspell, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip up, work into, work up

• award, Academy Award, Christmas present, Nobel Prize, Oscar, accolade, accommodation, accord, accordance, action, administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, assign, awarding, badge, bays, bestow, bestow on, bestowal, bestowment, birthday present, booby prize, box, cadeau, communicate, communication, concede, concession, condemnation, confer, conferment, conferral, consideration, consolation prize, contribution, deal, deal out, decision, decoration, decree, deliverance, delivery, determination, diagnosis, dictum, dish out, dispense, distinction, dole, dole out, donate, donation, doom, dower, endow, endow with, endowment, endue, extend, fairing, finding, first prize, fork out, furnish, furnishment, gift, gift with, gifting, give, give freely, give out, giving, grant, granting, hand out, handsel, heap, help to, impart, impartation, impartment, investiture, issue, jackpot, kudos, laurels, lavish, let have, liberality, mete, mete out, oblation, offer, offering, order, peace offering, pour, precedent, present, presentation, presentment, prize, proffer, prognosis, pronouncement, provision, rain, render, resolution, reward, ruling, second prize, sentence, serve, shell out, shower, slip, snow, subscription, supplying, surrender, sweepstakes, tender, tribute, trophy, verdict, vouchsafe, vouchsafement, white elephant, yield

• aware, acquainted, advertent, agog, alert, alive, alive to, all ears, all eyes, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, appreciative of, apprehending, apprehensive, apprised, apprised of, assiduous, attentive, au courant, au fait, awake, awake to, aware of, awash, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, brimful, brimming, careful, chock-full, cognizant, cognizant of, comprehending, concentrated, conscious, conscious of, conversant, crammed, crowded, diligent, earnest, enlightened, finical, finicking, finicky, heedful, hep, hep to, hip, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in the know, in the secret, informed, informed of, insightful, intelligent, intense, intent, intentive, jammed, knowing, knowledgeable, let into, loaded, meticulous, mindful, mindful of, nice, niggling, no stranger to, observant, observing, omniscient, on the ball, on the job, on to, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, packed, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, posted, prehensile, privy to, receptive, regardful, sagacious, seized of, sensible, sensible of, sensible to, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, shrewd, streetwise, stuffed, susceptible, susceptive, undeceived, understanding, ware, watchful, wise, wise to, witting

• awareness, advertence, advertency, alertness, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, care, cognition, cognizance, concentration, consciousness, consideration, diligence, ear, earnestness, experience, feeling, heed, heedfulness, insight, intentiveness, intentness, mindfulness, noesis, note, notice, observance, observation, percept, perception, realization, recognition, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, response, response to stimuli, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense perception, sensibility, sensory experience, thought

• awash, afloat, at flood, bathed, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, floating, flooded, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, submerged, submersed, swamped, swept, washed, water-borne, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet

• away, a rebours, a reculons, absconded, absent, afar, against the grain, aloof, anticlockwise, apart, arear, aside, ass-backwards, astern, asunder, at a distance, at once, back, backward, backwards, counterclockwise, deleted, departed, directly, disappeared, distal, distant, distantly, elsewhere, elsewhither, exotic, expeditiously, extinct, far, far off, faraway, forth, forthwith, fro, gone, gone away, hence, hindward, hindwards, immediately, in juxtaposition, in reverse, instanter, instantly, lacking, long-distance, long-range, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, missing, momentarily, nearby, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not here, not present, now, off, omitted, on one side, on the side, out, out of sight, over, past and gone, promptly, pronto, punctually, quickly, rearward, rearwards, remote, remotely, removed, retrad, right, right away, right off, separated, sidelong, somewhere else, speedily, straight, straightway, subtracted, swiftly, taken away, thence, therefrom, thereof, to one side, to the side, vanished, wanting, whence, widdershins, wide apart, wide away

• awe inspiring, Babylonian, Corinthian, appalling, astounding, august, awesome, awful, awing, barbaric, bizarre, deluxe, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, earnest, eerie, elaborate, elegant, estimable, extravagant, fancy, fatal, fateful, fell, fine, formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, glorious, grand, grandiose, grave, grim, grisly, gruesome, heavy, hideous, honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, imposing, impressive, luxurious, macabre, magnificent, majestic, morbid, mysterious, noble, numinous, palatial, plush, portentous, posh, princely, proud, redoubtable, reverend, ritzy, schrecklich, serious, shocking, sober, solemn, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, terrible, terrific, time-honored, tremendous, uncanny, venerable, weighty, weird, worshipful

• awe, abject fear, admiration, adoration, affright, alarm, amaze, amazement, apotheosis, appall, appreciation, approbation, approval, astonish, astonishment, astound, astoundment, awestrike, be widely reputed, bedaze, bedazzle, beguilement, bewilder, bewilderment, blue funk, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, breathless adoration, breathless wonder, command respect, confound, consideration, consternation, courtesy, cowardice, daunt, daze, dazzle, deference, deification, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dread, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumbfoundment, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, fascination, favor, faze, fear, flabbergast, freeze, fright, funk, great respect, have prestige, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, horrification, horrify, horror, idolatry, idolization, inspire respect, marvel, marveling, overawe, overwhelm, panic, panic fear, paralyze, perplex, petrify, phobia, prestige, puzzlement, rank high, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, scare, scare stiff, scare to death, sense of mystery, sense of wonder, shake, shock, spook, stagger, stampede, stand high, startle, stop, strike dead, strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, surprise, terrify, terror, terrorize, unholy dread, veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship

• awesome, Gargantuan, affecting, aggrandized, alarming, amazing, amplitudinous, apotheosized, appalling, astonishing, astounding, astronomical, august, awe-inspiring, awful, awing, beatified, big, bizarre, boundless, breathtaking, bulky, canonized, colossal, cosmic, daunting, deified, dire, direful, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enormous, enshrined, enthroned, estimable, exalted, excellent, extensive, fearful, fearsome, fell, formidable, frightening, galactic, ghastly, ghoulish, gigantic, glorified, grand, great, grim, grisly, gruesome, heavenly, held in awe, hideous, high, high and mighty, holy, honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, immortal, immortalized, imposing, incredible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infinite, inviolable, inviolate, king-size, large, lofty, macabre, magnified, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, morbid, mountainous, moving, mysterious, numinous, outsize, overgrown, overwhelming, prodigious, redoubtable, religious, reverend, sacred, sacrosanct, sainted, sanctified, schrecklich, shocking, shrined, sizable, spacious, spiritual, stirring, stunning, stupefying, stupendous, sublime, supereminent, terrible, terrific, terrifying, throned, time-honored, titanic, tremendous, unbelievable, uncanny, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, vast, venerable, voluminous, weighty, weird, wonderful, wondrous, worshipful

• awestruck, admiring, adoring, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, apotheosizing, appalled, ashen, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestricken, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, blanched, breathless, captivated, confounded, cowed, deadly pale, deifying, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, frozen, gaping, gauping, gazing, gray with fear, hero-worshiping, horrified, horror-struck, hypnotized, idolatrous, idolizing, in awe, in awe of, intimidated, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, reverent, reverential, scared stiff, scared to death, solemn, spellbound, staggered, staring, stunned, stupefied, surprised, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, thunderstruck, under a charm, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, venerational, venerative, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, worshipful, worshiping

• awful, Babylonian, Corinthian, abominable, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, awfully, awing, bad, baneful, barbaric, base, beastly, beneath contempt, big, bizarre, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crazy, damned, deadly, deluxe, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disgusting, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, egregious, elaborate, elegant, enormous, estimable, execrable, extravagant, extremely, fancy, fearful, fell, fetid, filthy, fine, flagrant, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, glorious, grand, grandiose, grave, greatly, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, grotesque, gruesome, hateful, heavenly, heinous, hideous, holy, honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, howling, hugely, imposing, impressive, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infamous, inferior, inviolable, inviolate, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, luxurious, macabre, magnificent, majestic, monstrous, morbid, mortally, moving, much, mysterious, nasty, nefarious, noble, noisome, notorious, numinous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, outrageous, palatial, pitiable, pitiful, plush, portentous, posh, princely, proud, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, religious, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, reverend, revolting, ritzy, rotten, rousing, sacred, sacrosanct, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, serious, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, solemn, sordid, spiritual, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, squalid, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tasteless, terrible, terribly, terrific, thumping, time-honored, too bad, tragic, tremendous, ugly, uncanny, unclean, unpleasant, unsightly, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, venerable, vile, villainous, weird, whacking, whopping, woeful, worshipful, worst, worthless, wretched

• awfully, abominably, agonizingly, alarmingly, almighty, appallingly, astoundingly, atrociously, awe-inspiringly, awesomely, awful, awingly, badly, baldly, balefully, basely, bestially, big, bitterly, bizarrely, blatantly, brashly, brutally, confoundedly, contemptibly, cruelly, damnably, damned, deadly, deathly, despicably, detestably, deucedly, disconcertingly, disgustingly, dismayingly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadful, dreadfully, eerily, egregiously, exceedingly, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extraordinarily, extravagantly, extremely, fearfully, flagrantly, forbiddingly, foully, frightfully, fulsomely, ghastly, greatly, grievously, grossly, gruesomely, hellishly, hideously, horrendously, horribly, horridly, horrifically, horrifyingly, hugely, improperly, incomparably, inexcusably, infamously, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, just, lamentably, loathsomely, mightily, mighty, miserably, much, mysteriously, nakedly, nastily, nauseatingly, notoriously, numinously, obnoxiously, odiously, offensively, only too, openly, outrageously, painfully, piteously, powerful, powerfully, pretty, quite, real, really, remarkably, repugnantly, repulsively, revoltingly, right, sadly, savagely, scandalously, shabbily, shamefully, shatteringly, shockingly, so, something awful, something fierce, sordidly, sorely, staggeringly, startlingly, terribly, terrifically, torturously, tremendously, unashamedly, unbearably, uncannily, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, very, very much, viciously, vilely, weirdly, whacking, whopping, woefully, wretchedly

• awkward, Latinate, all thumbs, blankminded, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, callow, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, confused, contrary, cramped, crosswise, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, dangerous, delicate, difficult, discomfited, discommodious, disconcerted, disconcerting, disturbing, dumb, elephantine, embarrassed, embarrassing, empty, empty-headed, fingers all thumbs, forced, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, green, groping, guinde, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hazardous, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, humiliating, ignorant, ill at ease, ill-chosen, impractical, inane, incommodious, inconvenient, inefficient, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, inkhorn, innocent, know-nothing, labored, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, mortifying, naive, nescient, oafish, out of place, perilous, perverse, pompous, ponderous, precarious, raw, rigid, risky, sensitive, sesquipedalian, shamefaced, simple, sloppy, splay, sticky, stiff, stilted, strange to, tentative, ticklish, touchy, tricky, troublesome, trying, turgid, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomfortable, uncomprehending, unconversant, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unfortunate, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent, unknowing, unmanageable, unpleasant, unposted, unripe, unskilled, unskillful, unsure, unversed, unwieldy, vacuous, wooden

• AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absent without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, absquatulation, bolt, cut, day off, decampment, default, departure, desertion, disappearance, disappearing act, elopement, escape, excused absence, exit, fleeing, flight, fugitation, furlough, hasty retreat, hegira, holiday, hooky, leave, leave of absence, leaving, nonappearance, nonattendance, quick exit, running away, sabbatical leave, scramming, sick leave, skedaddle, skedaddling, truancy, truant, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation

• awry, aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, agee, agee-jawed, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, aside, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, aslant, asquint, astray, at fault, badly, beside the mark, cam, catawampous, catawamptious, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, convulsed, corrupt, crooked, crookedly, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultful, faultily, faulty, flawed, haywire, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in disorder, misplaced, not right, not true, obliquely, off, off the track, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, roily, self-contradictory, shuffled, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slantways, slaunchways, squinting, straying, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unorthodox, unproved, unsettled, untrue, untruly, upset, wamper-jawed, wide, wrong, wry, yaw-ways

• ax, amputate, battle-ax, beheading, bisect, blade, block, boot out, bounce, burning, butcher, can, capital punishment, carve, cashier, cashiering, chop, cleave, cold steel, conge, cross, crucifixion, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cutlery, cutter, dagger, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, deposal, dichotomize, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, dissever, drop, drumming out, edge tools, electric chair, electrocution, excise, execution, fire, firing, fissure, forced separation, furloughing, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gash, gassing, gibbet, guillotine, hack, halberd, halter, halve, hanging, hatchet, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hew, hot seat, incise, jigsaw, judicial murder, kick out, knife, lance, lapidation, layoff, lethal chamber, maiden, naked steel, necktie party, noose, pare, pigsticker, pink slip, point, poisoning, poleax, prune, puncturer, removal, rend, retirement, rive, rope, sack, saw, scaffold, scissor, sever, sharpener, shooting, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, stake, steel, stoning, strangling, strangulation, sunder, surplusing, suspension, sword, tear, terminate, the ax, the block, the boot, the bounce, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the gate, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the sack, ticket, toad sticker, tomahawk, tree, walking papers, whittle

• axial, ascending, back, back-flowing, backward, centermost, central, centralized, centric, centroidal, centrosymmetric, concentrated, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, flying, geocentric, going, gyrational, gyratory, key, middle, middlemost, midmost, mounting, omphalic, passing, pivotal, plunging, progressive, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sideward, sinking, soaring, streaming, umbilical, up-trending, upward

• axiom, a belief, a priori principle, a priori truth, absolute fact, accepted fact, actual fact, adage, admitted fact, affirmation, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, apriorism, article of faith, assertion, assumed position, assumption, bald fact, bare fact, basis, brocard, brutal fact, byword, canon, catchword, categorical proposition, center, circumstance, cold fact, collected sayings, conceded fact, conjecture, core, current saying, data, datum, demonstrable fact, dictate, dictum, distich, doctrine, dogma, elixir, empirical fact, epigram, essence, essential, established fact, expression, fact, fact of experience, first principles, flower, focus, formula, foundation, fundamental, gist, given fact, gnome, golden rule, golden saying, gravamen, ground, guesswork, hard fact, heart, hypostasis, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, inference, inner essence, kernel, law, lemma, major premise, marrow, matter of fact, maxim, meat, minor premise, moral, mot, motto, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, oracle, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, pith, pithy saying, plain, position, positive fact, postulate, postulation, postulatum, precept, premise, prescript, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, principium, principle, proposition, propositional function, provable fact, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quid, quiddity, quintessence, rule, salient fact, sap, saw, saying, self-evident fact, self-evident truth, sentence, sententious expression, set of postulates, settled principle, significant fact, simple fact, sloka, sober fact, soul, spirit, statement, stock saying, stubborn fact, stuff, substance, sumption, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, sutra, teaching, tenet, text, the case, the nitty-gritty, theorem, thesis, truism, truth, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, undeniable fact, universal truth, verse, well-known fact, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, working hypothesis

• axiomatic, absolute, actual, admitting no question, aphoristic, apparent, clear, clear as crystal, confirmable, crisp, crystal-clear, demonstrable, demonstratable, discernible, distinct, epigrammatic, evident, explicit, express, factual, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, historical, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, manifest, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, pithy, plain, plain as day, platitudinous, pointed, provable, proverbial, pungent, real, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sententious, succinct, tangible, terse, testable, to be seen, unanswerable, unconfutable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unmistakable, unquestionable, unrefutable, verifiable, visible

• axis, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, air line, alliance, anthrophore, arbor, assemblage, association, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, band, bearing, beeline, bloc, body, bole, cane, carpophore, caudex, caulicle, caulis, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, chord, coalition, college, combination, combine, common market, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society, core, corps, council, credit union, culm, customs union, dead center, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, distaff, economic community, edge, epicenter, federation, footstalk, free trade area, fulcrum, funicule, funiculus, gang, gimbal, great-circle course, group, grouping, gudgeon, haulm, heart, hinge, hingle, horizontal axis, hub, kernel, leafstalk, league, machine, mandrel, marrow, medulla, metacenter, middle, mob, nave, navel, normal, nub, nucleus, oarlock, omphalos, partnership, pedicel, peduncle, perpendicular, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pin, pintle, pith, pivot, pole, political machine, radiant, radius, radius vector, reed, rest, resting point, right line, ring, rowlock, secant, seedstalk, segment, shortcut, side, society, spear, spindle, spire, stalk, stem, stipe, stock, storm center, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, straw, streamline, swivel, tangent, thole, tholepin, tigella, transversal, trunk, trunnion, umbilicus, union, vector, yaw

• aye, Australian ballot, Hare system, OK, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative attitude, affirmative voice, affirmativeness, agreed, agreement, amen, approbation, approval, assent, ballot, blessing, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, compliance, con, connivance, consent, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, eagerness, endorsement, enfranchisement, fagot vote, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, interest, list system, nay, no, nod, nod of assent, nontransferable vote, okay, permission, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, pro, promptitude, promptness, proportional representation, proxy, ratification, readiness, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, sanction, say, secret ballot, show of hands, side, single vote, snap vote, straw vote, submission, suffrage, the affirmative, the negative, thumbs-up, transferable vote, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, willingness, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea-saying, yeas and nays, yep, yes

• azimuth, Cartesian coordinates, abscissa, aim, altitude, aspect, attitude, bearing, bearings, bent, celestial navigation, compass bearing, compass direction, coordinates, course, current, cylindrical coordinates, dead reckoning, declination, direction, direction line, drift, equator coordinates, exposure, false horizon, fix, frontage, heading, helmsmanship, horizon, inclination, latitude, lay, lee side, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, longitude, magnetic bearing, navigation, ordinate, orientation, pilotage, piloting, point, polar coordinates, position, position line, quarter, radio bearing, range, relative bearing, right ascension, run, sea line, sensible horizon, set, skyline, steerage, steering, tack, tendency, tenor, track, trend, true bearing, vector, visible horizon, way, weather side

• azure, Caelus, achievement, air, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureness, azureous, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, beryl-blue, berylline, billet, blazon, blazonry, blue, blue sky, blueness, bluish, bluishness, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, canton, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, cope, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cyanean, cyanosis, dark-blue, deep-blue, device, difference, differencing, eagle, empyrean, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, ether, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, firmament, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, heaven, heavens, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hyaline, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, lion, livid, lividity, lividness, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, sapphire, sapphirine, scutcheon, shield, sky, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, spread eagle, starry heaven, subordinary, tenne, the blue, the blue serene, tincture, torse, tressure, turquoise, unicorn, vair, vault, vault of heaven, vert, welkin, wreath, yale

• Baal, Adad, Adapa, Anu, Anunaki, Ashtoreth, Ashur, Astarte, Beltu, Ceres, Dagon, Damkina, Demeter, Dionysus, Dumuzi, Ea, Enlil, Ereshkigal, Frey, Gibil, Girru, Gish Bar, Gishzida, Gula, Igigi, Inanna, Isimud, Isis, Juggernaut, Ki, Lahmu, Mama, Marduk, Merodach, Moloch, Nabu, Nammu, Namtar, Nanna, Nebo, Nergal, Neti, Nina, Ningal, Ningirsu, Ninhursag, Ninlil, Ninmah, Ninsar, Nintoo, Nusku, Pan, Papsukai, Priapus, Ramman, Shala, Shamash, Sin, Utnapishtim, Uttu, Utu, Zarpanit, Zubird, devil-god, fetish, golden calf, graven image, idol, joss

• Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, arriviste, boeotian, boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, epicier, formalist, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, methodologist, middle-class type, middlebrow, model child, mucker, nouveau riche, organization man, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yes-man, yokel

• babble, Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, absurdity, amphigory, argot, babblement, baffle, balderdash, bavardage, be Greek to, be beyond one, be indiscreet, be insane, be too deep, be unguarded, beat one, betray, betray a confidence, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, blurt, blurt out, bombast, bubble, bull, bullshit, burble, cackle, cant, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chattering, chitchat, chitter-chatter, cipher, clack, claptrap, clatter, code, cryptogram, disclose, dither, divulge, dote, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, drool, escape one, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garble, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gift of tongues, give away, glossolalia, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, guggle, gurgle, gush, have a demon, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, hubbub, humbug, idle talk, inform, inform on, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jaw, jumble, lap, leak, let drop, let fall, let slip, lose one, mere talk, mumbo jumbo, murmur, narrishkeit, natter, need explanation, niaiserie, noise, nonsense, nonsense talk, not make sense, not penetrate, pack of nonsense, palaver, pass comprehension, patter, peach, perplex, piffle, plash, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, purl, rabbit, rage, ramble, ramble on, rant, rat, rattle, rattle on, rave, reel off, repeat, reveal, reveal a secret, riddle, rigamarole, rigmarole, ripple, rodomontade, rubbish, run amok, run mad, run on, scramble, secret language, sing, skimble-skamble, slang, slaver, slobber, slosh, speak in tongues, spill, spill the beans, splash, spout, spout off, squeal, stool, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swash, swish, talk, talk away, talk double Dutch, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tattle, tattle on, tell, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, tittle-tattle, trash, trill, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, wander, wash, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer, yap

• babbling, arrested, backward, blithering, bubbling, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, delirious, dithering, dizzy, driveling, drooling, giddy, guggling, gurgling, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, incoherent, lapping, lightheaded, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, off, plashing, rambling, ranting, raving, retarded, rippling, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, sloshing, splashing, subnormal, swishing, trilling, wandering

• babe, angel, baby, baby bunting, baby-doll, bambino, bantling, broad, buttercup, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child, child of nature, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, darling, dear, deary, demoiselle, doll, dove, duck, duckling, dupe, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, heifer, hick, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hoyden, incubator baby, infant, ingenue, innocent, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lamb, lambkin, lass, lassie, little angel, little darling, little missy, lout, love, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, mere child, mewling infant, miss, missy, neonate, newborn, newborn babe, noble savage, nursling, nymphet, oaf, papoose, pet, petkins, piece, precious, precious heart, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, puling infant, romp, rube, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, simple soul, skirt, slip, snookums, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, suckling, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, teenybopper, toddler, tomato, tomboy, unsophisticate, virgin, weanling, wench, yearling, yokel, young creature, young thing

• Babel, Aesopian language, Greek, argot, babble, bedlam, cacophony, cant, cipher, clamor, clash, code, confusion of tongues, cryptogram, double Dutch, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, harshness, hell, jangle, jar, jargon, jumble, mere noise, noise, pandemonium, racket, scramble, secret language, slang, static

• baby grand, Klavier, Steinway, cembalo, clarichord, clavicembalo, clavichord, clavicittern, clavicymbal, clavicytherium, clavier, concert grand, cottage piano, couched harp, dulcimer harpsichord, grand, grand piano, hammer dulcimer, harmonichord, harpsichord, manichord, manichordon, melodion, melopiano, monochord, pair of virginals, parlor grand, pianette, pianino, piano, piano-violin, pianoforte, sostinente pianoforte, spinet, square piano, upright, upright piano, violin piano, virginal

• baby sit, attend to, care for, chaperon, cherish, conserve, foster, keep watch over, look after, look out for, look to, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nurse, nurture, preserve, protege, provide for, ride herd on, see after, see to, shepherd, support, take care of, take charge of, tend, watch, watch out for, watch over

• baby, Elzevir, Milquetoast, adolescent, angel, apprentice, babe, babish, baby bunting, baby-doll, baby-sized, babyish, bambino, bantam, bantling, banty, beginner, big baby, broad, buttercup, catechumen, cater to, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicken liver, child, cocker, coddle, colleen, compact, cosset, cotton, coward, crybaby, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, darling, dear, deary, deb, debutant, demoiselle, diminutive, doll, doll-like, dollish, doormat, dote, dry-nurse, duck, duckling, dull tool, duodecimo, entrant, favor, filly, flame, fledgling, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, frail, freshman, funk, funker, gal, girl, girlie, gratify, greenhorn, greeny, gutless wonder, handy, heifer, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hopeful, hoyden, humor, in arms, in diapers, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, inamorata, incubator baby, indulge, infant, infantile, infantine, invertebrate, jellyfish, jeune fille, jill, junior, junior miss, juvenal, juvenile, kittenish, ladylove, lamb, lambkin, lass, lassie, learner, lightweight, lily liver, little angel, little darling, little missy, little one, love, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, meek soul, mewling infant, microcosm, milksop, mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minny, minor, minuscule, miss, missy, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nebbish, neonatal, neonate, neophyte, nestling, newborn, newcomer, nonentity, novice, novitiate, nursling, nymphet, pamper, pansy, pantywaist, papoose, pet, petkins, piece, please, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, precious, precious heart, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, probationer, pubescent, puling infant, puppet, pushover, raw recruit, recruit, romp, rookie, sad sack, sapling, satisfy, scaredy-cat, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sissy, skirt, slip, small-scale, snookums, softling, softy, sop, spoil, sprig, steady, stripling, subdeb, subdebutante, subminiature, subteen, subteener, suckling, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tenderfoot, toddler, tomato, tomboy, tot, toy, trainee, truelove, twelvemo, tyro, vest-pocket, virgin, weak sister, weakling, weanling, wench, wet-nurse, white feather, white liver, yearling, young creature, young hopeful, young person, young thing, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

• babyish, babish, baby, childish, childlike, doll-like, dollish, immature, in arms, in diapers, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, infant, infantile, infantine, kittenish, neonatal, newborn, puerile

• Babylonian, Corinthian, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, extravagant, fancy, fine, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plush, posh, princely, proud, ritzy, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell

• bacchanal, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, bibber, big drunk, binge, boozer, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, carouser, celebration, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, compotation, debauch, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, drinker, drinking bout, drunk, drunkard, drunken carousal, guzzle, guzzler, hard drinker, heavy drinker, imbiber, inebriate, jag, lovepot, oenophilist, orgy, party, pathological drinker, pot companion, potation, problem drinker, pub-crawl, reveler, saturnalia, serious drinker, shikker, soaker, social drinker, sot, spree, swigger, swiller, symposium, tear, thirsty soul, tippler, toot, toper, tosspot, wassail, wassailer, winebibber

• bacchic, Dionysiac, amok, berserk, corybantic, desperate, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, running wild, stark-raving mad, uncontrollable, violent, wild

• Bacchus, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, bacchanalianism, bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, crapulence, crapulousness, intemperance, serious drinking, sottishness

• bachelor, Bayard, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, baccalaureate, baccalaureus, bach, banneret, baronet, caballero, cavalier, chevalier, companion, confirmed bachelor, degree, doctor, doctorate, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, master, old bach, single man

• bachelorhood, bachelordom, bachelorism, bachelorship, celibacy, continence, maidenhead, maidenhood, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, unwed state, virgin state, virginity

• bacillus, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, bacteria, bacterium, bug, coccus, disease-producing microorganism, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, mold, nonfilterable virus, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, spirillum, spirochete, spore, staphylococcus, streptococcus, trypanosome, vibrio, virus

• back and fill, about ship, alternate, battledore and shuttlecock, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change, change course, change the heading, come about, come and go, dither, double a point, ebb and flow, equivocate, fetch about, flounder, fluctuate, go about, go through phases, gybe, heave round, hitch and hike, jibe, jibe all standing, miss stays, oscillate, pass and repass, pendulate, ply, reciprocate, ride and tie, ring the changes, round a point, seesaw, sheer, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, slew, stagger, sway, swerve, swing, swing round, swing the stern, tack, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, throw about, to-and-fro, totter, turn, turn back, vacillate, vary, veer, waver, wax and wane, wear, wear ship, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wind, wobble, yaw, zigzag

• back and forth, alternate, alternately, back-and-forth, backward and forward, backwards and forwards, capriciously, changeably, desultorily, erratically, hitch and hike, in and out, inconstantly, mutatis mutandis, off and on, on and off, reciprocal, reciprocally, reciprocative, ride and tie, round and round, seesaw, shuttlewise, sine wave, to and fro, to-and-fro, uncertainly, unsteadfastly, unsteadily, up and down, up-and-down, variably, vice versa, waveringly

• back burner, dinky, dispensable, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, little, minor, minute, negligible, nonessential, not vital, petit, small, technical, unessential, unimpressive, unnoteworthy

• back country, Lebensraum, air space, back, back of beyond, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush country, bushveld, clear space, clearance, clearing, desert, distant prospect, empty view, forests, frontier, glade, hinterland, living space, open country, open space, outback, outpost, plain, prairie, steppe, sylvan, terrain, territory, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, wide-open spaces, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods

• back door, French door, afterpart, afterpiece, archway, back, back road, back seat, back side, back stairs, back street, back way, backstairs, barway, behind, bolt-hole, breech, bulkhead, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, clandestine, covert, covert way, detour, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, escalier derobe, escape hatch, escape route, feline, front door, furtive, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, heel, hidlings, hind end, hind part, hindhead, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, lintel, occiput, porch, portal, porte cochere, posterior, postern, privy, propylaeum, pylon, quiet, rear, rear end, rearward, reverse, roundabout way, scuttle, secret exit, secret passage, secret staircase, shifty, side door, side road, side street, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, stern, stile, storm door, surreptitious, tail, tail end, tailpiece, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underground railroad, underground route, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive

• back down, abjure, back off, back out, backpedal, backtrack, backwater, balance, balk, beat a retreat, beg off, break off combat, cave in, cease resistance, climb down, crawfish out, cry off, debate, deliberate, demur, deny, disavow, disclaim, disengage, disown, draw back, draw off, eat crow, eat humble pie, fall back, falter, fear, forswear, give ground, give in, give place, give up, give way, go back, go back on, hang back, hem and haw, hesitate, hold back, hover, hum and haw, jib, move back, pause, ponder, pull back, pull out, quit the field, recall, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, resile, retire, retract, retreat, revoke, run back, scruple, shilly-shally, shy, stand back, stick at, stickle, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain at, swallow, take back, think twice about, unsay, weasel out, welsh, withdraw, yield

• back matter, PS, Parthian shot, acknowledgments, addendum, afterthought, appendix, article, back, bastard title, bibliography, book, catch line, catchword, chapter, chorus, clause, coda, codicil, colophon, conclusion, consequence, contents, contents page, continuance, continuation, copyright page, dedication, double take, dying words, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, envoi, epilogue, errata, fascicle, flyleaf, folio, follow-through, follow-up, fore edge, foreword, front matter, gathering, half-title page, head, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, last words, leaf, makeup, number, page, paragraph, parting shot, passage, peroration, phrase, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, preface, preliminaries, recto, refrain, reverso, running title, second thought, section, sentence, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, sheet, signature, subscript, subtitle, suffix, supplement, swan song, table of contents, tag, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, verse, verso

• back number, Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, banal, behind the times, bewhiskered, bromidic, collection, common, commonplace, conservative, copy, corny, cut-and-dried, dad, dated, dodo, edition, elder, fade, familiar, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, fusty, granny, hackney, hackneyed, has-been, impression, issue, library, library edition, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, moth-eaten, musty, number, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old hat, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-fashioned, old-timer, old-timey, oldfangled, out of fashion, out of season, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, patriarch, platitudinous, pop, pops, printing, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, school edition, series, set, square, stale, starets, stereotyped, stock, styleless, threadbare, timeworn, trade book, trade edition, traditionalist, trite, truistic, unfashionable, unoriginal, volume, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, worn, worn thin

• back of beyond, China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, antipodean, antipodes, back, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, frontier, godforsaken, godforsaken place, hinterland, hyperborean, inaccessible, jumping-off place, nowhere, out of reach, out-of-the-way, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, pole, sylvan, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, unapproachable, ungetatable, untouchable, up-country, virgin, waste, wild, wilderness, woodland

• back out, abandon, abjure, back down, backpedal, backwater, beat a retreat, beg off, boggle, chicken, chicken out, climb down, crawfish out, cry off, deny, depart from, desert under fire, disavow, discard, disclaim, disengage, disown, draw back, draw off, drop out, eat crow, eat humble pie, evacuate, fall back, falter, forsake, forswear, funk, funk out, get cold feet, give ground, give place, go back, go back on, jettison, jilt, leave, leave behind, leave flat, lose courage, maroon, move back, pull back, pull out, quit, quit cold, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, resile, retire, retract, retreat, revoke, run back, say goodbye to, scuttle, skedaddle, stand back, stand down, swallow, take back, take leave of, throw over, unsay, vacate, welsh, withdraw

• back scratching, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, barter, bootlicking, brown-nosing, cringing, even trade, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, influence peddling, ingratiation, insinuation, lobbying, lobbyism, logrolling, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, parasitism, political influence, pork barrel, prostration, public opinion, social pressure, special-interest pressure, sponging, swap, swapping, switch, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, trade, trading, truckling, tufthunting, wire-pulling

• back seat, afterpart, afterpiece, back, back door, back side, behind, breech, heel, hind end, hind part, hindhead, humbleness, humility, inferiority, juniority, lowliness, minority, occiput, posterior, postern, rear, rear end, rearward, reverse, second fiddle, second string, secondariness, servility, stern, subjection, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, tail, tail end, tailpiece, third string

• back stairs, back door, back road, back street, back way, bolt-hole, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, companion, companionway, covert way, detour, escalier, escalier derobe, escape hatch, escape route, fire escape, flight of steps, incline, landing, landing stage, perron, ramp, roundabout way, secret exit, secret passage, secret staircase, side door, side road, side street, spiral staircase, staircase, stairs, stairway, stepping-stones, steps, stile, treads and risers, underground, underground railroad, underground route

• back talk, acknowledgment, answer, answering, antiphon, back answer, backchat, cheek, comeback, echo, evasive reply, guff, impudence, insolence, jaw, lip, mouth, reaction, ready reply, receipt, rejoinder, repartee, replication, reply, repost, rescript, rescription, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retort, return, reverberation, riposte, sass, sassiness, sauce, sauciness, short answer, snappy comeback, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

• back to back, as one, as one man, at opposite extremes, behind, behind the scenes, coactively, coefficiently, collectively, combinedly, communally, concertedly, concordantly, concurrently, conjointly, contrariwise, contrary, cooperatingly, cooperatively, counter, eyeball to eyeball, face to face, hand in glove, hand in hand, harmoniously, in back of, in chorus, in concert with, in the background, in the rear, in unison, jointly, just opposite, nose to nose, opposite, poles apart, shoulder to shoulder, tandem, together, unanimously, vis-a-vis, with one voice

• back up, act for, advance, affirm, afford support, answer for, appear for, ascend, attest, authenticate, back, back away, back off, backpedal, backtrack, backtrail, backwater, bear, bear out, bear up, bolster, bolster up, brace, budge, buoy up, buttress, carry, certify, champion, change, change place, circle, circumstantiate, climb, come after, come last, commission, confirm, corroborate, countermarch, cradle, crutch, cushion, deputize, descend, document, ebb, elect, endorse, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, flow, follow, fortify, front for, get behind, get in behind, get over, give support, go, go around, go back, go backwards, go into reverse, go round, go sideways, gyrate, hold, hold up, keep afloat, keep up, lag behind, lend support, mainstay, maintain, make sternway, mount, move, move over, nominate, pillow, pinch-hit for, plunge, probate, progress, prop, prove, ratify, regress, reinforce, represent, retrogress, reverse, revert, rise, rotate, run, run interference for, second, shift, shore, shore up, shoulder, side with, sink, soar, speak for, spin, stand back of, stand behind, stand by, stand in for, stay, stick by, stick up for, stir, stream, strengthen, subside, subsidize, substantiate, substitute for, subvention, support, sustain, take sides with, trail, trail behind, travel, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, understudy, upbear, uphold, upkeep, validate, verify, vote, wane, warrant, whirl

• back way, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, bolt-hole, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, covert way, detour, escalier derobe, escape hatch, escape route, roundabout way, secret exit, secret passage, secret staircase, side door, side road, side street, underground, underground railroad, underground route

• back, a priori, a rebours, a reculons, abandon, abet, accented, acknowledgments, advance, advocate, affirm, afford support, aft, after, aftermost, afterpart, afterpiece, again, against the grain, ago, aid, alpenstock, alveolar, alveolar ridge, alveolus, angel, ante, ante up, anticlockwise, apex, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arear, arena, arm, around, arrested, articulated, arytenoid cartilages, ascend, ascender, ascending, aside, ass-backwards, assimilated, assist, assure, astern, athletic supporter, attest, authenticate, away, axial, back away, back door, back matter, back of beyond, back off, back seat, back side, back up, back when, back-country, back-flowing, backbone, backdrop, background, backing, backpedal, backside, backstop, backtrack, backtrail, backward, backwards, backwater, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, bandeau, bankroll, bankrupt, barytone, bastard title, bastard type, be sponsor for, bear, bear out, bear up, beard, bearer, behind, behindhand, belated, belly, bestraddle, bestride, bet, bet on, bevel, bibliography, bilabial, black letter, blade, blocked, board, body, bolster, bolster up, bond, boost, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, break, breech, broad, budge, buoy up, buttress, by, cacuminal, call, cane, cap, capital, capitalize, carrier, carry, case, cast off, catch line, catchword, central, cerebral, certify, cervix, champion, change, change place, chasing, checked, circle, circumstantiate, climb, climb on, close, colophon, come after, come last, commend, confirm, consonant, consonantal, contents, contents page, continuant, copyright page, corroborate, corset, counter, counterclockwise, countermarch, countersecure, cover, cradle, crook, crush, crutch, cry up, cushion, deceitfully, dedication, defeat, delayed, delayed-action, dental, deny, descend, descender, descending, destroy, detained, disavow, disown, disregard, dissimilated, distance, distant, document, dorsal, dorsal region, dorsum, down-trending, downward, drifting, due, early, ebb, elect, em, en, encourage, endleaf, endorse, endpaper, endsheet, ensure, errata, ex post facto, extremity, face, fade, fail, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fat-faced type, feet, field, finance, flat, flow, flowing, fluent, flying, flyleaf, folio, follow, following, font, for a consideration, fore edge, foreword, forsake, fortify, foundation garment, fro, front, front matter, frontier, fulcrum, fund, furtively, gamble, get behind, get in, get in behind, get on, get over, girdle, give support, glide, glossal, glottal, go, go aboard, go around, go astern, go back, go back on, go backwards, go into reverse, go on board, go round, go sideways, going, gone by, groove, ground, grubstake, guarantee, guaranty, guttural, guy, guywire, gyrate, gyrational, gyratory, half-title page, hard, hard palate, hard pressed, hazard, head, heavy, heel, held up, help, helpless, high, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindhead, hindmost, hindward, hindwards, hinterland, hold, hold up, hop in, hung up, hype, ignore, imprint, in a bind, in abeyance, in arrear, in arrears, in back of, in compensation, in consideration, in reserve, in return, in reverse, in times past, index, inscription, insidiously, insure, into the past, intonated, introduction, invest in, isolated, italic, jammed, jock, jockstrap, jump in, keep afloat, keep up, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lag behind, larynx, late, lateral, latish, lax, lay, lay a wager, lay down, leaf, lend support, letter, ligature, light, lingual, lips, liquid, locale, logotype, loin, low, lower case, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, majuscule, make a bet, make sternway, makeup, mast, master, mature, meet a bet, mid, minuscule, mise-en-scene, monophthongal, moratory, mount, mounting, move, move over, muted, narrow, nasal, nasal cavity, nasalized, neck, never on time, nick, nominate, obstructed, occiput, occlusive, open, oral cavity, outback, outlandish, outlying, outstanding, overcome, overdue, owed, owing, oxytone, page, palatal, palatalized, palate, parlay, pass, passing, past due, patronize, pay for, payable, pharyngeal, pharyngeal cavity, pharyngealized, pharynx, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pi, pica, pile in, pillow, pitch, pitched, play against, plug, plunge, plunging, point, posterior, postern, posttonic, preface, preliminaries, primitive, print, privately, probate, progress, progressive, promote, prop, prove, provide for, puff, punt, pursuing, rachis, ratify, raw, rear, rear end, rearmost, rearward, rearwards, receivable, recommend, recto, redeemable, refinance, reflex, reflowing, refluent, regress, regressive, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reject, reminiscently, remote, renege, repudiate, rest, resting place, retarded, retract, retrad, retral, retreat, retroactive, retroactively, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrogressive, retrospective, retrospectively, reverse, reversed, reverso, revert, ridge, rigging, rigidify, rise, rising, roman, rotary, rotate, rotational, rotatory, rough, round, round about, rounded, ruin, run, run interference for, running, running title, rushing, sans serif, scene, screw up, script, second, secretly, secure, see, semivowel, service, set up, setting, shank, shift, shore, shore up, shoulder, shroud, side with, sideward, sign, sign for, signature, since, sink, sinking, slow, slyly, small cap, small capital, sneakily, soar, soaring, soft, soft palate, sonant, speak highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, speech organ, spin, spinal column, spine, sponsor, sprit, staff, stage, stage set, stage setting, stake, stamp, stand back of, stand behind, stand by, stand pat, stand up for, standing rigging, stave, stay, stem, stern, stick, stick by, stick up for, stiffen, stiffener, stir, stopped, stream, streaming, strengthen, strengthener, stressed, strong, subscribe to, subside, subsidize, substantiate, subtitle, subvene, subvention, support, supporter, surd, surreptitiously, sustain, sustainer, syllabic, sylvan, syrinx, table of contents, tail, tail end, tailpiece, take sides with, tardy, teeth, teeth ridge, tense, text, theater, thick, throaty, tighten, tip, title, title page, to the rear, tonal, tongue, tonic, tout, trail, trail behind, travel, treacherously, trice up, trim size, turned around, twangy, type, type body, type class, type lice, type page, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, unaccented, uncivilized, uncultivated, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, undersign, underwrite, undeveloped, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpaid, unpopulated, unpunctual, unready, unrounded, unsettled, unstressed, untimely, up-country, up-trending, upbear, uphold, upholder, upkeep, upper case, upward, validate, vanquish, velar, velum, verify, verso, vertebrae, vertebral column, virgin, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, vocalic, vocoid, voice box, voiced, voiceless, vote, vowel, vowellike, wager, walking stick, wane, warrant, waste, weak, whirl, widdershins, wide, wild, wilderness, withdraw from, without hope, woodland, wrong-way, wrong-way around

• backbiting, abuse, animadversion, backstabbing, belittlement, calumnious, calumny, defamation, defamatory, depreciation, detracting, disparagement, invective, maligning, obloquy, reflection, scandal, scandalous, slander, slanderous, stricture, tale, vilifying, vituperation

• backbone, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backing, bandeau, bearer, bottom, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, chutzpah, corset, courage, crook, crutch, determination, firmness, fortitude, foundation garment, fulcrum, gameness, girdle, grit, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, guy, guywire, hardihood, heart, heart of oak, intestinal fortitude, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, mettle, mettlesomeness, moxie, neck, nerve, pillar, pith, pluck, pluckiness, prop, purposefulness, rachis, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, rest, resting place, rigging, sand, shoulder, shroud, spinal column, spine, spirit, sprit, spunk, spunkiness, stability, staff, stamina, standing rigging, stave, stay, staying power, stick, stiffener, stout heart, strength, strengthener, sturdiness, support, supporter, sustainer, toughness, true grit, upholder, vertebrae, vertebral column, walking stick, will

• backbreaking, Herculean, annoying, arduous, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, effortful, forced, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained, strenuous, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, wearisome

• backdrop, act drop, arena, asbestos, asbestos board, back, background, batten, border, cloth, coulisse, counterweight, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, decor, distance, drop, drop curtain, field, fire curtain, flat, flipper, ground, hanging, hinterland, locale, mise-en-scene, rag, rear, scene, scenery, screen, setting, side scene, stage, stage screw, stage set, stage setting, tab, tableau, teaser, theater, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, wing, wingcut, woodcut

• backed, accepted, acclaimed, admired, admitted, advocated, applauded, approved, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cried up, crusted, crusty, crystallized, favored, favorite, fossilized, granulated, hardened, highly touted, hornified, in good odor, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, ossified, petrified, popular, received, recommended, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, supported, toughened, vitrified, well-thought-of

• backer, Dionysus, Maecenas, Samaritan, Santa Claus, abettor, acquaintance, admirer, advocate, aficionado, aid, aider, ally, almoner, almsgiver, alter ego, angel, apologist, assignor, assister, awarder, befriender, benefactor, benefactress, benefiter, best friend, bestower, bettor, bosom friend, brother, buff, casual acquaintance, champion, cheerful giver, close acquaintance, close friend, conferrer, confidant, confidante, consignor, contributor, defender, dependence, donator, donor, encourager, endorser, exponent, fairy godmother, familiar, fan, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, feoffor, financer, friend, friend at court, funder, giver, good Samaritan, good person, grantor, grubstaker, guarantor, help, helper, helping hand, imparter, inseparable friend, intimate, investor, jack-at-a-pinch, lady bountiful, lover, mainstay, maintainer, meal ticket, ministering angel, ministrant, neighbor, other self, paranymph, partisan, patron, patroness, philanthropist, pickup, presenter, promoter, protagonist, punter, reliance, repository, second, seconder, sectary, settler, sider, sponsor, staker, stalwart, standby, subscriber, succorer, sugar daddy, support, supporter, surety, sustainer, sympathizer, testate, testator, testatrix, underwriter, upholder, votary, vouchsafer, well-wisher

• backfire, backlash, backlashing, balefire, bang, beacon, beacon fire, blast, blaze, blow out, blow up, blowout, blowup, bonfire, boom, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, burning ghat, burst, bust, campfire, cannon, cannon off, carom, cheerful fire, combustion, come to grief, comeback, conflagration, contrecoup, corposant, counterattack, counterblast, counterblow, counterfire, counterinsurgency, countermeasure, counterrevolution, counterstep, counterstroke, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, death fire, defense, detonate, detonation, discharge, explode, explosion, fall through, fen fire, fire, fizzle, flame, flare, flash, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fly back, forest fire, fox fire, fulguration, fulminate, fulmination, funeral pyre, go off, have repercussions, ignis fatuus, ignition, ingle, kick, kick back, kickback, lambent flame, lash back, lay an egg, let off, marshfire, miscarry, miss, open fire, prairie fire, pyre, raging fire, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, report, repulse, resile, resilience, retort, ricochet, sea of flames, set off, sheet of fire, shoot, signal beacon, smudge fire, snap back, spring, spring back, three-alarm fire, touch off, two-alarm fire, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire

• backflow, Charybdis, Maelstrom, back stream, backwash, backwater, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, eddy, gulf, gurge, maelstrom, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, whirlpool

• background, action, agora, amphitheater, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, arena, argument, athletic field, atmosphere, auditorium, back, backdrop, background detail, backstage, bear garden, behind the scenes, blaseness, bowl, boxing ring, breeding, bull ring, campus, canvas, catastrophe, characterization, circus, cockpit, coliseum, color, colosseum, complication, continuity, contrivance, course, credentials, curriculum vitae, decorative composition, decorative style, denouement, design, detail, development, device, distance, episode, experience, fable, falling action, family, field, figure, floor, foil, foreground detail, form, forum, gimmick, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hinterland, hippodrome, history, horizon, in the background, incident, inconspicuous, line, lists, local color, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, mise-en-scene, mood, motif, movement, mythos, national style, obscurity, offing, open forum, ornamental motif, palaestra, parade ground, past experience, pattern, period style, peripeteia, pit, place, plan, platform, plot, practical knowledge, practice, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, rear, recognition, remote distance, repeated figure, ring, rising action, sagacity, scene, scene of action, scenery, scheme, seasoning, secondary plot, setting, site, slant, sophistication, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, story, structure, style, subject, subplot, switch, tempering, terrain, the distance, theater, thematic development, theme, tilting ground, tiltyard, tone, topic, touch, training, twist, unnoticed, unobtrusive, unseen, upbringing, vanishing point, walk, worldly wisdom, wrestling ring

• backhanded, O-shaped, abusive, ambagious, atrocious, backhand, calumnious, circuitous, circular, contumelious, deflectional, degrading, deviant, deviating, deviative, devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, excursive, helical, humiliating, indirect, insolent, insulting, left-handed, meandering, oblique, offensive, orbital, out-of-the-way, outrageous, rotary, round, roundabout, scurrile, scurrilous, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, spiral, unspeakable

• backing, Brownian movement, Smyth sewing, abetment, about-face, about-turn, advance, advocacy, advocate, advocating, aegis, affirmation, aid, alpenstock, angular motion, approval, approving, arm, ascending, ascent, assistance, athletic supporter, attestation, auspices, authentication, axial motion, back, back track, back trail, backbone, backflowing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backsliding, backup, backward motion, bandeau, bearer, bearing, bearing out, bibliofilm, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, bipack, black-and-white film, bolstering, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, bushing, buttress, buttressing, cane, capitalization, care, career, carriage, carrier, carrying, cartridge, case, casemaking, casing-in, certification, cervix, championship, charity, chassis, circumstantiation, climbing, collating, collating mark, color film, color negative film, confirmation, cooperation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, corset, countenance, course, cover, crook, crutch, current, deficit financing, descending, descent, disenchantment, documentation, dope, downward motion, drift, driftage, dry plate, dust cover, dust jacket, ebbing, emulsion, encouragement, endorsement, favor, favorable, favoring, film, financial backing, financial support, financing, flight, flip-flop, flow, flux, folding, footband, fortification, forward motion, fosterage, foundation garment, frame, fulcrum, funding, funds, gathering, girdle, gluing-off, goodwill, grant, grubstake, guidance, guy, guywire, hard binding, headband, help, infrastructure, interest, investment, jacket, jock, jockstrap, lapse, library binding, lining, lining-up, mainstay, maintainer, maintenance, mast, mechanical binding, microfilm, money, monochromatic film, moral support, motion-picture film, mount, mounting, neck, negative, niggerhead, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, orthochromatic film, pack, panchromatic film, passage, patronage, patronization, perfect binding, photographic paper, plastic binding, plate, plunging, printing paper, pro, progress, proof, prop, proving, proving out, provision of capital, psychological support, radial motion, random motion, ratification, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinstatement, relapse, reliance, rest, resting place, restitution, restoration, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rigging, right-about, right-about-face, rising, roll, rounding, run, rush, saddle stitching, seconding, security blanket, set, setting, sewing, shoulder, shroud, side sewing, sideward motion, signature, sinking, skeleton, slipcase, slipcover, slipping back, smashing, soaring, soft binding, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spine, spiral binding, sponsorship, sprit, staff, stake, stamping, standing rigging, stapling, stave, stay, sternway, stick, stiffener, stream, strengthener, strengthening, subsiding, subsidy, substantiation, subvention, succor, support, supporter, supporting, supporting evidence, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustainer, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, swingaround, sympathy, tailband, tipping, traject, trajet, trend, trimming, tripack, turn, turnabout, turnaround, tutelage, underframe, undergirding, upholder, upholding, upkeep, upward motion, validation, vehicle, verification, volte-face, walking stick, well-disposed, well-inclined, wire stitching, wrapper

• backlash, antagonism, antipathy, backfire, backlashing, backwash, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, carom, clashing, clout, collision, conflict, confutation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrecoup, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, crotchetiness, dissent, force, friction, impact, impress, impression, imprint, interference, kick, kick back, kickback, mark, nonconformity, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, perverseness, print, reaction, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitration, recoil, reflex, renitency, repercussion, repugnance, repulse, resilience, resistance, response, revolt, ricochet, spring, swimming upstream

• backlog, abundance, accumulation, amassment, bavin, brush, brushwood, budget, cache, collection, commissariat, commissary, cornucopia, cumulation, dump, fagot, firewood, heap, hoard, inventory, kindling, kindlings, larder, log, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, nest egg, pile, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, rations, repertoire, repertory, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resource, rick, savings, sinking fund, something in reserve, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stovewood, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasury, unexpended balance, wood, yule clog, yule log

• backpedal, arrest, back, back away, back off, back out, back up, backtrack, backtrail, backwater, brake, check, clip the wings, countermarch, crawfish out, cry off, curb, decelerate, delay, detain, dodge, draw rein, duck, ease off, ease up, elude, evade, get around, go into reverse, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, keep back, let down, let up, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, make sternway, moderate, obstruct, reef, rein in, relax, renege, resile, retard, reverse, set back, shirk, sidestep, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, stay, take in sail, throttle down, welsh

• backseat driver, Dutch uncle, Paul Pry, Polonius, Sunday driver, admonisher, adviser, bus driver, busman, busybody, buttinsky, cabby, cabdriver, chauffeur, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, driver, expert, guide, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, hit-and-run driver, instructor, intermeddler, jitney driver, joyrider, kibitzer, meddler, mentor, monitor, motorist, nestor, orienter, preceptist, prier, pry, road hog, snoop, snooper, speeder, taxidriver, teacher, teamster, truck driver, trucker, truckman, yenta

• backslapper, adulator, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wheedler, yes-man

• backslide, cock, defect, degenerate, desert, err, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall away, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, go astray, go backwards, go behind, go wrong, have a relapse, jerk back, lapse, lapse back, lose ground, pull back, recede, recidivate, recur to, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrovert, return, return to, reverse, revert, revert to, sink back, slide back, slip, slip back, tergiversate, trip, turn, yield again to

• backsliding, Adamic, about-face, amorality, apostasy, apostate, atheism, atheistic, backing, backset, backslide, backward motion, backward step, betrayal, blasphemous, bolt, breakaway, carnal, carnality, criminality, defection, delinquency, desertion, disenchantment, disloyalty, erring, evil, evil nature, faithlessness, fall, fall from grace, fallen, fallen from grace, fleshly, flip-flop, frail, going over, immorality, impiety, impious, impiousness, impure, impurity, infirm, irreligion, irreligious, irreverence, irreverent, lapse, lapse from grace, lapsed, lapsing, moral delinquency, of easy virtue, peccability, peccable, postlapsarian, prodigal, prodigality, profanatory, profane, ratting, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, recidivist, recidivistic, recidivous, reclamation, reconversion, recreancy, recreant, recrudescent, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, regressive, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, relapsing, renegade, restitution, restoration, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, retrusion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rollback, sacrilegious, secession, setback, slipping back, sternway, throwback, treason, turn, turnabout, turning traitor, unangelic, unangelicalness, unchaste, unchastity, unclean, uncleanness, undutiful, undutifulness, ungodliness, ungodly, ungood, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteous, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unsaintly, unvirtuous, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, virtueless, wanton, wantonness, wayward, waywardness, weak, wrongdoing

• backstage, DR, L, R, acting area, apron, apron stage, band shell, bandstand, before an audience, before the footlights, behind the scenes, board, bridge, coulisse, dock, down left, down right, downstage, dressing room, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, greenroom, grid, gridiron, in the limelight, lightboard, off stage, on the stage, onstage, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, proscenium, proscenium stage, shell, stage, stage left, stage right, switchboard, the boards, up left, upright, upstage, wings

• backstairs, back-door, clandestine, covert, feline, furtive, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, privy, quiet, shifty, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive

• backstop, advocate, aegis, arch dam, arm guard, back, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bumper, champion, cofferdam, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dam, dashboard, defense, dike, ditch, dodger, earthwork, embankment, face mask, fence, fender, finger guard, foot guard, fuse, gate, goggles, governor, gravity dam, groin, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, hydraulic-fill dam, insulation, interlock, iron curtain, jam, jetty, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, leaping weir, levee, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, logjam, mask, milldam, moat, mole, mound, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, parapet, patent, pilot, portcullis, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, rampart, roadblock, rock-fill dam, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, seawall, shield, shin guard, shutter dam, side with, stone wall, sun helmet, umbrella, uphold, wall, weir, wicket dam, windscreen, windshield, work

• backstroke, Australian crawl, Long Melford, aquaplaning, aquatics, backhand, backhander, balneation, bathe, bathing, bolo punch, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, diving, dog paddle, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, haymaker, hook, natation, one-two, round-arm blow, roundhouse, short-arm blow, sidestroke, sidewinder, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, swing, treading water, uppercut, wading, waterskiing

• backup, about-face, about-turn, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, attorney, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backup man, champion, change, changeling, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, executive officer, exponent, fake, figurehead, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, mock, next best thing, paranymph, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleader, procurator, provisional, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, reserves, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, right-about, right-about-face, ringer, second in command, second string, secondary, sign, spare, spares, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, swingaround, symbol, synecdoche, temporary, tentative, third string, token, turnabout, turnaround, understudy, utility, utility man, utility player, vicar, vicar general, vicarious, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, volte-face

• backward, Micawberish, Olympian, a priori, a rebours, a reculons, about, afraid, aft, after, after time, aftermost, again, against the grain, ago, aloof, anticlockwise, apathetic, arear, around, arrested, arsy-varsy, ascending, ass over elbows, ass-backwards, astern, averse, away, axial, babbling, back, back when, back-flowing, back-to-front, backwards, balking, balky, bashful, behind, behind the times, behind time, behindhand, belated, belatedly, benighted, bigoted, blank, blind, blithering, blocked, bottom side up, bottom up, burbling, capsized, chary, checked, chiastic, chilled, chilly, coarse, cold, conservative, constrained, contrarily, contrariwise, conversely, cool, counter, counterclockwise, coy, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, crude, dallying, deep into, delayed, delayed-action, delaying, demure, descending, detached, detained, die-hard, diffident, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, discreet, distant, dithering, down-trending, downward, drifting, driveling, drooling, dull, dumb, early, easygoing, embryonic, everted, ex post facto, expressionless, far on, feebleminded, flowing, fluent, flying, fogyish, foot-dragging, forbidding, frigid, fro, frosty, going, gone by, grudging, guarded, gyrational, gyratory, half-baked, half-witted, head over heels, heels over head, held up, hesitant, hidebound, hind, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindmost, hindward, hindwards, hung up, hyperbatic, icy, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, impassive, impeded, impersonal, in a bind, in abeyance, in embryo, in ovo, in reverse, in the rough, inaccessible, indifferent, indisposed, inside out, into the past, introverted, invaginated, inversed, inversely, inverted, jammed, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, late, latish, lax, lazy, lingering, loath, loitering, maundering, medieval, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, modest, mongoloid, moratory, moronic, mounting, narrow, never on time, none too soon, nonprogressive, not all there, obstructed, obtuse, offish, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, opposed to change, outside in, over, overdue, oversimple, palindromic, passing, perfunctory, plunging, poor, posterior, posteriorly, postern, preservative, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, progressive, quiet, reactionary, rear, rearmost, rearward, rearwards, reductionistic, reductive, reflex, reflowing, refluent, regressive, reluctant, reminiscently, remiss, remote, removed, renitent, repressed, reserved, restive, restrained, resupinate, retarded, reticent, retiring, retrad, retral, retroactive, retroactively, retrograde, retrogressive, retrospective, retrospectively, retroverted, reverse, reversed, right-wing, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, round, round about, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, running, rushing, self-effacing, set back, shrinking, shuffling, shy, sideward, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, simplistic, since, sinking, slack, slobbering, slow, slow to, slow-witted, slowed down, sluggish, soaring, standoff, standoffish, standpat, stopped, streaming, struggling, stunted, stupid, subdued, subnormal, suppressed, tail, tailward, tailwards, tardy, thickheaded, timid, to the rear, topsy-turvy, transposed, turned around, ultraconservative, unaffable, unapproachable, unassertive, unassured, unblown, uncongenial, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undemonstrative, underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneager, unenlightened, unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, ungenial, unhewn, uninformed, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unprogressive, unpunctual, unready, unrefined, untimely, untreated, unwilling, unworked, unwrought, unzealous, up-trending, upside down, upside-down, upward, vice versa, widdershins, withdrawn, wrong side out, wrong-way, wrong-way around

• backwash, Charybdis, Maelstrom, back stream, backcountry, backflow, backlash, backwater, backwoods, boondocks, bush, clout, condensation trail, contrail, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, eddy, exhaust, force, gulf, gurge, hinterland, impact, impress, impression, imprint, maelstrom, mark, print, reaction, recoil, reflex, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, repercussion, response, sticks, stream, swirl, track, twirl, up-country, vapor trail, vortex, wake, wash, whirl, whirlpool

• backwater, Charybdis, Maelstrom, abjure, arrest, back, back away, back down, back off, back out, back stream, back up, backcountry, backflow, backpedal, backtrack, backtrail, backwash, backwoods, boondocks, brake, bush, check, climb down, clip the wings, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, countermarch, crawfish out, cry off, curb, decelerate, delay, deny, detain, disavow, disclaim, disown, dodge, draw rein, duck, ease off, ease up, eat crow, eat humble pie, eddy, elude, evade, forswear, get around, go astern, go into reverse, gulf, gurge, hinterland, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, keep back, let down, let up, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, maelstrom, make sternway, moderate, obstruct, recant, reef, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, rein in, relax, renege, renounce, repudiate, resile, retard, retract, reverse, revoke, set back, shirk, sidestep, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, stay, sticks, swallow, swirl, take back, take in sail, throttle down, twirl, unsay, up-country, vortex, welsh, whirl, whirlpool, withdraw

• backwoods, back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwood, backwoodsy, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, forests, frontier, hinterland, outback, outpost, sticks, sylvan, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods

• backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bumpkin, bushman, clam digger, cracker, desert rat, forester, frontiersman, hick, hillbilly, hinterlander, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, provincial, redneck, ridge runner, woodlander, woodman, woodsman, yokel

• bacon, butt, chitterlings, cochon de lait, cracklings, fat back, flitch, gammon, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, jambon, jambonneau, lard, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pork, porkpie, salt pork, side of bacon, small ham, sowbelly, suckling pig, trotters

• bacteria, Euglena, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, animalcule, bacillus, bacterium, bug, coccus, colon bacillus, diatom, disease-producing microorganism, dyad, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, flagellate, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, microspore, microzoa, mold, monad, nematode, nonfilterable virus, paramecium, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, salmonella, saprophyte, spirillum, spirochete, spore, sporozoon, staphylococcus, streptococcus, tetrad, triad, trypanosome, vibrio, virus, volvox, vorticellum, zoospore

• bacteriology, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, life science, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radiobiology, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

• bad blood, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad temper, bad will, bitter feeling, bitterness, blighting glance, clashing, collision, competition, conflict, contrariety, contrariness, cross-purposes, disaccord, dissension, enmity, evil disposition, evil eye, feud, fractiousness, friction, hard feelings, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill nature, ill will, ill-disposedness, inimicalness, malevolence, malocchio, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, oppugnancy, perverseness, rancor, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, rivalry, soreness, sourness, uncooperativeness, vendetta, venom, virulence, vitriol, vying, whammy

• bad boy, booger, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, funmaker, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, knave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, pixie, practical joker, prankster, puck, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, wag

• bad breath, BO, bad smell, body odor, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, graveolence, halitosis, malodor, mephitis, miasma, nidor, noxious stench, offensive odor, reek, reeking, rotten smell, stench, stench of decay, stink

• bad character, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, disapprobation, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, evil repute, ill fame, ill repute, ill-favor, poor reputation, public dishonor, shady reputation, unsavory reputation

• bad debt, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount due, bad debts, bill, bills, borrowing, charges, chits, debt, default, defection, delinquence, delinquency, dishonor, dishonoring, due, dues, financial commitment, floating debt, funded debt, indebtedness, indebtment, liability, maturity, national debt, nondischarge of debts, nonpayment, nonremittal, obligation, outstanding debt, pledge, protest, protested bill, public debt, repudiation, score, uncollectible, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge

• bad faith, Machiavellianism, Punic faith, ambidexterity, artifice, barratry, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, breaking, contravention, cunning, deceitfulness, dereliction, disaffection, dishonesty, disloyalty, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falseness, falsity, fickleness, improbity, inconstancy, infidelity, infraction, infringement, low cunning, mala fides, offense, recreancy, transgression, treachery, trespass, trothlessness, two-facedness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness, violation, wile

• bad guy, Roscius, actor, actress, antagonist, barnstormer, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, feeder, foil, heavy, histrio, histrion, ingenue, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, playactor, player, protean actor, reciter, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain

• bad habit, automatism, besetting sin, characteristic, creature of habit, custom, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foible, force of habit, frailty, habit, habit pattern, habitude, imperfection, infirmity, moral flaw, pattern, peculiarity, practice, praxis, second nature, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, trick, usage, use, vice, way, weak point, weak side, weakness, wont

• bad influence, Jonah, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, big wheel, court, curse, eminence grise, enchantment, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, five-percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hex, hidden hand, hoodoo, ill wind, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, jinx, key, kingmaker, lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, malevolent influence, malocchio, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, powers that be, pressure group, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, spell, the Establishment, very important person, voodoo, whammy, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

• bad job, bevue, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, bungling, clumsy performance, error, etourderie, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaucherie, haphazardness, hash, loose ends, mess, messiness, miscue, mistake, muff, off day, sad work, slapdash, slip, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, stumble, trip, untidiness

• bad language, billingsgate, blue language, colorful language, cursing, cussing, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, foul language, obscenity, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, strong language, swearing, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vile language, vulgar language

• bad lot, backslider, bad egg, black sheep, blighter, degenerate, fallen angel, good-for-nothing, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, lowlife, miscreant, mucker, no-good, pervert, pimp, profligate, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, rounder, scapegrace, sorry lot, trollop, waster, whore, worm

• bad name, bad character, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, disapprobation, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, evil repute, ill fame, ill repute, ill-favor, poor reputation, public dishonor, shady reputation, unsavory reputation

• bad news, aggravation, annoyance, bad child, bad example, bad man, bad person, bad woman, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, disreputable, disreputable person, dogging, downer, drag, evangel, exasperation, glad tidings, good news, good word, gospel, harassment, harrying, headache, hounding, molestation, nuisance, objectionable person, persecution, persona non grata, pest, problem, trial, trouble, unacceptable person, undesirable, unworthy, vexation, vexatiousness, worriment, worry

• bad notices, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad press, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, criticism, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism

• bad person, criminal, crook, deceiver, delinquent, evildoer, felon, gangster, lawbreaker, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misfeasor, mobster, outlaw, public enemy, racketeer, sinner, thief, transgressor, villain, worker of ill, wrongdoer

• bad press, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, criticism, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism

• bad taste, Babbittry, Gothicism, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness, heaviness, high camp, ill-balanced sentences, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, kitsch, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, low camp, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, roughness, rudeness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slipshod construction, stiltedness, tastelessness, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, unfittingness, ungracefulness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unwieldiness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

• bad temper, Irish, anger, asperity, bad blood, bad humor, bad will, bile, biliousness, blighting glance, causticity, choler, corrosiveness, dander, discontent, evil disposition, evil eye, gall, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, ill will, ill-disposedness, malevolence, malocchio, sourness, spleen, temper, whammy

• bad, OK, abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ace-high, ailing, alarming, amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, bad for, bad-smelling, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, bang-up, barfy, base, befoulment, below par, black, blamable, blameworthy, blight, blue, bodeful, boding, bonzer, boss, brackish, bully, bum, but good, cankered, careless, carious, castrated, cloying, contaminated, cool, corking, corrupt, corruption, crackerjack, crappy, crestfallen, criminal, crippled, critical, critically ill, crying evil, damage, damaging, damnable, dandy, dangerous, dangersome, dark, decayed, decomposed, defective, deficient, defilement, dejected, deleterious, delicious, depressed, despaired of, despoliation, destruction, detriment, detrimental, dire, disabled, disagreeable, disconsolate, diseased, disgrace, disgraceful, disgusting, disordered, disorderly, dispirited, displeasing, disruptive, dissatisfactory, distasteful, distressing, done for, doomful, down, downhearted, dreary, ducky, dying, emasculated, error, evil, evil-starred, evilly, execrable, expiring, explosive, fab, facing death, faint, faintish, fateful, fecal, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, festering, fetid, fine and dandy, flagitious, flagrant, foreboding, foul, fraught with danger, froward, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, futile, game, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous, gear, given up, gloomy, going, gone bad, graceless, graveolent, great, grievance, groovy, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, heavy, heinous, high, hobbling, hopeless, hot, hunky-dory, hurt, hurtful, icky, ill, ill-advised, ill-behaved, ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-smelling, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, immoral, impolitic, improper, in articulo mortis, in danger, in extremis, inaccurate, inadequate, inadmissible, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incapable of life, incapacitated, incongruous, indecorous, indisposed, inept, inexpedient, infamous, infamy, infected, infection, infelicitous, inferior, iniquitous, iniquity, injurious, injury, inopportune, insalubrious, insanitary, insufferable, intolerable, invalid, jam-up, jeopardous, just dandy, keen, knavery, knavish, laid low, lame, limping, loathsome, lousy, low, lowering, maggoty, maimed, mal a propos, malapropos, malevolent, malodorous, marvy, mawkish, mean, menacing, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, misbehaving, mischief, mischievous, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morbid, morbific, moribund, mortally ill, mortified, moth-eaten, musty, nasty, naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, near death, neat, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, nifty, nobby, noisome, nonviable, not quite right, not respectable, noxious, null and void, objectionable, obliquity, obnoxious, odorous, of evil portent, off, off-base, off-color, offensive, okay, olid, ominous, out of place, out of sight, out of sorts, out-of-line, outrage, overripe, parlous, pathogenic, pathological, paw, peachy, peachy-keen, peccancy, peccant, periculous, perilous, perverse, pestiferous, poison, poisoned, poisonous, polluted, pollution, poor, portending, portentous, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, repulsive, ripping, rocky, rotten, rotting, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rum, scandal, scandalous, scrumptious, seedy, septic, serious, shame, shameful, sick, sick unto death, sickening, sickish, sin, sinful, sinister, sinking, slap-up, slipping, slipping away, slipshod, smashing, smellful, smelling, smelly, solid, somber, something else, sour, spavined, sphacelated, spiffing, spiffy, spoiled, stale, stenchy, sticky, stinking, strong, stuffy, stunning, sulfurous, suppurating, suppurative, swell, tainted, taken ill, terminal, thankless, the worst, threatening, tough, toxin, turned, ugly, ulcerated, ulcerous, unacceptable, unbefitting, unbehaving, under the weather, undesirable, uneasy, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, ungracious, ungrateful, unhandsome, unhappy, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unkind, unlucky, unmeet, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpromising, unpropitious, unruly, unsanitary, unsatisfactory, unseasonable, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwell, unwholesome, unwise, unworthy, venom, vexation, vicious, vile, villainous, villainy, void, vomity, weevily, wicked, wizard, woe, woebegone, worm-eaten, wretched, wrong, wrongly, yucky

• badge, Hershey bar, ID card, accolade, armory, aroma, attribute, aviation badge, award, badge of office, badges, banner, bar, baton, bays, blazonry, brand, brassard, button, cachet, calligram, calling card, cap and gown, card, cast, chain, chain of office, character, characteristic, chevron, chicken, class ring, cockade, collar, configuration, countermark, countersign, credentials, cross, cut, decoration, device, differentia, differential, distinction, distinctive feature, dog tag, dress, eagle, earmark, emblem, emblems, ensigns, epaulet, fasces, feature, figure, figurehead, flavor, fleur-de-lis, gust, hallmark, hammer and sickle, hash mark, heraldry, identification, identification badge, identification tag, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, impress, impression, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, initials, insignia, insignia of branch, keynote, kudos, lapel pin, laurels, letter of introduction, lineaments, livery, mace, mannerism, mantle, mark, marking, markings, measure, medal, mold, monogram, mortarboard, nature, note, oak leaf, odor, old school tie, organization insignia, overseas bar, parachute badge, particularity, patch, peculiarity, picture, pin, pip, press card, property, quality, quirk, regalia, representation, representative, ring, rose, savor, school ring, seal, serial number, service stripe, shamrock, shape, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sigil, sigillography, sign, signal, signature, singularity, skull and crossbones, smack, specialty, sphragistics, spread eagle, staff, stamp, star, stripe, submarine badge, sure sign, swastika, symptom, taint, tang, tartan, taste, telltale sign, tessera, thistle, tie, token, trait, trick, uniform, verge, visiting card, wand

• badger, aggravate, annoy, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, blackmail, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chivy, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, exact, exasperate, exercise, extort, fash, force from, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, irk, levy blackmail, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, pry loose from, rend, rend from, ride, rile, rip, rip from, roil, ruffle, screw, shake down, snatch from, squeeze, tear from, tease, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, worry, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from

• badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hectored, hounded, needled, nipped at, persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued, ragged, teased, tormented, worried

• badinage, backchat, banter, chaff, chaffing, exchange, fooling, fooling around, give-and-take, good-natured banter, harmless teasing, jape, jest, jive, joke, josh, joshing, kidding, kidding around, persiflage, pleasantry, raillery, rallying, repartee, ridicule, sport, twit

• badly off, depressed, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, evil-starred, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, hapless, hard up, ill off, ill-starred, impecunious, in Queer Street, in adverse circumstances, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inauspicious, land-poor, luckless, narrow, ominous, on the edge, out of luck, out of pocket, pinched, planet-struck, poor, poorly off, reduced, sad, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of luck, short of money, squeezed, star-crossed, straitened, strapped, unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unmoneyed, unprosperous, unprovidential

• badly, afield, amiss, astray, atrociously, awfully, awry, carelessly, critically, cruelly, damagingly, dangerously, defectively, deficiently, distressfully, dreadfully, emotionally, erroneously, faultily, gravely, greatly, grievously, hard, hardly, harshly, horribly, improperly, inaccurately, inadequately, inartistically, incorrectly, ineptly, insufficiently, mischievously, painfully, poorly, roughly, seriously, severely, shamefully, shoddily, unacceptably, unfavorably, unfortunately, unkindly, unluckily, unsatisfactorily, unspeakably, unsuccessfully, very much, viciously, vigorously, villainously, wickedly, wretchedly, wrong

• baffle, addle, amaze, babble, bafflement, balk, ball up, bamboozle, be Greek to, be beyond one, be too deep, beat, beat one, befuddle, bewilderment, bilk, blast, boggle, bother, brave, buffalo, cast down, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confoundment, confront, confuse, confusion, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, cushion, damp, dampen, dash, daze, deaden, deafen, defeat, defeat expectation, defy, destroy, dilemma, disappoint, discomfit, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, dish, disillusion, disrupt, dissatisfy, disturbance, dull, dumbfound, elude, embarrass, embarrassment, enigma, escape one, faze, fix, floor, flummox, fog, foil, frustrate, fuddle, get, gibber, jam, keep in suspense, knock the chocks, let down, lick, lose one, maze, mix up, muddle, muffle, mute, mystery, mystify, need explanation, nonplus, not make sense, not penetrate, pass comprehension, perplex, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, plight, pother, predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, rattle, riddle, ruin, sabotage, scotch, scrape, soft-pedal, soften, speak in tongues, spike, spoil, stew, stick, stonewall, stop, stump, subdue, talk double Dutch, tantalize, tease, throw, thwart, tone down, unassuredness, upset

• baffled, addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, balked, bamboozled, beat, betrayed, bewildered, bilked, blasted, blighted, buffaloed, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, dazed, defeated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, floored, foiled, frustrated, fuddled, ill done-by, ill-served, in a dilemma, in suspense, let down, licked, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, out of countenance, perplexed, puzzled, regretful, sorely disappointed, soured, stuck, stumped, thrown, thwarted

• bafflement, baffle, balk, balking, betrayed hope, bewilderment, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bother, buffet, check, checkmate, comedown, confounding, confoundment, confusion, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, defeat, dilemma, disappointment, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, disturbance, embarrassment, enigma, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fix, fizzle, foil, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, hope deferred, jam, letdown, mirage, mystery, nonplus, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, plight, pother, predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, riddle, rout, scrape, setback, sore disappointment, stew, tantalization, tease, thwarting, unassuredness, upset

• baffling, bewildering, bothering, confounding, confusing, defeating, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, frustrating, intricate, mysterious, mystifying, perplexing, perturbing, problematic, puzzling, upsetting

• bag, IUD, abstract, acquire, activities, activity, affair, affairs, affinity, and, annex, appropriate, area, baboon, ballocks, balloon, balls, bang, barrel, basket, bat, be seized of, beard, beldam, belly, belly out, bent, bias, biddy, bilge, billfold, billow, bindle, birth control device, bladder, blemish, blot, boobs, boost, booster, booster dose, booster shot, booty, borrow, bosom, bottle, bouge, box, box up, breast, breasts, brisket, budget, bug, bulge, bundle, burden, business, bust, can, capsule, capture, carton, cascade, case, cask, catch, cervix, chest, chosen kind, clench, clitoris, cod, cods, collar, come by, come in for, come into, commerce, concern, concernment, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, contract, cop, corral, crate, crib, crone, crop, cullions, cup of tea, daggle, dangle, deck, defraud, depend, derive, diaphragm, dilate, distend, dog, dose, drab, drabble, draft, drag, drag down, draggle, drape, draw, droop, dropping, drug packet, druthers, dug, earn, embezzle, employ, employment, encase, encyst, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, enter into possession, enterprise, entrap, evening bag, extort, eyesore, fall, family jewels, fancy, favor, female organs, field, filch, fill, fix, flap, flop, flow, fob, forte, foul, freight, fright, function, gain, gargoyle, genitalia, genitals, get, glom, goggle, golf bag, gonads, gunny, gunny sack, hag, hamper, handbag, hang, hang down, harpoon, harridan, harvest, haul, heap, heap up, hit, hook, inclination, injection, interest, intrauterine device, jar, knockers, labia, labia majora, labia minora, labor, lade, land, lasso, leaning, lift, line, lingam, lips, load, long suit, lookout, lop, main interest, mainlining, make, make off with, male organs, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, manner, mass, matter, meat, mesh, mess, metier, money belt, money clip, monster, monstrosity, nab, nail, narcotic shot, nenes, net, nip, nipple, no beauty, nod, noose, nose bag, nuts, nymphae, obtain, occupation, oral contraceptive, ovary, overdose, pack, pack away, package, palm, pap, papilla, parcel, partiality, particular choice, pend, penis, personal choice, pessary, pet subject, phallus, pigeon breast, pile, pilfer, pinch, poach, pocket, pocketbook, poke, pooch, pop, popping, porte-monnaie, portion, pot, potion, pouch, pout, predilection, predisposition, preference, prehend, prejudice, prepossession, private parts, privates, privy parts, proclivity, procure, prophylactic, pubic hair, pudenda, pull down, purloin, purse, purse strings, pursuit, reap, reproductive organs, reticule, rocks, rope, round out, rubber, run away with, rustle, sac, sack, saddlebag, sag, scarecrow, scoop, score, scrip, scrotum, scrounge, secondary sex characteristic, secure, seizure, service, sex organs, ship, shoplift, shot, sight, skin, skin-popping, sleeping bag, snag, snare, snatch, sniggle, snitch, spear, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, spermary, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, stack, steal, store, stow, strong point, style, swag, swell, swell out, swindle, swing, swipe, take, tangle, tangle up with, tank, taste, teat, technicality, tendency, teratism, testes, testicles, the pill, thieve, thing, thorax, tin, tit, tits, titties, titty, tobacco pouch, trail, trap, trot, type, udder, ugly duckling, undertaking, uterus, vagina, vocation, vulva, walk off with, wallet, way, weakness, weep, win, witch, womb, work, yoni

• bagatelle, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, hardly anything, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, mere nothing, minikin, mockery, molehill, next to nothing, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham

• bagel, Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll, Yorkshire pudding, bialy, bialystoker, bun, clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, crescent roll, croissant, cross bun, crumpet, gem, hard roll, hot cross bun, kaiser roll, muffin, onion roll, pinwheel roll, popover, roll, scone, soft roll

• baggage, Gladstone, Jezebel, apparatus, attache case, backpack, bad woman, bag, bag and baggage, bandbox, bitch, briefcase, broad, cargo, carpetbag, carryall, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, consignment, ditty bag, drab, duffel, duffel bag, dunnage, easy lay, easy woman, flight bag, floozy, footlocker, frail sister, freight, freightage, gear, goods, grip, grisette, handbag, harridan, haversack, holdall, hussy, hysteromaniac, impedimenta, jade, kit, kit bag, knapsack, lading, load, loose woman, luggage, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, outfit, overnight bag, pack, payload, pickup, portmanteau, quean, rucksack, satchel, sea bag, shipment, slattern, slut, strumpet, suitcase, tackle, tart, tote bag, tramp, traps, traveling bag, trollop, trull, trunk, uteromaniac, wanton, wench, whore

• baggy, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, bagging, ballooning, bellying, billowing, billowy, bloated, blobby, blurred, blurry, bosomy, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, chaotic, characterless, confused, dangling, disorderly, distended, drooping, droopy, easy, featureless, flapping, floppy, formless, fuzzy, hanging, hazy, hillocky, hummocky, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, limp, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lumpen, misty, moutonnee, nodding, nondescript, obscure, orderless, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, relaxed, rickety, rounded, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, shaky, shapeless, slack, sloppy, streaming, swag, swelling, unclear, undefined, unordered, unorganized, vague, verrucated, verrucose, warty

• bail bond, accident insurance, actuary, annuity, assurance, aviation insurance, bond, business life insurance, casualty insurance, certificate of insurance, court bond, credit insurance, credit life insurance, deductible, endowment insurance, family maintenance policy, fidelity bond, fidelity insurance, flood insurance, fraternal insurance, government insurance, health insurance, industrial life insurance, insurance, insurance agent, insurance broker, insurance company, insurance man, insurance policy, interinsurance, liability insurance, license bond, limited payment insurance, major medical insurance, malpractice insurance, marine insurance, mutual company, ocean marine insurance, permit bond, policy, robbery insurance, social security, stock company, term insurance, theft insurance, underwriter

• bail out, abet, aid, arise, assist, avail, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, break away, break cover, break forth, break jail, break loose, burst forth, come, come forth, come out, comfort, cut loose, debouch, deliver, disembogue, do good, doctor, ease, effuse, emanate, emerge, erupt, escape, escape prison, evade, extract, extricate, extrude, favor, flee, fly the coop, free, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, help, issue, issue forth, jump, jump out, lend a hand, lend one aid, liberate, make a getaway, parachute, proffer aid, protect, protrude, rally, ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, release, relieve, remedy, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, retrieve, revive, sally, sally forth, salvage, save, set free, set up, skip, sky-dive, slip the collar, succor, surface, take in tow

• bail, arraignment, bond, bucket, charge, cup, decant, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, earnest, earnest money, escrow, fork, gage, guaranty, handsel, hock, hostage, impeachment, indictment, information, lade, ladle, mainprise, pawn, pignus, pledge, pour, presentment, recognizance, replevin, replevy, scoop, security, shovel, spade, spoon, surety, token payment, true bill, undertaking, vadimonium, vadium, warranty

• bailiff, G-man, MC, MP, attorney, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, butler, captain, catchpole, chief of police, commissioner, constable, croupier, curator, custodian, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, emcee, factor, fed, federal, flic, gendarme, government man, guardian, housekeeper, inspector, landreeve, librarian, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, majordomo, marshal, master of ceremonies, mounted policeman, narc, officer, patrolman, peace officer, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, proctor, procurator, reeve, roundsman, seneschal, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, steward, superintendent, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper

• bailiwick, Kreis, ambit, archbishopric, archdiocese, arena, arrondissement, beat, bishopric, border, borderland, borough, bureau, canton, champaign, circle, circuit, city, commissariat, commune, congressional district, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, constituency, county, demesne, departement, department, diocese, district, domain, dominion, duchy, electoral district, electorate, field, footing, government, hamlet, hemisphere, hundred, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, magistracy, march, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, municipality, neighborhood, oblast, office, okrug, orb, orbit, pale, parish, place, precinct, principality, province, quarter, realm, region, riding, round, secretariat, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, sphere, sphere of influence, stake, stamping ground, state, terrain, territory, town, township, turf, vantage, village, walk, wapentake, ward

• bairn, cherub, child, chit, darling, innocent, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, mite, nipper, offspring, peewee, shaver, tad, tot, wee tot

• bait, aggravate, allure, allurement, annoy, badger, bait the hook, baited trap, be at, bedevil, beset, birdlime, bite, blandish, bola, bother, bribe, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, cajole, carrot, charm, chivy, coax, cobweb, come-on, decoy, decoy duck, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, dragnet, draw, draw in, draw on, drawcard, drawing card, encouragement, endearment, ensnare, entice, enticement, entrap, exasperate, exercise, fash, fillip, fishhook, flirt, flirt with, fly, get, gill net, give the come-on, gripe, ground bait, harass, harry, haze, heckle, hector, hook, hound, incentive, incitement, inducement, interest, inveigh, inveigle, inveiglement, invitation, irk, jig, lariat, lasso, lead on, lime, lure, meshes, miff, molest, morsel, nag, needle, net, nettle, noose, nudzh, offer bait to, payment, peeve, percentage, persecute, persuasive, pester, pick on, piece, pique, plague, pluck the beard, plug, pother, pound net, profit, provocation, provoke, purse seine, push around, rag, reward, ride, rile, roil, rope in, ruffle, seduce, seducement, seine, snare, sniggle, spinner, springe, squid, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, suck in, sweetener, sweetening, tease, tempt, temptation, toils, toll, torment, trap, trawl, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, whet, wobbler, woo, worry

• baited, badgered, bedeviled, beset, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hectored, hounded, needled, nipped at, persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued, ragged, teased, tormented, worried

• bake, air-dry, anhydrate, barbecue, baste, be in heat, blanch, blaze, bloom, blot, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, brush, burn, choke, coddle, combust, cook, cure, curry, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, devil, do, do to perfection, drain, dry, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, gasp, glaze, glow, griddle, grill, heat, incandesce, insolate, kiln, melt, mold, mummify, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, pant, parboil, parch, poach, pot, prepare, prepare food, radiate heat, roast, rub, saute, scald, scallop, scorch, sear, seethe, shape, shimmer with heat, shirr, shrivel, simmer, smoke, smolder, smother, soak up, spark, sponge, steam, stew, stifle, stir-fry, suffocate, sun, sun-dry, swab, sweat, swelter, throw, toast, torrefy, towel, turn a pot, weazen, wipe, wither, wizen

• baked, adust, boiled, braised, broiled, browned, burnt, coddled, cooked, corky, curried, dehydrated, desiccated, deviled, dried, dried-up, evaporated, exsiccated, fired, fricasseed, fried, grilled, heated, mummified, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, parched, poached, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shirred, shriveled, steamed, stewed, sun-dried, sunbaked, toasted, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened

• baker, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, chandler, chef, chef de cuisine, chief cook, clothing merchant, confectioner, cook, culinarian, culinary artist, draper, drysalter, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, fry cook, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, ironmonger, jeweler, kitchener, liquor merchant, newsdealer, pastry chef, pastrycook, perfumer, poulterer, saddler, short-order cook, stationer, tobacconist, vintner, wine merchant

• bakery, appetizing store, bakehouse, bakeshop, bodega, butcher shop, caboose, camboose, cookery, cookhouse, cookroom, creamery, cuisine, dairy, deli, delicatessen, food shop, food store, fruit stand, galley, grocery, grocery store, groceteria, health food store, kitchen, kitchenette, meat market, pork store, scullery, superette, supermarket, vegetable store

• baking, ardent, barbecuing, basting, blistering, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, catering, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed, frying, grilling, heated, home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, nutrition, overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, parching, piping hot, poaching, red-hot, roasting, sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, shirring, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steeping, stewing, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, white-hot

• balance of power, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, appeasement, ascendance, ascendancy, brinkmanship, coexistence, colonialism, compromise, containment, detente, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, eminent domain, expansionism, foreign affairs, foreign policy, good-neighbor policy, imperialism, internationalism, isolationism, manifest destiny, militarism, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, overlordship, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preparedness, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, primacy, principality, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, sovereignty, spheres of influence, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, the big stick, tough policy, upper hand, whip hand, world politics

• balance of trade, big business, business, business dealings, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, dealing, dealings, fair trade, free trade, industry, intercourse, market, marketing, mercantile business, merchantry, multilateral trade, reciprocal trade, restraint of trade, small business, the business world, the marketplace, trade, traffic, truck, unilateral trade

• balance sheet, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, bank ledger, bankbook, books, card ledger, cashbook, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, daybook, factory ledger, inventory, journal, ledger, log, logbook, passbook, purchase ledger, record book, register, registry, sales journal, sales ledger, stock ledger, stores ledger, suspense ledger

• balance, Swiss bank account, accommodate, accord, account, account current, account rendered, account stated, adjust, afterglow, afterimage, agree, amount to, analogize, analogousness, aplomb, arrangement, assess, assets, assimilate, assimilate to, assurance, atmosphere, atone for, attune, audit, authority, available means, average, back down, balance the books, balanced personality, ballast, bank account, be heavy, beauty, bilateral symmetry, bonus, book, bottom dollar, break even, bring into analogy, bring into comparison, brushwork, budget, butt, butt end, cancel, candle ends, capital, capital goods, capitalization, capitalize, carry, carry over, carry weight, cash account, cash reserves, cast up accounts, center, chaff, charge off, check, check out, checking account, close out, close the books, coequality, coextension, collectedness, color, come to, come up to, command, command of money, commensurability, common sense, communion, community, comparability, comparableness, comparativeness, compare, compare and contrast, compare with, compensate, compensate for, composition, composure, concinnity, confidence, conformity, confront, congruity, consider, consideration, consistency, constancy, contact with reality, contrast, control, control account, cool, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, coolth, coordinate, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspond, correspondence, counteract, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, counterweigh, counterweight, credit, damp, debate, debit, debris, deficit, deliberate, demonstrate, demur, design, detritus, difference, discrepancy, ditto, dividend, docket, double-check, draftsmanship, draw, draw a comparison, draw a parallel, due sense of, dynamic symmetry, end, enter, epact, equability, equal, equality, equalize, equanimity, equate, equation, equilibrium, equilibrize, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equiponderate, equity, equivalence, equivalency, equivalent, estimate, euphony, eurythmics, eurythmy, evaluate, even, even off, even out, even up, evenness, excess, exchequer, extra, fag end, falter, fastness, fear, filings, finances, finish, firm, firm up, firmness, fit, flatten, footing, fossil, freeze, fund, funds, generality, give-and-take, golden mean, good sense, gratuity, grist, grouping, hang back, happy medium, harmonize, harmony, have weight, healthy mind, heel, heft, hem and haw, hesitate, hold, hold the scales, holdings, holdover, homeostasis, homogenize, horse sense, hover, hum and haw, husks, identity, immobilize, imperturbability, income account, integrate, invariability, inventory, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, jib, journalize, juste-milieu, justice, keep, keep books, keep pace with, keeping, kitty, knot, lagniappe, leavings, leftover, leftovers, level, level head, levelheadedness, levelness, lie heavy, life savings, liken, liken to, likeness, line, liquid assets, log, lucid interval, lucidity, make an entry, make uniform, make up, make up for, makeweight, margin, match, match up with, mean, means, measure, measure against, measure up to, measuredness, median, mediocrity, medium, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, metaphorize, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, minute, moneys, multilateral symmetry, mutuality, nail down, nerve, nest egg, net, norm, normal, normalcy, normality, normalize, normalness, note, odds and ends, offscourings, offset, oppose, order, orderedness, orts, outweigh, overage, overhaul, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, painterliness, par, parallel, parallelism, parings, parity, pause, pecuniary resources, perspective, pin down, place against, plain sense, plus, pocket, poise, polarity, ponder, pool, possession, post, post up, pourboire, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, preponderance, presence of mind, property, proportion, proportionability, proportionality, proportionate, prove, provision account, pull back, purse, quid pro quo, rags, ratio, rationality, reach, reason, reasonableness, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, reckoning, redeem, refuse, regularity, regularize, regulate, relate, relativity, reliability, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, repose, reserves, residual, residue, residuum, resource, resources, rest, restraint, retain, retreat, revenue account, rhythm, right mind, rival, roach, rootedness, rubbish, ruins, rule, rump, run, run a comparison, run abreast, run to, running account, sales account, sameness, sanemindedness, saneness, sang-froid, sangfroid, sanity, savings, savings account, sawdust, scales, score, scourings, scraps, scruple, secureness, security, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-control, self-possession, self-restraint, selling account, sense, senses, sensibleness, set in contrast, set in opposition, set off, set off against, set over against, setoff, shading, shadow, shapeliness, shavings, shilly-shally, shy, similarity, similize, smooth, sober senses, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, solidity, something extra, something of value, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, spare, square, square up, stabilitate, stability, stabilize, stable state, stack up with, stagnancy, stagnation, standardize, stasis, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, steady nerves, steady state, stereotype, stick, stick at, stickle, stock account, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain at, straw, strike a balance, stubble, stump, substance, substantiality, supply, surplus, surplusage, survival, suspense account, sweepings, sweetness, symmetricalness, symmetrize, symmetry, take stock, tally, technique, think twice about, tie, tip, tip the scales, tit for tat, tone, touch, trace, transfix, treasure, treatment, trilateral symmetry, tune, undeflectability, uniformity, uniformize, unregistered bank account, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, valuation account, values, verify, vestige, via media, view together, waste, weigh, weigh against, weigh heavy, weigh in, weigh out, weight, well-regulated mind, wherewithal, wholesomeness, withdraw, yield

• balanced, accordant, alike, all there, apoise, assured, automatic, clearheaded, clearminded, coequal, collected, commonsense, compos mentis, composed, concinnate, concinnous, confident, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, cool, coolheaded, coordinate, correspondent, defensible, deserved, due, equable, equal, equanimous, equibalanced, equilateral, equilibrious, equiponderant, equiponderous, equitable, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, eurythmic, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fast, fiducial, finished, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fit, flat, flowing, fluent, good, harmonious, healthy-minded, homogeneous, immutable, imperturbable, in equilibrium, invariable, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, level, levelheaded, logical, lucid, measured, mechanical, meet, meet and right, mentally sound, merited, methodic, monolithic, normal, of a piece, of sound mind, ordered, orderly, persistent, philosophical, poised, practical, pragmatic, predictable, proper, proportioned, rational, reasonable, recollected, regular, reliable, right, right and proper, rightful, robotlike, sane, sane-minded, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-possessed, self-restrained, sensible, smooth, smooth-sounding, sober, sober-minded, solid, sound, sound-minded, square, stable, steadfast, steady, substantial, sweet, symmetric, symmetrical, systematic, together, tripping, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unruffled, unshakable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, warrantable, warranted, well-balanced, well-set, well-set-up, wholesome, without nerves

• balancing, adversative, adverse, adversive, allegory, amendatory, amends, analogy, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, atonement, clashing, commutation, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, compensating, compensation, compensatory, conflicting, confrontation, confronting, confrontment, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrast, contrasted, contrastiveness, converse, coordination, correlation, counter, counteracting, counteraction, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, dead against, discordant, discrepant, distinction, distinctiveness, equalization, evening, expiation, expiatory, eyeball to eyeball, harmonization, hostile, inconsistent, indemnification, indemnificatory, indemnity, inimical, integration, inverse, lex talionis, likening, matching, metaphor, obverse, offsetting, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposition, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, parallelism, penitential, perverse, proportion, recompense, recompensive, rectification, rectifying, redress, regularization, relation, reparation, reparative, repayment, repugnant, restitution, retaliation, retaliatory, revenge, reverse, satisfaction, simile, similitude, squared off, substitution, symmetrization, trope of comparison, weigh-in, weighing, weighing-in, weighing-out

• balcony, auditorium, box, box seat, catafalque, dais, dress circle, emplacement, estrade, fauteuil, floor, gallery, heliport, hustings, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launching pad, loge, nigger heaven, orchestra, orchestra circle, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, peanut gallery, pit, platform, podium, proscenium boxes, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stage, stall, standing room, step terrace, stump, terrace, theatre stall, tribunal, tribune

• bald, Spartan, acomous, ascetic, austere, bald-headed, bare, bare-ass, beardless, blank, candid, clean-shaven, clear, cleared, clipped, colorless, common, commonplace, cropped, depilous, direct, disclosed, dry, dull, exposed, frank, free, glabrous, gymnosophical, hairless, homely, homespun, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, lackluster, lean, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, naked, natural, naturistic, neat, nude, nudist, open, open as day, open to all, overt, peeled, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, polled, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, raw, revealed, rustic, severe, shaven, sheared, simple, simple-speaking, smooth, smooth-faced, smooth-shaven, sober, spare, stark, stark-naked, straightforward, tonsured, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unarrayed, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed, uncolored, uncomplicated, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undressed, unembellished, unfurbished, ungarnished, unhidden, unimaginative, unobstructed, unornamented, unpoetical, unrestricted, unsophisticated, unstopped, untrimmed, unvarnished, wide-open, with nothing on, without a stitch

• Balder, Adonis, Aesir, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Astarte, Bor, Bori, Bragi, Cleopatra, Donar, Forseti, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyr, Frigg, Frigga, Hebe, Heimdall, Hel, Hertha, Hoenir, Hyperion, Idun, Ing, Ithunn, Loki, Nanna, Narcissus, Nerthus, Njord, Njorth, Odin, Reimthursen, Sif, Sigyn, Thor, Tiu, Tyr, Ull, Ullr, Vali, Vanir, Venus, Venus de Milo, Vidar, Vitharr, Wayland, Weland, Woden, Wotan, Wyrd, houri, peri, the Graces

• balderdash, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bombastry, bosh, bushwa, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jargon, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling

• bale, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bind up, bindle, bitterness, bleeding heart, bolt, bouquet, broken heart, budget, bundle, bundle up, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, crushing, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, deck, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, do up, drag, encumbrance, extremity, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, freight, grief, handicap, heartache, heavy heart, incubus, incumbency, infelicity, lading, load, loading, melancholia, melancholy, millstone, misery, nosegay, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, package, packet, parcel, posy, pressure, prostration, quiver, roll, roll up, rouleau, saddling, sadness, sheaf, suicidal despair, superincumbency, surcharge, taxing, tie up, truss, truss up, woe, wrap, wrap up, wretchedness

• balefire, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, backfire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blaze, blinker, blue peter, bonfire, buoy, burning ghat, campfire, caution light, cheerful fire, combustion, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, death fire, fen fire, fire, flame, flare, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, forest fire, fox fire, funeral, funeral pyre, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, ignis fatuus, ignition, ingle, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, lambent flame, leer, marker beacon, marshfire, nod, nudge, open fire, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, prairie fire, pyre, quarantine flag, radio beacon, raging fire, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, sea of flames, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sheet of fire, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, smudge fire, spar buoy, stop light, the nod, the wink, three-alarm fire, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, two-alarm fire, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wildfire, wink, witch fire, yellow flag

• baleful, apocalyptic, bad, baneful, bitchy, black, bodeful, boding, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cussed, damaging, dark, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, direful, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, gloomy, harmful, hateful, hurtful, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, iniquitous, injurious, invidious, lethal, lowering, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, menacing, mischievous, nasty, noisome, noxious, of evil portent, ominous, ornery, pernicious, poisonous, portending, portentous, prejudicial, scatheful, sinister, somber, threatening, toxic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked

• balk, baffle, bafflement, balk at, balking, be unwilling, beam, beat, begrudge, betrayed hope, bevue, bilk, blast, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, boggle, brave, buffet, cast down, challenge, check, checkmate, circumvent, comedown, confound, confounding, confront, confusion, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, decline, defeat, defeat expectation, defy, destroy, die hard, disappoint, disappointment, discomfit, discomfiture, disconcert, disconcertion, discountenance, dish, disillusion, disillusionment, disrupt, dissatisfaction, dissatisfy, elude, failure, fallen countenance, false move, false step, fiasco, fizzle, flinch, flummox, foil, foiling, forlorn hope, frustrate, frustration, gag, grudge, hang back, hold out, hope deferred, inadvertence, inadvertency, jib, knock the chocks, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, let down, letdown, loose thread, mind, mirage, miscue, misstep, nonplus, not budge, not care to, not feel like, object to, omission, oversight, perplex, persevere, quail, rebuff, recoil, refuse, repulse, reversal, reverse, rout, ruin, sabotage, scotch, scruple, setback, shrink, shy, slip, slipup, sore disappointment, spike, spoil, stand out, stand pat, stick, stickle, stonewall, strain, stumble, stump, take no denial, tantalization, tantalize, tease, thwart, thwarting, trip, turn down, upset, would rather not, wrong step

• balked, baffled, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blighted, chapfallen, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, foiled, frustrated, ill done-by, ill-served, let down, out of countenance, regretful, sorely disappointed, soured, thwarted

• ball of fire, activist, beaver, big-time operator, bustler, busy bee, doer, eager beaver, enthusiast, go-getter, human dynamo, hustler, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, political activist, powerhouse, take-charge guy, wheeler-dealer, winner

• ball the jack, barrel, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, clip, cut along, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, foot, go fast, highball, make knots, nip, outstrip the wind, pour it on, rip, scorch, sizzle, skim, speed, storm along, sweep, tear, tear along, thunder along, whisk, whiz, zing, zip, zoom

• ball up, addle, addle the wits, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, bollix, bollix up, bother, bug, bugger, bugger up, cloud, complicate, confound, confuse, cook, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, distract, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foul up, fuddle, fumble, fuss, garble, gum up, hash up, implicate, involve, jumble, knot, louse up, maze, mess up, mist, mix up, moider, muck up, muddle, perplex, perturb, pi, play hell with, play hob with, pother, put out, queer, raise hell, ramify, rattle, ravel, riffle, ruffle, scramble, screw up, shuffle, sink, snafu, snarl, snarl up, tangle, throw into confusion, throw off, tumble, unsettle, upset

• ball, Kaffeeklatsch, action, agate, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball bearing, balloon, bar shot, barn dance, baseball, baseball bat, basketball, bat, battledore, bauble, be intimate, bead, big time, bird shot, bladder, blob, blocks, blowout, boll, bolus, bowl, brawl, bubble, buckshot, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bullet, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, caucus, checkerboard, chessboard, clew, clot, club, cockhorse, cocktail party, coffee klatch, cohabit, colloquium, come together, commission, commit adultery, committee, conclave, concourse, conglobulate, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, copulate, costume party, council, country dance, couple, cover, cricket bat, crossbar shot, cue, dance, date, diddle, diet, dinner, dinner party, discus, doll, doll carriage, donation party, duck shot, dumdum bullet, egg, eisteddfod, ejecta, ejectamenta, ellipsoid, ensphere, entertainment, expanding bullet, fancy-dress ball, festivity, fete, football, forgathering, fornicate, forum, frig, fun, fun and games, funmaking, game, garden party, gathering, geoid, get-together, gewgaw, gimcrack, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, golf club, good time, grape, grapeshot, great fun, handball, have sex, have sexual relations, hen party, high old time, high time, hobbyhorse, hop, house party, house-raising, housewarming, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, knob, knot, langrel shot, laughs, lawn party, lay, levee, lie with, lovely time, make it with, make love, make out, manstopping bullet, marble, marionette, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, masquerade party, mate, meet, meeting, mig, missile, mixer, mothball, mount, mushroom, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, oval, ovoid, panel, paper doll, party, pellet, pick-up sticks, picnic, pill, pinball, pinwheel, play, plaything, pleasant time, plenum, projectile, prolate spheroid, prom, promenade, puppet, pushball, quoit, quorum, racket, rag doll, rally, reception, record hop, rendezvous, rifle ball, rocking horse, rondure, round, round shot, rubber ball, screw, seance, serve, service, session, shell, shindig, shindy, shot, shower, shrapnel, sit-in, sitting, sleep with, slug, smoker, snowball, softball, soiree, sphere, spherify, spheroid, spherule, split shot, sport, square dance, stag, stag dance, stag party, steelie, surprise party, symposium, synod, taw, tea dance, teetotum, tetherball, the dansant, top, toy, toy soldier, trajectile, trinket, turnout, volleyball, wad, whiffle ball, whim-wham

• ballad, Brautlied, Christmas carol, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Volkslied, alba, anacreontic, anthem, art song, aubade, balada, ballade, ballata, barcarole, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, bucolic, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, clerihew, croon, croon song, dirge, dithyramb, ditty, drinking song, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, folk song, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hit, hit tune, hymeneal, idyll, jingle, lay, lied, light music, lilt, limerick, love song, love-lilt, lyric, madrigal, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, monody, narrative poem, national anthem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, pop, pop music, popular music, popular song, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, serena, serenade, serenata, sestina, sloka, song, song hit, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, theme song, threnody, torch song, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, war song, wedding song

• balladeer, arranger, ballad maker, ballad singer, balladist, balladmonger, bard, composer, contrapuntist, ethnomusicologist, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, gleeman, harmonist, harmonizer, hymnist, hymnographer, hymnologist, jongleur, librettist, madrigalist, melodist, melodizer, minnesinger, minstrel, musicographer, musicologist, orchestrator, rhapsode, rhapsodist, scop, scorer, serenader, song writer, songsmith, street singer, strolling minstrel, symphonist, tone poet, troubadour, trovatore, tunesmith, wait, wandering minstrel

• balladmonger, Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, arranger, ballad maker, balladeer, balladist, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, composer, contrapuntist, elegist, epic poet, ethnomusicologist, fili, harmonist, harmonizer, hymnist, hymnographer, hymnologist, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, laureate, librettist, madrigalist, major poet, maker, melodist, melodizer, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, musicographer, musicologist, occasional poet, odist, orchestrator, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poeticule, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, rhymer, rhymester, satirist, scop, scorer, skald, song writer, songsmith, sonneteer, symbolist, symphonist, tone poet, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, tunesmith, vers libriste, vers-librist, verseman, versemonger, versesmith, versifier

• ballast, balance, break bulk, break out ballast, clear for action, clear the decks, consideration, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equipoise, equivalent, firm, firm up, freeze, give-and-take, hold, immobilize, keep, lead, makeweight, nail down, offset, pin down, poise, quid pro quo, retain, sandbag, setoff, shift ballast, shoot ballast, something of value, stabilitate, stabilize, steady, stick, tit for tat, transfix, trim, trim ship, trim up, weigh down, weight, weight down, wing out ballast

• balled up, Byzantine, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, bollixed up, bothered, buggered, buggered up, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, cooked, crabbed, daedal, devious, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fussed, galley-west, gummed up, hashed up, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, implicated, in a jumble, in a mess, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, queered, ramified, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scattered, screwed up, shaken, shook, shot, shuffled, skimble-skamble, snafu, snafued, snarled, snarled up, subtle, sunk, tangled, tangly, topsy-turvy, twisted, unsettled, upset, upside-down

• ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet girl, ballroom dancer, choral dancer, chorus boy, chorus girl, clog dancer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, danseur, danseur noble, danseuse, figurant, figurante, geisha, geisha girl, heel-and-toe dancer, hoofer, hula girl, nautch girl, square-dancer, terpsichorean

• ballet, Broadway musical, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Singspiel, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballad opera, ballet divertissement, ballroom dancing, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, choreodrama, choreography, chorus show, classical ballet, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy ballet, comedy drama, comic opera, critical success, dance, dance drama, dancing, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, grand opera, happening, hit, hit show, hoofing, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, light opera, lyric drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, modern ballet, modern dance, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical, musical comedy, musical revue, musical stage, musical theater, mystery, mystery play, opera, opera ballet, opera bouffe, opera buffa, operetta, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, song-and-dance act, song-play, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, tap dancing, teleplay, television drama, television play, terpsichore, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• balletic, actor-proof, all-star, ballet, cinematic, cinematographic, dance, dancing, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, film, filmic, ham, hammy, histrionic, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, operatic, overacted, overplayed, scenic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, terpsichorean, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillian

• balloon, Graf Zeppelin, accrue, accumulate, advance, aeroplane, aerostat, air bubble, airlift, airplane, airship, appreciate, bag, ball, ballonet, be airborne, bead, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bladder, bleb, blimp, blister, bloat, blob, blood blister, boll, bolus, boom, bouge, breed, broaden, bubble, bug, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulk, bulla, captive balloon, conglobulate, crescendo, cruise, develop, dilate, dirigible, dirigible balloon, distend, drift, ellipsoid, enlarge, expand, extend, ferry, fever blister, fill out, flit, fly, fob, gain, gain strength, gasbag, geoid, get ahead, glide, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, go up, gob, gobbet, goggle, greaten, grow, hop, hover, hydroplane, increase, intensify, jet, knob, knot, lighter-than-air craft, mount, multiply, mushroom, navigate, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pilot balloon, pocket, poke, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, prolate spheroid, proliferate, puff up, rigid airship, rise, rondure, round out, run up, sac, sack, sail, sailplane, sausage, seaplane, semirigid airship, ship, shoot up, snowball, soap bubble, soar, sphere, spherify, spheroid, spherule, spread, strengthen, stretch, swell, swell out, take the air, take wing, tumefy, vesicle, volplane, wax, weather balloon, widen, wing, zeppelin

• ballooning, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aeronautics, aggrandizement, air service, airline, amplification, appreciation, ascent, astronautics, augmentation, aviation, bagging, baggy, bellying, billowing, billowy, blind flying, bloated, bloating, boom, boost, bosomy, broadening, buildup, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, cloud-seeding, commercial aviation, contact flying, crescendo, cruising, development, distended, drooping, droopy, edema, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, flight, flood, floppy, flying, gain, general aviation, gliding, greatening, growth, gush, hike, hillocky, hummocky, increase, increment, inflation, jump, leap, limp, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, mounting, moutonnee, multiplication, nodding, pilotage, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, productiveness, proliferation, raise, rise, rounded, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sailing, sailplaning, snowballing, soaring, spread, surge, swag, swelling, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, verrucated, verrucose, warty, waxing, widening, winging

• ballot, Australian ballot, Hare system, Indiana ballot, Massachusetts ballot, absentee ballot, aye, blanket ballot, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement, fagot vote, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, list system, long ballot, nay, no, nonpartisan ballot, nontransferable vote, office-block ballot, party emblem, party-column ballot, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, sample ballot, say, secret ballot, short ballot, show of hands, single vote, slate, snap vote, split ticket, straight ticket, straw vote, suffrage, ticket, transferable vote, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, vote in, voting, voting right, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

• ballplayer, amateur athlete, archer, athlete, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bowman, catcher, center, coach, competitor, cricketer, defensive lineman, end, footballer, games-player, gamester, guard, infielder, jock, jumper, lineman, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, player, poloist, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, racer, skater, sport, sportsman, tackle, tailback, toxophilite, wingback, wrestler

• ballroom, amusement park, cabaret, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, chamber, chambre, dance floor, dance hall, dancery, dancing pavilion, entertainment industry, fun-fair, grand ballroom, juke joint, night spot, nightclub, nitery, resort, roadhouse, room, rotunda, salle, show biz, show business, tavern, theater

• balls, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audaciousness, audacity, bag, ballocks, baloney, basket, beard, blague, bosh, bravado, bravura, breasts, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cervix, claptrap, clitoris, cod, cods, crap, cullions, daring, dauntlessness, derring-do, enterprise, eyewash, family jewels, female organs, flam, flimflam, foolhardiness, gammon, genitalia, genitals, gonads, guts, heart, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, lips, male organs, meat, mettle, moonshine, moxie, nuts, nymphae, ovary, overboldness, penis, phallus, pluck, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, resolution, rocks, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, spermary, spirit, testes, testicles, uterus, vagina, venturesomeness, venturousness, vulva, womb, yoni

• ballyhoo man, MC, auteur, ballyhooer, barker, callboy, canvasser, costume designer, costumer, costumier, director, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, impresario, makeup man, master of ceremonies, pitchman, playreader, producer, prompter, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, showman, solicitor, spieler, stage director, stage manager, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, tout, touter, usher, usherer, usherette

• ballyhoo, PR, advertise, aggrandize, aggrandizement, amplification, amplify, bark, big talk, bill, blowing up, blurb, boost, bright light, build up, bulletin, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, celebrity, circularize, common knowledge, cry, cry up, currency, daylight, dilatation, dilation, draw the longbow, eclat, enhancement, enlargement, establish, exaggerate, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, exposure, extravagance, extreme, fame, famousness, give a write-up, give publicity, glare, go to extremes, grandiloquence, heightening, herald, hoopla, huckstering, hue and cry, hyperbole, hyperbolism, hyperbolize, inflation, inordinacy, lay it on, limelight, magnification, magnify, make much of, maximum dissemination, notoriety, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overemphasis, overestimate, overestimation, overkill, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstatement, overstress, patter, pile it on, pitch, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press notice, press-agent, prodigality, profuseness, promote, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicize, publicness, puff, puffery, puffing up, reclame, report, sales pitch, sales talk, sell, sensationalism, spiel, spotlight, stretch, stretch the truth, stretching, superlative, talk big, talk in superlatives, tall talk, tout, touting, travesty, trumpet, write up, write-up

• balm, Mentholatum, Vaseline, aid, allay, alleviative, alleviator, alterative, ambergris, ambrosia, analeptic, anodyne, aroma, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, assistance, assuager, attar, attar of roses, balm of Gilead, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, bouquet, brilliantine, calmative, cerate, champaca oil, chrism, civet, cold cream, collyrium, comfort, commiseration, compose, condolement, condolence, consolation, corrective, cream, cure, cushion, demulcent, dolorifuge, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, embrocation, emollient, essence, essential oil, ethical drug, extract, eye-lotion, eyewash, eyewater, face cream, fixative, generic name, glycerin, glycerogel, glycerogelatin, glycerol, glycerole, hand lotion, healing agent, healing quality, heliotrope, help, herbs, incense, inhalant, inunction, inunctum, jasmine oil, lanolin, lavender oil, lenitive, lincture, linctus, liniment, lotion, lull, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, menthol, mercurial ointment, mitigator, mixture, moderator, modulator, mollifier, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, nard, nonprescription drug, officinal, oil, ointment, olive oil, pacificator, pacifier, palliative, parfum, patent medicine, peacemaker, perfume, perfumery, petrolatum, pharmacon, physic, pomade, pomatum, powder, preparation, prescription, prescription drug, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, quiet, quieten, receipt, recipe, redolence, relief, remedial measure, remedy, restorative, restraining hand, rose oil, salve, scent, sedative, settle, sharing of grief, shock absorber, simples, soothe, soother, soothing syrup, soothing words, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, spice, spikenard, stabilizer, still, succor, sympathy, syrup, temperer, theraputant, tisane, tranquilize, tranquilizer, unction, unguent, unguentum, vegetable remedies, volatile oil, vulnerary, wiser head, witch hazel, zinc ointment

• balmy, Saturnian, absurd, agreeable, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, ambrosial, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, aromatic, assuaging, assuasive, balsamic, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, benumbing, bland, blooming, blossoming, bonkers, booming, bright, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cathartic, cleansing, clear, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, deadening, delightful, demulcent, dippy, dotty, dulling, easing, emollient, essenced, exuberant, faint, fair, fat, flaky, flipped, flourishing, flowering, flowery, fragrant, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruiting, fruity, gaga, going strong, goofy, gratifying, halcyon, harebrained, haywire, in full swing, in good case, incense-breathing, insane, just plain nuts, kooky, lenient, lenitive, lightening, loony, loopy, mild, mitigating, mitigative, musky, numbing, nuts, nutty, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, pain-killing, palliative, palmy, perfumed, perfumy, piping, pleasant, pleasing, potty, preposterous, prospering, purgative, redolent, refreshing, rejuvenating, relieving, remedial, restorative, rosy, round the bend, savory, scented, screwball, screwballs, screwy, silly, slaphappy, sleek, smooth, soft, softening, soothing, spicy, subduing, sunny, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, thriving, thuriferous, vigorous, wacky

• balneation, Australian crawl, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, diving, dog paddle, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, natation, sidestroke, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, treading water, wading, waterskiing

• baloney, applesauce, balls, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind

• balsam, aid, alterative, ambergris, ambrosia, analeptic, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, assistance, attar, attar of roses, balm, balm of Gilead, bay oil, bergamot oil, brilliantine, cerate, champaca oil, chrism, civet, cold cream, collyrium, corrective, cream, cure, demulcent, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, embrocation, emollient, essence, essential oil, ethical drug, extract, eye-lotion, eyewash, eyewater, face cream, fixative, generic name, hand lotion, healing agent, healing quality, heliotrope, help, herbs, inhalant, inunction, inunctum, jasmine oil, lanolin, lavender oil, lenitive, lincture, linctus, liniment, lotion, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, mixture, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, nard, nonprescription drug, officinal, oil, ointment, parfum, patent medicine, perfume, perfumery, pharmacon, physic, pomade, pomatum, powder, preparation, prescription, prescription drug, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, receipt, recipe, relief, remedial measure, remedy, restorative, rose oil, salve, scent, simples, soothing syrup, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, spikenard, succor, syrup, theraputant, tisane, unction, unguent, unguentum, vegetable remedies, volatile oil, vulnerary

• balustrade, Samson post, baluster, banister, barrier, base, boundary, caryatid, colonnade, column, dado, die, doorjamb, doorpost, fence, footstalk, gatepost, hitching post, jack, jamb, king post, milepost, mullion, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth, pole, post, queen-post, rail, railing, shaft, signpost, snubbing post, socle, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stile, stone wall, subbase, surbase, trunk, upright, wall

• bamboo curtain, Berlin wall, Pillars of Hercules, arch dam, backstop, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barrier of secrecy, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, blackout, boom, border, border ground, borderland, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, censorship, cofferdam, curtain, dam, defense, dike, ditch, earthwork, embankment, fence, frontier, frontier post, gate, gravity dam, groin, hush-up, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, ironbound security, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, march, marches, marchland, milldam, moat, mole, mound, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, outpost, outskirts, pall, parapet, portcullis, rampart, repression, roadblock, rock-fill dam, seal of secrecy, seawall, security, shutter dam, smothering, stifling, stone wall, suppression, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, veil, veil of secrecy, wall, weir, wicket dam, work, wraps

• bamboozle, addle, amaze, baffle, beat, befool, beguile, betray, bilk, bluff, boggle, buffalo, cajole, cheat on, chicane, circumvent, confound, conjure, daze, deceive, delude, diddle, double-cross, dupe, flimflam, floor, fool, forestall, fuddle, gammon, get, get around, gull, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, keep in suspense, let down, lick, maze, mock, muddle, mystify, nonplus, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, perplex, pigeon, play one false, put something over, puzzle, snow, stick, string along, stump, swindle, take in, throw, trick, two-time

• bamboozled, addled, at a loss, baffled, beat, buffaloed, confounded, dazed, floored, fuddled, in a dilemma, in suspense, licked, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, stuck, stumped, thrown

• ban, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abscind, amputate, anathema, annihilate, banish, banishment, bar, bar out, barring, blackball, blackballing, blacklist, blasphemy, blockade, bob, boycott, boycottage, cast out, categorically reject, circumscription, clip, commination, complaint, contraband, count out, crop, cull, curse, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, damnation, debar, debarment, debarring, demarcation, denial, denunciation, deny, deport, dim view, disagreement, disallow, disallowance, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disapprove, disapprove of, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disfellowship, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, dissent from, distaste, dock, eliminate, embargo, enjoin, enucleate, eradicate, evil eye, except, exception, excise, exclude, exclude from, exclusion, excommunicate, excommunication, execration, exile, expatriate, expel, extinguish, extirpate, extradite, forbid, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, freeze out, frown at, frown down, frown upon, fugitate, fulmination, grimace at, hex, ignore, imprecation, inadmissibility, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, indignation, inhibit, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, isolate, keep out, knock off, law, leave out, lock out, lockout, look askance at, look black upon, lop, low estimation, low opinion, malison, malocchio, mutilate, narrowing, nip, no-no, nonadmission, not approve, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object, object to, objection, omission, omit, oppose, opposition, opposure, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, pare, pass over, peel, pick out, preclude, preclusion, prevent, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribe, proscription, protest, prune, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, relegate, relegation, repress, repression, repudiate, repudiation, restriction, restrictive covenants, root out, rule out, ruling out, rusticate, say no to, send away, send down, send to Coventry, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shut out, snub, spurn, stamp out, statute, strike off, strip, strip off, sumptuary laws, suppress, suppression, taboo, take exception to, take off, take out, think ill of, think little of, thrust out, thumb down, thumbs-down, thundering, transport, truncate, unhappiness, view with disfavor, whammy, wipe out, zoning, zoning laws

• banal, asinine, average, back-number, bewhiskered, bland, bromidic, central, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, cut-and-dried, everyday, fade, familiar, fatuous, flat, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, hoary, humdrum, intermediary, intermediate, jejune, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, middle-of-the-road, middling, milk-and-water, moderate, moth-eaten, musty, namby-pamby, normal, old, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, petty, platitudinous, routine, sapless, set, silly, simple, square, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, trivial, truistic, unimaginative, unoriginal, usual, vapid, warmed-over, waterish, watery, well-known, well-worn, wishy-washy, worn, worn thin

• banality, banalness, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyed saying, hackneyedness, lieu commun, locus communis, mustiness, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, platitude, platitudinousness, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, squareness, staleness, stereotyped saying, tag, trite saying, triteness, triticism, truism, twice-told tale, unoriginality

• banana, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, epigrammatist, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, humorist, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lampooner, madcap, parodist, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany

• bananas, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, haywire, just plain nuts, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, wacky

• Band Aid, Ace bandage, adhesive tape, application, band, bandage, bandaging, binder, brace, cast, cataplasm, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, dressing, elastic bandage, epithem, four-tailed bandage, gauze, lint, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, poultice, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, sling, splint, sponge, stupe, tampon, tape, tent, tourniquet, triangular bandage

• band shell, L, R, acting area, apron, apron stage, backstage, bandstand, board, bridge, coulisse, dock, dressing room, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, greenroom, grid, gridiron, lightboard, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, proscenium, proscenium stage, shell, stage, stage left, stage right, switchboard, the boards, wings

• band together, accompany, act in concert, act together, affiliate, ally, amalgamate, associate, associate with, assort with, attend, band, be in cahoots, be in league, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cement a union, centralize, club, club together, coact, coalesce, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, companion, concert, concord, concur, confederate, consociate, consolidate, consort with, conspire, cooperate, couple, couple with, do business with, federalize, federate, flock together, fuse, gang, gang up, get heads together, get together, go along with, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, go with, hang around with, hang together, harmonize, herd together, hold together, hook up, hook up with, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up with, join with, keep company with, keep together, league, league together, make common cause, marry, merge, organize, pair, pair off, partner, play ball, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, run with, stand together, stand up with, team up, team up with, team with, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wait on, wed, work together

• band, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Bund, German band, Mystik tape, Philharmonic, Rochdale cooperative, Scotch tape, accouple, accumulate, act in concert, act together, adhesive tape, affiliate, age group, agglutinate, alliance, ally, amalgamate, amass, amateur band, anklet, application, armlet, articulate, assemblage, assemble, assembly, associate, association, axis, band together, bandage, bandaging, bandeau, bar, battalion, batten, be in league, bed, bedding, begird, belt, belt in, bend, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bevy, big band, bind, bind up, binder, bloc, blotch, body, bond, border, brace, bracelet, bracket, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, bridge, bridge over, brigade, bunch, bundle, cabal, callithumpian band, cast, cataplasm, cellophane tape, cement, chain, chamber orchestra, channel, check, checker, cinch, cincture, cingulum, circle, citizens band, clap together, clique, cloth tape, club, club together, cluster, coact, coalesce, coalition, cohort, collaborate, collar, collarband, collect, college, collude, combination, combine, combo, common market, company, complement, compress, comprise, concatenate, concert, concert band, concord, concur, confederacy, confederate, confederation, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consociate, consolidate, conspire, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperate, cooperative, cooperative society, copulate, corps, coterie, cotton, couche, council, couple, course, court plaster, cover, covey, crack, cravat, craze, credit union, crew, cross-hatching, crowd, customs union, dapple, dash, deck, delineation, desks, detachment, detail, diagonal, division, dixieland band, do business with, do up, dot, dotted line, dressing, earring, ecliptic, economic community, edge, elastic bandage, embrace, encincture, encircle, encompass, engird, ensemble, ensphere, epithem, equator, faction, fascia, federate, federation, fillet, finger ring, flake, fleck, fleet, floor, four-tailed bandage, freckle, free trade area, frequency band, friction tape, fuse, gallery, gamelan orchestra, gang, gather, gauze, get heads together, get together, gird, girdle, girt, girth, glue, go partners, great circle, group, grouping, groupment, hachure, hairline, hang together, harlequin, harmonize, hatching, hold together, hook up, hoop, horde, in-group, include, iris, jazz band, join, join in, join together, jug band, junta, keep, keep together, knot, lace, lash, lath, lay together, layer, league, league together, leash, ledge, level, ligula, ligule, line, lineation, link, lint, list, loop, lump together, machine, maculate, make common cause, marble, marbleize, marry, marshal, masking tape, mass, measures, merge, military band, mob, mobilize, motley, mottle, movement, neckband, necklace, nose ring, orchestra, out-group, outfit, overlayer, overstory, pack, pair, partner, partnership, party, peer group, pepper, phalanx, philharmonic, piece together, plank, plaster, plaster cast, plastic tape, platoon, play ball, pledget, police band, political machine, polychrome, polychromize, posse, poultice, pull together, put heads together, put together, quartet, quintet, quoit, radio channel, ragtime band, rainbow, reciprocate, regiment, ribband, ribbon, ring, rock-and-roll group, roll into one, roller, roller bandage, rope, rubber bandage, salon, score, seam, set, sextet, shelf, shortwave band, shred, skiffle band, slash, slat, sling, slip, society, solder, span, spangle, speck, speckle, spill, splice, spline, splint, splotch, sponge, spot, sprinkle, squad, stable, stage, stand together, standard band, steel band, step, stick together, stigmatize, stipple, story, strake, strap, stratum, streak, streaking, street band, stria, striate, striation, striature, striga, string, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, strop, stud, stupe, sublineation, substratum, superstratum, swaddle, swathe, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, taenia, take in, tampon, tape, tape measure, tapeline, tattoo, team, team up, tent, tessellate, thickness, throw in together, ticker tape, tie, tie in, tie up, tier, topsoil, tourniquet, triangular bandage, tribe, trio, troop, troupe, truss, twine around, underlayer, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, understory, understratum, unify, union, unionize, unite, unite efforts, variegate, vein, virgule, waits, weld, wing, wire, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds, work together, wrap, wrap up, wreathe, wreathe around, wristband, wristlet, yoke, zodiac, zone

• bandage, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, adhesive tape, application, band, bandaging, bathe, batten, bedazzle, belt, bend, benight, bind, bind up, binder, binding, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, brace, bundle, care for, cast, cataplasm, cellophane tape, chain, cinch, cloth tape, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, cure, darken, daze, dazzle, deprive of sight, diagnose, dim, do up, doctor, dress, dressing, dust jacket, eclipse, elastic bandage, envelope, envelopment, epithem, excecate, fascia, fillet, flux, four-tailed bandage, friction tape, gauze, gift wrapping, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give care to, glare, gouge, heal, hoodwink, jacket, lace, lash, lath, leash, ligula, ligule, lint, list, make blind, masking tape, massage, minister to, nurse, obscure, operate on, physic, plank, plaster, plaster cast, plastic tape, pledget, poultice, purge, remedy, ribband, ribbon, roller, roller bandage, rope, rub, rubber bandage, shred, slat, sling, slip, snow-blind, spill, splice, spline, splint, sponge, strake, strap, strike blind, strip, strop, stupe, swaddle, swathe, taenia, tampon, tape, tape measure, tapeline, tent, ticker tape, tie, tie up, tourniquet, treat, triangular bandage, truss, wire, wrap, wrap up, wrapper, wrapping

• bandeau, achievement, advocate, alerion, alpenstock, animal charge, annulet, argent, arm, armorial bearings, armory, arms, athletic supporter, azure, back, backbone, backing, band, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearer, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, broad arrow, buttress, cadency mark, cane, canton, carrier, cervix, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, corset, crescent, crest, crook, cross, cross moline, crown, crutch, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, falsies, fess, fess point, field, file, fillet, flanch, fleur-de-lis, foundation garment, fret, fulcrum, fur, fusil, garland, girdle, griffin, gules, guy, guywire, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, jock, jockstrap, label, lion, lozenge, mainstay, maintainer, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mast, metal, motto, mullet, neck, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, prop, purpure, quarter, quartering, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, ribbon, rigging, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, shoulder, shroud, soutien-gorge, spine, spread eagle, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, stripe, subordinary, support, supporter, sustainer, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, upholder, vair, vert, walking stick, wreath, yale

• banded, barred, brinded, brindle, brindled, listed, marbled, marbleized, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, veined, watered

• bandit, air armada, air force, badman, bogey, bravo, brigand, bummer, combat plane, cutthroat, dacoit, desperado, enemy aircraft, footpad, forager, freebooter, gangster, highwayman, holdup man, hoodlum, looter, mobsman, mobster, pillager, plunderer, racketeer, raider, ravager, sacker, slaunchways, thug, villain

• banditry, armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, bank robbery, brigandage, brigandism, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, extortion, foraging, foray, freebooting, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, looting, marauding, mugging, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, purse snatching, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, robbery, robbing, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, stickup, stickup job

• bandog, Cerberus, Seeing Eye dog, bitch, bowwow, canine, dog, fancy dog, guard dog, guide dog, gyp, kennel, lap dog, pack of dogs, pooch, pup, puppy, sheep dog, show dog, sled dog, slut, toy dog, watchdog, whelp, working dog

• bandstand, L, R, acting area, apron, apron stage, backstage, band shell, board, bridge, coulisse, dock, dressing room, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, greenroom, grid, gridiron, lightboard, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, proscenium, proscenium stage, shell, stage, stage left, stage right, switchboard, the boards, wings

• bandy words, argue, argufy, bicker, cavil, chew the fat, chew the rag, chin, choplogic, colloque, colloquize, commerce with, commune with, communicate, communicate with, confab, confabulate, contend, contest, converse, converse with, cross swords, cut and thrust, discept, discourse with, dispute, give and take, hassle, have it out, join issue, lock horns, logomachize, moot, pettifog, plead, polemicize, polemize, quibble, shoot the breeze, spar, speak with, take counsel with, take sides, talk together, thrash out, try conclusions, visit with, wrangle

• bandy, alternate, answer, arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy-legged, banter, be quits with, blemished, bloated, bowed, bowlegged, bowlike, change, chuck, club-footed, commute, compensate, concave, convex, cooperate, counterchange, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, embowed, exchange, flatfooted, flip, get back at, get even with, gibbose, gibbous, give and take, grotesque, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, interchange, knock-kneed, logroll, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, oxbow, pay back, permute, pigeon-toed, pitch, pug-nosed, rachitic, reciprocate, repay, requite, respond, retaliate, retort, return, return the compliment, rickety, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, swap, swaybacked, switch, talipedic, throw, toss, trade, transpose, truncated, vaulted

• bane, abomination, annihilation, atrocity, bad, befoulment, biological death, blight, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, cessation of life, clinical death, contagion, corruption, crossing the bar, crying evil, curtains, damage, dealing death, death, death knell, deathblow, debt of nature, decease, defilement, demise, departure, despoliation, destroyer, destruction, destruction of life, detriment, dispatch, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, end, end of life, ending, eternal rest, euthanasia, evil, execution, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final summons, finger of death, flow of blood, going, going off, gore, grave, grievance, hand of death, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, immolation, infection, injury, jaws of death, kill, killing, knell, lapidation, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, mischief, outrage, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, perishing, poison, poisoning, pollution, quietus, release, rest, reward, ritual killing, ritual murder, ruin, ruination, sacrifice, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, shooting, slaughter, slaying, sleep, somatic death, stoning, summons of death, taking of life, the worst, toxin, undoing, venom, vexation, virus, woe, wrong

• baneful, apocalyptic, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, baleful, beastly, black, bodeful, boding, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dark, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, detrimental, devastating, dire, direful, disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, distressing, doomful, dreadful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, feral, foreboding, fratricidal, gloomy, grim, harmful, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, hurtful, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, injurious, insalubrious, internecine, killing, lethal, lowering, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, menacing, mischievous, mortal, nihilist, nihilistic, noisome, noxious, of evil portent, ominous, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, portending, portentous, prejudicial, ravaging, rotten, ruining, ruinous, savage, scatheful, self-destructive, shocking, sinister, somber, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible, threatening, toxic, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhealthy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward, unwholesome, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wasteful, wasting, withering

• bang up, OK, ace-high, bad, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, cool, corking, crackerjack, dandy, delicious, ducky, fab, fine and dandy, gear, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, just dandy, keen, marvy, mean, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, ripping, rum, scrumptious, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else, spiffing, spiffy, stunning, swell, tough, wizard

• bang, abruptly, accurately, aggressiveness, antitoxin, backfire, bag, bang into, bangs, bar, bark, barricade, bash, baste, bat, batten, batten down, batter, beat, beating, belt, best, better, biff, blast, blow, blowout, blowup, bolt, bonk, boom, booster, booster dose, booster shot, boot, buffet, bump, bump into, burst, bust, button, button up, cannon, carom, carom into, charge, choke, choke off, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, close, close up, clout, clump, coldcock, collide, come into collision, concuss, confront each other, constrict, contain, contract, cover, crack, crack up, crash, crash into, crump, crunch, cut, dash, dash into, deal, deal a blow, deck, detonate, detonation, dig, ding, dint, discharge, dose, draft, drive, dropping, drub, drubbing, drug packet, drumming, encounter, enterprise, exactly, exceed, explode, explosion, fall foul of, fasten, fetch, fetch a blow, fetlock, fire, fix, flail, flap, flare, flash, fleck, flock, flop, flush, fold, fold up, forelock, foul, fringe, fulguration, fulminate, fulmination, fusillade, get-up-and-go, getup, ginger, go, go off, gunshot, hammer, hastily, hit, hit a clip, hit against, howl, hurt, hurtle, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, impetuously, impinge, impulsively, initiative, injection, inoculation, jab, jet injection, jollies, key, kick, knock, knock against, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lambaste, larrup, latch, let have it, lick, lift, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, lock, lock out, lock up, mainlining, maul, meet, narcotic injection, narcotic shot, noise, occlude, of a sudden, on short notice, outdo, outgo, outshine, outstrip, overdose, padlock, paste, patter, pelt, pep, pepper, percuss, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, poke, pommel, poop, pop, popping, portion, potion, pound, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, pulverize, pummel, punch, push, quiff, quiver, rap, report, right, roar, roll, rumble, run into, rush, rush of emotion, salvo, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, sensation, sharp, shiver, shooting up, shot, shudder, shut, shut the door, shut up, sideswipe, skin-popping, slam, slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smack into, smack-dab, smash, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, soak, sock, sound, spang, spank, splat, spunk, square, squarely, squeeze shut, starch, startlingly, strangle, strike, strike against, strike at, stroke, successful, sudden, suddenly, surge of emotion, surprisingly, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap, tattoo, thrash, thresh, thrill, thrust, thump, thunder, thwack, tingle, tingling, titillation, tremor, tremor of excitement, tuft, unawares, unexpectedly, vaccination, vaccine, verve, vim, vitality, volley, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whip, whomp, whop, without notice, without warning, wow, yerk, zing, zip, zip up, zipper

• bangers, Vienna sausage, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna, braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese, hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse, sausage, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie

• banging, blasting, bumping, bursting, cracking, crashing, exploding, explosive, flapping, knocking, popping, rapping, slapping, slatting, spanking, tapping, thumping, thundering, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping

• bangle, anklet, armlet, beads, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, fob, gem, jewel, locket, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet

• banish, ban, blackball, blacklist, boycott, bump, can, cashier, cast out, cut, debar, deport, discharge, disfellowship, dismiss, displace, drive away, drive out, eject, evict, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, fire, fugitate, lag, ostracize, oust, outlaw, proscribe, put out, reject, relegate, run out, rusticate, sack, send away, send down, send to Coventry, shut out, snub, spurn, thrust out, transport, turn out

• banishment, ban, blackball, blackballing, blacklist, boycott, boycottage, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, disbarment, disfellowship, displacement, displuming, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, fugitation, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, proscription, relegation, rustication, stripping, transportation, unfrocking

• banister, Samson post, baluster, balustrade, base, caryatid, colonnade, column, dado, die, doorjamb, doorpost, footstalk, gatepost, hitching post, jack, jamb, king post, milepost, mullion, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth, pole, post, queen-post, rail, shaft, signpost, snubbing post, socle, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stile, subbase, surbase, trunk, upright

• banjo eyes, baby blues, bright eyes, clear eyes, cornea, eye, eyeball, eyelid, goggle eyes, iris, lens, lid, naked eye, nictitating membrane, oculus, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, peeper, popeyes, pupil, retina, saucer eyes, sclera, starry orbs, unaided eye, visual organ

• banjo, Dobro guitar, F-hole guitar, Spanish guitar, archlute, balalaika, banjo-uke, banjo-ukulele, banjo-zither, banjorine, banjuke, bass guitar, centerhole guitar, concert guitar, electric guitar, guitar, lute, mando-bass, mando-cello, mandola, mandolin, mandolute, mandore, oud, pandora, pandura, samisen, sitar, steel guitar, tamboura, theorbo, troubadour fiddle, uke, ukulele

• bank on, aspire to, bargain for, bet on, calculate on, confide, count on, depend on, desire, expect, feel confident, figure on, gamble on, harbor the hope, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, lean on, lean upon, live in hopes, nurture the hope, place reliance on, plan on, presume, reckon on, rely on, rely upon, repose on, rest assured, rest on, swear by, trust, trust to

• bank, Bank of England, Bank of France, Federal Reserve bank, Fort Knox, Indian file, Indian reservation, International Monetary Fund, Lombard Street bank, Swiss bank, World Bank, abatis, abutment, advanced work, align, anthill, arc-boutant, arch dam, archives, arm, armor, armor-plate, armory, array, arsenal, articulation, ascend, attic, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank up, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, basement, bastion, battle, battlement, bay, beach, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berm, bet on, bevel, bezel, bin, bird sanctuary, blockade, board, bonded warehouse, bookcase, boom, border, bordure, box, branch bank, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, brim, brink, broadside, brow, buffer, build on, bulkhead, bulwark, bundle away, bunker, burn, bursary, buttery, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, buzz, cache, calculate, cant, careen, cargo dock, casemate, cash register, cashbox, castellate, catena, catenation, cellar, central bank, chain, chain reaction, chaining, cheek, chest, cheval-de-frise, chop, chute, circumvallation, clearing house, climb, closet, coal mine, coast, coastland, coastline, cock, coffer, cofferdam, coin box, colliery, commercial bank, compact, concatenation, concentrate, conflagrate, connection, consecution, conservatory, continuum, contravallation, coral reef, count on, counterscarp, course, crab, crate, credit union, crenellate, crib, cupboard, curtain, cycle, dam, decline, defense, demibastion, depend, deposit, depository, depot, descend, descent, dig in, diggings, dike, dip, ditch, dock, drawbridge, drawer, drift, drone, drop, dump, dune, earthwork, easy slope, edge, embankment, embattle, enclosure, endless belt, endless round, enkindle, entanglement, entrench, escarp, escarpment, exchequer, fall, fall away, fall off, fan the flame, farm loan bank, feather, featheredge, federal land bank, feed, feed the fire, fence, fieldwork, file, filiation, finance company, finance corporation, fire, fisc, fishtail, flange, flank, flat, fleam, flying buttress, ford, foreshore, forest preserve, fortalice, fortification, fortify, frame, fringe, gamble on, game reserve, gamut, garrison, gate, gentle slope, glacis, glory hole, go downhill, go uphill, godown, gold depository, gold mine, gradation, grade, gradient, gravity dam, groin, hand, handedness, hanging buttress, hanging gardens, haunch, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, helicline, hem, hill, hillside, hip, hoard, hock shop, hold, hum, hutch, hydraulic-fill dam, ignite, inclination, incline, inclined plane, inflame, intend, invest, investment bank, iron curtain, ironbound coast, jackpot, jam, jetty, jowl, jutty, keel, kindle, kitty, labellum, labium, labrum, laterality, launching ramp, lay aside, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lean, leaping weir, ledge, lending institution, levee, library, lido, light, light up, limb, limbus, line, line up, lineage, lip, list, littoral, locker, lodge, logjam, loop, loophole, lot, lumber room, lumberyard, lunette, machicolation, magasin, magazine, man, man the garrison, mantelet, many-sidedness, marge, margin, mass, member bank, merlon, milldam, mine, moat, mole, molehill, money chest, moneyed corporation, monotone, mortgage company, mound, mountain, mow, multilaterality, museum, mutual savings bank, national bank, national forest, national park, nexus, nonmember bank, open cut, opencast, outwork, pack away, palisade, paradise, parados, parapet, park, pawnbroker, pawnbrokery, pawnshop, pendulum, penny bank, periodicity, pier, pier buttress, piggy bank, pile, pile up, pit, pitch, plage, plan, planking, playa, plenum, plow, pool, pork barrel, porpoise, portcullis, postern gate, pot, powder train, preserve, profile, progression, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, pull out, pull up, push down, put away, pyramid, quarry, quarter, queue, rack, ragged edge, rake, ramp, rampart, range, rank, ravelin, reckon on, recurrence, redan, redoubt, reef, rekindle, relight, relume, repertory, reposit, repository, reservation, reserve, reserve bank, reservoir, retaining wall, reticulation, retreat, rick, rim, rise, riverside, riviera, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rockbound coast, roll, rotation, round, routine, row, run, safe, safe-deposit box, sally port, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, sandbank, sandbar, sands, save, savings bank, scale, scarp, sconce, sea line, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, seawall, selvage, sequence, series, set aside, set fire to, set on fire, shaft, shallow, shallows, shelf, shelve, shelving beach, shingle, shoal, shoal water, shore, shoreline, shoulder, shutter dam, side, sideline, sideslip, siding, sidle, single file, skid, skirt, slant, slope, snowbank, snowdrift, spectrum, spin, spiral, squirrel away, stack, stack room, stack up, stake, stakes, stash, state bank, state forest, steep slope, stiff climb, stir the fire, stock room, stockade, stoke, stoke the fire, stone wall, storage, store, store away, storehouse, storeroom, stow, stow away, stow down, strand, strike a light, string, string out, strong room, strongbox, stunt, submerged coast, subtreasury, succession, supply base, supply depot, swag, swath, sway, talus, tank, temple, tenaille, thread, tidal flats, tidewater, tier, tiger, till, tilt, tip, torch, touch off, train, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, trust company, trust in, undulate, unilaterality, uprise, vallation, vallum, vat, vault, venture, verge, wager, wall, warehouse, waterfront, waterside, weir, wetlands, wicket dam, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, windrow, wine cellar, work, workings, yaw

• bankbook, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, balance sheet, bank ledger, books, card ledger, cashbook, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, daybook, factory ledger, inventory, journal, ledger, log, logbook, passbook, purchase ledger, record book, register, registry, sales journal, sales ledger, stock ledger, stores ledger, suspense ledger

• banker, Shylock, bank clerk, bank manager, bank officer, bank president, banking executive, baron, big boss, big businessman, bill broker, business leader, businessman, cambist, captain of industry, cashier, director, discounter, enterpriser, entrepreneur, financier, industrialist, investment banker, king, lender, little businessman, loan officer, loan shark, loaner, magnate, man of commerce, manager, money broker, money changer, money dealer, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder, mortgagee, note broker, pawnbroker, teller, top executive, trust officer, tycoon, usurer

• banking, acrobatics, aerobatics, chandelle, crabbing, dive, diving, fishtailing, glide, investment banking, money changing, money dealing, nose dive, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, rolling, sideslip, spiral, stall, stunting, tactical maneuvers, volplane, zoom

• bankroll, angel, back, capitalize, finance, fund, grubstake, patronize, pay for, provide for, refinance, roll, set up, shoestring, sponsor, stake, subsidize, support, wad

• bankrupt, almsman, almswoman, also-ran, ausgespielt, bankrupt in, bare, bare of, beggar, bereft of, blasted, blighted, break, broke, broken, bust, busted, casual, charity case, denudate, denude, denuded of, deprive, deprived of, desolated, destitute, destitute of, destroyed, devastated, devoid of, dilapidate, dismantle, disrobe, divest, done for, done in, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drain, draw, draw down, dud, empty of, exhaust, failed, failure, fallen, false alarm, finished, flop, fold up, for want of, forlorn of, fortuneless, gone to pot, hardcase, homeless, impair, impoverish, in default of, in receivership, in ruins, in the gutter, in the red, in want of, incapacitate, indigent, insolvent, insolvent debtor, irremediable, kaput, lacking, lame duck, landless, loser, missing, moneyless, needing, on the rocks, out of, out of funds, out of pocket, overthrown, pauper, pauperize, penniless, penniless man, poor devil, poor man, poorling, propertyless, ravaged, reduce, ruin, ruined, ruinous, scant of, scuttle, shipwreck, short, short of, shy, shy of, sink, spoiled, starveling, unblessed with, undone, unpossessed of, use up, void of, wanting, washout, wasted, welfare client, without a sou, wreck, wrecked

• bankruptcy, bouncing check, breakage, breakdown, bust, collapse, crack-up, crash, crippling, damage, defeat, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disrepair, encroachment, failure, futility, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill success, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, insolvency, insufficient funds, kited check, losing game, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, no go, nonaccomplishment, nonsuccess, overdraft, overdrawn account, receivership, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, sickening, spoiling, successlessness, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, uselessness, weakening

• banned, barred, contraband, debarred, deported, ejected, excluded, exiled, expelled, forbade, forbid, forbidden, illegal, illicit, left out, liquidated, nonpermissible, not in it, not included, not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, precluded, prohibited, purged, ruled out, shut out, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, untouchable, verboten, vetoed

• banner, Communist threat, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, Western imperialism, and blue, arch, atrocity story, badge, banderole, bang-up, banner head, banneret, battle hymn, black flag, bloody shirt, blue ensign, blue-ribbon, bunting, burgee, capital, caption, cardinal, central, champion, character, characteristic, chief, coachwhip, color, colors, crostarie, crowning, device, differentia, dominant, drop head, dropline, earmark, ensign, epigraph, expansionism, face, fiery cross, first, first-class, first-rate, first-string, flag, focal, foremost, gonfalon, gonfanon, great, guidon, hallmark, hanger, head, heading, headline, headmost, hegemonic, house flag, idiosyncrasy, image, imperialist threat, important, independence, index, indicant, indicator, insignia, jack, jump head, keynote, leading, legend, long pennant, magisterial, main, manifest destiny, mark, martial music, master, measure, memorable, merchant flag, momentous, motto, national anthem, national flag, notable, note, noteworthy, oriflamme, overline, overruling, paramount, peculiarity, pendant, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, picture, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, property, ranking, red, red ensign, representation, representative, royal standard, rubric, ruling, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, seal, self-determination, sigil, sign, signal, signal flag, signature, sovereign, spread, spreadhead, stamp, standard, star, stellar, streamer, subhead, subheading, subtitle, supereminent, superscription, sure sign, swallowtail, symbol, symptom, telltale sign, title, title page, top-notch, topflight, trait, tricolor, vexillum, war song, white, yellow peril

• banneret, Bayard, Dannebrog, Don Quixote, Gawain, Jolly Roger, Lancelot, Old Glory, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, bachelor, banderole, banner, baronet, black flag, blue ensign, bunting, burgee, caballero, cavalier, chevalier, coachwhip, colors, companion, ensign, flag, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, house flag, jack, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, long pennant, merchant flag, national flag, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, red, red ensign, royal standard, signal flag, standard, streamer, swallowtail, tricolor, vexillum, white

• banns, Gretna Green wedding, affiance, banns of matrimony, betrothal, betrothment, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, elopement, engagement, epithalamium, espousal, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, handfasting, honeymoon, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites, marriage, marriage contract, nuptial apartment, nuptial mass, nuptial song, nuptials, plighted faith, plighted troth, prothalamium, saffron veil, shotgun wedding, spousals, troth, wedding, wedding canopy, wedding song, wedding veil

• banquet, Lucullan feast, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, bean-feast, beano, blow, blowout, carnival, carouse, celebration, do, do justice to, eat heartily, eat up, fair, feast, feed, festal board, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, gala, gala affair, gala day, gaudy, great doings, groaning board, harvest home, high jinks, indulge, jamboree, joyance, jubilation, kermis, mad round, merrymaking, party, picnic, polish the platter, put it away, regale, regalement, repast, revel, revelment, revelry, round of pleasures, spread, treat, tuck, waygoose, wayzgoose, wine and dine

• banshee, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Titania, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin, grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum, immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, manes, materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, pwca, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, sylph, sylphid, theophany, unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, zombie

• bantam, arch, baby, baby-sized, banty, button, chit, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, featherweight, fingerling, handy, lightweight, little, malapert, mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minnow, minny, minuscule, monkey, mouse, nubbin, peewee, pert, petite, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, runt, shrimp, slip, small fry, small-scale, snip, snippet, subminiature, tit, toy, twelvemo, vest-pocket, wart, wisp

• bantamweight, Chinese boxer, black belt, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, catchweight, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, heavyweight, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, palooka, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, savate expert, sparrer, underweight, welterweight

• banter, backchat, badinage, beard, blandish, blarney, booing, brave, buffoonery, cajole, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, challenge, chitchat, clownishness, con, dare, defy, deride, derision, exchange, face, fleering, flippancy, fool, foolery, fooling, front, fun, give-and-take, gossip, gossipry, grinning, guy, harlequinade, haze, hissing, hooting, horseplay, jape, jeering, jest, jesting, jive, joke, joking, jolly, josh, joshing, kid, kidding, leering, levity, make fun of, make merry with, mock, mockery, monkeyshines, needle, outface, panning, persiflage, pleasantry, poke fun at, put on, quiz, rag, ragging, raillery, rally, rallying, razz, razzing, repartee, rib, ribbing, ride, ridicule, roast, roasting, satirize, scoffing, shenanigans, small talk, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, soft-soap, sweet-talk, taunt, taunting, tease, teasing, tomfoolery, twit, twitting, venture, wheedle

• bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, hazing, hissing, hooting, jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ribbing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting

• banty, Bantam, baby, baby-sized, bantam, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, broiler, brooder, broody hen, button, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, chit, cock, cockerel, compact, diminutive, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, duodecimo, featherweight, fingerling, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, handy, hen, hen turkey, lightweight, mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minnow, minny, minuscule, mouse, nubbin, partlet, peewee, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, roaster, rooster, runt, setting hen, shrimp, slip, small fry, small-scale, snip, snippet, spring chicken, stewing chicken, subminiature, tit, tom, tom turkey, toy, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, twelvemo, vest-pocket, wart, wisp

• banzai, bugle call, call to arms, call-up, catchword, clarion, clarion call, conscription, exhortation, go for broke, gung ho, levy, mobilization, muster, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruitment, slogan, trumpet call, war cry, war whoop, watchword

• baptism, acceptance, admission, admittance, affusion, appellation, aspergation, aspersion, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, calling, chrismal, christening, confirmation, dampening, damping, definition, deluge, denomination, designation, dewing, dip, dipping, dousing, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, engulfment, enlistment, enrollment, extreme unction, flooding, font, holy orders, hosing, hosing down, humidification, identification, immergence, immersion, immission, inauguration, induction, infusion, initiation, installation, instatement, intromission, inundation, investiture, irrigation, laving, matrimony, moistening, naming, nicknaming, ordination, penance, rinsing, seven sacraments, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, styling, submergence, submersion, swashing, terming, the Eucharist, total immersion, watering, wetting

• baptismal, High-Church, ceremonial, ceremonious, eucharistic, formal, formular, formulary, initiative, initiatory, introductive, introductory, liturgic, liturgistic, paschal, ritual, ritualistic, sacramental, sacramentarian

• baptistery, Easter sepulcher, affusion, ambry, apse, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptizement, blindstory, chancel, choir, chrismal, christening, cloisters, confessional, confessionary, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, font, immersion, infusion, nave, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, sprinkling, total immersion, transept, triforium, vestry

• baptize, adulterate, asperge, asperse, attenuate, bath, bathe, bury, call, christen, cleanse, cut, define, deluge, denominate, designate, dilute, dip, douche, douse, drown, dub, duck, dunk, engulf, entitle, flush, flush out, gargle, holystone, identify, immerge, immerse, inundate, irrigate, label, lather, launder, lave, merge, mop, mop up, name, nickname, nominate, overwhelm, plunge in water, purify, rarefy, reduce, regenerate, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shower, sink, sluice, sluice out, soap, souse, specify, sponge, sprinkle, style, submerge, submerse, swab, syringe, tag, term, thin, title, toivel, tub, wash, wash out, wash up, water, water down, whelm

• bar mitzvah, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bas mitzvah, celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation, high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, pax, processional, reciting the rosary, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary

• bar sinister, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aspersion, attaint, azure, badge of infamy, bandeau, bantling, bar, bastard, bastard child, bastardism, bastardy, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, black eye, black mark, blazon, blazonry, blot, blur, bordure, brand, broad arrow, by-blow, cadency mark, canton, censure, champain, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, disparagement, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, illegitimacy, illegitimate, illegitimate child, illegitimateness, impalement, impaling, imputation, inescutcheon, label, lion, love child, lozenge, mantling, mark of Cain, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, odium, onus, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pillorying, point champain, purpure, quarter, quartering, reflection, reprimand, reproach, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, spot, spread eagle, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, subordinary, taint, tarnish, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale

• bar, Hershey bar, Maypole, abscind, accent, accent mark, achievement, ait, alehouse, alerion, ambo, amputate, animal charge, annihilate, annulet, anticipate, arch dam, archipelago, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aside from, atoll, avert, aviation badge, azure, backstop, badge, bamboo curtain, ban, band, bandeau, bang, banish, bank, bar line, bar out, bar sinister, barrage, barrel house, barricade, barrier, barring, barroom, bate, baton, batten, batten down, beam, bear-trap dam, bearings, beaver dam, beer garden, beer parlor, belt, bench, bend, bend sinister, beside, besides, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, billet, bind, bistro, blank wall, blazon, blazonry, blind alley, blind gut, blind tiger, block, block up, blockade, blockage, blotch, board, bob, bolt, boom, boozer, bordure, bottleneck, boycott, brace, brake, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, broad arrow, bucket shop, buffer, buffet, bulkhead, bulkhead in, bullion, bulwark, bung, but, button, button up, cabaret, cadency mark, cafe, cancel, cant hook, cantina, canton, caulk, cay, cecum, chaplet, character, charge, check, checker, checkrein, chevron, chicken, chief, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, circumscribe, circumscription, clap, claw bar, clip, clog, clog up, close, close off, close out, close tight, close up, coat of arms, cockatrice, cocktail lounge, cofferdam, coin gold, coin silver, confine, congest, congestion, constipate, constipation, constrict, contain, continental island, contract, control, copper, coral head, coral island, coral reef, cork, coronet, costiveness, counsel, count out, counter, cover, crack, crank, craze, crescent, crest, crisscross, crop, cross, cross moline, cross-hatching, crossbar, crosscut, crow, crowbar, crowd, crown, cruciate, cul-de-sac, cull, curb, custos, cut, cut across, cut away, cut off, cut out, dam, dam up, dapple, dash, dead end, debar, debarment, debarring, decussate, defense, deflect, degree, delimit, delimitate, delineation, demarcation, deny, deport, desk, deter, device, diagonal, difference, differencing, difficulty, dike, direct, disallow, discourage, disenable, dishearten, disqualify, ditch, dive, dock, dog, dot, dotted line, dramshop, drinkery, drinking saloon, eagle, earthwork, eliminate, embankment, embargo, embolism, embolus, encumbrance, enjoin, enucleate, epaulet, eradicate, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escritoire, escutcheon, estop, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception, excise, exclude, exclude from, excluding, exclusion, exclusive of, exile, expression mark, extinguish, extirpate, falcon, fasten, fence, fend, fend off, fermata, fess, fess point, field, file, fill, fill up, flagstaff, flake, flanch, flat, fleck, fleur-de-lis, fold, fold up, forbid, ford, foreclose, forestall, foul, freckle, freeze out, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gate, gin mill, gold, gold nugget, gorge, gravity dam, griffin, groggery, grogshop, groin, gules, gyron, hachure, hairline, halt, hamper, handspike, hardship, harlequin, hash mark, hatching, hatchment, hedge, helmet, help, hem, heraldic device, hinder, hindrance, hold, holm, honky-tonk, honor point, hurdle, hydraulic-fill dam, ignore, impalement, impaling, impasse, impede, impediment, inadmissibility, inescutcheon, infarct, infarction, ingot, inhibit, injunction, insignia of branch, insularity, intercross, interdict, intersect, iris, iron crow, iron curtain, island, island group, islandology, isle, jam, jetty, jimmy, keep from, keep off, keep out, key, key signature, knock off, label, latch, lead, leaping weir, leave out, leaving out, lectern, ledger line, legal profession, let alone, levee, lever, lie across, ligature, limb, line, lineation, lion, list, local, lock, lock out, lock up, lockout, logjam, lop, lounge, lozenge, maculate, make impossible, mantling, marble, marbleize, mark, marlinespike, marshaling, martlet, mascle, measure, metal, metronomic mark, milldam, moat, mole, motley, mottle, motto, mound, mullet, mutilate, narrowing, nickel, nightclub, nip, nombril point, nonadmission, notation, nugget, oak leaf, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, obviate, occlude, oceanic island, octofoil, omission, omit, omitting, or, ordinary, organization insignia, orle, ostracize, outlaw, outrigger, outside of, overseas bar, pack, padlock, pale, palisade, paly, parachute badge, parapet, pare, pass over, patch, pause, pean, peavey, pedal, peel, pepper, pheon, pick out, picket, pinch bar, pip, pleading, plug, plug up, plumb, pole, polychrome, polychromize, portcullis, pothouse, precious metals, preclude, precluding, preclusion, presa, prevent, prize, prohibit, prohibition, proscribe, prune, pry, pub, public, public house, purpure, quarter, quartering, rail, rainbow, rampart, rathskeller, reef, refuse, reject, rejection, relegate, relegation, repel, representation, repress, repudiate, repudiation, restrict, restriction, ripping bar, roadblock, roadhouse, rock-fill dam, rod, root out, rose, rub, rule out, rummery, rumshop, sable, saloon, saloon bar, saltire, sandbank, sandbar, save, save and except, saving, say no to, scape, score, scutcheon, seal, seal off, seal up, sealing off, seawall, secretaire, secretary, secure, segno, send to Coventry, service stripe, set apart, set aside, shaft, shallow, shallows, shave, shear, shelf, shield, shoal, shoal water, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, shutter dam, sign, signature, silver, slab, slam, slash, slur, snag, snap, space, spangle, spar, speakeasy, speck, speckle, spile, splotch, spot, spread eagle, sprinkle, squeeze, squeeze shut, staff, stalk, stamp out, stanch, stand, star, stave, stave off, stay, stem, stench, stick, stifle, stigmatize, stipple, stone wall, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, streak, streaking, stria, striate, striation, striature, striga, strike off, string, striola, strip, strip off, stripe, striping, stroke, stud, stuff, stuff up, stumbling block, sublineation, submarine badge, subordinary, suffocate, suppress, suspend, swell, symbol, table, taboo, take off, take out, tap, taproom, tattoo, tavern, tempo mark, tenne, tessellate, than, tidal flats, tie, time signature, tincture, tongue, torse, totem pole, transverse, traverse, treadle, tressure, tribunal, truncate, turn aside, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, unicorn, unless, vair, variegate, vein, vert, vicissitude, vinculum, virgule, wall, ward off, watering place, weir, wetlands, wicket dam, wine shop, wipe out, without, work, workbench, wreath, wrecking bar, writing table, yale, yellow stuff, zip up, zipper

• barb, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, antenna, arrow, arrowhead, barbel, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, barbule, barrel, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bristle, calmative, cat whisker, chested arrow, chloral hydrate, cilium, cloth yard shaft, codeine, codeine cough syrup, dart, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, feeler, filament, filamentule, flight, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quarrel, quietener, quill, rainbow, red, reed, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, setula, setule, shaft, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, striga, stubble, tactile hair, tactile process, tar, tranquilizer, turps, vibrissa, volley, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• barbarian, Goth, Gothic, Neanderthal, Uitlander, alien, animal, anthropophagite, backward, barbaric, barbarous, beast, bestial, bloodthirsty, boor, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibal, churl, churlish, clod, coarse, crude, cruel, deracine, destroyer, displaced person, emigre, exile, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, ferocious, foreign, foreign devil, foreign-born, foreigner, graceless, gringo, heathenish, hooligan, hyena, ignoramus, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inhuman, insensitive, intrusive, lout, loutish, lowbrow, man-eater, nihilist, noncivilized, oaf, oafish, outland, outlander, outlandish, outlaw, outside, outsider, philistine, primitive, refugee, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, ruffian, savage, shark, skinhead, strange, stranger, tasteless, the Wandering Jew, tiger, tough, tramontane, troglodyte, troglodytic, ulterior, ultramontane, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unearthly, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, untamed, vandal, vandalic, vulgar, wanderer, wild, wild man, wrecker, yahoo

• barbaric, Doric, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, Tartarean, aggressive, alien, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, beastly, bestial, blatant, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bookless, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cacophonous, cannibalistic, careless, clumsy, coarse, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, deceived, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, faulty, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flamboyant, flashy, florid, foreign, foreign-born, functionally illiterate, garish, gaudy, graceless, grammarless, gross, harsh, heathen, hellish, hoodwinked, ill-bred, ill-educated, illiterate, impolite, imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, incline, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intrusive, kill-crazy, led astray, loose, loud, low, lowbrow, malign, malignant, merciless, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, murderous, noncivilized, nonintellectual, ornate, ostentatious, outland, outlandish, outside, pagan, pitiless, primitive, raucous, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, showy, slavering, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, strange, subhuman, tameless, tasteless, tawdry, troglodytic, truculent, ulterior, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, unearthly, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungentle, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unguided, unhuman, uninstructed, unintellectual, unkempt, unlearned, unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unpolished, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly, unstudious, untamed, untaught, untutored, vicious, vulgar, wild, wolfish

• barbarism, Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dark, dark age, darkness, dysphemism, error, foreignism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness, heathenism, heaviness, ill breeding, ill-balanced sentences, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, incivility, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, lack of finish, lack of polish, lapse, leadenness, localism, malaprop, malapropism, misconstruction, missaying, misusage, misuse, neologism, paganism, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, roughness, rudeness, savagery, savagism, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shibboleth, slang, slip, slipshod construction, solecism, spoonerism, stiltedness, taboo word, tastelessness, troglodytism, turgidity, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, unenlightenment, uneuphoniousness, ungracefulness, ungrammaticism, unrefinement, unseemliness, unwieldiness, vernacularism, vulgarism, vulgarity, wildness

• barbarity, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, heartlessness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, philistinism, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, severity, sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungentleness, unrefinement, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness

• barbarous, Doric, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, Tartarean, alien, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, backward, barbarian, barbaric, beastly, benighted, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bookless, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cacophonous, cannibalistic, careless, clumsy, coarse, cretinous, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, deceived, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, faulty, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, foreign, foreign-born, functionally illiterate, graceless, grammarless, gross, harsh, heathen, hellish, hoodwinked, ignorant, ill-bred, ill-educated, illiterate, impolite, imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intrusive, kill-crazy, led astray, loose, low, lowbrow, malign, malignant, merciless, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, murderous, noncivilized, nonintellectual, outland, outlandish, outside, pagan, philistine, pitiless, primitive, rough-and-ready, rude, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, strange, subhuman, tameless, tasteless, troglodytic, truculent, ulterior, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, unconscionable, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, unearthly, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungentle, ungodly, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unguided, unholy, unhuman, uninstructed, unintellectual, unkempt, unlearned, unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unpolished, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly, unstudious, untamed, untaught, untutored, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, wolfish

• barbecue, TV dinner, alfresco meal, aspic, bake, baste, blanch, boil, boiled meat, bouilli, braise, breakfast, brew, broil, brown, brunch, buffet supper, civet, clambake, coddle, coffee break, cook, cookout, curry, devil, diner, dinner, do, do to perfection, elevenses, fire, fish fry, flesh, forcemeat, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, game, griddle, grill, hachis, hash, heat, high tea, hot luncheon, jerky, joint, jugged hare, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat, meat breakfast, menue viande, mince, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, parboil, pemmican, petit dejeuner, picnic, poach, pot roast, prepare, prepare food, roast, sausage meat, saute, scallop, scrapple, sear, shirr, simmer, steam, stew, stir-fry, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, toast, venison, viande, wiener roast, wienie roast

• barbecued, baked, boiled, braised, broiled, browned, coddled, cooked, curried, deviled, fired, fricasseed, fried, grilled, heated, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, poached, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, seared, shirred, steamed, stewed, toasted

• barbed, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, cornuted, cusped, cuspidate, hispid, horned, horny, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed, pronged, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, unbated

• barbel, antenna, barb, barbule, bristle, cat whisker, feeler, palp, palpus, setula, setule, striga, stubble, tactile cell, tactile corpuscle, tactile hair, tactile organ, tactile process, tactor, vibrissa

• barber, beautician, beautifier, bob, clipper, coif, coiffeur, coiffeuse, coiffure, conk, cropper, hairdresser, manicurist, pompadour, process, shaver, shingle, trim, wave

• barbershop, agency, atelier, beauty parlor, beauty salon, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, loft, organization, parlor, salon de beaute, shop, studio, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

• barbican, abatis, advanced work, antenna tower, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, belfry, bell tower, breastwork, bulwark, campanile, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, colossus, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cupola, curtain, demibastion, derrick, dike, dome, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fire tower, fortalice, fortification, glacis, lantern, lighthouse, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, martello, martello tower, mast, merlon, minaret, monument, mound, obelisk, observation tower, outwork, pagoda, palisade, parados, parapet, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, portcullis, postern gate, pylon, pyramid, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, shaft, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stockade, stupa, television mast, tenaille, tope, tour, tower, turret, vallation, vallum, water tower, windmill tower, work

• barbiturate, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• barbiturism, a habit, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, habituation, nicotine addiction, physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

• barbule, antenna, barb, barbel, barrel, cat whisker, cilium, feeler, filament, filamentule, palp, palpus, quill, shaft, tactile cell, tactile corpuscle, tactile hair, tactile organ, tactile process, tactor, vibrissa

• bard, Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, ballad maker, ballad singer, balladeer, balladmonger, beat poet, bucoliast, elegist, epic poet, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, gleeman, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, laureate, librettist, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, muse, occasional poet, odist, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scop, serenader, skald, sonneteer, street singer, strolling minstrel, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, wait, wandering minstrel

• bare handed, bare-ankled, bare-armed, bare-backed, bare-breasted, bare-chested, bare-headed, bare-legged, bare-necked, beggarly, defenseless, empty-handed, famished, guardless, half-starved, helpless, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, poor, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, topless, unarmed, unarmored, unattended, uncovered, undefended, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfortified, ungarrisoned, unguarded, unprotected, unprovided, unreplenished, unscreened, unsheltered, unshielded, unsupplied, unsuspecting, unwarned, unwatched, weaponless

• bare necessities, call for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, essential, essentials, indispensable, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, occasion, prerequirement, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, requisition, the necessary, the needful, want

• bare of, bankrupt in, bereft of, denuded of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, empty of, for want of, forlorn of, in default of, in want of, lacking, missing, needing, out of, out of pocket, scant of, short, short of, shy, shy of, unblessed with, unpossessed of, void of, wanting

• bare possibility, chance, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, dark horse, doubtfulness, dubiousness, even chance, eventuality, faint likelihood, fighting chance, gambling chance, good chance, good possibility, hardly a chance, hope, hundred-to-one shot, implausibility, improbability, incredibility, likelihood, little chance, little expectation, little opportunity, long odds, long shot, off chance, outside chance, outside hope, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, possibility, possibleness, potential, potentiality, probability, prospect, questionableness, remote possibility, slim chance, small chance, small hope, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, unlikelihood, virtuality, what is possible, what may be, what might be

• bare, Spartan, absolute, and, ascetic, austere, bald, bankrupt, bare-ass, bared, barren, basic, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, break the seal, bring to light, candid, characterless, chaste, clarified, clear, cleared, cold, common, commonplace, deep-worn, defoliate, defoliated, denudate, denude, denuded, deobstruct, depleted, deprive, desert, desolate, destitute, develop, devoid, direct, disclose, disclosed, discover, dismantle, dismask, disrobe, distilled, divest, divested, divulge, dog-eared, draw the veil, dried-up, dry, dull, elementary, emptied, empty, essential, exhausted, exhibit, expose, exposed, featureless, fleece, frank, free, fundamental, gymnosophical, hairless, hard, hatless, hollow, homely, homespun, homogeneous, impart, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, inane, indivisible, insipid, irreducible, lay bare, lay open, lean, let daylight in, let out, literal, manifest, matter-of-fact, mere, minimal, monolithic, naked, natural, naturistic, neat, nude, nudist, null, null and void, of a piece, open, open as day, open to all, open up, out-and-out, overt, patefy, peeled, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pluck, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, purified, raise the curtain, raw, rectified, remove, reveal, revealed, rustic, scant, scanty, sere, severe, shear, sheer, shelfworn, shopworn, shorn, show, show up, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, stark, stark-naked, straight, straightforward, strip, strip bare, stripped, tell, threadbare, timeworn, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unarrayed, unattired, unblended, unblock, uncase, unclad, unclassified, unclench, uncloak, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclothed, unclutch, uncluttered, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconcealed, uncork, uncorrupted, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undecked, undecorated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisguised, undo, undrape, undress, undressed, unembellished, unenhanced, unfilled, unfold, unfortified, unfoul, unfurbished, unfurl, ungarnished, unhidden, uniform, unimaginative, unkennel, unlatch, unleavened, unlock, unmask, unmingled, unmixed, unobstructed, unornamented, unpack, unplug, unpoetical, unrelieved, unrestricted, unrobed, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshod, unshroud, unshut, unsophisticated, unstop, unstopped, unsupplied, untinged, untrimmed, unvarnished, unveil, unwrap, vacant, vacuous, void, well-worn, white, wide-open, with nothing inside, with nothing on, without a stitch, without content, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down

• barefaced, arrant, audacious, aweless, bare-ankled, bare-armed, bare-backed, bare-breasted, bare-chested, bare-handed, bare-headed, bare-legged, bare-necked, blatant, blunt, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, candid, cheeky, downright, forward, frank, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, indecorous, insolent, lost to shame, manifest, open, out-and-out, outright, overbold, pert, plain, saucy, shameless, sheer, swaggering, topless, unabashed, unalloyed, unblushing, unconcealed, undiluted, undisguised, unmitigated, unseemly

• barely, a bit, a little, alone, baldly, by a hair, by an ace, closely, ever so little, exclusively, exiguously, faintly, feebly, hardly, imperfectly, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, merely, minimally, minutely, nakedly, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not quite, only, only just, plainly, purely, scantily, scarce, scarcely, simply, simply and solely, singly, slightly, solely, tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly

• barf, be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast, choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta, egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave, heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, nausea, puke, regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition

• barfly, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bibber, big drunk, boozer, carouser, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, guzzler, hard drinker, heavy drinker, imbiber, inebriate, lovepot, oenophilist, pathological drinker, pot companion, problem drinker, reveler, serious drinker, shikker, soaker, social drinker, sot, swigger, swiller, thirsty soul, tippler, toper, tosspot, wassailer, winebibber

• barfy, airsick, bad, brackish, bum, carsick, cheesy, cloying, crappy, creepy, crummy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gloppy, godawful, goshawful, grim, gunky, hairy, high, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseated, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, pukish, puky, punk, putrid, qualmish, qualmy, queasy, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, seasick, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy, squeamish, stinking, stinky, vile, vomity, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky

• bargain for, agree, agree to, bank on, bargain, be a bargain, be a deal, be a go, be on, calculate on, come to terms, compact, contract, count on, covenant, do a deal, engage, figure on, make a bargain, make a deal, make a dicker, plan on, promise, reckon on, shake hands, shake on it, stipulate, strike a bargain, undertake

• bargain, abatement of differences, accommodation, accord, act between, adjustment, advantageous purchase, advise with, agree, agree to, agreement, allow for, anticipate, arbitrate, arrange, arrangement, bargain for, barter, beat down, bid, bid for, binding agreement, blind bargain, bond, buy, call in, cartel, chaffer, cheapen, collective agreement, collogue, compact, compare notes, composition, compromise, concession, confer, confer with, consortium, consult, consult with, contract, convention, cop-out, counsel, count on, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, deliberate, desertion of principle, dicker, discuss, discuss with, do a deal, drive a bargain, employment contract, engage, evasion of responsibility, exchange, exchange observations, exchange views, expect, foresee, formal agreement, give-and-take, giveaway, giving way, go between, good buy, good deal, good pennyworth, haggle, hard bargain, have conversations, higgle, hold conference, horse trade, huckster, intercede, intermediate, interpose, intervene, ironclad agreement, jew down, judge, legal agreement, legal contract, make a deal, make terms, mediate, meet halfway, moderate, mutual agreement, mutual concession, negotiate, outbid, pact, paction, palaver, palter, parley, pennyworth, powwow, promise, protocol, put heads together, reason with, refer to, referee, represent, settlement, sit down together, sit down with, steal, step in, stipulate, stipulation, surrender, swap, take counsel, take into account, take up with, talk over, trade, trade-in, traffic, transaction, treat with, truck, umpire, underbid, understanding, undertake, union contract, valid contract, wage contract, yielding

• bargaining, audience, bargaining session, chaffer, chaffering, collective bargaining, coming to terms, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consultation, convention, council, council fire, council of war, dickering, discussion, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, haggle, haggling, higgling, high-level talk, huddle, interchange of views, interview, meeting, negotiation, negotiations, news conference, package bargaining, palaver, parley, pattern bargaining, pourparler, powwow, press conference, seance, session, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry

• barge in, admit, be admitted, break in, break in upon, breeze in, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, cut in, drop in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, foist in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insert, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, jam in, jump in, look in, obtrude, pack in, pop in, press in, push in, put in, put on, put upon, rush in, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, step in, storm in, take in, throng in, thrust in, trench, trespass, visit, wedge in, work in, worm in

• barge, amble, boat, bowl along, bundle, bus, cart, clump, coach, drag, dray, ferry, float, flounce, foot, footslog, halt, haul, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, jog, jolt, jump, lighter, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, rack, raft, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, ship, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, sled, sledge, slink, slither, slog, slouch, stagger, stalk, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trip, truck, trudge, van, waddle, wagon, wamble, wheelbarrow, wiggle, wobble

• baring, apocalypse, denudation, desquamation, disclosing, disclosure, discovering, discovery, divestment, excoriation, exfoliation, exhibitionism, expose, exposition, exposure, indecent exposure, laying bare, manifestation, patefaction, removal, removing the veil, revealing, revealment, revelation, showing up, showup, stripping, uncloaking, uncovering, unfolding, unfoldment, unmasking, unveiling, unwrapping

• baritone, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, accompaniment, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto, alto horn, aria singer, ballad horn, baritenor, bass, bass horn, bass viol, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo, bassus, blues singer, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bravura, bugle, bugle horn, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caroler, chanter, chantress, choral, choric, clarion, coloratura, coloratura soprano, comic bass, continuo, contralto, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, countertenor, crooner, deep, deep bass, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, descant, descant viol, diva, double-bell euphonium, dramatic, dramatic soprano, drone, euphonium, falsetto, figured bass, grave, ground bass, heavy, helicon, heroic, heroic tenor, hollow, horn, hunting horn, hymnal, hymner, improvisator, key trumpet, lead singer, lieder singer, line, liturgical, lituus, low, low-pitched, lur, lyric, mellophone, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, operatic, ophicleide, orchestral horn, part, plain chant, plain song, pocket trumpet, post horn, prick song, prima donna, psalm singer, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, rebec, rock-and-roll singer, sackbut, sacred, saxhorn, saxtuba, sepulchral, serpent, singer, singing, singstress, slide trombone, sliphorn, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, sousaphone, tenor, tenor tuba, tenor viol, thorough bass, torch singer, treble, treble viol, tromba, tromba marina, trombone, trumpet, trumpet marine, tuba, undersong, valve trombone, valve trumpet, vielle, viol, viol family, viola bastarda, viola da braccio, viola da gamba, viola da spalla, viola di bordone, viola di fagotto, viola pomposa, violette, vocal, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, voice part, warbler, yodeler

• bark, ablate, abrade, abrase, advertise, animal noise, argosy, ballyhoo, bang, barking, battle cry, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, bill, birdcall, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blemish, bloody, blubber, boat, boom, boost, bottom, bran, bray, break, breathe, bucket, build up, bulletin, burn, burst, buzz, cackle, call, capsule, case, caterwaul, chafe, chaff, chant, check, cheer, chip, chirp, circularize, clang, claw, coo, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, crack, craft, craze, crow, cry, cry up, cut, decorticate, detonate, detonation, discharge, drawl, epicarp, erase, erode, establish, exclaim, excoriate, explode, explosion, file, flay, flute, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fulminate, fulmination, fusillade, gall, gash, gasp, give a write-up, give publicity, give tongue, give voice, gnaw, gnaw away, go off, grate, graze, grind, growl, grunt, gunshot, hail, halloo, hiss, holler, hollo, hooker, hoot, howl, howling, hulk, hull, hurrah, hurt, husk, incise, injure, jacket, keel, keen, lacerate, leviathan, lilt, low, maim, make mincemeat of, mating call, maul, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, mumble, murmur, mutilate, mutter, neigh, nicker, note, packet, palea, pant, pare, peel, peeling, phellum, pierce, pipe, placard, plug, pod, pop, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, promote, publicize, puff, pule, puncture, rallying cry, rasp, raze, rend, rind, rip, roar, rub away, rub off, rub out, rumble, run, rupture, salvo, savage, scald, scalp, scorch, scotch, scour, scrape, scratch, screak, scream, screech, scrub, scuff, sell, shell, ship, shot, shout, shriek, shuck, sibilate, sigh, sing, skin, slash, slit, snap, snarl, snort, sob, spiel, sprain, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, stab, stick, strain, stridulation, strip, tear, thunder, traumatize, troat, trumpet, tub, twang, ululate, ululation, vessel, volley, wail, war cry, war whoop, warble, watercraft, wear, wear away, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whoop, woodnote, wound, wrench, write up, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

• barker, MC, auteur, ballyhoo man, ballyhooer, callboy, canvasser, costume designer, costumer, costumier, director, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, impresario, makeup man, master of ceremonies, pitchman, playreader, producer, prompter, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, showman, solicitor, spieler, stage director, stage manager, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, tout, touter, usher, usherer, usherette