Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/11

• browse, batten upon, crop, dip into, fatten on, fatten upon, feast on, feast upon, feed on, flip through, glance at, glance over, glance through, go marketing, go over, go shopping, graze, live on, look over, look through, market, pasture on, peruse, prey on, run over, run through, scan, shop, skim, thumb over, thumb through, window-shop

• bruise, abrasion, abuse, aggrieve, anguish, barb the dart, bash, batter, beat, beat up, black, black eye, black-and-blue mark, blemish, blotch, boo-boo, buffet, bump, bung, bung up, contuse, contusion, cut, cut up, damage, discolor, discoloration, discolorment, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, ecchymosis, grieve, harm, hurt, hurt the feelings, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, injury, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, mark, mash, maul, mishandle, mistreat, molest, mouse, outrage, pain, pierce, pound, prick, pulp, rough, rough up, savage, scrape, scratch, shiner, spot, squash, stab, sting, thrash soundly, twist the knife, welt, wound

• bruiser, Chinese boxer, bantamweight, black belt, bodyguard, bouncer, boxer, brown belt, enforcer, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, goon, gorilla, gun, gunsel, hatchet man, heavyweight, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, mug, mugger, muscle man, palooka, plug-ugly, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, rodman, roughneck, ruffian, savate expert, sparrer, strong-arm man, terror, thug, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man, ugly customer, welterweight

• brumal, Siberian, aestival, algid, arctic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, numbing, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, vernal, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

• brunch, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, breakfast, buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, cookout, diner, dinner, elevenses, fish fry, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

• brunet, ash blond, auburn-haired, beige, black-haired, black-locked, bleached blond, blond, brown, brown-haired, brownish, brownish-yellow, carrottop, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, dark-skinned, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, dusky, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, goldilocks, grege, hazel, honey blond, khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, peroxide blond, platinum blond, raven-haired, raven-tressed, redhead, seal, seal-brown, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, strawberry blond, swart, swarth, swarthy, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, towhead, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, xanthous, yellowish-brown

• brunt, appulse, bulldozing, bulling, bump, burden, cannon, carambole, carom, clash, collision, concussion, crack-up, crash, crump, crunch, encounter, full force, hammering, impact, impingement, mauling, meeting, onslaught, onus, percussion, ramming, shock, sideswipe, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, stress, thrusting, violence, weight, whomp

• brush aside, abandon, abjure, brush off, chuck, chuck out, contemn, contradict, decline, deny, despise, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, dismiss, disown, disregard, drop the subject, except, exclude, forget, forget about it, forget it, forswear, ignore, lay aside, let it go, let slip, pass by, pass up, push aside, put aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, scout, set aside, shove away, shrug off, sneeze at, spurn, think nothing of, throw away, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn away from, turn out, waive

• brush off, abandon, beat back, broom, brush, brush aside, chase, chase away, chase off, cold shoulder, cut, dismiss, dismissal, drive away, drive back, drop the subject, fend off, forget, forget about it, forget it, hold off, keep off, lay aside, let it go, let slip, pack off, push aside, push back, put aside, put back, rebuff, refusal, refuse, repel, repulse, send away, send off, send packing, set aside, shrug off, sneeze at, snub, spurn, spurning, sweep, sweep out, sweep up, think nothing of, thrust aside, thrust back, turn away from, turn back, vacuum, vacuum-clean, ward off, whisk

• brush up, bone up, brighten up, cram, cram up, dress, fettle, fix, freshen, furbish, furbish up, get up, get up on, groom, manicure, plume, polish, polish up, preen, read up on, refresh the memory, renovate, repair, restudy, retouch, review, revive, rub up, shine, spruce, spruce up, study up, study up on, tone up, touch up, vamp, vamp up

• brush, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, action, aerial combat, affray, air brush, air-dry, anhydrate, armored combat, art paper, attouchement, back country, backlog, backwoods, bake, ball the jack, barrel, barren, barren land, barrens, battle, battle royal, bavin, beak, bed, bed down, besom, blot, boom, boondock, boondocks, borderland, boscage, bowl along, bracken, brake, break, breath, breeze, breeze along, bridle, broom, brush, brush by, brush off, brush-off, brushwood, bullfight, bump, bunt, burn, bush, bush country, bushveld, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, caress, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, chalk, charcoal, chuck, clash, clash of arms, clean, clip, cockfight, collide, combat, come in contact, con, conflict, contact, contingence, copse, crayon, cue, cure, curry, currycomb, cut along, cutaneous sense, dab, dehumidify, dehydrate, desert, desiccate, desolation, dismiss, disregard, dock, dogfight, drain, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drench, drier, dry, dust bowl, easel, embroilment, encounter, engagement, evaporate, exchange of blows, exsiccate, fagot, fantail, feed, feel, feeling, fight, fillip, fingertip caress, fire, fire fight, firewood, fixative, fleet, flick, flip, flirt, flit, fly, fly low, fodder, foot, forests, fray, frontier, gather, gentle, glance, go fast, go over, graze, groom, ground, ground combat, grove, hairbrush, hand-mindedness, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, handle, harness, heath, highball, hinterland, hit, hitch, house-to-house combat, howling wilderness, ignore, impinge, impingement, impingence, insolate, karroo, kiln, kindling, kindlings, kiss, lambency, lap, lay figure, lick, light touch, litter, log, lunar landscape, lunar waste, make knots, manage, maulstick, medium, melee, milk, mummify, naval combat, nip, nudge, osculate, osculation, outback, outpost, outstrip the wind, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, parch, passage of arms, pastel, pat, peck, pencil, pick, pigments, pigtail, pile, pitched battle, pour it on, put aside, quarrel, queue, rap, rattail, rebuff, refresh, restudy, review, rip, rub, rub down, rumble, run-in, running fight, saddle, salt flat, scorch, scramble, scrape, scratchboard, scrimmage, scrub, scrubwood, scuffle, sear, sense of touch, set-to, shave, shoving match, shrivel, shrubwood, shrug off, siccative, sideswipe, sizzle, sketchbook, sketchpad, skim, skirmish, skirt, smoke, snap, soak up, spatula, speed, sponge, spray gun, squeak by, stand-up fight, storm along, stovewood, street fight, stroke, struggle, stub, study, stump, sun, sun-dry, swab, sweep, sweep out, sweep up, tactile sense, taction, tail, tailpiece, tame, tangency, tap, tauromachy, tear, tear along, tend, tentative contact, tentative poke, the bush, thicket, thunder along, tickle, timbers, tip, toothbrush, torrefy, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, touching, towel, train, tug-of-war, tussle, underbrush, undergrowth, underwood, uninhabited region, up-country, vacuum, vacuum-clean, varnish, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, water, weary waste, weazen, whisk, whisper, whiz, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wipe, wither, wizen, wood, woodlands, woods, yoke, yule clog, yule log, zing, zip, zoom

• brusque, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, aggressive, aposiopestic, artless, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, broad, candid, cavalier, churlish, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, crusty, curt, cut, direct, discourteous, docked, downright, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, explicit, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, gnomic, gruff, harsh, heart-to-heart, ill-mannered, impolite, indisposed to talk, ingenuous, laconic, mum, mute, open, openhearted, outspoken, overbearing, pithy, plain, plain-spoken, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, rough, round, rude, sententious, severe, sharp, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, sincere, snippety, snippy, snug, sparing of words, speechless, straight, straight-out, straightforward, succinct, summary, surly, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, transparent, truculent, truncated, unchecked, uncivil, unconstrained, unequivocal, ungracious, unguarded, unloquacious, unmannerly, unreserved, unrestrained, untalkative, word-bound, wordless

• brutal, Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Gothic, Herculean, Neanderthal, Tartarean, abominable, abstruse, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagous, arduous, arrant, atrocious, awful, baneful, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastlike, beastly, beneath contempt, bestial, bitter, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bodily, boorish, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, cold-blooded, complex, contemptible, crass, critical, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, delicate, demanding, demoniac, demoniacal, deplorable, despicable, destructive, detestable, devilish, diabolic, difficile, difficult, dire, disgusting, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious, enormous, exacting, fallen, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, formidable, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, hateful, heartless, heinous, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inclement, infamous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, instinctive, instinctual, intemperate, internecine, intricate, jawbreaking, kill-crazy, killing, knotted, knotty, laborious, lamentable, lapsed, lethal, loathsome, lousy, malign, malignant, material, materialistic, mean, merciless, mindless, monstrous, mortal, murderous, nasty, nefarious, no picnic, noisome, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual, not easy, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, operose, orgiastic, outlandish, outrageous, pernicious, physical, pitiable, pitiful, pitiless, postlapsarian, primitive, rank, regrettable, remorseless, reprehensible, repulsive, rigorous, rotten, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, rugged, rustic, ruthless, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, set with thorns, severe, shabby, shameful, sharkish, shocking, shoddy, slavering, sordid, spiny, squalid, steep, strenuous, subhuman, swinish, tameless, terrible, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, too bad, tough, tricky, troglodytic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, unclean, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkempt, unkind, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual, unsympathetic, untamed, uphill, vicious, vile, villainous, virulent, wicked, wild, woeful, wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

• brutality, Adam, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, abominableness, acuteness, animalism, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, contemptibleness, cruelness, cruelty, despicableness, destructiveness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, earthiness, egregiousness, extremity, fallen nature, fallen state, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, filth, flesh, fleshliness, force, foulness, fulsomeness, furiousness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, infamousness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, lapsed state, loathsomeness, lousiness, malignity, materialism, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, nastiness, nefariousness, noisomeness, nonspirituality, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, outrageousness, philistinism, pitilessness, postlapsarian state, rankness, repulsiveness, rigor, rottenness, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, severity, shabbiness, shamefulness, sharpness, shoddiness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, swinishness, terribleness, terrorism, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the pits, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncleanness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungentleness, unrefinement, unspirituality, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vileness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, wildness, worthlessness, wretchedness

• brutalize, assault, attack, barbarize, bastardize, batter, burn, butcher, callous, carry on, case harden, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, destroy, go on, hammer, harden, indurate, inure, lay waste, loot, maul, mug, ossify, pervert, pillage, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rave, riot, roar, ruin, sack, savage, slaughter, sow chaos, steel, storm, tear, tear around, terrorize, vandalize, violate, vitiate, warp, wreck

• brute force, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, big battalions, black power, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, influence, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, naked force, physical force, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, rule of might, sinew, steam, steamroller, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, tyranny, ultima ratio, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight

• brute, Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Goth, Mafioso, Neanderthal, Tartarean, Young Turk, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beast, beastlike, beastly, beldam, berserk, berserker, bestial, blind, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bodily, bomber, brutal, brutalized, brutelike, brutish, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, creature, creeping thing, critter, cruel, cruel-hearted, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, destroyer, devil, devilish, diabolic, dragon, dull, dumb, dumb animal, dumb friend, earthy, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiend, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fire-eater, firebrand, fleshly, fury, goon, gorilla, gross, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hyena, incendiary, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, instinctive, instinctual, irrational, killer, lapsed, living being, living thing, mad dog, madcap, man-eater, material, materialistic, mindless, monster, mugger, murderous, nihilist, nonrational, nonspiritual, orgiastic, physical, postlapsarian, rapist, revolutionary, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, senseless, shark, sharkish, she-wolf, slavering, spitfire, subhuman, swinish, termagant, terror, terrorist, thoughtless, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, troglodyte, truculent, ugly customer, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscious, unfeeling, unhuman, unintelligent, unreasoning, unspiritual, unthinking, vandal, varmint, vicious, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf, wolfish, wrecker, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

• bub, aunt, auntie, blood brother, boy, brethren, brother, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, colt, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, cub, daughter, father, fellow, first cousin, fledgling, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, hobbledehoy, kid brother, lad, laddie, manchild, master, mother, muchacho, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, pup, puppy, schoolboy, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, sonny, sonny boy, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, whelp, young man, youth

• bubble, air, air pocket, airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, babble, ball, balloon, be enthusiastic, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blubber, boil, boil over, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brainchild, bubble over, bubble up, bubbles, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burble, burl, button, cahot, carbonation, carry on over, chaff, chimera, china, chine, chip, churn, clump, cobweb, condyle, convex, cork, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dowel, down, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, droplet, dust, ear, effervesce, effervescence, eggshell, eidolon, ellipsoid, enthuse, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides, ephemeris, ether, fairy, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feather, ferment, fiction, figment, fizz, fizzle, flange, flap, flue, fluff, foam, froth, fuzz, gall, geoid, glass, glass house, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, go on over, gob, gobbet, golden dream, gossamer, guggle, gurgle, gush, gush over, hallucination, handle, hill, hiss, house of cards, hump, hunch, ice, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lap, lather, lip, loop, lump, maggot, make much of, make-believe, matchwood, mayfly, misbelief, misconception, mist, moil, mole, mote, mountain, myth, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, old paper, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, parchment, peg, pellet, phantasm, phantom, piecrust, pipe, pipe dream, plash, plop, prolate spheroid, purl, quixotic ideal, rainbow, rave, rave about, rhapsodize, rib, ridge, ring, ripple, romance, rondure, seethe, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, shadow, shoulder, sick fancy, simmer, slosh, smoke, smolder, snows of yesteryear, sparkle, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, spirit, splash, sponge, spume, stir, straw, stud, style, suds, swash, swish, tab, take on over, thick-coming fancies, thin air, thistledown, trick, trill, trip, tubercle, tubercule, unreal hope, utopia, vapor, verruca, vesicle, vision, wale, wart, wash, welt, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, work, wrong impression

• bubbly, active, activist, activistic, airy, alive, animated, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brisk, bubbling, burbling, burbly, carbonated, champagne, cheerful, cheery, chiffon, chipper, downy, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, ethereal, excited, feathery, fizzy, fluffy, foamy, frisky, frothy, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gossamery, imponderous, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, live, lively, mercurial, merry, militant, mousse, peppy, perky, pert, puffed, quicksilver, smacking, snappy, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling, sparkling wine, spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, unheavy, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, volatile, weightless, whipped, yeasty, zingy

• buccaneer, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bluejacket, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, freebooter, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rover, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea king, sea robber, sea rover, sea wolf, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, skyjacker, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• buck fever, agitation, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, case of nerves, excessive irritability, fear, fidgetiness, fidgets, morbid excitability, nerves, nervosity, nervous stomach, nervousness, panic, panickiness, spell of nerves, stage fright, state of nerves, tic, trepidation, twitching, uneasiness, vellication

• buck up, animate, assure, bolster, brace, brace up, brighten up, brisk, brisken, cheer, cheer up, chirk up, console, embolden, encourage, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, hearten, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, light up, nerve, perk up, pick up, quicken, reanimate, reassure, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, renew, revive, revivify, set up, solace, stimulate, support, take courage, take heart, upraise, vivify

• buck, Beau Brummel, Belgian hare, Cape elk, Highland fling, Virginia deer, and jump, antagonize, antelope, assault, battle, bear, bear upon, beat against, beat up against, billy, billy goat, bloke, blood, blunt, boar, bone, boodle, boost, bounce, bound, boy, brass, bray, bread, breast the wave, broad jump, bub, bubba, bubbly-jock, buck off, buckjump, bucks, bud, buddy, buffet, buffet the waves, bull, bulldoze, bullock, bump, bump against, bunny, bunt, butt, butt against, cabbage, camel, camelopard, capriole, caribou, chanticleer, chap, chips, clear, close with, clotheshorse, cock, cockerel, colt, combat, comminute, compete with, contend against, contest, contriturate, convey, cottontail, coxcomb, cram, crowd, crush, cub, curvet, dandy, deer, deerlet, demivolt, depose, deracinate, dig, dinero, dislodge, dismount, dispute, doe, doeling, dog, dough, drake, drive, dromedary, dude, duel, eland, elbow, elk, entire, entire horse, exquisite, fallow deer, fawn, fellow, ferry, fight, fight against, fish, fledgling, flying jump, force, frogskin, galliard, gander, gazelle, gee, gelandesprung, gelt, gent, gentleman, gilt, giraffe, gnu, goad, goat, gobbler, grand jete, grapple with, grease, green, green stuff, guy, hand, handspring, hare, hart, hartebeest, he, he-goat, high jump, hind, hippety-hop, hobbledehoy, hop, horse, hump, hurdle, hurtle, hustle, jab, jack, jackrabbit, jam, jete, jig, jog, joggle, join battle with, jolt, jostle, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, kaama, kale, kid, labor against, lad, laddie, lapin, lavolta, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leporide, leveret, long jump, lounge lizard, macaroni, manchild, master, mazuma, militate against, moolah, moose, mopus, morris, mountain goat, muchacho, mule deer, musk deer, nanny, nanny goat, negotiate, nudge, offer resistance, oil of palms, ointment, okapi, oof, ooftish, oppose, overjump, overleap, overskip, pack, peacock, pile drive, poke, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, powder, press, prod, punch, pup, puppy, push, rabbit, ram, ram down, rattle, reach, red deer, reindeer, reluct, reluctate, repel, rhino, rival, rocks, roe, roe deer, roebuck, rooster, root out, root up, run, run against, running broad jump, running high jump, saut de basque, sawbuck, sawhorse, schoolboy, shake, she-goat, shekels, shoot, shoulder, shove, simoleons, ski jump, skin, skip, smacker, sonny, sonny boy, spondulics, spring, springbok, stag, stallion, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, steer, stem the tide, stot, stress, strive against, struggle against, stud, studhorse, sugar, take on, tamp, the needful, throw off, thrust, tin, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tote, tour jete, transport, traverse, trestle, trestle and table, trestle board, trestle table, trestlework, trestling, triturate, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, unhorse, unplace, unsaddle, unseat, updive, upleap, uproot, upspring, vault, vie with, wampum, wether, whelp, wildebeest, withstand, workhorse, young man, youth

• buckaroo, breaker, breeder, broncobuster, caballero, cattleman, cavalier, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, cow keeper, cowboy, cowgirl, cowman, cowpuncher, dairy farmer, dairyman, equerry, equestrian, equestrienne, farrier, gaucho, grazier, groom, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horseshoer, horsewoman, hostler, jockey, knight, mounted policeman, postboy, postilion, puncher, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, rider, roughrider, sheepman, stableboy, stableman, steeplechaser, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, tamer, trainer, trick rider, vaquero

• bucket shop, barroom, boiler room, boozer, brokerage, brokerage house, brokerage office, bunco game, con game, confidence game, drinkery, fall to, goldbrick, jump in, set to, shell game, skin game, stockbrokerage, thimblerig, thimblerigging

• bucket, argosy, bail, bark, barrel, be caught short, be short, belong, boat, bottom, bucketshop, calaboose, can, clink, cooler, craft, cup, decant, deposit margin, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, fly, fork, go long, hasten, highball, hold on, hooker, hoosegow, hulk, hull, hustle, jug, keel, ladle, leviathan, lockup, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market, packet, pail, play the market, plunge, pokey, pour, prison, pyramid, run, rush, scalp, scoop, scoop the market, scuttle, ship, shovel, spade, speculate, speed, spoon, stag, stag the market, take a flier, trade on margin, tub, venture, vessel, watercraft, whiz

• buckle down, be determined, be in earnest, be resolved, buckle to, cross the Rubicon, die fighting, die hard, endeavor, go all out, go for broke, hump, hump it, knuckle down, lay to, mean business, never say die, ply the oar, spare no effort, take the plunge

• buckle, anamorphism, anamorphosis, articulate, asymmetry, batten, batten down, bend, bolt, bulge, butt, button, catch, cave in, clasp, cleat, clip, collapse, contort, contortion, crook, crookedness, crumple, detorsion, deviation, disproportion, distort, distortion, dovetail, fastener, fastening, gnarl, hasp, hinge, hitch, hook, imbalance, irregularity, jam, joint, knot, latch, lock, lopsidedness, miter, mortise, nail, peg, pin, quirk, rabbet, rivet, scarf, screw, sew, skewer, snap, spring, staple, stick, stitch, tack, toggle, torsion, tortuosity, turn, turn awry, twist, unsymmetry, warp, wedge, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, zipper

• buckshot, ball, bar shot, bird shot, bullet, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, crossbar shot, duck shot, dumdum bullet, expanding bullet, grape, grapeshot, langrel shot, manstopping bullet, pellet, rifle ball, round shot, shell, shot, shrapnel, slug, split shot

• buckskin, Australian seal, bay, bayard, bearskin, beaver, beaverette, black fox, black marten, black sable, brook mink, calf, calfskin, calico pony, capeskin, cat, chestnut, chinchilla, chinchillette, coast seal, coney, cowhide, dapple-gray, deerskin, doeskin, dun, electric seal, ermine, fleece, fox, furs, genet, goatskin, gray, grizzle, jaguar, lapin, leopard, marmot, marten, merino, mink, mole, moleskin, monkey, muskrat, nutria, otter, paint, painted pony, pelts, piebald, pigskin, pinto, rabbit, rabbitskin, raccoon, roan, sable, seal, shagreen, sheepskin, skewbald, skunk, sorrel, squirrel, tiger, white fox, wool

• bucolic, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, English sonnet, Homeric, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Theocritean, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, alba, anacreontic, arcadian, balada, ballad, ballade, bardic, boor, bumpkin, campestral, canso, chanson, clerihew, clod, clodhopper, clown, countrified, country, country bumpkin, didactic, dirge, dithyramb, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, eclogue, elegiac, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, farm, farmer, genuine, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hayseed, heroic, hick, hillbilly, homespun, idyll, idyllic, inartificial, jingle, limerick, looby, lout, lowland, lyric, madrigal, mock-heroic, monody, narrative, narrative poem, native, natural, naturelike, nursery rhyme, ode, outland, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prothalamium, provincial, rhapsodic, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rube, runic, rural, rustic, sapphic, satire, sestina, skaldic, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial, unassuming, undesigning, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, unembellished, unfeigning, unpretending, unpretentious, unspoiled, unvarnished, upland, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, yokel

• bud, Anlage, acrospire, aunt, auntie, blood brother, boy, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, buck, buddy, burgeon, burst forth, chick, chickabiddy, colt, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, cub, daughter, egg, embryo, engraft, father, fellow, first cousin, fledgling, flourish, flower bud, foster brother, frater, gemma, gemmate, gemmula, gemmule, germ, germen, germinate, graft, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, grow, grow rank, half brother, hobbledehoy, imp, implant, inarch, juvenile, kid, kid brother, lad, laddie, leaf, leaf bud, leaf out, leave, loins, luxuriate, manchild, master, moppet, mother, muchacho, nephew, niece, nipper, nucleus, nuncle, nunks, nunky, overgrow, overrun, ovum, plumule, pullulate, pup, puppy, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, riot, root, rudiment, schoolboy, second cousin, seed, shoot, shoot up, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, sonny, sonny boy, spark, spermatozoon, sprout, sprout up, stepbrother, stepsister, strike root, take root, unc, uncle, uncs, upspear, upsprout, uterine brother, vegetate, whelp, young man, youngling, youngster, youth

• Buddha, Confucius, Gandhi, Jagannath, Juggernaut, Kurma, Mahavira, Matsya, Mentor, Muhammad, Narsinh, Nestor, Parshuram, Plato, Rama, Socrates, Solomon, Vaman, Varah, Vardhamana, Zoroaster, bodhisattva, the Blessed One, the Lord Buddha, the Teacher

• budding, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning, blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, callow, creative, crescent, developed, dewy, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal, florescent, flourishing, flowering, formative, foundational, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, fundamental, gestatory, green, growing, grown, grown-up, hypertrophied, immature, impubic, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inexperienced, infant, infantile, ingenuous, initial, initiative, initiatory, innocent, intact, introductory, inventive, juicy, mature, minor, naive, nascent, natal, new-fledged, original, overdeveloped, overgrown, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, raw, ripening, rudimental, rudimentary, sappy, sprouting, tender, thriving, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, ur, vernal, virginal

• buddy, ace, amigo, associate, aunt, auntie, bedfellow, bedmate, benchfellow, birthmate, blood brother, bosom buddy, boy, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, buck, bud, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, classmate, clubmate, co-worker, colleague, colt, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, copemate, copesmate, couchmate, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, cradlemate, crony, cub, cupmate, daughter, father, fellow, fellow student, fellow worker, first cousin, fledgling, foster brother, frater, general partner, girl friend, gossip, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, hobbledehoy, jailmate, kid brother, lad, laddie, manchild, master, mate, messmate, mother, muchacho, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, pewmate, playfellow, playmate, pup, puppy, roommate, running mate, schoolboy, schoolfellow, schoolmate, second cousin, secret partner, shelfmate, shipmate, shopmate, side partner, sidekick, sidekicker, silent partner, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, sleeping partner, son, sonny, sonny boy, special partner, stepbrother, stepsister, tablemate, teammate, tentmate, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, watchmate, waymate, whelp, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate, young man, youth

• budge, advance, alcohol, aqua vitae, ascend, back, back up, booze, change, change place, circle, climb, descend, drink, ebb, firewater, flow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, grog, gyrate, hooch, juice, mount, move, move over, plunge, progress, regress, retrogress, rise, rotate, run, sauce, shift, sink, soar, spin, stir, stream, subside, travel, wane, whirl

• budget, Swiss bank account, abundance, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accumulation, agenda, aggregate, allotment, allowance, amassment, amount, assets, backlog, balance, bale, bank account, batch, batting order, big end, bigger half, bill, bill of fare, bindle, bit, bite, blueprint, bolt, book, bottom dollar, bouquet, budget items, budgeting, bulk, bunch, bundle, burden of expenditure, calendar, card, carrying charge, carte du jour, cash reserves, charges, cheap, checking account, chunk, clutch, collection, command of money, commissariat, commissary, commission, contingent, cornucopia, cost, cost of living, cost out, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costing-out, costs, count, cumulation, cut, deal, deck, destiny, direct costs, disbursals, disburse, distributed costs, dividend, docket, dole, dose, dump, easy, economic, economy, end, equal share, exchequer, expend, expenditures, expense, expense account, expenses, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, fate, finances, fork out, frugal, fund, funds, general expenses, go through, gob, group, half, halver, heap, helping, hoard, hunk, incur costs, indirect costs, inexpensive, interest, inventory, invest, kitty, labor costs, larder, large amount, lay out, liabilities, life savings, line up, lineup, list of agenda, lot, low, low-priced, manageable, mass, material, material costs, materials, materiel, means, measure, meed, menu, mess, moderate, modest, modicum, moiety, moneys, munitions, nest egg, nominal, nosegay, number, open the purse, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, outstanding accounts, overhead, pack, package, packet, parcel, part, pay, pay out, pecuniary resources, percentage, piece, pile, playbill, plenitude, plenty, pocket, pool, portion, posy, prime cost, program, program of operation, programma, proportion, prospectus, protocol, provisionment, provisions, purse, put out, quantity, quantum, quiver, quota, rake-off, ration, rations, reasonable, receipts, repertoire, repertory, replacement cost, reserves, resources, rick, roll, roster, rouleau, run through, savings, savings account, schedule, segment, sensible, shabby, share, shoddy, sink money in, slate, slice, small amount, small share, spend, splurge, squander, stack, stake, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, substance, sum, supplies, supply on hand, swindle sheet, throw money around, token, total, treasure, treasury, truss, unexpensive, unit cost, unpaid accounts, unregistered bank account, wherewithal, within means, worth the money

• buff, Leatherette, Leatheroid, Maecenas, abettor, adherent, admirer, advocate, aficionado, amateur, angel, apologist, appendage, applauder, appreciator, attendant, attender, audience, aureate, auric, authority, backer, bareness, beige, birthday suit, booster, buff-yellow, bug, burnish, canary, canary-yellow, cavaliere servente, champion, citron, citron-yellow, claqueur, coat, collector, commender, connoisseur, courtier, crank, cream, creamy, critic, cuticle, dangler, decollete, defender, dependence, dependent, dermis, devotee, dilettante, disciple, dress, ecdysiast, ecru, encomiast, encourager, endorser, energumen, enthusiast, eulogist, eulogizer, expert, exponent, extoller, fallow, fan, fanatic, fanatico, fancier, favorer, fell, finish, flaxen, fleece, flesh, flunky, follower, following, freak, frequenter, friend at court, fur, furbish, furring, gilded, gilt, glance, glaze, gloss, gold, gold-colored, golden, groupie, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, habitue, hanger-on, haunter, henchman, hide, homme de cour, hound, idolater, idolizer, imitation fur, imitation leather, infatuate, integument, jacket, lauder, leather, leather paper, leathern, leathery, lemon, lemon-yellow, lover, lunatic fringe, luster, luteolous, lutescent, mainstay, maintainer, monomaniac, nakedness, naturism, naturist, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, nut, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, outer layer, outer skin, panegyrist, paranymph, parasite, partisan, patron, pelt, peltry, plugger, polish, praiser, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, promoter, protagonist, public, puffer, pundit, pursuer, pursuivant, rawhide, reliance, rind, rooter, rub, rub up, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand, sand-colored, sandblast, sandpaper, sandy, satellite, savant, scholar, scour, second, seconder, sectary, shadow, sheath, shine, sider, skin, skins, sleek, slick, slick down, smooth, specialist, spectator, sponsor, stalwart, standby, state of nature, stooge, straw, straw-colored, stripper, stripteaser, successor, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, tagtail, tail, technical expert, technician, tegument, the altogether, the nude, the raw, theatergoer, toplessness, tout, touter, trainbearer, upholder, vair, varnish, visitor, votary, ward heeler, wax, well-wisher, worshiper, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish, zealot

• buffalo, Brahman, Indian buffalo, addle, amaze, aurochs, baffle, balk, bamboozle, beat, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bilk, bison, boggle, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, circumvent, confound, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dash, daze, disappoint, dogie, floor, foil, fuddle, get, heifer, hornless cow, keep in suspense, kine, leppy, lick, maverick, maze, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muddle, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, mystify, neat, nonplus, ox, oxen, perplex, puzzle, ruin, steer, stick, stirk, stot, stump, throw, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

• buffer state, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, barrier, body politic, brattice, buffer, bulkhead, bumper, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, cloison, collision mat, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, country, county, cushion, diaphragm, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, fender, free city, grand duchy, interseptum, kingdom, land, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, mat, midriff, midsection, nation, nationality, pad, panel, paries, partition, party wall, polis, polity, possession, power, principality, principate, property line, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, republic, satellite, seneschalty, separation, septulum, septum, settlement, shock pad, sovereign nation, state, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, wall

• buffer, T square, aegis, annul, antacid, antidote, arch dam, arm guard, awl, backstop, bale breaker, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, battering ram, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, bevel, bevel square, bodkin, boom, bradawl, brattice, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, bring to nothing, buff, buffer state, bulkhead, bulwark, bumper, calender, calipers, cancel, cancel out, cant hook, caulking iron, center punch, chamois, cloison, cofferdam, collision mat, come to nothing, contraceptive, copyright, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, counterbalance, counterirritant, crash helmet, crowbar, cushion, dam, dashboard, defense, diaphragm, dibble, dike, dissepiment, ditch, dividers, dividing line, dividing wall, division, dodger, drag, earthwork, edger, electric sander, electric soldering iron, embankment, face mask, fence, fender, file, finger guard, flail, foot guard, forceps, fork, frustrate, fuse, gate, glazer, goggles, goose, governor, grader, grapnel, grappling iron, gravity dam, grease gun, grindstone, groin, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, harrow, hawk, helmet, hook, hydraulic-fill dam, insulation, interlock, interseptum, invalidate, iron, iron curtain, jack, jackscrew, jam, jetty, jointer, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, lathe, leaping weir, levee, level, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, logjam, mangle, mask, mat, midriff, midsection, milldam, miter box, moat, mole, mound, mudguard, nail file, nail puller, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, neutralizer, nose guard, nullifier, nullify, offset, pad, padding, palette knife, palladium, panel, parapet, paries, partition, party wall, patent, peavey, pilot, pincers, pinch bar, pitchfork, plane, planer, pliers, polisher, portcullis, press, preventative, preventive, property line, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, puller, punch, punch pliers, puncheon, putty knife, ram, rammer, rampart, ramrod, remedy, ripping bar, roadblock, rock-fill dam, roller, rolling pin, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, sander, screen, screwdriver, seat belt, seawall, separation, septulum, septum, shaper, shield, shin guard, shock pad, shutter dam, soldering iron, spatula, square, stapler, steamroller, stone wall, stultify, sun helmet, tackle, tamp, tamper, tamping pick, tap, thwart, tire iron, tire tool, tongs, trowel, tweezers, umbrella, undo, vise, vitiate, void, wall, weir, wicket dam, windscreen, windshield, work, wrecking bar, wringer

• buffet, abuse, agonize, ambo, antagonize, automat, bafflement, balk, bang, bar, bash, baste, bastinado, batter, battle, beanery, beat, beat against, beat up against, belabor, belt, bench, betrayed hope, birch, bistro, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blip, blow, board, box, box the ears, breast the wave, bruise, buck, buffet the waves, bung, bung up, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, cane, canteen, cantina, chop, chophouse, chuck wagon, close with, clout, club, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, combat, comedown, compete with, contend, contend against, contest, contuse, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, counter, cowhide, cruel disappointment, cudgel, cuff, cut, dash, dashed hope, defeat, desk, diner, dining hall, dining room, disappointment, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, drub, eatery, eating house, escritoire, failure, fallen countenance, fast-food chain, fiasco, fight, fight against, fizzle, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, grapple with, grill, grillroom, grunt and sweat, hamburger stand, hammer, hash house, hashery, hassle, hope deferred, horsewhip, hot-dog stand, huff and puff, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, join battle with, kitchen, knock, knock about, knout, labor against, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, lectern, letdown, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mess hall, militate against, mirage, mishandle, mistreat, molest, offer resistance, outrage, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pizzeria, poke, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, quick-lunch counter, rap, rawhide, reluct, reluctate, restaurant, rival, rough, rough up, sandwich shop, savage, scourge, scuffle, secretaire, secretary, setback, slap, slap the face, sledgehammer, smack, smite, smorgasbord, snack bar, sock, sore disappointment, spank, stand, stem the tide, strap, strike, stripe, strive, strive against, struggle, struggle against, swinge, switch, table, take on, tantalization, tavern, tearoom, tease, thrash, thresh, thump, token punishment, trattoria, trounce, truncheon, tussle, vie with, wallop, whack, whale, whip, whomp, whop, workbench, wrestle, writing table

• buffoon, Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, ass, bad boy, booger, born fool, buffo, bugger, clown, cutup, devil, doodle, egregious ass, elf, enfant terrible, figure of fun, fool, funmaker, harlequin, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, ignoramus, imp, jack-pudding, jackass, jester, joker, jokester, knave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lunatic, merry-andrew, milksop, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mooncalf, motley, motley fool, perfect fool, pickle-herring, pixie, practical joker, prankster, puck, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, schmuck, softhead, sop, stupid ass, tomfool, wag, zany

• buffoonery, acting, asininity, banter, battiness, brainlessness, business, characterization, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gag, giddiness, goofiness, ham, hammy acting, harlequinade, hoke, hokum, horseplay, idiocy, imbecility, impersonation, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, lunacy, madness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mindlessness, monkeyshines, mummery, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, playacting, playing, portrayal, projection, queerness, representation, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shenanigans, silliness, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, stupidity, taking a role, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, triflingness, triviality, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism

• bug eyed, bellied, bulged, cockeyed, cross-eyed, exophthalmic, glare-eyed, goggle, goggled, monocular, moon-eyed, one-eyed, popeyed, pouched, saucer-eyed, swivel-eyed, swollen, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, ventricose, walleyed

• bug, ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Mumbo Jumbo, abrade, addict, addle, addle the wits, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aficionado, aggravate, agitate, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, angular data, annoy, apply pressure, arachnid, arthropod, assembler, attend, attend to, auscultate, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, badger, bag, bait, ball up, balloon, be all ears, be at, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, beetle, befuddle, belly, belly out, bend an ear, beset, besiege, bewilder, bigot, bilge, billow, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, blandish, blemish, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bother, bouge, bristle, brown off, buff, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, bulge, bullyrag, burn up, buttonhole, byte, cajole, carp at, case, catch, caterpillar, centipede, chafe, chilopod, chivy, cloud, coax, coccus, cock the ears, collector, command pulses, commands, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, confuse, control signals, controlled quantity, convulse, correcting signals, crack, crank, craze, crazy fancy, daddy longlegs, data, daze, dazzle, defect, defection, deficiency, demon, devil, devotee, dilate, diplopod, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disease-producing microorganism, disorganize, disorient, distemper, distend, distract, disturb, dog, drawback, dun, eager beaver, eavesdrop, echovirus, embarrass, embroil, energumen, entangle, enterovirus, enthusiasm, enthusiast, error, error signals, examine by ear, exasperate, exercise, exert pressure, faddist, failing, failure, fan, fanatic, fanatico, fascination, fash, fault, faute, fee-faw-fum, feedback pulses, feedback signals, fiend, film data, filterable virus, flaw, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fly, fog, foible, frailty, freak, fret, fret at, fuddle, fungus, furor, furore, fuss, fuss at, gall, germ, get, give attention, give audience to, give ear, goggle, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, great one for, gripe, harass, hark, harry, harvestman, hassle, hear, hear out, hearken, heckle, hector, heed, henpeck, hexadecimal system, hexapod, hobbyist, hole, hound, imperfection, importune, inadequacy, infatuate, infatuation, infirmity, information, input data, input quantity, insect, instructions, intercept, irk, kink, larva, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen in, listen to, little problem, lunatic fringe, machine language, maggot, make a reconnaissance, mania, maniac, manic-depressive psychosis, maze, message, microbe, microorganism, microphone, miff, mike, millepede, millipede, mist, mite, mix up, moider, mold, molest, monomaniac, muddle, multiple messages, nag, nag at, needle, nettle, nibble at, noise, nonfilterable virus, nudzh, numeric data, nut, nymph, octal system, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, passion, pathogen, peck at, peep, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick at, pick on, picornavirus, pique, plague, play, play the spy, pluck the beard, ply, polar data, pooch, pop, pother, pouch, pout, press, pressure, problem, protozoa, protozoon, provoke, psych, punch-card data, pursuer, push, put out, put under surveillance, radiomicrophone, rage, raise hell, random data, rattle, reconnoiter, rectangular data, reference quantity, reovirus, rhapsodist, rhinovirus, rickettsia, ride, rift, rile, roil, round out, ruffle, ruly English, scorpion, scout, scout out, shortcoming, signals, single messages, sit in on, snag, something missing, spider, spirillum, spirochete, spook, spore, spy, spy out, stake out, staphylococcus, streptococcus, sucker for, swell, swell out, taint, tap, tarantula, tease, throw, throw into confusion, tick, torment, trouble, try the patience, trypanosome, tweak the nose, unorganized data, unsettle, upset, urge, vex, vibrio, virus, visible-speech data, visionary, vulnerable place, watch, weak link, weak point, weakness, wheedle, wiretap, work on, worry, yap at, zealot

• bugbear, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mumbo Jumbo, Wolf-man, affliction, anathema, bane, bete noire, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, bogy, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bug, bugaboo, bugger, burden, calamity, crushing burden, cry of wolf, curse, death, destruction, detestation, disease, dud, evil, false alarm, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, grievance, harm, hate, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, infliction, monster, nemesis, nightmare, ogre, ogress, open wound, pest, pestilence, phantom, plague, revenant, running sore, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, scourge, specter, succubus, terror, thorn, torment, vampire, vexation, visitation, werewolf, woe

• bugger, Mumbo Jumbo, SOB, bad boy, ball up, bastard, beat it, bird, bitch, bitch up, bloke, bobble, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, bollix, bollix up, bonehead into it, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, botch, boy, buffoon, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger up, bungle, cat, chap, character, child, clear off, clear out, cock up, cook, coprophiliac, creep, cripple, cutup, dawdle, de-energize, debilitate, depart, destroy, devil, disable, disenable, drain, drop a brick, duck, elf, enfant terrible, enfeeble, erotomaniac, exhibitionist, fag, fart, fee-faw-fum, fellate, feller, fellow, fetishist, flub, fool, foul up, frazzle, fuck up, funmaker, geezer, go away, goof, goof up, gum up, guy, hamstring, hash up, heel, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hors de combat, idiot, imp, inactivate, incapacitate, jasper, jerk, joker, jokester, kibosh, knave, knock, knock out, lad, lallygag, lame, leave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lollygag, louse, louse up, maim, make tracks, man, masochist, masturbate, meanie, mess up, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mother, muck up, narcissist, necrophiliac, nymphomaniac, outwear, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, pill, pixie, play hell with, play hob with, practical joker, prankster, prick, puck, puke, put, queer, queer the works, rapist, rapscallion, rascal, rat, ream, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, ruin, sabotage, sadist, satyr, scamp, scapegrace, scotophiliac, screw up, scum, shit, shithead, shitheel, sink, skedaddle, snafu, snarl up, sod, sodomist, sodomite, sodomize, spike, stinkard, stinker, stud, toad, tot, transvestite, tucker, turd, unfit, voyeur, wag, waste time, weaken, wear out, wing, wreck, zoophiliac

• buggy, auto, autocar, automobile, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedlamite, boat, bonkers, bughouse, bugs, bus, car, cracked, crackers, crate, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, dippy, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, gung ho, haywire, heap, insectlike, jalopy, just plain nuts, keen, kooky, loony, loopy, machine, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, tub, verminous, voiture, wacky, warm, weevily, wheels, wreck, zealous

• bughouse, asylum, batty, bedlam, bedlamite, buggy, bugs, cracked, crazed, crazy, crazy house, daft, demented, insane asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, nuthouse, padded cell, psychiatric ward, psychopathic hospital

• bugle call, Angelus, Angelus bell, alarm, alarum, battle cry, birdcall, call, call to arms, call-up, catchword, clarion, clarion call, conscription, exhortation, go for broke, gung ho, last post, levy, mobilization, moose call, muster, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruitment, reveille, slogan, summons, taps, trumpet call, war cry, war whoop, watchword, whistle

• bugle, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, antlia, bagpipe, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, bay, beak, beep, beezer, bell, bill, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bray, bugle horn, carillon, clarion, conk, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, doodle, double-bell euphonium, double-tongue, euphonium, fife, flute, helicon, honk, horn, hunting horn, key trumpet, lip, lituus, lur, mellophone, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, ophicleide, orchestral horn, peal, pecker, pipe, pocket trumpet, post horn, proboscis, rhinarium, rostrum, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, schnozzle, serpent, shriek, slide trombone, sliphorn, smeller, snoot, snout, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, sousaphone, squeal, tenor tuba, tongue, toot, tootle, triple-tongue, tromba, trombone, trumpet, trunk, tuba, tweedle, valve trombone, valve trumpet, whistle, wind, wind the horn

• bugs, ape about, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedlamite, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs on, cracked, cracked on, crackers, crazed, crazy, crazy about, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, dippy, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, gaga over, gone on, goofy, gung ho, haywire, hepped up over, hipped on, hot about, insane, just plain nuts, keen, kooky, loony, loopy, mad about, nuts, nuts about, nuts on, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, turned-on, wacky, warm, wild about, zealous

• build up, add to, advertise, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, assemble, augment, ballyhoo, bark, bill, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, bulk, bulk out, bulletin, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, circularize, combine, compose, consist of, constitute, construct, crescendo, cry, cry up, deepen, deteriorate, develop, dilate, distend, draw the longbow, embitter, embody, enhance, enlarge, enter into, establish, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, exasperate, expand, extend, fabricate, fatten, fill out, form, give a write-up, give publicity, go into, go to extremes, heat up, heighten, hike, hike up, hot up, huff, hyperbolize, incorporate, increase, inflate, intensify, irritate, jack up, join, jump up, lay it on, lengthen, magnify, make, make acute, make much of, make up, make worse, maximize, merge in, mix, organize, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, piece together, pile it on, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, promote, provoke, publicize, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put together, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, sell, set up, sharpen, sour, spiel, stretch, stretch the truth, structure, sufflate, swell, synthesize, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken, tout, travesty, unite in, up, widen, worsen, write up

• build, Platonic form, Platonic idea, add to, aesthetic form, aggrandize, amplify, anatomy, archetype, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, art form, assemble, augment, base, bloat, blow up, bod, body, body-build, boost, broaden, build in, build up, building, bulk, bulk out, cast, combine, compose, composition, compound, concoct, configuration, conformation, consist of, constitute, constitution, construct, construction, create, creation, crescendo, cut, develop, devise, dilate, distend, elaborate, embody, enlarge, enter into, erect, establish, evolve, exalt, expand, extend, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, fatten, figuration, figure, fill out, fix, forge, forging, form, format, formation, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, genre, get up, getup, go into, ground, habit, heighten, hike, hike up, huff, impression, incorporate, increase, indite, inflate, inner form, install, intensify, invest, jack up, join, jump up, lay the foundation, layout, lengthen, magnify, make, make up, makeup, making, manufacture, matrix, mature, maximize, merge in, mix, modality, mode, model, mold, molding, mount, multiply, organic structure, organism, organization, organize, parlay, patch together, pattern, patterning, person, physique, piece together, pitch, plan, plant, prefabricate, prepare, produce, production, prototype, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put in, put together, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, rear, rise, run up, seat, set, set up, setup, shape, shaping, significant form, stamp, strengthen, stretch, structure, structuring, style, sufflate, swell, synthesize, tectonics, texture, thicken, throw up, tissue, turn, type, unite in, up, uprear, upsurge, vest, warp and woof, wax, weave, web, whomp up, widen, write

• builder, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, barber, beautician, begetter, beginner, brazier, bricklayer, cabinetmaker, carpenter, carver, chandler, conceiver, constructor, contractor, cooper, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, electrician, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farmhand, father, fitter, forger, founder, fuller, gas fitter, generator, glassblower, glazer, glazier, grower, hairdresser, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, lather, machinist, maker, manicurist, manufacturer, mason, master, master craftsman, mechanic, miller, mother, organizer, originator, past master, planner, plumber, potter, precursor, prime mover, producer, puttier, raiser, realizer, rigger, roofer, saddler, shaper, sire, smith, spinner, steeplejack, stonecutter, stonemason, tanner, tinker, tinner, turner, upholsterer, weaver, welder, woodcutter, wrecker, wright

• building block, air, atom, atomic particles, atoms, brute matter, chemical element, component, constituent, core, distillate, distillation, earth, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, elixir, essence, fabric, fire, fundamental particle, gist, heart, hyle, hypostasis, kernel, marrow, material, material world, materiality, matter, meat, medium, molecule, monad, natural world, nature, nub, physical world, pith, plenum, quintessence, sap, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, substratum, sum and substance, tangible, the four elements, unit of being, water

• building, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, build, buildup, casa, casting, cliff dwelling, combination, composition, compound, conformation, constitution, construct, construction, consulate, conversion, country house, country seat, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, dacha, deanery, devising, dwelling house, edifice, elaboration, embassy, embodiment, erection, establishment, extraction, fabric, fabrication, farm, farmhouse, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, getup, growing, hall, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, house, houseboat, hut, incorporation, junction, lake dwelling, living machine, lodge, machining, make, makeup, making, manor house, manse, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mixture, mold, molding, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, parsonage, pattern, patterning, penthouse, physique, piecing together, pile, plan, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, preparation, presidential palace, processing, producing, production, putting together, pyramid, raising, ranch house, rectory, refining, roof, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, sod house, split-level, structure, structuring, superstructure, syneresis, synthesis, tectonics, texture, tissue, tower, town house, vicarage, warp and woof, weave, web, workmanship

• buildup, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acknowledgment, addition, advance, advertising, advocacy, advocating, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, assemblage, assembly, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, blurb, boom, boost, broadening, bruiting, building, combination, commendation, composition, compound, constitution, construction, crescendo, development, drumbeating, edema, elevation, embodiment, enlargement, expansion, extension, fabrication, fashioning, flack, flood, formation, gain, getup, good word, greatening, growth, gush, hike, honorable mention, hype, incorporation, increase, increment, inflation, jump, junction, leap, make, makeup, mixture, mounting, multiplication, organization, piecing together, plug, press-agentry, productiveness, proliferation, promoting, promotion, publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, putting together, raise, recognition, rise, setup, shaping, snowballing, spread, structure, structuring, surge, swelling, syneresis, synthesis, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening

• built, Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, assembled, becoming, bonny, braw, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, cast, comely, constructed, crafted, created, curvaceous, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted, fabricated, fair, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, likely, lovely to behold, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, prefab, prefabricated, presentable, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, rounded, shaped, shapely, sightly, slender, smelted, stacked, statuesque, well-built, well-constructed, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

• bulb, ball, balloon, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boll, bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, corm, dowel, ear, ellipsoid, flange, flap, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, prolate spheroid, radicle, radix, rhizome, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, root, rootstock, shoulder, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, tab, tap, taproot, tuber, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

• bulbous, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellying, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, botanic, bulblike, bulbose, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, cereal, distended, ellipsoid, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity, global, globate, globe-shaped, globed, globelike, globoid, globose, globular, hemispheric, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, hillocky, hummocky, leguminose, leguminous, moutonnee, obovoid, orb, orbed, orbic, orbicular, orbiculate, orblike, orby, ovoid, plantlike, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, rounded, sphere-shaped, spherelike, spheric, spheriform, spheroid, swelling, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, verrucated, verrucose, warty, weedy

• bulge, advantage, allowance, bag, balloon, beetle, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bouge, bow, bubble, bug, bulb, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, coign of vantage, condyle, convex, deadwood, dilate, distend, dowel, drop, ear, edge, expand, flange, flap, flying start, gall, gnarl, goggle, handicap, handle, head start, hill, hump, hunch, inside track, jog, joggle, jump, jut, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, odds, overhand, overhang, papilloma, peg, poke, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, project, projection, protrude, protrusion, protuberance, protuberate, rib, ridge, ring, round out, running start, shoulder, something extra, something in reserve, spine, stand out, start, stick out, stud, style, swell, swell out, swelling, tab, tubercle, tubercule, upper hand, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, whip hand

• bulging, SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose, bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed, distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky, hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose, warty

• bulk, accumulate, add to, agglomerate, aggrandize, aggregate, aggroup, amass, amount, ampleness, amplify, amplitude, area, assemble, augment, balloon, batch, best part, better part, bigness, bloat, block, blow up, bodily size, body, boundlessness, breadth, bring together, broaden, budget, build, build up, bulk large, bulk out, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, caliber, chunk, clod, clump, cluster, coarseness, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, conglomerate, core, corpulence, corpus, corral, coverage, crescendo, cumulate, depth, develop, diameter, dig up, dilate, dimension, dimensions, distance through, distend, draw together, dredge up, drive together, enlarge, enlargement, enormity, enormousness, essence, exceed, expand, expanse, expansion, extend, extension, extent, fatness, fill out, force, formidableness, fullness, gather, gather in, gather together, gauge, generality, get in, get together, gigantism, girth, gist, gob, grandeur, grandness, gravamen, great scope, greaten, greatness, grossness, group, height, hike, hike up, huff, hugeness, hunk, immensity, increase, infinity, inflate, intensity, join, juxtapose, largeness, length, loaf, loom, loom large, lump, lump together, magnify, magnitude, main body, major part, majority, make up, mass, match, matter, measure, measurement, meat, might, mightiness, mobilize, more than half, most, muchness, muster, nugget, numbers, object, outsoar, outstrip, overtop, pair, partner, pat, plenitude, plurality, power, preponderance, preponderancy, prodigiousness, proportion, proportions, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put together, quantity, quantum, radius, raise, rake up, rally, range, rarefy, reach, rear, rise above, round up, scale, scope, scrape together, size, snowball, soar, spread, stand out, staple, strength, stretch, stupendousness, substance, sufflate, sum, swell, take up, the greatest number, the third dimension, thickness, thrust, total, totality, tower, tower above, transcend, tremendousness, tumefy, up, vastness, volume, wad, whip in, whole, widen, width

• bulkhead, French door, anchorage, anchorage ground, arch dam, archway, back door, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barway, basin, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, boom, brattice, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, buffer state, bulwark, bumper, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, cloison, cofferdam, collision mat, cushion, dam, defense, diaphragm, dike, dissepiment, ditch, dividing line, dividing wall, division, dock, dockage, dockyard, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, dry dock, earthwork, embankment, fence, fender, front door, gate, gatepost, gateway, gravity dam, groin, harbor, harborage, hatch, hatchway, haven, hydraulic-fill dam, interseptum, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, leaping weir, levee, lintel, logjam, marina, mat, midriff, midsection, milldam, moat, mole, moorings, mound, pad, panel, parapet, paries, partition, party wall, pier, porch, port, portal, portcullis, porte cochere, postern, property line, propylaeum, protected anchorage, pylon, quay, rampart, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead, rock-fill dam, scuttle, seaport, seawall, separation, septulum, septum, shipyard, shock pad, shutter dam, side door, slip, stile, stone wall, storm door, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, wall, weir, wharf, wicket dam, work

• bulky, Gargantuan, adamantine, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, awkward, boundless, broad-bodied, bullnecked, chunky, clumsy, coarse, colossal, contrary, corpulent, cosmic, crass, crosswise, cumbersome, cumbrous, dense, durable, elephantine, enduring, enormous, extensive, fat, firm, full, full-bodied, galactic, gigantic, gross, hard, heavy, heavyset, huge, hulking, hulky, immeasurable, immense, impractical, inconvenient, infinite, king-size, large, lasting, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, perverse, ponderous, prodigious, rugged, sizable, solid, sound, spacious, stable, steady, stout, strong, stupendous, sturdy, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, three-dimensional, titanic, tough, tremendous, ungainly, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, unyielding, vast, viscous, voluminous, weighty, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made

• bull, Brahman, Dogberry, Indian buffalo, Irish bull, John Law, Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, air letter, airgraph, anacoluthon, andric, appointment, assault, aurochs, babble, balderdash, balls, baloney, bear, bear the market, bear upon, beef, beef cattle, beeves, big, bilge, billet-doux, billy, billy goat, bison, blabber, blague, blah, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, blooper, bluebottle, bluecoat, blunder, boar, bobby, boner, boost, bop, bosh, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, brevet, bubbly-jock, buck, buffalo, bull account, bull the market, bulldoze, bullock, bullshit, bump, bump against, bungle, bunk, bunkum, bunt, butt, butt against, calf, carabao, catachresis, cattle, chain letter, chanticleer, claptrap, cock, cockerel, commandant, constable, cop, copper, cow, cram, crap, critter, crowd, custodian, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dead letter, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, dick, dictum, dig, diktat, dimissorial, dimissory letter, dog, dogie, drake, drive, drivel, drool, drop letter, edict, edictum, elbow, encyclical, entire, entire horse, eyewash, fan letter, fat, fiat, flam, flapdoodle, flatfoot, flattie, flimflam, fluff, folk etymology, force, form letter, fuzz, gabble, gammon, gander, gaoler, gas, gendarme, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gibber, gibble-gabble, goad, gobbler, governor, grammatical error, great, guard, guardian, guff, gumshoe, gup, hart, he-goat, heifer, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hornless cow, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, hurtle, husky, hustle, hypercorrection, hyperform, ipse dixit, jab, jabber, jailer, jam, jiggery-pokery, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, keeper, kine, lapse, law, leppy, letter of credit, letter of introduction, letters credential, letters of marque, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, long, long account, long interest, long side, longs, love letter, malaprop, malapropism, malarkey, male, manful, manipulate the market, manlike, manly, mannish, marrowsky, masculine, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, mispronunciation, missaying, mistake, misusage, monitory, moonshine, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, newsletter, nixie, nudge, officer, open letter, ordinance, ordonnance, ox, oxen, paddy, pastoral letter, peacock, peeler, peg the market, piffle, pig, pile drive, poison-pen letter, poke, poppycock, prate, prattle, press, principal keeper, prison guard, proclamation, prod, pronouncement, pronunciamento, punch, push, raid the market, ram, ram down, rattle, rescript, rig the market, rooster, rot, round robin, rule, ruling, run, run against, scat, screw, senatus consult, senatus consultum, shake, shamus, shit, shoulder, shove, slip, solecism, spoonerism, stag, stallion, steer, stirk, stot, stress, stud, studhorse, talk nonsense, tamp, the cops, the fuzz, the law, thrust, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, tommyrot, top cow, top horse, trip, tripe, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, turnkey, twaddle, twattle, ukase, uneffeminate, vapor, waffle, warden, warder, wash sales, wether, whipsaw, wind, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

• bulldog, Achilles, David, Hector, Roland, Samson, a man, adherent, adhesive, barnacle, bramble, brave, brier, burr, cement, chutzpanik, decal, decalcomania, decorated hero, demigod, demigoddess, fighting cock, gallant, gamecock, glue, good soldier, gunk, hero, heroine, leech, limpet, lion, man of courage, molasses, mucilage, paladin, paste, plaster, prickle, remora, stalwart, sticker, syrup, the brave, thorn, tiger, valiant, valiant knight

• bulldogged, adherent, adhesive, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, clingy, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, gluey, glutinous, gummy, hardheaded, headstrong, intolerant, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, restive, self-adhesive, self-willed, set, stickable, sticky, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tacky, tenacious, tough, uncooperative, unregenerate, viscid, willful

• bulldoze, assault, be imminent, bear, bear upon, beat down, blackjack, blank, blow down, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, boost, bounce, break, break down, bring down, browbeat, buck, bull, bully, bullyrag, bump, bump against, bunt, burn down, butt, butt against, cast down, castrate, chop down, clamp down on, clobber, coerce, comminate, compel, cow, cram, cream, crowd, cut down, daunt, defeat utterly, demoralize, denounce, despotize, dig, domineer, domineer over, dragoon, drive, elbow, enslave, fell, flatten, force, forebode, goad, grind, grind down, harass, harry, hector, henpeck, hijack, huff, hurtle, hustle, intimidate, jab, jam, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, keep down, keep under, knock down, knock over, level, look threatening, lord it over, lower, menace, mow down, nudge, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, overwhelm, paste, pile drive, poke, press, press heavy on, prod, prostrate, pull down, punch, push, ram, ram down, rase, rattle, raze, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, run, run against, schmear, shake, shanghai, shellac, shoulder, shove, shut out, skunk, smash, smear, snow under, steamroller, stress, strong-arm, subjugate, suppress, systematically terrorize, take down, tamp, tear down, terrorize, threaten, throw down, thrust, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, use violence, utter threats against, walk all over, walk over, warn, weigh heavy on, whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop

• bullet, alpha decay, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, ball, bar shot, barrel, beta decay, bird shot, bombardment, bowshot, breeding, bucket, buckshot, cannon, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, chain reaction, cleavage, crossbar shot, detonation, discharge, disintegration series, dissociation, duck shot, dumdum bullet, ejection, exchange reaction, expanding bullet, fission, fission reaction, fleet, fly, fusillade, gamma decay, grape, grapeshot, gun, gunfire, gunshot, highball, hotfoot, ionization, langrel shot, manstopping bullet, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, pellet, photodisintegration, potshot, proton gun, proton reaction, reversible reaction, rifle ball, rocket, round shot, salvo, shell, shot, shrapnel, slug, split shot, splitting the atom, spray, stimulation, stoneshot, target, tattoo, thermonuclear reaction, volley, whiz, zip

• bulletin, account, account rendered, accounting, acquaintance, acta, announcement, annual, blue book, brief, briefing, census report, communication, communique, data, datum, directory, dispatch, election returns, enlightenment, evidence, facts, factual information, familiarization, flash, gen, general information, guidebook, handout, hard information, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, light, mention, message, minutes, news item, news report, notice, notification, presentation, press release, proceedings, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, release, report, returns, sidelight, statement, tally, the dope, the goods, the know, the record, the scoop, transactions, transmission, white book, white paper, word, yearbook

• bullfight, action, aerial combat, affray, armored combat, battle, battle royal, brush, clash, clash of arms, cockfight, combat, conflict, dogfight, embroilment, exchange of blows, fight, fire fight, fray, ground combat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, house-to-house combat, naval combat, passage of arms, pitched battle, quarrel, rumble, running fight, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, shoving match, skirmish, stand-up fight, street fight, struggle, tauromachy, tug-of-war, tussle

• bullheaded, adherent, adhesive, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, case-hardened, clingy, closed-minded, deaf, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, gluey, glutinous, gummy, hardheaded, headstrong, intolerant, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, refractory, restive, self-adhesive, self-willed, set, sot, stickable, sticky, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tacky, tenacious, tough, uncooperative, unregenerate, viscid, willful

• bullion, bar, button, cast, casting, coin gold, coin silver, copper, earth metals, gate, gold, gold dust, gold nugget, ingot, metal, metal foil, metal leaf, metalleity, metallicity, metallics, metalloid, metalware, metalwork, native metals, nickel, noble metals, nugget, pig, precious metals, rare metals, regulus, semimetal, sheet metal, silver, sow, yellow stuff

• bullshit, babble, balderdash, balls, baloney, big talk, bilge, blabber, blague, blah, blah-blah, blather, bop, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gabble, gammon, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, guff, gup, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jabber, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, prate, prattle, rattle, rot, scat, shit, talk nonsense, tall story, tall talk, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, vapor, waffle, wind

• bullwhack, belt, blacksnake, bullwhip, cat, cowhide, crop, flagellum, horsewhip, knout, kurbash, lash, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, scourge, sjambok, strap, thong, whip, whiplash

• bullwhacker, Jehu, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, cameleer, carter, cartman, charioteer, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, drayman, driver, elephant driver, gharry-wallah, hack, hackman, hacky, harness racer, mahout, mule skinner, muleteer, reinsman, skinner, stage coachman, teamster, truckman, vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, whip

• bully, Antaeus, Atlas, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Charles Atlas, Cyclops, Goliath, Hercules, Herod, OK, Polyphemus, Samson, Superman, Tarzan, Titan, ace-high, admirable, annoyer, awe, bad, badgerer, bang-up, battler, beat down, beef, beef extract, beef tea, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blackjack, blade, blatherskite, bludgeon, bluff, bluffer, bluster, bluster and bluff, bluster out of, blusterer, bonzer, boss, bouillon, bounce, brag, braggart, bravo, brawler, break, browbeat, browbeater, bucko, bulldoze, bulldozer, bully beef, bullyboy, bullyrag, but good, cadet, capital, castrate, champion, charqui, chipped beef, clamp down on, coerce, colossus, combatant, compel, competitor, contender, contestant, cool, corking, cow, crackerjack, cutthroat, dandy, daunt, delicious, demoralize, desperado, despotize, devil, disputant, domineer, domineer over, dragoon, dried beef, ducky, duelist, enforcer, enslave, fab, famous, fancy man, fanfaron, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, fine, fine and dandy, first-rate, foilsman, gamecock, gasconade, gear, giant, gladiator, goon, gorilla, great, grind, grind down, groovy, ground beef, gunman, hamburger, harass, harasser, harrier, hatchet man, heavy, heckler, hector, hectorer, hell-raiser, hellcat, henpeck, hijack, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hot, huff, hunky-dory, intimidate, intimidator, jam-up, jerky, jolly, jouster, just dandy, keen, keep down, keep under, killer, knight, lord it over, mad dog, marvy, mean, menace, militant, muscle man, nag, neat, nifty, nobby, nudnik, nudzh, okay, oppress, out of sight, out-herod Herod, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, pander, pastrami, peachy, peachy-keen, persecute, persecutor, pest, pesterer, plaguer, plug-ugly, powerhouse, press heavy on, push around, quarreler, rage, rant, ranter, rave, raver, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, rioter, ripping, rival, roast beef, roister, roisterer, rollick, rough, rowdy, ruffian, rum, sabreur, sadist, salt beef, scrapper, scrumptious, scuffler, shanghai, slang, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else, spiffing, spiffy, splutter, sputter, squabbler, stalwart, steamroller, storm, strong arm, strong man, strong-arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, stunning, subjugate, suet, superior, suppress, swagger, swaggerer, swashbuckle, swashbuckler, swasher, swell, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, systematically terrorize, tease, teaser, terrorize, the mighty, the strong, threaten, thug, tilter, torment, tormentor, torture, tough, tough guy, tower of strength, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tussler, tyrannize, tyrannize over, tyrant, unman, use violence, vapor, vaporer, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on, wizard, worthy, wrangler

• bulwark, abatis, abutment, advanced work, aegis, arc-boutant, arch dam, arm guard, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bumper, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, citadel, cofferdam, contraceptive, contravallation, copyright, counterscarp, cover, crash helmet, curtain, cushion, dam, dashboard, defend, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, dodger, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, face mask, fence, fend, fender, fieldwork, finger guard, flying buttress, foot guard, fort, fortalice, fortification, fortress, fuse, gate, glacis, goggles, governor, gravity dam, groin, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hanging buttress, hard hat, helmet, hydraulic-fill dam, insulation, interlock, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, leaping weir, levee, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, mask, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, mudguard, nose guard, outwork, pad, padding, palisade, palladium, parados, parapet, patent, pier, pier buttress, pilot, portcullis, postern gate, preventive, prophylactic, protect, protective clothing, protective umbrella, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, retaining wall, roadblock, rock-fill dam, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, sally port, scarp, sconce, screen, seat belt, seawall, secure, shelter, shield, shin guard, shoulder, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, stronghold, sun helmet, tenaille, umbrella, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, windscreen, windshield, work

• bum around, do nothing, goof off, hang around, idle, laze, lazy, lie around, loaf, loiter about, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, sit around, slouch, slouch around, stand around

• bum, Arab, Bowery bum, amiss, arse, ass, backside, bad, barfy, bat around, beach bum, beachcomber, beg, beggar, beggarly fellow, bender, birr, blighter, bo, bombilate, bombinate, boom, booze, boozehound, bottle sucker, bottom, brannigan, budmash, bumble, bummer, burr, bust, butt, buzz, cadge, cadger, caitiff, can, carouse, cheeks, cheesy, count ties, crappy, creepy, crummy, derelict, derriere, devil, dirty, dissatisfactory, divagate, do-nothing, dogie, dolittle, drift, drifter, drone, drunk, drunkard, elbow bender, faineant, fanny, flit, floater, gad, gad about, gallivant, gamin, gamine, ginhound, go about, go the rounds, godawful, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof off, goshawful, grim, guttersnipe, hairy, hind end, hit, hit the road, hit the trail, hit up, hobo, homeless waif, hooch hound, hum, human wreck, icky, idler, jag, jaunt, keister, knock about, knock around, landloper, laze, lazy, lazybones, lazzarone, loaf, loafer, loiter, loll, losel, lounge, lowlife, lush, lusher, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, meander, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, mooch, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nomadize, panhandle, panhandler, pass the hat, pauvre diable, peregrinate, pererrate, piker, pilgarlic, poor, poor creature, poor devil, posterior, prat, prowl, punk, purr, putrid, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramble, range, roam, rotten, rounder, rove, rum hound, rummy, rump, run about, rusty-dusty, sad case, sad sack, saunter, schnorrer, scrounge, scrounger, shitty, ski bum, skid-row bum, slouch, slug, slugabed, soak, souse, sponge, stern, stew, stiff, stinking, stinky, straggle, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, stroll, strum, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tail, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, thrum, touch, traipse, tramp, truant, tuchis, turnpiker, tush, tushy, unsatisfactory, up, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagabondize, vagrant, vaurien, vomity, waif, waifs and strays, walk the tracks, wander, wassail, wastrel, wayfare, whir, whiz, wino, worthless fellow, wretch, wrong, yecchy

• bumble, be all thumbs, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bombinate, botch, bum, bungle, butcher, buzz, commit a gaffe, drone, faux pas, flounder, fumble, lumber, lurch, mar, miscue, mucker, muddle, muff, murder, play havoc with, screw up, slip, snapper, spoil, strum, stumble, thrum, trip

• bumbling, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, inept, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, sloppy, stiff, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unwieldy, wooden

• bummer, Arab, Bowery bum, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, bandit, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blight, blighter, bo, brigand, budmash, bum, cadger, caitiff, care, coupon clippers, cross, curse, depredator, derelict, devil, difficulties, difficulty, dogie, downer, drifter, drone, drunkard, forager, freebooter, freeloader, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idle rich, idler, irritation, landloper, lazzarone, leisure class, loafer, looter, losel, lounge lizard, lowlife, lumpen proletariat, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, pillager, plight, plunderer, poor creature, poor devil, predicament, pressure, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rentiers, rigor, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, scrounger, sea of troubles, ski bum, skid-row bum, spiv, sponger, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, stress, stress of life, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vale of tears, vaurien, vicissitude, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, worthless fellow, wretch

• bump into, alight upon, bang, bang into, blunder upon, bump, cannon, carom, carom into, chance upon, clash, collide, come across, come among, come into collision, come on, come up against, come upon, concuss, confront, confront each other, crack up, crash, crash into, crump, crunch, dash into, discover serendipitously, encounter, fall across, fall among, fall foul of, fall in with, fall upon, foul, happen upon, hit, hit against, hit upon, hurt, hurtle, impinge, knock, knock against, light upon, meet, meet head-on, meet up with, meet with, percuss, pitch upon, run across, run into, run smack into, run up against, run upon, sideswipe, slam into, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, strike, strike against, stumble on, stumble upon, tumble on, whomp

• bump off, assassinate, blast, blot out, cool, croak, do in, dust off, erase, execute, finish, fix, get, give the business, gun down, hit, ice, knock off, lay out, liquidate, off, polish off, put away, rub out, settle, take care of, waste, wipe out, zap

• bump, CAT, abase, abasement, ability, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, appulse, aptness, assassinate, assault, bang, bang into, bear, bear upon, bearing, bent, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blow, bob, bobble, boil, boost, boot, boss, bounce, bow, break, brunt, bubble, buck, buffet, bulb, bulge, bull, bulla, bulldoze, bulldozing, bulling, bump against, bump into, bump off, bunch, bunion, bunt, burl, burst, bust, butt, butt against, button, cahot, caliber, can, cannon, capability, capacity, carambole, carbuncle, carom, carom into, cashier, casting down, ceiling, chance, chatter, chine, chink, chuckhole, clap, clash, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, collide, collision, colophon, come across, come into collision, concavity, concuss, concussion, condyle, confront each other, convex, convexity, corn, crack, crack up, crack-up, cram, crash, crash into, crosswind, crowd, crump, crunch, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, dash into, debase, debasement, defrock, degradation, degrade, degrading, dement, demote, demotion, dent, deplume, depluming, depose, deprive, destroy, didder, dig, dilatation, dilation, dint, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disgrade, disgrading, dismiss, dispatch, displace, displume, displuming, distension, dither, do away with, do in, dowel, dower, downgrade, downgrading, dowry, drive, drum out, dull thud, ear, edema, elbow, eliminate, embossment, empty space, encounter, endowment, equipment, excrescence, execute, expel, faculty, fall foul of, falter, favorable wind, fingerprint, fire, flair, flange, flap, flick, flop, flump, fog, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, forte, fossil footprint, foul, front, furlough, furuncle, gall, genius, gift, give the ax, give the gate, gnarl, goad, grimace, hammering, handle, have an ague, head, head wind, high-pressure area, hill, hit, hit against, hole, humble, humbling, hump, hunch, hurt, hurtle, hustle, ice, ichnite, ichnolite, impact, impinge, impingement, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, instinct, intumescence, ionosphere, jab, jactitate, jam, jar, jerk, jetstream, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, kick, kick upstairs, kill, knack, knob, knock, knock against, knot, knur, knurl, lay off, let go, let out, light, lip, liquidate, long suit, loop, low-pressure area, lower, luck, lump, make redundant, makings, mauling, meet, meeting, metier, mole, mountain, mudhole, murder, natural endowment, natural gift, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, nudge, onslaught, overcast, pad, papilloma, parts, pat, patter, paw print, pawmark, peg, pension off, percuss, percussion, pile drive, pimple, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pock, pocket, poke, pop, potential, pothole, power, powers, press, pressure, print, prod, protuberance, pug, pugmark, punch, push, pustule, put away, quake, qualification, quaver, quiver, ram, ram down, ramming, rap, rattle, read out of, reduce, reduction, release, remove, replace, report, retire, rib, rictus, ridge, ring, rising, roughness, rub out, run, run across, run against, run into, rut, sack, seal, sebaceous cyst, separate forcibly, shake, shiver, shock, shoulder, shove, shudder, sideswipe, sigil, signet, slam, slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammering, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, soup, space, speciality, spine, splat, stamp, step, stratosphere, stress, strike, strike against, strip, strip of rank, stripping of rank, strong flair, strong point, stud, stumble, style, substratosphere, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swap, swell, swelling, swollenness, tab, tail wind, talent, talents, tamp, tap, the goods, the stuff, thrust, thrusting, thud, thumbmark, thumbprint, thump, thwack, tic, tick, tinkle, tremble, tremor, tropopause, troposphere, trough, tubercle, tubercule, tumble, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, tunk, turbulence, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turn, turn off, turn out, twitch, twitter, unfrock, verruca, vesicle, vestige, vibrate, visibility, visibility zero, wale, wallop, wart, waste, welt, wen, whack, wham, whap, what it takes, whomp, whop, wipe out, wobble

• bumper, aegis, arm guard, backstop, barrier, bellyful, beverage, big, brattice, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bulwark, capacity, charge, cloison, collision mat, complement, considerable, contraceptive, copyright, cram, crash helmet, crush, cushion, dashboard, diaphragm, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, dodger, draft, dram, drench, drink, face mask, fender, fill, finger guard, foot guard, full house, full measure, fuse, goggles, goodly, governor, grand, great, guard, guardrail, gulp, guzzle, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, healthy, helmet, insulation, interlock, interseptum, jam up, knee guard, knuckle guard, lading, laminated glass, lap, large, large-scale, libation, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, load, man-sized, mask, mat, midriff, midsection, mouthful, mudguard, nip, nose guard, numerous, pad, padding, palladium, panel, paries, partition, party wall, patent, peg, pilot, portion, potation, preventive, property line, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, pull, quaff, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, separation, septulum, septum, shield, shin guard, shock pad, sip, sizable, skinful, slurp, snootful, snort, substantial, suck, sun helmet, sup, swig, swill, tall, tidy, tot, umbrella, wall, windscreen, windshield

• bumpkin, boor, bucolic, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, farmer, gawk, gawky, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, looby, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

• bumptious, aggressively self-confident, arrogant, audacious, biggety, brassy, brazen, challenging, cheeky, chesty, cocky, cold, conceited, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, familiar, forward, greatly daring, hubristic, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, know-it-all, obtrusive, overpresumptuous, overweening, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, puffed up, pushy, regardless of consequences, saucy, self-conceited, self-opinionated, smart-alecky, stuck-up, swelled-headed, uppish, uppity

• bumpy, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellying, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, bouncy, broken, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bunched, bunchy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, distended, grainy, granulated, hillocky, homespun, horripilant, hummocky, inequal, irregular, jarring, jerky, jogglety, joggling, joggly, jolting, jolty, knobbly, knobby, linsey-woolsey, lumpy, moutonnee, pimply, pitted, pneumatic, pocky, potbellied, potholed, pouching, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rounded, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, swelling, textured, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, verrucated, verrucose, warty, wimpled

• bun, Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll, Yorkshire pudding, bagel, bialy, bialystoker, braid, chignon, clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, coil, crescent roll, croissant, cross bun, crumpet, cue, gem, hard roll, hot cross bun, kaiser roll, knot, muffin, onion roll, pigtail, pinwheel roll, plait, popover, queue, rattail, roll, scone, soft roll, tail, topknot, twist

• bunch, a mass of, a world of, accumulate, adhere, affiliate, age group, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggroup, ally, amass, amount, army, assemble, assembly, associate, assort, assortment, band, band together, batch, battalion, be in cahoots, bevy, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, body, boss, bouquet, bow, bracket, breccia, brigade, bring together, bubble, budget, bulb, bulge, bulk, bulla, bump, bunch together, bunch up, bundle, burl, button, cabal, cadre, cahot, camarilla, cast, categorize, cell, cement a union, centralize, charmed circle, chine, chunk, circle, clan, clasp, class, classify, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clique, closed circle, clot, cloud, club, club together, clump, cluster, clutch, clutter, coagulate, cohere, cohort, collect, collection, colligate, collocate, colony, combine, come together, company, compare, compile, complement, concrete, concretion, condyle, confederate, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, consociate, conspire, contingent, converge, convex, copse, copulate, corps, corral, coterie, count, couple, covey, crew, crop, crowd, cumulate, date, deal, detachment, detail, dig up, division, dose, dowel, draw together, dredge up, drift, drive, drive together, drove, ear, elite, elite group, embrace, faction, federalize, federate, flange, flap, fleet, flight, flock, flock together, flocks, flow together, forgather, freeze to, fuse, gall, gam, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gather in, gather together, gathering, get in, get together, gnarl, go in partners, go in partnership, gob, grasp, group, grouping, groupment, grove, grow together, hail, handle, hang on, hang together, hassock, heap, herd, herd together, hill, hive, hold, hold on, hold together, hook up with, horde, host, huddle, hug, hump, hunch, hunk, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, jam, jog, joggle, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, junta, junto, juxtapose, kennel, knob, knot, knur, knurl, large amount, league, legion, link, lip, litter, loop, lot, lots, lump, lump together, make up, many, marry, mass, masses of, match, measure, meet, merge, mess, mill, mob, mobilize, mole, mountain, movement, muchness, multitude, muster, nest, nevus, nosegay, nub, nubbin, nubble, number, numbers, organize, out-group, outfit, pack, pair, pair off, papilloma, parcel, part, partner, party, peer group, peg, persist, phalanx, platoon, plurality, pod, portion, posse, posy, pride, push, put together, quantities, quantity, quite a few, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, ration, regiment, rendezvous, rib, ridge, ring, round up, rout, ruck, salon, school, scores, scrape together, seethe, set, shoal, shock, shoulder, skulk, slew, sloth, small amount, smock, solidify, sort, spine, spray, squad, stable, stand together, stand up with, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, stook, stream, string, stud, style, sum, surge, swarm, tab, take hold of, take up, team, team up with, team with, thicket, throng, throw in with, tidy sum, tie in with, tie up with, tribe, trip, troop, troupe, tubercle, tubercule, tuft, tussock, unionize, unite, unite with, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, we-group, wed, welt, whip in, wing, wisp, worlds of

• bunco artist, bunco steerer, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, mortgage shark, pettifogger, pitchman, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, slicker, spieler

• bunco, ballot-box stuffing, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, cozenage, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, illicit business, imposition, imposture, racket, scam, swindle

• buncombe, Washingtonese, adulation, balls, baloney, big talk, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, blandishment, blarney, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, claptrap, compliment, crap, eyewash, fair words, fancy talk, fawning, federalese, fine talk, fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flattery, flimflam, gammon, gas, gobbledygook, grease, guff, gup, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, incense, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, official jargon, officialese, oil, palaver, piffle, political doubletalk, poppycock, praise, pretty lies, pussyfooting, rot, scat, shit, soap, soft soap, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tall story, tall talk, tommyrot, tripe, wheedling, wind

• bundle off, bow out, bundle, dismiss, float, give a start, give the air, give the gate, hustle out, kick off, launch, pack off, put in motion, send, send away, send forth, send off, send packing, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set on foot, show the door, show the gate, start, start going, start off, start up, turn away, turn off

• bundle up, apparel, array, attire, bale, bedeck, bedrape, bind up, bundle, clothe, deck, dight, do up, drape, dress, dud, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, garb, garment, habilitate, hap, invest, lap, muffle up, mummify, pack, package, parcel, rag out, raiment, robe, roll up, sheathe, shroud, swaddle, swathe, tie up, tire, truss, truss up, wrap, wrap up

• bundle, accelerate, amble, array, bale, band, bandage, barge, batch, belt, bend, bind, bind up, bindle, body, bolt, bomb, boodle, bouquet, bow out, bowl along, brace, budget, bunch, bundle off, bundle up, bustle, chain, chase, cinch, clump, cluster, collect, collection, croodle, crowd, cuddle, cuddle up, curl up, dash, dash off, dash on, decamp, deck, dismiss, dispatch, do up, double-time, drag, drive on, expedite, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, festinate, float, flounce, foot, footslog, forward, gather together, get going, get moving, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a start, give the air, give the gate, halt, haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, hustle out, hustle up, jog, jolt, jump, kick off, lace, lap, lash, launch, leap, leash, limp, lose no time, lot, lumber, lunge, lurch, make haste, mince, mint, move quickly, nestle, nosegay, nuzzle, pace, pack, pack off, package, packet, paddle, parcel, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pile, plod, plunge, post, posy, pot, prance, precipitate, press, press on, push, push on, push through, put in motion, quicken, quiver, race, rack, railroad through, roll, roll up, rope, rouleau, run, rush, rush along, rush through, sashay, saunter, scamper, scramble, scuff, scuffle, scurry, scuttle, send, send away, send forth, send off, send packing, set, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set on foot, shamble, sheaf, show the door, show the gate, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, snug up, snuggle, snuggle up to, speed, speed along, speed up, splice, spur, spurt, stagger, stalk, stamp, stampede, start, start going, start off, start up, stomp, straddle, straggle, strap, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swaddle, swagger, swathe, swing, tear, tie, tie up, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trip, trudge, truss, truss up, turn away, turn off, urge, wad, waddle, wamble, whip, whip along, wiggle, wire, wobble, wrap, wrap up

• bungle, bad job, bat out, be all thumbs, bevue, blooper, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bugger, bull, bumble, butcher, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, err, error, etourderie, fake up, faux pas, fiasco, flounder, flub, fluff, flunk, foozle, fuck up, fudge up, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, goof up, gum up, hash, indiscretion, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, lapse, lash up, louse up, lumber, make a blunder, make a misstep, mar, mess, mess up, miscue, mismanage, miss, miss the mark, misspeak, mistake, muck up, muddle, muff, murder, off day, patch, patch together, patch up, play havoc with, pound out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, sad work, screw up, slap up, slip, slip up, snafu, solecism, spoil, stumble, stupidity, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, trip, washout, whomp up

• bungler, blockhead, blunderbuss, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bumbler, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, disregarder, dodger, dolt, fumbler, gawk, goldbrick, goof-off, gowk, idler, ignorer, klutz, looby, lout, lubber, malingerer, neglecter, negligent, oaf, ox, procrastinator, shirker, slacker, slouch, sloven, slubberer, slut, trifler, waiter on Providence, yokel

• bungling, all thumbs, awkward, bad job, blunderheaded, blunderheadedness, blundering, boggling, boorish, botch, botched, botchery, botching, bumbling, butterfingered, careless, carelessness, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, haphazard, haphazardness, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky, inelegant, left-hand, left-handed, loose ends, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, messiness, messy, muffing, oafish, ponderous, promiscuous, sad work, slapdash, slipshod, slipshoddiness, slipshoddy, slipshodness, sloppiness, sloppy, slovenliness, slovenly, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttish, sluttishness, stiff, too many cooks, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, untidiness, untidy, unwieldy

• bunion, abscess, adenoiditis, adrenitis, aposteme, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, bed sore, blain, bleb, blennorrhagic arthritis, blister, boil, brain fever, bronchitis, bubo, bulla, bump, bursitis, canker, canker sore, capillaritis, carbuncle, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, cold sore, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, corn, cyst, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, dilatation, dilation, distension, edema, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, equine encephalomyelitis, eschar, exudative inflammation, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fibroid inflammation, fistula, focal inflammation, furuncle, furunculus, gastritis, gathering, gingivitis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, gumboil, hemophilic arthritis, hemorrhoids, hepatitis, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, intumescence, irritable bowel syndrome, kibe, laryngitis, lesion, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, lump, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, papula, papule, paradental pyorrhea, paronychia, parulis, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, petechia, pharyngitis, phlebitis, piles, pimple, pock, podagra, polyp, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pustule, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, reactive inflammation, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, rising, scab, sclerosing inflammation, sebaceous cyst, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, simple inflammation, sinusitis, soft chancre, sore, spastic colon, specific inflammation, stigma, sty, subacute rheumatism, suppuration, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, swell, swelling, swollenness, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, tubercle, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, ulcer, ulceration, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, wale, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound, wryneck

• bunk, abide, abscond, applesauce, balderdash, balls, baloney, bed, bedstead, beguile, berth, bestow, betray, big talk, bilge, billet, blague, blah, blah-blah, board, bop, bosh, break, bull, bullshit, bunkum, claptrap, cohabit, couch, crap, decamp, delude, domicile, domiciliate, doss, doss down, double-cross, dwell, eyewash, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flee, flimflam, fly, four-flush, gammon, gas, guff, gup, gurney, hang out, harbor, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, house, humbug, humbuggery, hut, inhabit, jazz, jiggery-pokery, kip, litter, live, lodge, malarkey, mislead, moonshine, nest, occupy, perch, piffle, poppycock, put up, quarter, remain, reside, room, roost, rot, scape, scat, sell out, shelter, shit, sofa, squat, stable, stay, stretcher, tall story, tall talk, tenant, the hay, the sack, tommyrot, tripe, wind

• bunker, abri, acropolis, air-raid shelter, antre, approach trench, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bastion, bay, beachhead, bin, blockhouse, bomb shelter, bombproof, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bridgehead, burrow, buttery, cargo dock, castle, cave, cavern, cellar, cellarage, chest, citadel, closet, coal bin, communication trench, concealment, conservatory, control center, countermine, coupure, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crate, crib, cupboard, cyclone cellar, depository, depot, ditch, dock, donjon, double sap, drawer, dugout, dump, earth, entrenchment, exchequer, fallout shelter, fasthold, fastness, fire trench, flying sap, fort, fortified tunnel, fortress, fosse, foxhole, funk hole, gallery, garrison, garrison house, glory hole, godown, grot, grotto, hold, hole, hutch, impact area, keep, lair, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, martello, martello tower, mine, moat, mote, motte, parallel, peel, peel tower, pillbox, post, potato cellar, proving ground, rack, radar tracking station, rath, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, safehold, safety zone, sap, sewer, shelf, shelter, slit trench, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, storm cave, storm cellar, strong point, stronghold, subbasement, subterrane, subway, supply base, supply depot, tank, tower, tower of strength, tracking station, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trench, tunnel, vat, vault, ward, warehouse, warren, wine cellar

• bunkum, Grade A, Washingtonese, adulation, applesauce, balderdash, balls, baloney, bang-up, big talk, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, blandishment, blarney, blue-ribbon, bop, bosh, boss, bull, bullshit, bunk, cajolement, cajolery, champion, claptrap, compliment, crap, eyewash, fair words, fancy talk, fawning, federalese, fine talk, first-string, fish story, fit, flam, flapdoodle, flattery, flimflam, gammon, gas, gobbledygook, grease, guff, gup, hale, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, incense, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, official jargon, officialese, oil, palaver, piffle, political doubletalk, poppycock, praise, pretty lies, pussyfooting, right, rot, sane, scat, shit, soap, soft soap, sound, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tall story, tall talk, tommyrot, top, top-notch, tripe, well, wheedling, wholesome, wind

• bunny, Belgian hare, Miss America, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, buck, charmer, cottontail, cover girl, dazzler, doe, dream, enchantress, great beauty, hare, jackrabbit, knockout, lady fair, lapin, leporide, leveret, looker, model, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, pussycat, rabbit, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner

• bunt, advance, assault, beak, bear, bear upon, bearing, boost, bowl, brush, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, butt, butt against, chuck, cram, crowd, dab, dig, drive, driving force, elbow, fillip, flick, flip, flirt, force, forward, goad, graze, head, hurtle, hustle, impel, impulsion, jab, jam, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, motive power, move, nudge, pat, peck, pedal, pick, pile drive, poke, pole, press, pressure, prod, propel, propelling, propelment, propulsion, pulsion, punch, push, pushing, ram, ram down, rap, rattle, roll, row, run, run against, shake, shoulder, shove, shoving, shunt, snap, stress, sweep, sweep along, tamp, tap, thrust, tickle, tip, touch, treadle, troll, trundle, whisk

• bunting, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, banderole, banner, banneret, black flag, blue ensign, burgee, coachwhip, colors, ensign, flag, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, house flag, jack, long pennant, merchant flag, national flag, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, red, red ensign, royal standard, signal flag, standard, streamer, swallowtail, tricolor, vexillum, white

• buoy up, afford support, animate, back, back up, bear, bear up, bolster, bolster up, boost, brace, brighten, buoy, buttress, carry, cast up, cheer, cradle, crutch, cushion, elevate, encourage, enliven, erect, escalate, exhilarate, float, float high, give a lift, give support, gladden, hearten, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold, hold up, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, jerk up, keep afloat, keep up, knock up, lend support, levitate, lift, lift up, liven, lob, loft, mainstay, maintain, perk up, pick up, pillow, prop, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, reinforce, rejoice, rejoice the heart, ride high, rise, set up, shore, shore up, shoulder, sky, stay, stick up, subsidize, subvention, support, sustain, throw up, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, up, upbear, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, upkeep, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow, vitalize, waft

• buoy, Carling float, Mae West, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, balsa, balsa raft, beacon, beacon fire, bear up, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, bob, boom, breeches buoy, buoy up, caution light, cork, cork jacket, ejection capsule, ejection seat, ejector seat, elevate, flare, float, float high, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, hearten, heliograph, high sign, hold up, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, keep up, kick, leer, life belt, life buoy, life jacket, life net, life preserver, life raft, life ring, life vest, lifeboat, lifeline, lift, lollipop, marker beacon, nod, nudge, parachute, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, pontoon, quarantine flag, radio beacon, raft, raise, red flag, red light, ride high, rocket, rubber dinghy, safety belt, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, 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, siren, spar buoy, stop light, support, surfboard, sustain, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, upbear, uphold, uplift, upraise, waft, watch fire, water wings, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

• buoyancy, adaptability, airiness, ascent, bounce, bounciness, breeziness, bubbliness, buoyance, carefreeness, chirpiness, daintiness, debonairness, delicacy, downiness, effervescence, elasticity, ethereality, extensibility, exuberance, flexibility, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, frothiness, gentleness, give, gossameriness, jauntiness, lack of weight, levitation, levity, light heart, lightheartedness, lightness, lightsomeness, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, rebound, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, snap, softness, spring, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, tenderness, tone, tonicity, tonus, unheaviness, volatility, weightlessness, yeastiness

• buoyant, adaptable, adaptive, afloat, airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, breezy, bright, carefree, cheerful, convalescent, corky, debonair, ebullient, effervescent, elastic, expansive, extensile, flexible, flexile, floatable, floating, floaty, free and easy, jaunty, light, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, peppy, perky, recuperative, recuperatory, resilient, responsive, reviviscent, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supernatant, vivacious, volatile

• burble, babble, be stupid, blather, blither, blubber, boil, boil over, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, chatter, clack, dither, dote, drivel, drool, effervesce, ferment, fizz, fizzle, gabble, guggle, gurgle, hiss, lap, maunder, plash, plop, prattle, purl, rattle, ripple, run on, seethe, simmer, slobber, slosh, sparkle, splash, swash, swish, trill, wash, work, yak, yammer

• burden, Spenserian stanza, accommodation, add, adjoin, affix, afflict, affliction, agglutinate, agitate, albatross, allegiance, amount, anacrusis, annex, antistrophe, append, arraignability, arraignableness, assigned task, attach, bag, bale, bane, barrel, basis, bass, bass passage, bear down on, bear hard upon, bis, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blameworthiness, bloody hands, bob, body, book, bother, bottle, bounden duty, bourdon, box, bridge, bugbear, burden of care, burden with, burdening, burthen, business, busy, cadence, calamity, call of duty, can, cankerworm of care, canto, capacity, care, cargo, carload, cartload, case, censurability, censurableness, chant, chapter, charge, chargeability, charging, chest voice, chorus, clog, coda, coloratura, commitment, complicate, complicity, concern, conjoin, content, cordage, couplet, cramp, crate, criminality, cripple, cross, crown of thorns, crush one, crushing burden, culpability, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, death, decorate, dedication, deference, demand, destruction, development, devoir, devotion, difficulty, dirty hands, disadvantage, discomfort, disease, disquiet, distich, distress, disturb, ditto, division, drag, drive, drone, drone bass, duties and responsibilities, duty, embarrass, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, enjoin, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, envoi, epode, essence, ethics, evil, exact, exhaust, exposition, fag, falsetto, fasten upon, fealty, fetter, figure, fill, focus of attention, focus of interest, folderol, freight, freight with, gall, gall and wormwood, gist, glue on, go hard with, go ill with, gravamen, grievance, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, hamper, hamstring, handicap, harm, harmonic close, haul, haunt, haunt the memory, head, head voice, heading, heap, heap up, heptastich, hexastich, hitch on, hobble, homage, impeachability, impeachableness, impede, impediment, impedimenta, imperative, implication, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, inculpation, incumbency, indictability, indictableness, infix, inflict on, inflict upon, infliction, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, involve, involvement, issue, join with, keep busy, lade, lading, lame, lay, lay on, levy, lie on, lime, limit, line, line of duty, living issue, load, load with care, loading, loyalty, lumber, main point, mass, matter, matter in hand, measure, meat, millstone, mission, monostich, motif, motive, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, must, nemesis, net, obligation, obsess, octastich, octave, octet, onus, open wound, oppress, oppression, ornament, ottava rima, ought, overburden, overdrive, overload, overtask, overtax, overtaxing, overweigh, overweight, overweighting, overwork, pack, pack away, pack of troubles, part, passage, paste on, payload, peccancy, peck of troubles, penalty, pentastich, period, perturb, pest, pestilence, phrase, pile, pith, place, plague, plus, pocket, point, point at issue, point in question, postfix, poundage, prefix, press down, press hard upon, pressure, prey on, problem, purport, put, put down, put on, put to it, put upon, put with, quantity, quatrain, question, red-handedness, refrain, repeat, repetend, reprehensibility, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness, resolution, respect, response, rest hard upon, rhyme royal, ritornello, room, rubric, running sore, sack, saddle, saddle with, saddling, scourge, sea of troubles, section, self-imposed duty, septet, sestet, set, sextet, shackle, ship, shipload, slap on, snarl, sorrow, space, stack, stanza, statement, stave, store, stow, stowage, strain, strophe, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subject to, subjoin, substance, suffix, superadd, superincumbency, superpose, surcharge, sweat, syllable, tack on, tag, tag on, tailpiece, tangle, task, tax, taxing, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, theme, thorn, thrust, tire, toil, tonnage, topic, torment, trailerload, trainload, trammel, treble, triplet, tristich, trouble, truckload, try one, tutti, tutti passage, undersong, unite with, upset, upshot, vanload, variation, verse, vexation, visitation, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, voice, volume, waters of bitterness, wear out, weary, weigh, weigh down, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, weight down, weight down with, white elephant, woe, work, yoke with

• burdened, bearing, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, holding, laden, loaded, maintaining, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, propping, saddled, shoring, supercharged, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, taxed, upholding, weighted, weighted down

• burdensome, Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, distressing, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling, hampering, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, heavy, hefty, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, incumbent, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, lumpish, massive, onerous, operose, oppressive, overburdensome, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained, strenuous, superincumbent, taxing, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, tyrannous, unwieldy, uphill, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty, worrisome, worrying

• bureau, agency, bailiwick, chest, chest of drawers, chiffonier, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, department, desk, division, dresser, ministry, municipality, office, secretariat, section, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, subdivision

• bureaucracy, administration, authorities, beadledom, beat, beaten path, bumbledom, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, daily grind, directorate, government, grind, groove, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, jog trot, management, ministry, official jargon, officialdom, officialism, prelacy, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, round, routine, ruling class, ruling classes, run, rut, squirrel cage, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, top brass, track, treadmill, well-worn groove

• bureaucratic, absolute, administrative, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, directing, executive, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, managing, matriarchal, matriarchic, ministerial, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, republican, self-governing, supervisory, theocratic, totalitarian

• burg, Stadt, banlieue, boom town, borough, bourg, burgh, city, conurbation, crossroads, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghost town, greater city, hamlet, hick town, jerkwater town, jumping-off place, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, mudhole, municipality, one-horse town, outskirts, polis, spread city, suburb, suburbia, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville, whistle-stop

• burgeon, acrospire, augment, bine, bloom, blossom, blow, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, brew, bud, build, burst forth, deadwood, develop, effloresce, enlarge, expand, flagellum, flourish, flower, flower bud, fork, frond, gather, gemma, gemmate, gemmula, gemmule, germinate, grow, grow rank, grow up, heighten, hypertrophy, increase, leaf, leaf bud, leaf out, leave, limb, luxuriate, mature, mount, multiply, mushroom, offshoot, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, plumule, procreate, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, ramage, ramification, reproduce, riot, root, run up, runner, sarment, scion, shoot, shoot up, slip, snowball, spear, spray, sprig, spring up, sprit, sprout, sprout up, stolon, strike root, sucker, switch, take root, tendril, thallus, thrive, tower, twig, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax

• burgher, Babbitt, Christian, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, big-city man, bourgeois, burgess, citizen, city dweller, city man, city slicker, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, exemplary citizen, exurbanite, formalist, good citizen, good neighbor, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, oppidan, organization man, parrot, pedant, perfectionist, pillar of society, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, respectable citizen, sheep, square, suburbanite, teenybopper, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, trimmer, true Christian, urbanite, villager, villageress, yes-man

• burghermaster, alderman, archon, bailie, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, headman, induna, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, mayor, minister, minister of state, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden

• burglary, break-in, breaking and entering, burglarizing, caper, filch, grab, heist, housebreaking, job, lift, pinch, rip-off, robbery, safeblowing, safebreaking, safecracking, steal, theft, unlawful entry

• burial, baptism, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial at sea, burial chamber, burial customs, burial mound, burying, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, clouding, concealedness, concealment, cortege, covering, covering up, covertness, cromlech, crypt, darkening, dead march, deception, deep six, deposition, dip, dipping, dirge, dokhma, dolmen, dousing, duck, ducking, dunking, encoffinment, engulfment, entombment, exequies, funeral, funeral procession, funerary customs, grave, hiddenness, hiding, house of death, immergence, immersion, inhumation, interment, inundation, inurning, invisibility, last home, last post, long home, low green tent, low house, masking, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, muffled drum, mummy chamber, mystification, narrow house, obscuration, obscurement, obsequies, occultation, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pit, primary burial, putting away, pyramid, reburial, reliquary, resting place, screening, secondary burial, secrecy, secretion, sepulcher, sepulture, shaft grave, shrine, sinking, souse, sousing, stupa, submergence, submersion, subterfuge, taps, tomb, tope, tower of silence, tumulus, uncommunicativeness, urn burial, vault

• buried in, absorbed, absorbed in, caught up in, contemplating, contemplative, devoted, devoted to, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, immersed in, intent, intent on, involved, lost in, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, occupied, preoccupied, single-minded, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up with, totally absorbed, wrapped in, wrapped up in

• buried, abstruse, beclouded, blind, close, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, deep-buried, drowned, eclipsed, engulfed, flooded, guarded, hid, hidden, immersed, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, inundated, latent, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, privy, recondite, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, shrouded, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, sunken, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, undersea, underwater, unknown, wrapped in clouds

• burl, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, dowel, ear, flange, flap, gall, gnarl, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, rib, ridge, ring, shoulder, spine, stud, style, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

• burlesque, Atticism, Broadway, Thalia, aggrandize, aggrandizement, agile wit, amplification, amplify, anamorphosis, ape, arlequinade, bad likeness, ballyhoo, belie, big talk, black comedy, black humor, blowing up, botch, broad, broad comedy, build up, burletta, camouflage, camp, caricatural, caricature, carnival, carry too far, circus, color, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy, comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas, comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy relief, comic, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief, comical, copy, dark comedy, daub, derisive, dilatation, dilation, disguise, distort, distortion, doggerel, domestic comedy, drama, draw the longbow, dry wit, dummy, duplication, enhancement, enlargement, entertainment industry, esprit, exaggerate, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exode, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, facsimile, falsify, farce, farce comedy, farcical, garble, genteel comedy, go to extremes, grandiloquence, harlequinade, hatchet job, heightening, high camp, hit off on, huckstering, humor, hyperbole, hyperbolism, hyperbolize, imitate, imitation, inflation, inordinacy, irony, knockoff, lampoon, lay it on, legit, legitimate stage, light comedy, low camp, low comedy, macaronic, magnification, magnify, make much of, malicious parody, mime, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, mock, mock-heroic, mock-up, mockery, model, musical, musical comedy, nimble wit, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, opera buffa, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overemphasis, overestimate, overestimation, overkill, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstatement, overstress, paraphrase, parodic, parody, pasquil, pasquin, pasquinade, pastiche, pervert, pile it on, playland, pleasantry, poison pen, pretty wit, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffing up, quick wit, raw comedy, ready wit, realistic comedy, repertory drama, replica, representation, reproduction, romantic comedy, salt, sarcasm, satire, satiric, satirical, satirize, satyr play, savor of wit, scratch, scribble, sensationalism, sentimental comedy, sham, show biz, show business, situation comedy, slant, slapstick, slapstick comedy, slapstick humor, spoof, squib, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, stretch, stretch the truth, stretching, striptease, subtle wit, summer stock, superlative, take off, take off on, take-off, takeoff, talk big, talk in superlatives, tall talk, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, tout, touting, tragicomedy, tragicomic, travesty, twist, understate, variety, vaudeville, version, visual humor, warp, wicked imitation, wit, wrench

• burly, able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, broad-shouldered, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, imposing, large, lusty, meaty, muscle-bound, muscular, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, rugged, sinewy, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, swollen, thewy, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tough, tubby, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry

• burn out, beat, blow, break down, collapse, crack up, debilitate, die, die away, die out, do in, do up, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fag, fag out, faint, fatigue, fizzle, fizzle out, flag, flame out, frazzle, gasp, get tired, give out, go out, grow weary, harass, jade, knock out, knock up, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pant, peter out, play out, poop, poop out, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, run down, run out, sink, succumb, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, use up, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, wheeze, wilt, wind

• burn the midnight oil, be behindhand, be late, be overdue, bone, con, contemplate, dig, do double duty, drill, elucubrate, examine, get up late, go over, grind, hit the ball, hustle, keep everyone waiting, keep late hours, lucubrate, miss the boat, oversleep, overwork, peruse, plunge into, pore over, pour it on, practice, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, scratch, show up late, slave, stay late, stay up late, study, sweat, swot, vet, wade through, work hard, work late, work overtime

• burn up, ablate, absorb, aggravate, anger, annoy, assimilate, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, bleed white, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn down, chivy, consume, cremate, deplete, devil, digest, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat up, erode, exasperate, exercise, exhaust, expend, fash, finish, finish off, gall, get, gobble, gobble up, grate, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, impoverish, incendiarize, incinerate, inflame, ingest, irk, make angry, make mad, make sore, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, reduce to ashes, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, spend, squander, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, tease, tick off, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, use up, vex, waste away, wear away, worry

• burn, Earth insertion, LEM, LM, abrade, abrasion, adolescent stream, afflict, agonize, ail, air-dry, altitude peak, anhydrate, apogee, arroyo, assault, attack, attitude-control rocket, automatic control, bake, ballistic capsule, bank, barbarize, bark, batter, be bright, be in heat, be livid, be pissed, be warm, beacon, beam, beat, beat down, beck, bedazzle, beguile of, behead, bilk, bite, blacken, blast-off, blaze, blaze up, blemish, blind, blister, bloody, bloom, blot, blow down, blow up, bluster, boil, boil over, bourn, bowstring, braided stream, branch, brand, break, break down, bring down, bristle, broil, bronze, brook, brooklet, brown, browned off, brush, brutalize, bulldoze, bunco, burn down, burn in, burn off, burning, burning pain, burnout, burst into flame, butcher, capsule, carry on, cast, cast down, catch, catch fire, catch on fire, cauterize, ceiling, chafe, channel, char, cheat, check, chip, chisel, choke, chop down, chouse, chouse out of, claw, coal, cog, cog the dice, combust, con, concussion, conflagrate, consume, convulse, cook, cozen, crack, crackle, craze, creek, cremate, crib, crick, crucify, cupel, cure, cut, cut down, daze, dazzle, decapitate, decollate, deep-space ship, defenestrate, defraud, dehumidify, dehydrate, descent, desiccate, desire, destroy, diddle, diffuse light, distress, do in, do out of, docking, docking maneuver, drain, dry, electrocute, embrown, end of burning, enkindle, euchre, evaporate, excruciate, execute, exsiccate, fan the flame, feed, feed the fire, fell, ferry rocket, fester, finagle, fire, flam, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash, flash burn, flatten, fleece, flicker, flight, flimflam, flowing stream, flush, fluviation, fob, found, fracture, fray, frazzle, fresh, freshet, fret, fritter away, fry, fudge, fuel ship, fulgurate, fume, gall, garrote, gash, gasp, get wind of, gill, give light, give pain, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glow, gnaw, go on, gouge, gripe, guillotine, gull, gyp, hammer, harrow, have, have a conniption, hocus, hocus-pocus, hurt, ignite, ignition, impact, incandesce, incinerate, incise, incision, inflame, inflict capital punishment, inflict pain, infuscate, injection, injure, injury, insertion, insolate, irritate, itch, kill, kill by inches, kiln, kindle, knock down, knock over, lacerate, laceration, lapidate, launch, lay waste, lazy stream, lesion, level, lift-off, light, light up, long, loot, lunar excursion module, lunar module, luster, maim, make mincemeat of, manned rocket, martyr, martyrize, mat burn, maul, meandering stream, melt, midchannel, midstream, millstream, module, moon ship, mortal wound, moving road, mow down, mug, mulct, multistage rocket, mummify, mutilate, mutilation, navigable river, nip, nose out, orbit, overreach, oxidate, oxidize, pack the deal, pain, pant, parch, parking orbit, perigee, pierce, pigeon, pillage, pinch, pissed off, practice fraud upon, prick, prolong the agony, prostrate, pull down, puncture, put to death, put to torture, pyrolyze, race, racing stream, rack, radiate, radiate heat, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramp, rampage, rankle, rant, rant and rave, rape, rase, rasp, rave, raze, ream, reduce to ashes, reentry, rekindle, relight, relume, rend, rent, riot, rip, river, rivulet, roar, roast, rocket, rocket launching, rook, rub, ruin, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, rupture, rust, sack, savage, scald, scam, scent, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, sear, second-degree burn, seethe, sell gold bricks, send out rays, set fire to, set on fire, shave, shimmer with heat, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, shortchange, shot, shrivel, shuttle rocket, sike, simmer, singe, sizzle, skin, slash, slaughter, slit, smart, smarting, smash, smell, smell out, smoke, smolder, smother, smoulder, sniff, sniff out, soak up, soft landing, solder, sore, sow chaos, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship, spark, spill stream, sponge, sprain, sputter, squander, stab, stab wound, stack the cards, steam, steamroller, stew, stick, stifle, sting, stinging, stir the fire, stoke, stoke the fire, stone, storm, strain, strangle, stream, stream action, streamlet, strike a light, subterranean river, suffocate, sun, sun-dry, sunburn, sunscald, suntan, swab, sweat, swelter, swindle, swinge, take, take a dive, take down, take on, tan, tear, tear around, tear down, terrorize, thimblerig, third-degree burn, throw a fight, throw a fit, throw away, throw down, tingle, tingling, toast, torch, torment, torrefy, torture, touch off, towel, trajectory, trauma, traumatize, tweak, twist, urtication, use, vandalize, velocity peak, vesicate, victimize, violate, vulcanize, wadi, warm, waste, watercourse, waterway, weazen, weld, windburn, wipe, wish, wither, wizen, wound, wounds immedicable, wreck, wrench, wring, yearn

• burner, Argand burner, acetylene welder, annihilator, arsonist, biblioclast, blast lamp, blowpipe, blowtorch, bomber, burning ghat, caliduct, cinerator, cooker, cookery, cremator, crematorium, crematory, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, element, exterminator, furnace, gas burner, gas jet, gas mantle, heater, heating duct, hun, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, incandescent mantle, incinerator, jet, mantle, nihilist, pilot light, ruiner, steam pipe, stove, syndicalist, terrorist, tewel, torch, tuyere, vandal, warmer, welder, welding blowpipe, wrecker

• burning, abandoned, ablaze, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, algetic, alight, angry, animal heat, approaching, approximate, approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, baking, beaming, beamy, beheading, bitter, blazing, blistering, blood heat, blushing, body heat, boiling, boiling over, branding, breathless, bright, bright and sunny, bright-hued, brilliant, brisk, broiling, burn, burning hot, burning pain, burning with excitement, calcination, calefacient, calefactive, calefactory, calidity, caloric, candent, candescent, canicular, capital punishment, carbonization, caustic, cauterant, cauterization, cautery, chafed, chafing, cheek-by-jowl, choleric, cineration, clamant, clamorous, close, coal heat, colorful, colory, comburent, combustion, committed, concremation, conflagrant, convected heat, cordial, cracking, cremation, crucifixion, crying, cupellation, curried, decapitation, decollation, dedicated, deep-colored, defenestration, deflagration, delirious, destructive distillation, devoted, devout, dire, distillation, distilling, drunk, earnest, ebullient, electric heat, electrocution, embittered, emphatic, enthusiastic, estral, estrous, estrual, excited, exciting, execution, exigent, exotic, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent, fervid, festering, fever, fever heat, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, fire, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed, flushing, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, funeral pile, fusillade, galled, garrote, gas heat, gassing, gay, gay-colored, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, gorgeous, grilling, guttering, hand-in-hand, hanging, hearty, heat, heated, heatedness, heating, hectic, hemlock, het up, high-colored, high-seasoned, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hot as pepper, hot-air heat, hot-blooded, hotness, hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hypothermia, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, impassioned, imperative, importunate, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, in heat, in must, in rut, incalescence, incandescent, incineration, induction heat, inflamed, instant, intense, intent, intent on, intimate, intoxicated, irradiative, irritated, judicial murder, keen, kindled, lamping, lapidation, light as day, lighted, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively, living, loyal, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, molecular heat, must, musty, near, near the mark, nearing, nearish, necktie party, nigh, nighish, nippy, oil heat, on fire, orient, overheated, overwarm, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate, peppery, perfervid, piping hot, poisoning, propinque, provoking, proximal, proximate, pyre, pyretic, pyrolysis, racy, radiant, radiant heat, raging, rancorous, rankled, rankling, raw, red, red-hot, reduction to ashes, reeking, refining, resentful, resenting, resolute, rich, rich-colored, roasting, rutilant, rutilous, rutting, ruttish, rutty, scalding, scintillant, scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, seasoned, seething, self-immolation, sensitive, serious, sexually excited, shining, shiny, shooting, side-by-side, simmering, sincere, singeing, sizzling, sizzling hot, smart, smarting, smelting, smoking, smoking hot, smoldering, snappy, solar heat, sore, sparking, spiced, spicy, spirited, splenetic, starbright, starlike, starry, steam heat, steaming, steamy, stewing, stimulating, sting, stinging, stirring, stoning, strangling, strangulation, streaming, sudorific, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, superheat, superheatedness, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, tangy, tender, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the stake, thermal radiation, thermogenesis, tingle, tingling, toasting, torrid, ultraviolet heat, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, urgent, urtication, vehement, vesication, vicinal, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivid, warm, warming, warmness, warmth, white-hot, with a kick, withering, zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy

• burnish, buff, dress, finish, furbish, glance, glaze, gloss, luster, polish, rub, rub up, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, scour, shine, sleek, slick, slick down, smooth, varnish, wax

• burr, accent, adherent, adhesive, barnacle, belch, blare, blat, boll, bramble, bray, brier, bristle, broad accent, brogue, bulldog, buzz, cackle, cactus, capsule, catchweed, caw, cement, chirr, chiseling, clang, clangor, clank, clash, cleavers, cod, craunch, croak, cross-hatching, crump, crunch, decal, decalcomania, demitint, drawl, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, follicle, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glue, glyptic, goose grass, graving, grind, groan, growl, grumble, gunk, half tint, hatching, hull, husk, incision, inscript, inscription, jangle, jar, leech, legume, legumen, limpet, line, lining, marking, molasses, mucilage, needle, nettle, paste, pease cod, pericarp, pine needle, plaster, pod, prickle, quill, rasp, regional accent, remora, score, scoring, scranch, scrape, scratch, scratching, scrunch, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, slash, slashing, snarl, snore, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, stipple, stippling, syrup, thistle, thorn, tint, tooling, twang, type-cutting, yucca

• burrow, abri, anchor, antre, be incognito, beat the bushes, billet at, bivouac, bore, bunker, camp, cave, cavern, colonize, come to anchor, couch, cove, covert, croodle, cuddle, delve, den, dig, dig out, dike, disappear, domesticate, dredge, drill, drive, drop anchor, drop from sight, dugout, earth, ensconce, establish residence, excavate, excavation, explore, forage, form, foxhole, frisk, furrow, go into hiding, go through, go to ground, go underground, gouge, gouge out, groove, grot, grotto, grub, hide, hide away, hide out, hive, hole, hole up, hunt, inhabit, keep house, lair, lie, lie close, lie doggo, lie hid, lie low, lie snug, live at, locate, lodge, look around, look round, look through, lower, masquerade, mew, mine, moor, move, nest, nestle, nose around, nuzzle, park, people, perch, play peekaboo, poke, poke around, populate, pry, quarry, relocate, remain anonymous, research, reside, retire from sight, roost, root, run, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, search, search through, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, sewer, shovel, sink, sit down, sit tight, smell around, snug, spade, squat, stand, stay at, stay in hiding, strike root, subterrane, subway, take cover, take residence at, take root, take up residence, trench, trough, tunnel, warren, wear a mask

• bursar, accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, cashier, cashkeeper, chamberlain, compensator, comptroller, controller, curator, defrayer, depositary, depository, financial officer, liquidator, payer, paymaster, purse bearer, purser, ratepayer, receiver, recompenser, remunerator, steward, taxpayer, treasurer, trustee

• burst forth, arise, bail out, be born, become, belch, blow open, blow out, bob up, break cover, break forth, break out, bud, burgeon, burst out, come, come forth, come out, come to be, crop up, debouch, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, effuse, eject, emanate, emerge, eruct, erupt, explode, extrude, flare up, flash, flourish, gemmate, germinate, get to be, gleam, grow, grow rank, have origin, hurl forth, irrupt, issue, issue forth, jump out, leaf, leaf out, leave, luxuriate, originate, overgrow, overrun, pop up, protrude, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, riot, rise, root, sally, sally forth, shoot, shoot up, spew, spout, spring up, sprout, sprout up, start up, strike root, surface, take birth, take rise, take root, upspear, upsprout, vegetate, vomit

• burst in, admit, barge in, be admitted, breach, break in, break in upon, break into, break open, break through, breeze in, bust in, butt in, cave 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, force open, 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, prize open, push in, put in, put on, put upon, rupture, rush in, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, split open, squeeze in, steal in, step in, storm in, stove in, take in, tear open, throng in, thrust in, trench, trespass, visit, wedge in, work in, worm in

• burst out, be in stitches, belch, blow open, blow out, blurt, blurt out, break out, break up, burst forth, burst into laughter, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crow, discharge, disgorge, ejaculate, eject, eruct, erupt, exclaim, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hee-haw, hee-hee, ho-ho, horselaugh, hurl forth, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, nearly die laughing, roar, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, spew, split, split with laughter, spout, tee-hee, titter, vomit, yuk-yuk

• burst, access, ado, aggravated, agitation, antiaircraft barrage, backfire, bang, bark, barrage, belch, blast, blaze, blaze of temper, blow out, blow up, blowout, blowup, bombardment, boom, bother, botheration, box barrage, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, broadside, broken, bump, burned, burst, burst of speed, bury, bust, busted, bustle, cache, cannonade, cannonry, canter, cascade, check, checked, chip, chipped, clap, clash, cleft, coffin, come apart, come unstuck, commotion, conceal, convulsion, cover, crack, cracked, crash, crazed, creeping barrage, crump, cut, cyclone, damaged, dash, dead run, debouchment, deflagration, deteriorated, detonate, detonation, discharge, disintegrate, dissiliency, dive, dogtrot, drive, drumfire, embittered, emergency barrage, enfilade, ensconce, entomb, eructation, eruption, exacerbated, exfoliate, explode, explosion, fall to pieces, feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fire, fissure, fit, flank speed, flap, flare, flare up, flare-up, flash, flash fire, flat-out speed, flop, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, forced draft, fracture, fragment, fulguration, full gallop, fulminate, fulmination, fusillade, fuss, fussiness, gale, gallop, gap, give away, give way, go off, gunshot, gush, gust, hand gallop, harmed, headlong rush, heavy right foot, hide, high lope, high words, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurricane, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, inhume, injured, inter, inurn, irritated, irruption, jet, jog trot, knock, lacerated, lay away, lay to rest, let off, lope, lunge, maelstrom, mangled, maximum speed, mortar barrage, mushroom, mutilated, normal barrage, occult, open throttle, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, pash, pitch, plant, plunge, pop, pother, puncture, put away, race, rap, rapids, rent, report, restlessness, rift, rip, rive, run, rupture, ruptured, rush, sally, salvo, scalded, scale, scamper, scene, scorched, scramble, screen, scud, scurry, scuttle, secrete, seizure, sepulcher, sepulture, set off, shatter, shattered, shiver, shoot, shot, shower, slam, slap, slash, slashed, slat, slice, slit, smack, smash, smashed, smatter, snap, spasm, spate, spew, splat, splinter, split, spray, spring a leak, sprint, sprung, spurt, standing barrage, start, stash, stew, stir, storm, swap, sweat, swirl, tap, tear, tempest, the worse for, thwack, to-do, tomb, torn, tornado, torrent, touch off, trot, tumult, unquiet, upheaval, volcan, volley, vortex, weakened, whack, wham, whap, whirl, whirlwind, whomp, whop, wide-open speed, worse, worse off, worsened

• bursting, SRO, abundant, agog, alive with, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, banging, blasting, bloated, blooming, bountiful, brimful, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting out, capacity, carried away, chock-full, choked, chuck-full, congested, copious, cracking, cram-full, crammed, crashing, crawling, creative, crowded, crowding, detonating, distended, drenched, ebullient, effervescent, eruptive, excited, exhilarated, explodable, exploding, explosible, explosive, exuberant, farci, fecund, fertile, filled, filled to overflowing, fired, flapping, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, fruitful, full, full to bursting, fulminating, generous, glutted, gorged, high, hopped up, hyperemic, impassioned, in profusion, in spate, inflamed, jam-packed, jammed, keyed up, knocking, lathered up, lavish, lush, luxuriant, manic, moved, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, plenteous, plentiful, plethoric, popping, populous, pregnant, prodigal, productive, profuse, proliferating, proliferous, prolific, rapping, ready to burst, replete, rich, rife, round, roused, running over, satiated, saturated, seminal, slapping, slatting, soaked, standing room only, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, tapping, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thrilled, thriving, thronged, thronging, tingling, tingly, topful, turned-on, uberous, volcanic, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty

• bury, abandon, baptize, bosom, bottle up, cache, coffin, conceal, conduct a funeral, consign to oblivion, cover up, deluge, deposit, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, embosom, encoffin, engulf, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, eradicate, extirpate, file and forget, forget, hearse, hide, hide away, immerge, immerse, inearth, inhume, inter, inundate, inurn, keep hidden, keep secret, lay to rest, lock up, merge, obscure, overcome, overwhelm, plant, plunge, plunge in water, put away, seal up, secrete, sepulture, sink, souse, stash, store away, stow away, submerge, submerse, tomb, whelm

• bus, auto, autobus, autocar, automobile, barge, bicycle, bike, boat, buggy, cab, car, cart, catch a train, chartered bus, chauffeur, coach, crate, cycle, diligence, double-decker, dray, drive, entrain, ferry, float, go by rail, hack, haul, heap, hired car, jalopy, jitney, joyride, lighter, machine, mail coach, make a train, motor, motor coach, motor vehicle, motorbus, motorcar, motorcycle, motorized vehicle, omnibus, pedal, post coach, raft, ride, ship, sled, sledge, stage, stagecoach, take a joyride, taxi, taxicab, truck, tub, van, voiture, wagon, wheel, wheelbarrow, wheels, wreck

• busboy, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, barkeep, barkeeper, barmaid, barman, bartender, bearer, bheesty, caddie, cargo handler, carhop, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, counterman, cupbearer, drayman, express, expressman, freighter, gun bearer, hauler, headwaiter, homing pigeon, hostess, letter carrier, litter-bearer, porter, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, sommelier, stevedore, stretcher-bearer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wagoner, waiter, waitress, water boy, water carrier, wine steward

• bush, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, afforestation, arboretum, back country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwoods, barren, barren land, barrens, boondock, boondocks, borderland, bramble, brier, brier bush, brush, brushwood, bush country, bushing, bushveld, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, dendrology, desert, desolation, doubling, doublure, dust bowl, facing, filler, filling, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, heath, hinterland, howling wilderness, index forest, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jungle, jungles, karroo, liner, lining, lunar landscape, lunar waste, national forest, outback, outpost, packing, padding, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, salt flat, scrub, scrubland, scrubwood, selection forest, shrub, shrubbery, shrubland, shrubwood, silviculture, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, stuffing, the bush, timber, timberland, timbers, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wadding, wainscot, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands, woods

• bushed, all in, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, exhausted, fagged out, gone, knocked out, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, spent, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed-up, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn-out

• bushfighting, A-war, H-war, aerial warfare, amphibious warfare, atom war, atomic war, bacteriological warfare, biological warfare, chemical warfare, conventional war, defensive warfare, gas warfare, germ warfare, guerrilla warfare, irregular warfare, jungle warfare, land warfare, mechanized warfare, missile warfare, mobile warfare, motorized warfare, naval warfare, offensive warfare, position warfare, psychological warfare, push-button warfare, siege warfare, submarine warfare, technological warfare, trench warfare, underground warfare, virus warfare, war of attrition, war of movement, war of position

• bushing, backing, ball bearing, bearing, bevel bearing, bush, chassis, doubling, doublure, facing, filler, filling, frame, headstock, infrastructure, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jewel, liner, lining, mount, mounting, needle bearing, packing, padding, roller bearing, setting, skeleton, stuffing, thrust bearing, underframe, wadding, wainscot

• bushman, Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, cave dweller, caveman, clam digger, cracker, desert rat, forester, fossil man, frontiersman, hillbilly, hinterlander, hominid, humanoid, man of old, missing link, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, redneck, ridge runner, troglodyte, woodlander, woodman, woodsman

• bushwa, balderdash, baloney, bilge, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, crap, eyewash, flapdoodle, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind

• bushwhack, ambush, assail, assault, astonish, attack, blitz, catch off-guard, catch unawares, come at, come down on, come from behind, come upon unexpectedly, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, do the unexpected, drop in on, fall on, fall upon, gang up on, go at, go for, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, jump, land on, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, light into, mug, pitch into, pounce upon, pound, pull up short, sail into, set on, set upon, spring a surprise, spring upon, strike, surprise, swoop down on, take by surprise, take short, take the offensive, take unawares, wade into

• bushwhacker, Charley, VC, Vietcong, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, bushfighter, casual, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, groundbreaker, guerrilla, guide, harbinger, herald, innovator, irregular, lead runner, leader, maquis, maquisard, messenger, partisan, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, resistance, resistance fighter, scout, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, underground, underground fighter, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker

• bushy, afforestational, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, bosky, braky, bristly, bushlike, cirrose, citrous, coniferous, copsy, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dendrologic, evergreen, fleecy, flocculent, forest, forestal, forested, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hardwood, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, nondeciduous, pilose, piny, pubescent, reforestational, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shagged, shaggy, shrubby, shrublike, silvicultural, softwood, sylvan, timbered, treelike, unshorn, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woody, woolly

• business cycle, boom, bottoming out, business fluctuations, bust, cooling off, crisis, depression, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, expanding economy, expansion, growth, high growth rate, low, market expansion, peak, peaking, prosperity, recession, recovery, slowdown, slump, upturn

• business, Aktiengesellschaft, acting, action, activeness, activism, activity, affair, aktiebolag, allegiance, area, art, assigned task, attempt, balance of trade, big business, body corporate, bounden duty, buffoonery, burden, business dealings, business establishment, call of duty, calling, career, career building, careerism, cartel, chamber of commerce, characterization, charge, combine, commerce, commercial, commercial affairs, commercial enterprise, commercial relations, commitment, compagnie, company, concern, concernment, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, contract, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, craft, custom, deal, dealing, dealings, dedication, deference, devoir, devotion, dingus, diversified corporation, dofunny, doing, doings, duties and responsibilities, duty, effort, employment, engagement, enterprise, establishment, ethics, fair trade, fealty, firm, free trade, function, gadget, gag, game, gizmo, goings-on, ham, hammy acting, handicraft, hoke, hokum, holding company, homage, hootenanny, house, imperative, impersonation, industrial, industry, intercourse, interest, issue, jigger, job, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, lifework, line, line of business, line of duty, line of work, lookout, loyalty, market, marketing, matter, mercantile, mercantile business, merchant, merchantry, metier, militancy, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mission, motion, movement, multilateral trade, mummery, must, mystery, number, obligation, occasions, occupation, office, onus, operating company, operation, organization, ought, outfit, overacting, palaver, pantomiming, partnership, patter, performance, performing, personation, place, plan, playacting, playing, plunderbund, point, political activism, pool, portrayal, practice, problem, proceeding, proceedings, profession, program, project, projection, proposition, proprietorship, province, public utility, pursuit, question, racket, reciprocal trade, representation, respect, responsibility, restraint of trade, retail, role, self-imposed duty, slapstick, small business, specialization, specialty, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stir, stock company, stunt, subject, syndicate, taking a role, task, the business world, the marketplace, thing, thingumajig, topic, trade, trade association, trading, traffic, transaction, truck, trust, undertaking, unilateral trade, utility, venture, vocation, walk, walk of life, wholesale, work

• businesslike, arranged, banausic, breadwinning, commercial, formal, habitual, harmonious, in hand, materialistic, methodical, moneymaking, normal, ordered, orderly, practical, prosaic, realistic, regular, routine, steady, symmetrical, systematic, uniform, usual, utilitarian, well-ordered, well-regulated, workaday, workday, working

• bust in, admit, barge in, be admitted, breach, break in, break into, break open, break through, breeze in, burst in, cave in, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drop in, edge in, enter, force open, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, insert, intrude, irrupt, jam in, jump in, look in, pack in, pop in, press in, prize open, push in, put in, rupture, set foot in, slip in, split open, squeeze in, step in, stove in, take in, tear open, thrust in, visit, wedge in, work in

• bust, abase, abasement, ado, apprehend, apprehension, arch, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, backfire, bad times, bag, bang, bankrupt, bankruptcy, barrow, bat, be ruined, become insolvent, bender, binge, blast, blow out, blow up, bomb, boobs, boom, boot, booze, bosom, bottoming out, bounce, bouncing check, boundary stone, bout, box, brannigan, brass, breach, break, break in, break to harness, breast, breasts, brisket, bum, bump, burst, business cycle, business fluctuations, bustle, cairn, can, capture, carousal, carouse, carving, cashier, casting down, celebration, cenotaph, check, chest, chip, chop, clamor, clap, clash, clout, collapse, collar, column, compotation, cooling off, crack, crash, crisis, cromlech, crop, cross, crump, cup, cyclolith, debase, debasement, debauch, deconsecrate, defrock, degradation, degrade, degrading, dement, demerit, demote, demotion, deplume, depluming, depose, depression, deprive, detain, dethrone, detonate, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, disgrade, disgrading, dismiss, displace, displume, displuming, doll, dolly, dolmen, domesticate, downgrade, downgrading, downturn, drinking bout, drum out, drunk, drunken carousal, dud, dug, dull thud, dummy, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economic stagnation, escapade, evil day, excommunicate, exfoliate, expanding economy, expansion, expel, explode, fail, failure, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, fire, fissure, fizzle, flap, flat failure, fling, flop, floperoo, flunk, flunk out, flurry, fold, fold up, footstone, fracture, frost, fulminate, furlough, furore, fuss, gentle, gingerbread man, give the ax, give the gate, go bankrupt, go into receivership, go off, go to pot, go to ruin, go under, go up, grave, gravestone, growth, guzzle, hard times, hassle, haymaker, headstone, heavy weather, high growth rate, hoarstone, housebreak, hubbub, humble, humbling, hurly-burly, impoverish, inscription, insolvency, insufficient funds, jag, kick, kick upstairs, kited check, knock, knockers, lark, lay figure, lay off, lemon, let go, let off, let out, liquidate, loser, low, lower, make a pinch, make redundant, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, marker, market expansion, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, model, monolith, monument, mound, nab, necrology, nenes, netting, nipple, obelisk, obituary, orgy, oust, overdraft, overdrawn account, overthrow, pap, papilla, paste, pauper, pauperize, peak, peaking, pension, pension off, pick up, pigeon breast, pillar, pinch, plaque, ploy, poke, portrait bust, potation, pother, prize, prosperity, pub-crawl, pull in, punch, puppet, purge, pyramid, rainy day, randan, randy, rap, read out of, receivership, recession, recovery, reduce, reduction, release, reliquary, remembrance, remove, remove from office, replace, report, retire, revel, ribbon, rostral column, ruin, run in, rupture, sack, sad times, scale, scarecrow, sculpture, scuttle, seizure, separate forcibly, set off, shaft, shoot, shrine, shut down, sink, slam, slap, slat, slowdown, slump, smack, snap, snowman, sock, splat, split, spree, statuary, statue, statuette, stela, stone, stormy weather, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, stripping of rank, stupa, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swap, symposium, tablet, tame, tap, tear, teat, testimonial, thorax, thwack, tit, tits, titties, titty, to-do, tomb, tombstone, toot, tope, total loss, touch off, trophy, tumult, turkey, turmoil, turn off, turn out, udder, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, uproar, upturn, wash out, washout, wassail, wax figure, waxwork, whack, wham, whap, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whomp, whop, wingding, wood carving

• busted, aggravated, bankrupt, beat, broke, broken, burned, burst, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, destitute, deteriorated, embittered, exacerbated, failed, flat, flat broke, harmed, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in receivership, in shards, injured, insolvent, irritated, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, on the rocks, oofless, rent, ruined, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung, stone-broke, stony, strapped, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• bustle, accelerate, ado, agitation, bake, beat, bilk, bite, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, bravado, brouhaha, bullying, bundle, burst, buzz about, chase, cheat, chisel, chouse, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, cozen, crowd, dash, dash off, dash on, discomposure, disorder, dispatch, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, double-time, drive, drive on, dust, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, excitement, expedite, fanfaronade, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, festinate, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flit, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fly, foment, forward, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, get going, get moving, gyp, hassle, haste, hasten, hasten on, hectoring, helter-skelter, hie on, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry about, hurry along, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, hustle up, inquietude, intimidation, jitters, jumpiness, kiln, leap, lose no time, maelstrom, make a fuss, make haste, malaise, moil, move quickly, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, overreach, pell-mell, perturbation, plunge, post, pother, precipitate, press, press on, push, push on, push through, quicken, race, railroad through, rant, ream, restlessness, rodomontade, roil, rout, row, ruffle, run, rush, rush about, rush along, rush around, rush through, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, seethe, seething, side, spasm, speed, speed along, speed up, splutter, spur, spurt, sputter, stampede, stew, sting, stir, swagger, swashbucklery, sweat, swirl, swirling, take, tear, tear around, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, uproar, upset, urge, vortex, whip, whip along, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whisk, whiz about, yeastiness

• bustling, active, agitated, brisk, busy, energetic, eventful, fidgety, fluttering, fluttery, fretful, full of incident, fussing, fussy, hopping, humming, hustling, jumpy, lively, momentous, on the go, phenomenal, popping, restless, stirring, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled

• busy, absorb, active, arabesque, assiduous, at it, at work, attend to business, baroque, burden, bustling, busybody, chichi, complex, complicated, detailed, devote, diligent, divert, drive, elaborate, elegant, employ, employed, energetic, engage, engaged, engross, fag, fancy, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, forward, frilly, full of business, fussy, hard at it, hard at work, hectic, high-wrought, hustling, immerse, impertinent, in harness, industrious, inquisitive, intricate, involve, involved, keep busy, labored, lively, luxuriant, luxurious, meddlesome, meddling, mind the store, moresque, nosy, occupied, occupy, officious, on duty, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, oppress, ornate, ostentatious, overdrive, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overtask, overtax, overwork, overworked, overwrought, pass the time, picturesque, presumptuous, pretty-pretty, prying, pushing, pushy, rich, rococo, self-appointed, snoopy, soak, spend, spend the time, sweat, task, tax, tied up, work, working

• busybody, Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, a tale-bearing animal, backseat driver, butt in, butt-in, buttinsky, eavesdropper, fool, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, horn in, informer, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, interfere, interlope, intermeddler, kibitzer, make, meddler, monkey with, mouse, newsmonger, newspaperman, nose, nosy Parker, peeper, poke, pragmatic, pragmatist, prier, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, reporter, rubber, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumormonger, scandalmonger, scopophiliac, sightseer, snook, snoop, snooper, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tamper with, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle-tattler, voyeur, yenta

• busywork, assignment, chare, charge, chore, commission, duty, errand, exercise, fish to fry, homework, job, job of work, labor, make-work, matters in hand, mission, odd job, piece of work, project, service, stint, task, things to do, work

• but, after all, again, albeit, all the same, alone, although, aside from, at all events, at any rate, bar, barring, besides, entirely, even, even so, except, except that, excepting, excluding, exclusively, for all that, howbeit, however, if not, in any case, in any event, just the same, merely, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, only, outside of, rather, save, saving, simply, solely, still, though, unless, unless that, were it not, when, without, yet

• butch, AC-DC, amazon, amphierotic, androgyne, auntie, autoerotic, bi-guy, bisexed, bisexual, bull dyke, catamite, chicken, deviant, dyke, effeminate, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gay, gunsel, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hoyden, invert, lesbian, mannish, nance, pansy, pathic, perverted, punk, queen, queer, romp, sapphic, sapphist, tomboy, transvestite, tribade, tribadistic, virago

• butcher, Cain, amputate, annihilate, annihilator, apache, assassin, assassinator, assault, attack, ax, baggage man, bakehead, baker, barbarize, batter, be all thumbs, bisect, bloodletter, bloodshedder, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, bollix up, bookdealer, bookseller, botch, brakeman, brakie, bravo, brutalize, bumble, bungle, bungler, burker, burn, button man, cannibal, carry on, carve, chandler, chop, cleave, clothing merchant, commit a gaffe, commit carnage, commit genocide, commit mass murder, conductor, confectioner, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cutthroat, decimate, depopulate, desperado, destroy, destroyer, dichotomize, disembowel, dismember, dispatcher, dissever, draper, drysalter, eradicator, excise, executioner, exterminate, exterminator, faux pas, fireman, fishmonger, fishwife, fissure, florist, flounder, footplate man, footwear merchant, foul up, fruiterer, fuck up, fumble, furnisher, furrier, garroter, gash, go on, gorilla, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, guard, gun, gunman, gunsel, haberdasher, hack, halve, hammer, hardwareman, hatchet man, head-hunter, hew, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, incise, ironmonger, jeweler, jigsaw, kill, killer, lance, lay waste, lineman, liquidate, liquor merchant, loot, louse up, lumber, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, mar, massacre, massacrer, matador, maul, mess up, miscue, muddle, muff, mug, murder, murder wholesale, murderer, newsdealer, pare, perfumer, pesticide, pillage, play havoc with, poison, poisoner, porter, poulterer, prune, rage, railroad man, railroader, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rave, redcap, rend, riot, ripper, rive, roar, ruin, sack, saddler, savage, saw, scissor, screw up, sever, slash, slaughter, slaughterer, slay, slay en masse, slayer, slice, slip, slit, smoke agent, snip, sow chaos, split, spoil, stationer, stationmaster, stoker, storm, strangler, stumble, sunder, switchman, tear, tear around, terrorize, thug, tobacconist, torpedo, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, trigger man, trip, vandalize, vintner, violate, whittle, wine merchant, wreck, yardman, yardmaster

• butchered, botched, bungled, castrated, cut short, docked, fumbled, garbled, hashed, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, lopped, mangled, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, mutilated, negligent, spoiled, truncated

• butler, MC, attorney, bailiff, boy, chamberlain, chauffeur, coachman, croupier, curator, custodian, driver, emcee, equerry, factor, gardener, gentleman, gillie, guardian, house steward, houseboy, housekeeper, houseman, landreeve, librarian, lord-in-waiting, majordomo, man, manservant, master of ceremonies, proctor, procurator, seneschal, steward, valet, valet de chambre

• butt in, barge in, blow it, break in, break in upon, burst in, busybody, charge in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, entrench, foist in, fool, go off half-cocked, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, make, monkey with, obtrude, press in, push in, put on, put upon, rush in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, speak inopportunely, speak too late, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, tamper with, throng in, thrust in, trench, trespass, work in, worm in

• butt, Thule, Ultima Thule, abut, abut on, adjoin, advance, afterglow, afterimage, aim, ankle, articulate, articulation, assault, backside, bacon, balance, barrel, batten, batten down, be contiguous, be in contact, bear, bear upon, bearing, behind, bit, bitter end, bolt, boost, border, border on, bottom, bottom dollar, boundary, bowl, breech, buck, buckle, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt against, butt end, buttocks, button, by-end, by-purpose, byword, byword of reproach, candle ends, carton of cigarettes, cervix, chaff, chip, chitterlings, chump, chunk, cig, cigarette, cigarette butt, cigarette case, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip, clipping, closure, cochon de lait, collop, communicate, conjoin, connect, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, cracklings, cram, croup, crowd, crumb, crupper, cut, cutting, debris, deck of cigarettes, derision, derriere, destination, detritus, dig, dollop, dovetail, drive, driving force, dupe, elbow, embrace, end, end in view, extreme, extremity, fag, fag end, fair game, fall guy, fanny, farthest bound, fat back, figure of fun, filings, final cause, flitch, fool, force, forward, fossil, fragment, game, gammon, gazingstock, gliding joint, goad, goal, goat, gob, gobbet, gudgeon, gull, ham, ham steak, haslet, hasp, haunches, head, headcheese, hind end, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch, hogshead, holdover, hook, hunk, hurtle, husks, hustle, impel, impulsion, interface, interfere, interrupt, intrude, jab, jam, jambon, jambonneau, jest, jestingstock, jog, joggle, join, joining, joint, joke, jolt, jostle, jumping-off place, juncture, keg, kibitz, knee, knuckle, lard, latch, laughingstock, leavings, leftovers, lie by, limit, line, link, lock, lump, march, mark, meddle, meet, miter, mock, mockery, modicum, moiety, monkey, morsel, mortise, motive power, move, nail, nates, neck, neighbor, nib, nudge, object, object in mind, objective, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, paring, parings, particle, patsy, pedal, peg, picnic ham, piece, pieds de cochon, pig, pigeon, pile drive, pilgarlic, pin, pipe, pivot, pivot joint, point, poke, pole, pork, porkpie, posterior, prat, press, pressure, prey, prod, propel, propelling, propelment, propulsion, pulsion, punch, pursuit, push, pushing, quarry, quintain, rabbet, rags, ram, ram down, rasher, rattle, rear, rear end, reason for being, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, rivet, roach, roll, row, rubbish, ruins, rump, run, run against, salt pork, sawdust, scarf, scoop, scourings, scrap, scraps, screw, seam, sew, shadow, shake, shard, shaving, shavings, shiver, shoulder, shove, shoving, shred, shunt, side of bacon, sitting duck, skewer, slice, sliver, small ham, smithereen, smoke, snack, snap, snatch, snip, snipe, snippet, sowbelly, splinter, sport, stand by, staple, stick, stitch, stock, straw, stress, stub, stubble, stump, sucker, suckling pig, survival, suture, sweep, sweep along, sweepings, symphysis, tack, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, tamp, target, tatter, teleology, thrust, tie rod, tip, toggle, toggle joint, touch, toy, trace, treadle, troll, trotters, trundle, tun, ultimate aim, union, verge, verge upon, vestige, victim, waste, wedge, weld, wrist, zipper

• butte, anthill, barrow, brae, down, drumlin, dune, fell, foothills, hill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, sand dune, swell

• butter, albumen, batter, bedaub, besmear, blandness, blarney, blubber, bonnyclabber, breeze, butter up, buttermilk, cataplasm, certified milk, cheese, clabber, clay, coat, condensed milk, cornstarch, cream, crush, curd, cushion, dab, dairy products, daub, dental pulp, dough, down, egg white, eiderdown, enamel, fair words, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, fulsomeness, gaum, gel, gelatin, get around, ghee, gild, glair, glibness, glop, gloss, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, half-and-half, heavy cream, honey, honeyed words, incense, jam, jell, jelly, jolly, kapok, kid along, lacquer, lay it on, lay on, light cream, loblolly, margarine, mash, milk, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mush, nonfat dry milk, oil, oiliness, oleo, oleomargarine, overdo it, pap, paper pulp, paste, pillow, pith, plaster, play up to, plush, porridge, poultice, prime, pudding, puff, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, puree, putty, rag pulp, raw milk, rob, rubber, satin, sauce, semifluid, semiliquid, silk, size, skim milk, slap on, slather, smash, smear, smear on, smoothness, smugness, soap, soft soap, soft words, soft-soap, soften up, soup, sour cream, sponge, spread on, spread with, squash, starch, sticky mess, string along, stroke, suaveness, suavity, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, swansdown, sweet talk, sweet words, syrup, tar, thistledown, treacle, unctuousness, undercoat, velvet, wax, whey, whipping cream, white lead, wood pulp, wool, yogurt, zephyr

• butterfingers, clumsy, dub, duffer, foozler, foul-up, fumble-fist, goof, goofball, goofer, hick, lummox, lump, muff, muffer, rube, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny

• buttinsky, Dutch uncle, Paul, Polonius, admonisher, adviser, backseat driver, butt-in, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, crasher, encroacher, expert, gate-crasher, guide, infiltrator, instructor, interloper, intermeddler, intruder, invader, kibitzer, meddler, mentor, monitor, nestor, nose, orienter, pragmatist, preceptist, prier, quidnunc, rubberneck, snoop, teacher, trespasser, unwelcome guest

• buttocks, arse, ass, backside, beam, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, can, cheeks, croup, crupper, derriere, duff, fanny, fundament, haunches, heinie, hind end, hinder, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, secretiveness, stem, tail, tail end, tuchis, tush, tushy

• button up, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bolt, button, cap, carry to completion, choke, choke off, clam up, clap, clean up, climax, close, close out, close up, complete, conclude, constrict, contain, contract, cover, crown, culminate, dummy up, end, fasten, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, fold, fold up, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, key, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, mop up, occlude, padlock, perfect, plumb, round out, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shut, shut the door, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze shut, strangle, terminate, top off, top out, wind up, wrap up, zip up, zipper

• button, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, anchor, armory, articulate, badge, badge of office, badges, bagatelle, band, bandage, bang, bantam, banty, bar, barrette, barricade, baton, batten, batten down, bauble, bean, bellyband, belt, bibelot, bilge, bind, binding, binding stone, binding twine, bit, blain, blazonry, bleb, blister, blob, bobby pin, bollard, bolt, bonder, bondstone, boss, bow, box hook, brace, braces, brad, braid, brass farthing, brassard, bubble, buckle, bulb, bulge, bulla, bullion, bump, bunch, burl, butt, button up, cable, cahot, cap and gown, carpet tack, cast, casting, catch, cent, chain, chain of office, chin, chine, chit, choke, choke off, cinch, cincture, clamp, clap, clasp, class ring, cleat, click, clinch, clip, close, close up, clothespin, clump, cockade, collar, condyle, constrict, contain, contract, convex, corking pin, cotter, cover, cross, curio, decoration, diminutive, dovetail, dowel, dress, eagle, ear, emblems, ensigns, farce, farthing, fasces, fasten, feather, featherweight, fibula, fig, figurehead, fillet, fingerling, fishhook, flange, flap, fleabite, fleur-de-lis, fold, fold up, folderol, fribble, frippery, funiculus, gall, garter, gate, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, girdle, girth, gnarl, grab, grapnel, grappler, grappling iron, guy, hair, hairpin, halfpenny, hammer and sickle, handle, hank, hasp, hawser, haywire, heraldry, hill, hill of beans, hinge, hitch, hitching post, holdfast, hook, hook and eye, hump, hunch, ingot, inkle, insignia, interlocker, jam, jest, jog, joggle, joint, joke, kevel, key, kickshaw, kingpin, knickknack, knickknackery, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lace, lacing, lapel pin, lariat, latch, latchet, leader, ligament, lightweight, line, lip, livery, lock, lock out, lock up, loop, lump, mace, mantle, markings, medal, mentum, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, miter, mockery, mole, molehill, moorings, mortarboard, mortise, mountain, mouse, nail, nevus, noose, nub, nubbin, nubble, nut, occlude, old school tie, padlock, paper clip, papilloma, pawl, peewee, peg, peppercorn, picayune, pig, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pintle, plumb, pony, rabbet, rap, red cent, regalia, regulus, rib, ridge, ring, rivet, roller, rope, rose, row of pins, runt, rush, safety pin, scarf, school ring, screw, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, sennit, setscrew, sew, shamrock, sheet metal, shit, shoulder, shrimp, shut, shut the door, shut up, sigillography, skewer, skull and crossbones, slam, slide fastener, slip, small fry, snap, sneeshing, snip, snippet, snubbing post, sou, sow, sphragistics, spike, spine, splice, squeeze shut, staff, staple, stick, stitch, strangle, strap, straw, string, strop, stub tenon, stud, style, suspenders, swastika, tab, tack, tag, tartan, tendon, terret, thistle, thole, tholepin, thong, thumbtack, tie, tie beam, tit, toggle, toy, treenail, trifle, trinket, triviality, tubercle, tubercule, tug, tuppence, twine, two cents, twopence, uniform, verge, verruca, vesicle, vise, wale, wand, wart, wedge, welt, whang, whim-wham, wire, wisp, zip up, zipper

• buttonhole, accost, address, apostrophize, appeal to, apply pressure, approach, beset, besiege, bespeak, blandish, bore, bore stiff, bore to death, bore to distraction, bore to tears, boutonniere, bug, cajole, call to, coax, corner, corsage, detain, dun, exert pressure, greet, hail, halloo, importune, invoke, nag, nag at, pester, plague, ply, press, pressure, push, salute, send to sleep, speak, speak fair, speak to, take aside, talk to, tease, urge, waylay, wheedle, work on

• buttress, abutment, advocate, affirm, afford support, alpenstock, arc-boutant, arm, athletic supporter, attest, authenticate, back, back up, backbone, backing, bandeau, bank, beam, bear, bear out, bear up, bearer, beef up, bolster, bolster up, bra, brace, brace up, bracer, bracket, brassiere, breakwater, bulwark, buoy up, buttress pier, buttressing, cane, carrier, carry, case harden, certify, cervix, circumstantiate, column, confirm, corroborate, corset, cradle, crook, crutch, cushion, document, embankment, finance, flying buttress, fortify, foundation garment, fulcrum, fund, gird, girdle, give support, groin, guy, guywire, hanging buttress, harden, hold, hold up, invigorate, jetty, jock, jockstrap, jutty, keep, keep afloat, keep up, lend support, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, mast, mole, neck, nerve, pier, pier buttress, pillow, probate, prop, prop up, prove, rampart, ratify, refresh, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinvigorate, rest, resting place, restrengthen, retaining wall, rigging, seawall, shore, shore up, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, steel, stick, stiffen, stiffener, strengthen, strengthener, subsidize, substantiate, subvention, subventionize, support, supporter, sustain, sustainer, temper, toughen, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underpinning, underset, upbear, uphold, upholder, upkeep, validate, verify, walking stick, warrant

• buxom, Junoesque, adipose, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bonny, bosomy, braw, brawny, built, built for comfort, burly, busty, callipygian, callipygous, chesty, chubby, chunky, comely, corpulent, curvaceous, curvy, distended, dumpy, fair, fat, fattish, fleshy, frivolous, full, gleeful, goddess-like, gross, healthy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hilarious, hippy, imposing, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, likely, lovely to behold, lusty, meaty, merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, obese, overweight, paunchy, personable, pleasing, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, presentable, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rejoicing, risible, roly-poly, rotund, shapely, sightly, slender, square, squat, squatty, stacked, stalwart, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vigorous, well-built, well-developed, well-favored, well-fed, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

• buy in, buy, buy back, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, complete a purchase, corner, engross, financier, invest, invest in, lay out money, make a buy, make an investment, monopolize, place, plow back into, plunge, procure, purchase, put, rebuy, regrate, reinvest, repurchase, risk, sink, sink money in, speculate, venture

• buy off, approach, bribe, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy on credit, buy up, complete a purchase, corner, corrupt, engross, fix, get at, get to, grease, grease the palm, have, lubricate, make a buy, monopolize, pay off, procure, purchase, reach, rebuy, regrate, repurchase, sop, square, suborn, take care of, tamper with, tickle the palm

• buy, abide by, accede, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acclaim, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquire, advantageous purchase, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, approach, assent, bargain, be certain, believe, believe without reservation, bribe, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, cheer, coemption, complete a purchase, comply, consent, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, consumerism, corner, cornering, corrupt, credit, emption, engross, fix, get, get at, get to, give faith to, give the nod, good buy, good pennyworth, grease, grease the palm, hail, have, hire purchase, hold with, impulse buying, in toto, installment buying, lubricate, mail-order buying, make a buy, marketing, money illusion, monopolize, nod, nod assent, obtain, pay off, pennyworth, procure, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, put faith in, reach, rebuy, rebuying, receive, redeem, regrate, repurchase, set store by, shopping, shopping spree, sop, square, steal, suborn, subscribe to, swallow, take, take care of, take for granted, take kindly to, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in, tamper with, tickle the palm, trust, vote for, welcome, window-shopping, yes, yield assent

• buzz off, be getting along, come away, depart, exit, gang along, get along, get away, get off, get on, get under way, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, leave, march off, mosey, move away, move off, move out, pull out, sashay, sashay off, stagger along, take flight, take wing, toddle along, up and go, wing it

• buzz, DDD, Indian file, alert, array, articulation, assibilate, assibilation, bank, bark, bawl, belch, bellow, birr, blare, blat, blubber, bombilate, bombinate, boom, bray, breathe, bruit, bum, bumble, burr, bustle, busy signal, buzz, buzz about, cackle, call, call up, canard, catena, catenation, caw, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chant, chirp, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clash, common talk, concatenation, confide, confide to, connection, consecution, continuum, coo, course, craunch, croak, crow, crump, crunch, cry, cycle, descent, dial, dial tone, direct distance dialing, drawl, drone, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, endless belt, endless round, entrust with information, exclaim, ferment, file, filiation, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, flute, flutter, flying rumor, frication, frictional rustling, fuss, gamut, gasp, give a ring, give confidential information, gossip, gradation, grapevine, grind, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, hang up, hearsay, hedgehop, high, hiss, hissing, hold the phone, hum, hurry about, hush, hushing, idea afloat, jangle, jar, keen, kick, latrine rumor, let in on, let next to, lilt, line, lineage, lisp, listen in, local call, long distance, long-distance call, make a call, make a fuss, mention privately, mobile call, monotone, mumble, murmur, mutter, news stirring, nexus, on-dit, pant, paresthesia, pendulum, periodicity, person-to-person call, phone, phone call, pins and needles, pipe, plenum, powder train, prickle, prickles, prickling, progression, purr, put hep, put next to, queue, range, rank, rasp, recurrence, report, reticulation, rhonchus, ring, ring off, ring up, roar, roorback, rotation, round, routine, row, rumble, rumor, run, rush about, rush around, scale, scranch, scrape, scratch, scream, screech, scrunch, scuttlebutt, sensation, sequence, series, shriek, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, signal, sing, single file, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, snap, snarl, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sob, spectrum, spit, splutter, sputter, squall, squash, squawk, squeal, squelch, squish, station-to-station call, sternutation, stertor, stimulation, sting, stinging, stir, string, strum, succession, summon, swath, swish, talk, tear around, telephone, telephone call, thread, thrill, thrum, thunder, tier, tingle, tingling, tip, tip off, toll call, town talk, train, trumpet, twang, unconfirmed report, undercurrent, urtication, wail, warble, wheeze, whine, whir, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whiz about, whoosh, windrow, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, zip

• buzzer, Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, beacon, blinking light, burglar alarm, crostarie, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, gale warning, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, lighthouse, note of alarm, occulting light, police whistle, signal of distress, siren, small-craft warning, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, tocsin, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, whistle

• by all means, OK, Roger, absolutely, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, and no mistake, as you say, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, aye, certainly, clearly, da, decidedly, decisively, definitely, distinctly, exactly, fine, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for sure, forsooth, good, good enough, hear, in truth, indeed, indeedy, ja, just so, mais oui, most assuredly, most certainly, naturally, naturellement, nothing else but, of course, okay, oui, positively, precisely, quite, rather, really, right, righto, sure, sure thing, surely, to a certainty, to be sure, truly, unequivocally, unmistakably, very well, well and good, why yes, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• by and by, after a time, after a while, afterward, afterwards, anon, before long, behind, betimes, by destiny, directly, ere long, fatally, hopefully, imminently, in a moment, in a while, in aftertime, in due course, in due time, in the future, infra, later, latterly, next, predictably, presently, probably, proximo, shortly, soon, subsequently, tomorrow

• by and large, all in all, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, chiefly, commonly, effectually, en masse, essentially, generally, generally speaking, in general, in the main, mainly, mostly, normally, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, predominantly, prevailingly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, substantially, usually, virtually

• by chance, accidentally, as it chanced, at haphazard, at intervals, at random, by a fluke, by accident, by fits, by good fortune, by hazard, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, desultorily, erratically, fitfully, for some reason, fortuitously, haphazardly, hit or miss, in snatches, in some way, in spots, incidentally, indiscriminately, irregularly, perchance, promiscuously, randomly, sloppily, somehow, somehow or other, spasmodically, sporadically, unmethodically, unpredictably, unsystematically

• by choice, before, by election, by vote, electively, first, freely, gratuitously, in preference, independently, optionally, preferably, rather, rather than, sooner, sooner than, spontaneously, voluntarily, willfully, without coercion

• by degrees, bit by bit, by inches, by inchmeal, by slow degrees, by snatches, degreewise, drop by drop, foot by foot, gradatim, grade by grade, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, inch by inch, inchmeal, little by little, part by part, piece by piece, piecemeal, slowly, step by step

• by design, advisedly, calculatedly, consciously, contemplatedly, deliberately, designedly, in cold blood, intentionally, knowingly, meditatedly, on purpose, pointedly, premeditatedly, purposefully, purposely, purposively, voluntarily, willfully, with full intent, with intent, with malice aforethought, with purpose, wittingly

• by means of, by, by dint of, by use of, by virtue of, by way of, helped by, hereby, herewith, in virtue of, on, per, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, upon, via, whereby, wherewith, wherewithal, with

• by no means, God forbid, I refuse, I will not, at no hand, au contraire, count me out, far from it, impossible, in no case, in no respect, in no wise, include me out, never, no, no matter what, nohow, not a bit, not a jot, not a speck, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not likely, not much, not nearly, nothing doing, noway, noways, nowhere near, nowise, on no account, on no condition, quite the contrary, to the contrary, under no circumstances

• by product, afterbirth, afterclap, aftercrop, aftereffect, afterglow, aftergrowth, afterimage, aftermath, afterpain, aftertaste, consequence, consequent, corollary, derivation, derivative, descendant, development, distillate, effect, event, eventuality, eventuation, fruit, harvest, issue, legacy, logical outcome, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, placenta, precipitate, product, result, resultant, secundines, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, side effect, side issue, spin-off, upshot

• by the way, a propos, accidental, aimless, apropos, apropos of, by the by, by-the-way, casual, desultory, deviative, digressive, discursive, en passant, episodic, excursive, for example, in passing, incidental, incidentally, loose, maundering, occasional, par exemple, parenthetical, parenthetically, rambling, roving, speaking of, wandering

• by virtue of, after, because of, by, by authority of, by dint of, by means of, by reason of, by use of, by way of, considering, due to, hereby, herewith, in consideration of, in view of, in virtue of, on, on account of, owing to, per, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, upon, via, whereby, wherewith, wherewithal, with

• by way of, all through, around, by, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, hereby, herewith, in virtue of, on, over, passing by, passing through, per, round about, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, upon, via, whereby, wherewith, wherewithal, with

• by, abeam, abreast, accommodated to, according to, adapted to, adieu, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, all through, along by, alongside, among, answerable to, around, as to, aside, at, back, beside, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, by way of, bye-bye, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, farewell, from, good-bye, hereby, herewith, in, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in reserve, in step with, in uniformity with, in virtue of, near, nearby, next to, nigh, on, over, passing by, passing through, per, proper to, round, round about, so long, suitable for, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, to, toward, uniform with, upon, via, whereby, wherewith, wherewithal, with

• bygone, ago, antiquated, antique, archaic, belated, blown over, by, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed, erstwhile, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, former, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, late, lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, old-time, old-timey, olden, oldfangled, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom, wound up

• bylaw, act, bill, canon, decree, dictate, dictation, edict, enactment, form, formality, formula, formulary, institution, jus, law, legislation, lex, measure, ordinance, ordonnance, prescript, prescription, regulation, rubric, rule, ruling, standing order, statute

• bypass, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, ambages, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, avoid, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, belt highway, bestride, blind alley, boulevard, burke, by-lane, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circuit, circumbendibus, circumferential, circumnavigate, circumvent, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cross, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, detour, deviate, deviation, digress, digression, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, evade, excursion, expressway, ford, freeway, get ahead of, get round, give the go-by, go across, go around, go by, go round, go round about, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, ignore, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, make a detour, mews, motorway, overstride, parkway, pass, pass by, pass over, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, roundabout, roundabout way, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, shoot ahead of, side door, side road, side street, sidestep, skirt, speedway, state highway, step over, straddle, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd

• bystander, TV-viewer, abutter, adjoiner, attestant, attestator, attester, beholder, bird-watcher, borderer, cojuror, compurgator, deponent, drugstore cowboy, earwitness, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, immediate neighbor, informant, informer, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, neighbor, neighborer, observer, ogler, onlooker, passerby, perceiver, percipient, seer, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, swearer, tangent, televiewer, television-viewer, testifier, video-gazer, viewer, voucher, watcher, witness

• byway, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, departure, detour, deviation, digression, dike, dirt road, discursion, drive, driveway, episode, excursion, excursus, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, roundabout way, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, side door, side path, side road, side street, sidetrack, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd

• byword, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, appellation, appellative, axiom, binomen, binomial name, burning shame, butt, byname, byword of reproach, catch phrase, catchword, cliche, cognomen, collected sayings, cry, cryptonym, current saying, denomination, derision, designation, dictate, dictum, dirty shame, disgrace, distich, dupe, empty title, epigram, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, fad word, fair game, figure of fun, fool, game, gazingstock, gnome, goat, golden saying, handle, honorific, humiliation, hyponym, jest, jestingstock, joke, label, laughingstock, low-down dirty shame, maxim, mockery, moniker, monkey, moral, mot, motto, name, namesake, nomen, nomen nudum, oracle, parable, pet expression, phrase, pithy saying, precept, prescript, proper name, proper noun, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, reproach, saw, saying, scandal, scientific name, secret name, sentence, sententious expression, shame, shibboleth, slogan, sloka, sobriquet, stock, stock saying, style, sutra, tag, target, tautonym, teaching, text, title, toy, trinomen, trinomial name, verse, victim, vogue word, watchword, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom

• Byzantine, Machiavellian, artful, balled up, calculating, canny, collusive, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, connivent, conniving, conspiring, contriving, convoluted, crabbed, crafty, cunning, daedal, designing, devious, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fouled up, foxy, gordian, guileful, implicated, insidious, intricate, intriguing, involuted, involved, knotted, knotty, knowing, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, pawky, perplexed, plotting, ramified, roundabout, scheming, screwed up, shrewd, slick, sly, snarled, sophisticated, stratagemical, subtile, subtle, tangled, tangly, twisted, up to, wily

• C note, C, G, G-note, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, copper, dime, dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, grand, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mill, nickel, penny, quarter, red cent, sawbuck, silver dollar, skin, smacker, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard

• cabal, Anschluss, addition, affiliation, age group, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, artifice, assimilation, association, band, battalion, bevy, blend, blending, body, brigade, bunch, cadre, camarilla, cartel, cast, caucus, cell, centralization, charmed circle, circle, clan, clique, closed circle, club, coalescence, coalition, cohort, collusion, combination, combine, combo, company, complement, complicity, complot, composition, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connivance, connive, consolidation, conspiracy, conspire, contingent, contrivance, contriving, corps, coterie, counterplot, covey, covin, crew, crowd, deep-laid plot, detachment, detail, division, ecumenism, elite, elite group, embodiment, encompassment, engineering, enosis, faction, federalization, federation, finagling, finesse, fleet, frame-up, fusion, game, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hookup, in-group, inclusion, incorporation, ingroup, inner circle, integration, intrigue, junction, junta, junto, league, little game, machinate, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mob, movement, out-group, outfit, pack, package, package deal, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, plot, plotting, posse, regiment, rigging, ring, salon, scheme, schemery, scheming, set, solidification, squad, stable, stratagem, string, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, team, tie-up, tribe, trick, troop, troupe, underplot, unification, union, unit, we-group, web of intrigue, wedding, wing, wire-pulling

• cabala, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, arcanum, cabalism, classified information, confidence, confidential communication, enigma, esoterica, esotericism, esoterics, esoterism, esotery, guarded secret, hermetics, hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, mystery, mystery of mysteries, mysticism, mystification, occultism, personal matter, private matter, privileged communication, privity, profound secret, restricted information, sealed book, secret, symbolics, symbolism, the occult, yoga, yogeeism, yogism

• caballero, Bayard, Casanova, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Lothario, Ritter, Romeo, Sidney, Sir Galahad, amoroso, bachelor, banneret, baronet, beau, boyfriend, broncobuster, buckaroo, cavalier, cavaliere servente, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, companion, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, equestrian, equestrienne, esquire, fellow, flame, gallant, gaucho, gigolo, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, inamorato, jockey, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, lady-killer, love-maker, man, mounted policeman, necker, old man, petter, philanderer, postboy, postilion, puncher, rider, roughrider, seducer, sheik, squire, steeplechaser, sugar daddy, swain, trick rider, vaquero, young man

• cabaret, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, alehouse, amphitheater, amusement, amusement park, arena theater, auditorium, ballroom, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cafe, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, circle theater, club, cocktail lounge, concert hall, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, dive, dramshop, drinking saloon, entertainment, entertainment industry, floor show, fun-fair, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, hall, honky-tonk, house, juke joint, little theater, local, music hall, night spot, nightclub, nitery, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, playhouse, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rathskeller, resort, roadhouse, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, show, show biz, show business, showboat, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron, wine shop

• cabbage, Irish potato, Kraut, aubergine, beans, blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, chips, dinero, dough, eggplant, gelt, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, greens, jack, kale, legumes, love apple, mad apple, mazuma, moolah, mopus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pieplant, potato, potherbs, produce, rhino, rhubarb, rocks, shekels, simoleons, spondulics, spud, sugar, tater, the needful, tin, tomato, vegetables, wampum, white potato

• cabdriver, Jehu, Sunday driver, backseat driver, bullwhacker, bus driver, busman, cabby, cabman, cameleer, carter, cartman, charioteer, chauffeur, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, drayman, driver, elephant driver, gharry-wallah, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, harness racer, hit-and-run driver, jitney driver, joyrider, mahout, motorist, mule skinner, muleteer, reinsman, road hog, skinner, speeder, stage coachman, taxidriver, teamster, truck driver, trucker, truckman, vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, whip

• cabin boy, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, black gang, boilerman, bootblack, boots, bungs, caddie, chips, chore boy, commissary steward, complement, copyboy, cupbearer, deckhand, deckie, errand boy, errand girl, fireman, footboy, gofer, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, hostess, landing signalman, mail orderly, navigator, office boy, office girl, oiler, orderly, page, purser, radio operator, roustabout, snip, snips, sparks, squire, steward, stewardess, stoker, tender, torpedoman, trainbearer, usher, watch, yeoman

• cabin, berth, blockhouse, box, bungalow, chalet, compartment, cot, cote, cottage, cuddy, deckhouse, house, hut, lodge, log cabin, love nest, pied-a-terre, saloon, shack, shanty, shelter cabin, snuggery, stateroom

• cabinet, British Cabinet, Canterbury, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisors, advisory body, advisory council, adytum, armoire, assembly, association, bench, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, body of advisers, booking office, borough council, box office, brain trust, branch, branch office, buffet, bunker, bureau, cadre, camarilla, cellaret, chamber, chambers, chancellery, chancery, chassis, chest, chest of drawers, chiffonier, city council, closet, clothespress, committee, commode, common council, conference, congress, console, consulate, consultative assembly, corporate headquarters, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, credenza, cupboard, davenport, deliberative assembly, den, desk, diet, directorate, directory, divan, drawer, dresser, embassy, escritoire, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, executive office, governing board, governing body, headquarters, holy of holies, home office, housing, infrastructure, interlocking directorate, junta, kitchen cabinet, legation, legislature, locker, lowboy, main office, management, ministry, office, parish council, press, privy council, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, receiver, receiving set, retreat, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secretaire, secretary, set, shadow cabinet, shelf, shop, sideboard, soviet, staff, steering committee, study, syndicate, synod, tallboy, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, ticket office, top brass, tribunal, vargueno, vitrine, wardrobe, whatnot, wireless, wireless set

• cable, BX cable, Teletype, WATS, WATS line, armored cable, battery cable, bell wire, braid, brail, cablegram, chain, co-ax, coaxial cable, concentric cable, cord, day letter, electric cable, electric cord, fast telegram, flash, guy, hawser, highline, hookup wire, lead, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, mooring, night letter, party line, power line, private line, radio, radiogram, rope, send a wire, sign off, sign on, spun yarn, strand, string, telegram, telegraph, telegraph cable, telegraph line, telephone line, telex, tendon, thong, three-wire cable, transmission line, triaxial cable, trunk, trunk line, twine, twist, underground cable, wire, wire line, yarn

• caboose, Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, bakehouse, bakery, boxcar, camboose, car, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, cookery, cookhouse, cookroom, covered waggon, cuisine, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, drawing room, flat, flatcar, galley, gondola, kitchen, kitchenette, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, scullery, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, stockcar, tank, tender, truck, van, waggon

• cache, asylum, backlog, bank, bolt-hole, bosom, bottle up, bundle away, bury, coffer, conceal, concealment, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, deposit, dugout, embosom, file, file and forget, foxhole, funk hole, hide, hide away, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hoard, hole, hutch, keep hidden, keep secret, lair, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lock up, lodge, nest egg, niche, nook, pack away, plant, put away, recess, refuge, reposit, repository, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resource, retreat, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, savings, seal up, secret place, secrete, sinking fund, something in reserve, squirrel away, stash, stockpile, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, supply, undercovert, unexpended balance, vault, warehouse

• cachet, aroma, attribute, badge, billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, cast, character, characteristic, check, colophon, configuration, counterfoil, countermark, cut, differentia, differential, dignity, distinction, distinctive feature, docket, earmark, feature, figure, flavor, government mark, government stamp, gust, hallmark, identification, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, importance, impress, impression, imprint, index, individualism, keynote, label, letterhead, lineaments, logo, logotype, mannerism, mark, marking, masthead, mold, nature, odor, particularity, peculiarity, plate, prestige, price tag, prominence, property, quality, quirk, registered trademark, running head, running title, savor, seal, shape, sigil, signet, singularity, smack, specialty, stamp, sticker, stub, tag, taint, tally, tang, taste, ticket, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trait, trick

• cackle, call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, drum, gabble, gaggle, gobble, guggle, honk, hoo, hoot, peep, pip, pipe, quack, roll, scold, sing, squawk, trill, tweet, twit, twitter, warble, whistle

• cackle, Homeric laughter, babble, babblement, bark, bavardage, bawl, be in stitches, belch, bellow, belly laugh, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blare, blat, blather, blether, blethers, blubber, boff, boffola, boom, bray, break up, breathe, burr, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, buzz, cachinnate, cachinnation, call, caquet, caqueterie, carol, caw, chant, chat, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chitter-chatter, chortle, chuck, chuckle, clack, clang, clangor, clank, clash, clatter, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, convulsion, coo, craunch, croak, cronk, crow, crump, crunch, cuckoo, drawl, drum, exclaim, fit of laughter, flute, gab, gabble, gaggle, gales of laughter, gas, gasp, gibber, gibble-gabble, giggle, go into convulsions, gobble, gossip, grind, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, guff, guffaw, guggle, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, hiss, ho-ho, honk, hoo, hoot, horselaugh, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jangle, jar, keen, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, lilt, mere talk, mumble, murmur, mutter, natter, nearly die laughing, nonsense talk, outburst of laughter, palaver, pant, peal of laughter, peep, pip, pipe, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, quack, rasp, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, roll, rumble, scold, scranch, scrape, scratch, scream, screech, scrunch, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snicker, snigger, snore, snort, sob, split, split with laughter, squall, squawk, squeal, talkee-talkee, tee-hee, thunder, titter, tittle-tattle, trill, trumpet, twaddle, twang, twattle, tweet, twit, twitter, wail, warble, whine, whisper, whistle, yak, yakkety-yak, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yuck, yuk-yuk

• cacophony, Babel, Gothicism, agitation, atonalism, atonality, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bedlam, bluster, bombasticness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacology, chaos, clinker, clumsiness, coarseness, commotion, confusion of tongues, cracked voice, crudeness, cumbrousness, defacement, discord, discordance, discordancy, disfigurement, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, disturbance, dryness, dysphemism, ebullition, embroilment, fanaticism, ferment, flap, flatness, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gracelessness, grossness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness, heaviness, hell, hoarseness, homeliness, hubbub, huskiness, ill-balanced sentences, ill-favoredness, impropriety, impurity, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, noise, off note, pandemonium, passion, plainness, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, racket, rage, raspiness, raucity, roughness, row, ruckus, rudeness, rumpus, scrapiness, scratchiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shapelessness, sharpness, slipshod construction, sour note, sourness, static, stertorousness, stiltedness, storminess, stridor, tastelessness, tempestuousness, thickness, throatiness, tumult, tumultuousness, tunelessness, turbulence, turgidity, turmoil, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unharmoniousness, unloveliness, unmusicality, unpleasingness, unprettiness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, untunefulness, unwieldiness, uproar, upset, vulgarism, vulgarity, wildness, wolf, zeal, zealousness

• cactus, bramble, brier, bristle, burr, catchweed, cleavers, goose grass, needle, nettle, pine needle, prickle, quill, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, thistle, thorn, yucca

• cad, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois, churl, clown, epicier, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, mucker, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rotter, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

• cadaver, ashes, body, bones, carcass, carrion, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, food for worms, late lamented, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, organic remains, relics, reliquiae, remains, skeleton, stiff, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one

• cadaverous, achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bled white, bloodless, blue, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dull, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hollow-eyed, hueless, hypochromic, jejune, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, sallow, shriveled, sickly, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, toneless, uncanny, uncolored, underfed, undernourished, unearthly, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak, weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, withered, wizened, wraithlike

• caddie, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, batman, bearer, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, bheesty, bootblack, boots, busboy, cabin boy, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, chore boy, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, copyboy, cupbearer, drayman, errand boy, errand girl, express, expressman, footboy, freighter, gofer, gun bearer, hauler, homing pigeon, hostess, letter carrier, litter-bearer, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, porter, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, squire, stevedore, steward, stewardess, stretcher-bearer, tender, the Water Bearer, trainbearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, usher, wagoner, water boy, water carrier, yeoman

• cadence, Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, acciaccatura, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appoggiatura, arabesque, arsis, authentic cadence, bacchius, bass passage, beat, bourdon, bridge, burden, cadency, cadenza, caesura, catalexis, catenary, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, coda, colon, coloratura, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, decline, decurrence, development, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, division, dochmiac, droop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, embellishment, emphasis, epitrite, exposition, false cadence, feminine caesura, figure, fioritura, flight, flourish, folderol, foot, grace, grace note, half cadence, harmonic close, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, imperfect cadence, incidental, incidental note, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, ionic, jingle, lapse, level of stress, lilt, long mordent, lowering, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mixed cadence, molossus, mora, mordent, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, numbers, ornament, paeon, part, passage, pentameter, pentapody, period, phrase, plagal cadence, pralltriller, primary stress, proceleusmatic, prosodics, prosody, pulse, pyrrhic, quantity, refrain, resolution, response, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, ritornello, roulade, run, sag, secondary stress, section, single mordent, sinkage, slump, spondee, sprung rhythm, stanza, statement, strain, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, submergence, subsidence, swag, swing, syzygy, tailpiece, tempo, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, turn, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verse, weak stress

• cadenza, acciaccatura, appoggiatura, arabesque, cadence, coloratura, division, embellishment, extempore, fioritura, flight, flourish, grace, grace note, hot lick, impromptu, improvisation, incidental, incidental note, interpolation, lick, long mordent, mordent, ornament, passage, pralltriller, riff, roulade, run, single mordent, turn, vamp

• cadet, Naval Reservist, Royal Marine, Seabee, bluejacket, boot, freshman, frogman, gob, horse marine, jolly, junior, marine, midshipman, midshipmite, naval cadet, navy man, plebe, senior, soph, sophomore, swabbie, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman

• cadger, beggar, bum, bummer, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, colporteur, coster, costermonger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, hawker, higgler, hobo, huckster, idle rich, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, peddler, rentiers, schnorrer, scrounger, sidewalk salesman, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, vendor

• cadre, KP, army, army group, battalion, battery, battle group, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, brigade, bunch, cabal, cabinet, camarilla, case, casement, casing, cell, charmed circle, chassis, circle, clan, clique, closed circle, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, corps, coterie, council, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, directorate, directory, division, doorframe, elite, elite group, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, fabric, field army, field train, file, flying column, frame, framework, framing, garrison, governing board, governing body, group, infrastructure, ingroup, inner circle, interlocking directorate, junta, junto, kitchen police, lattice, latticework, legion, management, maniple, mob, organization, outfit, phalanx, picture frame, platoon, posse, rank, regiment, ring, sash, section, set, shell, skeleton, squad, squadron, steering committee, tactical unit, task force, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, top brass, train, troop, unit, we-group, window case, window frame, wing

• caducity, advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, anility, changeableness, childishness, corruptibility, death, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, dotardism, eld, elderliness, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, feebleness, finitude, fleetingness, fugacity, green old age, hale old age, hoary age, impermanence, impermanency, incapacity, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, insipidity, instability, invalidism, longevity, momentariness, mortality, mutability, old age, oldness, pensionable age, perishability, ricketiness, ripe old age, second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senior citizenship, shakiness, superannuation, the downward slope, the golden years, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, unfirmness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsturdiness, unsubstantiality, vale of years, vapidity, volatility, wateriness, white hairs, wishy-washiness

• caesar, Dalai Lama, Holy Roman Emperor, Inca, Kaiser, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, ardri, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, bey, cacique, cham, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, hard master, kaid, khan, martinet, mikado, negus, oligarch, oppressor, padishah, pendragon, pharaoh, rig, sachem, sagamore, shah, sheikh, shogun, slave driver, stickler, tenno, tycoon, tyrant, usurper, warlord

• caesura, Alexandrine, abeyance, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, boundary, breach, break, cadence, catalexis, cease-fire, cessation, chloriamb, chloriambus, clearance, colon, comma, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, day off, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, discontinuity, distance between, dochmiac, double space, drop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, em space, emphasis, en space, epitrite, feminine caesura, fissure, foot, freeboard, gap, hair space, half space, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hesitation, hexameter, hexapody, hiatus, holiday, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, interim, interlude, intermediate space, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, ionic, jingle, jump, juncture, lacuna, lapse, layoff, leap, leeway, letup, lilt, lull, margin, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody, period, point, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, recess, remission, respite, rest, rhythm, room, semicolon, single space, space, space between, spondee, sprung rhythm, stand-down, stay, stop, stress, suspension, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, time interval, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, truce, vacation

• cafe, alehouse, automat, bar, barrel house, barroom, beanery, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, buffet, buvette, cabaret, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, cocktail lounge, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dining hall, dining room, dive, dog wagon, dramshop, drinking saloon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, gin mill, grill, grillroom, groggery, grogshop, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, honky-tonk, hot-dog stand, kitchen, local, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, nightclub, pizzeria, pothouse, pub, public, public house, quick-lunch counter, rathskeller, restaurant, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, smorgasbord, snack bar, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, tearoom, trattoria, wine shop

• cafeteria, automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, commons, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchen, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess, mess hall, messroom, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

• cage, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, crate, crib, detain, drive, drove, encage, encircle, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, fence in, goad, hedge in, hell, hem in, herd, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, house in, hutch, immure, impound, imprison, in, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lash, leaguer, limbo, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pen up, penfold, pinfold, place of confinement, pocket, pound, prick, punch cattle, purgatory, quarantine, rail in, restrain, restrict, ride herd on, round up, seal up, shackle, shepherd, shrine, shut in, shut up, spur, stable, surround, wall in, whip, wrangle, wrap, yard, yard up

• cagey, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, chary, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, distrustful, elusive, elusory, evasive, feline, foxy, guileful, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, leery, malingering, mistrustful, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shirking, shrewd, shy, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, suspecting, suspicious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wary, wily

• cahoots, accompaniment, accordance, affiliation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, association, co-working, coaction, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, coincidence, collaboration, colleagueship, collectivity, collegialism, collegiality, collusion, combination, combined effort, comradeship, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, confraternity, conjunction, consilience, consolidation, conspiracy, cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, correspondence, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, league, merger, parasitism, partnership, saprophytism, simultaneity, sodality, sorority, symbiosis, synchronism, synergy, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, united action

• cairn, arch, barrow, bench mark, bookmark, boundary stone, brass, bust, catstone, cenotaph, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, landmark, lighthouse, lightship, mark, marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, milepost, milestone, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, pharos, pillar, plaque, platform, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, seamark, shaft, shrine, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tower, trophy, watchtower

• cajole, adulate, advocate, allure, apply pressure, bait, bait the hook, bamboozle, beguile, beset, besiege, beslobber, beslubber, betray, blandish, bluff, bug, butter up, buttonhole, call on, call upon, cheat on, circumvent, coax, compliment, conceit, conjure, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, double-cross, draw, draw in, draw on, dun, dupe, ensnare, entice, exert pressure, exhort, fawn upon, flatter, flirt, flirt with, forestall, gammon, get around, give the come-on, gull, high-pressure, hoax, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, importune, insist, insist upon, inveigle, jawbone, juggle, lead on, let down, lobby, lure, make fair weather, mock, nag, nag at, offer bait to, oil the tongue, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, palaver, persuade, pester, pigeon, plague, play one false, plead with, ply, praise, press, pressure, push, put something over, recommend, rope in, seduce, slobber over, snow, soft-soap, string along, stroke, suck in, sweet-talk, take in, tease, trick, two-time, urge, wheedle, woo, work on

• cake, Boston cream pie, angel cake, angel food cake, baked Alaska, bar, block, body, bun, candy, cheesecake, chocolate cake, chunk, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, coffee cake, concrete, concretion, condense, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration, consolidate, crystallize, cube, cupcake, curd, curdle, dry, encrust, fruitcake, gateau, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, genoise, gingerbread, granulate, harden, honey cake, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, jelly roll, jumble, knot, layer cake, loaf, lopper, lump, marble cake, mass, node, pastry, piece, pound cake, savarin, set, shortcake, slab, solid, solid body, solidify, spice cake, sponge cake, take a set, tea cake, thick, thicken, white cake, yellow cake

• calamitous, afflictive, awful, baneful, black, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, dire, disastrous, distressful, distressing, doomful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, grievous, heartbreaking, internecine, lamentable, nihilist, nihilistic, pernicious, ravaging, regrettable, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible, tragic, unfortunate, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering, woeful, wreckful

• calamity, accident, adversity, affliction, bane, blow, bugbear, burden, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, cross, crushing burden, curse, death, desolation, destruction, devastation, disaster, disease, distress, evil, fatal accident, fatality, grief, grievance, hardship, harm, ill hap, infliction, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, nemesis, open wound, pest, pestilence, pileup, plague, reverse, ruin, ruination, running sore, scourge, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, thorn, torment, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, vexation, violent death, visitation, woe, wreck, wretchedness

• calcimine, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, brush on paint, chalk, coat, color, complexion, cover, dab, daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, face, fast-dye, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lay on color, paint, parget, pigment, pipe-clay, prime, shade, shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, stain, stipple, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undercoat, varnish, wash, white, whitewash

• calcination, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming, incineration, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyrolysis, refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication

• calculable, anticipatable, appraisable, appreciable, assessable, computable, countable, dependable, determinable, divinable, estimable, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fathomable, firm, foreknowable, foreseeable, foretellable, gaugeable, improbable, invincible, measurable, mensurable, meterable, noticeable, numberable, numerable, perceptible, precognizable, predictable, probable, quantifiable, quantizable, reckonable, reliable, secure, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, substantial, sure, surefire, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing, well-founded, well-grounded

• calculate on, bank on, bargain for, bet on, count on, depend on, figure on, forestall, gamble on, lean on, look for, look forward to, look out for, look to, place reliance on, plan on, reckon on, rely on, rely upon, repose on, rest on, swear by, trust to, watch out for

• calculate, add, add up, algebraize, appraise, appreciate, arrange, ascertain, assay, assess, bank on, build on, calibrate, caliper, cast, check a parameter, cipher, compute, concert, consider, contrive, count, count on, cut out, depend, design, determine, devise, dial, discover, divide, dope out, estimate, evaluate, extract roots, fathom, figure, figure in, figure out, forecast, forethink, frame, gauge, graduate, intend, lay plans, lot, make a projection, make arrangements, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, methodize, multiply, organize, pace, plan, plan ahead, plot, plumb, prearrange, premeditate, preresolve, price, prize, probe, program, project, quantify, quantize, rate, rationalize, reckon, reckon on, schedule, schematize, scheme, score, set up, shape, size, size up, sound, span, step, study, subtract, survey, systematize, take a reading, take account of, tally, triangulate, trust in, valuate, value, weigh, work out, work out beforehand, work up

• calculated, adapted, adjusted, advised, aimed, aimed at, arranged, blueprinted, charted, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, deliberate, deliberated, designed, devised, envisaged, envisioned, figured, fit, fitted, in the works, intended, intentional, knowing, meant, meditated, methodized, of design, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted, premeditated, prepared, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rationalized, reasoned, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic, strategic, studied, suited, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, teleological, thought-out, voluntary, weighed, willful, witting, worked out

• calculating, Byzantine, Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, chary, chiseling, circumspect, collusive, computational, computative, computing, connivent, conniving, considerate, conspiring, contriving, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, devious, discreet, disingenuous, enumerative, estimating, estimative, false, falsehearted, finagling, forsworn, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, gingerly, guarded, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, intriguing, knowing, manipulative, numerative, pawky, perjured, plotting, quantifying, safe, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, statistical, stratagemical, subtile, subtle, surreptitious, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful, up to, wary, wily

• calculation, adding, aforethought, amount, answer, appraisal, appraisement, approach, approximation, arithmetic, arrangement, assessment, assize, assizement, attack, blueprint, blueprinting, calculatedness, calculus, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, casting, caution, cautiousness, charting, ciphering, circumspection, computation, conception, contrivance, correction, count, counting, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, design, determination, determining, device, discretion, disposition, enterprise, envisagement, estimate, estimation, evaluation, expectation, express intention, expressness, figure, figuring, footing, forecast, foresight, forethought, game, gauging, gingerliness, graphing, ground plan, guardedness, guidelines, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, hesitation, idea, instrumentation, intention, intentionality, judiciousness, layout, lineup, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, method, methodology, metric system, mindfulness, operations research, organization, pawkiness, plan, planning, planning function, prearrangement, preconsideration, predeliberation, predetermination, prediction, premeditation, preresolution, prior consultation, procedure, product, program, program of action, prudence, prudentialness, quantification, quantization, rating, rationalization, reckoning, regardfulness, result, safeness, safety first, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, slowness to act, solicitude, strategic plan, strategy, survey, surveying, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, telemetering, telemetry, tentativeness, the big picture, the picture, thoroughness, totaling, toting, triangulation, uncommunicativeness, unprecipitateness, valuation, wariness, way, working plan

• calculator, CA, CPA, Comptometer, abacist, abacus, accountant, accountant general, actuary, adding, adding machine, analog computer, arithmograph, arithmometer, auditor, bank accountant, bank examiner, bookkeeper, calculating machine, cash register, certified public accountant, chartered accountant, clerk, comptroller, computation, computer, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, counter, difference engine, digital computer, electronic computer, estimator, figurer, intriguer, journalizer, listing machine, machinator, maneuverer, manipulator, pari-mutuel machine, quipu, reckoner, recorder, registrar, rule, schemer, slide rule, sliding scale, statistician, strategist, suan pan, tabulator, tactician, wire-puller

• calefaction, cooking, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction, torrefaction, warming

• calendar, Chinese calendar, Cotsworth calendar, Domesday Book, Gregorian calendar, Hindu calendar, Jewish calendar, Julian calendar, Muslim calendar, Revolutionary calendar, Roman calendar, account book, address book, adversaria, agenda, album, almanac, annals, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, astronomical almanac, astronomical calendar, atlas, batting order, beadroll, bill, bill of fare, blankbook, blotter, blueprint, book, budget, cadastre, calendar stone, calends, card, carte du jour, carve, casebook, cashbook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, census, census report, chalk, chalk up, check in, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, chronogram, chronologize, chronology, church calendar, city directory, classified catalog, clause, commonplace book, companion bills amendment, concordance, court calendar, cut, cyclopedia, daybook, desk calendar, diary, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, diptych, directory, docket, dragnet clause, dramatis personae, ecclesiastical calendar, enacting clause, encyclopedia, engagement book, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, ephemeris, escalator clause, file, fill out, gazetteer, grave, harmony, head count, hold-up bill, honor roll, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, intercalate, inventory, itemize, joker, jot down, journal, jury list, jury panel, keep score, ledger, line up, lineup, list, list of agenda, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, menu, minute, motion, muster, muster roll, nose count, note, note down, notebook, omnibus bill, order of business, pad, perpetual calendar, petty cashbook, phone book, pigeonhole, place upon record, playbill, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, poll, polyglot, post, post up, privileged question, program, program of operation, programma, property roll, prospectus, protocol, proviso, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, question, questionnaire, record, record book, reduce to writing, reference book, register, returns, rider, roll, roll call, roster, rota, saving clause, schedule, score, scrapbook, scratch pad, scroll, set down, slate, source book, spiral notebook, studbook, table, tablet, tabulate, take down, tally, tape, tape-record, tax roll, telephone book, telephone directory, timetable, triptych, videotape, work of reference, workbook, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, writing tablet, yearbook

• calf, Brahman, Dry Ice, Indian buffalo, ankle, aurochs, bayonet legs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, berg, birdling, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, bowlegs, buffalo, bull, bullock, carabao, catling, cattle, chick, chickling, chicky, cnemis, colt, cow, critter, cryosphere, cub, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, drumstick, duckling, fawn, firn, fledgling, floe, foal, foreleg, frazil, frozen water, fryer, gamb, gambrel, gigot, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, gosling, granular snow, ground ice, growler, ham, heifer, hind leg, hock, hornless cow, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jamb, jokul, kid, kine, kit, kitten, knee, lamb, lambkin, leg, leppy, limb, litter, lolly, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, nest, nestling, neve, nieve penitente, ox, oxen, pack ice, piglet, pigling, podite, polliwog, popliteal space, pullet, pup, puppy, scissor-legs, serac, shank, shelf ice, shin, shoat, sleet, slob, sludge, snow ice, snowberg, steer, stems, stirk, stot, stumps, tadpole, tarsus, trotters, weaner, whelp, wisent, yak, yeanling, yearling, zebu

• caliber, IQ, ability, ableness, adequacy, amount, amplitude, apprehension, area, bigness, body, bore, breadth, bulk, bump, capability, capableness, capacity, class, compass, competence, comprehension, conception, coverage, cut, deductive power, degree, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, dower, dowry, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, equipment, esemplastic power, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, force, forte, gauge, genius, gift, girth, grade, greatness, height, ideation, instinct, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, interval, knowledge, largeness, leap, length, level, long suit, magnitude, makings, mark, mass, measure, measurement, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, merit, metier, mother wit, native wit, natural endowment, natural gift, notch, nuance, parts, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, point, potential, power, power of mind, powers, proficiency, proportion, proportions, qualification, radius, range, ratio, rationality, reach, reasoning power, remove, round, rung, sanity, scale, scope, scope of mind, semidiameter, sense, shade, shadow, size, space, speciality, spread, stair, standard, stature, step, stint, strong flair, strong point, sufficiency, susceptibility, talent, talents, the goods, the stuff, thinking power, tread, understanding, value, virtue, volume, what it takes, width, wit, worth

• calibrate, IQ, ability, adjust, agenda, amplitude, appraise, appreciate, apprehension, area, assay, assess, batting order, bigness, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, body, book, bore, breadth, budget, bulk, bump, calculate, calendar, caliber, calibrated, caliper, capability, capacity, card, carte du jour, carve, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check a parameter, check in, chronicle, chronologize, comprehension, compute, conception, coverage, cut, decrease, deductive power, depth, dial, diameter, differentiate, dimension, dimensions, divide, docket, dower, dowry, endowment, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, equipment, esemplastic power, estimate, evaluate, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, faculty, fathom, file, fill out, flair, forte, gauge, genius, gift, girth, gradational, grade, gradual, graduate, graduated, grave, greatness, height, hierarchic, ideation, impanel, incise, increase, index, inscribe, insert, instinct, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intercalate, inventory, itemize, jot down, keep score, knowledge, largeness, length, line up, lineup, list, list of agenda, log, long suit, magnitude, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, makings, mark down, mass, matriculate, measure, measurement, mensurate, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, menu, mete, meter, metier, minute, mother wit, native wit, natural endowment, natural gift, note, note down, pace, parts, pigeonhole, place upon record, playbill, plumb, poll, post, post up, potential, power, power of mind, powers, prize, probe, program, program of operation, programma, progressive, proportion, proportions, prospectus, protocol, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, qualification, quantify, quantize, radius, range, rate, rationality, reach, reasoning power, record, reduce to writing, register, regular, roster, sanity, scalar, scale, schedule, scope, scope of mind, score, semidiameter, sense, set down, shade off, size, size up, slate, sound, span, speciality, spread, standardize, step, strong flair, strong point, survey, tabulate, take a reading, take down, talent, talents, tally, tape, tape-record, the goods, the stuff, thinking power, triangulate, understanding, valuate, value, videotape, volume, weigh, what it takes, width, wit, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• calisthenics, athletics, breather, constitutional, daily dozen, drill, eurythmics, exercise, exercising, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, isometrics, physical culture, physical education, physical jerks, practice, setting-up exercises, stretch, workout, yoga

• call attention to, address to, allude to, blurt, blurt out, bring to attention, bring to notice, cite, comment, direct attention to, direct to, exclaim, focus on, interject, let drop, let fall, make reference to, mention, muse, note, observe, opine, pick out, point at, point out, point to, refer to, reflect, remark, speak, specify, touch on

• call for, affect, apply for, ask, ask for, assume, bare necessities, be hurting for, be indicated, beg leave, bespeak, bid come, blackmail, bring, bring back, brook no denial, call, call away, call back, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, challenge, chase after, cite, claim, clamor for, comprise, conjure, conjure up, contain, contribution, convene, convoke, crave, cry for, cry out for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, desire, dictate, draft, drain, duty, entail, essential, essentials, evoke, exact, exaction, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, fetch, fetch and carry, file for, get, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, have occasion for, heavy demand, implicate, imply, impose, imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand, invoke, involve, issue an ultimatum, lead to, leave no option, levy, make a demand, make a request, make a requisition, make application, must, must item, muster, muster up, necessaries, necessitate, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nonnegotiable demand, notice, oblige, obtain, occasion, order, order up, page, pick up, place an order, preconize, prerequire, prerequirement, prerequisite, presume, presuppose, procure, put in for, put in requisition, recall, request, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, retrieve, run after, rush, rush order, screw, secure, send after, send for, serve, shag, subpoena, subsume, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, take, take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, taxing, the necessary, the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, want doing, warn, warning, whistle for, wish

• call forth, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, bid come, blow the coals, blow up, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring on, bring out, bring to light, call, call away, call back, call for, call in, call out, call together, call up, cause, cite, conjure, conjure up, contrive, convene, convoke, deduce, demand, derive, drag out, draw down, draw forth, draw on, draw out, educe, effect, elicit, enkindle, enrage, evoke, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, get, get from, get out of, heat, impassion, incense, incite, indent, induce, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, invoke, key up, kindle, lather up, lead, light the fuse, light up, madden, motivate, move, muster, muster up, obtain, order up, overexcite, page, preconize, procure, prompt, provoke, recall, requisition, rouse, secure, send after, send for, serve, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, superinduce, turn on, wake, wake up, waken, wangle, wangle out of, warm, warm the blood, whip up, winkle out, work into, work up, worm out, worm out of

• call girl, B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, bawd, daughter of joy, drab, erring sister, fallen woman, fille de joie, harlot, hooker, hustler, meretrix, painted woman, poule, prostitute, scarlet woman, stew, streetwalker, unfortunate woman, white slave, whore

• call in, advise with, ask, bargain, bid come, bill, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call out, call together, call up, cite, collogue, compare notes, confer, confer with, conjure, conjure up, consult, consult with, convene, convoke, counsel, deliberate, demand, demand payment, discuss, discuss with, dun, evoke, exchange observations, exchange views, have conversations, invite, invoice, invoke, issue an invitation, muster, muster up, negotiate, order up, page, palaver, parley, powwow, preconize, put heads together, reason with, recall, refer to, requisition, send a statement, send after, send for, serve, sit down together, sit down with, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, take counsel, take up with, talk over

• call it a day, break, breathe, button up, call a strike, call it quits, cap, carry to completion, clean up, climax, close down, close out, close shop, close up, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, end, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, go on strike, knock off, lay off, mop up, pause, perfect, recess, round out, secure, shut down, shut up shop, stop for breath, strike, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take five, take ten, take time out, terminate, top off, top out, walk out, wind up, wrap up

• call off, KO, call over, call the roll, cancel, census, complete, count, delete, dispose of, drop, drop the curtain, end off, enumerate, expunge, extinguish, finalize, finish, fold up, foliate, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out, measure, number, numerate, page, paginate, perfect, polish off, poll, put paid to, quantify, quantize, run over, scrag, scrub, shoot down, tally, tell, wipe out, zap

• call on, adjure, advocate, appeal, appeal to, apply to, beg, beseech, bid, blandish, cajole, call for help, call the signals, call upon, charge, circulate a petition, clamor for, coax, command, commission, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, declare, decree, dictate, direct, drop in, enjoin, entreat, exhort, give an order, give the word, high-pressure, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, insist, insist upon, instruct, invoke, issue a command, issue a writ, jawbone, kneel to, lobby, look in, mandate, memorialize, nag, obtest, ordain, order, order about, pay a visit, petition, plead, plead for, plead with, pray, prefer a petition, press, pressure, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, push, recommend, rule, run in, run to, say the word, see, sign a petition, soft-soap, stop by, stop off, stop over, sue, supplicate, sweet-talk, urge, visit, wheedle, work on

• call out, affront, arouse, beard, bellow out, bid come, bid defiance, brave, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call together, call up, challenge, cite, clamor, confront, conjure, conjure up, convene, convoke, cry out, dare, deduce, defy, demand, derive, double-dare, drag out, draw forth, draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, face, face out, front, get from, get out of, holler out, indent, induce, invoke, make an outcry, make an uproar, muster, muster up, obtain, order up, outcry, outdare, page, pipe up, preconize, procure, raise a clamor, recall, requisition, rouse, scream defiance, secure, send after, send for, serve, shout out, show fight, sing out, stare down, stimulate, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, vociferate, wangle, wangle out of, winkle out, worm out, worm out of, yell out

• call up, annoy, ape, appear like, approach, approximate, arouse, assemblage, assembly, awake, awaken, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, beat the drums, bid come, blow the coals, blow up, bring about, bring back, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, bring to mind, bugle call, buzz, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to arms, call to mind, call together, call up spirits, canvass, catchword, cause, census, cite, clarion, clarion call, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, come close, come near, commandeer, compare with, comparison, compulsory military service, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, conjure, conjure up, conjure up spirits, conscript, conscription, convene, convergence, convoke, copy, corralling, correspond, counterfeit, data-gathering, deduce, demand, derive, detach, detach for service, dial, draft, draft call, drafting, drag out, draw forth, draw out, educe, elicit, enkindle, enlist, enlistment, enrage, enroll, enrollment, envisage, envision, evoke, excite, exhortation, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, favor, feed the fire, fire, flame, follow, foment, frenzy, gathering, get from, get out of, give a ring, go back, go back over, go for broke, gung ho, hang up, hark back, heat, hold the phone, image, imitate, impassion, impress, impressment, incense, incite, indent, induce, induct, induction, inflame, infuriate, ingathering, inspire, inventory, invoke, join, junction, just see, juxtaposition, key up, kindle, lather up, levy, light the fuse, light up, list, listen in, look back, look like, madden, make a call, match, mimic, mind, mirror, mobilization, mobilize, move, muster, muster in, muster up, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, objectify, obtain, order up, overexcite, page, parallel, partake of, phone, picture, preconize, press, procure, prompt, provoke, raise, raise ghosts, rally, rallying cry, realize, rebel yell, recall, recall to mind, recapture, recollect, recruit, recruiting, recruitment, reevoke, reflect, remember, remind one of, represent, requisition, resemble, retrace, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, ring, ring off, ring up, rodeo, roundup, rouse, savor of, secure, see, see in retrospect, seem like, selective service, send after, send for, serve, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, sign on, sign up, simulate, slogan, smack of, sound like, stack up with, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, subpoena, suggest, summon, summon forth, summon spirits, summon up, summons, survey, take after, telephone, think back, think of, trumpet call, turn on, use hindsight, vision, visualize, wake, wake up, waken, wangle, wangle out of, war cry, war whoop, warm, warm the blood, watchword, whip up, winkle out, work into, work up, worm out, worm out of

• call, Angelus, Angelus bell, DDD, accompany, address, adjuration, adumbrate, alarm, alarum, allurement, animal noise, ante, ante up, antecedents, apostleship, apostrophize, appeal, appeal to, appraise, appreciate, approximate, ask, ask for, assemble, assess, attend, attractiveness, augur, awake, awaken, back, baptize, bark, barking, base, basis, battle cry, bawl, bay, beck, beck and call, bell, bellow, beseechment, bet, bet on, bid, bid come, biddance, bidding, bill, birdcall, blackmail, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, bugle call, busy signal, buzz, cackle, call, call away, call back, call down, call for, call forth, call in, call off, call on, call out, call together, call up, call upon, call-up, calling, calling forth, cancel, care of souls, carol, cast lots, castigate, caterwaul, causation, cause, cause and effect, caw, challenge, chastise, chatter, cheep, cheer, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, christen, chuck, cite, clack, claim, clamor, clang, class, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, collect, come by, come over, command, compulsory military service, conjure, conjure up, conscript, conscription, contribution, convene, convocation, convoke, coo, cover, croak, cronk, crow, cry, cry out, cuckoo, cut lots, cut the cards, define, demand, demand for, demand payment, denominate, denote, designate, determinant, determinative, dial, dial tone, direct distance dialing, discontinue, draft, draft call, drafting, drain, draw, draw lots, draw on, draw straws, drawing power, drop in, drum, dub, dun, duty, duty visit, element, elicit, engraved invitation, enlist, enlistment, enrollment, entitle, entreat, entreaty, estimate, etiology, evaluate, evocation, evoke, exact, exaction, excuse, extortion, extortionate demand, factor, fade, fetch, figure, forecast, form an estimate, formal visit, foundation, gabble, gaggle, gamble, game, gather, gauge, get, give a ring, give an appreciation, give tongue, give voice, gobble, good reason, ground, grounds, grunt, guess, guggle, hail, halloo, hang up, hazard, heavy demand, hold the phone, holler, hollo, holy orders, honk, hoo, hoot, howl, howling, hurrah, identify, imploration, imploring, imposition, impost, imprecation, impressment, indent, induction, insistent demand, inspire, invitation, invite, invocation, invocatory plea, invoice, invoke, issue an invitation, judge, justification, knock up, label, last post, lay, lay a wager, lay down, levy, listen in, local call, long distance, long-distance call, look in, look up, lot, low, lure, mad round, make a bet, make a call, make an estimation, mark, match coins, material basis, mating call, measure, meet a bet, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, mobile call, mobilization, moo, moose call, muster, muster up, name, necessity, need, neigh, nicker, nickname, nod, nonnegotiable demand, note, notice, notification, obligation, obsecration, obtestation, occasion, on call, on duty, option, order, order up, page, parlay, pass, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorate, peep, person-to-person call, petition, phone, phone call, pick up, pip, pipe, place, play, play against, play at dice, play the ponies, plea, plunge, pop in, portend, postpone, postulate, prayer, preconization, preconize, predict, presage, press, priesthood, priestship, principle, prize, prognosticate, prophesy, pule, pull, punt, put, put and call, quack, rabbinate, raffle off, rally, rallying cry, rank, rate, ready, reason, rebel yell, rebuke, recall, reckon, recruit, recruiting, recruitment, reprimand, reprove, request, require, required visit, requirement, requisition, reveille, right, ring, ring off, ring up, roar, rogation, roll, round up, rouse, run in, rush, rush order, sacred calling, scold, screak, scream, screech, seduction, see, selective service, send a statement, send after, send for, serve, shoot craps, shout, shriek, shrill, sing, social call, social round, social whirl, solicit, song, specify, speculate, sport, spread, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, stake, stand pat, station-to-station call, stimulus, stock option, straddle, strap, stridulation, strip, style, subpoena, substance, suit, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, supplicate, supplication, tag, taps, tax, taxing, telephone, telephone call, term, the church, the cloth, the desk, the ministry, the pulpit, tinkle, title, toll call, toss, tribute, trill, troat, trumpet call, tweet, twit, twitter, ultimatum, ululate, ululation, upbraid, valuate, value, vaticinate, visit, visitation, visiting, vocation, vociferate, wager, wail, wake up, war cry, war whoop, warble, warning, warrant, whicker, whine, whinny, whistle, whoop, within call, woodnote, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

• caller, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, callboy, calling party, company, copyboy, errand boy, freeloader, frequenter, gate-crasher, guest, habitue, moocher, office boy, party, phoner, telephoner, uninvited guest, visitant, visitor

• calligraphy, abstract art, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, autography, cave art, ceramics, chirography, copybook hand, decoration, design, designing, elegant penmanship, engraving, etching, fair hand, fine arts, fine hand, fine writing, fist, folk art, good fist, good hand, graphanalysis, graphic arts, graphology, graphometry, hand, handwriting, manuscript, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, photography, plastic art, primitive art, script, scription, scrive, sculpture, stylography, the arts

• calling card, ID card, badge, calligram, card, countermark, countersign, credentials, dog tag, identification, identification badge, identification tag, initials, letter of introduction, monogram, press card, serial number, signature, tessera, visiting card

• calling, ambition, apostolic orders, appellation, appointment, area, art, aspiration, baptism, basis, beck, beck and call, bid, biddance, bidding, business, call, calling forth, canonization, career, career building, careerism, cause, christening, conferment, consecration, consideration, convocation, craft, definition, denomination, designation, election, employment, engraved invitation, evocation, game, goal, ground, guiding light, guiding star, handicraft, holy orders, ideal, identification, indent, induction, inspiration, installation, institution, intention, investiture, invitation, invite, invocation, job, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, lodestar, mainspring, major orders, matter, metier, minor orders, mission, motive, mystery, naming, nicknaming, nod, nomination, number, occupation, ordainment, orders, ordination, practice, preconization, preferment, presentation, principle, profession, province, pursuit, racket, reading in, reason, requisition, sake, score, source, specialization, specialty, spring, styling, summons, terming, trade, ulterior motive, vocation, walk, walk of life, work

• calliope, Hammond organ, Mark, baroque organ, bazooka, calliophone, choralcelo, electric organ, electro-pneumatic organ, harmonium, hedgehog, hydraulic organ, launch pad, launching pad, launching platform, launching tube, melodeon, melodica, mousetrap, orchestrelle, organ, organophone, pipe organ, projector, reed organ, seraphine, silo, steam organ, symphonion, tracker-action organ, tubular-pneumatic organ, vocalion

• callous, Philistine, anneal, apathetic, asleep, backed, benumbed, brazen, brutalize, calcified, calcify, calloused, case harden, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, conscienceless, cornify, crusted, crusty, crystallized, dead, deadened, dull, firm, flinthearted, flinty, fossilize, fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, harden, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient, impervious, incrusted, indifferent, indurate, indurated, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inure, inured, lapidified, lapidify, lithify, lost to shame, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, ossified, ossify, pachydermatous, petrified, petrify, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steel, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, temper, thick-skinned, thick-witted, tough, toughen, toughened, unabject, unblushing, uncaring, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic, untouched, vitrified, vitrify

• callousness, Philistinism, analgesia, anesthesia, armor, callosity, callus, coldbloodedness, coldheartedness, coldness, deadness, density, dullness, durity, electronarcosis, flintiness, formidable defenses, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, heartlessness, impassibility, impenetrability, impenitence, impenitentness, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, imperviousness, inconsiderateness, induration, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insolence, inuredness, irrepentance, narcosis, narcotization, nonrepentance, numbness, obduracy, obdurateness, obtuseness, pins and needles, pitilessness, resistance, restiveness, rhinoceros hide, seared conscience, solidity, steeliness, stoniness, thick skin, toughness, unabjectness, uncontriteness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unmercifulness, unnaturalness, unperceptiveness, unresponsiveness

• callow, a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, arrested, at half cock, awkward, blankminded, budding, defective, deficient, dewy, dumb, embryonic, empty, empty-headed, ever-new, evergreen, failing, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gauche, green, green as grass, groping, growing, guileless, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hypoplastic, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, impubic, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inadequate, inane, incomplete, inexperienced, infant, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, juvenile, know-nothing, lacking, maiden, maidenly, minor, missing, naive, needing, neoteric, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, original, part, partial, patchy, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy, scant, scanty, scrappy, sempervirent, short, shy, simple, sketchy, strange to, tender, tentative, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult, unapprized, unbeaten, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underdeveloped, underripe, undeveloped, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsure, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, vernal, virgin, virginal, wanting, young, youthful

• callus, Philistinism, armor, benign tumor, callosity, callousness, cancer, carcinoma, corn, cyst, excrescence, flintiness, formidable defenses, fungosity, fungus, growth, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, imperviousness, induration, insensitiveness, insensitivity, intumescence, inuredness, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, obduracy, obdurateness, outgrowth, proud flesh, rhinoceros hide, sarcoma, stoniness, thick skin, tumor, verruca, wart, wen

• calm, abnegation, abstinence, accordance, allay, alleviate, anticyclone, appease, assuage, at peace, at rest, aweless, balm, balmy, becalm, blank, blankminded, bloodless, calm down, calmness, cease, cloistered, collected, compose, composed, composure, conciliate, concordant, conservatism, consistency, consonance, constancy, constraint, continence, continuity, control, cool, cool off, coolheaded, coolness, correspondence, cradle, dead calm, deathlike calm, defuse, die down, dispassion, dispassionate, doldrums, dulcify, dwindle, dwindling, ease, easy, easygoing, ebb, ebbing, empty, empty-headed, equability, equable, equanimity, equilibrium, even, even out, even-tempered, even-tenored, evenness, expected, expecting, fatuous, firm, flat calm, gentle, gentleness, golden mean, halcyon, halt, happy medium, homogeneity, horse latitudes, hush, hushed, idyllic, impartiality, impassive, imperturbable, inactive, inane, incogitant, inexcitable, isolated, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lay, lay the dust, lenity, levelheaded, lull, make one easy, meden agan, middle way, mild, mildness, mitigate, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, molder, moldering, mollify, monolithism, motionless, nerveless, neutrality, nirvanic, nonchalant, nonviolence, nothing in excess, oblivious, oily calm, orderly, pacific, pacifism, pacify, passive, pastoral, peace, peaceable, peaceful, peacefulness, peacetime, persistence, philosophical, phlegmatic, piping, placate, placid, placidity, placidness, poised, possessed, pour balm into, pour balm on, propitiate, prudence, quell, quiesce, quiescent, quiet, quieten, quietistic, relax, relaxed, relieve, repose, reposeful, reposing, rest, restful, resting, restraint, rock, rock to sleep, rock-steady, sang-froid, secluded, sedate, self-abnegation, self-control, self-controlled, self-denial, self-possessed, self-possession, self-restraint, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, serenity, settle, sheltered, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, sobriety, soft, soothe, soother, stability, stabilize, stable, staid, staunch, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, steady-handed, steady-nerved, steel-nerved, still, still as death, stillish, stillness, stilly, stoic, stoical, stolid, stop, strong-nerved, subdue, subside, subsiding, temperance, temperateness, thoughtfree, thoughtless, together, tranquil, tranquilize, tranquillity, unagitated, unamazed, unastonished, unastounded, unawed, unbewildered, unblenching, unblinking, undazed, undazzled, undisturbed, undumbfounded, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unfaltering, unflappable, unflinching, unideaed, uniformity, unimpressed, unintellectual, unity, unmarveling, unmoved, unnervous, unoccupied, unperturbed, unquivering, unreasoning, unruffled, unruffledness, unshaken, unshaky, unshrinking, unstirring, unstrained, unsurprised, unthinking, untremulous, untroubled, unwavering, unwondering, vacant, vacuous, via media, wane, waning, windless, windlessness, without a tremor, wonderless

• calmative, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, alleviative, alleviator, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, assuager, assuasive, balm, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmant, calming, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, cushion, demulcent, depressant, depressor, dolly, dolorifuge, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lenitive, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, mitigator, moderator, modulator, mollifier, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacificator, pacifier, pain killer, palliative, paregoric, peacemaker, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, quietening, rainbow, red, relaxing, restraining hand, salve, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, shock absorber, sleep-inducer, sleep-inducing, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, somniferous, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, soporific, stabilizer, tar, temperer, tranquilizer, tranquilizing, turps, white stuff, wiser head, yellow, yellow jacket

• calming, United Nations troops, abatement, allayment, alleviation, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, blunting, conciliation, cradling, damping, deadening, demulsion, detente, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, easing, easing of relations, falling-off, gentling, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mediation, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, pacification, pacifying, palliation, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, propitiation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxation of tension, remission, restful, rocking, slackening, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing

• calmness, Buddha-like composure, Oriental calm, abnegation, abstinence, ataraxia, ataraxy, awelessness, calm, calm disposition, calm of mind, composure, conservatism, constraint, contemplation, continence, control, cool, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, countenance, dispassion, easy mind, evenness, expectation, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, icy calm, icy nerves, impartiality, imperturbability, imperturbation, indisturbance, inexcitability, iron nerves, judiciousness, juste-milieu, law and order, lenity, lucid stillness, marmoreal repose, meden agan, mental composure, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, nervelessness, nerves of steel, neutrality, nirvana, no nerves, nodding acceptance, nonamazedness, nonamazement, nonastonishment, nonmarveling, nonviolence, nonwonder, nonwondering, nothing in excess, order, orderliness, pacifism, peace, peace and quiet, peace of mind, peacefulness, philosophic composure, philosophicalness, philosophy, phlegm, placidity, placidness, prudence, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quiet life, quiet mind, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, restraint, sangfroid, satori, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, silence, silken repose, sleep, slumber, sobriety, soothingness, stability, steadiness, steady nerves, steady-handedness, stillness, strong nerves, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unamazedness, unamazement, unastonishment, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unimpressibleness, unnervousness, unruffledness, unshakiness, unsurprise, unsurprisedness, untremulousness, via media, wise passiveness, wonderlessness

• calorie counter, acid-ash diet, allergy diet, bland diet, calorie chart, diabetic diet, diet, diet book, dietary, dietetics, dieting, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, macrobiotic diet, pap, regime, regimen, salt-free diet, soft diet, spoon victuals, ulcer diet, vegetarianism, vitamin-deficiency diet

• calorie, BTU, British thermal unit, atomerg, dinamode, dyne, energid, erg, foot-pound, great calorie, horsepower-hour, horsepower-year, joule, kilocalorie, kilogram-meter, kilowatt-hour, photon, quantum, rational calorie, therm, thermal unit

• calumny, abuse, animadversion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, bitchiness, calumniation, cattiness, contumely, defamation, depreciation, disparagement, invective, libel, obloquy, opprobrium, reflection, revilement, scandal, scurrility, slander, stricture, tale, traducement, vilification, vituperation

• calx, ash, ashes, brand, carbon, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, coom, dross, fume, lava, reek, scoria, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, sullage

• calypso, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, alba, anthem, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, croon, croon song, dirge, ditty, drinking song, epithalamium, folk song, hymeneal, lay, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, national anthem, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, theme song, torch song, war song, wedding song

• camber, amplitude, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archway, bellying, bulging, ceilinged roof, concameration, concha, convexedness, convexity, convexness, cove, cupola, dome, excurvation, excurvature, flight path, geodesic dome, gibbosity, gibbousness, igloo, keystone, ogive, skewback, skin effect, skin friction, slip, span, stagger, tuberosity, tuberousness, vault, vaulting, voussoir

• camel, Cape elk, Siberian husky, Virginia deer, antelope, ass, beast of burden, buck, camelopard, caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, draft animal, dromedary, eland, elephant, elk, fallow deer, fawn, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, horse, husky, kaama, llama, malamute, moose, mule, mule deer, musk deer, okapi, ox, pack horse, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, sledge dog, springbok, stag, sumpter, sumpter horse, sumpter mule, wildebeest

• camelback, bowlegs, cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, defacement, deformation, deformity, disfigurement, flatfoot, freakishness, harelip, humpback, hunchback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, mutilation, splayfoot, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis, truncation, valgus, wryneck

• cameo, anaglyph, bas-relief, boss, cameo glass, catalog, cataloging, cavo-rilievo, character, character sketch, characterization, cut glass, delineation, depiction, description, details, embossment, evocation, glyph, glyptograph, graphic account, high relief, image, imagery, impression, intaglio, intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, itemization, limning, low relief, mask, medal, medallion, particularization, photograph, picture, plaquette, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, profile, relief, relievo, rendering, rendition, representation, sculptured glass, sketch, specification, vignette, vivid description, word painting

• camera, Iconoscope, Kodak, Photostat, SLR, X-ray machine, achromatic lens, aerial reconnaissance camera, astigmatic lens, astrograph, box camera, burning glass, camera obscura, candid camera, cinematograph, coated lens, color camera, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, hand lens, kinematograph, lens, magnifier, magnifying glass, meniscus, miniature camera, minicam, motion-picture camera, movie camera, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, photochronograph, photocopier, photomicroscope, photopitometer, portrait camera, precision camera, press camera, prism, reader, reading glass, reflex camera, spectroscopic camera, stereo camera, still camera, telephoto lens, television camera, toric lens, tripod camera, twin-lens reflex, varifocal lens, vest-pocket camera, zoom lens

• camouflage, bad copy, bad likeness, becloud, befog, belie, blanket, blind, burlesque, caricature, cloak, cloud, color, conceal, concealment, contrast, cover, cover up, cover-up, curtain, deception, difference, dim, disguise, disparity, dissemblance, dissemble, dissimilarity, dissimilate, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissimulate, distort, distract attention from, divergence, diversity, domino, dress up, eclipse, embellish, embroider, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, exaggerate, facade, false colors, false face, false front, falsify, fudge, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, guise, hide, incognito, incommensurability, incomparability, keep under cover, makeup, mask, masque, masquerade, mere caricature, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, mummery, nonuniformity, obfuscate, obscure, occult, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, poor imitation, protective coloration, screen, shade, show, shroud, slant, slur over, smoke screen, strain, titivate, travesty, trick out, trickery, twist, understate, unlikeness, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, varnish, vary, veil, visor, vizard, vizard mask, warp, whitewash, wrench

• camouflaged, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, concealed, disguised, hidden, imperceptible, in disguise, incog, incognito, indiscernible, insensible, invisible, latent, masked, masquerading, out of sight, secret, sightless, submerged, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undiscernible, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed, viewless

• camp, American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Babbittry, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Farmer-Labor Party, Federalist Party, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Know-Nothing Party, Konzentrationslager, Labour Party, Lager, Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party, National Republican Party, Populist Party, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Thalia, Tory Party, Whig Party, affected, anchor, arlequinade, artificial, artless, bad taste, barrack, barracks, billet at, bivouac, bivouacking, black comedy, body, bourgeois taste, box, breakaway group, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, burrow, cabal, cabin, caboose, camarilla, camp out, campground, campiness, camping, campsite, campy, cantonment, casern, caucus, circle, city hall, clan, clique, colonize, come to anchor, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy, comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas, comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy relief, comic, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief, concentration camp, cot, coterie, cottage, crash, dark comedy, detention camp, division, domestic comedy, domesticate, drive stakes, drop anchor, effeminate, encamp, encampment, ensconce, establish residence, ethnic group, exaggerate, exaggerated, exode, extravagant, faction, farce, farce comedy, farcical, flamboyant, flaunt, flounce, genteel comedy, go camping, group, ham, harlequinade, high camp, hive, hobo jungle, hut, impropriety, inappropriateness, inartistic, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, ingroup, inhabit, interest, interest group, keep house, kitsch, light, light comedy, lines, live at, locate, lodge, low camp, low comedy, machine, major party, mannered, maroon, mime, minor party, minority group, mob, moor, move, multiple party system, musical, musical comedy, nest, offshoot, one-party system, opera buffa, opposition party, ostentatious, outrageous, outre, park, party, party in power, people, perch, philistinism, pitch, pitch camp, political machine, political party, poor taste, pop, pop culture, populate, posture, prance, pressure group, raw comedy, realistic comedy, relocate, reside, ring, romantic comedy, roost, rough it, satyr play, sect, sentimental comedy, set, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, settlement, shack, shanty, show off, showy, side, silent majority, sit down, situation comedy, slapstick, slapstick comedy, sleep out, splinter, splinter group, splinter party, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, strut, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tastelessness, tent, tented field, tenting, theatrical, third party, tragicomedy, tragicomic, two-party system, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vocal minority, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wing

• campaign, action, activity, all-out campaign, campaign button, campaign commitments, campaign contribution, campaign fund, canvass, cause, circuit, commitment, compete, competition, contest, course, cruise, crusade, drive, effort, electioneer, excursion, expedition, faith, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, grand tour, grass-roots campaign, great cause, hard-hitting campaign, hit the trail, holy war, hurrah campaign, interest, issue, jaunt, jihad, journey, junket, lifework, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, make an expedition, mass movement, media campaign, movement, offensive, operations, outing, package tour, peregrinate, peregrination, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, principle, progress, push, race, range the world, reason for being, ring doorbells, rivalry, round trip, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, sight-see, solicit votes, solicitation, stalk, stand, struggle, stump, stump excursion, stump the country, stumping tour, take a trip, take the road, take the stump, tour, trek, trip, turn, undertake operations, voyage, war, wayfare, whistle-stop, whistle-stop campaign

• campanile, antenna tower, barbican, belfry, bell tower, carillon, colossus, column, cupola, derrick, dome, fire tower, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, pylon, pyramid, shaft, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stupa, television mast, tope, tour, tower, turret, water tower, windmill tower

• camper, adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camp trailer, caravan, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, house trailer, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mobile home, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, semitrailer, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trail car, trailblazer, trailbreaker, trailer, trailer camp, trailer court, trailer park, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, truck trailer, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler