Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/13

• celebrity, Establishment, PR, VIP, acclaim, ballyhoo, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, blurb, brass, brass hat, bright light, center of attraction, character, common knowledge, constellation, cry, currency, cynosure, daylight, dignitary, dignity, distinction, eclat, elder, eminence, exposure, fame, famousness, father, figure, folk hero, galaxy, glare, glory, great man, hero, heroine, hoopla, hue and cry, idol, immortal, important person, interests, kudos, limelight, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, mahatma, man of mark, master spirit, maximum dissemination, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, notoriety, notoriousness, panjandrum, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, plug, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, popularity, power, power elite, press notice, prestige, prominence, public eye, public figure, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, reclame, recognition, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, ruling circle, sachem, social lion, somebody, something, spotlight, star, stardom, superstar, the bubble reputation, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, vogue, worthy, write-up

• celerity, air speed, alacrity, bat, briskness, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, gait, ground speed, haste, hurry, hustle, instantaneousness, knots, legerity, lightning speed, miles per hour, pace, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, round pace, rpm, rush, rustle, snappiness, speed, speediness, swift rate, swiftness, velocity

• celesta, battery, bells, bones, castanets, chime, chimes, clappers, crash cymbal, cymbals, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, idiophone, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rattle, rattlebones, sizzler, snappers, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibes, vibraphone, xylophone

• celestial navigation, VAR, aspect, astronavigation, attitude, automatic electronic navigation, azimuth, bearing, bearings, chronometer, coastwise navigation, consolan, dead reckoning, electronic navigation, exposure, fix, frontage, lay, lie, line of position, loran, navar, navigation, omnidirectional range, omnirange, orientation, pilotage, plane sailing, point-to-point navigation, position, position line, radar, radio beacon, radio bearing, radio navigation, set, sextant, shoran, sofar, sonar, tables, tacan, teleran, visual-aural range

• celestial, Elysian, Olympian, astral, astronomical, beatific, blessed, divine, elysian, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, godly, heavenly, immortal, otherworldly, paradisaic, spiritual, sublime, supernal, supernatural, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly

• celibacy, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Platonic love, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, asceticism, avoidance, bachelorhood, banyan day, chastity, continence, continency, detachment, eschewal, fast, fish day, friarhood, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, intactness, isolation, keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, maidenhead, maidenhood, monachism, monasticism, monkery, moving apart, nephalism, plain living, privacy, purity, refraining, refrainment, seclusion, self-restraint, separateness, sequestration, sexual abstinence, simple diet, single blessedness, singleness, solitariness, solitude, spare diet, spinsterhood, splendid isolation, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, vegetarianism, virginity, withdrawal

• celibate, Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Platonic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abbacomes, abbot, absolute, abstemious, abstinent, acarpous, alone, arid, ascetic, azygous, bachelor, barren, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, cenobite, chaste, childless, continent, conventual, conventual prior, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, first and last, friar, fruitarian, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, immaculate, impair, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, intact, issueless, jejune, lay abbot, lay brother, leached, lone, maidenly, mendicant, menopausal, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous, monachal, monastic, monk, monkish, nephalistic, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nun, odd, on the wagon, one and only, only, only-begotten, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, priest, prior, pure, religieux, religious, sexually abstinent, sine prole, single, singular, sole, spinster, sterile, stylite, sucked dry, sworn off, teemless, teetotal, uncultivated, undefiled, unfertile, unfruitful, unique, unmarried, unpaired, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrepeated, unsown, unsullied, untilled, unwed, vegetarian, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous, waste, wasted, without issue

• cell, POW camp, Photronic cell, adytum, animal cell, apartment, ashram, bastille, bioplast, black hole, booth, borstal, borstal institution, box, bridewell, brig, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, cavity, cellular tissue, cellule, chamber, charmed circle, chromatoplasm, circle, clan, clique, cloister, closed circle, coenocyte, compartment, concentration camp, condemned cell, corpuscle, coterie, crew, crib, crowd, crypt, cubicle, cytoplasm, death cell, death house, death row, den, detention camp, ectoplasm, electron-image tube, elite, elite group, enclosed space, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, gas phototube, germ cell, group, guardhouse, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hold, hole, hollow, holy of holies, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, ingroup, inner circle, internment camp, ivory tower, jail, jailhouse, junta, junto, keep, labor camp, lair, lockup, manger, maximum-security prison, mew, minimum-security prison, mob, multiplier phototube, oubliette, outfit, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pew, photoconductor cell, photomultiplier tube, phototube, photovoltaic cell, plant cell, plasmodium, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, privacy, procaryotic cell, protoplasm, recess, reform school, reformatory, reticulum, retreat, ring, room, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, set, soft phototube, somatic cell, sponging house, stall, state prison, stockade, syncytium, the hole, tollbooth, training school, trophoplasm, vacuum phototube, vault, we-group

• cellar, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellarage, chest, closet, coal bin, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, cyclone cellar, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hole, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, potato cellar, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, storm cellar, subbasement, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

• cello, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, English horn, G string, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, contrabass, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, crowd, cymbel, diapason, double bass, dulciana, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, hybrid stop, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, koppel flute, larigot, melodia, mixture, mutation stop, nazard, oboe, octave, organ stop, piccolo, plein jeu, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, reed stop, register, rohr flute, scroll, sesquialtera, shawm, soundboard, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string, string diapason, string stop, tenor violin, tierce, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, tuning peg, twelfth, unda maris, vibrato, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana

• cement, Tarmac, Tarvia, accouple, accumulate, adamant, adhere, adherent, adhesive, adobe, affix, agglutinate, amass, anchor, annex, articulate, ashlar, asphalt, assemble, associate, attach, band, barnacle, belay, bind, biscuit, bisque, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, bond, bone, bony, bowl, bracket, bramble, braze, brick, bricks and mortar, bridge, bridge over, brier, bulldog, burr, carpet, causeway, cemental, ceramic ware, ceramics, chain, china, cinch, clamp, clap together, clinch, cling, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, cohere, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, concrete, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, corneous, couple, cover, covering materials, cramp, crock, crockery, curb, curbing, curbstone, decal, decalcomania, dense, diamond, diamondlike, dure, edgestone, embrace, enamelware, encompass, engraft, fasten, ferroconcrete, firebrick, fix, flag, flagging, flagstone, flint, flintlike, flinty, floor, flooring, fuse, gather, glass, glue, graft, granite, granitelike, granitic, grapple, gravel, grout, gum, gunk, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, heart of oak, hold, horny, include, iron, iron-hard, ironlike, join, jug, kerb, kerbstone, knit, knot, lapideous, lath and plaster, lay together, league, leech, limpet, link, lithoid, lithoidal, lump together, macadam, make fast, marble, marblelike, marry, marshal, masonry, mass, mastic, merge, metal, mobilize, molasses, moor, mortar, mucilage, nails, oak, obdurate, osseous, pair, parget, paste, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, pebble, piece together, plaster, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, prickle, put to, put together, refractory, remora, resistant, resistive, road metal, rock, rocklike, rocky, roll into one, roofage, roofing, roughcast, screw up, secure, set, set to, siding, solder, solid, span, splice, steel, steellike, steely, stick, stick together, sticker, stone, stonelike, stony, stucco, syrup, take in, tape, tar, tarmacadam, thorn, tie, tighten, tile, tiling, tough, trice up, trim, unify, unite, urn, vase, walling, washboard, weld, yoke

• cenotaph, arch, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, catacombs, charnel house, cist, cist grave, column, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cyclolith, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, house of death, inscription, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, narrow house, necrology, obelisk, obituary, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pillar, pit, plaque, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, shrine, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, vault

• censer, Agnus Dei, Holy Grail, Host, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, atomizer, bambino, beadroll, beads, candle, chaplet, ciborium, cross, crucifix, cruet, eucharistial, fumigator, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incense burner, incensory, matzo, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, odorator, odorizer, osculatory, ostensorium, parfumoir, paschal candle, pax, perfumer, phylacteries, pomander, potpourri, pouncet-box, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, purse atomizer, pyx, relics, rood, rosary, sachet, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, scent bag, scent ball, scent bottle, scent box, scenter, shofar, smelling bottle, spray, sukkah, tabernacle, tallith, thurible, urceole, veronica, vigil light, vinaigrette, votive candle

• censor, abbreviate, abridge, annotator, asphyxiate, belittler, black out, bleach, blip, blot out, blue-pencil, bottle up, bowdlerize, cancel, captious critic, carper, caviler, censurer, choke off, clamp down on, clean up, cognoscente, commentator, commenter, common scold, connoisseur, conscience, conscientiousness, cork, cork up, crack down on, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cross out, crush, cut, cut out, damp down, delete, drown, edit, edit out, editor, erase, ethical self, excise, expunge, expurgate, extinguish, faultfinder, frondeur, gag, grace, hold down, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, inner arbiter, inward monitor, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, literary critic, man of letters, momus, monopolist, moral censor, muckraker, muffle, muzzle, narrow, nitpicker, omit, pettifogger, pour water on, protectionist, purge, purify, put down, quash, quell, quench, quibbler, repress, rescind, restrain, restrict, restrictionist, reviewer, rub out, scholiast, scold, screen, shush, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smellfungus, smother, social conscience, social critic, squash, squelch, stanch, stifle, strangle, strike, strike off, strike out, stultify, subdue, suffocate, superego, suppress, tender conscience, textual critic, throttle, twinge of conscience, voice of conscience, void

• censored, arcane, cabalistic, classified, close, closed, concealed, cryptic, dark, enigmatic, esoteric, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, latent, mysterious, occult, restricted, secret, smothered, stifled, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable

• censorious, Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, accusatory, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, captious, carping, catty, caviling, chiding, choicy, choosy, condemnatory, conscientious, contemptuous, contumelious, critic, critical, damnatory, defamatory, demure, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, exacting, execrating, execrative, execratory, fastidious, faultfinding, hidebound, hypercritical, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, meticulous, mid-Victorian, minimizing, narrow, objurgatory, old-maidish, overcritical, overmodest, particular, pejorative, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prim, proscriptive, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scandalous, scoffing, scrupulous, scurrile, scurrilous, selective, sensitive, slanderous, slighting, smug, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict, stuffy, vilifying, vituperative

• censorship, abbreviation, abridgment, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, blackout, block, blockage, blocking, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancellation, censoring, crackdown, crushing, curtain, deletion, editing, erasure, expurgation, extinguishment, hush-up, inhibition, iron curtain, ironbound security, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, omission, pall, psychological block, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, repression, resistance, restraint, seal of secrecy, security, smashing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, strangling, striking, subdual, suffocating, suppression, throttling, veil, veil of secrecy, wraps

• censurable, amiss, blamable, blameful, culpable, discreditable, doubtful, guilty, improper, inadmissible, incorrect, objectionable, questionable, reprehensible, sinful, unacceptable, unholy, wrong, wrongful

• censure, accuse, anathema, anathematize, anathematizing, anathemize, animadvert on, annotate, approval, arraign, arraignment, aspersion, assail, assault, attack, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bend sinister, bespatter, black eye, black mark, blacken, blacklist, blame, blot, blow upon, blur, book review, brand, bring home to, broad arrow, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, castigation, champain, citation, comment, complain against, condemn, condemnation, contemn, convict, conviction, criminate, critical bibliography, critical journal, critical notice, criticism, criticize, critique, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, decrial, decry, defame, defile, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, disallow, disapprove, disdain, disparage, disparagement, doom, excommunicate, excommunication, excoriation, expose, expose to infamy, find guilty, flaying, fulminate against, fulmination, fustigation, gibbet, guilty verdict, hang in effigy, impeach, impeachment, implicate, implication, impugn, impugnment, imputation, incriminate, incrimination, inculpate, inculpation, indict, indictment, inveigh against, involve, involvement, judgment, knock, literary criticism, mark of Cain, moralize upon, notice, onus, oppose, pass sentence on, penalize, pillory, pillorying, point champain, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, proscription, rap, rebuke, reflect upon, reflection, reject, report, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprobation, reprove, review, scorn, scout, sentence, shake up, skin, skinning alive, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, strafe, stricture, sully, taint, tarnish, verdict of guilty, vilify

• census, account, accounting, accounts, agenda, assemblage, assembly, beadroll, body count, cadastre, calendar, call-up, canvass, capitulation, census report, checklist, checkroll, code, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, composition, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, constituents, content, contents, convergence, corralling, count, counting, dactylonomy, data-gathering, digest, divisions, docket, dramatis personae, elements, enumeration, foliation, gathering, guts, head count, honor roll, index, ingathering, ingredients, innards, insides, inventory, inventorying, items, junction, jury list, jury panel, juxtaposition, lineup, list, measurement, mobilization, muster, muster roll, nose count, numbering, numeration, order of business, pagination, part, parts, poll, program, property roll, quantification, quantization, questionnaire, recapitulation, reckoning, recount, recounting, rehearsal, repertory, returns, rodeo, roll, roll call, roster, rota, roundup, scroll, statement, summary, summation, summing, summing up, survey, table, table of organization, tallying, tax roll, telling, whole

• cent, C, C-note, Deutschmark, G, G-note, Mark, Reichsmark, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, afghani, anna, bagatelle, baht, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, buck, button, cartwheel, centavo, centime, century, conto, copper, curio, dime, dollar, dollar bill, dong, farce, farthing, feather, fifty cents, fig, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fleabite, florin, folderol, four bits, franc, fribble, frippery, frogskin, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, grand, guilder, gulden, hair, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, halfpenny, hill of beans, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, jest, joke, kickshaw, kip, knickknack, knickknackery, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, mill, milreis, minikin, mockery, molehill, nickel, penny, peppercorn, peseta, picayune, pie, piece of eight, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pistareen, pound, quarter, rand, rap, red cent, rial, row of pins, ruble, rupee, rush, sawbuck, shekel, shilling, shit, silver dollar, skin, smacker, snap, sneeshing, sol, sou, stiver, straw, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two cents, two-dollar bill, two-spot, twopence, whim-wham, won, yard, yen

• centenarian, C, Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, bicentenary, bicentennial, cental, centare, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, cwt, dotard, elder, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, gross, hecatomb, hundred, hundredweight, long hundred, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, one C, pantaloon, patriarch, presbyter, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, sexagenarian, tercentenary, tercentennial, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran

• centennial, C, anniversary, annual, annual holiday, biannual, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, bimonthly, birthday, bissextile day, biweekly, catamenial, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennium, centesimal, centigrado, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centuple, centuplicate, centurial, centurion, century, commemoration, cwt, daily, decennial, diamond jubilee, diurnal, fortnightly, golden wedding anniversary, gross, hebdomadal, hecatomb, holy days, hourly, hundred, hundredfold, hundredth, hundredweight, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, long hundred, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, name day, natal day, octennial, one C, quadrennial, quarterly, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, septennial, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentenary, tercentennial, tertian, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary, weekly, yearly

• center, activator, adductor, amateur athlete, approach, archer, athlete, attractant, attrahent, average, axiom, axis, balance, ballplayer, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bosom, bowman, catcher, center of action, center of attraction, center of gravity, center on, center round, centermost, central, centralize, centrist, centroid, centrum, close, close in, close up, close with, coach, come together, competitor, compromise, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, converge, core, cricketer, cynosure, dead center, deepest recesses, defensive lineman, diameter, diaphragm, dynamo, elixir, end, energizer, epicenter, equator, equidistant, essence, essential, fall in with, fence, flower, focal point, focus, footballer, fundamental, funnel, games-player, gamester, generality, gist, golden mean, gravamen, guard, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway, halfway measures, happy medium, heart, heart of hearts, hub, hypostasis, infielder, inner, inner essence, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, interior, interior man, intermediary, intermediate, intern, internal, intersect, intrados, inward, jock, jumper, juste-milieu, kernel, lineman, lure, marrow, mean, meat, medial, median, mediocrity, medium, medulla, meet, metacenter, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, middlemost, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midst, moderantism, moderantist, moderate, moderate position, moderateness, moderation, moderationist, moderatism, moderatist, narrow the gap, nave, navel, nerve center, neutral ground, nip, norm, normal, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, offensive lineman, omphalos, outfield, outfielder, par, penetralia, pinch, pith, pivot, player, polestar, poloist, postulate, principle, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, racer, recesses, root, rule, run, run together, sap, seat, secret place, secret places, skater, soul, spirit, sport, sportsman, stimulant, storm center, stuff, substance, tackle, tailback, taper, the nitty-gritty, thick, thick of things, third force, toxophilite, umbilicus, unite, via media, vital center, vitals, waist, waistline, wingback, wrestler, zone

• centipede, C, Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, arachnid, arthropod, beetle, bicentenary, bicentennial, bug, caterpillar, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, chilopod, cwt, daddy longlegs, diplopod, fly, gross, harvestman, hecatomb, hexapod, hundred, hundredweight, insect, larva, long hundred, maggot, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, one C, scorpion, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, spider, tarantula, tercentenary, tercentennial, tick

• central, PBX operator, aboriginal, accented, all-absorbing, alveolar, amidships, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arch, articulated, assimilated, automatic exchange, average, axial, back, banal, banner, barytone, basal, basic, bedrock, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, capital, cardinal, center, centermost, central office, centralized, centric, centroidal, centrosymmetric, cerebral, champion, checked, chief, close, common, concentrated, consonant, consonantal, continuant, controlling, core, crowning, crucial, deep, dental, dissimilated, dominant, dorsal, elemental, elementary, embryonic, equatorial, equidistant, essential, first, flat, focal, foremost, front, fundamental, generative, genetic, geocentric, germinal, glide, glossal, glottal, great, guttural, halfway, hard, headmost, heavy, hegemonic, high, important, in embryo, in ovo, indispensable, indoor, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, interior, intermediary, intermediate, internal, intestine, intimate, intonated, intrinsic, inward, key, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, leading, life-and-death, life-or-death, light, lingual, liquid, long distance, low, machine-switching office, magisterial, main, master, material, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, moderate, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, normal, nuclear, occlusive, of vital importance, omphalic, open, operator, ordinary, original, outstanding, overriding, overruling, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, panel switching, paramount, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pivotal, posttonic, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, principal, pristine, protogenic, radical, ranking, retroflex, rounded, routine, rudimentary, ruling, salient, seminal, semivowel, signal, significant, soft, sonant, sovereign, standard, star, stellar, stopped, stressed, strong, substantive, supereminent, surd, switchboard operator, syllabic, telephone exchange, telephone office, telephone operator, telephonist, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, topflight, twangy, umbilical, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, usual, velar, vital, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• centralize, affiliate, ally, approach, associate, band together, be in cahoots, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cement a union, center, center on, center round, close, close in, close up, close with, club, club together, come together, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, confederate, consociate, conspire, converge, couple, fall in with, federalize, federate, funnel, gang, gang up, go in partners, go in partnership, hook up with, intersect, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, league, marry, meet, middle, narrow the gap, nip, organize, pair, pair off, partner, pinch, run together, stand together, stand up with, taper, team up with, team with, throw in with, tie in with, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite with, wed

• centrifuge, analyzer, breaker, centrifugate, cutter, eddy, gurge, reel, separator, sieve, spin, stripper, surge, swirl, twirl, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool

• centripetal force, adduction, affinity, allurement, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, capillarity, capillary attraction, centrifugal force, drag, draw, force of gravity, gravitation, gravity, magnetism, mutual attraction, pull, pulling power, sympathy, traction, tug

• centripetal, approaching, asymptotic, centrolineal, concentrating, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, consolidating, converging, focal, meeting, mutually approaching, radial, radiating, tangent, tangential, unifying, uniting

• centrist, Laodicean, apathetic, center, compromiser, conservative, even, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, impartial, independent, indifferent, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, midway, moderantist, moderate, moderationist, moderatist, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, on the fence, passive, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved

• centurion, C, NCO, acting corporal, acting sergeant, bicentenary, bicentennial, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, century, chief warrant officer, color sergeant, corporal, cwt, first sergeant, gross, havildar, hecatomb, hundred, hundredweight, lance corporal, lance sergeant, long hundred, master sergeant, mess sergeant, naik, noncom, noncommissioned officer, one C, platoon sergeant, sarge, sergeant, sergeant first class, sergeant major, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, staff sergeant, technical sergeant, tercentenary, tercentennial, top sergeant, topkick, warrant officer

• century, C, C-note, G, G-note, abundant year, academic year, aeon, age, ages, annum, bicentenary, bicentennial, bissextile year, buck, calendar month, calendar year, cartwheel, cent, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, common year, copper, cwt, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dime, dollar, dollar bill, eternity, fifty cents, fin, fiscal year, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fortnight, four bits, frogskin, grand, gross, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hecatomb, hour, hundred, hundred-dollar bill, hundredweight, iron man, leap year, long, long hundred, long time, long while, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, mill, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, month of Sundays, moon, nickel, one C, penny, quarter, quinquennium, red cent, regular year, right smart spell, sawbuck, second, semester, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, session, sidereal year, silver dollar, skin, smacker, solar year, sun, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, tercentenary, tercentennial, term, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, trimester, twelvemonth, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, week, weekday, yard, year, years, years on end

• ceramics, abstract art, adobe, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calligraphy, cave art, cement, ceramic ware, china, crock, crockery, decoration, design, designing, enamelware, engraving, etching, fine arts, firebrick, folk art, glass, graphic arts, jug, photography, plastic art, porcelain, pot, pottery, primitive art, refractory, sculpture, the arts, tile, tiling, urn, vase

• Cerberus, Aides, Aidoneus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, bandog, guard dog, watchdog

• cereal, aftergrass, bamboo, botanic, breakfast food, bulbous, cane, cereal plant, corn, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, farinaceous, farinaceous plant, fog, forage grass, fruitlike, fruity, frumenty, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha, lawn grass, leguminose, leguminous, loblolly, millet, mush, oatmeal, ornamental grass, plantlike, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat, radicated, radiciform, radicular, reed, rhizoid, rolled oats, rootlike, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy, wheatflakes

• cerebellum, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, between brain, brain stem, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, diencephalon, dura mater, endbrain, fissure, folia, forebrain, fornix, frontal lobe, glial cells, globus pallidus, gray matter, gyrus, hindbrain, hippocampus, hypothalamus, lenticular nucleus, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, mantle, medulla oblongata, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, myelencephalon, neopallium, occipital lobe, optic chiasm, pallium, parietal lobe, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, pons, reticular system, rhombencephalon, subthalamus, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, ventricle, vermis, white matter

• cerebral cortex, afferent neuron, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, autonomic nervous system, axon, between brain, brain, brain stem, central nervous system, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, craniosacral nervous system, dendrite, diencephalon, dura mater, effector organ, efferent neuron, endbrain, fissure, folia, forebrain, fornix, frontal lobe, ganglion, glial cells, globus pallidus, gray matter, gyrus, hindbrain, hippocampus, hypothalamus, internuncial neuron, lenticular nucleus, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, mantle, medulla oblongata, medullary sheath, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, myelencephalon, neopallium, nerve, nerve trunk, nervous system, neuron, occipital lobe, optic chiasm, pallium, parietal lobe, peripheral nervous system, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, plexus, pons, reticular system, rhombencephalon, sensorium, sensory area, sensory cell, solar plexus, spinal cord, subthalamus, synapse, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, thoracolumbar nervous system, ventricle, vermis, white matter

• cerebral palsy, MS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain disease, cephalalgia, chorea, emotional disorder, epilepsy, falling sickness, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, ischialgia, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, organic psychosis, palsy, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis, the jerks, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis

• cerebral, accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, checked, close, conceptive, conceptual, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, endopsychic, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualistic, intelligent, internal, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mental, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, noetic, noological, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phrenic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, psychic, psychical, psychologic, psychological, rational, reasoning, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, spiritual, stopped, stressed, strong, subjective, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, thinking, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• cerebrum, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, between brain, brain stem, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, diencephalon, dura mater, endbrain, fissure, folia, forebrain, fornix, frontal lobe, glial cells, globus pallidus, gray matter, gyrus, hindbrain, hippocampus, hypothalamus, lenticular nucleus, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, mantle, medulla oblongata, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, myelencephalon, neopallium, occipital lobe, optic chiasm, pallium, parietal lobe, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, pons, reticular system, rhombencephalon, subthalamus, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, ventricle, vermis, white matter

• ceremonial, High-Church, august, baccalaureate service, baptismal, buckram, celebration, celebratory, ceremonious, ceremoniousness, ceremony, commemorative, commencement, conventional, convocation, courtly, decorous, dignified, dignity, duty, empty formality, eucharistic, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formalization, formula, formular, formulary, function, graduation, graduation exercises, gravity, hieratic, holy rite, impersonality, imposing, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, institution, liturgic, liturgical, liturgistic, liturgy, lofty, mannered, mode of worship, mummery, mystery, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, paschal, performance, pomp, pomposity, pompous, practice, prescribed form, primness, religious ceremony, rigid, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, ritualistic, rituality, sacerdotal, sacrament, sacramental, sacramentarian, service, set, solemn, solemnity, solemnization, starchiness, starchy, stately, stiff, stiffness, stiltedness, studied, stylization, stylized, weight, well-mannered

• ceremonious, High-Church, attentive, baptismal, cap in hand, careful, ceremonial, chivalric, chivalrous, civil, conventional, correct, courteous, courtly, decorous, deferential, dignified, dutiful, eucharistic, formal, formular, formulary, gallant, grandiose, hieratic, honorific, imposing, impressive, knightly, liturgic, liturgistic, majestic, moving, old-fashioned, old-world, paschal, polite, pompous, proper, punctilious, regardful, respectful, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, sacramental, sacramentarian, seemly, solemn, starchy, stately, stiff, striking, stuffy, well-mannered

• ceremony, amenities, anniversaries, appearances, baccalaureate service, buckram, celebrating, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremoniousness, civilities, commemoration, commencement, convention, conventions, convocation, decorum, dignities, dignity, dressing ship, duty, elegancies, empty formality, etiquette, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, fanfare, fanfaronade, festivity, flourish of trumpets, form, form of worship, formal, formalities, formality, formalization, formula, formulary, function, gentilities, graces, graduation, graduation exercises, gravity, holiday, holy rite, impersonality, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, institution, jubilee, liturgy, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, mode of worship, motions, mummery, mystery, niceties, obsequies, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, ovation, performance, pomp, pomposity, practice, prescribed form, primness, proprieties, protocol, rejoicing, religious ceremony, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, rites, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, rituals, sacrament, sacramental, salute, salvo, service, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, starchiness, stiffness, stiltedness, stylization, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, toast, tribute, triumph, weight

• Ceres, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Baal, Bacchus, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysos, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Flora, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Isis, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Pan, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Pomona, Poseidon, Priapus, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit

• cerise, Titian, Titian-red, bricky, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, crimson, damask, ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, glowing, gules, hot, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lobster-red, lurid, maroon, port-wine, puce, red, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet, stammel, tile-red, vermilion, vinaceous, warm, wine, wine-colored, wine-red

• certain, a, a certain, absolute, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, agape, agog, all agog, an, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, any, any one, apodictic, ascertained, assured, atomic, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, awaiting, based on, believing, bound, categorically true, certified, changeless, circumstantial, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, cocksure, composite, conclusive, concrete, confident, confirmable, confirmed, constant, convinced, convincing, corroborated, covered, credible, cumulative, damning, decided, decisive, defined, definite, demonstrable, demonstrated, dependable, destined, detailed, determinate, determinative, determined, devout, different, distinct, distinguished, divers, documentary, documented, dogmatic, doubtless, eager, effectual, either, ensured, esoteric, especial, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, exceptional, exclusive, expectant, expecting, express, extraordinary, eye-witness, factual, faithful, fated, fateful, fideistic, final, firm, firsthand, fixed, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, founded on, gaping, grounded on, guaranteed, hearsay, historical, hopeful, implicit, impressed with, in anticipation, in expectation, in the cards, incontestable, incontrovertible, indefeasible, indicative, indisputable, individual, indivisible, indubitable, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, infallible, inflexible, inner, insured, integral, intimate, invariable, irreducible, irrefutable, irresistible, irrevocable, lone, looking for, looking forward to, many, material, measured, minute, monadic, monistic, more, more than one, necessary, not in error, not singular, not surprised, noteworthy, numerous, nuncupative, objectively true, one, optimistic, overwhelming, particular, perfectly sure, permanent, personal, persuaded, pietistic, pious, pistic, plausible, plural, pluralistic, plurative, positive, precise, predestined, predetermined, prepared, presumptive, private, probative, provable, proved, quantified, quantitative, quantitive, quantized, ready, real, relentless, reliable, resistless, respective, sanguine, satisfied, secure, secured, set, settled, several, significant, simple, single, singular, sold on, sole, solid, solipsistic, solitary, some, special, specific, stable, standard, stated, steady, stipulated, substantiated, suggestive, sundry, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, sure-enough, surefire, symptomatic, telling, traditional, true, true as gospel, trustworthy, truthful, unalterable, unambiguous, unanalyzable, unavoidable, unchanging, unconfuted, uncontestable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, undeniable, undenied, under the impression, undisputed, undivided, undoubted, undoubtful, undoubting, unequivocal, unerring, unerroneous, unevadable, unfailing, unfallacious, unfalse, uniform, unique, unitary, univocal, unmistakable, unmistaken, unnamed, unpreventable, unquestionable, unquestioned, unrefuted, unspecified, unstoppable, unsurprised, unyielding, valid, validated, various, veracious, verifiable, verified, veritable, waiting, waiting for, warranted, watching for, weighty, well-grounded, whole, written

• certainly, OK, Roger, absolutely, actually, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, and no mistake, as you say, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, aye, by all means, clearly, da, decidedly, decisively, definitely, demonstrably, distinctly, exactly, factually, fatefully, fine, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for real, for sure, forsooth, good, good enough, hear, historically, in all conscience, in fact, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, indefeasibly, indubitably, ineluctably, inescapably, inevasibly, inevitably, inexorably, inflexibly, irrevocably, ja, just so, mais oui, manifestly, most assuredly, most certainly, naturally, naturellement, necessarily, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, of course, okay, oui, patently, positively, precisely, quite, rather, really, really-truly, relentlessly, right, righto, sensibly, seriously, sure, sure thing, surely, to a certainty, to be sure, truly, unambiguously, unavoidably, uncontrollably, undeniably, undoubtedly, unequivocally, unmistakably, unpreventably, unyieldingly, verily, veritably, very well, visibly, well and good, why yes, with truth, without doubt, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• certainty, absolutely, absoluteness, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, act of God, actuality, anticipation, assurance, assuredly, assuredness, authoritativeness, belief, certainly, certitude, confidence, connection, contemplation, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, definitely, definiteness, dependence, dogmatism, expectancy, expectation, fact, faith, fate, fatefulness, firmness, for a certainty, for sure, force majeure, hope, imminence, indefeasibility, indubitably, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, irrevocability, necessity, positively, positiveness, positivism, predetermination, probability, prospect, reality, reception, relentlessness, reliance, reliance on, self-assurance, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure thing, surely, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, thought, trust, truth, unastonishment, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, undeniably, undoubtedly, unpreventability, unquestionably, unyieldingness, vis major

• certificate of deposit, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, callable securities, cats and dogs, certificate, certified check, charge card, charge plate, check, checkbook, cheque, circular note, commercial paper, corporation securities, credit card, credit instrument, credit slip, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, deposit slip, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, foreign securities, futures contract, government securities, junior securities, letter of credit, listed securities, marketable securities, money order, municipal securities, negotiable instrument, negotiable securities, noncallable securities, note, note of hand, outstanding securities, over-the-counter securities, paper, portfolio, postal order, promissory note, securities, senior securities, short-term note, sight bill, sight draft, stocks and bonds, subject to call, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, treasury bond, treasury certificate, treasury note, undigested securities, unregistered securities, voucher, warrant

• certificate, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, affidavit, attestation, authority, authorization, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, bill of health, blank check, certificate of deposit, certificate of proficiency, certification, certified check, check, checkbook, cheque, commercial paper, credential, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, deposition, diploma, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, letter of credit, money order, navicert, negotiable instrument, notarized statement, note, note of hand, paper, postal order, promissory note, sheepskin, sight bill, sight draft, sworn statement, testamur, testimonial, ticket, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, visa, vise, voucher, warrant, warranty, witness

• certification, John Hancock, OK, acceptance, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, approbation, approval, ascertainment, assurance, attestation, authentication, authority, authorization, backing, backing up, bearing out, bill of health, bolstering, buttressing, certificate, certificate of proficiency, check, checking, circumstantiation, clearance, collation, confirmation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, countenance, countersignature, credential, deposition, determination, diploma, documentation, empowerment, enabling, endorsement, enfranchisement, ensuring, entitlement, establishment, fiat, fortification, go-ahead, green light, imprimatur, navicert, nod, notarization, notarized statement, note, okay, permission, proof, proving, proving out, ratification, reassurance, reassurement, reinforcement, rubber stamp, sanction, seal, sheepskin, sigil, signature, signet, stamp, stamp of approval, statement under oath, strengthening, subscription, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, swearing, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testamur, testimonial, testimony, the nod, ticket, undergirding, validation, verification, visa, vise, voucher, vouching, warrant, warranty, witness

• certified, accepted, acknowledged, actual, admitted, affirmed, alleged, allowed, announced, approved, ascertained, asserted, asseverated, assured, attested, authenticated, averred, avouched, avowed, borne out, categorically true, certain, circumstantiated, conceded, confessed, confirmed, corroborated, countersigned, covered, decided, declared, demonstrated, deposed, determinate, determined, documentary, effectual, endorsed, ensured, enunciated, established, factual, fixed, granted, guaranteed, historical, in the bag, insured, made sure, manifestoed, nailed down, not in error, notarized, objectively true, on ice, open-and-shut, pledged, predicated, professed, pronounced, proved, proven, ratified, real, received, recognized, sealed, secure, secured, set, settled, shown, signed, stamped, stated, substantiated, sure, sure-enough, sworn, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, tested, tried, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, underwritten, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted

• certify, OK, accept, accredit, acknowledge, affirm, allege, amen, and candle, approve, ascertain, assert, assert under oath, asseverate, assure, attest, authenticate, authorize, autograph, aver, avouch, avow, back, back up, be sponsor for, bear out, bear witness, bolster, bond, book, buttress, certificate, charter, cinch, circumstantiate, classify, clear up, clinch, commission, confirm, corroborate, cosign, countersecure, countersign, decide, declare, depone, depose, determine, disclose, dismiss all doubt, document, empower, enable, endorse, enfranchise, ensure, entitle, establish, find out, fix, fortify, franchise, get at, give evidence, give official sanction, give permission, give power, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, guarantee, guaranty, initial, insure, kiss the book, legalize, legitimize, license, make certain, make no doubt, make no mistake, make sure, make sure of, nail down, notarize, pass, pass on, pass upon, patent, permit, privilege, probate, profess, prove, ratify, reassure, reinforce, remove all doubt, rubber stamp, sanction, say amen to, seal, second, secure, see that, see to it, set at rest, settle, sign, sign and seal, sign for, sort out, sponsor, stand behind, stand up for, strengthen, subscribe to, substantiate, support, sustain, swear, swear and affirm, swear by bell, swear the truth, swear to, swear to God, swear to goodness, testify, undergird, undersign, underwrite, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, vouch for, vouchsafe, vow, warrant, witness

• cerulean, Caelus, air, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, blue, blue sky, bluish, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, ceruleous, cerulescent, cope, cyanean, dark-blue, deep-blue, empyrean, ether, firmament, heaven, heavens, hyaline, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, livid, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, sapphire, sapphirine, sky, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, turquoise, vault, vault of heaven, welkin

• cervix, abbreviation, advocate, alpenstock, ankle, arm, articulation, astriction, astringency, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bag, ballocks, balls, bandeau, basket, beard, bearer, bottleneck, boundary, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, breasts, butt, buttress, cane, carrier, circumscription, clinch, clitoris, closure, coarctation, cod, cods, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, corset, coupling, crook, crutch, cullions, curtailment, decrease, diminuendo, dovetail, elbow, embrace, family jewels, female organs, foundation garment, fulcrum, genitalia, genitals, girdle, gliding joint, gonads, guy, guywire, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hourglass, hourglass figure, interface, isthmus, jock, jockstrap, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knitting, knuckle, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, link, lips, mainstay, maintainer, male organs, mast, meat, miter, mortise, narrow place, narrowing, neck, nuts, nymphae, ovary, penis, phallus, pivot, pivot joint, private parts, privates, privy parts, prop, pubic hair, puckering, pudenda, pursing, rabbet, reduction, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reproductive organs, rest, resting place, rigging, rocks, scarf, scrotum, seam, secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, shortening, shoulder, shroud, solidification, spermary, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, stitch, stranglement, strangulation, strengthener, striction, stricture, support, supporter, sustainer, suture, symphysis, systole, testes, testicles, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union, upholder, uterus, vagina, vulva, walking stick, wasp waist, weld, womb, wrinkling, wrist, yoni

• cessation, Z, abandonment, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement, absentation, apodosis, breach, break, caesura, casting away, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, close, closing, coda, cold storage, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock, death, decease, decline, denouement, desistance, destination, destiny, desuetude, discontinuance, disuse, doom, dying down, ebb, ebbing, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, evacuation, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fissure, forbearance, forsaking, full stop, gap, goal, halt, hiatus, homestretch, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, izzard, jettison, jettisoning, lacuna, lapse, last, last breath, last gasp, last lap, last round, last stage, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving, letup, lock, lull, nonexercise, omega, pause, payoff, period, peroration, pulling out, quietus, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, resolution, resting place, stand, standstill, stillstand, stop, stoppage, stopping place, subsidence, suspension, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, throwing overboard, waiver, wane, waning, windup, withdrawal

• cession, abalienation, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, alienation, allowance, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, capitulation, circumscription, concession, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, dispensation, disposal, disposition, dropping out, dumping, enfeoffment, exception, exchange, exemption, extenuating circumstances, forgoing, forswearing, getting rid of, giving, giving in, giving over, giving up, grain of salt, grant, handing over, hedge, hedging, lease and release, letting go, limitation, mental reservation, modification, qualification, recantation, recedence, recession, release, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, reservation, resignation, restriction, retraction, retreat, riddance, sacrifice, sale, salvo, settlement, settling, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, surrender, swearing off, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, vesting, waiver, withdrawing, yielding

• cesspool, Sodom, bog, cesspit, cloaca, cloaca maxima, den, drain, dump, garbage dump, marsh, mire, pandemonium, quagmire, septic tank, sewer, sink, sty, sump, swamp

• cetacean, Loch Ness monster, alevin, baleen whale, beluga, benthon, benthos, blackfish, blue whale, cachalot, dolphin, finback, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, grilse, humpback, killer, killer whale, kipper, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny, narwhal, nekton, panfish, plankton, porpoise, salmon, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shark, smolt, sperm whale, sponge, sulfur-bottom whale, tropical fish, whale

• chafe, ablate, ablation, abrade, abrase, abrasion, abrasive, afflict, aggravate, agonize, ail, annoy, arouse, attrition, bark, be livid, be pissed, bite, blemish, bloody, bluster, boil, bother, break, bristle, browned off, bruise, buffing, burn, burn to, burnishing, carry on, chafing, check, chip, claw, concussion, convulse, cook, corrode, crack, crackle, craze, crucify, cut, damage, detrition, distress, dressing, electric-heat, embitter, embitterment, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, exacerbate, exacerbation, exasperate, excoriate, excruciate, exercise, fester, file, filing, fire, fire up, flash burn, flay, foment, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fret and fume, fretting, fume, fuss, gall, galling, gas-heat, gash, get excited, give pain, gnaw, gnaw away, go on, grate, grate on, gravel, graze, grazing, grind, grinding, gripe, grit, hardly wait, harrow, hasten, have a conniption, heat, heat up, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, huff, hurt, impair, incense, incise, incision, inflame, inflict pain, injure, injury, irk, irritant, irritate, irritation, itch to, jump the gun, kill by inches, lacerate, laceration, lesion, limation, maim, make mincemeat of, make sore, martyr, martyrize, maul, miff, mortal wound, mull, mutilate, mutilation, nettle, nip, overheat, pain, peel, peeve, pierce, pinch, pique, pissed off, polishing, preheat, prick, prolong the agony, provocation, provoke, puncture, put to torture, rack, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rankle, rant, rant and rave, rasp, rasping, rave, raze, recook, reheat, rend, rent, rile, rip, roil, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away, ruffle, run, rupture, sandblasting, sanding, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scour, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, second-degree burn, seethe, set on edge, set up, shining, simmer, sizzle, skin, slash, slit, smoke, smolder, smoothing, sore, soreness, sprain, squirm, stab, stab wound, steam, stew, stick, sting, stir the blood, stir up, stoke up, storm, strain, superheat, sweat, sweat and stew, sweat it out, take on, tear, tepefy, third-degree burn, throw a fit, torment, torture, trauma, traumatize, tweak, twist, vex, wait impatiently, warm, warm over, warm up, wear, wear away, wearing away, work up, worry, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wring

• chaff, afterglow, afterimage, air, aluminum foil, badinage, balance, banter, bark, barrack, bones, bran, bric-a-brac, bubble, butt, butt end, candle ends, capsule, case, cattle, chicken feed, chickenshit, chip, cobweb, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, culm, cut at, deadwood, debris, details, detritus, dig at, dishwater, down, draff, dregs, dregs of society, dump on, dust, end, ether, exchange, fag end, fairy, feather, filings, fleer, flout, flue, fluff, foam, fooling, fooling around, fossil, froth, fun, fuzz, garbage, gash, gibe, gimcrackery, give-and-take, good-natured banter, gossamer, harmless teasing, haze, hogwash, holdover, hull, husk, husks, jab, jab at, jacket, jape, jeer, jest, jive, joke, joking, jolly, josh, joshing, kid, kidding, kidding around, knickknackery, leavings, lees, leftovers, minutiae, mock, mote, needle, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, palea, parings, peanuts, peel, persiflage, pleasantry, pod, pooh, pooh-pooh, potsherds, put down, put on, raff, rag, ragging, rags, rail at, raillery, rally, rallying, rank out, raspings, razz, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, revile, rib, ride, ridicule, riffraff, rind, roach, roast, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scoff, scourings, scout, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shadow, shards, shavings, shell, shuck, skin, slack, slag, slam, slap at, slop, slops, small beer, small change, sneer, sneer at, sordes, sponge, sport, spume, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude, swipe, tares, taunt, tease, teasing, thistledown, tinfoil, trace, trash, trifles, trivia, trumpery, twit, twitting, vermin, vestige, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, window

• chagrin, abash, abashment, cast down, confound, confuse, confusion, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, distress, disturbance, embarrass, embarrassment, mortification, mortify, put out, throw into confusion, upset

• chagrined, abashed, afflicted, agitated, ashamed, beset, blushing, bothered, cast down, chapfallen, confused, crestfallen, crushed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, mortified, out of countenance, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset

• chain gang, POW, cageling, captive, con, convict, detenu, ex-convict, gaolbird, internee, jailbird, lifer, parolee, political prisoner, prisoner, prisoner of war, stir bird, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, trusty

• chain reaction, Indian file, alpha decay, array, articulation, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, bank, beta decay, bombardment, breeding, bullet, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain of circumstances, chaining, chapter of accidents, cleavage, concatenation, concatenation of events, connection, consecution, continuum, course, cycle, descent, disintegration series, dissociation, drone, endless belt, endless round, exchange reaction, feast and famine, file, filiation, fission, fission reaction, gamma decay, gamut, gradation, hum, ins and outs, ionization, line, lineage, monotone, neutron reaction, nexus, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, pendulum, periodicity, photodisintegration, plenum, powder train, progression, proton gun, proton reaction, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, reversible reaction, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, splitting the atom, stimulation, string, succession, swath, target, thermonuclear reaction, thread, tier, train, ups and downs, vicious circle, vicissitudes, vicissitudes of fortune, windrow

• chain, Alps, Andes, Caucasus, Himalayas, Indian file, Kekule formula, Oregon boat, Rockies, accouple, accumulate, accumulative, additive, additory, agglutinate, alps on alps, alternation, amass, anchor, andiron, anklet, armlet, armory, array, arrest, articulate, articulation, assemble, associate, atomic cluster, badge, badge of office, badges, band, bandage, bangle, bank, baton, batten, batten down, be continuous, beads, bearing rein, belay, belt, bend, benzene ring, bijou, bilbo, bind, bind up, bit, blazonry, bond, bonds, brace, bracelet, bracket, brake, branched chain, brassard, breastpin, bridge, bridge over, bridle, brooch, bundle, button, buzz, camisole, cap and gown, cartel, catena, catenate, catenation, cement, chain of office, chain reaction, chaining, chains, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, check, checkrein, chock, cinch, circle, clap together, class ring, cliched, clog, closed chain, coal tongs, cockade, collar, collect, combination, combine, commonplace, compound radical, comprise, concatenate, concatenation, confine, confinement, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connect up, connection, consecution, continuate, continue, continuum, control, copulate, cordillera, coronet, countercheck, couple, course, cover, crane, crook, cross, crown, cuffs, curb, curb bit, cycle, damper, decoration, descent, diadem, do up, doorstop, drag, drag sail, dress, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, drone, eagle, earring, emblems, embrace, enchain, encompass, endless belt, endless round, ensigns, entrammel, fasces, fasten, fasten down, fetter, fetters, figurehead, file, filiation, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, fleur-de-lis, fob, form a series, gag, gamut, gather, gem, gird, girdle, girt, girth, glue, gradation, grate, grating, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, group, gyve, gyves, hackneyed, halter, hammer and sickle, hamper, handcuff, handcuffs, heraldry, heterocycle, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, holdback, homocycle, hopple, hopples, hum, include, insignia, irons, jewel, join, knot, lace, lapel pin, lash, lattice, lay together, leading strings, league, leash, lifter, limit, line, lineage, link, livery, locket, lump together, mace, maintain continuity, make fast, make secure, make sure, manacle, mantle, markings, marry, marshal, martingale, mass, massif, medal, merge, mobilize, molecule, monotone, moor, mortarboard, mountain range, muzzle, necklace, nexus, nose ring, old hat, old school tie, order, pair, peg down, pelham, pendulum, periodicity, picket, piece together, pillory, pin, pin down, pinion, plenum, poker, pool, pothook, powder train, precious stone, progression, put in irons, put together, queue, radical, range, rank, recurrence, regalia, reins, restrain, restraint, restraints, restrict, reticulation, rhinestone, ring, roll into one, rope, rose, rotation, round, routine, row, run, run on, salamander, scale, school ring, scotch, sea anchor, secure, sequence, series, set, shackle, shamrock, shopworn, side chain, sierra, sigillography, simple radical, single file, skull and crossbones, snaffle, solder, space-lattice, span, spectrum, sphragistics, spit, splice, spoke, staff, stale, stay, stereotyped, stick together, stickpin, stocks, stone, stop, straight chain, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, strap, string, string together, succession, summative, swaddle, swastika, swath, swathe, take in, tape, tartan, tether, thistle, thread, tiara, tie, tie down, tie up, tier, tongs, torque, train, trammel, trammels, tripod, trivet, truss, trust, turnspit, twice-told, uniform, unify, unite, verge, wampum, wand, weld, windrow, wire, wrap, wrap up, wristband, wristlet, yoke

• chair, Eames chair, Hitchcock chair, TV chair, administer, administrate, anoint, armchair, armless chair, authority, ax, back seat, banquette, bar stool, barber chair, barrel chair, basket chair, batwing chair, be master, bed chair, beheading, bench, bicycle seat, block, boudoir chair, bow-back chair, bucket seat, burning, camp chair, campaign chair, capital punishment, captain, chair of English, chairman, club chair, club lounge chair, comb-back chair, command, contour chair, convener, cricket, cricket chair, cross, crown, crucifixion, curule chair, dais, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, dining chair, direct, directorship, discipline, draft chair, drop, easy chair, elbowchair, electric chair, electrocution, enthrone, execution, fan-back chair, fauteuil, fellowship, fender stool, folding chair, foldstool, form, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garden chair, garrote, gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, govern, guillotine, halter, hanging, hassock, head, helm, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, high chair, horse, hot seat, inaugurate, induct, install, instate, invest, judicial murder, ladder-back chair, lapidation, lead, leader, lethal chamber, maiden, manage, milking stool, moderate, moderator, necktie party, noose, occupy the chair, officer, officiate, ottoman, oversee, overstuffed chair, pew, place, place in office, platform rocker, poisoning, position, preceptorship, preside, preside over, presiding officer, professorate, professorhood, professoriate, professorship, put in, readership, regulate, rocker, rocking chair, rope, run, saddle, scaffold, schoolmastery, seat, seat of power, seat of state, sedan chair, settle, shooting, speaker, stake, stand over, step stool, stoning, stool, strangling, strangulation, supervise, swing, taboret, teachership, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, throne, tree, tutelage, tutorage, tutorship, wield authority, woolsack

• chalk talk, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, set speech, set task, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

• chalk up, acquire, annex, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, book, brand, calendar, carve, catalog, chalk, check, check in, check off, chronicle, cicatrize, cut, dapple, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, docket, dot, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, file, fill out, fleck, freckle, gain, gash, get, grave, hatch, have, impanel, impress, imprint, incise, index, inscribe, insert, jot down, line, list, log, make a mark, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark, mark down, mark off, mark out, matriculate, minute, mottle, nick, notch, note, note down, obtain, pencil, pepper, pick up, place upon record, point, poll, post, post up, prick, print, procure, punch, punctuate, puncture, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, record, reduce to writing, register, riddle, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, secure, set down, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stigmatize, streak, striate, stripe, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, tattoo, tick, tick off, trace, underline, underscore, videotape, win, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• chalk, air brush, alabaster, art paper, ballpoint pen, besnow, blackboard, blanch, blaze, blaze a trail, bleach, blemish, blotch, book, brand, brush, calcimine, calendar, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, carve, catalog, chalk up, charcoal, check, check in, check off, chronicle, cicatrize, color, copy, crayon, crosshatch, cut, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, depict, design, diagram, discolor, docket, doodle, dot, draft, draw, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, driven snow, easel, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, eraser, etiolate, file, fill out, fixative, fleck, fleece, flour, foam, freckle, frost, gash, grave, grizzle, ground, hatch, impanel, impress, imprint, incise, index, ink, inkhorn, inkstand, inkwell, inscribe, insert, invisible ink, ivory, jot down, lay figure, lead pencil, lily, limn, line, list, log, maggot, make a mark, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark, mark down, mark off, mark out, matriculate, maulstick, medium, milk, minute, mottle, nib, nick, notch, note, note down, paint, paint a picture, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paper, pastel, pearl, pen, pencil, pepper, picture, picturize, pigments, pipe-clay, place upon record, plume, point, poll, portray, post, post up, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quill, record, reduce to writing, reed, register, riddle, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratchboard, scumble, seal, seam, set down, shade, sheet, siccative, silver, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpad, slate, snow, spatula, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, spray gun, stain, stamp, stencil, stigmatize, streak, striate, stripe, stump, style, stylograph, stylus, swan, sympathetic ink, table, tablet, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, tattoo, tick, tick off, tint, trace, underline, underscore, varnish, videotape, white, whiten, whitewash, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• chalky, argent, argentine, branny, canescent, chalklike, comminute, comminuted, cretaceous, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, fleecy-white, floury, frosted, frosty, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, grizzled, grizzly, ground, hoar, hoary, impalpable, lactescent, levigated, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, mealy, milky, milled, niveous, pestled, platinum, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, pure white, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, triturated, white, white as snow

• challenge, Socratic method, affront, arouse, ask, ask for, asking, attack, awake a doubt, awaken, baffle, balk, banter, battle cry, be contrary to, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beard, beef, belie, bestir, bid defiance, bid to combat, bitch, blackmail, blast, boggle, boycott, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, bringing into question, bucking, call, call for, call in question, call into question, call out, calling, cartel, catechetical method, catechization, catechizing, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, claim, claiming, clamor for, combative reaction, compete, compete with, complain, complain loudly, complaint, compunction, confound, confront, confront with, confrontation, contend with, contention, contest, contradict, contradiction, contravention, contraversion, controvert, cope, counter, counteract, counteraction, countermand, counterwork, counterworking, cross, crosscurrent, crossing, cry for, cry out against, dare, dash, declaration of war, declare war, defeat, defi, defiance, defy, demand, demanding, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurral, demurrer, denial, deny, destroy, difficulty, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dispute, dissent, dissentience, distrust, double dare, double-dare, doubt, elude, emulate, encounter, enter a protest, envisage, exact, exacting, examination, exception, expostulate, expostulation, extort, face, face down, face out, face up to, face with, flummox, foil, fractiousness, front, frustrate, gage, gage of battle, gainsay, gauntlet, glove, greet with skepticism, grievance, grievance committee, half believe, harbor suspicions, have reservations, head wind, holler, howl, impose, impugn, impugnation, impugnment, indent, indignation meeting, inquiring, insistence, interpellation, interrogation, invitation, invite, issue an ultimatum, jockey, kick, kick against, kindle, knock the chocks, lay before, lay claim to, levy, levy war on, make a demand, make a stand, make war on, march, meet, meet head-on, meet squarely, misgive, mistrust, negate, negation, negativism, noncooperation, nonplus, nonviolent protest, object, object to, objection, obstinacy, offer resistance, open hostilities, oppose, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugn, oppugnation, order, order up, outdare, outvie, passive resistance, perplex, picket, picketing, place an order, place before, postulate, present to, press objections, pretend to, probing, problem, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, provocation, provoke, pumping, put in requisition, put it to, qualm, query, querying, question, questioning, quiz, quizzing, raise a howl, raise a question, rally, reaction, rebel yell, rebuff, rebut, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrate, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, reject, rejection, reluct, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, require, requisition, resistance, revolt, rival, rouse, ruin, sabotage, scotch, scream defiance, screw, scruple, seeking, set before, show fight, sit in, sit-in, smell a rat, solicit, spike, spoil, squawk, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, standing against, stare down, state a grievance, stem, stimulation, stir, stonewall, strike, strive, strive against, struggle, stump, summon, summons, suspect, take exception to, teach in, teach-in, test, test one another, throw doubt upon, thwart, traversal, traverse, treat with reserve, trial, try, ultimatum, uncooperativeness, undercurrent, upset, venture, vie, vie with, wake, waken, war cry, war whoop, warn, whet, withstand, withstanding, yell bloody murder

• challenging, alluring, arrogant, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, encouraging, energizing, exciting, galvanic, galvanizing, greatly daring, impertinent, impudent, insolent, inviting, pert, piquant, prompting, provocative, provoking, regardless of consequences, rousing, saucy, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring

• chamber music, Nachtmusik, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, arrangement, chamber orchestra, composition, descant, electronic music, etude, exercise, harmonization, incidental music, instrumental music, invention, nocturne, opus, orchestration, piece, production, program music, ricercar, score, sonata, sonatina, string orchestra, string quartet, study, theme and variations, trio, variation, work

• chamber of commerce, Aktiengesellschaft, aktiebolag, body corporate, business, business establishment, cartel, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, diversified corporation, enterprise, firm, holding company, house, industry, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, operating company, partnership, plunderbund, pool, public utility, stock company, syndicate, trade association, trust, utility

• chamber pot, bedpan, can, chamber, chemical closet, chemical toilet, commode, crapper, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, stool, throne, thunder mug, toilet, urinal, water closet

• chamber, British Cabinet, Geiger counter, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, Wilson chamber, advisory body, alpha pulse analyzer, apartment, assembly, association, atom counter, ballroom, bedchamber, bedpan, bedroom, bench, board, body, body of advisers, booth, boron counter, borough council, boudoir, box, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, can, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber pot, chambre, chemical closet, chemical toilet, city council, cloud chamber, commode, common council, compartment, conference, congress, consortium, consultative assembly, cosmic ray counter, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, counting tube, county council, court, crapper, crib, crypt, cubicle, cubiculum, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, dormitory, electronic counter, enclosed space, expansion chamber, gamma ray counter, grand ballroom, haven, heavy particle counter, hold, hole, hollow, house, ion counter, ionization chamber, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, judicature, judiciary, junta, kitchen cabinet, latrine, legislature, manger, niche, nook, nursery, parish council, particle counter, pew, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, privy council, reception room, roof, room, rotunda, salle, shelter, shield, sleeping room, soviet, staff, stall, stool, syndicate, synod, throne, thunder mug, toilet, tribunal, tube counter, urinal, vault, water closet

• chamberlain, accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, bursar, butler, cashier, cashkeeper, comptroller, controller, curator, depositary, depository, financial officer, house steward, housekeeper, liquidator, majordomo, paymaster, purse bearer, purser, receiver, seneschal, steward, treasurer, trustee

• chambermaid, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, betweenmaid, biddy, chaperon, companion, cook, duenna, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, gentlewoman, girl, handmaid, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, nursemaid, parlormaid, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, soubrette, tweeny, upstairs maid, waiting maid, wench

• chambers, apartment, booking office, box office, branch, branch office, cabinet, chancellery, chancery, closet, cold-water flat, consulate, corporate headquarters, den, duplex apartment, embassy, executive office, flat, garden apartment, headquarters, home office, legation, lodgings, main office, office, penthouse, railroad flat, rental, rooms, set of rooms, shop, study, suite, tenement, ticket office

• chameleon, April showers, Dalmatian, Gila monster, Proteus, Vicar of Bray, agama, alligator, anole, antigorite, bearded lizard, blindworm, box turtle, butterfly, butterfly agama, candy cane, cayman, cheetah, chrysotile, cloud shapes, confetti, crazy quilt, crocodile, diamondback, dragon, false map turtle, firedog, flying dragon, formalist, gavial, gecko, girdle-tailed lizard, glass snake, green turtle, harlequin, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, iguana, iris, jaguar, kaleidoscope, leatherback, leopard, lizard, mackerel, mackerel sky, marble, marbled paper, matamata, mercury, moire, monitor, moon, mother-of-pearl, mugger, nacre, ocelot, opal, ophite, patchwork quilt, peacock, quicksilver, rainbow, rolling stone, sea turtle, serpentine, serpentine marble, shifting sands, shot silk, soft-shelled turtle, spectrum, stump tail, teju, temporizer, terrapin, the weather, timepleaser, timeserver, tortoise, tortoise shell, trimmer, tuatara, turtle, water, weather vane, weathercock, wheel of fortune, whirligig, zebra

• champ, Olympic medal winner, award winner, bite, bolus, champion, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chomp, conquering hero, conqueror, conquistador, crunch, crush, cud, defeater, easy winner, gnash, gnaw, gob, grind, gum, hero, laureate, macerate, mash, master, masticate, medalist, morsel, mouth, mouthful, mumble, munch, nibble, nip, pancratiast, peck, pick, prizeman, prizetaker, prizewinner, quid, ruminate, runner-up, scrunch, shoo-in, smash, snap, subduer, subjugator, sure winner, swallow, top dog, triumpher, vanquisher, victor, winner, world champion, world-record holder

• champaign, alkali flat, alluvial plain, bailiwick, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, demesne, desert, domain, dominion, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass veld, grassland, heath, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, province, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, sphere, steppe, table, tableland, terrain, territory, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, walk, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

• champion, A per se, Maecenas, Olympic medal winner, abettor, ace, admirer, advocate, aficionado, allege in support, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, angel, answer, apologete, apologist, apologizer, arch, argue for, arm, armor, assert, attorney, award winner, back, back up, backer, backstop, backup, backup man, bang-up, banner, battle, best, bless, blue-ribbon, boss, buff, campaigner, capital, cardinal, central, champ, chief, choice, chosen, cloak, combatant, commander, compass about, conquering hero, conqueror, conquistador, contend, contend for, copyright, counter, cover, cream, crowning, cushion, dandy, dean, defeater, defend, defender, dependence, deputy, distinguished, dominant, dummy, easy winner, elect, elite, encourager, endorser, ensure, espouse, executive officer, exponent, expounder, fan, fat, favorer, fence, fend, fight for, fighter, figurehead, first, flank, flower, focal, for the best, foremost, forward, friend at court, fugleman, genius, get behind, get in behind, great, greatest, guarantee, guard, guard against, guardian, handpicked, harbor, haven, head, headmost, hegemonic, hero, higher-up, illustrious, insure, justifier, keep, keep from harm, laureate, leader, leading, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, lover, magisterial, main, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, make a plea, make safe, master, matchless, medalist, nestle, nonesuch, nonpareil, optimal, optimum, outstanding, overruling, paladin, pancratiast, paragon, paramount, paranymph, partisan, patent, patron, patroness, peerless, pick, picked, pillar, pinch hitter, plead for, pleader, police, predominant, preeminent, premier, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, prize, prizeman, prizetaker, prizewinner, procurator, prodigy, promote, promoter, proponent, protagonist, protect, protector, protectress, proxy, queen, quintessence, quintessential, ranking, rebut, refute, register, reliance, reply, representative, respond, ride shotgun for, riposte, rock, ruler, ruling, run interference for, runner-up, safeguard, safekeeper, say in defense, screen, second, second in command, secondary, seconder, sectary, secure, select, senior, shelter, shield, shoo-in, shroud, side with, sider, sovereign, speak for, speak up for, splendid, sponsor, stalwart, stand back of, stand behind, stand by, stand up for, stand-in, standby, star, stellar, stick by, stick up for, subduer, subjugator, substitute, successful advocate, supereminent, superior, superlative, superman, superstar, support, supporter, supreme, sure winner, surpassing, surrogate, sustain, sustainer, sympathizer, take sides with, the best, the best ever, the greatest, the most, the tops, the very best, top dog, top-notch, topflight, tower, tower of strength, triumpher, understudy, underwrite, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, uphold, upholder, urge reasons for, utility man, vanquisher, very best, veteran, vicar, vicar general, vice, vicegerent, victor, vindicator, virtuoso, votary, warrior, well-wisher, whitewasher, winner, world champion, world-record holder

• championship, Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, abetment, acme, advocacy, aegis, ascendancy, auspices, authority, authorization, backing, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, care, charity, command, conquest, control, countenance, directorship, dominion, easy victory, effectiveness, encouragement, favor, first place, first prize, fosterage, goodwill, grand slam, guidance, headship, hegemony, height, highest, imperium, influence, interest, jurisdiction, kingship, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, leadership, lordship, management, mastership, mastery, maximum, moral victory, most, ne plus ultra, new high, palms, paramountcy, patronage, picnic, power, presidency, primacy, pushover, record, rule, runaway victory, say, seconding, sovereignty, sponsorship, subdual, subduing, success, supremacy, sway, sympathy, top spot, total victory, triumph, tutelage, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, winning, winning streak, zenith

• chance upon, alight upon, blunder upon, bump into, come across, come on, come up against, come upon, discover serendipitously, encounter, fall in with, happen upon, hit upon, light upon, meet up with, meet with, run across, run into, run up against, stumble on, stumble upon, tumble on

• chance, a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, arise, assay, attempt, bare possibility, bechance, befall, bet, betide, blind bargain, blobby, blurred, blurry, borderline case, bout, brave, break, broad, bump, by chance, calculated risk, capriciousness, careless, casual, causeless, certainty, chance it, chances, chanciness, chancy, changeableness, chaotic, clear stage, come, come about, come along, come forth, come into being, come into existence, come on, come to pass, conceivability, conceivableness, conceivably, confused, contingency, contingent, court destruction, crop up, dare, defy danger, destinal, dicey, disordered, double contingency, draw on, endanger, engage, erraticism, erraticness, essay, even chance, eventuality, expectation, face up to, fair expectation, fair field, fair game, fall out, fatal, fate, fatidic, favorable prospect, fickleness, flier, fluke, fluky, foggy, forget the odds, fortuitous, fortuity, fortune, fuzzy, gamble, gamble on, general, go, good chance, good possibility, guess, hap, happen, happen along, happen by chance, hazard, hazy, heedless, hesitancy, hesitation, hit, hit-or-miss, hope, iffy, ill-defined, imperil, imprecise, inaccurate, inadvertent, inadvertently, incalculability, incertitude, inchoate, incidental, incoherent, indecision, indecisive, indecisiveness, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrability, indeterminable, indeterminacy, indeterminate, indetermination, indeterminism, indistinct, inexact, inning, innings, irresolution, jeopardize, lax, liability, liableness, liberty, lift a finger, light, likelihood, likeliness, look-in, loose, lot, luck, make an attempt, make an effort, materialize, maybe, meet, nonspecific, obligation, obscure, occasion, occur, odd, odds, off chance, offer, open question, opening, opportunism, opportunity, orderless, outlook, outside chance, outside hope, perhaps, piece of guesswork, place, play, play with fire, plunge, pop up, possibility, possibleness, possibly, potential, potentiality, predictability, present itself, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, proneness, prospect, question, random, randomness, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, relief, rely on fortune, remote possibility, risk, risky, room, round, run a chance, run the chance, run the risk, say, scope, set at hazard, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, shot, show, show up, sight-unseen transaction, small hope, speculation, spell, spring up, squeak, stake, stepping-stone, stochastic, stumble, suspense, suspensefulness, sweeping, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, take place, tempt Providence, tempt fortune, tendency, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, time, time at bat, toss-up, touch and go, transpire, trust to chance, try, try the chance, tumble, turn, turn up, unaccountability, uncaused, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unclear, undecided issue, undecidedness, undefined, undertake, undestined, undetermined, undeterminedness, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseeableness, unforeseen, unintentional, unintentionally, unlooked-for, unplain, unplanned, unpredictability, unpredictable, unpremeditated, unprovability, unspecified, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, vague, veiled, venture, venture on, venture upon, verisimilitude, virtuality, wager, weakness, well-grounded hope, whack, what is possible, what may be, what might be, whimsicality

• chancel, Easter sepulcher, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, choir, cloisters, confessional, confessionary, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, nave, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, transept, triforium, vestry

• chancellery, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, bishopric, booking office, box office, branch, branch office, cabinet, chairmanship, chambers, chancellorate, chancellorship, chancery, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, closet, consulate, consulship, corporate headquarters, deanery, den, dictatorship, dictature, directorship, embassy, emirate, episcopacy, executive office, governorship, headquarters, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, home office, leadership, legation, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, main office, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nobility, office, papacy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, ruling class, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shop, shrievalty, study, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, ticket office, tribunate, vizierate, viziership

• chancellor, JA, academic dean, administration, administrator, alderman, ambassador, ambassadress, amicus curiae, apostolic delegate, archon, assessor, attache, bailie, barmaster, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, career diplomat, charge, chief executive, chief executive officer, chief of state, circuit judge, city councilman, city father, city manager, commercial attache, commissar, commissioner, consul, consul general, consular agent, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, dean, dean of men, dean of women, dewan, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, doge, elder, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, executive, executive director, executive officer, executive secretary, foreign service officer, grand vizier, head of state, headman, headmaster, headmistress, induna, internuncio, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, lay judge, legal assessor, legate, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, management, managing director, master, mayor, military attache, military judge, minister, minister of state, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, nuncio, officer, official, ombudsman, ordinary, plenipotentiary, police judge, portreeve, prefect, premier, president, presiding judge, prexy, prime minister, principal, probate judge, provost, puisne judge, recorder, rector, reeve, resident, secretary, secretary of legation, secretary of state, selectman, supervisor, syndic, the administration, treasurer, undersecretary, vice-chancellor, vice-consul, vice-legate, vice-president, warden

• chancery, appellate court, archives, assizes, booking office, box office, branch, branch office, cabinet, chambers, chancellery, chancery court, circuit court, civil court, closet, common-law court, conciliation court, consulate, corporate headquarters, county court, court of appeals, court of assize, court of chancery, court of claims, court of conscience, court of equity, court of errors, court of honor, court of inquiry, court of probate, court of record, court of requests, court of review, court of sessions, court of wards, criminal court, den, district court, divorce court, embassy, equity court, executive office, family court, files, headquarters, home office, hustings, hustings court, juvenile court, kangaroo court, legation, main office, mock court, moot court, night court, office, police court, prize court, probate court, register office, registry, sessions, shop, study, superior court, ticket office, traffic court

• chancre, French disease, Spanish pox, VD, abscess, acquired syphilis, aposteme, balanitis gangrenosa, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, cerebral tabes, chancroid, chilblain, clap, claps, climatic bubo, cold sore, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, dose, dose of clap, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fifth venereal disease, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, gumboil, hard chancre, hemorrhoids, kibe, latent syphilis, lesion, locomotor ataxia, morbus Gallicus, papula, papule, paralytic dementia, paresis, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pox, pudendal ulcer, pustule, rising, scab, simple chancre, social disease, soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, venereal disease, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

• chancy, accidental, adventitious, adventurous, agnostic, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, changeable, chaotic, confused, contingent, destinal, dicey, disordered, doubting, equivocal, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fickle, fluctuant, fluky, foggy, fortuitous, full of risk, fuzzy, general, hairy, hazardous, hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss, iffy, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incidental, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, irresolute, jeopardous, lax, loose, nonspecific, obscure, on thin ice, orderless, perilous, polysemous, precarious, random, riskful, risky, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, skeptical, speculative, stochastic, sweeping, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, unaccountable, uncaused, uncertain, unclear, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undivinable, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unhealthy, unlooked-for, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable, unsound, unspecified, unsure, unverifiable, vague, variable, veiled, venturesome, venturous, wavering, whimsical, wicked, wildcat

• chandler, baker, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, caterer, clothing merchant, commissariat, commissary, confectioner, dealer, distributor, donor, draper, drysalter, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, importer, ironmonger, jeweler, jobber, liquor merchant, manciple, marketer, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, monger, newsdealer, patron, perfumer, poulterer, provider, provisioner, purveyor, quartermaster, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, saddler, shopkeeper, stationer, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, tobacconist, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, victualer, vintner, vivandier, wholesaler, wine merchant

• change course, about ship, back and fill, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change the heading, come about, double a point, fetch about, go about, gybe, heave round, jibe, jibe all standing, miss stays, ply, put about, put back, round a point, sheer, shift, slew, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, throw about, turn, turn back, veer, wear, wear ship, wind, yaw

• change of heart, abject apology, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, amendment, apology, apostasy, betterment, break, change, change of allegiance, change of mind, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, deathbed repentance, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, heartfelt apology, improvement, mea culpa, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, new birth, overthrow, penance, penitence, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, rebirth, reclamation, recrudescence, redemption, redesign, reform, reformation, regeneration, remaking, renascence, renewal, repentance, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, saeta, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, wearing a hairshirt, worsening

• change of mind, about-face, afterthoughts, ambitendency, ambivalence, amendment, better thoughts, capriciousness, change of allegiance, change of heart, changeableness, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, flip, flip-flop, improvement, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, mature judgment, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, new birth, rebirth, reclamation, recrudescence, redemption, reform, reformation, regeneration, renascence, renewal, reversal, reverse, revival, right-about, right-about-face, second thoughts, tergiversating, tergiversation, turnabout, turnaround, uncertainty, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unsettledness, unsettlement, volte-face

• change, aberration, about-face, accommodate, adapt, adjust, advance, agency, agent, alchemy, alter, alteration, alternate, alternative, ameliorate, analogy, analysis, analyze, anatomization, anatomize, ascend, assimilate to, assimilation, assume, assumption, atomization, atomize, avatar, back, back and fill, back up, backup, bandy, barter, be changed, be converted into, be quits with, be renewed, become, becoming, better, bottom out, break, break up, bring to, budge, buy and sell, castrate, change for, change into, change over, change place, change-over, changeling, checker, chop, chop and change, chop logic, circle, climb, coins, come about, come around, come round, commutation, commute, comparison, compensate, compound for, conversion, convert, cooperate, copy, counterchange, counterfeit, deal, deform, degenerate, delegation, demarcation, denature, deputation, deputy, deputyship, descend, desexualize, desynonymization, desynonymize, deteriorate, deviate, deviation, difference, differencing, differentiate, differentiation, discriminate, discrimination, disequalization, disequalize, disjoin, disjunction, displacement, distinction, distinguish, distinguishment, dither, diverge, divergence, diversification, diversify, divide, division, do business, do over, don, double, dress in, dub in, dummy, ebb, equal, equivalent, equivocate, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill-in, fit, fix, flip-flop, flop, flow, fluctuate, geld, get back at, get even with, get into, get on, get over, ghost, ghostwriter, give and take, give in exchange, give place to, go, go around, go round, go sideways, growth, gyrate, hard cash, haul around, horse-trade, imitation, improve, individualization, individualize, individuate, individuation, innovation, interchange, inverse, invert, jibe, lapse, locum tenens, logroll, make, make a distinction, make do with, make over, make way for, makeshift, mark, mark off, mark out, meliorate, metamorphose, metamorphosis, metaphor, metonymy, mitigate, modification, modify, modulate, modulation, mount, move, move over, mutate, mutation, mutilate, naturalization, naturalize, neuter, next best thing, novelty, offer in exchange, oscillate, overthrow, particularization, particularize, passage, pay back, pendulate, permutation, permute, personalization, personalize, personnel, petty cash, phony, pin money, pinch hitter, plunge, pocket money, power of attorney, progress, proxy, put on, put up with, qualify, quid pro quo, re-create, re-formation, realign, rebuild, reciprocate, reconstruct, reconversion, reconvert, redeem, redesign, reduce to, reduction, refashion, refine a distinction, refit, reform, regress, relief, remake, render, renew, replace, replacement, representation, representative, requite, reserves, reshape, resolution, resolve into, respond, restructure, retaliate, retrogress, return, return the compliment, revamp, reversal, reverse, revert, revive, revolution, ring in, ring the changes, ringer, rise, rotate, run, second string, secondary, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, set off, sever, severalization, severalize, severance, shift, shift the scene, shift with, shilly-shally, shuffle the cards, sign, silver, sink, slip on, small change, soar, spares, specialization, specialize, spending money, spin, split hairs, sport, stand-in, stir, stream, sub, subrogation, subside, substituent, substitute, substitution, subvert, succedaneum, supersedence, superseder, superseding, supersedure, supersession, supplantation, supplanter, supplanting, supplantment, surrogate, swap, swap horses, swerve, switch, switch over, switch-over, symbol, synecdoche, tack, take a turn, take in exchange, teeter, tergiversate, third string, tit for tat, token, totter, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, transfigure, transform, transformation, transit, transition, translate, transmogrify, transmutation, transmute, transplace, transpose, transubstantiate, travel, truck, turn, turn aside, turn back, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, turning into, undergo a change, understudy, unsex, utility player, vacillate, variation, variegate, variety, vary, veer, vicar, vicariousness, vice-president, vice-regent, vicissitude, volte-face, wane, warp, waver, whirl, wobble, work a change, worsen

• changeable, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alterable, alterative, altered, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, at loose ends, better, bland, brittle, capricious, chancy, changed, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, commutable, commutative, converted, convertible, coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, degenerate, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dicey, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, double-minded, doubting, dubious, dying, eccentric, ephemeral, equal, equalizing, equivalent, equivocal, erose, erratic, evanescent, even, ever-changing, exchanged, faddish, fading, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flexible, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, give-and-take, halfhearted, hesitant, hesitating, impermanent, impetuous, impressionable, improved, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, insubstantial, interchangeable, interchanged, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, labile, light, malleable, many-sided, mazy, mercurial, metamorphic, metamorphosed, metastasized, milk-and-water, milky, mobile, modifiable, modified, momentary, moody, mortal, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy, mutable, mutant, mutual, neutral, nonconformist, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, pliant, pluralistic, polysemous, protean, proteiform, qualified, quicksilver, ragged, rambling, rebuilt, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, reformed, renewed, resilient, restless, retaliatory, returnable, revived, revolutionary, rough, roving, rubbery, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skeptical, skittish, spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, standard, subversive, supple, swapped, switched, tasteless, temporal, temporary, touch-and-go, toying, traded, transformable, transformed, transient, transitive, transitory, translated, transmuted, transposed, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, unmitigated, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, vapid, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, worse

• changed, altered, assimilated, better, changeable, converted, degenerate, deviant, divergent, improved, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, naturalized, qualified, reborn, rebuilt, redeemed, reformed, regenerated, renewed, revived, revolutionary, subversive, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, worse

• changeless, abiding, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, boundless, constant, continuing, creating, creative, durable, enduring, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, firm, fixed, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, highest, holy, immobile, immortal, immutable, incommutable, inconvertible, indefeasible, inert, inevitable, infinite, insusceptible of change, intact, intransmutable, invariable, inviolate, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, just, lasting, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, permanent, perpetual, persistent, quiescent, radiant, remaining, reverseless, rigid, sacred, shaping, solid, sovereign, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, supreme, sustained, timeless, torpid, ubiquitous, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbounded, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undefined, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, unfading, unfailing, uniform, unlimited, unmodifiable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unshifting, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying

• changeling, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, change, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, elf child, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, next best thing, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, second string, secondary, sign, spares, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent

• channel, EDP, access, adolescent stream, adviser, aisle, alley, amateur band, ambulatory, announcer, annunciator, aperture, approach, approaches, aqueduct, arcade, arroyo, artery, authority, avenue, band, basin, beck, bed, bit, blowhole, bottleneck, bottom, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, canal, canalization, canalize, carry, carve, chamfer, channelize, chisel, chute, citizens band, cloister, colonnade, communicant, communication, communication explosion, communication theory, communicator, conduct, conduit, connection, convey, corridor, corrugate, coulee, course, covered way, crack, creek, crick, crimp, cut, dado, data retrieval, data storage, debouch, decoding, defile, dike, direct, ditch, door, duct, egress, electronic data processing, emunctory, encoding, engrave, enlightener, entrenchment, entropy, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expert witness, fairway, ferry, floodgate, floor, flowing stream, flume, flute, fluviation, ford, fosse, frequency band, fresh, freshet, funnel, furrow, gallery, gash, gill, goffer, gossipmonger, gouge, grapevine, groove, ground, guide, gully, gutter, ha-ha, incise, informant, information center, information explosion, information medium, information theory, informer, inlet, interchange, intersection, interviewee, isthmus, junction, kennel, kill, lane, lazy stream, lead, loophole, meandering stream, means, medium, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moat, monitor, mouthpiece, moving road, narrow, narrows, navigable river, neck, newsmonger, noise, notifier, ocean bottom, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, path, pipe, pipeline, pleat, plow, police band, pore, port, portico, press, public relations officer, publisher, put through, put through channels, rabbet, race, racing stream, radio, radio channel, railroad tunnel, redundancy, reporter, rifle, river, rivulet, road, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, rut, sally port, score, scratch, sea lane, seaway, ship route, shortwave band, signal, sike, siphon, slit, sluice, source, spill stream, spiracle, spokesman, spout, standard band, steamer track, strait, streak, stream, stream action, streamlet, striate, subterranean river, sunk fence, tap, television, teller, throat, tipster, tout, traject, trajet, transmit, trench, trough, tube, tunnel, underpass, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, wadi, watercourse, waterway, way, way out, weir, witness, wrinkle

• chant, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, Volkslied, alba, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bark, bawl, bellow, bis, blare, blat, blubber, blues, blues song, boat song, bob, boom, bray, breathe, bridal hymn, brindisi, burden, buzz, cackle, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chantey, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorale, chorus, coo, croon, croon song, crow, descant, dirge, ditto, ditty, do-re-mi, doxology, drawl, drinking song, epithalamium, exclaim, flute, folk song, gasp, growl, grunt, hallelujah, hiss, hosanna, hum, hymeneal, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, intonate, intone, keen, laud, lay, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, mantra, matin, minstrel, minstrel song, minstrelsy, monody, motet, mumble, murmur, mutter, national anthem, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, pant, pipe, prothalamium, psalm, psalmody, quaver, refrain, repeat, repetend, report, response, responsory, ritornello, roar, roulade, rumble, scream, screech, serena, serenade, serenata, shake, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing in chorus, singsong, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sol-fa, solmizate, song, squall, squawk, squeal, theme song, thunder, torch song, tremolo, trill, troll, trumpet, tune, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, undersong, versicle, vocalize, wail, war song, warble, wedding song, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yodel

• chaos, agitation, aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, astronomical unit, bedlam, befuddlement, bewilderment, blurriness, bluster, bother, botheration, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacophony, celestial spaces, cloud, commotion, confusion, cosmic space, criminal syndicalism, daze, diffusion, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, discontinuity, discreteness, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, ebullition, embarrassment, embroilment, empty space, entropy, ether space, fabulous formless darkness, fanaticism, ferment, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fomentation, foofaraw, formlessness, foul-up, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, fuzziness, hassle, haze, haziness, hubbub, incoherence, inconsistency, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, interstellar space, jumble, lawlessness, license, light-year, lynch law, maze, mess, messiness, metagalactic space, misrule, mist, mistiness, mix-up, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, morass, muddle, muddlement, nihilism, nonadhesion, noncohesion, obscurity, ocean of emptiness, ochlocracy, orderlessness, outer space, pandemonium, parsec, passion, perplexity, perturbation, pother, pressureless space, primal chaos, pucker, racket, rage, rebellion, revolution, row, ruckus, ruffle, rumpus, scattering, screw-up, separateness, shapelessness, shuffle, snafu, space, stew, storminess, sweat, swivet, syndicalism, tempestuousness, the void, the void above, tizzy, tohubohu, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclearness, unruliness, unsettlement, untenacity, uproar, upset, vagueness, wildness, zeal, zealousness

• chaotic, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, angry, antinomian, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, baggy, balled up, balled-up, blobby, blurred, blurry, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bollixed up, bothered, broad, chance, chancy, characterless, clamorous, confused, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, embarrassed, featureless, flustered, fluttered, foggy, formless, fouled up, frantic, frenzied, furious, fussed, fuzzy, galley-west, general, haphazard, hazy, hectic, hellish, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hit-or-miss, hugger-mugger, ill-defined, imprecise, in a jumble, in a mess, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inform, infuriate, insensate, irregular, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mad, mindless, misty, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled, nihilistic, noisy, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, raging, random, rattled, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, ruffled, scattered, screwed up, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaken, shapeless, shook, shuffled, skimble-skamble, snafu, stochastic, storming, stormy, sweeping, syndicalistic, tempestuous, topsy-turvy, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unruly, unsettled, unspecified, unstuck, unsystematic, uproarious, upset, upside-down, vague, veiled, wild

• chaotically, aimlessly, anarchically, capriciously, confusedly, dispersedly, erratically, every which way, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, impulsively, inconsistently, inconstantly, irregularly, licentiously, nonuniformly, planlessly, riotously, senselessly, spasmodically, sporadically, turbulently, unequally, unevenly, unsteadily, unsystematically, ununiformly, vaguely, wanderingly

• chap, Adamite, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bastard, being, bird, bloke, body, box canyon, boy, bozo, breach, break, buck, buddy, bugger, canyon, cat, cavity, character, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, cove, crack, cranny, creature, crevasse, crevice, customer, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, duck, earthling, excavation, fault, feller, fellow, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gazebo, gee, geezer, gent, gentleman, gorge, groove, groundling, gulch, gulf, gully, guy, hand, he, head, hole, homo, human, human being, incision, individual, jasper, joint, joker, kloof, lad, leak, life, living soul, man, moat, mortal, nose, notch, nullah, old boy, one, opening, party, pass, passage, person, personage, personality, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, single, slit, slot, somebody, someone, soul, split, stud, tellurian, terran, trench, valley, void, wadi, worldling

• chapel, Lady chapel, amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, chantry, chapel of ease, chapel royal, concert hall, convention hall, dance hall, exhibition hall, gallery, hall, lecture hall, meetinghouse, music hall, opera house, oratorium, oratory, sacellum, sacrament chapel, sacrarium, school chapel, side chapel, stadium, theater

• chaperon, abigail, amah, attend, attend to, au pair girl, ayah, baby-sit, bear, betweenmaid, biddy, bodyguard, boss, bring, care for, carry, cavalier, chambermaid, cherish, companion, conduct, conductor, conserve, consort with, convoy, cook, duenna, escort, esquire, fellow traveler, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, foster, gentlewoman, girl, governess, guard, guide, handmaid, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, keep watch over, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lead, live-in maid, live-out maid, look after, look out for, look to, maid, maidservant, marshal, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nurse, nursemaid, nurture, overlook, oversee, parlormaid, preserve, protege, provide for, quarterback, ride herd on, safe-conduct, scullery maid, see after, see to, servant girl, servitress, shepherd, soubrette, squire, superintend, supervise, support, survey, swain, take care of, take charge of, take out, tend, tweeny, upstairs maid, usher, wait on, waiting maid, watch, watch out for, watch over, wench

• chapfallen, abashed, afflicted, agitated, ashamed, baffled, balked, beset, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blighted, blue, blushing, bothered, brooding, broody, cast down, chagrined, confused, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, dejected, depressed, disappointed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disconsolate, dished, disillusioned, disquieted, dissatisfied, distressed, disturbed, down, down-in-the-mouth, downhearted, dumpish, embarrassed, foiled, frustrated, glum, grum, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, ill done-by, ill-served, let down, long-faced, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mortified, mumpish, out of countenance, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, red-faced, regretful, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sorely disappointed, soured, sulky, sullen, thwarted, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset

• chaplain, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, Holy Joe, abbe, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, churchman, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, coadjutor, curate, cure, dean, diocesan, divine, ecclesiarch, ecclesiastic, exarch, hierarch, high priest, man of God, metropolitan, military chaplain, minister, padre, papa, parson, pastor, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, reverend, rural dean, servant of God, shepherd, sky pilot, subdean, suffragan, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicar

• chaps, bazoo, chops, embouchure, gab, gob, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, lips, mandibles, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, premaxilla, trap, yap

• chapter, Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Lateran Council, Vatican Council, affiliate, arm, article, back matter, basis, book, branch, branch office, burden, case, classis, clause, column, concern, conciliarism, conclave, conference, congregation, consistory, convention, convocation, diocesan conference, division, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, essence, fascicle, focus of attention, focus of interest, folio, front matter, gathering, gist, head, heading, installment, issue, living issue, livraison, local, lodge, main point, matter, matter in hand, meat, motif, motive, number, offshoot, organ, page, paragraph, parochial church council, parochial council, part, passage, phrase, plenary council, point, point at issue, point in question, post, presbytery, problem, question, rubric, section, sentence, serial, session, sheet, signature, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, synod, text, theme, topic, verse, vestry, volume, wing

• char, blaze, blister, brand, burn, burn in, burn off, cast, cauterize, chare, charwoman, chore, cleaner, cleaner-off, cleaner-up, cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning woman, coal, crack, cupel, custodian, do chars, do the chores, flame, found, janitor, janitress, labor, oxidate, oxidize, parch, pyrolyze, scorch, sear, singe, solder, swinge, torrefy, turn a hand, vesicate, vulcanize, weld, work

• character assassination, attack, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, blackening, calumny, defamation, defamation of character, defilement, denigration, depreciation, dirt, dirty politics, disparagement, gossip column, juicy morsel, last-minute lie, malicious defamation, malicious gossip, muckraking, mudslinging, mudslinging campaign, name-calling, political canard, revilement, roorback, scandal, scandalmongering, slander, smear, smear campaign, smear word, tidbit, vilification, whispering campaign

• character, Adamite, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Roscius, VIP, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, abnormal, accent, accent mark, acclaim, actor, actress, advocacy, advocating, advocation, affection, alien, allele, allelomorph, alphabet, alphabetic character, alphabetize, animus, antagonist, antihero, aptitude, arbitrary, aroma, arrowhead, assured probity, attribute, atypical, autolithograph, bad guy, badge, banner, bar, barnstormer, bastard, bat, be a printmaker, being, bent, bias, big shot, big-timer, bigwig, binary digit, bird, birth, birthmark, bit, bit part, blamelessness, blood, body, body-build, brand, breed, bring to life, bugger, cachet, cameo, cancel, capacity, capitalize, card, carve, case, cast, cat, catalog, cataloging, catch a likeness, celebrity, certificate of character, chap, character actor, character man, character reference, character sketch, character woman, characteristic, characteristics, characterization, characterize, chart, chief, child actor, chisel, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, cipher, clan, cleanness, clothing, color, complexion, composition, condition, configuration, constituents, constitution, courage, cove, crackpot, crank, crasis, crease, creature, credential, cribble, crosshatch, cue, cuneiform, customer, custos, cut, decency, delineate, delineation, demotic character, denomination, depict, depiction, describe, description, designation, details, determinant, determinative, determiner, device, dharma, diagram, diathesis, differentia, differential, digit, dignitary, direct, diseur, diseuse, disposition, distinction, distinctive feature, dot, dramatizer, draw, duck, duty, earmark, earthling, eccentric, eccentricity, eclat, emblem, eminence, enchase, endowment, engrave, erectness, erratic, estimableness, ethos, eugenics, evocation, evoke, expected, express, expression mark, factor, fairness, fame, famousness, fanatic, fat part, feather, feature, feeder, feller, fellow, fermata, fiber, figure, fitting, flake, flavor, foil, footing, form, frame, freak, function, furrow, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, genius, genre, genus, give words to, glory, good character, goodness, grain, grammalogue, graph, grapheme, graphic account, grave, groove, groundling, gust, guy, habit, hallmark, hand, hatch, head, heavy, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, hermit, hero, heroine, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, hiragana, histrio, histrion, hit off, hobo, hold, homo, honesty, honor, honorableness, hue, human, human being, humor, humors, ideogram, ideograph, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, image, imagery, immaculacy, impress, impression, in character, in keeping, inborn capacity, incise, inclination, index, indicant, indicator, individual, individualism, individuality, ingenue, inheritability, inheritance, initial, inscribe, insignia, integrity, intellect, intelligence, irreproachability, irreproachableness, itemization, jasper, job, joker, justice, justness, juvenile, kana, katakana, key signature, keynote, kidney, kin, kind, kook, kudos, label, lad, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, leaning, letter, letter of introduction, lexigraphic character, life, ligature, limn, limning, line, lineaments, lines, lithograph, living soul, logogram, logograph, lone wolf, loner, loony, lot, make, make prints, makeup, man, manner, mannerism, map, mark, marking, matinee idol, matrocliny, maverick, measure, mental set, meshuggenah, metronomic mark, mettle, mime, mimer, mimic, mind, mind-set, mold, monogram, monologist, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, mortal, mummer, nabob, name, natural, nature, nobility, nonconformist, normal, nose, notability, notate, notation, note, notoriety, notoriousness, number, numeral, numero, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, odor, office, ogham, one, original, out of character, outline, outsider, paint, pantomime, pantomimist, pariah, part, particularity, particularization, party, patrocliny, patronage, pause, peculiar, peculiarity, person, personage, personality, persuasion, pharmacogenetics, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, photograph, phylum, physique, pictogram, pictograph, pictographic character, picture, picturize, piece, place, playactor, player, point, popularity, portrait, portraiture, portray, portrayal, position, predilection, predisposition, preference, presa, principles, print, probity, proclivity, profile, propensity, proper, property, protagonist, protean actor, province, publicity, pureness, purity, quality, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, quirk, quiz, race, radical, rank, rara avis, recessive character, reciter, reclame, recluse, recognition, recommend, recommendation, rectitude, reference, register, relation, render, rendering, rendition, renown, replication, report, represent, representation, representative, reputability, reputation, repute, resolution, respectability, righteousness, role, rub, rune, savor, schematize, score, scrape, scratch, screwball, sculpture, seal, segno, set, set forth, shape, shorthand, side, sigil, sign, signal, signature, single, singularity, situation, sketch, slant, slur, smack, solitary, somatotype, somebody, someone, sort, soubrette, soul, specialty, species, specification, spirit, spook, stage performer, stage player, stainlessness, stamp, standing, state, station, status, stipple, stooge, straight man, straight part, strain, strange duck, streak, stripe, stroller, strolling player, stud, style, suchness, suitable, supporting character, supporting role, sure sign, swell, syllabic, symbol, symbolize, symptom, system, taint, take a rubbing, tang, taste, telltale sign, tellurian, temper, temperament, tempo mark, tendency, tenor, terran, testimonial, the bubble reputation, the like of, the likes of, theatrical, thespian, tie, time signature, title role, token, tone, tool, trace, trace out, trace over, trait, tramp, transcribe, transliterate, tribe, trick, trouper, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, typical, uncharacteristic, unexpected, unfitting, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, uniqueness, unspottedness, untypical, uprightness, upstandingness, utility man, variety, vein, vignette, villain, vinculum, virtue, virtuousness, vivid description, vogue, voucher, walk-on, walking part, warp, way, wedge, weirdo, word letter, word painting, worldling, worthiness, write, writing, written character, zealot, zombie

• characteristic, affection, affective, appropriate, aroma, attribute, automatism, bad habit, badge, banner, birthmark, body-build, brand, cachet, cast, categorical, character, characteristics, characterizing, classificational, classificatory, compare, complexion, composition, configuration, constituents, constitution, constitutional, contrastive, crasis, creature of habit, custom, cut, defining, denominative, device, dharma, diacritical, diagnostic, diathesis, differencing, differentia, differential, differentiative, discriminating, discriminative, disposition, dispositional, distinctive, distinctive feature, distinguished, distinguishing, divisional, divisionary, earmark, emblematic, emotional, especial, ethos, exemplary, feature, fiber, figure, flavor, force of habit, frame, genius, grain, gust, habit, habit pattern, habitude, hallmark, hue, humor, humors, idiocrasy, idiocratic, idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic, ilk, image, impress, impression, in character, index, indicant, indicator, individual, individualism, individualizing, individuating, innate, insignia, intellectual, intrinsic, keynote, kind, lineaments, makeup, mannerism, mark, marked, marking, measure, mental, mold, natural, naturalistic, nature, normal, note, odor, ordinal, particular, particularity, pattern, peculiar, peculiarity, personalizing, physique, picture, point, practice, praxis, proper, property, quality, quintessential, quirk, realistic, regular, representation, representative, sample, savor, seal, second nature, separative, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, single, singular, singularity, smack, somatotype, sort, special, specialty, specific, spirit, spiritual, stamp, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, streak, stripe, subdivisional, suchness, sure sign, symbolic, symptom, symptomatic, system, taint, tang, taste, taxonomic, telltale sign, temper, temperament, temperamental, tendency, tenor, token, tone, trait, trick, true to form, true to type, typal, type, typic, typical, unique, usage, use, usual, vein, virtue, way, wont

• characterization, acting, action, alphabet, anagnorisis, angle, aping, architectonics, architecture, argument, art, atmosphere, background, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog, cataloging, catastrophe, character, character sketch, charactering, chart, choreography, color, complication, continuity, contrivance, conventional representation, dance notation, definition, delineation, demonstration, denomination, denotation, denouement, depiction, depictment, description, design, designation, details, development, device, diagram, differentiation, disclosure, distinction, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, episode, evocation, exemplification, expression, fable, falling action, figuration, fingering, gag, gimmick, graphic account, ham, hammy acting, hieroglyphic, hint, hoke, hokum, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression, incarnation, incident, indication, indicativeness, itemization, letter, limning, line, local color, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map, masquerade, meaning, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mood, motif, movement, mummery, musical notation, mythos, naming, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, particularization, patter, performance, performing, peripeteia, personation, personification, photograph, picking out, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, plot, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, recognition, rendering, rendition, representation, rising action, schema, scheme, score, script, secondary plot, selection, show, showing, signification, sketch, slant, slapstick, specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, story, structure, stunt, subject, subplot, suggestion, switch, syllabary, symbol, symptomaticness, tablature, taking a role, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, twist, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing

• characterize, adumbrate, argue, be characteristic, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, block out, brand, bring to life, catch a likeness, chalk out, character, chart, connote, define, delineate, demarcate, denominate, denote, depict, describe, diagram, differentiate, disclose, display, distinguish, draft, draw, earmark, entail, evoke, express, give evidence, give token, give words to, highlight, hint, hit off, identify, indicate, individualize, individuate, involve, keynote, label, limn, manifest, map, mark, mark off, mark out, mean, notate, note, outline, paint, peculiarize, personalize, picture, picturize, portray, print, qualify, register, render, represent, reveal, rough out, rub, schematize, set apart, set forth, set the pace, set the tone, show, signalize, signify, skeleton, sketch, sound the keynote, stand for, suggest, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, take a rubbing, testify, trace, trace out, trace over, write

• characterless, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, arid, baggy, bare, barren, blah, bland, blank, bleached, blobby, bloodless, blurred, blurry, chaotic, childish, clear, cold, colorless, confused, dead, devoid, dismal, disorderly, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, featureless, flat, formless, futile, fuzzy, hazy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, inane, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexcitable, infantile, inform, insipid, jejune, kaleidoscopic, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, lumpen, misty, namby-pamby, nondescript, null, null and void, obscure, orderless, pale, pallid, pantywaist, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, powerless, shapeless, sissified, sissy, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, unclear, undefined, unlively, unmanly, unordered, unorganized, unrelieved, vacant, vacuous, vague, vapid, void, weak, white, wishy-washy, with nothing inside, without content, wooden

• charade, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, absurdity, anagram, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bearing, beck, beckon, body language, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, carriage, chironomy, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, conundrum, critical success, dactylology, daytime serial, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, dialogue, disguise, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, dumb show, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, farce, flop, gasser, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, giveaway, hand signal, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, kinesics, legitimate drama, logogriph, make-believe, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, mockery, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, motion, movement, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, parody, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, poise, pose, posture, pretension, pretentiousness, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, rebus, review, revue, riddle, sensational play, serial, show, shrug, sign language, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stance, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, travesty, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• charcoal, air brush, alcohol, art paper, ash, ashes, benzine, black and white, blackening, blacking, blackwash, brand, briquette, brouillon, brush, burnable, burnt cork, butane, calx, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, carbon, carbon black, cartoon, chalk, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, combustible, coom, crayon, crow, delineation, design, diagram, doodle, dope, draft, drafting, drawing, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, dross, easel, ebauche, ebon, ebony, esquisse, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, fixative, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, fume, gas, gas black, gas carbon, gasoline, graph, ground, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, ink, isooctane, jet, jet fuel, kerosene, lampblack, lava, lay figure, line drawing, maulstick, medium, methane, methanol, natural gas, night, octane, oil, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paraffin, pastel, peat, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, pentane, pigments, pitch, propane, propellant, raven, reek, rocket fuel, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, scoria, scratchboard, siccative, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sketchbook, sketching, sketchpad, slag, sloe, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, spatula, spray gun, stove black, study, stump, sullage, tar, tracing, turf, varnish, vignette

• charge in, barge in, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, entrench, foist in, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, obtrude, press in, push in, put on, put upon, rush in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, throng in, thrust in, trench, trespass, work in, worm in

• charge off, abate, allow, balance, balance the books, bate, book, bury the hatchet, capitalize, carry, carry over, cast up accounts, charge to experience, close out, close the books, credit, cut, debit, deduct, depreciate, discount, docket, enter, forget, forgive and forget, journalize, keep books, kick back, let it go, let it pass, log, make allowance, make an entry, minute, note, post, post up, rebate, reduce, refund, strike a balance, take a premium, take off, write off

• charge, accountability, accounting for, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accredit, accusal, accusation, accuse, accusing, achievement, action, activate, adjure, administration, admission, admission fee, admonish, advowson, afflict, agency, agentship, aggravated assault, aggression, alerion, allegation, allege, allegement, allegiance, amount, amount due, amperage, amphibious attack, amplify, anchorage, animal charge, annulet, answerability, anticathexis, application, argent, armed assault, armipotence, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arraign, arraignment, arrogation, article, ascription, ask, assail, assailing, assailment, assault, assert, assess, assessment, assign, assignation, assigned task, assignment, attachment, attack, attribute, attribution, auspices, authority, authorization, authorize, azure, bad debts, bail, bale, bandeau, bang, banzai attack, bar, bar sinister, baton, bear hard upon, bearings, beef, behest, bellyful, bend, bend sinister, benefice, bid, bidding, bill, bill of particulars, billet, bills, black power, blame, blast, blazon, blazonry, blitz, blitzkrieg, boil, bolt, book, boot, bordure, borrowing, bossing, bounden duty, breakthrough, brevet, brim, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, bringing of charges, bringing to book, broad arrow, brokerage, brute force, budget, budget items, bumper, burden, burden of expenditure, burden with, burdening, burthen, business, busywork, buy on credit, cadency mark, call of duty, call on, call the signals, call upon, canton, capacity, care, care of souls, carfare, cargo, carload, carrying charge, cartload, cathectic energy, cathexis, caution, cellarage, censure, chaplet, chare, charge for, charges, charging, charisma, charter, chase, chevron, chief, chits, chock, choke, chore, cite, claim, client, clog, clout, coat of arms, cock, cockatrice, cogence, cogency, command, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, committal, complain, complaint, complement, compulsion, concern, conduct, congest, connection with, consign, consignment, contaminate, control, coronet, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, count, counterattack, countercathexis, counteroffensive, coup de main, cover charge, cram, credit, crescent, crest, criminate, crippling attack, cross, cross moline, crowd, crown, crush, cumber, cumbrance, curacy, cure, custodianship, custody, damage, dash, dash at, dead set at, deadweight, debit, debt, declare, decree, dedication, deference, delation, delegate, delegated authority, delegation, demand, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, dependent, deputation, depute, deputize, derivation from, descent on, desire concentration, detach, detail, detonate, device, devoir, devolute, devolution, devolve, devolve upon, devolvement, devotion, dictate, difference, differencing, difficulty, dint, direct, direct costs, direction, disadvantage, disbursals, discharge, distributed costs, diversion, diversionary attack, dockage, drag, drive, drop, due, dues, duress, duties and responsibilities, duty, eagle, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, eject, electric charge, electrify, embarrassment, embassy, empower, empowerment, encourage, encumber, encumbrance, energize, energy, energy charge, enjoin, entrance fee, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, errand, escutcheon, ethics, etiology, exact, exaction, exactment, executorship, exequatur, exercise, exhaust, exhort, exhortation, expect, expenditure, expense, expense account, expenses, expostulate, eye, factorship, falcon, fare, fasten on, fasten upon, fealty, fee, fell, fess, fess point, field, figure, file, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, financial commitment, finger, fire, fire off, fish to fry, flanch, flank attack, fleur-de-lis, fling, floating debt, flower power, flush, fly at, foray, force, force majeure, forcefulness, freight, freight with, fret, frontal attack, fuel, full blast, full force, full house, full measure, full power, funded debt, fur, fusil, galvanize, garland, gas attack, general expenses, generate, get up steam, give an order, give in charge, give the word, glebe, go on tick, governance, government, griffin, guardianship, guarding, guidance, gules, gun, gun for, gyron, hamper, handicap, handling, hands, hang something on, hatchment, head-on attack, heap, helmet, heraldic device, hire, hit, hold, homage, homework, honor, honor point, hypercathexis, imbue, impalement, impaling, impeach, impeachment, impediment, impedimenta, imperative, implication, imply, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposition, impregnate, impugn, imputation, impute, incite, inconvenience, incriminate, incubus, inculpate, incumbency, indebtedness, indebtment, indict, indictment, indirect costs, induce, inescutcheon, infect, infiltration, inflict on, inflict upon, influence, inform against, inform on, information, injunction, innuendo, insinuate, insinuation, instruct, instruction, intendance, interpenetrate, invoice, irradiate, issue a command, issue a writ, jam, jam up, jam-pack, jet propulsion, job, job of work, jollies, jump off, jurisdiction, keep, keeping, kick, label, labor, labor costs, lade, lading, lash, lawsuit, lay, lay charges, lay on, laying of charges, legation, let fly, let off, levy, liabilities, liability, license, license fee, lieutenancy, lift, lightning attack, lightning war, line of duty, lion, liquid oxygen, live wire, living, load, loading, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, loop in, loyalty, lozenge, lumber, main force, main strength, make dutiable, make-work, mana, management, mandate, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mass attack, material costs, matters in hand, maturity, megadeath, metal, might, might and main, mightiness, millstone, ministry, mission, motto, mouthful, move, moxie, mugging, mullet, muscle power, must, name, national debt, need, nombril point, obligation, octofoil, odd job, offense, offensive, office, onset, onslaught, onus, operating costs, operating expense, oppress, oppression, or, ordain, order, order about, ordinary, orle, ought, outstanding debt, overburden, overcharge, overfill, overhead, overkill, overload, oversight, overtax, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, pad, palaetiology, pale, paly, panzer warfare, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, payload, pean, pelt, penalty, penetrate, pensionary, pensioner, pepper, percolate, permeate, persuade, pervade, pheon, pick off, piece of work, pile, pilotage, pin on, pistol, pizzazz, place, placement, plaint, pledge, plenipotentiary power, plug, plug in, poison, poop, portage, post, pot, potence, potency, potentiality, potshoot, potshot, power, power of attorney, power pack, power structure, power struggle, power to act, powerfulness, preach, precept, prefer charges, prelacy, prepotency, prescript, prescription, presentment, press charges, press hard upon, pressure, preventive custody, price, price tag, prime, prime cost, pro rata, proclaim, procuration, productiveness, productivity, project, prompt, promulgate, pronounce, propellant, propulsion charge, prorate, prosecution, protection, protective custody, protectorship, protege, proxy, public charge, public debt, puissance, pull, punch, purpure, purview, push, put, put down, put on, put on report, put upon, quarter, quartering, quiver, race, radiumize, raid, ram in, rate, reaction propulsion, receive credit, rectory, refer, reference to, regency, regentship, remonstrate, replacement cost, report, reprehend, reproach, request, require, respect, responsibility, rest hard upon, riddle, right, rocket propulsion, rose, rule, run against, run at, running, rush, rush at, rush of emotion, sable, saddle, saddle with, saddling, safe hands, safekeeping, sally, saltire, salvage, satiate, saturate, say the word, score, scot, scot and lot, scutcheon, self-imposed duty, send out, sensation, service, set, shield, shipload, shiver, shock, shock tactics, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, short, short-circuit, shot, shudder, sinew, snipe, snootful, solicit, sortie, spread eagle, steam, steam up, step down, step up, stewardship, stick for, stiffen, stint, storage, storm, strength, strike, strong arm, stuff, subject to, subordinary, suffuse, suit, supercharge, superincumbency, superintendence, superintendency, superiority, superpower, supervision, surcharge, surfeit, surge of emotion, surveillance, swindle sheet, switch off, switch on, tab, take a potshot, take credit, take to task, tariff, task, taunt with, tax, taxing, teaching, tear, tell, tenne, things to do, thrill, thrust, tilt at, tincture, tingle, tingling, tithe, titillation, toll, top off, torpedo, torse, towage, trailerload, trainload, transfer, transfuse, tremor, tremor of excitement, tressure, trouble, truckload, true bill, trust, trusteeship, turn off, turn on, tutelage, twit, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, unicorn, unit cost, unit quantity, unprovoked assault, unspoken accusation, urge, vair, validity, vanload, vehemence, veiled accusation, vert, vicarage, vicarious authority, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wad, ward, wardenship, wardship, warhead, warm up, warn, warrant, watch and ward, wattage, weigh, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, weight down with, wharfage, white elephant, wind, wind up, wing, word, work, wreath, yale, yoke with

• charged, accountable, accused, activated, agitating, alleged, arraigned, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, autoluminescent, blamed, breathtaking, burdened, cited, cliff-hanging, climacteric, contaminated, credited, critical, crucial, cumbered, decisive, denounced, derivable from, derivational, derivative, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, due, electric, electrified, emergent, encumbered, exciting, exhilarating, exigent, explicable, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, galvanic, hampered, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, heavy-laden, high-tension, hot, impeached, implicated, impressive, impugned, imputable, imputed, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, infected, inflammatory, intoxicating, involved, irradiated, jarring, jolting, kairotic, laden, live, loaded, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overcoming, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overmastering, overpowering, overtaxed, overweighted, overwhelming, owing, perturbing, piquant, pivotal, poisoned, pregnant, provocative, provoking, putative, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ravishing, referable, referred to, reproached, saddled, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, supercharged, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, tasked, taxed, telling, thrilling, thrilly, traceable, troubling, under attack, under fire, unsettling, upsetting, weighted, weighted down

• charger, Houyhnhnm, brood mare, colt, courser, critter, dobbin, entire, entire horse, equine, filly, foal, gelding, horse, mare, mount, nag, prancer, stallion, steed, stud, studhorse, tarpan, top horse, trooper, war-horse, wild horse

• charisma, agacerie, allure, allurement, amperage, appeal, armipotence, ascendancy, attraction, attractiveness, aura, authority, beef, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, black power, blandishment, blaze of glory, brilliance, brilliancy, brute force, cajolery, captivation, charge, charm, charmingness, clout, cogence, cogency, come-hither, compulsion, consequence, control, credit, dint, dominance, domination, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, eminence, enchantment, energy, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, envelope, esteem, fascination, favor, flirtation, flower power, forbidden fruit, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, glamour, glory, good feeling, halo, hold, illustriousness, importance, incidental power, inducement, influence, influentiality, insinuation, interest, inveiglement, invitation, leadership, leverage, luster, magic, magnetism, main force, main strength, mana, mastery, might, might and main, mightiness, moment, moxie, muscle power, mystique, nimbus, numinousness, personality, persuasion, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, predominance, preponderance, prepotency, pressure, prestige, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, purchase, push, radiance, reign, repute, resplendence, resplendency, rule, say, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, sinew, snaring, splendor, steam, strength, strong arm, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, superiority, superpower, supremacy, sway, tantalization, temptation, upper hand, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, whip hand, winning ways, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchery, wooing

• charismatic movement, bibliolatry, charismatic gift, charismatic renewal, fanaticism, gift of tongues, glossolalia, overdevoutness, overpiousness, overreligiousness, overrighteousness, overzealousness, pentecostalism, revival, revivalism, sanctimony, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness

• charismatic, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attractive, authoritative, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, bright, brilliant, cajoling, captivating, catching, charming, coaxing, come-hither, consequential, coquettish, effective, effectual, efficacious, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, estimable, exciting, exotic, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, glorious, hypnotic, illustrious, important, influential, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, lustrous, magic, magnetic, mesmeric, momentous, mouth-watering, numinous, personable, persuasive, piquant, potent, powerful, prepossessing, prestigious, provocative, provoquant, radiant, ravishing, reputable, resplendent, seducing, seductive, shining, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, strong, suasive, substantial, taking, tantalizing, teasing, telling, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, weighty, winning, winsome, witching

• charitable, accommodating, almsgiving, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benign, bighearted, bleeding, bountiful, clement, commiserative, compassionate, complimentary, condolent, considerate, costless, easy, eleemosynary, expenseless, for free, for love, for nothing, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, free, free as air, free for nothing, free gratis, free of charge, free of cost, freebie, freehearted, generous, gentle, giftlike, given, good, gratis, gratuitous, greathearted, helpful, human, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kind, kindhearted, kindly, largehearted, lenient, liberal, long-suffering, magnanimous, melting, merciful, munificent, obliging, on the house, open-handed, patient, philanthropic, pitying, public-spirited, ruthful, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, tolerating, unbought, understanding, unpaid-for, unselfish, unsparing, untaxed, warmhearted, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-disposed, well-meaning, without charge

• charity, Amor, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, abetment, accord, accordance, admiration, adoration, advocacy, aegis, affection, affinity, agape, agreement, alms, alms fee, almsgiving, altruism, amity, ardency, ardor, attachment, auspices, backing, benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bigheartedness, bodily love, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, cardinal virtues, care, caritas, cement of friendship, championship, charitableness, clemency, collection, communion, community, community of interests, compassion, compatibility, concord, concordance, condonation, congeniality, conjugal love, considerateness, consideration, contribution, correspondence, countenance, desire, devotion, do-goodism, dole, donation, donative, easiness, empathy, encouragement, esprit, esprit de corps, faith, faithful love, fancy, favor, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fervor, flame, flower power, fondness, forbearance, fortitude, fosterage, free love, free-lovism, frictionlessness, friendliness, generosity, generousness, giving, good vibes, good vibrations, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, guidance, handout, happy family, harmony, heart, hero worship, hope, humaneness, humanitarianism, humanity, identity, idolatry, idolism, idolization, indulgence, interest, justice, kindliness, kinship, largeheartedness, largesse, lasciviousness, lenience, leniency, lenity, liberality, libido, like, like-mindedness, liking, long-suffering, love, love of mankind, lovemaking, magnanimity, married love, munificence, mutuality, natural virtues, offering, offertory, oneness, passion, patience, patronage, peace, permissiveness, philanthropism, philanthropy, physical love, pittance, popular regard, popularity, prudence, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, regard, relief, seconding, sentiment, sex, sexual love, sharing, shine, solidarity, spiritual love, sponsorship, subscription, supernatural virtues, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, temperance, tender feeling, tender passion, theological virtues, tithe, tolerance, toleration, truelove, tutelage, understanding, union, unison, unity, unselfishness, utilitarianism, uxoriousness, votive offering, weakness, welfare, welfarism, well-disposedness, worship, yearning

• charivari, Bedlam let loose, bedlam, blast, bobbery, brawl, brouhaha, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, din, discord, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, flap, fracas, free-for-all, hell broke loose, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, jangle, loud noise, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, racket, rattle, rhubarb, riding, roar, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, shivaree, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tumult, uproar

• charlatan, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatanic, charlatanish, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, horse doctor, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, medicaster, medicine man, medicine monger, mountebank, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, quackish, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer

• charley horse, acute pain, bite, boring pain, cramp, cramps, crick, darting pain, fulgurant pain, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, hitch, jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, nip, pang, paroxysm, pinch, prick, seizure, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, spasm, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, thrill, throes, tormen, tweak, twinge, twitch, wrench

• Charley, Argus, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, airplane spotter, anarch, anarchist, bonnet rouge, bushfighter, bushwhacker, casual, criminal syndicalist, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, forward observer, guerrilla, irregular, lookout, lookout man, maquis, maquisard, night watchman, partisan, patrol, patroller, patrolman, picket, rebel, red, resistance, resistance fighter, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, roundsman, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, underground, underground fighter, vedette, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman

• charm, absorb, absorb the attention, adorability, agacerie, agreeability, agreeableness, alchemy, allay, allure, allurement, amiability, amulet, anklet, appeal, appealingness, argue into, armlet, arrest, ascendancy, assuage, attract, attraction, attractiveness, authority, bait, baited trap, bangle, beads, beauteousness, beautifulness, beauty, beauty unadorned, becharm, beguile, beguilement, beguiling, bevy, bewitch, bewitchery, bewitchment, bijou, bind, blandishment, bloom, bracelet, breastpin, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, brooch, cajolery, calm, cantrip, captivate, captivation, carry away, cast a spell, catch, chain, chaplet, charisma, charmingness, charms, chatelaine, circle, cloud, clout, come-hither, come-on, con, conjuration, consequence, control, convince, coronet, covey, credit, crown, cultivation, culture, curse, decoy, decoy duck, delectate, delight, delightfulness, desirability, diadem, divination, dominance, domination, draw, draw on, draw over, drawcard, drawing card, earring, effect, elegance, eminence, enamor, enchant, enchantment, endear, endearment, engage, engage the attention, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enrapture, enravish, enravishment, enthrall, enthrallment, enticement, entrance, entrancement, entrapment, esteem, evil eye, exercise, exorcism, exquisiteness, extraordinarily, fascinate, fascination, favor, fetish, fetishism, flight, flirtation, flock, fob, folklore, forbidden fruit, force, freak out, fylfot, gaggle, gain, gain over, gammadion, gem, glamour, glow, good feeling, good-luck charm, grab, grace, gramarye, gratefulness, grip, ground bait, handsomeness, hex, hive, hold, hold in thrall, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hoodoo, hook, hook in, hypnotize, immerse, imparadise, importance, incantation, incidental power, inducement, infatuate, inflame with love, influence, influentiality, insinuation, interest, intrigue, inveiglement, invitation, invitingness, involve, involve the interest, jewel, jinx, juju, jujuism, knock dead, knock out, leadership, leverage, likability, locket, lore, lovability, love charm, loveliness, lovesomeness, luck, lucky bean, lucky piece, lure, luxury, madstone, magic, magic spell, magnetism, magnetize, malocchio, mascot, mastery, mesmerize, miraculously, moment, monopolize, mumbo jumbo, murmuration, natural magic, necklace, necromancy, nose ring, obeah, obsess, occupy, occupy the attention, outtalk, overcome, perfectly, periapt, personality, persuade, persuasion, philter, phylactery, pin, plague, polish, popular belief, potency, power, precious stone, predominance, preoccupy, preponderance, pressure, prestige, prettiness, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, pulchritude, pull, purchase, ravish, refinement, reign, repute, rhinestone, ring, rule, rune, say, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, seduce, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sell, sell one on, send, sensuousness, sex appeal, shamanism, skein, slay, snare, snaring, soothe, sophistication, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbind, spellbinding, spellcasting, spring, stickpin, stone, suasion, suavity, subdue, subtle influence, successfully, sudarium, suggestion, superstition, superstitiousness, supremacy, swarm, swastika, sway, sweetness, sympathetic magic, take, take up, talisman, talk into, talk over, tantalization, tantalize, tantalizingness, tempt, temptation, temptingness, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, the beautiful, theurgy, thrill, tiara, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, torque, tradition, transport, trap, upper hand, urbanity, vamp, vampirism, veronica, voluptuousness, voodoo, voodooism, wampum, wanga, wangle, wangle into, watch, wear down, weight, weird, whammy, whip hand, white magic, wile, win, win over, winning ways, winningness, winsomeness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry, wooing, wow, wristband, wristlet

• charmed circle, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, cell, circle, clan, clique, closed circle, coterie, crew, crowd, elite, elite group, group, ingroup, inner circle, junta, junto, mob, outfit, ring, set, we-group

• charmed, arrested, becharmed, bewitched, captivated, castle-building, caught, charm-bound, comfortable, content, contented, cozy, daydreaming, daydreamy, delighted, dreamful, dreaming, dreamlike, dreamy, dreamy-eyed, dreamy-souled, easy, enamored, enchanted, enraptured, enthralled, entranced, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, fascinated, favorably impressed with, fixed, fortified, glad, gladsome, gratified, gripped, happy, heartsmitten, held, hypnotized, in a trance, in clover, infatuate, infatuated, intrigued, magical, mesmerized, pipe-dreaming, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, protected, rapt, satisfied, smitten, sold on, spell-caught, spellbound, spelled, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, tranced, under a spell

• charmer, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Circe, Cleopatra, Don Juan, Euryale, Gorgon, Lorelei, Lothario, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Medea, Medusa, Miss America, Parthenope, Philadelphia lawyer, Romeo, Siren, Stheno, Yankee horse trader, actor, bamboozler, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, befuddler, beguiler, belle, bewitcher, big-time operator, bunny, con artist, con man, conjurer, coquette, counterfeiter, cover girl, crafty rascal, dazzler, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, dream, duper, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, entrancer, faker, femme fatale, flatterer, flirt, fooler, forger, fox, gay deceiver, glib tongue, great beauty, hoaxer, horse trader, hypnotizer, inveigler, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, knockout, lady fair, lady-killer, leg-puller, looker, mage, magian, magician, magus, mesmerizer, misleader, model, necromancer, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, practical joker, pussycat, ragger, raving beauty, reigning beauty, reynard, role-player, seducer, seductress, sex kitten, shyster, siren, slick chick, slick citizen, sly dog, slyboots, smoothie, sorcerer, sorceress, spellbinder, spoofer, stunner, sweet talker, swindler, tease, teaser, tempter, temptress, trickster, vamp, vampire, warlock, wizard, wolf

• charming, Circean, admirable, adorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, authoritative, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, caressable, catching, charismatic, coaxing, come-hither, consequential, coquettish, cuddlesome, delightful, drawing, effective, effectual, efficacious, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, estimable, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, heart-robbing, hypnotic, illusionary, illusive, illusory, important, influential, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, kissable, likable, lovable, lovely, lovesome, luxurious, magnetic, mesmeric, momentous, mouth-watering, personable, persuasive, piquant, potent, powerful, prepossessing, prestigious, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, reputable, seducing, seductive, sensuous, seraphic, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strong, suasive, substantial, sweet, taking, tantalizing, teasing, telling, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, voluptuous, weighty, winning, winsome, witching

• charnel house, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, burning ghat, catacombs, cenotaph, cist, cist grave, crematorium, crematory, cromlech, crypt, deadhouse, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, grave, house of death, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, morgue, mortuary, mummy chamber, narrow house, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pit, pyramid, reliquary, resting place, sepulcher, shaft grave, shrine, stupa, tomb, tope, tower of silence, tumulus, vault

• Charon, Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan

• chart, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, adjust, aeronautical chart, alphabet, arrange, art, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, blueprint, brouillon, card index, cartographer, cartography, cartoon, cast, catalog, catalogue raisonne, catch a likeness, celestial chart, celestial globe, character, charactering, characterization, characterize, choreography, chorographer, chorography, climatic chart, codify, conic projection, contents, contour line, contour map, conventional representation, coordinate, copy, cylindrical projection, dance notation, delineate, delineation, demonstration, dense, depict, depiction, depictment, design, diagram, dope out, draft, drama, draw, drawing, ebauche, elevation, esquisse, exemplification, figuration, figure, fix, general reference map, globe, gnomonic projection, graph, graphic scale, grid line, ground plan, hachure, harmonize, heliographic chart, hieroglyphic, hit off, house plan, hydrographic chart, ichnography, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, index, isoline, latitude, lay off, lay out, layer tint, legend, letter, limn, limning, logogram, logograph, longitude, map, map maker, map out, map projection, mapper, mark off, mark out, meridian, methodize, musical notation, normalize, notate, notation, organize, outline, paint, parallel, pattern, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, pictogram, picture, picturization, picturize, plan, plat, plot, plot out, political map, polyconic projection, portraiture, portray, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, print, printing, profile, project, projection, rationalize, realization, register, regularize, regulate, relief map, render, rendering, rendition, represent, representation, representative fraction, road map, rough, routinize, rub, scale, schema, schematize, scheme, score, script, set out, settle, sinusoidal projection, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, special map, standardize, syllabary, symbol, symbolize, synchronize, systematize, tablature, table, table of contents, tabulation, take a rubbing, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, thumb index, topographer, topographic chart, topography, trace, trace out, trace over, transportation map, tune, tune up, weather chart, weather map, working drawing, write, writing

• charter, OK, accredit, admission, agreement, allowance, approve, assign, authority, authorize, bareboat charter, brevet, certificate, certify, charge, commission, commit, compact, concession, consent, consign, contract, conveyance, covenant, deed, delegate, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, diploma, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, document, empower, enable, enfranchise, engage, entitle, entrust, exception, exemption, farm, farm out, franchise, give in charge, give official sanction, give power, grant, hire, hire out, hiring, immunity, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, leave, legalize, legislative immunity, legitimize, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, letters patent, liberty, license, mission, okay, patent, permission, permission to enter, permit, post, privilege, qualify, ratify, recognize, release, rent, rent out, rental, right, royal grant, sanction, send out, special permission, sublease, sublet, subrent, ticket, ticket of admission, transfer, underlet, validate, vouchsafement, waiver, warrant

• chartreuse, aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, smaragdine, springlike, summerlike, summery, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green

• chary, Scotch, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cheeseparing, circumspect, conserving, considerate, constrained, discreet, disinclined, distrustful, economic, economical, economizing, forehanded, frugal, gingerly, guarded, hesitant, inhibited, labor-saving, leery, loath, mistrustful, money-saving, parsimonious, penny-wise, provident, prudent, prudential, reluctant, restrained, safe, saving, scrimping, shy, skimping, spare, sparing, suspecting, suspicious, thrifty, time-saving, unwasteful, wary

• chase after, bring, bring back, call for, fetch, fetch and carry, get, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, obtain, pick up, procure, retrieve, run after, secure, shag

• chase, Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, address, afforestation, arboretum, assemble, beat, beat back, beau, bedog, bezel, boil, bolt, boondocks, boot out, boss, brush off, bundle, bush, bushveld, bustle, career, carve, cast, chamfer, charge, chase away, chase off, chase out, chevy, chink, chisel, chivy, chuck, climax forest, cloud forest, come after, come behind, corrugation, course, coursing, court, crack, cranny, crowd, cut, cynegetics, dado, dash, dash off, dash on, dendrology, dismiss, dog, dogging, double-time, drive, drive away, drive back, drive off, drive out, drum out, eject, emboss, engrave, engraving, esquire, evict, extrude, falcon, falconry, fend off, festinate, flat race, fling, flush, flute, fluting, follow, follow the hounds, follow up, follow-up, following, force out, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, found, fowl, fox hunting, freeze out, fringing forest, furrow, gallery forest, gash, get going, get moving, give chase, go after, go behind, go hunting, gouge, grave, greenwood, groove, gun, gunning, handicap, handicap race, hanger, harness race, harry out, hasten, hawk, hawking, heel, hold off, hollo after, horse race, hound, hue and cry, hunt, hunt down, hunt out, hunting, hurdle race, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, incision, index forest, insculpture, jack, jacklight, jungle, jungles, keep off, kick out, lash, lay siege to, leap, lose no time, make after, make haste, make suit to, microgroove, model, mold, move behind, move quickly, national forest, out, pack off, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pay attention to, pay court to, pine barrens, plate race, plunge, post, press on, prey, primeval forest, prosecute, prosecution, protection forest, prowl after, purse race, pursuance, pursue, pursuing, pursuit, push back, push on, push out, put back, put to flight, quarry, quarter-horse race, quest, quest after, rabbet, race, rain forest, raise, raise the hunt, rebuff, reforestation, refuse, repel, repulse, ride to hounds, ridge, rifling, rout, rout out, ruck, run, run after, run out, rush, rush through, rut, scamper, score, scramble, scratch, scrub, scrubland, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, scurry, scuttle, search, searching, seek, seek out, seeking, selection forest, send away, send off, send packing, serenade, shadow, shadowing, shikar, shoot, shooting, shrubland, silviculture, slit, smoke out, snub, solder, spark, speed, sport, sporting, sprout forest, spurn, spurt, squire, stake, stake race, stalk, stalking, stand of timber, start, state forest, steeplechase, still hunt, still-hunt, streak, stria, striation, string along, sue, sulcation, sulcus, swain, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, sweetheart, tag, tag after, tag along, tail, tailgate, take out after, tear, throw out, thrust back, timber, timberland, track, tracking, tracking down, trail, trail after, trailing, tread close upon, tree veld, trotting race, turn back, venery, virgin forest, ward off, weld, well-worn groove, wildwood, woo, wood, woodland, woods, wrinkle

• chaser, Casanova, Don Juan, Mickey, Mickey Finn, act, afterpiece, aperitif, bit, carver, clay modeler, cocktail, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, divertimento, divertissement, doch-an-dorrach, drink, earth artist, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, eye-opener, figurer, figuriste, finale, follower, gem carver, graver, highball, hoke act, hunter, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, knockout drops, lady-killer, masher, mason, mixed drink, modeler, molder, monumental mason, nightcap, number, parting cup, philander, philanderer, pousse-cafe, prologue, punch, pursuant, pursuer, quester, routine, scene, sculptor, sculptress, sculpturer, seeker, shtick, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, statuary, stirrup cup, stonecutter, striptease, sundowner, turn, wax modeler, wee doch-an-dorrach, womanizer, wood carver

• chasm, abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, blank, box canyon, breach, break, broaching, canyon, cavity, chap, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, inlet, interval, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak, mine, moat, notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, overlook, oversight, pass, passage, passageway, pit, pore, preterition, quarry, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft, skip, slit, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, well, workings, yawn, yawning abyss

• chassis, backing, base, baseboard, basement, bearing, bushing, cabinet, cadre, case, casement, casing, console, dado, doorframe, fabric, foot, footing, foundation, frame, framework, framing, housing, infrastructure, keel, lattice, latticework, mopboard, mount, mounting, nadir, picture frame, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, receiver, receiving set, sash, set, setting, shell, shoemold, skeleton, sole, toe, underframe, wainscot, window case, window frame, wireless, wireless set

• chaste, Apostolic, Attic, Ciceronian, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abase, absolute, abstemious, abstinent, aesthetic, afflict, artistic, ascetic, austere, bare, basic, becoming, beyond all praise, blotless, castigate, celibate, chasten, chastise, choice, classic, classical, clean, cleanly, clear, common, commonplace, continent, correct, decent, decorous, defectless, direct, discipline, easy, elegant, elementary, essential, ethical, everyday, excellent, faultless, finished, flawless, fruitarian, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, good, graceful, gracile, guiltless, homely, homespun, homogeneous, household, humble, humiliate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, in good taste, indefectible, indefective, indivisible, infallible, innocent, irreducible, irreproachable, just right, limpid, lucid, maidenly, matter-of-fact, mere, modest, monolithic, moral, natural, neat, nephalistic, nondescript, of a piece, of choice, of quality, on the wagon, ordinary, peerless, pellucid, perfect, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, primal, primary, proper, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, pure in heart, purehearted, quiet, refined, restrained, righteous, round, seemly, severe, sexually abstinent, sexually innocent, simon-pure, simple, single, sinless, snowy, spare, spotless, stainless, stark, straightforward, subdued, sworn off, taintless, tasteful, teetotal, terse, trim, try, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unblemished, unblotted, uncluttered, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, undecorated, undefiled, understated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unembellished, unfaultable, uniform, unlabored, unmixed, unobtrusive, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vegetarian, virgin, virginal, virtuous, well-chosen, white, wholesome, workaday, workday

• chasten, abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, blunt, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, castigate, chastise, constrain, control, correct, curb, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deal with, diminish, discipline, downplay, dull, extenuate, inflict upon, keep within bounds, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, masthead, mitigate, moderate, modulate, obtund, palliate, penalize, pillory, play down, punish, purify, reduce, reduce the temperature, repress, restrain, settle with, simplify, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, square accounts, stifle, subdue, suppress, take to task, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, underplay, visit upon, weaken

• chastened, broken, constrained, controlled, domesticated, dovelike, gentle, housebroken, humble, hushed, in control, in hand, lamblike, limited, meek, mild, pacific, peaceable, quelled, quiet, restrained, softened, stable, subdued, tame, tamed, tempered

• chastise, admonish, baste, beat, belabor, berate, birch, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, cane, castigate, censure, chasten, chide, correct, deal with, discipline, flog, have words with, inflict upon, lecture, masthead, objurgate, penalize, pillory, pummel, punish, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, scourge, set down, set straight, settle with, spank, square accounts, straighten out, take down, take to task, thrash, upbraid, visit upon, whip

• chastity, Atticism, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, absoluteness, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, appropriateness, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chasteness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, continence, correctness, defectlessness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy, eschewal, fast, faultlessness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fish day, fittingness, flawlessness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, forbearance, fruitarianism, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guiltlessness, gymnosophy, immaculacy, immaculateness, impeccability, infallibility, innocence, limpidity, lucidity, maidenhead, maidenhood, naturalness, neatness, nephalism, pellucidity, perfection, perspicuity, plain living, plainness, polish, propriety, purity, refinement, refraining, refrainment, restraint, seemliness, self-restraint, sexual abstinence, simple diet, simplicity, sinlessness, smoothness, spare diet, spotlessness, stainlessness, straightforwardness, taintlessness, taste, tastefulness, teetotalism, terseness, the pledge, total abstinence, unaffectedness, vegetarianism, virginity, virtue

• chat, babble, babblement, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bull session, bullshit, burble, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, causerie, chatter, chew the fat, chin, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, colloque, colloquy, compare, confab, confabulate, confabulation, conversation, converse, coze, cozy chat, dialogue, dish, dither, entice, flirt with, friendly chat, gab, gabble, gam, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, heart-to-heart, heart-to-heart talk, hot air, idle talk, induce, inveigle, jabber, jaw, lallygag, little talk, lure, make conversation, mere talk, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prevail upon, prittle-prattle, proposition, prose, ramble on, rap, rap session, rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on, seduce, shoot the breeze, small talk, smatter, spout, spout off, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tempt, tete-a-tete, tinkle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, twiddle, twitter, visit, waffle, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer, yap, yarn

• chatelaine, abbess, anklet, armlet, bangle, beads, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, captain, castellan, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelain, circle, commandant, commander, coronet, crown, dame, diadem, director, dowager, earring, executive, first lady, fob, gem, goodwife, governess, governor, great lady, homemaker, housewife, intendant, jewel, locket, madam, manager, master, matriarch, matron, mistress, mother superior, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, rhinestone, ring, ruler, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet

• chattel, acquest, belongings, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, captive, chattel slave, chattels, churl, concubine, debt slave, effects, estate and effects, galley slave, goods, havings, helot, hereditament, holdings, homager, incorporeal hereditament, lares and penates, liege, liege man, liege subject, movables, odalisque, peon, possessions, properties, property, serf, servant, slave, subject, theow, things, thrall, vassal, villein

• chatter, accents, babble, babblement, bavardage, be cold, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bob, bobble, bounce, brattle, bull, bump, cackle, call, caquet, caqueterie, carol, caw, chaffer, chat, chattering, cheep, chill, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitchat, chitter, chitter-chatter, chuck, clack, clacket, clatter, clatter about, clitter, clitterclatter, cluck, clunter, cock-a-doodle-doo, comment, conversation, converse, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, declaim, didder, discourse, dither, drag out, draw out, drum, elocution, extend, falter, fill out, freeze, freeze to death, gab, gabble, gaggle, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gobble, gossip, grow cold, guff, guggle, gush, have a chill, have an ague, have goose pimples, haver, honk, hoo, hoot, horripilate, hot air, hustle, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jactitate, jar, jaw, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, language, lose heat, mere talk, mouth, natter, never finish, nonsense talk, oral communication, pad, palaver, parole, patter, peep, perish with cold, perorate, pip, pipe, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, protract, quack, quake, quaver, quiver, racket, ramble on, rapping, rattle, rattle around, rattle on, rattletybang, rattling, reel off, roll, ruckle, run on, run out, scold, shake, shiver, shock, shudder, sing, small talk, speak, speak at length, speaking, speech, spin out, spout, spout off, squawk, stretch out, string out, stultiloquence, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, talking, tittle-tattle, tremble, trill, twaddle, twattle, tweet, twit, twitter, vibrate, waffle, wag the tongue, warble, whistle, wobble, words, yak, yakkety-yak, yakking, yammer

• chatterbox, agreeable rattle, babbler, big talker, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blatherer, busybody, chatterer, conversationalist, gabber, gabbler, gasbag, gibble-gabbler, gossip, great talker, hot-air artist, idle chatterer, jabberer, jay, magpie, moulin a paroles, newsmonger, patterer, prater, prattler, quidnunc, rattle, sayer, scandalmonger, speaker, tabby, talker, tattletale, utterer, windbag, windjammer, word-slinger

• chatty, all jaw, candid, chitchatty, colloquial, communicative, confabulatory, conversational, cozy, effusive, expansive, familiar, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, interlocutory, intimate, long-winded, loose-tongued, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative, prolix, smooth, sociable, talkative, talky, tete-a-tete, verbose, voluble, windy

• chauffeur, Sunday driver, backseat driver, bicycle, bike, boy, bus, bus driver, busman, butler, cabby, cabdriver, catch a train, coachman, cycle, drive, driver, entrain, equerry, gardener, gentleman, gillie, go by rail, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, hit-and-run driver, houseboy, houseman, jitney driver, joyride, joyrider, lord-in-waiting, make a train, man, manservant, motor, motorcycle, motorist, pedal, ride, road hog, speeder, take a joyride, taxi, taxidriver, teamster, truck driver, trucker, truckman, valet, valet de chambre, wheel

• chauvinism, Americanism, Anglicism, Briticism, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, anti-Semitism, apartheid, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, black power, black supremacy, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, combativeness, contentiousness, discrimination, fascism, ferocity, fierceness, fight, flag waving, hostility, jingoism, know-nothingism, love of country, male chauvinist, martialism, militancy, militarism, minority prejudice, nationalism, nationality, overpatriotism, patriotics, patriotism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, red-baiting, saber rattling, segregation, sex discrimination, sexism, social barrier, social discrimination, superpatriotism, truculence, ultranationalism, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath, white power, white supremacy, xenophobia

• chauvinist, bigot, chauvin, doctrinaire, dogmatist, fanatic, flag waver, hard hat, hawk, hundred-percent American, hundred-percenter, illiberal, intolerant, jingo, jingoist, male chauvinist, militarist, nationalist, patriot, patrioteer, pig, racist, sexist, superpatriot, ultranationalist, war dog, war hawk, warmonger

• chauvinistic, antiblack, biased, chauvinist, civic, colored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, flag-waving, influenced, interested, jaundiced, jingoist, know-nothing, nationalistic, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, overpatriotic, partial, partisan, patriotic, prejudiced, prepossessed, public-spirited, racist, sexist, superpatriotic, swayed, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, warped, xenophobic

• cheap, Mickey Mouse, NG, at cost, avaricious, bad, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, brummagem, budget, cheapjack, cheaply, cheesy, chintzy, close, closefisted, coarse, common, contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, disgraceful, easily, easy, economic, economical, economy, fake, flashy, for a song, fourth-class, frugal, garish, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gutter, hardfisted, humiliating, humiliative, illiberal, inexpensive, inexpensively, inferior, infra dig, infra indignitatem, irregular, junk, junky, lousy, low, low-class, low-grade, low-priced, low-quality, low-test, manageable, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, miserly, moderate, modest, near, niggardly, no-account, no-good, nominal, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, nugatory, on the cheap, opprobrious, ornery, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, phony, pinchfisted, pinching, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popular, punk, reasonable, reasonably, reduced, rotten, rubbishy, sad, save-all, scandalous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, sensible, shabby, sham, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sleazy, sorry, stingy, tacky, tatty, tawdry, terrible, third-class, third-rate, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, tinny, token, too bad, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, two-bit, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unexpensive, ungenerous, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, within means, worth the money, worthless, wretched, wrong

• cheapen, adulterate, alloy, bargain, beat down, bid, bid for, break, canker, chaffer, coarsen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, cut, cut prices, debase, debauch, decline, decry, defile, deflate, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, depreciate, desecrate, despoil, devaluate, devalue, dicker, distort, dive, downgrade, drive a bargain, fall, fall in price, give way, haggle, higgle, huckster, infect, jew down, lower, mark down, misuse, negotiate, nose-dive, outbid, pare, pervert, plummet, plunge, poison, pollute, prostitute, ravage, ravish, reduce, sag, shave, slash, slump, taint, trim, twist, ulcerate, underbid, undervalue, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, write down, write off

• cheat, ballot-box stuffing, bamboozle, bamboozlement, beat, befool, beguile, beguile of, bilk, blackleg, boodle, bunco, burn, cardsharping, charlatan, cheater, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chisel, chiseler, chouse, chouse out of, clinquant, cog, cog the dice, con, con man, confidence man, counterfeit, cozen, cozenage, cozener, crib, crook, deceit, deceive, deceiver, deception, defraud, defrauder, delude, diddle, diddler, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, doodle, double-cross, double-dealer, double-dealing, duff, dummy, dupe, euchre, evade, fake, fakement, faker, falsify, fiddle, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, flimflam man, flimflammer, fob, fool, forgery, frame-up, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp artist, gyp joint, gypper, hanky-panky, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, humbug, illicit business, imitation, imposition, impostor, imposture, juggler, junk, lie, mace, mislead, mock, mountebank, mulct, operator, overreach, pack the deal, paste, phony, pigeon, pinchbeck, practice fraud upon, put-on, put-up job, racket, ream, rip off, rip-off, rogue, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shark, sharp practice, sharper, sharpie, shave, shift, shift about, shoddy, short, shortchange, simulacrum, skin, slick, stack the cards, stick, sting, sucker, swindle, swindler, take, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, tinsel, trick, trickery, trickster, two-timer, victimize, whited sepulcher

• check in, accomplish, achieve, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, blow in, bob up, book, buy it, calendar, carve, cash in, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check out, chronicle, clock in, come, come in, come to, come to hand, croak, cut, docket, drop off, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, fetch, fetch up at, file, fill out, find, gain, get in, get there, get to, go west, grave, have it, hit, hit town, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, jot down, kick in, kick off, kick the bucket, knock off, list, log, make, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make it, make out, mark down, matriculate, minute, note, note down, pass out, peg out, pipe off, place upon record, poll, pop off, pop up, post, post up, pull in, punch in, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, reach, record, reduce to writing, register, ring in, roll in, set down, shove off, show up, sign in, step off, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, time in, turn up, videotape, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• check out, audit, autopsy, balance, balance the books, buy it, canvass, cash in, check, check and doublecheck, check in, check over, check up on, clock out, collate, confirm, conform, conk, correspond, croak, cross-check, demonstrate, die, double-check, dovetail, drop, drop off, examine, fit in, gee, give an examination, go over, go west, harmonize, have it, have the qualifications, inspect, inventory, jibe, kick in, kick off, kick the bucket, knock off, look at, look over, measure up, monitor, observe, overhaul, overlook, pass, pass away, pass out, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peg out, peruse, pipe off, pop off, pore over, postmortem, prove, punch out, qualify, recheck, review, ring out, run over, scan, scrutinize, set an examination, shove off, sign out, size, size up, square, step off, study, survey, take stock, take stock of, take the measure, tally, test, triple-check, validate, verify

• check, CD, IOU, MO, X, a reckoning of, abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, acceptance, acceptance bill, accord, account, account of, agree, allophone, alveolar, answer to, aperture, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, arrive, arroyo, articulation, ascertainment, aspiration, assent, assimilation, assort with, assurance, audit, authenticate, authentication, autopsy, backpedal, backset, backwater, baffle, bafflement, baggage check, balance, balance the books, balk, balking, band, bank acceptance, bank check, bar, bark, barometer, be consistent, be of one, be uniform with, bearing rein, beat off, bell, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bilabial, bill, bill of account, bill of draft, bill of exchange, bill of lading, billhead, birthmark, bit, blackhead, blank check, blaze, blaze a trail, bleb, blemish, blister, block, blockage, blocking, bloody, blotch, book stamp, bookplate, bottle up, box canyon, box up, brake, brand, breach, break, bridle, bring to, bring up short, broaching, broad arrow, bulla, burn, burst, bust, cachet, cacuminal, cage, caging, canon, canvass, canyon, caste mark, cavity, cease, cerebral, certificate, certificate of deposit, certification, certified check, cessation, chafe, chain, chalk, chalk up, chap, charges, chasm, check, check and doublecheck, check in, check of, check off, check out, check over, check up on, checkbook, checker, checkerboard, checkerwork, checking, checkmark, checkmate, checkrein, checkup, cheque, chessboard, chime, chimney, chink, chip, chit, chock, cicatrix, cicatrize, circumvent, claw, clearing, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clip the wings, clog, clogging, cloister, closing up, closure, clough, cohere, coincide, col, collate, collation, colophon, colors in patches, comedo, comedown, commercial paper, comparative scrutiny, compare, concur, concussion, confine, confinement, confirm, confirmation, conform, conform with, confounding, confusion, consist with, consonant, constrain, constraint, constriction, contain, continuant, control, cool, cool off, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, coop, coop in, coop up, cooperate, cork up, correspond, corroborate, corroboration, coulee, couloir, count of, counter, countercheck, counterfoil, countermark, coupon, crack, crackle, cramp, cranny, crater, craze, crazy-work, crevasse, crevice, crib, criterion, croak, cross-check, curb, curb bit, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut apart, cut short, cutoff, cwm, dam, dam up, damage, damp, dampen, damper, dapple, dash, dead stop, deadlock, debenture, decelerate, deceleration, deface, defacement, defeat, defect, defile, define, deform, deformation, deformity, degree, delay, delimit, dell, demand bill, demand draft, demarcate, demonstrate, dental, depart, descent, desist, detain, detainment, detention, determination, determine, dike, diphthong, disclosure, discolor, discoloration, discomfiture, disconcertion, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinue, discontinuity, discover, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, dissimilation, distort, distortion, ditch, docket, dompt, donga, doorstop, dot, double-check, dovetail, down, draft, drag, drag sail, draw, draw rein, drift anchor, drift sail, drive back, drogue, due bill, dun, earmark, ease off, ease up, ease-off, ease-up, encage, enclose, end, endgame, ending, engrave, engraving, enjoin, ensuring, epenthetic vowel, establishment, examination, examine, excavation, exchequer bill, exfoliate, explore, explosive, fall in together, fault, fence in, fend, fend off, fenestra, fetter, final whistle, find out, fissure, fistula, fit, fit together, fixation, flagging, flake, flash burn, flaw, fleck, flick, flume, foil, foiling, fontanel, foot-dragging, foramen, fracture, fray, frazzle, freckle, freeze, fret, frustrate, frustration, full stop, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gash, gat, gauge, give an examination, glide, glottal, glottalization, go, go over, go together, go with, gorge, govern, government mark, government stamp, graduated scale, graving, grinding halt, groove, guard, gulch, gulf, gully, gun, guttural, hack, hallmark, halt, hamper, hampering, hang together, harlequin, harmonize, hat check, hatch, hem in, hemangioma, hesitation, hiatus, hickey, hinder, hindering, hindrance, hit, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold down, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in custody, hold in leash, hold in restraint, hold off, hold together, hold up, holdback, holdup, hole, hollow, hurt, immure, impede, impediment, impound, impoundment, impress, imprint, incise, incision, inhibit, inhibition, injunction, injure, injury, inlet, inspect, inspection, intercept, interdict, interfere, interference, interlock, intermeddle, interrupt, interruption, intersect, interval, intervene, inventory, investigate, invoice, iris, itemized bill, jibe, joint, jot, keep, keep at bay, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep off, keep under control, keloid, kick the bucket, kink, kloof, label, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, lacerate, laceration, lacuna, lag, laryngeal, lateral, lay under restraint, laying open, leak, leave, legal restraint, lentigo, lesion, let, let down, let up, letdown, letter of credit, letterhead, letup, limit, limitation, line, lingual, liquid, lock, lockout, lockup, logo, logotype, look at, look into, look over, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, macula, maculate, maim, make a mark, make late, make mincemeat of, make sure of, manifest, manner of articulation, mar, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, marquetry, martingale, masthead, match, maul, measure, meddle, mesh, mew, mew up, milium, minus acceleration, moat, model, moderate, modification, mole, money order, monitor, monophthong, monopoly, morphophoneme, mortal wound, mosaic, motley, mottle, mute, mutilate, mutilation, nasal, needle scar, negativism, negotiable instrument, nevus, nick, norm, notch, note, note of hand, nuisance value, nullah, observe, obstruct, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, occlusive, open, opening, opening up, oppose, opposition, orifice, outlet, overhaul, overlap, overlook, painstakingly match, palatal, paper, parallel, parameter, parasitic vowel, parquet, parquetry, parry, pass, pass muster, pass over, pass under review, passage, passageway, patch, patchwork, pattern, pause, peak, peer at, pelham, pen, pen up, pencil, penning, pepper, peruse, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, physical, physical examination, pierce, pimple, pit, plaid, plate, plosive, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, pore, pore over, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, postal order, postmortem, pound, preclude, prevent, price tag, prick, print, probe, prohibit, prohibition, promissory note, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, prothetic vowel, prove, pull, pull in, pull up, punch, punctuate, puncture, push back, pustule, put back, put paid to, quantity, rail in, rainbow, rationing, ravine, reading, readout, reassurance, reassurement, rebuff, receipt, recheck, reckoning, reef, register, register with, registered trademark, rein, rein in, relax, remora, rend, rent, repel, report, repress, repression, repulse, research, resist, resistance, respond to, restrain, restraint, restraint of trade, restrict, restriction, retard, retardation, retardment, retrench, retrenchment, retroflex, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, review, riddle, rift, rime, rip, rive, rout, rule, run, run over, running head, running title, rupture, savage, scab, scald, scale, scan, scar, scarification, scarify, scissure, scorch, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratching, scrip, scrutinize, scrutiny, scuff, sea anchor, seal, seal up, seam, sebaceous cyst, second-degree burn, segmental phoneme, self-control, semivowel, set an examination, set back, setback, severe check, shackle, shut in, shut up, sight bill, sight draft, sigil, sign in, sign on, signet, sing in chorus, sit-down strike, size, size up, skin, slack off, slack up, slack-up, slacken, slackening, slash, slit, slot, slow, slow down, slow up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, slug, snaffle, snap, snub, sonant, sonority, sore, sort with, space, spangle, speck, speckle, speech sound, splash, split, splotch, spoke, spot, spot check, sprain, sprinkle, square, square with, squeeze, stab, stab wound, stain, stalemate, stall, stamp, stand, stand together, standard, standoff, standstill, statement, stave off, stay, stem, stem the tide, stick, sticker, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stoma, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stoppage, stopping, strain, straiten, stranglehold, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stricture, strike, stripe, stub, stud, study, sty, substantiate, substantiation, suppress, suppression, surcease, surd, survey, suspension, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tab, tabs of, tag, take in sail, take stock, take stock of, take the measure, tally, tally of, tariff wall, tartan, tattoo, tattoo mark, tear, tessellate, tessellation, tesserae, test, third-degree burn, thought control, throttle down, throwback, throwing open, thwart, thwarting, tick, tick off, ticket, time bill, time draft, title page, tittle, token, trace, track, track of, trade acceptance, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trammel, transition sound, trauma, traumatize, treasury bill, trench, triphthong, triple-check, try, turn aside, twist, type, uncorking, underline, underscore, unstopping, upset, validate, validation, valley, value, variegate, variegated pattern, velar, verification, verify, verruca, vesicle, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, void, voucher, vowel, wadi, wale, walkout, wall in, ward off, warp, warrant, wart, watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, withhold, work stoppage, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, yardstick, yawn

• checkbook, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, check, cheque, commercial paper, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, letter of credit, money order, negotiable instrument, note, note of hand, paper, postal order, promissory note, sight bill, sight draft, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant

• checker, alter, ameliorate, band, bar, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, bottom out, break, change, check, chop, chop and change, come about, come around, come round, dapple, degenerate, deteriorate, deviate, diverge, diversify, dot, flake, fleck, flop, freckle, harlequin, haul around, improve, iris, jibe, maculate, marble, marbleize, meliorate, mitigate, modulate, motley, mottle, mutate, pepper, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, revive, shift, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, swerve, tack, take a turn, tattoo, tessellate, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, undergo a change, variegate, vary, veer, vein, warp, worsen

• checkerboard, agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, check, checker, checkerwork, chessboard, club, cockhorse, colors in patches, crazy-work, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, harlequin, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, marquetry, mig, mosaic, paper doll, parquet, parquetry, patchwork, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaid, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sport, steelie, tartan, taw, teetotum, tessellation, tesserae, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, variegated pattern, whim-wham

• checkered, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, changeable, check, checked, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, mosaic, movable, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plaid, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, tessellate, tessellated, transient, transitory, variable

• checkers, Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery, association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball, bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano, billiards, bingo, bowling, bowls, boxing, cat, catch, charades, chess, climbing, crambo, cricket, croquet, curling, discus, dominoes, draughts, fencing, fishing, fives, football, ghost, gliding, go, golf, handball, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey, hopscotch, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog, lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering, mumble-the-peg, ninepins, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, polo, pool, post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets, riding, roller skating, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning, sculling, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet, skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles, sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball, sports, squash, stickball, surfing, table tennis, tennis, tenpins, tent pegging, tetherball, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting, tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, trapshooting, tug of war, volleyball, water polo, waterskiing, wrestling

• checking account, Swiss bank account, account, assets, balance, bank account, bank balance, bottom dollar, budget, cash reserves, charge account, command of money, credit account, exchequer, expense account, finances, fund, funds, kitty, life savings, means, moneys, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pocket, pool, purse, reserves, resources, savings, savings account, substance, treasure, unregistered bank account, wherewithal

• checklist, Baedeker, Yellow Pages, active list, agenda, beadroll, bibliography, blacklist, business directory, cadastre, calendar, catalog, census, census report, checkroll, city directory, civil list, classified directory, directory, docket, dramatis personae, enumeration, finding list, guidebook, handbook, handlist, head count, honor roll, index, inventory, itemization, items, itinerary, jury list, jury panel, lineup, list, muster, muster roll, nose count, order of business, phone book, poll, program, property roll, questionnaire, reference book, register, registry, repertory, retired list, returns, road map, roadbook, roll, roll call, roster, rota, schedule, scroll, sick list, tally, tally sheet, tax roll, telephone book, telephone directory

• checkmate, arrest, baffle, bafflement, balk, balking, bell, blast, block, brake, brave, bring to, bring up short, challenge, check, circumvent, confound, confounding, confront, confusion, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, cut short, cutoff, dam, dash, dead stop, deadlock, defeat, defy, destroy, discomfit, discomfiture, disconcert, disconcertion, discountenance, dish, disrupt, draw rein, elude, end, endgame, ending, final whistle, flummox, foil, foiling, freeze, frustrate, frustration, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, knock the chocks, lockout, nonplus, perplex, pull up, put paid to, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, rout, ruin, sabotage, scotch, setback, sit-down strike, spike, spoil, stalemate, stall, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stem, stem the tide, stonewall, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stoppage, strike, stump, thwart, thwarting, upset, walkout, work stoppage

• cheek, arse, ass, backside, bank, beam, behind, border, bottom, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, breech, broadside, bum, butt, can, cheeks, chop, chutzpah, coast, confidence, crust, derriere, duff, face, fanny, flank, gall, hand, handedness, haunch, heroics, hip, hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, jowl, keister, laterality, many-sidedness, multilaterality, nerve, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, planking, prat, presumption, profile, quarter, rashness, rusty-dusty, shore, side, siding, stern, tail, temerariousness, temerity, temple, tuchis, tush, tushy, unchariness, unilaterality, unwariness

• cheeky, arrogant, audacious, biggety, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, challenging, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, pert, regardless of consequences, rude, sassy, saucy, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, uncalled-for, uncivil, wise-ass

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

• cheer, abide by, accede, accept, acclaim, acclamation, acquiesce, acquiesce in, afford hope, agree, agree to, agree with, alleluia, animate, applaud, applause, assent, assure, augur well, bark, battle cry, bawl, bear up, beatification, beatitude, bellow, bewitchment, bid fair, big hand, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, blithesomeness, board, bolster, boost, brace, brace up, bread, bread and butter, brighten, brightness, brisk, brisken, buck up, buoy up, buoyancy, burst of applause, buy, call, caterwaul, cheer on, cheer up, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, chirk up, chorus of cheers, clap, clap the hands, clapping, clapping of hands, cloud nine, comestibles, comfort, comply, condole with, consent, consolation, console, conviviality, creature comfort, cry, cry for joy, cuisine, daily bread, delectation, delight, disposition, drive on, ease, eatables, eclat, ecstasy, ecstatics, edibles, egg on, elate, elation, embolden, enchantment, encore, encourage, encouragement, enliven, eupeptic mien, exaltation, exhilarate, exhilaration, exuberance, fare, fast food, feast, felicity, festivity, food, food and drink, foodstuff, fortify, frame of mind, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, gaiety, geniality, give a cheer, give a hand, give a lift, give comfort, give hope, give the nod, gladden, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, goad on, good cheer, hail, hallelujah, halloo, hand, handclap, handclapping, happiness, hasten on, have good prospects, health food, hear it for, hearten, heartiness, heaven, hie on, high spirits, hold out hope, hold out promise, hold with, holler, hollo, hooray, hoot, hopefulness, hosanna, hound on, howl, hurrah, hurray, hurry on, huzzah, in toto, ingesta, inspire, inspire hope, inspirit, intoxication, invigorate, jollity, joviality, joy, joyance, joyfulness, junk food, justify hope, kitchen stuff, lift up, liven, make fair promise, meat, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nerve, nod, nod assent, optimism, ovation, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paean, paradise, perk up, pick up, plaudit, pleasantness, popularity, promise, provender, provision, put at ease, quicken, radiance, rah, raise expectations, raise hope, rallying cry, rapture, ravishment, reanimate, reassure, receive, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, rejoice, rejoice the heart, relieve, renew, revelry, revive, revivify, roar, root, root for, root on, rosy expectation, round of applause, sanguine humor, sanguineness, scream, screech, set at ease, set up, seventh heaven, shout, shout hosanna, shriek, solace, speed on, spirit, spread, spur on, squall, squawk, squeal, steel, stimulate, strengthen, subscribe to, sunniness, sunshine, support, sustenance, sympathize with, table, take kindly to, thunder of applause, transport, tucker, unalloyed happiness, uplift, urge on, viands, victuals, vitalize, vittles, vivify, vote for, war cry, war whoop, warm, welcome, whip on, whoop, winsomeness, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yes, yield assent, yippee, yo-ho, yowl

• cheerful, Leibnizian, affable, agreeable, airy, amiable, amicable, animated, animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, buoyant, capering, carefree, cheering, cheery, chiliastic, chirk, chirping, chirpy, chirrupy, comfortable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, corky, couleur de rose, cozy, dancing, debonair, desirable, dulcet, elated, en rapport, encouraging, enjoyable, enlivening, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exhilarating, exuberant, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, flushed, flushed with joy, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, heartening, high, homelike, homely, homey, homish, honeyed, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, inspiring, inspiriting, intimate, invigorating, irrepressible, jaunty, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, leaping, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, likable, lively, mellifluous, mellow, merry, millenarian, millennialistic, nice, of good cheer, optimistic, peaceful, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, simple, singing, smiling, smirking, snug, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, sweet, thrice happy, unpretending, upbeat, utopian, vivacious, welcome, winsome

• cheerfully, affably, agreeably, airily, amiably, amicably, blissfully, blithely, cheerily, confidently, cordially, enjoyably, expectantly, fair, fondly, genially, gladly, graciously, gratifyingly, happily, hopefully, hopingly, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, kindly, lightly, optimistically, pleasantly, pleasingly, pleasurably, sanguinely, satisfyingly, smilingly, with good cheer

• cheerfulness, Leibnizian optimism, Pollyannaism, auspiciousness, beatification, beatitude, beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, bright outlook, bright side, brightness, cheer, cheeriness, cloud nine, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, fair weather, favorableness, felicity, fortunateness, gaiety, gladness, glee, good auspices, good omen, happiness, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, luckiness, millennialism, optimism, optimisticalness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, perfectibilism, perfectionism, philosophical optimism, propitiousness, prosperousness, rapture, ravishment, rosy outlook, seventh heaven, silver lining, sunniness, sunny side, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, utopianism

• cheering, animating, assuring, auspicious, bracing, bright with promise, brisk, cheerful, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, cordial, crisp, crispy, encouraging, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, favorable, fresh, full of promise, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, heartening, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, joyful, looking up, of good comfort, of promise, pregnant of good, promising, propitious, reassuring, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, relieving, rousing, stimulating, supportive, sympathetic, tonic, zestful, zesty

• cheerless, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, anguished, anxious, apathetic, bitter, bleak, bored, comfortless, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate, discontented, disgusted, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hopeless, humorless, in bad humor, in despair, infestive, joyless, lamentable, mirthless, miserable, mournful, moving, nauseated, nauseous, oppressive, out of humor, out of sorts, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pleasureless, poignant, prey to malaise, regrettable, repelled, revolted, rueful, sad, saddening, sharp, sickened, somber, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, suffering angst, touching, uncheerful, uncheery, uncomfortable, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unhopeful, unjoyful, unmirthful, unquiet, unsatisfied, unsmiling, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched

• cheery, Leibnizian, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, capering, cheerful, cheering, chiliastic, chirk, chirping, chirpy, chirrupy, comfortable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, couleur de rose, cozy, dancing, desirable, dulcet, elated, en rapport, encouraging, enjoyable, enlivening, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exhilarating, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, flushed, flushed with joy, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladdening, gladsome, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, heartening, high, homelike, homely, homey, homish, honeyed, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, inspiring, inspiriting, intimate, invigorating, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lightsome, likable, mellifluous, mellow, millenarian, millennialistic, nice, of good cheer, optimistic, peaceful, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, simple, singing, smiling, smirking, snug, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, sweet, thrice happy, unpretending, upbeat, utopian, welcome, winsome

• cheese, Alentejo, Alise Sainte Reine, American cheese, Amou, Arrigny, Asco, Asio, Augelot, Aurore, Autun, Backstein, Battelmatt, Beaufort, Beaumont, Bel Paese, Bitto, Bleu de Bassilac, Bleu de Salers, Blue Dorset, Boursin, Bra, Brie, Brie de Coulommiers, Brie de Meaux, Brillat-Savarin, Broccio, Cacciocavallo, Caerphilly, Camembert, Canestrato, Cantal, Cardiga, Castelo Branco, Chabichou, Chaingy, Champenois, Chaource, Chaumont, Cheddar, Chevret, Chevrotin, Cierp de Luchon, Cotherstone, Coulommiers, Crema Danica, Danish blue, Dauphin, Decize, Dunlop, Edam, Emmental, Epoisses, Erce, Ervy, Evarglice, Excelsior, Feuille de Dreux, Fontainebleau, Fontina, Fourme de Salers, Friesche Kaas, Gammelost, Gaperon, Gerome, Gloucester, Glux, Gournay, Grana Lombardo, Harze, Herve, Kackavalj, Kasseri, Kaunas, Kefalotir, Kummel, La Bouille, Laguiole, Les Aydes, Les Laumes, Leyden, Liederkranz, Liptauer, Livarot, Mainauer, Manicamp, Manuri, Maroilles, Marolles, Mascherone, Metton, Mizitra, Monceau, Mont-Cenis, Morbier, Muenster, Murols, Nantais, New York cheese, Niolo, Olivet, Oloron, Oxfordshire, Paladru, Parmesan, Paski, Pave de Moyaux, Pelardon de Rioms, Persille de Savoie, Petit Suisse, Petit-Moule, Pommel, Poona, Port-Salut, Promessi, Provature, Provolone, Puant Macere, Ramadoux, Reblochon, Reggiano, Remoudou, Rocamadur, Rokadur, Rollot, Roma, Romadur, Romano, Roquefort, Rouennais, Saint-Florentin, Saint-Marcellin, Saint-Maure, Salame, Sardo, Sassenage, Schabzieger, Septmoncel, Serra da Estrella, Sjenicki, Slipcote, Somborski, Sorbais, Sposi, Steppe, Stilton, Stracchino, Suffolk, Taffel, Tomme, Travnicki, Troyes, Truckles, Vacherin, Velveeta, Vermont cheese, Vic-en-Bigorre, Vize, Volvet, Wensleydale, Wisconsin cheese, aettekees, appetitost, brick cheese, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, clabber, condensed milk, cottage cheese, cream, cream cheese, dairy products, demi-sel, etuve, farmer cheese, fromage blanc, getmesost, ghee, gjetost, goat cheese, gras, grated cheese, half-and-half, heavy cream, jack cheese, kumminost, light cream, margarine, mesost, milk, mozzarella, mysost, nonfat dry milk, oka cheese, oleo, oleomargarine, primost, pultost, raw milk, ricotta, sapsago, skim milk, smaltost, smearcase, sour cream, store cheese, whey, whipping cream, yogurt

• cheeseparing, Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheap, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cutback, economic, economization, economizing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, exiguous, forehanded, frugal, frugal to excess, frugality, grudging, illiberal, infrequent, labor-saving, law of parsimony, low growth rate, meager, mean, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, overfrugal, parsimonious, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, penurious, piddling, pinching, poor, provident, prudent, prudential, rare, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, retrenchment, saving, scamping, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraping, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, skimping, skimpy, slim, slowdown, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, stinting, thin, thrifty, tight, tightfisted, time-saving, too frugal, unwasteful

• cheesy, Mickey Mouse, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, bum, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crappy, creepy, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, flagrant, foul, fourth-class, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, godawful, goshawful, grave, grim, gross, hairy, heinous, icky, inferior, irregular, little, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, ornery, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk, putrid, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, sleazy, small, sorry, squalid, stinking, stinky, tacky, tatty, third-class, third-rate, tinny, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, valueless, vile, vomity, worthless, wretched, yecchy

• cheetah, Leo, Siberian tiger, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cougar, jaguar, leopard, lion, lynx, mountain lion, ocelot, painter, panther, puma, simba, tiger, wildcat

• chef, baker, boss, bwana, chef de cuisine, chief, chief cook, church dignitary, cook, culinarian, culinary artist, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, fry cook, goodman, guru, husband, kitchener, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, master, overlord, padrone, paramount, pastry chef, pastrycook, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, rabbi, sahib, seigneur, seignior, short-order cook, starets, teacher

• chemical apparatus, Bunsen burner, Erlenmeyer flask, Kipp generator, alembic, aspirator, beaker, blowpipe, burette, capillary tube, condenser, crucible, deflagrating spoon, desiccator, distiller, etna, matrass, pestle and mortar, pipette, precision balance, reagent bottle, receiver, retort, still, test tube

• chemical element, acid, acidity, agent, air, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, atomic particles, base, biochemical, brute matter, building block, cation, chemical, chromoisomer, component, compound, constituent, copolymer, dimer, earth, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, fire, fundamental particle, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, hyle, hypostasis, inorganic chemical, ion, isomer, macromolecule, material, material world, materiality, matter, metamer, molecule, monad, monomer, natural world, nature, neutralizer, nonacid, organic chemical, oxyacid, physical world, plenum, polymer, pseudoisomer, radical, reagent, stuff, substance, substratum, sulfacid, the four elements, trimer, unit of being, water

• chemical, Chile saltpeter, absolute alcohol, acetate, acetone, acid, acidity, agent, alcohol, aldehyde, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, amine, ammonia, amyl alcohol, anhydride, anion, antacid, arsenate, arsenite, atom, base, basic, basic anhydride, benzoate, bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, bichloride of mercury, biochemical, bisulfate, borate, borax, bromide, calcium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, carbide, carbohydrate, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbonate, cation, chemical element, chemicals, chemicobiological, chemicoengineering, chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical, chemurgic, chlorate, chlorite, chromate, chromoisomer, citrate, compound, copolymer, copolymeric, copolymerous, copperas, cyanide, dehydrated alcohol, dichromate, dimer, dimeric, dimerous, dioxide, disulfide, electrochemical, element, elemental, elementary, ester, ethanol, ether, ethyl, ethyl alcohol, fluoride, formaldehyde, fulminate, halide, halogen, heavy chemicals, heteromerous, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, hydrate, hydride, hydrocarbon, hydroxide, hypochlorite, inorganic chemical, inorganic chemistry, iodide, ion, isomer, isomerous, isopropyl alcohol, ketone, lactate, macrochemical, macromolecule, metamer, metameric, methane, methanol, methyl, methyl alcohol, molecule, monomer, monomerous, monoxide, neutralizer, niter, nitrate, nitride, nitrite, nonacid, organic chemical, oxalate, oxide, oxyacid, permanganate, peroxide, petrochemical, phosphate, phosphide, photochemical, physicochemical, phytochemical, polymer, polymeric, potash, potassium nitrate, pseudoisomer, radical, radiochemical, reagent, sal ammoniac, salt, saltpeter, silicate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium bromide, sodium chloride, sodium hypochlorite, sulfacid, sulfate, sulfide, sulfite, tartrate, thermochemical, trimer

• chemist, antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, bookstore, bootery, candy store, cigar store, clothiers, clothing store, confectionery, dispensary, dispensatory, dispenser, dress shop, druggist, drugstore, dry goods store, florists, fur salon, furniture store, gallipot, gift shop, haberdashery, hardware store, hat shop, hobby shop, ironmongery, jewelers, jewelry store, leather goods store, liquor store, luggage shop, milliners, novelty shop, package store, pharmaceutist, pharmacist, pharmacy, posologist, saddlery, schlock house, schlock shop, secondhand shop, secondhand store, shoe store, smoke shop, specialty shop, sporting goods store, stationers, stationery store, sweater shop, sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, toy shop, trimming store, used-car lot

• chemistry, alchemy, applied chemistry, astrochemistry, biochemistry, biogeochemistry, chemicobiology, chemicoengineering, chemurgy, colloid chemistry, crystallochemistry, cytochemistry, electrochemistry, engineering chemistry, geochemistry, geological chemistry, hydrochemistry, iatrochemistry, immunochemistry, inorganic chemistry, lithochemistry, macrochemistry, mineralogical chemistry, nuclear chemistry, pathochemistry, petrochemistry, pharmacochemistry, physical chemistry, physicochemistry, phytochemistry, psychobiochemistry, radiochemistry, soil chemistry, theoretical chemistry, thermochemistry, topochemistry, ultramicrochemistry, zoochemistry, zymochemistry, zymurgy

• cherish, admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, attend to, baby-sit, bear, bear in mind, bosom, brood over, care for, chaperon, cling to, clip, coddle, conserve, cosset, cradle, cultivate, dearly love, defend, delight in, dry-nurse, dwell on, dwell upon, embosom, embrace, entertain, esteem, fan the embers, feed, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, have, have and hold, have in mind, hold, hold dear, hold in mind, hold on to, hug, idolize, keep, keep in memory, keep in mind, keep in view, keep watch over, lavish care on, look after, look out for, look to, love to distraction, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, pamper, preserve, prize, protege, provide for, regard, relish, retain, revere, reverence, ride herd on, safeguard, save, see after, see to, shelter, shepherd, shield, spoon-feed, suckle, support, sustain, take care of, take charge of, tend, treasure, treasure up, value, venerate, watch, watch out for, watch over, wet-nurse, worship

• cherry bomb, Klaxon, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, catcall, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket, firecracker, horn, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, siren, snapper, steam whistle, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

• cherub, angel, angel of light, angel of love, archangel, babe, baby, baby-doll, bairn, beatified soul, buttercup, canonized mortal, celestial, cherubim, chick, chickabiddy, child, chit, darling, dear, deary, doll, duck, duckling, heavenly being, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, innocent, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, love, lover, martyr, messenger of God, mite, nipper, offspring, patron saint, peewee, pet, petkins, precious, precious heart, principality, recording angel, saint, saved soul, seraph, seraphim, shaver, snookums, soul in glory, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, tad, tot, wee tot

• chess, Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery, association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball, bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano, billiards, bingo, bowling, bowls, boxing, cat, catch, charades, checkers, climbing, crambo, cricket, croquet, curling, discus, dominoes, draughts, fencing, fishing, fives, football, ghost, gliding, go, golf, handball, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey, hopscotch, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog, lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering, mumble-the-peg, ninepins, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, polo, pool, post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets, riding, roller skating, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning, sculling, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet, skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles, sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball, sports, squash, stickball, surfing, table tennis, tennis, tenpins, tent pegging, tetherball, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting, tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, trapshooting, tug of war, volleyball, water polo, waterskiing, wrestling

• chest, Fort Knox, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bag, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, boobs, bookcase, bosom, box, breast, breasts, brisket, bunker, bursary, bust, buttery, caddy, cargo dock, case, cash register, cashbox, casket, cellar, closet, coffer, coin box, conservatory, crate, crib, crop, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dug, dump, exchequer, fisc, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, knockers, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, money chest, nenes, nipple, pap, papilla, penny bank, pigeon breast, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, tank, teat, thorax, till, tit, tits, titties, titty, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, trunk, udder, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

• chestnut, Joe Miller, Titian, adust, auburn, banality, bay, bay-colored, bayard, brazen, bromide, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, buckskin, calico pony, carroty, castaneous, chestnut-brown, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, copper, copper-colored, coppery, corn, cupreous, dapple-gray, dun, erythristic, familiar tune, ferruginous, foxy, gray, grizzle, hackneyed saying, henna, joke with whiskers, lieu commun, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, locus communis, mahogany, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, old turkey, old wheeze, paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, red-crested, red-haired, red-polled, red-tufted, reddish-brown, reiteration, retold story, roan, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, skewbald, sorrel, stereotyped saying, sunburned, terra-cotta, trite joke, trite saying, triticism, twice-told tale, warmed-over cabbage, xanthous

• chevalier, Bayard, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, bachelor, banneret, baronet, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, cavalier, cavalryman, circus rider, companion, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, equestrian, equestrienne, gallant, gaucho, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, jockey, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, mounted policeman, postboy, postilion, puncher, rider, roughrider, steeplechaser, trick rider, vaquero

• chevron, Hershey bar, L, achievement, alerion, angle, animal charge, annulet, apex, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aviation badge, azure, badge, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, bifurcation, bight, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, cant, canton, chaplet, charge, chicken, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coin, corner, coronet, crank, crankiness, crescent, crest, crook, crookedness, cross, cross moline, crotchet, crown, deflection, device, difference, differencing, dogleg, eagle, elbow, ell, epaulet, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, flexuosity, fork, fret, fur, furcation, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hairpin, hash mark, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hook, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, inflection, insignia of branch, knee, label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, nook, oak leaf, octofoil, or, ordinary, organization insignia, orle, overseas bar, pale, paly, parachute badge, patch, pean, pheon, pip, point, purpure, quarter, quartering, quoin, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, service stripe, shield, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, spread eagle, star, stripe, submarine badge, subordinary, swerve, switchback, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, veer, vert, vertex, wreath, yale, zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery

• chew out, bawl out, carpet, chew, chew ass, cuss out, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, jack up, jaw, lambaste, ream, ream ass, ream out, revile, sit on, tell off, tongue-lash, vituperate, wig

• chew the fat, bandy words, chew the rag, chin, colloque, colloquize, commerce with, commune with, communicate, communicate with, confab, confabulate, converse, converse with, discourse with, shoot the breeze, speak with, take counsel with, talk together, visit with

• chew, bawl out, bite, bolus, bullshit, carpet, cavendish, chain-smoke, champ, chat, chaw, chew ass, chew out, chew over, chew the cud, chew up, chewing tobacco, chomp, chump, consider, consume, converse, crunch, crush, cud, cuss out, cut plug, devour, drag, draw, eat, eating tobacco, fid, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, gnash, gnaw, gob, gossip, grind, gum, inhale, inhale snuff, jack up, jaw, lambaste, macerate, mash, masticate, morsel, mouth, mouthful, mumble, munch, navy, navy plug, nibble, nip, palaver, pigtail, ponder, puff, pull, pulp, pulpify, quid, ream, ream ass, ream out, rebuke, reprimand, review, revile, ruminate, scold, scrunch, sit on, smash, smoke, snap, squash, swallow, take snuff, talk, tell off, tobacco juice, tongue-lash, twist, vituperate, wig

• chewing gum, Lastex, baleen, battledore, bubble gum, chicle, chicle gum, elastic, elastomer, gum, gum elastic, handball, jumping jack, racket, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band, spandex, spring, springboard, stretch fabric, trampoline, whalebone

• chewing, appetite, ass-reaming, bawling-out, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chain-smoke, consumption, cropping, cud-chewing, cussing-out, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, drag, dressing, dressing-down, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, going-over, grazing, habitual smoking, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hunger, ingestion, jacking-up, licking, manducation, manducatory, mastication, masticatory, messing, munching, nibbling, nicotine addiction, nicotinic, nicotinism, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, puff, raking-down, reaming, reaming-out, regalement, relishing, roasting, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, savoring, setdown, smoke, smoking, smoking habit, snuffy, speaking-to, tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, talking-to, tasting, tobacco, tobaccoism, tobaccolike, tobaccoy, vegetarianism, what-for, wolfing

• chewy, cartilaginous, cohesive, coriaceous, durable, fibrous, gristly, hard, hardy, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, resistant, ropy, sinewy, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, tenacious, tough, tough as leather, untiring, vigorous, viscid, wiry

• chi, Calvary cross, Christogram, Greek cross, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Russian cross, T, X, ankh, avellan cross, chi-rho, christcross, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, dagger, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, inverted cross, long cross, papal cross, pectoral cross, potent cross, rood, saltire, swastika, tau, trefled cross, voided cross

• chic, braw, classy, clothes-conscious, clothes-consciousness, cosmopolitan, coxcombry, craze, cry, dandyism, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressed up, elegance, elegant, en grande tenue, endimanche, exclusive, exquisite, fad, fashion, fashionable, foppery, foppishness, furore, genteel, good taste, gussied up, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, jauntiness, jaunty, mode, modish, modishness, nattiness, natty, neat, neatness, nifty, nobby, posh, rage, recherche, ritzy, sharp, sharpness, sleek, sleekness, slicked up, smart, smartness, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffiness, spiffy, spruce, style, style-conscious, stylish, stylishness, swank, swanky, swell, swish, tasteful, tastefulness, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, trimness, vogue, well turned-out, well-dressed, well-groomed, with-it

• chicane, artifice, bamboozle, befool, cavil, chicanery, dishonesty, double-dealing, feint, flimflam, fool, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, gull, hanky-panky, hoax, hoodwink, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, stratagem, surreptitiousness, trick, trickery, underhandedness, victimize, wile

• chicanery, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, baseness, bickering, blind, bluff, boggling, bosey, captiousness, catch, caviling, cheating, chicane, chouse, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deception, degradation, design, device, deviousness, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dodge, dodgery, dodging, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, expedient, fakement, fast deal, feint, fencing, fetch, ficelle, foul play, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, game, gimmick, googly, grift, hairsplitting, hanky-panky, hedging, hocus-pocus, intrigue, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, knavishness, little game, logic-chopping, machination, maneuver, moral turpitude, move, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pass, pettifoggery, pettifogging, plot, ploy, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, racket, rascality, rascalry, red herring, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, ruse, scampishness, scheme, scoundrelism, scurvy trick, sharp practice, shift, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, sophistry, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie, surreptitiousness, tactic, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trick, trickery, turpitude, underhand dealing, underhandedness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wile, wily device

• chichi, affected, arabesque, baroque, brave, bravura, braw, busy, dandiacal, dandified, dandyish, daring, dashing, dressy, elaborate, elegant, exhibitionistic, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flashing, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, foppish, frilly, frothy, fussy, gallant, gay, glittering, high-wrought, jaunty, jazzy, la-di-da, labored, luxuriant, luxurious, moresque, ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overnice, overrefined, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, picturesque, precieux, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rakish, rich, rococo, showy, snazzy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swank, ultrafashionable, ultrasmart, ultrastylish

• chick, Bantam, Jane, angel, avifauna, babe, baby, baby bird, baby-doll, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdling, birdy, bitch, broad, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bud, buttercup, cage bird, calf, capon, catling, chanticleer, cherub, chickabiddy, chicken, chickling, chicky, cock, cockerel, colleen, colt, cub, cutie, cygnet, dame, damoiselle, damsel, darling, dear, deary, demoiselle, diving bird, dogie, doll, domestic fowl, dove, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, eagle, eaglet, fawn, filly, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, foal, fowl, frail, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fulmar, gal, game bird, game fowl, gander, girl, girlie, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, heifer, hen, hen turkey, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hoyden, insect-eating bird, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, juvenile, kid, kit, kitten, lady friend, lamb, lambkin, lass, lassie, litter, little missy, love, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, migrant, migratory bird, minx, miss, missy, moppet, mouse, nest, nestling, nipper, nymphet, oscine bird, owl, partlet, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pet, petkins, piece, pigeon, piglet, pigling, polliwog, poulard, poult, poultry, precious, precious heart, pullet, pup, puppy, ratite, roaster, romp, rooster, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sea bird, seed-eating bird, setting hen, shoat, shore bird, skirt, slip, snookums, songbird, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, storm petrel, stormy petrel, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, sugar, swan, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, tadpole, teenybopper, tom, tom turkey, tomato, tomboy, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, virgin, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, weaner, wench, whelp, wildfowl, yeanling, young creature, young thing, youngling, youngster

• chicken feed, barley, bird seed, bran, bric-a-brac, cat food, chaff, chickenshit, chop, corn, details, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feed, fodder, forage, froth, gimcrackery, grain, hay, knickknackery, mash, meal, minutiae, oats, pasturage, pasture, peanuts, pet food, provender, rubbish, scratch, scratch feed, silage, slops, small beer, small change, straw, swill, trash, trifles, trivia, trumpery, wheat

• chicken, Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Bantam, Brahma, Campine, Cochin, Cornish, Cornish hen, Hamburg, Hershey bar, Leghorn, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, New Hampshire red, Orpington, Percy, Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island red, Rock Cornish, Sumatra, Sussex, afraid, anemic, asthenic, auntie, aviation badge, baby, back out, badge, banty, bar, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, bi-guy, biddy, big baby, bisexual, black Minorca, black Spanish, black Sumatra, bloodless, blue Orpington, boggle, broiler, brooder, broody hen, buff Orpington, bull dyke, butch, caille, canard, caneton, capon, catamite, chanticleer, chapon, chevron, chick, chickabiddy, chicken liver, chicken out, chickenhearted, chicky, cock, cockerel, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, cream puff, crybaby, dastard, daunted, debilitated, desert under fire, dindon, dismayed, domestic fowl, doormat, drake, drooping, droopy, duck, duckling, dull, dull tool, dunghill fowl, dyke, eagle, effeminate, effete, epaulet, etiolated, fag, faggot, faint, fainthearted, faintish, fairy, faisan, falter, fearful, feeble, femme, flabby, flaccid, flit, floppy, fowl, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, fricatrice, fruit, fryer, funk, funk out, funker, funking, funky, game fowl, gander, get cold feet, gobbler, gone, goody-goody, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, gunsel, gutless, gutless wonder, hash mark, hen, hen turkey, henhearted, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, imbecile, impotent, insignia of branch, intimidated, invert, invertebrate, jellyfish, languid, languorous, lesbian, lightweight, lily, lily liver, lily-livered, limber, limp, listless, lose courage, lustless, marrowless, meek soul, milk-livered, milksop, milksoppish, milksoppy, mollycoddle, mouse, mousy, muliebrous, namby-pamby, nance, nancy, nebbish, nerveless, nonentity, oak leaf, oie, old woman, old-womanish, organization insignia, overseas bar, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pansy, pantywaist, parachute badge, partlet, partridge, patch, pathic, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonhearted, pigeonneau, pip, pithless, poltroon, poltroonish, pooped, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, powerless, prissy, pullet, punk, pushover, pusillanimous, quail, queen, queer, quitter, rabbity, roaster, rooster, rubbery, sad sack, sapless, sapphist, scaredy-cat, scuttle, service stripe, setting hen, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sinewless, sissified, sissy, sissyish, skedaddle, slack, soft, softling, softy, sop, speckled Sussex, spineless, spread eagle, spring chicken, spunkless, squab, star, stewing chicken, strengthless, stripe, submarine badge, timid, timorous, tom, tom turkey, tribade, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, volaille, weak, weak sister, weak-kneed, weakhearted, weakling, weakly, white Orpington, white Plymouth Rock, white Wyandotte, white feather, white liver, white-livered, wild duck, womanish, yellow

• chide, admonish, berate, bring to book, call down, call to account, chastise, correct, have words with, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, set down, set straight, spank, straighten out, take down, take to task, tick off, upbraid

• chief, A per se, Big Brother, ace, achievement, acmatic, alerion, all-absorbing, animal charge, annulet, anointed king, antecedent, anterior, apical, arch, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, ascendant, at the head, auditor, azure, bandeau, banner, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, big cheese, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, billet, blazon, blazonry, boatswain, bordure, boss, broad arrow, bwana, cadency mark, canton, capital, captain, cardinal, central, champion, chaplet, charge, chef, chevron, chieftain, church dignitary, coat of arms, cock, cockatrice, commander, commanding, comptroller, consequential, consummate, controller, controlling, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, crowned head, crowning, dean, device, dictator, difference, differencing, dignitary, directing, directive, directorial, directory, dominant, doyen, doyenne, duce, dynast, eagle, ecclesiarch, effective, elder, electronics king, eminence, emperor, employer, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, essential, exordial, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, first, first and foremost, flanch, fleur-de-lis, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foreman, foremost, forward, fret, front, frontal, fugleman, fuhrer, fur, fusil, gaffer, ganger, garland, general, genius, goodman, governing, governor, grand duke, great, greatest, griffin, guiding, gules, guru, gyron, hatchment, head, heading, headman, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, helmet, heraldic device, hierarch, high chief, high priest, higher-up, highest, himself, honcho, honor point, husband, impalement, impaling, imperator, important, important person, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, inescutcheon, initiatory, inspector, key, king, king-emperor, kingfish, kinglet, kingpin, label, laureate, lead, leader, leading, leading light, liege, liege lord, lion, lord, lord paramount, lozenge, luminary, magisterial, maiden, main, majesty, major, man, manager, managerial, managing, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, master, master spirit, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, metal, momentous, monarch, monitor, motto, mullet, nombril point, noncommissioned officer, nonpareil, notability, number one, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, outstanding, overlord, overman, overmost, overriding, overruling, overseer, padrone, pale, paly, paragon, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, pean, personage, petty king, pheon, potent, potentate, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, predominant, predominate, preeminent, prefatory, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, premier, preparatory, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, prevenient, prima donna, primal, primary, prime, prince, prince consort, principal, prior, proctor, prodigy, proemial, prominent, propaedeutic, purpure, quarter, quartering, rabbi, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ringleader, rose, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, ruling, sable, sahib, saltire, scutcheon, seigneur, seignior, senior, shield, significant, sirdar, slave driver, sovereign, spread eagle, star, starets, stellar, straw boss, subforeman, subordinary, summital, super, supereminent, superintendent, superior, superman, superstar, supervisor, supreme, surveyor, suzerain, taskmaster, teacher, telling, tenne, tetrarch, the greatest, the most, tincture, tip-top, top, top dog, topflight, topmost, torse, tressure, ultimate, unicorn, upmost, uppermost, vair, vert, vertical, virtuoso, visitor, weighty, wreath, yale, zenithal

• chiefly, a fortiori, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, above all, all in all, all the more, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as per usual, as things go, as usual, at first, at large, at the start, before everything, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, commonly, customarily, dominantly, effectually, especially, essentially, even, ever so, first, first and foremost, first of all, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, generally, generally speaking, habitually, in chief, in general, in particular, in the beginning, in the main, indeed, initially, largely, mainly, more than ever, most often, mostly, naturally, never so, no end, normally, normatively, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, originally, overall, particularly, peculiarly, predominantly, prescriptively, prevailingly, primarily, primo, principally, regularly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, still more, substantially, to be expected, usually, virtually, yea

• chieftain, anointed king, boss, chief, cock, crowned head, dynast, emperor, grand duke, head, headman, hierarch, high chief, honcho, imperator, king, king-emperor, kinglet, leader, lord paramount, majesty, master, monarch, overlord, paramount, petty king, potentate, prince, prince consort, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, sovereign, suzerain, tetrarch

• chieftaincy, aedileship, ally, archbishopric, archduchy, archdukedom, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, bishopric, body politic, buffer state, captive nation, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftainry, chieftainship, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, consulate, consulship, country, county, deanery, dictatorship, dictature, directorship, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, emirate, empery, empire, episcopacy, free city, governorship, grand duchy, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, kingdom, land, leadership, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nation, nationality, nobility, papacy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, polis, polity, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, possession, power, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, principate, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, province, provostry, provostship, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, republic, ruling class, satellite, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, seneschalty, settlement, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, sovereign nation, state, sultanate, superpower, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, territory, toparchia, toparchy, tribunate, vizierate, viziership

• chilblain, Minamata disease, abscess, ache, aching, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, aposteme, bed sore, black lung, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, caisson disease, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblains, chill, chilliness, chilling, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sore, creeps, cryopathy, decompression sickness, dithers, duck bumps, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, frostbite, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gumboil, hemorrhoids, horripilation, immersion foot, itai, jet lag, kibe, lead poisoning, lesion, mercury poisoning, motion sickness, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pneumoconiosis, pock, polyp, pustule, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, rising, scab, shivering, shivers, soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, sunstroke, suppuration, swelling, the bends, trench foot, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

• child, adolescent, angel, artifact, babe, baby, bairn, boy, brainchild, brat, brood, bud, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child of nature, chit, coinage, composition, concoction, creation, creature, crowning achievement, darling, daughter, descendant, descendants, dickens, distillation, dove, dupe, effect, end product, essence, extract, foetus, foster child, fruit, girl, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, handiwork, heiress, hick, infant, ingenue, innocent, invention, issue, juvenile, kid, kitten, lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, lass, lassie, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, lout, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mere child, minor, mintage, mite, moppet, neonate, new mintage, newborn, newborn babe, nipper, noble savage, oaf, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, peewee, posterity, product, production, progeniture, progeny, puss, result, rube, runabout, scion, seed, shaver, simple soul, small fry, son, son and heir, sonny, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, stripling, tad, teenager, teener, teenybopper, toddler, tot, unsophisticate, wee tot, work, yokel, young hopeful, young man, youngling, youngster, youth

• childbearing, accouchement, bearing, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity, the stork, travail

• childhood, adolescence, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boyhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, girlhood, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, maidenhead, maidenhood, minority, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pre-teens, pregnancy, puberty, subteens, teens, youth

• childish, arrested, asinine, babish, babyish, backward, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, childlike, coltish, decrepit, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, fatuous, foolish, girlish, girllike, immature, inexperienced, infantile, infantine, juvenile, kiddish, maiden, maidenly, moronic, naive, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, retarded, senile, silly, simple, slow, sophomoric, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unsophisticated, wanting

• childishness, anility, babyishness, boylikeness, caducity, callowness, childlikeness, decline, dotage, dotardism, girlishness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexpedience, infantilism, injudiciousness, irrationality, maidenliness, pompousness, puerilism, puerility, reasonlessness, recklessness, second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senselessness, stuffiness, thoughtlessness, unintelligence, unreason, unreasonableness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, witlessness

• childless, acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

• childlike, angelic, artless, babish, babyish, beardless, blameless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, boyish, boylike, calflike, candid, childish, clear, coltish, confiding, credulous, decrepit, dependent, depending, direct, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, dovelike, faultless, frank, girlish, girllike, guileless, guiltless, immature, in the clear, incorrupt, infantile, infantine, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, kiddish, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, naive, not guilty, offenseless, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, prelapsarian, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, reliant, relying, reproachless, sans reproche, senile, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sinless, trustful, trusting, trusty, unassuming, uncorrupted, undefiled, undissembling, unfallen, unguarded, unlapsed, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untouched by evil, unwary, with clean hands, without reproach, without suspicion, young, youthful

• children, babyhood, boyhood, breed, brood, childkind, descendants, descent, family, folks, fruit, get, girlhood, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hearth, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, inheritors, issue, kids, lineage, little kids, little ones, menage, new generation, offspring, people, posterity, progeny, rising generation, seed, small fry, sons, succession, tots, treasures, young, young blood, young fry, young people, younglings, youngsters, youth

• chill, Laodiceanism, abscess, absolute zero, abstracted, ache, aching, affectless, ague, air-condition, air-cool, algidity, aloof, aloofness, anemia, anesthesia, anesthetized, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, arctic, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, autism, autistic, backache, be cold, benumb, benumbed, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding, blennorhea, blunt, bracing, briskness, cachexia, cachexy, catatonia, catatonic, chatter, chilblains, chilliness, chilling, chills, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold blood, cold creeps, cold heart, cold shivers, cold water, cold-blooded, coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, colic, constipation, convulsion, cool, coolish, coolness, coolth, coryza, coughing, creeps, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, cryopathy, cut, cyanosis, damp, dampen, damper, deadpan, decrease in temperature, deflect, deject, demoralize, depress, detachment, deter, determent, deterrent, diarrhea, didder, disaccordant, disaffect, disaffinity, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, disinterested, disparage, dispassion, dispassionate, dispassionateness, dispirit, distance, distant, distract, distress, dither, dithers, divert, dizziness, dropsy, drugged, duck bumps, dull, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, emotional deadness, emotionally dead, emotionless, emotionlessness, enmity, fainting, fatigue, fervorlessness, fever, fibrillation, flu, flux, formal, freeze, freeze to death, freezing, freezing point, fresh, freshen, freshness, frigid, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frosted, frostiness, frosty, frozen, gelid, gelidity, glacial, go through, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grow cold, growth, halfheartedness, have a chill, have goose pimples, heartless, heartlessness, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, horripilate, horripilation, hostility, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ice, ice-cool, iciness, icterus, icy, immovability, immovable, impassibility, impassive, impassiveness, impassivity, inaccessibility, inclemency, incompatibility, incompatible, incompatibleness, indifference, indifferent, indifferentism, indifferentness, indigestion, indispose, inexcitability, inexcitable, inflammation, influenza, infrigidate, inhospitable, inhospitality, inimical, inimicality, insensitive, insipidity, insomnia, insusceptible, intense cold, invigorating, itching, jaundice, keenness, kibe, la grippe, labored breathing, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, lose heat, low blood pressure, low temperature, lukewarmness, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neuterness, neutrality, neutralness, nip, nippiness, nippy, nonemotional, numb, numbed, numbing, objective, objectivity, obtuse, obtuseness, offishness, out of touch, pain, paralysis, passionless, passionlessness, penetrate, penetrating, perfunctoriness, perish with cold, personal conflict, pierce, poker face, polar, pruritus, put off, quake, quench, quiver, rash, raw, rawness, refresh, refrigerate, remoteness, repel, reserved, rheum, rigor, sclerosis, seizure, self-absorbed, self-absorption, severity, shake, sharp air, sharpness, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, shudder, skin eruption, sneezing, solitary, sore, soulless, soullessness, spasm, spiritless, spiritlessness, standoffish, standoffishness, stimulating, straight face, strain, strained, tabes, tachycardia, temperate, tense, tension, tepidness, the sniffles, tremble, tumor, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unaffectionate, unamiability, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachability, uncompanionable, uncordial, uncordiality, unemotional, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unfriendliness, unfriendly, ungenial, ungeniality, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressibility, unimpressionable, unimpressionableness, uninterested, unloving, unpassionate, unpassionateness, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness, unsociability, unsociable, unsusceptibility, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unsympatheticness, untouchability, untouchable, upset stomach, vapidity, ventilate, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wean from, wet blanket, wintry, withdrawal, withdrawn, withdrawnness, zeallessness

• chiller, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, air cooler, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, cinema, cold pack, color film, cooler, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, fan, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, ice bag, ice bucket, ice cube, ice pack, ice pail, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, shocker, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, surface cooler, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film, ventilator, water cooler, wine cooler

• chilling, ache, aching, adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization, adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, alarming, algific, awing, blast freezing, blast-freezing, chilblains, chill, chilliness, cold creeps, cold shivers, congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, creeps, cryogenics, cryopathy, daunting, deep freezing, dehydrofreezing, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, dithers, duck bumps, electric refrigeration, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, food freezing, freezable, freezing, frightening, frightful, frigorific, frostbite, gas refrigeration, glaciable, glaciation, glacification, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, horripilation, infrigidation, kibe, mechanical refrigeration, overawing, quick freezing, quick-freezing, reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration, refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, scaring, scary, sharp freezing, sharp-freezing, shivering, shivers, startling, super-cooling

• chilly, Olympian, above all that, affectless, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blue with cold, blunt, bracing, catatonic, chattering, chill, chilled, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, coolish, crisp, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, dithery, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, freezing, fresh, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, frozen to death, gelid, glacial, guarded, half-frozen, heartless, hostile, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, invigorating, modest, nippy, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, self-absorbed, shaky, shivering, shivery, shrinking, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stimulating, strained, subdued, suppressed, temperate, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unreceptive, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, with chattering teeth, withdrawn

• chime, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, alliterate, alliteration, announce, answer to, articulate, assent, assonance, assonate, assort with, atone, attune, attunement, battery, be consistent, be harmonious, be in tune, be of one, be uniform with, bell, bells, blend, bones, bong, break in, breathe, butt in, carillon, castanets, celesta, change ringing, check, chime in, chime of bells, chimes, chiming, chink, chip in, chord, chorus, church bell, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clapper, clappers, clink, cohere, coincide, come out with, communicate, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, concur, conform, conform with, consist with, consonance, consonancy, consort, convey, cooperate, correspond, cowbell, crash cymbal, cymbals, deliver, denote, diapason, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dinner bell, dinner gong, disclose, dong, donging, doorbell, dovetail, drone, electronic carillon, emit, enunciate, euphony, express, fall in together, finger cymbals, fire bell, fit together, fling off, formulate, gamelan, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, glockenspiel, go together, go with, gong, gong bell, hand bell, handbells, hang together, harmonics, harmonize, harmony, harping, heavy harmony, hit, hold together, homophony, humdrum, idiophone, impart, indicate, intercede, interfere, interlock, interrupt, intersect, intrude, jangle, jibe, jingle, jingle bell, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, join in, knell, knelling, let out, lip, lock, lyra, maraca, marimba, mark, match, melodize, metallophone, monochord, monody, monotone, monotony, musicalize, near rhyme, orchestral bells, out with, overlap, parallel, passing bell, peal, peal ringing, pealing, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, phonate, phrase, pitter-patter, pour forth, present, pronounce, pun, put forth, put in words, raise, rattle, rattlebones, register, register with, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, respond to, rhyme, ring, ring changes, ringing, sacring bell, say, set forth, sheepbell, sing in chorus, singsong, sizzler, slant rhyme, sleigh bell, snappers, sort with, sound, sound a knell, sound in tune, sound together, square, square with, stale repetition, stand together, strike, striking, symphonize, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, synchronize, tally, tam-tam, tedium, telephone bell, tell, three-part harmony, throw off, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabula, tintinnabulate, tintinnabulum, toll, tolling, tongue, tonitruone, triangle, trot, tubular bells, tune, unison, unisonance, unnecessary repetition, utter, verbalize, vibes, vibraphone, vocalize, voice, whisper, word, xylophone

• chimera, airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, brainchild, bubble, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eidolon, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, golden dream, hallucination, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot, make-believe, misbelief, misconception, mosaic, myth, phantasm, phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pomato, potomato, quixotic ideal, rainbow, romance, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, topato, trick, trip, unreal hope, utopia, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wrong impression

• chimerical, Barmecidal, Barmecide, absurd, aerial, air-built, airy, ambitious, apparent, apparitional, autistic, chimeric, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, ethereal, fabulous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, fictional, fictive, gaseous, gossamery, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mythical, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, preposterous, pretentious, rarefied, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spirituous, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vaporous, vapory, visionary, windy

• chiming, accord, accordance, accordant, according, alliteral, alliterating, alliterative, assonant, assonantal, attune, attuned, attunement, belabored, blended, blending, change ringing, chanting, chime, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, cliche-ridden, clink, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, concordant, consonance, consonancy, consonant, consort, diapason, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, euphony, harmonic, harmonics, harmonious, harmonizing, harmony, harping, heavy harmony, homophonic, homophony, humdrum, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in sync, in tune, in unison, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, jog-trot, knell, knelling, labored, monochord, monodic, monody, monophonic, monotone, monotonous, musical, peal, peal ringing, pealing, punning, rhymed, rhyming, ring, ringing, singsong, sounding, symphonic, symphonious, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, synchronized, synchronous, tedious, three-part harmony, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling, tune, tuned, unison, unisonance, unisonant, unisonous

• chimney, abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney corner, chink, chute, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, country rock, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dell, deposit, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, fissure, flaw, flue, flue pipe, flume, fracture, fumarole, funnel, furrow, gangue, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hearth, hearthstone, hob, hole, hub, incision, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, joint, kloof, leak, lode, lodestuff, matrix, mineral deposit, moat, notch, nullah, opening, ore bed, pass, passage, pay dirt, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shoot, slit, slot, smokehole, smokeshaft, smokestack, split, stack, stock, stovepipe, trench, valley, vein, void, wadi

• chimpanzee, Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

• chin, bandy words, bat the breeze, beat the gums, button, causerie, chat, chew the fat, chew the rag, colloque, colloquize, commerce with, commune with, communicate, communicate with, confab, confabulate, converse, converse with, discourse with, jaw, mentum, prose, rap, shoot the breeze, speak with, spiel, take counsel with, talk, talk together, visit, visit with, yak, yakkety-yak, yap, yarn

• china, adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, bubble, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, clay, crock, crockery, eggshell, enamel, enamelware, firebrick, glass, glass house, house of cards, ice, jug, matchwood, old paper, parchment, piecrust, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, urn, vase

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

• chink, abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, assailability, bar, bezel, bind, block, block up, blockade, box canyon, breach, break, broach, bump, bung, canyon, cash, caulk, cavity, chamfer, change ringing, chap, chase, chasm, check, chime, chiming, chimney, choke, choke off, choke up, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, cleave, cleft, cleuch, click, clink, clog, clog up, clop, clough, clump, clunk, coin, col, congest, constipate, cork, corrugation, coulee, couloir, cover, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crump, currency, cut, cut open, cwm, dado, dam, dam up, defile, dell, dike, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dispart, ditch, divaricate, divide, dong, donga, donging, dough, draw, dull thud, engraving, excavation, fault, fill, fill up, filthy lucre, fissure, flaw, flick, flume, flump, flute, fluting, fly open, foul, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gong, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, heel of Achilles, hole, incise, incision, interruption, jam, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, joint, kloof, knell, knelling, lay open, leak, legal tender, lettuce, loot, microgroove, moat, notch, nullah, obstipate, obstruct, ope, open, open up, opening, pack, pad, part, pass, passage, pat, patter, peal, peal ringing, pealing, penetrability, pitapat, pitter-patter, plug, plug up, plump, plunk, pop, pregnability, rabbet, rap, ravine, rent, rifling, rift, rime, ring, ring changes, ringing, rip, rive, ruck, rupture, rut, scissure, score, scratch, seam, separate, slit, slot, soft spot, sound, sound a knell, spile, split, spread, spread out, spring open, stanch, stay, stench, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, streak, stria, striation, stuff, stuff up, sulcation, sulcus, swing open, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, thud, thump, tick, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, trench, tunk, valley, vincibility, void, vulnerability, vulnerable point, wadi, wampum, weak link, weak point, weakness, well-worn groove, wrinkle

• chinoiserie, arabesque, baroque, baroqueness, elaborateness, elegance, fanciness, fineness, flamboyance, floridity, floridness, floweriness, luxuriance, luxuriousness, moresque, ostentation, overelaborateness, overelegance, overornamentation, richness, rococo

• chintzy, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, careless, cheeseparing, chinchy, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, exiguous, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, improper, in bad taste, in rags, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, informal, infrequent, loose, lumpen, meager, messy, miserly, mussy, negligent, niggardly, offensive, piddling, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rare, ruinous, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggly, scrimping, scrimpy, seedy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, shoddy, skimping, skimpy, slack, slatternly, slim, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, squalid, stingy, tacky, tasteless, tattered, thin, tight, unbecoming, unbeseeming, undignified, unfitting, ungenteel, unkempt, unneat, unseemly, unsightly, unsuitable, untasteful, untidy, vulgar

• chip in, acknowledge, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, bear the expense, break in, chime in, come through, contribute, contribute to, cut in, defray, defray expenses, donate to, enter into, finance, foot the bill, fund, gift, gift with, give to, go Dutch, go into, have suffrage, help decide, honor a bill, interrupt, join, join in, kick in, make the scene, partake, partake of, participate, participate in, pay for, pay the bill, pay the piper, pitch in, pledge, pull an oar, put in, redeem, sit in, sit in on, stand the costs, subscribe, sweeten the kitty, take part in, vote

• chip off the old block, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, associate, brother, child, clone, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, complement, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, daughter, descendant, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, duplication, equivalent, facsimile, fellow, foster child, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, heiress, image, kindred spirit, like, likeness, mate, model, near duplicate, obverse, offspring, parallel, pendant, picture, quadruplicate, reciprocal, repetition, replica, replication, representation, reproduction, scion, second self, similitude, simulacrum, sister, son, son and heir, sonny, soul mate, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, such, suchlike, tally, the like of, the likes of, triplicate, twin

• chip, abrade, abrasion, air, bark, bit, blemish, bloody, breach, break, break in, breakage, bubble, burn, burst, bust, butt, chafe, chaff, check, cheep, chime in, chip in, chipper, chirm, chirrup, chisel, chitter, chunk, claw, cleft, clip, clipping, cobweb, collop, concussion, contribute, cork, counter, crack, crackle, craze, crumb, cut, cutting, dandruff, dollop, down, dust, end, ether, exfoliate, fairy, feather, fissure, flake, flash burn, floccule, flocculus, flock, flue, fluff, foam, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, froth, fuzz, gall, gap, gash, gob, gobbet, gossamer, hew, hunk, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, intercede, interfere, interpose, interrupt, intrude, lacerate, laceration, lesion, lump, maim, make mincemeat of, marker, maul, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, mortal wound, mote, mutilate, mutilation, nip, paring, participate, particle, patch, peep, piece, pierce, plaque, puncture, rasher, rend, rent, rift, rip, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, scoop, scorch, scotch, scrap, scrape, scratch, scuff, scurf, second-degree burn, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, skin, slash, slice, slit, sliver, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, sore, splinter, split, sponge, sprain, spume, stab, stab wound, stick, stitch, strain, straw, stump, tag, tatter, tear, third-degree burn, thistledown, token, trauma, traumatize, tweedle, tweet, twitter, whittle, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

• chipper, active, activist, activistic, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, bright, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brisk, bubbly, cheep, chip, chirk, chirm, chirpy, chirrup, chirrupy, chitter, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enjoying health, eupeptic, fine, fit, fit and fine, frisky, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gay, healthful, healthy, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, keen, live, lively, mercurial, militant, neat, orderly, peart, peep, peppy, perky, pert, quicksilver, shipshape, smacking, snappy, snug, spanking, spick-and-span, spirited, sprightly, spry, tidy, trig, trim, tweedle, tweet, twitter, uncluttered, vivacious, well-groomed, zingy

• chippy, Jezebel, bad woman, baggage, bitch, broad, clitoromaniac, cocotte, drab, easy lay, easy woman, floozy, frail sister, grisette, harridan, hussy, hysteromaniac, jade, loose woman, nymph, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, pickup, quean, slut, strumpet, tart, trollop, trull, uteromaniac, wanton, wench, whore

• chips, bakehead, black gang, blunt, boilerman, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, bungs, cabbage, cabin boy, cash, coin, commissary steward, complement, currency, deckhand, deckie, dinero, dough, fireman, gelt, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, jack, kale, landing signalman, legal tender, mail orderly, mazuma, moolah, mopus, navigator, oil of palms, oiler, ointment, oof, ooftish, purser, radio operator, rhino, rocks, roustabout, scratch, shekels, simoleons, snip, snips, sparks, spondulics, steward, stewardess, stoker, sugar, the needful, tin, torpedoman, wampum, watch, yeoman

• chirm, babel, brouhaha, cheep, chip, chipper, chirrup, chitter, clamor, din, hubbub, hullabaloo, jangle, pandemonium, peep, racket, tweedle, tweet, twitter, uproar

• chiropodist, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, dermatologist, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, geriatrician, gerontologist, gynecologist, immunologist, internist, neurologist, obstetrician, oculist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, otolaryngologist, otologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pediatrist, podiatrist, psychiatrist, radiologist, serologist, skin man, specialist

• chiropractic, Galenic medicine, allopathic, allopathy, ayurveda, chiropodic, chiropraxis, clinical, dental, eclecticism, exodontic, homeopathic, homeopathy, hydropathic, iatric, medical, naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, osteopathy, pediatric, periodontic, prosthodontic, surgical

• chirp, anthem, ballad, bark, bawl, beam, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, caper, caracole, carol, caw, chant, chatter, cheep, chip, chipper, chirk, chirking, chirm, chirr, chirrup, chitter, choir, chorus, chuck, clack, clap hands, cluck, clutter, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, creak, crick, croak, cronk, croon, crow, cuckoo, dance, delight, descant, do-re-mi, drawl, drum, exclaim, exult, flute, frisk, frolic, gabble, gaggle, gambol, gasp, glory, glow, gobble, growl, grunt, guggle, hiss, honk, hoo, hoot, hum, hymn, intonate, intone, joy, jubilate, keen, laugh, lilt, minstrel, mumble, murmur, mutter, pant, peep, pip, pipe, psalm, quack, quaver, radiate cheer, rejoice, revel, roar, roll, rollick, romp, roulade, rumble, scold, scream, screech, serenade, shake, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing in chorus, skip, skip for joy, smile, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sol-fa, solmizate, sparkle, squall, squawk, squeal, stridulate, stridulation, thunder, tremolo, trill, troll, trumpet, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, tweet, twit, twitter, vocalize, wail, warble, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yodel

• chisel, assemble, autolithograph, bamboozle, be a printmaker, beat, beguile of, bilk, block out, bunco, burn, canal, canalize, carve, cast, chamfer, channel, character, chase, cheat, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, convert, corrugate, cozen, crack, crease, create, crib, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cultivate, cut, dado, defraud, diddle, dike, ditch, do, do in, do out of, dupe, efform, enchase, engrave, euchre, extract, fashion, figure, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, flute, fob, fool, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge, furrow, gash, grave, groove, grow, gull, gully, gyp, harvest, hatch, have, hew, hocus, hocus-pocus, incise, inscribe, insculpture, knead, knock out, lay out, lick into shape, line, lithograph, machine, make prints, mallet, mark, mill, mine, mint, model, modeling clay, mold, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pare, pigeon, pleat, plow, point, practice fraud upon, print, process, pump, rabbet, raise, rear, refine, rifle, rook, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rut, scam, score, scrape, scratch, screw, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, sell gold bricks, set, shape, shave, shortchange, slit, smelt, solder, soldering iron, spatula, stack the cards, stamp, stick, sting, stipple, streak, striate, swindle, tailor, take a dive, thermoform, thimblerig, throw a fight, tool, trench, trick, trough, victimize, weld, work, wrinkle

• chiseling, artful, burr, calculating, collusive, covinous, crafty, cross-hatching, cunning, deceitful, demitint, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, false, falsehearted, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, guileful, half tint, hatching, incision, indirect, inscript, inscription, insidious, line, lining, marking, scheming, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sharp, shifty, slash, slashing, slippery, sneaky, stipple, stippling, surreptitious, tint, tooling, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced, type-cutting, underhand, underhanded, wily

• chit, accounts payable, accounts receivable, acknowledgment, amount due, answer, bad debts, bairn, bantam, banty, bill, billet, bills, borrowing, bud, business letter, button, charges, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child, chits, communication, darling, debt, diminutive, dispatch, due, dues, epistle, favor, featherweight, financial commitment, fingerling, floating debt, funded debt, indebtedness, indebtment, innocent, juvenile, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, letter, liability, lightweight, line, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, maturity, memo, memorandum, message, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, missive, mite, moppet, mouse, national debt, nipper, notation, note, nubbin, obligation, offspring, outstanding debt, peewee, pledge, pony, public debt, puss, reply, rescript, runt, score, shaver, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, tad, tit, tot, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, wart, wee tot, wisp, youngster

• chitchat, babble, back-fence gossip, backchat, beauty-parlor chitchat, cackle, chat, chatter, chitter, chitter-chatter, clack, cocktail-party chitchat, gabble, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, idle chat, idle talk, newsmongering, piece of gossip, prattle, small talk, story, table talk, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk, talkee-talkee, tattle, tea-table talk, tittle-tattle

• chivalrous, aristocratic, benevolent, big, bighearted, bold, bold-spirited, brave, ceremonious, charitable, chivalric, considerate, courageous, courteous, courtly, doughty, ducal, elevated, exalted, formal, gallant, generous, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hardy, heroic, herolike, high, high-minded, idealistic, intrepid, ironhearted, kind, kinglike, kingly, knightlike, knightly, ladylike, largehearted, liberal, lionhearted, lofty, magnanimous, manful, manly, noble, noble-minded, of gentle blood, of rank, old-fashioned, old-world, openhanded, patrician, polite, princelike, princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, sublime, titled, valiant, valorous

• chivalry, Dutch courage, FFVs, ancienne noblesse, aristocracy, arms, art of war, baronage, baronetage, bigheartedness, bigness, boldness, braveness, bravery, chivalrousness, conspicuous gallantry, courage, courageousness, courtesy, courtliness, courtly politeness, doughtiness, elect, elevation, elite, equitableness, errantry, exaltation, fairness, gallantness, gallantry, gallantry under fire, generalship, generosity, generousness, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, haut monde, heroicalness, heroism, high life, high society, high-mindedness, honor, idealism, impartiality, intrepidity, intrepidness, justness, knight-errantry, knightage, knighthood, knightliness, largeheartedness, liberality, liberalness, lionheartedness, loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, manfulness, manhood, manliness, martial spirit, military spirit, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, noblesse, noblesse de robe, noblesse oblige, old nobility, openhandedness, peerage, politeness, pot-valor, princeliness, prowess, righteousness, royalty, soldierly quality, stalwartness, stoutheartedness, stoutness, sublimity, the Four Hundred, the classes, upper classes, upper crust, upper ten, upper ten thousand, uppercut, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, virtue, virtuousness, war

• chivy, aggravate, annoy, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chase, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, exasperate, exercise, fash, follow, follow up, get, give chase, go after, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hollo after, hound, hunt, irk, make after, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, prosecute, provoke, pursue, quest, quest after, raise the hunt, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, run after, search, seek, seek out, take out after, tease, torment, trail, try, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, worry

• chlorinate, acetify, acidify, acidulate, aerate, aerify, alkalify, alkalize, antisepticize, atomize, autoclave, boil, borate, carbonate, catalyze, chemical, decontaminate, delouse, disinfect, distill, electrolyze, emit, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, ferment, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, homopolymerize, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, hygienize, isomerize, nitrate, oxidize, oxygenate, pasteurize, pepsinate, perfume, peroxidize, phosphatize, polymerize, reduce, reek, sanitate, sanitize, send out, smoke, spray, steam, sterilize, sublimate, sublime, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, vaporize, volatilize, work

• chloroform, KO, Pentothal, anesthetize, annihilate, bedaze, benumb, bereave of life, besot, blunt, carry away, carry off, cocaine, coldcock, cut down, cut off, deaden, deprive of life, desensitize, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, dope, drug, dull, end, ether, etherize, ethyl chloride, ethylene, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, freeze, gas, immolate, kayo, kill, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, launch into eternity, lay out, liquidate, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, menthol, narcotize, nitrous oxide, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, slay, starve, stun, stupefy, take life, take off

• chock full, SRO, awash, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chuck-full, congested, cram-full, crammed, crowded, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swollen, topful

• chock, arrest, bar, barricade, bearing rein, bit, block, block up, blockade, bolt, brake, brim, chain, charge, check, checkrein, choke, choke off, clog, close, close off, close tight, close up, congest, constrict, countercheck, cram, crowd, curb, curb bit, damper, debar, dog, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, fetter, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, holdback, jam, jam-pack, lade, load, lock, martingale, obstruct, occlude, overfill, pack, pad, pelham, ram in, remora, satiate, saturate, scotch, sea anchor, shackle, shut off, shut out, shut tight, snaffle, spoke, squeeze, squeeze shut, stay, stifle, stop, stop up, strangle, strangulate, stuff, suffocate, supercharge, surfeit, top off, trammel, wad, weight

• chocolate, Life Saver, Scotch kisses, beige, bonbon, brittle, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, bubble gum, butterscotch, candied apple, candy corn, caramel, chewing gum, chocolate bar, chocolate drop, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, cotton candy, cough drop, cream, divinity, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fondant, fudge, fuscous, glace, grege, gum, gumdrop, hard candy, hazel, honey crisp, horehound, jelly bean, jelly egg, jujube, khaki, kiss, lollipop, lozenge, lurid, marchpane, marshmallow, marzipan, mint, nougat, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, peanut bar, peanut brittle, peppermint, popcorn balls, praline, rock candy, saltwater taffy, seal, seal-brown, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, sugar candy, sugarplum, taffy, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, toffee, torrone, tutti-frutti, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown

• choice, Attic, acceptance, adjudgment, adjudication, aesthetic, alternative, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, appraisal, appropriate, arbitrament, arbitration, artistic, best, champion, chaste, choosing, chosen, classic, command, conation, conatus, cream, dainty, decision, deeming, delicate, desirable, desire, determination, discretion, discrimination, disposition, druthers, elect, election, elegant, elite, escape clause, escape hatch, evaluation, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fancy, fat, finding, first-rate, fit, fitting, flower, for the best, free choice, free decision, free will, full consent, good judgment, greatest, handpicked, high-quality, ideal, in good taste, inclination, incomparable, intention, judging, judgment, judicature, liking, loophole, lust, matchless, mind, noncontingent free will, nonesuch, nonpareil, objective, of choice, of quality, optimal, optimum, option, paragon, paramount, passion, peerless, pick, picked, pleasing, pleasure, preeminent, preference, preferred, pretext, pride, prime, prize, pure, queen, quiet, quintessence, quintessential, rare, rating, recherche, resolution, restrained, saving clause, say, say-so, select, selected, selection, sexual desire, simple, special, subdued, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, tasteful, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, top, transcendent, unaffected, understated, unmatchable, unmatched, unobtrusive, unparalleled, unsurpassed, velleity, verdict, very best, voice, volition, way of escape, way out, well-chosen, will, will power, wish

• choir, Easter sepulcher, Liederkranz, Liedertafel, a cappella, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, chamber chorus, chancel, choral group, choral society, choral symphony, chorale, chorus, claviature, cloisters, confessional, confessionary, console, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, echo, eighty-eight, ensemble, fingerboard, glee club, great, ivories, keyboard, keys, manual, mixed chorus, nave, oratorio society, organ manual, pedals, piano keys, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, singing club, solo, swell, transept, triforium, vestry, voices

• choirmaster, Mahdi, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader, cantor, charismatic leader, choir chaplain, choragus, choral director, chorister, conductor, coryphaeus, duce, file leader, forerunner, fugleman, inspired leader, leader, leader of men, messiah, minister of music, pacemaker, pacesetter, precentor, ringleader, standard-bearer, symphonic conductor, torchbearer

• choke, OD, asphyxia, asphyxiate, asphyxiation, bake, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, be in heat, be killed, bind, blaze, block, block up, blockade, bloom, blow out, boil, bolt, broil, bung, burke, burking, burn, button, button up, caulk, charge, chink, chock, choke off, choke up, choking, clap, clog, clog up, close, close off, close tight, close up, combust, congest, constipate, constrict, contain, contract, cook, cork, cover, cram, crowd, cut off, dam, dam up, damp, debar, deny, discourage, dissuade, dog, douse, drench, drown, drowning, dumbfound, extinguish, famish, fasten, fill, fill up, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fold, fold up, foul, frustrate, fry, gag, garotte, garrote, garrotte, gasp, glow, glut, gluttonize, gorge, heap, hush, hush-hush, incandesce, jam, jam-pack, key, killing, latch, liver death, load, lock, lock out, lock up, megadeath, muffle, muzzle, obstipate, obstruct, obviate, occlude, out, overburden, overcharge, overfeed, overfill, overlade, overload, overstuff, overweight, pack, padlock, pant, parch, pile, plug, plug up, plumb, prohibit, put down, put out, put to silence, quash, quell, quench, quiet, quieten, radiate heat, repress, restrain, roast, satiate, saturate, scald, scorch, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, seethe, serum death, shimmer with heat, shush, shut, shut down on, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, silence, simmer, slack, slam, smolder, smother, smotheration, smothering, snap, snuff, snuff out, soak, soft-pedal, spark, spile, squash, squeeze, squeeze shut, squelch, stamp out, stanch, starvation, starve, stay, steam, stench, stew, stifle, stifling, still, stop, stop the breath, stop up, stopper, stopple, strangle, strangling, strangulate, strangulation, strike dumb, stuff, stuff up, suffocate, suffocation, supercharge, supersaturate, suppress, surcharge, surfeit, sweat, swelter, throttle, throttling, toast, trample out, trample underfoot, violent death, watery grave, zip up, zipper

• chokedamp, afterdamp, blackdamp, breath, cloud, coal gas, damp, effluvium, exhalation, exhaust, exhaust gas, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fume, malaria, mephitis, miasma, puff of smoke, reek, smoke, smudge, steam, vapor, volatile, water vapor

• choking, abolishment, abolition, annihilation, annulment, asphyxia, asphyxiation, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, blurred, bottleneck, breathy, burking, burning out, burnout, cecum, choke, choked, choking off, clog, congestion, constipation, constrictive, contrary, controlling, costiveness, counterproductive, croaking, crosswise, cul-de-sac, damping, dead end, deracination, dousing, drawling, drawly, drowning, dying, dysphonic, elimination, embolism, embolus, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, fire fighting, flame-out, garrote, going out, gorge, guttural, harsh, hawking, hindering, hindersome, hoarse, impasse, impediment, in the way, inarticulate, indistinct, infarct, infarction, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, jam, killing, liquidation, lisping, liver death, megadeath, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, negation, nullification, obstacle, obstipation, obstructing, obstruction, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, purge, putting out, quashing, quavering, quenching, repressive, restrictive, rooting out, sealing off, serum death, shaking, shaky, silencing, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, snuffing out, snuffling, squashing, squelching, starvation, stifled, stifling, stop, stoppage, strangled, strangling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suppressive, thick, throaty, throttling, tremulous, troublesome, twangy, uprooting, velar, violent death, voiding, watery grave

• choler, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, anger, animosity, asperity, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, corrosiveness, discontent, gall, gnashing of teeth, hard feelings, heartburning, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, rancor, rankling, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spleen, virulence

• cholera, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

• choleric, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, ambivert, angry, bilious, bitter, burning, captious, carping, caustic, cranky, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, dyspeptic, ectomorph, embittered, endomorph, extrovert, faultfinding, fiery, heated, hot-tempered, indignant, introvert, irate, ireful, jaundiced, mad, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic, quick-tempered, rancorous, rankled, ratty, resentful, resenting, sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, sore, sour, sour-tempered, soured, splenetic, spunky, stewing, syntone, testy, tetchy, touchy, vinegarish, virulent, waxy, wrathful, wrathy, wroth

• chomp, bite, bolus, champ, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chump, crunch, cud, gnash, gnaw, gob, grind, gum, masticate, morsel, mouth, mouthful, mumble, munch, nibble, nip, quid, ruminate, scrunch, snap, swallow

• choo choo, Amtrak, baggage train, cable railroad, cog railroad, cog railway, el, electric, electric train, elevated, express, express train, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, goods train, interurban, lightning express, limited, local, metro, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rattler, rolling stock, shuttle, shuttle train, special, streamliner, subway, train, tube, underground, way train

• choose, adopt, aim at, be desirous of, choose to, choosy, co-opt, command, covet, crave, cull, decide, decree, delicate, desiderate, desire, determine, elect, embrace, espouse, fancy, fastidious, favor, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, have designs on, judge, like, love, lust, lust after, make choice of, mark, nice, opt, opt for, particular, pernickety, persnickety, pick, pick and choose, pick out, please, prefer, resolve, see fit, select, settle on, settle upon, single out, take, take to, think fit, think good, think proper, want, will, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, would fain do

• choosing, adoptive, alternativity, appointive, choice, choosy, co-optation, co-option, constituent, decision, discriminating, eclectic, election, elective, electoral, first choice, free choice, free will, particular, pick, preference, preoption, selecting, selection, selective, the pick, volition, will

• choosy, adoptive, appointive, censorious, choicy, choosing, conscientious, constituent, critical, demanding, difficult, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, eclectic, elective, electoral, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, hard to please, meticulous, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, scrupulous, selecting, selective, sensitive, strict

• chop down, beat down, blow down, blow over, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, cut down, dash down, deck, down, drop, fell, fetch down, flatten, floor, ground, hew down, knock down, knock over, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, mow down, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, rase, raze, send headlong, smash, spread-eagle, steamroller, supinate, take down, tear down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble, whack down

• chop logic, analyze, anatomize, argue, argufy, around the bush, atomize, bandy words, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, choplogic, contend, contest, cross swords, cut and thrust, desynonymize, difference, differentiate, discept, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, dispute, distinguish, diversify, divide, dodge, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, give and take, hassle, have it out, hedge, individualize, individuate, join issue, lock horns, logomachize, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, modify, moot, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, particularize, personalize, pettifog, pick nits, plead, polemicize, polemize, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, refine a distinction, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, spar, specialize, split hairs, take sides, tergiversate, thrash out, try conclusions, vary, wrangle

• chop, Saratoga chop, Vandyke, alter, ameliorate, amputate, ax, bang, bank, barley, bash, bat, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, beam, beating, belt, biff, billow, bird seed, bisect, blaze, blow, bonk, border, bore, bottom out, box, bran, break, breakers, broadside, broken ground, broken water, buffet, bust, butcher, carve, cat food, change, checker, cheek, chicken feed, chop and change, choppiness, chopping sea, cleave, clip, clout, clump, coast, comb, comber, come about, come around, come round, corduroy, corduroy road, corn, corrugation, crack, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crop, cube, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut up, cutlet, dash, degenerate, deteriorate, deviate, dice, dichotomize, dig, dint, dirty water, dissever, diverge, diversify, dog food, drub, drubbing, drumming, eagre, eatage, ensilage, excise, feed, fissure, flank, flop, fodder, forage, fragment, fusillade, gash, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grain, gravity wave, ground swell, hack, halve, hand, handedness, hash, haul around, haunch, hay, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hew, hip, hit, horripilation, improve, incise, indent, jab, jag, jibe, jigsaw, jowl, knock, knurl, lance, laterality, lick, lift, lop, machicolate, make mincemeat of, many-sidedness, mash, meal, meliorate, mill, mince, mitigate, modulate, multilaterality, mutate, mutton chop, nick, notch, oats, pare, paste, pasturage, pasture, peak, pelt, pet food, picot, pink, planking, plunk, poke, popple, pork chop, pound, profile, provender, prune, punch, quarter, rap, rend, revive, riffle, ripple, rise, rive, roll, roller, rough, rough water, sandpaper, saw, scallop, scarify, scend, scissor, score, scotch, scratch, scratch feed, sea, send, serrate, sever, shift, shore, side, siding, silage, slam, slap, slash, slice, slit, slog, slops, slug, smack, smash, snip, sock, spank, split, straw, stroke, sunder, surf, surge, swat, swell, swerve, swill, swing, swipe, tack, take a turn, tattoo, tear, temple, thump, thwack, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tooth, trough, tsunami, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, undergo a change, undulation, unilaterality, vary, veal chop, veal cutlet, veer, warp, washboard, water wave, wave, wavelet, whack, wheat, white horses, whitecaps, whittle, whop, worsen, yerk

• chopper, bicycle, bike, copter, cycle, eggbeater, helicopter, iron, minibike, motocycle, motorbike, motorcycle, pedicab, pig, road-bike, rotary-wing aircraft, rotor plane, trail bike, tricycle, trike, wheel, whirlybird, windmill

• choppy, bouncy, broken, broken off, bumpy, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changing, chopped-off, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, decousu, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, episodic, erose, erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, grainy, granulated, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homespun, horripilant, immethodical, impulsive, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, inequal, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jarring, jerky, jogglety, joggling, joggly, jolting, jolty, linsey-woolsey, lurching, mercurial, motley, mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, pimply, pitted, pluralistic, pocky, potholed, ragged, rambling, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scrappy, shagged, shaggy, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, suspended, textured, uncertain, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unjoined, unkempt, unlevel, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unpolished, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly

• chops, bazoo, chaps, embouchure, gab, gob, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, lips, mandibles, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, premaxilla, trap, yap

• choral, alto, baritone, bass, bravura, choric, coloratura, dramatic, falsetto, heroic, hymnal, liturgical, lyric, operatic, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, sacred, singing, soprano, tenor, treble, vocal

• chorale, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Liederkranz, Liedertafel, Magnificat, Miserere, Negro spiritual, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, a cappella, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, cantata, canticle, chamber chorus, chant, choir, choral group, choral society, choral symphony, chorus, church music, doxology, ensemble, glee club, gospel, gospel music, hallelujah, hosanna, hymn, hymn of praise, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, introit, laud, mantra, mass, mixed chorus, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, oratorio society, paean, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, report, requiem, requiem mass, response, responsory, sacred music, singing club, spiritual, versicle, voices, white spiritual

• chord, accompany, accord, air line, arpeggio, assonate, atone, attune, axis, be harmonious, be in tune, beeline, blend, broken chord, caring, catgut, chime, common chord, concento, concern, concertize, concord, consonant chord, diagonal, diameter, diminished seventh chord, direct line, directrix, do, dominant chord, echo, edge, empathy, enharmonic, execute, fellow feeling, fiddlestring, great-circle course, harmonize, horsehair, identification, interpret, involvement, major triad, make music, melodize, minor chord, musicalize, normal, nylon string, pathos, perform, perpendicular, play, play by ear, put in tune, radius, radius vector, relating, render, response, responsiveness, right line, secant, segment, seventh chord, sharing, shortcut, side, sixth chord, sound in tune, sound together, steel string, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, string, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, symphonize, synchronize, tangent, tone down, tone up, tonic triad, transversal, triad, tune, tune up, unbroken chord, vector, vibes, vibrations, voice, wound string

• chore, Augean task, Herculean task, administer to, assignment, attend, attend on, backbreaker, ballbuster, bitch, busywork, care for, char, chare, charge, commission, dance attendance upon, dead lift, devoir, do chars, do for, do service to, do the chores, drudge, duty, effort, errand, exercise, fish to fry, handful, hard job, hard pull, heavy sledding, help, homework, job, job of work, labor, lackey, large order, look after, maid, make-work, man-sized job, matters in hand, minister to, mission, odd job, pander to, piece of work, project, rough go, serve, service, stint, take care of, tall order, task, tend, things to do, tough job, tough proposition, trial, tribulation, turn a hand, uphill work, upon, valet, wait, wait on, work, work for

• chorea, MS, ague, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain disease, bumpiness, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chattering, cold shivers, emotional disorder, epilepsy, falling sickness, fits and starts, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, ischialgia, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, organic psychosis, palsy, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, quaking, quavering, quivering, radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shakes, shaking, shaking palsy, shingles, shivering, shivers, shuddering, spasms, spastic paralysis, succussion, the jerks, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis, trembling, tremulousness, vibration

• choreographer, comedian, dramatist, dramatizer, dramaturge, farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcist, gagman, joke writer, jokesmith, librettist, melodramatist, mimographer, monodramatist, play doctor, play fixer, playwright, playwriter, scenario writer, scenarioist, scenarist, scriptwriter, tragedian

• choreography, alphabet, art, ballet, ballroom dancing, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreodrama, classical ballet, comedy ballet, conventional representation, dance, dance drama, dance notation, dancing, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, exemplification, figuration, hieroglyphic, hoofing, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, modern ballet, modern dance, musical notation, notation, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, syllabary, symbol, tablature, tap dancing, terpsichore, writing

• chorography, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, aeronautical chart, altimetry, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, cartographer, cartography, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, chorographer, climatic chart, conic projection, contour line, contour map, craniometry, cylindrical projection, general reference map, geodesy, geodetic satellite, geodetics, geography, globe, gnomonic projection, goniometry, graphic scale, grid line, hachure, heliographic chart, hydrographic chart, hypsography, hypsometry, index, isoline, latitude, layer tint, legend, longitude, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, mensuration, meridian, metrology, navigation, oceanography, orbiting geophysical observatory, parallel, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, planimetry, political map, polyconic projection, projection, psychometrics, psychometry, relief map, representative fraction, road map, scale, sinusoidal projection, special map, stereometry, surveying, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, topographer, topographic chart, topography, transportation map, weather chart, weather map

• chortle, Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• chorus girl, artist, artiste, ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet girl, ballroom dancer, belly dancer, burlesque queen, choir member, choirboy, choirman, choral dancer, choral singer, choralist, chorine, chorister, chorus boy, chorus singer, clog dancer, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, danseur noble, danseuse, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, figurant, figurante, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, heel-and-toe dancer, hoofer, hula girl, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, square-dancer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, terpsichorean, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

• chorus, Liederkranz, Liedertafel, PS, Parthian shot, Spenserian stanza, a cappella, acclamation, accord, accordance, act like, acting company, addendum, affect, affinity, afterthought, agreement, agreement of all, anacrusis, anthem, antistrophe, appendix, articulate, assent, assume, back matter, ballad, bass passage, bis, bob, book, borrow, bourdon, breathe, bridge, burden, cadence, cantata, canto, carol, cast, cast of characters, chamber chorus, chant, characters, chime, chirp, chirrup, choir, choral group, choral singing, choral society, choral symphony, chorale, circus troupe, coda, codicil, coherence, coincidence, colophon, come out with, common assent, common consent, communicate, company, compatibility, concert, conclusion, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consequence, consistency, consonance, consort, continuance, continuation, convey, cooperation, copy, corps de ballet, correspondence, counterfeit, couplet, crib, croon, deliver, descant, development, disclose, distich, ditto, division, do, do like, do-re-mi, double take, dramatis personae, dying words, echo, emit, ensemble, enunciate, envoi, epilogue, epode, equivalence, exposition, express, fake, figure, fling off, folderol, follow-through, follow-up, forge, formulate, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, glee, glee club, go like, harmonic close, harmony, heptastich, hexastich, hoke, hoke up, hum, hymn, imitate, impart, interlude, intermezzo, intersection, intonate, intone, introductory phrase, last words, let out, like-mindedness, lilt, line, lip, madrigal, madrigaletto, make like, measure, meeting of minds, minstrel, mirror, mixed chorus, monostich, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutual understanding, octastich, octave, octet, one accord, one voice, oneness, oratorio, oratorio society, ornament, ottava rima, out with, overlap, parallelism, part, parting shot, passage, peace, pentastich, period, peroration, phonate, phrase, pipe, plagiarize, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, pour forth, present, pronounce, psalm, put forth, put in words, quatrain, quaver, raise, rapport, reecho, reflect, refrain, repeat, repertory company, repetend, resolution, response, rhyme royal, ritornello, roulade, same mind, say, second thought, section, self-consistency, septet, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, serenade, sestet, set forth, sextet, shake, simulate, sing, sing in chorus, singing club, single voice, sol-fa, solmizate, sound, stanza, statement, stave, stock company, strain, strophe, subscript, suffix, supplement, supporting cast, swan song, syllable, symmetry, sync, synchronism, tag, tailpiece, tally, tell, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, throw off, timing, total agreement, tremolo, trill, triplet, tristich, troll, troupe, tune, tutti, tutti passage, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, unanimity, unanimousness, undersong, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, universal agreement, utter, variation, verbalize, verse, vocalize, voice, voices, warble, whisper, whistle, word, yodel

• chosen, a cut above, above, accepted, adopted, ahead, appointed, approved, ascendant, better, capping, carried, champion, choice, chosen people, cream, designated, distinguished, eclipsing, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, elite, embraced, eminent, espoused, exceeding, excellent, excelling, exclusive, fat, finer, flower, greater, handpicked, higher, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, major, marked, named, nominated, nonesuch, nonpareil, of choice, one up on, optimum, outstanding, over, paragon, passed, pick, picked, prime, prize, queen, quintessence, rare, ratified, rivaling, select, selected, super, superior, superlative, surpassing, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, unanimously elected, upper

• chouse, artifice, beat, bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, feint, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, gyp, jig, overreach, play, ploy, ruse, whizzer

• chowder, Irish stew, bisque, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, burgoo, chicken soup, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, curry, egg drop soup, etuvee, fish soup, fricassee, gazpacho, goulash, gravy soup, gumbo, julienne, matzo ball soup, meat stew, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mulligan, mulligan stew, mulligatawny, olio, olla, olla podrida, oxtail soup, oyster stew, paella, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, puree, ragout, soup, stew, stock, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, won ton soup