Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/14

• chrismal, affusion, altar cloth, aspergation, aspersion, baldacchino, baldachin, baptism, baptismal font, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, cerecloth, chalice, chancel screen, chrism, chrismation, chrismatory, chrisom, christening, ciborium, corporal, cruet, extreme unction, fanon, font, holy-water font, immersion, infusion, jube, kneeling stool, last rites, monstrance, oblation cloth, ointment, ostensorium, paten, piscina, prayer rug, prie-dieu, pyx, reliquary, reredos, rood cloth, rood screen, sacrament cloth, sacramental anointment, sacred unction, sprinkling, stoup, total immersion, unction, viaticum

• Christ, Christ Jesus, Emmanuel, God the Son, God-man, Immanuel, Jesu, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, King of Glory, King of Heaven, King of Kings, Lamb of God, Lord Jesus, Lord of Lords, Lord our Righteousness, Messiah, Our Lord, Prince of Peace, Redeemer, Savior, Son of God, Son of Man, atonement, intercession, judgment, mediation, propitiation, redemption, salvation, the Advocate, the Anointed, the Christ, the Christ Child, the Door, the Galilean, the Good Shepherd, the Infant Jesus, the Intercessor, the Judge, the Lamb, the Life, the Master, the Mediator, the Nazarene, the Only-Begotten, the Risen, the True Vine, the Truth, the Vine, the Way

• christen, anoint, asperge, asperse, baptize, bring up, broach, call, define, denominate, designate, dip, dub, entitle, establish, float, found, identify, immerse, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, label, launch, lift up, name, nickname, nominate, raise, ring in, set agoing, set on foot, set up, specify, sprinkle, start going, start up, style, tag, term, title, turn on, usher in

• christening, affusion, appellation, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, calling, chrismal, definition, denomination, designation, font, identification, immersion, infusion, naming, nicknaming, sprinkling, styling, terming, total immersion

• Christian sectarians, Confucianist, Gheber, Gnostic, Hindu, Jew, Magian, Magus, Muhammadan, Sabaean, Shintoist, Sikh, Taoist, Theosophist, Vedantist, Yogi, Yogin, Yogist, Zoroastrian, gymnosophist, reincarnationist

• Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, Christlike, Christly, God-fearing man, Nazarene, Nazarite, accepted, accepter, adoring, affectionate, approved, authentic, authoritative, becoming, befitting, believer, believing, benign, benignant, blameless, brotherly, burgher, canonical, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, civilized, clean, communicant, compassionate, conventional, convert, correct, creditable, cultish, cultist, cultistic, customary, daily communicant, decent, devoted, devotee, devotionalist, devout, disciple, done, dutiful, erect, estimable, ethical, evangelical, exemplary citizen, fair, faithful, fanatic, firm, follower, fraternal, full of integrity, good, good Christian, good citizen, good neighbor, gracious, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, human, humane, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, literal, loving, manly, moral, neophyte, nice, noble, of the faith, orthodox, orthodoxical, pietist, pietistic, pillar of society, pious, prayerful, principled, proper, proselyte, pure, received, receiver, religionist, religious, reputable, respectable, respectable citizen, reverent, reverential, right, right-minded, righteous, saint, scriptural, seemly, softhearted, solemn, sound, spotless, stainless, standard, sterling, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, textual, theist, theistic, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true Christian, true-blue, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, truster, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerational, venerative, virtuous, votary, warm, warmhearted, worshipful, worthy, yeomanly, zealot

• Christianity, Christendom, Christianism, Christlikeness, Christliness, Judeo-Christian religion, Orthodox Christianity, Protestant Christianity, angelicalness, beauty of holiness, fear of God, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, goodness, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, holiness, holy-mindedness, odor of sanctity, otherworldliness, pureness, pureness of heart, purity, righteousness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, sanctitude, sanctity, seraphicalness, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, unearthliness, unworldliness

• Christlike, Christian, Christly, God-fearing, affectionate, angelic, benign, benignant, brotherly, celestial, compassionate, decent, divine, empyrean, fraternal, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, gracious, heavenly, holy, holy-minded, human, humane, incarnate, incarnated, intercessional, intercessive, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, loving, made flesh, mediative, mediatory, nice, otherworldly, propitiative, propitiatory, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, redemptive, righteous, saintlike, saintly, salvational, self-existent, seraphic, softhearted, spiritual, spiritual-minded, superhuman, supernatural, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, transcendent, unearthly, unworldly, warm, warmhearted

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

• Christmas, Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Nativity, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek, noel, yule, yuletide

• chromatic, cold, colorific, coloring, cool, dichromatic, enharmonic, glowing, harmonious, many-colored, matching, medley, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychromatic, prismatic, rainbow, semitonic, spectral, tinctorial, tingent, tonal, tonic, toning, variegated, warm

• chromosome, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, W chromosome, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, X chromosome, Y chromosome, Z chromosome, accessory chromosome, allele, allelomorph, allosome, autosome, birth, centromere, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome complement, chromosome number, determinant, determiner, diathesis, diploid number, endowment, euchromosome, eugenics, factor, gene, gene-string, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, genome, haploid number, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, heterochromosome, homologous chromosomes, idiochromosome, inborn capacity, inheritability, inheritance, matrocliny, monosome, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, polyploidy, recessive character, replication, sex chromosome, univalent chromosome

• chronic, abiding, accepted, accustomed, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, confirmed, constant, continuing, customary, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, diuturnal, durable, dyed-in-the-wool, enduring, established, evergreen, fast, fixed, habitual, habituated, hardened, hardy, immutable, implanted, incorrigible, inculcated, infixed, ingrained, instilled, intransient, inveterate, irreversible, lasting, lingering, long-established, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, remaining, rooted, routine, sempervirent, set, settled, settled in habit, stable, staying, steadfast, thorough, tough, unfading, vital, wonted

• chronicle, Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, anecdotage, anecdote, annals, archive, autobiography, biograph, biographical sketch, biographize, biography, book, calendar, carve, case history, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check in, check sheet, chronicles, chronologize, chronology, clock card, confessions, correspondence, curriculum vitae, cut, date slip, datebook, daybook, describe, description, diary, docket, document, documentation, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, epic, epos, experiences, file, fill out, fortunes, grave, hagiography, hagiology, historify, historiography, history, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, intercalate, inventory, jot down, journal, legend, letters, life, life and letters, life story, list, log, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, martyrology, matriculate, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, minute, narrate, narration, narrative, necrology, note, note down, obituary, photobiography, pipe roll, place upon record, poll, post, post up, profile, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, recital, record, recording, recount, recountal, reduce to writing, register, registry, relate, relic, remains, report, resume, retail, roll, rolls, roster, rota, saga, scroll, set down, story, table, tabulate, take down, tale, tape, tape-record, tell, theory of history, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, token, trace, version, vestige, videotape, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, yarn

• chronicler, Boswell, annalist, autobiographer, autobiographist, biographer, calendar maker, calendarist, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, clockmaker, diarist, genealogist, historian, historiographer, horologist, memorialist, timekeeper, timer, watchmaker

• chronological, annalistic, autobiographical, biographical, calendarial, calendric, chronogrammatic, chronographic, chronologic, chronoscopic, continuous, dated, diaristic, durational, durative, hagiographic, historic, historied, historiographic, horologic, intercalary, intercalated, lasting, legendary, martyrologic, metronomic, temporal, timekeeping, traditional

• chronology, Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, almanac, annals, autobiography, biographical sketch, biography, calendar, case history, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, clock card, confessions, continuity, curriculum vitae, date slip, datebook, daybook, diary, duration, duree, experiences, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, journal, lastingness, legend, life, life and letters, life story, log, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, necrology, obituary, period, photobiography, profile, psychological time, record, register, registry, resume, sequence, space, space-time, story, tense, term, the future, the past, the present, theory of history, tide, time, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timebinding, timecard, timetable, while

• chronometer, Big Ben, astronavigation, celestial navigation, clock, clock movement, clockworks, coastwise navigation, consolan, dead reckoning, fix, horologe, horologium, line of position, loran, pilotage, plane sailing, point-to-point navigation, radar, radio beacon, radio navigation, sextant, shoran, sofar, sonar, tables, ticker, timekeeper, timepiece, timer, turnip, watch, watchworks

• chthonian, Acherontic, Druid, Hadean, Lethean, Parsi, Plutonian, Plutonic, Sabaist, Satan worshiper, Satanist, Stygian, Tartarean, Zoroastrian, animal worshiper, anthropolater, arborolater, archaeolater, bibliolatrous, chthonic, demon worshiper, demoniast, demonist, demonolater, demonologer, demonologist, demonomist, dendrolater, devil worshiper, devilish, diabolist, fetishist, fetishistic, fire worshiper, heathen, hellborn, hellish, idol worshiper, idol worshiping, idolater, idolatress, idolatric, idolatrical, idolatrizer, idolatrous, idolist, idolistic, idolizer, infernal, nature worshiper, ophiolater, pagan, pandemoniac, pandemonic, phallic worshiper, plutonian, plutonic, purgatorial, pyrolater, snake worshiper, sorcerer, star worshiper, sulfurous, sun worshiper, theriolater, therolater, tree worshiper, zoolater, zoolatrous

• chubby, adipose, ample, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, round, roundabout, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed

• chuck, Chateaubriand, abandon, abjure, abstract, anchorage, barf, be seasick, be sick, beak, blade roast, boot out, bounce, bowl, breast, bring up, brisket, brush, brush aside, bunt, cackle, call, carol, cast, cast aside, cast at, cast away, cast off, cast out, catapult, caw, change of pace, change-up, chase, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chow, chuck, chuck at, chuck out, chuck roast, chuck up, chunk, clack, clap, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clod, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, cold cuts, contemn, contradict, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, curve, cut out, dab, dart, dash, decline, deep-six, defenestrate, deny, deport, desert, despise, detrude, disapprove, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, disdain, disgorge, dismiss, disown, dispose of, disregard, ditch, downcurve, drum, dump, eats, egest, eighty-six, eject, elide, eliminate, eradicate, evict, except, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, extrude, fastball, feed the fish, filet mignon, fillip, fire, fire at, flank, flick, fling, fling at, flip, flirt, fork, forsake, forswear, forward pass, gabble, gag, gaggle, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, give the hook, gobble, graze, grub, grubbery, guggle, harborage, haven, heave, heave at, heave out, heave the gorge, honk, hoo, hoot, hurl, hurl against, hurl at, hurtle, ignore, incurve, jerk, jettison, jilt, junk, keck, kick downstairs, kick out, knuckle, knuckleball, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, let fly at, liquidate, lob, loin, obtrude, oust, out, outcurve, outlaw, part with, pass, pass by, pass up, pat, peck, peep, peg, pelt, pick, pick out, pip, pipe, pitch, pitchfork, plank, plate, plate piece, plop, plump, plunk, port, pot roast, puke, purge, push aside, put, put out, put the shot, quack, quit, rack, rap, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, regurgitate, reject, remove, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, retch, rib roast, ribs, riding, roads, roadstead, roast, roll, rolled roast, root out, root up, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, scold, scout, scrap, screwball, serve, service, shank, shed, short ribs, shot-put, shoulder, shoulder clod, shove away, shy, shy at, sick up, sing, sinker, sirloin, slap, slider, sling, sling at, slough, snap, spew, spitball, spitter, spurn, squawk, strike off, strike out, tap, tenderloin, throw, throw at, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, thrust, thrust out, tickle, tilt, tip, toss, toss at, toss out, toss overboard, touch, trill, turn away, turn out, tweet, twit, twitter, upchuck, upcurve, vomit, waive, warble, weed out, whisk, whistle

• chuckle, 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, chortle, convulsion, crow, crowing, 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, sniggering, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• chum, ace, amigo, associate, associate with, assort with, bedfellow, bedmate, bosom buddy, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum together, chum with, classmate, clique, clique with, club together, colleague, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confidante, confrere, consociate, consort, consort with, copartner, crony, familiar, fellow, fellow student, fellowship, flock together, fraternize, friend, girl friend, go with, gossip, hang around with, hang out with, herd together, hobnob with, join, join in fellowship, keep company with, mate, messmate, mingle with, mix with, old crony, pal, pal up with, pal with, pard, pardner, partner, playfellow, playmate, roommate, run in couples, run with, running mate, schoolfellow, schoolmate, shipmate, side partner, sidekick, sort with, take up with, team up with, teammate, tie up with, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

• chump, asshole, babe, bean, boob, booby, butt, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, cinch, conk, credulous person, crunch, cull, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dolt, dolthead, dome, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fathead, fish, fool, galoot, gobe-mouches, goof, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, head, headpiece, innocent, jerk, jerk-off, klutz, leadpipe cinch, mark, masticate, monkey, munch, mutt, noddle, noggin, noodle, oaf, patsy, pigeon, plaything, poll, prize sap, pushover, ruminate, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, scrunch, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, toy, trusting soul, victim

• chunk, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, allotment, allowance, amassment, amount, ante, batch, bet, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, block, book, bowl, budget, bulk, bunch, butt, cast, change of pace, change-up, chip, chuck, clip, clipping, clod, clump, clutch, collop, commission, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, contingent, count, crumb, cumulation, curve, cut, cutting, deal, destiny, dividend, dole, dollop, dose, downcurve, end, equal share, fastball, fate, fling, flip, forward pass, fragment, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobbet, group, half, halver, handbook, hazard, heap, heave, helping, hunch, hunk, hurl, incurve, interest, knuckleball, large amount, lateral, lateral pass, loaf, lob, lot, lump, mass, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, morsel, nugget, number, outcurve, pack, parcel, paring, parlay, part, particle, pass, pat, peg, percentage, piece, pitch, play, portion, proportion, put, quantity, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scoop, scrap, screwball, segment, serve, service, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shot, shot-put, shred, shy, sinker, slice, slider, sling, sliver, small amount, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, snowball, spitball, spitter, splinter, stake, stitch, stock, stockpile, stump, sum, tatter, throw, toss, upcurve, wad, wager

• chunky, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, snub-nosed, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed

• church house, basilica, bethel, cathedral, cathedral church, church, clergy house, conventicle, deanery, duomo, glebe, house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, kirk, manse, meetinghouse, minor basilica, mission, parsonage, pastorage, pastorate, patriarchal basilica, place of worship, presbytery, rectory, vicarage

• church music, Negro spiritual, anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, doxology, gospel, gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, mass, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual

• church, Mass, adherents, affiliation, apostleship, bedtime prayer, body, branch, call, camp meeting, care of souls, church service, churchly, class, communion, community, compline, confession, connection, creed, cult, denomination, devotions, disciples, divine service, division, duty, evening devotions, evensong, exercises, faction, faith, fellowship, followers, group, holy orders, house of prayer, ism, lauds, liturgy, matins, meeting, morning devotions, night song, none, nones, novena, office, offshoot, order, organization, party, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorate, persuasion, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, priesthood, priestship, prime, prime song, public worship, rabbinate, religious order, revival, revival meeting, sacred calling, schism, school, sect, sectarism, segment, service, sext, society, spiritual, tabernacle, temple, tent meeting, the church, the cloth, the desk, the ministry, the pulpit, tierce, undersong, variety, version, vesper, vespers, vigils, vocation, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

• churchgoer, Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, adorer, assembly, beadsman, believer, brethren, catechumen, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoers, churchite, churchman, class, communicant, congregation, convert, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, evangelist, fanatic, flock, fold, follower, good Christian, idolater, laity, laymen, minyan, neophyte, nonclerics, nonordained persons, parish, parishioners, people, petitioner, pietist, prayer, proselyte, receiver, religionist, revivalist, saint, seculars, sheep, society, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, theist, truster, venerator, votary, worshiper, zealot

• churchly, abbatial, abbatical, archiepiscopal, canonical, capitular, capitulary, cathedral-like, cathedralesque, church, churchish, churchlike, clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, ministerial, pantheonic, pastoral, prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, rabbinic, sacerdotal, spiritual, synagogal, synagogical, tabernacular, templelike, ultramontane

• churchman, Christian, DD, Doctor of Divinity, God-fearing man, Holy Joe, abbe, accepter, believer, brother, catechumen, chaplain, church member, churchgoer, churchite, churchwoman, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, communicant, convert, curate, cure, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, divine, ecclesiastic, fanatic, follower, good Christian, laic, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, man of God, military chaplain, minister, neophyte, padre, parishioner, parson, pastor, pietist, preacher, proselyte, receiver, rector, religionist, reverend, saint, secular, servant of God, shepherd, sister, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, theist, tonsured cleric, truster, votary, zealot

• churl, Babbitt, Philistine, Silas Marner, arriviste, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, captive, chattel, chattel slave, clodhopper, clown, concubine, curmudgeon, debt slave, epicier, galley slave, groundling, guttersnipe, helot, homager, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, liege, liege man, liege subject, looby, lout, low fellow, miser, mucker, muckworm, niggard, nouveau riche, odalisque, parvenu, peasant, penny pincher, peon, pinchfist, pinchgut, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, save-all, scrooge, serf, servant, skinflint, slave, subject, theow, thrall, tightwad, upstart, vassal, villein, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

• churlish, abrupt, aggressive, bearish, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, carlish, cavalier, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, discourteous, dour, excitable, farmerish, feisty, fractious, from the sticks, gruff, harsh, hayseed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, huffish, huffy, inurbane, irascible, irritable, loobyish, loutish, lowbred, lubberly, lumpen, lumpish, mean, naive, ornery, perverse, raffish, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, severe, sharp, short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, testy, truculent, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unschooled, up-country, waspish, yokel, yokelish

• churn, agitate, agitation, agitator, beat, beat up, beater, blender, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, cement mixer, churn up, clabber, clot, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, commotion, conturbation, convulse, cream, crucible, curdle, disarrange, discompose, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, ebullition, eggbeater, embroilment, emulsifier, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foam, foment, fret, fume, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, incrassate, inquietude, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, jiggler, jitters, jumpiness, lopper, maelstrom, malaise, melting pot, mixer, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, paddle, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, restlessness, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rout, row, ruffle, rumple, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, shaker, simmer, smolder, stew, stir, stir up, swirl, thicken, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, vibrator, whip, whip up, whisk, work up

• chute, Ferris wheel, avenue, bank, bevel, bezel, blowhole, brolly, carousel, cascade, cataract, channel, chimney, chute-the-chutes, chutes, collapse, comedown, country rock, crash, debacle, debouch, declension, declination, defluxion, deposit, descending, descension, descent, dike, door, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drogue chute, drop, dropping, easy slope, eaves trough, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, fall, falling, falls, fleam, floodgate, flume, flying horses, force, gangue, gentle slope, glacis, grade, gradient, gravitation, guide, gutter, hanging gardens, harness, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, launching ramp, lode, lodestuff, loophole, matrix, merry-go-round, mineral deposit, opening, ore bed, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pack, parachute, parachute jump, pay dirt, penstock, pentrough, pitch, plummeting, pore, port, pounce, ramp, rapid, rapids, riff, riffle, ripple, roller coaster, roundabout, runway, sally port, sault, scarp, seesaw, shaft, shelving beach, shoot, shroud lines, side, sky dive, slide, slope, sluice, spiracle, spout, steep slope, stiff climb, stock, stoop, swing, swoop, talus, tap, teeter-totter, trough, umbrella, vein, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, waterfall, way out, weir, whip, whirligig

• chutzpah, backbone, bottom, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, cheek, crust, face, gall, grit, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, heart, heart of oak, heroics, hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, intestinal fortitude, mettle, nerve, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, pith, pluck, rashness, spirit, spunk, stamina, stout heart, temerariousness, temerity, toughness, unchariness, unwariness

• cicatrix, birthmark, blackhead, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, blotch, brand, bulla, caste mark, check, checkmark, comedo, crack, crater, craze, cut, dapple, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dot, earmark, engraving, fault, flaw, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, hack, hemangioma, hickey, jot, keloid, kink, lentigo, macula, mark, marking, milium, mole, mottle, needle scar, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, puncture, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sebaceous cyst, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, sty, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

• cigar store, antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, bookstore, bootery, candy store, chemist, clothiers, clothing store, confectionery, dress shop, drugstore, dry goods store, florists, fur salon, furniture store, 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, pharmacy, saddlery, schlock house, schlock shop, secondhand shop, secondhand store, shoe store, smoke shop, snuffman, specialty shop, sporting goods store, stationers, stationery store, sweater shop, sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacco store, tobacconist, tobacconists, toy shop, trimming store, used-car lot

• cilia, Golgi apparatus, aster, basal body, cell membrane, central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm, centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cytocentrum, flagella, kinoplasm, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, pili, plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, ribosome, spherosome, spindle fibers, vacuole

• ciliate, bristly, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pilose, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, woolly

• cinch, affix, afford proof of, anchor, annex, ascertain, assure, attach, babe, back band, backstrap, band, bandage, bearing rein, belay, bellyband, belt, bend, bind, bind up, bit, blinders, blinds, boob, brace, breeching, breeze, bridle, bring home to, bundle, caparison, cavesson, cement, certify, chain, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, chump, clamp, clear up, clinch, collar, cramp, credulous person, crownband, crupper, cull, curb, dead-sure thing, decide, demonstrate, determine, dismiss all doubt, do up, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, easy target, easy thing, engraft, ensure, establish, fall guy, fasten, find out, fish, fix, follow, follow from, fool, gag swivel, get at, gird, girdle, girt, girth, gobe-mouches, graft, grapple, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, harness, have a case, headgear, headstall, hip straps, hold good, hold water, horn, innocent, insure, jaquima, jerk line, jockey, knit, lace, lash, lead-pipe cinch, leadpipe cinch, leash, lines, make certain, make fast, make good, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make sure, make sure of, martingale, monkey, moor, nail down, natural, noseband, open-and-shut case, patsy, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pigeon, pipe, plaything, pole strap, pommel, prize sap, prove, prove to be, prove true, pushover, put to, reassure, reins, remove all doubt, ribbons, rope, saddle, sap, saphead, schlemiel, screw up, secure, see that, see to it, set, set at rest, set to, settle, settle the matter, setup, shaft tug, shoo-in, show, side check, sinecure, sitting duck, snaffle, snap, sort out, splice, stirrup, stooge, strap, sucker, surcingle, sure bet, sure card, sure success, sure thing, swaddle, swathe, tack, tackle, tie, tie up, tighten, toy, trappings, trice up, trim, truss, trusting soul, tug, velvet, victim, winker braces, winner, wire, wrap, wrap up, yoke

• cincture, anklet, arena, armlet, band, begird, belt, bracelet, cingulum, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, close, collar, collarband, confine, container, containment, coop, court, courtyard, curtilage, delimited field, earring, ecliptic, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclave, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, engird, envelopment, environment, equator, fascia, field, fillet, finger ring, fold, gird, girding, girdle, girdling, girt, girth, great circle, ground, hoop, inclusion, involvement, list, neckband, necklace, nose ring, pale, paling, park, pen, quad, quadrangle, quoit, ring, sash, square, surrounding, theater, toft, waistband, wristband, wristlet, yard, zodiac, zone

• cinder, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, brand, burning ember, calx, carbon, charcoal, clinker, coal, coke, coom, deposition, deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, ember, feces, firebrand, froth, fume, grounds, lava, lees, live coal, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, reek, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, sublimate, sullage

• cinema, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, art film, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema verite, cinematograph, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, drive-in, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, kinematograph, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, movie theater, moving picture, moving-picture theater, newsreel, nickelodeon, nouvelle vague, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture house, picture palace, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, the cinema, the movies, the pictures, the screen, the silver screen, thriller, trailer, underground film

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

• cipher, Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, John Hancock, X, a nobody, a nothing, add, algebraize, allegory, alphabetic character, argot, aught, autograph, babble, binary digit, bit, break, calculate, cant, cast, character, charactery, christcross, clear up, code, coded message, common man, compute, conventional symbol, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, cross, cryptoanalysis, cryptoanalytics, cryptogram, cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptography, decipher, device, digit, divide, dope out, double Dutch, dud, dummy, emblem, encipher, encode, endorsement, estimate, extract roots, figure, figure in, figure out, figurehead, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, goose egg, graph, grapheme, hand, hollow man, iconology, ideogram, initials, insignificancy, integer, invisible ink, jackstraw, jargon, jumble, lay figure, letter, lexigraphic character, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, logogram, logotype, love knot, man of straw, mark, mark of signature, measure, mediocrity, monogram, multiply, nada, naught, nebbish, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nobody, nobody one knows, noise, nonentity, notation, nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, nullity, number, numeral, numero, obscurity, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictographic character, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, puzzle out, reckon, resolve, runt, score, scramble, scrub, seal, secret language, secret writing, shrimp, sigil, sign, sign manual, signature, signet, slang, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, subscription, subtract, syllabic, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, sympathetic ink, take account of, tally, thing of naught, token, totem, totem pole, trifle, type, unravel, unriddle, visa, vise, whiffet, whippersnapper, whole number, work out, writing, written character, zero, zilch

• Circe, Don Juan, Euryale, Gorgon, Lorelei, Medea, Medusa, Parthenope, Siren, Stheno, bewitcher, charmer, coquette, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, femme fatale, flirt, inveigler, seducer, seductress, siren, spellbinder, teaser, tempter, temptress, vamp, vampire

• circle, O, acquaintance, advance, alentours, alternate, ambience, ambit, anklet, annular muscle, annulus, anthelion, antisun, aphelion, apogee, arc, arena, areola, armlet, arsis, ascend, associates, astronomical longitude, aura, aureole, autumnal equinox, back, back up, bailiwick, band, bangle, be here again, beads, beat, begird, belt, belt in, bijou, border, borderland, borderlands, bout, bow, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, budge, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, cell, chain, change, change place, chaplet, charm, charmed circle, chatelaine, cincture, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambiencies, circumambulate, circumference, circumjacencies, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumscribe, circumstances, circumvent, circumvolute, circus, clan, class, climb, clique, close the circle, closed circle, colures, come again, come and go, come around, come full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, companions, company, compass, comrades, conchoid, context, cordon, corona, coronet, coterie, countersun, course, crank, crescent, crew, cronies, crook, crowd, crown, curl, curve, cycle, demesne, department, descend, describe a circle, diacaustic, diadem, diastole, dimensions, discus, disk, division, domain, dominion, downbeat, earring, ebb, ecliptic, elite, elite group, ellipse, encincture, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, ensphere, entourage, environ, environing circumstances, environment, environs, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, eternal return, extension, extent, fairy ring, fellowship, festoon, field, flank, flow, fob, fraternity, friends, full circle, galactic longitude, garland, gem, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, gestalt, get over, gird, girdle, girdle the globe, glory, go, go about, go around, go round, go sideways, go the round, great circle, group, gyrate, gyre, habitat, halo, heliocentric longitude, hem, hemisphere, hook, hoop, hyperbola, ingroup, inner circle, intermit, jewel, judicial circuit, junta, junto, jurisdiction, lap, lasso, length, lituus, locket, logical circle, longitude, loop, looplet, lot, lunar corona, lunar halo, magic circle, make a circuit, march, meridian, milieu, mob, mock moon, mock sun, moon dog, mount, move, move over, necklace, neighborhood, nimbus, noose, nose ring, orb, orbit, oscillate, outfit, outposts, outskirts, pale, parabola, paraselene, parhelic circle, parhelion, perigee, perihelion, perimeter, period, periphery, pin, pirouette, pivot, plunge, precinct, precincts, precious stone, progress, province, pulsate, pulse, purlieus, push, radius, rainbow, realm, reappear, recur, regress, reoccur, repeat, retrogress, return, revolution, revolve, rhinestone, ring, ringlet, rise, roll, roll around, rondelle, rotate, rotation, round, round trip, roundel, rounds, run, saucer, scope, screw, series, set, shift, sink, sinus, situation, skirt, small circle, soar, society, solar corona, solar halo, solstitial colure, spell, sphere, sphincter, spin, spiral, stickpin, stir, stone, stream, subside, suburbs, sun dog, surround, surroundings, swing, swivel, systole, thesis, tiara, torque, total environment, tour, tracery, trajectory, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn round, twine around, twist, undulate, upbeat, vernal equinox, vicinage, vicinity, vicious circle, walk, wamble, wampum, wane, we-group, wheel, wheel around, whirl, wind, wreath, wreathe, wreathe around, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

• circling, alternate, ambient, beating, cincture, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambient, circumambulation, circumcincture, circumferential, circumflex, circumflexion, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacence, circumjacent, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumposition, containment, cyclic, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, embracement, embracing, encincture, encirclement, encircling, enclosing, enclosure, encompassing, encompassment, enfolding, enfoldment, enveloping, envelopment, environing, environment, epochal, even, every other, excursion, excursus, girding, girdling, gyre, gyring, inclusion, indirection, intermittent, involvement, isochronal, meandering, measured, metronomic, neighboring, orbit, orbiting, oscillatory, periodical, peripheral, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, seasonal, serial, spiral, spiraling, steady, suburban, surrounding, turn, turning, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling, wrapping

• circuit, O, air lane, alentours, ambages, ambience, ambit, amplifier circuit, annular muscle, annulus, arena, areola, arsis, association, astable circuit, aureole, back-to-back switching circuit, bailiwick, beat, booking, border, borderland, borderlands, borscht circuit, bound, boundary, bout, break, broken circuit, bypass, campaign, chaplet, circle, circuital field, circuiteer, circuitry, circulate, circulation, circumambiencies, circumambulate, circumbendibus, circumference, circumjacencies, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumstances, circumvent, circumvolution, circus, close the circle, closed circle, closed circuit, coast-to-coast hookup, come full circle, compass, complete circuit, conference, confines, context, corona, coronet, coupling circuit, course, crown, cycle, date, dead circuit, demesne, department, describe a circle, detour, deviation, diadem, diastole, digression, discus, disk, domain, dominion, downbeat, edge, encircle, encompass, engagement, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, equivalent circuit, eternal return, excursion, expedition, fairy ring, field, flank, flight path, flip-flop circuit, full circle, galvanic circuit, garland, gestalt, girdle, girdle the globe, girth, glory, go about, go around, go round, go the round, grand tour, gyration, gyre, habitat, halo, hemisphere, hookup, hot circuit, itinerary, jaunt, journey, judicial circuit, junket, jurisdiction, lap, lasso, lateral circuit, leg, limit, line, live circuit, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, magnetic circuit, make a circuit, march, margin, microcircuit, milieu, monostable circuit, multiple circuit, multiple series, neighborhood, net, network, nonsinusoidal circuit, noose, orb, orbit, outing, outline, outposts, outskirts, package tour, pale, path, peregrination, perimeter, periphery, pilgrimage, playing engagement, pleasure trip, precinct, precincts, primrose path, printed circuit, progress, province, pulse, purlieus, radio links, radius, realm, rectifier circuit, revolution, revolve, ring, road, rondelle, rotation, round, round trip, roundabout, roundabout way, roundel, rounds, route, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, saucer, sea lane, semiconductor circuit, series, series multiple, shoot, short, short circuit, shortcut, situation, skirt, spell, sphere, sphincter, spiral, stalk, stand, suburbs, surround, surroundings, systole, thermionic tube circuit, thesis, total environment, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, transistor circuit, travels, trek, trip, turn, upbeat, vaudeville circuit, vector field, vicinage, vicinity, vicious circle, voyage, walk, way, wheel, whirl, wreath

• circuitous, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, anfractuous, backhand, backhanded, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral, convolutional, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose, flexuous, helical, indirect, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, left-handed, mazy, meandering, meandrous, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulose, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, wandering, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

• circuitry, amplifier circuit, astable circuit, back-to-back switching circuit, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, coupling circuit, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, equivalent circuit, excursion, excursus, flip-flop circuit, gyre, gyring, indirection, meandering, microcircuit, monostable circuit, nonsinusoidal circuit, orbit, orbiting, printed circuit, rectifier circuit, roundaboutness, rounding, semiconductor circuit, spiral, spiraling, thermionic tube circuit, transistor circuit, turn, turning, wheeling

• circular, O-shaped, actuate, ambagious, anfractuous, announcement, annular, annulate, annulose, annunciation, backhanded, booklet, brochure, bulletin board, chapbook, circinate, circuitous, circulate, circumlocutory, comic book, communique, coronary, crownlike, cyclic, cycloid, declaration, deviating, deviative, devious, diffuse, digressive, discoid, discursive, disklike, disperse, disseminate, distribute, edict, encyclical, enunciation, exchange, excursive, fallacious, flow, folder, helical, illogical, inconsistent, indirect, interchange, irrational, leaflet, manifesto, meandering, notice, notification, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, pamphlet, periphrastic, position paper, proclamation, program, programma, pronouncement, pronunciamento, propagate, public notice, radiate, redundant, report, revolve, ring-shaped, ringlike, rotary, rotate, round, roundabout, rounded, set off, sophistic, sophistical, spiral, statement, strew, tortuous, tract, twisted, twisting, ukase, white book, white paper

• circularity, aduncity, apparent soundness, aquilinity, arching, arcuation, casuistry, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, concameration, concavity, convexity, convolution, crookedness, curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, decurvation, decurvature, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, excursion, excursus, excurvation, excurvature, fallaciousness, fallacy, gyre, gyring, hookedness, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, indirection, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, meandering, misapplication, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, orbit, orbiting, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, rationalization, recurvation, recurvature, recurvity, rondure, rotundity, roundaboutness, rounding, sinuosity, sinuousness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, spiral, spiraling, subtlety, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning, vaulting, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, wheeling

• circulate, advertise, air, announce, become public, break, bring out, broadcast, bruit about, buzz about, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumvent, circumvolute, close the circle, come across with, come forth, come full circle, come out, compass, course, crank, cycle, deliver, deliver over, demonetize, describe a circle, devaluate, devalue, disseminate, distribute, divulge, encircle, encompass, find vent, flank, flow, fly about, fork over, forward, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get around, get exposure, girdle, girdle the globe, give in, give out, give over, go about, go around, go forth, go round, go the round, go the rounds, gyrate, gyre, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, have currency, issue, lap, make a circuit, make known, noise abroad, orbit, pass, pass out, pass over, pirouette, pivot, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, put about, put out, reach, reissue, remonetize, render, report, resign, revalue, reveal, revolve, rotate, round, run, screw, see the light, skirt, spin, spiral, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, surrender, surround, swing, swivel, transfer, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn over, turn round, twist, utter, wamble, wheel, wind

• circulation, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, advertisement, airing, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, announcement, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, axial motion, bandying, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, book, bowling, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, centrifugation, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumgyration, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumrotation, circumvolution, clinical dextran, course, demonetization, devaluation, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, dextran, diffusion, digression, display, dissemination, distribution, erythrocyte, evulgation, excursion, excursus, flow, flowing, full circle, globulin, gore, grume, gyration, gyre, gyring, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, indirection, isoantibody, issuance, issue, issuing, leukocyte, lifeblood, meandering, monetization, motion, neutrophil, opsonin, orbit, orbiting, passage, periodical, phagocyte, pivoting, plasma, plasma substitute, printing, proclamation, promulgation, pronouncement, propagation, publication, publishing, red corpuscle, reeling, revaluation, revolution, roll, rolling, rotation, rotational motion, round, roundaboutness, rounding, serum, spin, spinning, spiral, spiraling, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, swinging, swirling, swiveling, telecasting, transmission, trolling, trundling, turbination, turn, turning, type O, venous blood, ventilation, volutation, volution, wheel, wheeling, whir, whirl, whirling, white corpuscle

• circumcision, adoption, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, celebration, confession, confirmation, conversion, high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, new birth, new life, pax, processional, rebirth, reciting the rosary, redeemedness, redemption, reformation, regeneration, salvation, second birth, spiritual purification, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary

• circumference, O, ambit, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, border, boundaries, boundary, bounds, bourns, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumscription, circus, closed circle, compass, confines, coordinates, corona, coronet, cortex, covering, crown, crust, cycle, diadem, discus, disk, edges, envelope, epidermis, eternal return, exterior, external, facade, face, facet, fairy ring, fringe, fringes, front, garland, glory, halo, integument, lasso, limitations, limits, lineaments, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, marches, margin, metes, metes and bounds, noose, orbit, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outlines, outside, outskirts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, radius, rim, rind, ring, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, shell, skin, skirts, sphincter, superficies, superstratum, surface, top, verges, vicious circle, wheel, wreath

• circumferential, ambient, circling, circumambient, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, delineatory, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, enveloping, environing, in outline, neighboring, outlined, perimetric, peripheral, roundabout, suburban, surrounding, wrapping

• circumlocution, ambages, anfractuosity, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambages, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, excursion, excursus, flexuosity, flexuousness, gyre, gyring, indirection, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, obliqueness, orbit, orbiting, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, rivulation, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, spiral, spiraling, tautology, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning, twisting, undulation, verbality, wave, waving, wheeling, winding

• circumnavigate, boat, bypass, canoe, carry sail, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumvent, close the circle, coast, come full circle, compass, cross, cruise, cycle, describe a circle, detour, encircle, encompass, flank, girdle, girdle the globe, go about, go around, go by ship, go on shipboard, go round, go the round, go to sea, gyre, lap, make a circuit, make a passage, motorboat, navigate, orbit, ply, revolve, round, row, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, scull, seafare, skirt, spiral, steam, steamboat, surround, take a voyage, traverse, voyage, wheel, yacht

• circumscribe, abate, abbreviate, adjust to, alter, assuage, bar, bound, box, box in, box up, circle in, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, confine, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, curtail, decrease, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, determine, diminish, divide, draw, draw in, draw together, enclose, fetter, fix, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hem, hem in, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, knit, lay off, leaven, limit, localize, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, narrow, palliate, pucker, pucker up, purse, qualify, reduce, regulate by, restrain, restrict, rope off, season, separate, set conditions, set limits, set the limit, shorten, soften, solidify, specify, stake out, stint, strangle, strangulate, surround, temper, tighten, trammel, wrinkle

• circumscription, abbreviation, allowance, astriction, astringency, ban, bar, barring, beleaguerment, besetment, blockade, blockading, border line, bottleneck, bound, boundaries, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bounds, bourn, bourns, boycott, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, cervix, cession, circumference, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compass, compression, compressure, concentration, concession, condensation, confine, confinement, confines, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, coordinates, cordoning, cramp, cramping, curtailment, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, debarment, debarring, decrease, delimitation, demarcation, determinant, diminuendo, division line, edges, embargo, enclosure, end, envelopment, exception, exclusion, exemption, extenuating circumstances, extremity, finish, floor, fringes, frontier, grain of salt, grant, hedge, hedging, high-water mark, hourglass, hourglass figure, immurement, imprisonment, inadmissibility, incarceration, inclusion, injunction, interface, isthmus, knitting, limen, limit, limitation, limitations, limiting factor, limits, line, line of demarcation, lockout, low-water mark, lower limit, march, marches, mark, mental reservation, mete, metes, metes and bounds, modification, narrow place, narrowing, neck, nonadmission, omission, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, preclusion, prohibition, puckering, pursing, qualification, quarantine, reduction, rejection, relegation, repudiation, reservation, restraint, restriction, salvo, shortening, siege, skirts, solidification, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, start, starting line, starting point, stint, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, taboo, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit, verges, waiver, wasp waist, wrinkling

• circumspect, ambling, attentive, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, claudicant, considerate, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, curious, deliberate, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, easy, enlightened, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gingerly, gradual, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitant, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indolent, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, loving, lumbering, meticulous, mindful, moderate, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, poking, poky, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, punctilious, reflecting, reflective, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, safe, sauntering, scrupulous, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, solicitous, staggering, strolling, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unhurried, unprecipitate, waddling, wary, well-advised, well-judged

• circumstance, absolute fact, accepted fact, actual fact, adjunct, admitted fact, adventure, affair, appurtenance, aspect, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, bearings, brutal fact, case, circumstances, cold fact, component, conceded fact, condition, conditions, constituent, contents, datum, demonstrable fact, destiny, detail, doom, element, empirical fact, episode, established fact, estate, event, experience, fact, fact of experience, factor, feature, finances, fix, fixings, footing, formality, given fact, go, hap, happening, happenstance, hard fact, heraldry, incident, income, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, ingredient, integrant, item, jam, kismet, location, lot, makings, matter of fact, modality, mode, moira, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, occasion, occurrence, part, part and parcel, particular, pass, phenomenon, pickle, place, plain, plight, pomp, portion, position, positive fact, postulate, posture, predicament, pride, provable fact, rank, reality, resources, salient fact, self-evident fact, significant fact, simple fact, situation, sober fact, solemnity, specialty, spot, standing, state, state of affairs, station, status, stubborn fact, the case, the nitty-gritty, thing, turn of events, undeniable fact, weird, well-known fact

• circumstances, affairs, alentours, ambience, ambit, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, compass, concerns, condition of things, conditions, context, current assets, dealings, deferred assets, doings, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, existing conditions, fixed assets, frozen assets, full particulars, funds, gestalt, goings-on, habitat, ins and outs, intangible assets, intangibles, life, liquid assets, march of events, material assets, matters, means, milieu, neighborhood, net assets, net worth, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, proceedings, purlieus, quick assets, relations, resources, run of things, set of conditions, situation, state of affairs, status quo, stock, stock-in-trade, suburbs, surroundings, tangible assets, tangibles, the times, the world, total environment, total situation, vicinage, vicinity, wealth, what happens, whole picture

• circumstantial, absolute, accessory, accidental, accompanying, accurate, additional, adducible, admissible, ado, adscititious, adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, appurtenant, ascititious, attestative, attestive, authentic, auxiliary, based on, blow-by-blow, casual, certain, chance, close, collateral, complete, conclusive, conditional, contingent, convincing, cumulative, current, damning, decisive, deduced, detailed, determinative, documentary, documented, doing, eventuating, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, exact, explicit, extra, extraneous, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, fortuitous, founded on, full, going on, grounded on, happening, hearsay, implicative, implicit, implied, in hand, in the wind, incidental, incontrovertible, indicative, indirect, indisputable, inessential, inferential, inferred, interpretive, irrefutable, irresistible, itemized, material, minute, nice, nonessential, nuncupative, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, ongoing, overwhelming, particular, particularized, passing, precise, presumable, presumed, presumptive, prevailing, prevalent, probative, provisional, reliable, replete, resultant, secondary, significant, specific, strict, subsidiary, suggestive, superadded, superfluous, supervenient, supplemental, supplementary, sure, symptomatic, taking place, telling, thorough, under way, unessential, unimportant, valid, weighty

• circumstantiality, accuracy, attention to detail, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, delicacy, detail, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, fussiness, meticulousness, minuteness, minuteness of detail, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, specificity, strictness, subtlety

• circumstantiate, adduce, affirm, anatomize, atomize, attest, authenticate, back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, certify, cite, confirm, corroborate, descend to particulars, detail, document, enter into detail, fortify, give full particulars, instance, itemize, particularize, probate, prove, ratify, reinforce, specify, spell out, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, undergird, uphold, validate, verify, warrant

• circumvent, avoid, baffle, balk, bamboozle, beat, befool, beg, beguile, betray, bilk, blast, bluff, brave, burke, bypass, cajole, challenge, cheat on, checkmate, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumnavigate, close the circle, come full circle, compass, confound, confront, conjure, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, cycle, dash, deceive, defeat, defy, delude, describe a circle, destroy, detour, diddle, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disrupt, ditch, double, double-cross, dupe, elude, encircle, encompass, escape, evade, flank, flummox, foil, forestall, frustrate, gammon, get around, get away from, get out of, get round, girdle, girdle the globe, give the runaround, give the slip, go about, go around, go one better, go round, go the round, gull, gyre, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, knock the chocks, lap, let down, make a circuit, mock, nonplus, orbit, outfigure, outflank, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pass the buck, perplex, pigeon, play one false, put something over, revolve, round, ruin, sabotage, scotch, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, sidestep, skirt, snow, spike, spiral, spoil, stonewall, string along, stump, surround, take in, thwart, trick, two-time, upset, victimize, wheel

• circumvention, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, buck-passing, calculated deception, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defense mechanism, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dodge, duck, dupery, elusion, elusiveness, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, foiling, fond illusion, fooling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, frustration, getting around, getting round, hallucination, hoodwinking, illusion, jink, kidding, mirage, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, outguessing, outmaneuvering, outwitting, overreaching, passing the buck, phantasm, prevention, putting on, refraining, self-deception, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, zigzag

• circus, Broadway, O, agora, amphitheater, annular muscle, annulus, arena, areola, athletic field, auditorium, aureole, background, bear garden, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, burlesque, burlesque show, campus, canvas, carnival, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, closed circle, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, coochie show, corona, coronet, course, crescent, crown, cycle, diadem, discus, disk, drama, entertainment industry, eternal return, fairy ring, fantoccini, field, floor, floor show, forum, galanty show, garland, girly show, glory, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, halo, hippodrome, hootchy-kootchy show, lasso, leg show, legit, legitimate stage, light show, lists, locale, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, magic show, marketplace, mat, milieu, noose, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, ombres chinoises, open forum, orbit, palaestra, parade ground, peep show, pit, place, platform, playland, precinct, prize ring, public square, puppet show, purlieu, radius, range, raree-show, rep show, repertory drama, repertory show, ring, rodeo, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, shadow show, show biz, show business, sideshow, site, sphere, sphincter, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, terrain, the big top, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, tilting ground, tiltyard, variety, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vicious circle, walk, wheel, wreath, wrestling ring

• cirrhosis, alcoholic addiction, alcoholic psychosis, alcoholism, bottle nose, cholangitis, cholecystitis, delirium tremens, dipsomania, ebriosity, grog blossom, habitual drunkenness, heavy drinking, hepatitis, hepatoma, icterus, infectious hepatitis, jaundice, oenomania, oinomania, pathological drunkenness, problem drinking, serum hepatitis

• cirrose, bristly, bushy, capillary, castellatus, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dirty, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, funicular, furry, fuzzy, gloomy, gossamery, hairlike, hairy, heavy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, lenticularis, ligamental, mammatus, matted, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, overcast, overclouded, pilose, pubescent, ropy, shagged, shaggy, silky, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous, stringy, taeniate, taeniform, threadlike, thready, thunderheaded, unshorn, wiry, woolly

• cirrus, Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, animal fiber, anvil cloud, artificial fiber, banner cloud, billowy cloud, cap cloud, capillament, cilium, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cobweb, cocktail, coil, corkscrew, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl, curl cloud, curlicue, denier, evolute, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, gossamer, gyre, hair, hank, helix, high fog, involute, kink, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud, ringlet, roll, screw, scroll, scud, skein, snail cloud, spiral, squall cloud, storm cloud, strand, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, suture, swirl, tendril, thread, threadlet, thundercloud, thunderhead, twirl, twist, volute, volution, vortex, water carrier, web, whirl, whorl, woolpack

• cist, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist grave, cromlech, crypt, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, grave, house of death, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, 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

• cistern, artificial lake, bayou lake, dam, dead water, dike, etang, farm pond, fishpond, freshwater lake, glacial lake, inland sea, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, linn, loch, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, nyanza, oxbow lake, plash, pond, pondlet, pool, puddle, reservoir, salina, salt pond, stagnant water, standing water, still water, sump, tank, tarn, tidal pond, volcanic lake, water hole, water pocket, well

• citadel, acropolis, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, castle, donjon, fasthold, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, peel, peel tower, pillbox, post, rath, redoubt, safehold, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, ward

• citation, accolade, acknowledgment, assault, attack, award, by-line, case, censure, certiorari, confession, credit line, cross reference, demonstration, eulogy, example, exemplification, garnishment, guerdon, habeas corpus, honorable mention, illustration, implication, impugnment, incrimination, inculpation, instance, involvement, item, kudos, mention, monition, panegyric, particular, praise, quotation, reference, reward, salutation, signature, subpoena, summons, trademark, tribute, venire, venire de novo, venire facias, writ of summons

• cite, accuse, address to, adduce, advance, allege, allude to, anatomize, arraign, article, atomize, bid come, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to attention, bring to book, bring to notice, call, call attention to, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to mind, call together, call up, charge, circumstantiate, cite a particular, complain, conjure, conjure up, convene, convoke, count, crown, crown with laurel, decorate, demand, demonstrate, denounce, denunciate, descend to particulars, detail, direct attention to, direct to, do honor, document, enter into detail, enumerate, evoke, example, exemplify, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, focus on, give a for-instance, give full particulars, hang something on, honor, illustrate, impeach, imply, impute, indent, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, instance, invoke, itemize, lay, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, mention, mind, muster, muster up, name, number, offer, order up, page, particularize, pay regard to, pay tribute, pick out, pin on, point at, point out, point to, praise, preconize, prefer charges, present, press charges, put on report, quote, recall, recollect, refer to, remind, reminisce, render honor to, report, reproach, requisition, retain, retrospect, revive, send after, send for, serve, specify, spell out, subpoena, substantiate, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, tell, touch on, twit

• citizen, burgess, burgher, citizen by adoption, civilian, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, deditician, denizen, dweller, franklin, free citizen, freedman, freedwoman, freeman, freewoman, householder, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, inhabitant, metic, national, native, naturalized citizen, nonbelligerent, noncombatant, nonnative citizen, nonresistant, nonresister, oppidan, ratepayer, resident, subject, taxpayer, towner, townsman, townswoman, villager, voter

• citizenry, Everyman, John Doe, Public, body politic, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, constituency, cultural community, demos, dwellers, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, general public, gentry, habitancy, hoi polloi, inhabitants, linguistic community, men, nation, nationality, people, people at large, people in general, persons, polity, populace, population, public, society, speech community, state, the citizenry, the general public, the people, the populace, the population, the public, whole people, world, you and me

• city dweller, big-city man, bourgeois, burgess, burgher, city man, city slicker, exurbanite, oppidan, suburbanite, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, urbanite, villager, villageress

• city father, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, archon, assemblyman, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, chosen freeholder, city councilman, city manager, commissar, commissioner, congressman, congresswoman, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, floor leader, headman, induna, lawgiver, lawmaker, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, majority leader, mayor, minister, minister of state, minority leader, party whip, portreeve, reeve, representative, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, senator, solon, state senator, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden, whip

• city hall, American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Farmer-Labor Party, Federalist Party, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Know-Nothing Party, Labour Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party, National Republican Party, Populist Party, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Tory Party, Whig Party, camp, capitol, community center, county building, county courthouse, courthouse, faction, fire station, firehouse, machine, major party, minor party, multiple party system, municipal building, one-party system, opposition party, party, party in power, police headquarters, police station, political machine, political party, precinct house, splinter party, statehouse, third party, town hall, two-party system

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

• city slicker, big-city man, bourgeois, burgess, burgher, city dweller, city man, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, exurbanite, man of experience, man-about-town, oppidan, slicker, sophisticate, suburbanite, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, urbanite, villager, villageress

• city state, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, body politic, buffer state, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, country, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, free city, grand duchy, kingdom, land, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, nation, nationality, polis, polity, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, republic, satellite, seneschalty, settlement, sovereign nation, state, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy

• city, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Kreis, Little Hungary, Little Italy, Stadt, West End, West Side, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, barrio, bishopric, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, borough, bourg, burg, burgh, burghal, business district, canton, central city, citified, city center, civic, commune, congressional district, constablewick, conurbation, core, county, departement, diocese, district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghetto, ghost town, government, greater city, greenbelt, hamlet, hundred, inner city, interurban, magistracy, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, municipality, oblast, okrug, oppidan, outskirts, parish, polis, precinct, principality, province, red-light district, region, residential district, riding, run-down neighborhood, see, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shopping center, shrievalty, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburban, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, territory, town, township, uptown, urban, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville, wapentake, ward

• civic, absolute, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, bureaucratic, burghal, chauvinist, citified, city, civil, common, communal, constitutional, cosmopolitan, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, diplomatic, downtown, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, flag-waving, general, geopolitical, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, international, interurban, jingoist, matriarchal, matriarchic, metropolitan, midtown, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, municipal, national, nationalistic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, oppidan, overpatriotic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, patriotic, pluralistic, politic, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, public, public-spirited, republican, self-governing, social, societal, state, statesmanlike, suburban, suffragist, superpatriotic, supranational, theocratic, totalitarian, town, ultranationalist, uptown, urban, village

• civil ceremony, Gretna Green wedding, banns, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil wedding, elopement, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, honeymoon, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites, marriage, nuptial apartment, nuptial mass, nuptial song, nuptials, prothalamium, saffron veil, shotgun wedding, spousals, wedding, wedding canopy, wedding song, wedding veil

• civil, absolute, accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, appropriate, aristocratic, attentive, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, becoming, bland, bureaucratic, civic, civilian, civilized, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, common, communal, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, complaisant, congenial, congregational, considerate, constitutional, cordial, cosmopolitan, courteous, courtly, cultivated, decent, decorous, deferential, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, diplomatic, domestic, fair, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, felicitous, fit for society, fitting, fond of society, formal, friendly, general, genial, genteel, governmental, graceful, gracious, gregarious, gubernatorial, happy, heteronomous, hospitable, impolite, internal, international, laic, laical, lay, mannered, mannerly, matriarchal, matriarchic, meet, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, national, nonclerical, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonordained, nonpastoral, nonreligious, obliging, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, polished, polite, politic, political, popular, proper, public, refined, republican, respectful, right, secular, secularist, secularistic, seemly, self-governing, sociable, social, social-minded, societal, solicitous, state, suave, suitable, supranational, tactful, temporal, theocratic, thoughtful, totalitarian, ungracious, urbane, well-bred, well-mannered

• civilian, AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, attorney general, citizen, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, district attorney, junior counsel, law agent, leader, mouthpiece, nonbelligerent, noncombatant, nonresistant, nonresister, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, public prosecutor, publicist, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman

• civility, acculturation, act of courtesy, affability, agreeableness, amenities, amenity, amiability, appropriateness, attention, becomingness, bienseance, ceremonies, civilities, civilization, clubbability, clubbishness, clubbism, comity, communicativeness, companionability, compatibility, complaisance, conformity, congeniality, considerateness, consideration, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, cordiality, correctness, courteousness, courtesy, courtliness, cultivation, culture, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, deference, dignities, diplomacy, diplomatic code, education, elegance, elegancies, enculturation, enlightenment, etiquette, exquisite manners, familiarity, favor, felicity, fitness, fittingness, fondness for society, form, formalities, formality, friendliness, geniality, genteelness, gentilities, gentility, good form, good manners, graceful gesture, gracefulness, graces, graciousness, gregariousness, happiness, hospitality, intimacy, manners, meetness, mores, natural politeness, point of etiquette, polish, polite act, politeness, politesse, properness, proprieties, propriety, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, refinement, respect, respectfulness, rightness, rites, rituals, rules of conduct, seemliness, sociability, sociableness, social code, social conduct, social convention, social grace, social graces, social procedures, social usage, sociality, socialization, solicitousness, solicitude, suitability, tact, tactfulness, thoughtfulness, urbanity

• civilization, acculturation, civility, complex, cultivation, cultural drift, culture, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, customs, edification, education, enculturation, enlightenment, ethos, folkways, key trait, mores, polish, refinement, socialization, society, sophistication, trait, trait-complex

• civilize, acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, anthropomorphize, better, boost, bring forward, broaden, broaden the mind, catechize, demonstrate, direct, domesticate, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give instruction, give lessons in, go straight, ground, guide, humanize, illumine, improve, improve upon, inform, instruct, lard, lift, make an improvement, make human, meliorate, mend, nurture, open the eyes, polish, promote, raise, reeducate, refine, refine upon, reform, school, set right, sharpen the wits, show, show how, socialize, straighten out, tame, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift

• civilized, Christian, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, becoming, befitting, bettered, bland, comme il faut, conforming, converted, correct, cultivated, cultured, dainty, decent, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, done, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, graceful, gracile, gracious, improved, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, smooth, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, wise

• clabber, Devonshire cream, albumen, batter, beat up, blood clot, bonnyclabber, butter, cake, casein, churn, clot, clotted cream, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulum, colloid, colloidize, concrete, congeal, cornstarch, crassamentum, cream, curd, curdle, dough, egg white, embolus, emulsify, emulsionize, gaum, gel, gelatin, gelatinate, gelatinize, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, grume, gumbo, gunk, incrassate, inspissate, jam, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, legumin, loblolly, lopper, loppered milk, lump, molasses, mucilage, mucus, pap, paracasein, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, semifluid, semiliquid, set, size, soup, starch, sticky mess, syrup, thick, thicken, thrombus, treacle, turn, whip

• clack, Klaxon, babble, babblement, bavardage, bibble-babble, bicker, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, boiler factory, boiler room, brattle, bull-roarer, cackle, call, caquet, caqueterie, carol, catcall, caw, chat, chatter, cheep, cherry bomb, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chitter-chatter, chuck, clacker, clacket, clapper, clatter, clatter about, click, clitter, clitterclatter, cluck, clunter, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, crack, cracker, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitate, crepitation, cricket, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, decrepitate, decrepitation, dither, drum, firecracker, gab, gabble, gaggle, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gobble, gossip, guff, guggle, gush, haver, honk, hoo, hoot, horn, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jaw, mere talk, natter, noisemaker, nonsense talk, palaver, patter, peep, pip, pipe, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, quack, quidnunc, racket, ramble on, rattle, rattle around, rattle on, rattlebox, rattletybang, rattling, reel off, roll, ruckle, rumormonger, run on, scandalmonger, scold, shatter, sieve, sing, siren, sizzling, snap, snapper, snapping, spit, spitting, spout, spout off, squawk, steam whistle, tabby, talebearer, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, telltale, ticktack, tittle-tattle, trill, twaddle, twattle, tweet, twit, twitter, waffle, warble, whistle, whizgig, whizzer, yak, yakkety-yak

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

• clad, apparel, appareled, array, arrayed, attire, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, dight, disguised, dress, dressed, enclothe, endued, face, garb, garbed, garment, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, hooded, invested, liveried, mantled, pantalooned, raiment, raimented, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed, side, skin, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented

• claim, absolute interest, acquire, adduce, advance, adverse possession, affidavit, affirm, affirmation, allegation, allege, alodium, application, appurtenance, argue, ask, ask for, assert, assertion, authority, avow, be enfeoffed of, be entitled to, be hurting for, be indicated, be possessed of, be seized of, benefit, bill, bill of complaint, birthright, blackmail, boast, burgage, call, call for, catch up, challenge, claim, clamor for, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, clutch, colony, command, common, complaint, conjugal right, contend, contingent interest, contribution, cry for, cry out for, de facto, de jure, declaration, declare, defend, demand, demand for, dependency, deposition, derivative title, divine right, draft, drain, drain off, draw off, droit, due, duty, easement, embrace, enjoy, equitable interest, equity, estate, exact, exaction, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, faculty, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, fill, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, get, get hold of, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, have, have and hold, have in hand, have occasion for, have tenure of, having title to, heavy demand, hold, holding, hug, impose, imposition, impost, inalienable right, indent, insist on, insist upon, insistent demand, interest, issue an ultimatum, justify, knight service, lay claim to, lay fee, lay hands on, lay hold of, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, levy, libel, limitation, loot, maintain, make a demand, mandate, nail, narratio, natural right, need, nip, nip up, nolle prosequi, nonnegotiable demand, nonsuit, notice, occupancy, occupation, occupy, order, order up, original title, owning, palm, part, partake, percentage, petition, pillage, place an order, pocket, possess, possessing, possession, postulate, power, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequire, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretend, pretend to, pretense, pretension, pretext, privilege, profess, profession, proper claim, property, property right, property rights, proprietary rights, protest too much, protestation, purport, put forth, put in requisition, receive, rend from, rending, request, require, requirement, requisition, right, right of entry, rights, ripping, rush, rush order, screw, seek, seisin, seize, set forth, settlement, share, snap up, snatch, socage, solicit, squat, squat on, squatting, stake, state, statement, statement of facts, steal, strict settlement, sublease, take, take by assault, take by storm, take doing, take hold of, take possession, tax, taxing, tear from, tearing, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, tribute, trust, ultimatum, underlease, undertenancy, use, usucapion, usucapt, vested interest, vested right, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, vindicate, want, want doing, warn, warning, warrant, whip up, wrench, wrench from, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring, wring from, wringing

• claimant, accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, applicant, aspirant, bidder, candidate, complainant, delator, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, libelant, party, petitioner, plaintiff, postulant, prosecutor, seeker, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, suppliant, supplicant, the prosecution

• clairvoyance, ESP, a priori knowledge, anticipation, apprehension, astrology, augury, buddhi, clairsentience, command, comprehension, conception, conceptualization, crystal ball, crystal gazing, direct apprehension, divination, divining, extrasensory perception, foreboding, foreknowing, foreknowledge, foreseeability, foresight, forewisdom, fortunetelling, grasp, grip, haruspication, haruspicy, horoscopy, ideation, immediate cognition, insight, inspiration, intellection, intelligence, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, knowledge without thought, lucidity, mantic, mantology, mastery, mental grasp, palm-reading, palmistry, precognition, prehension, premonition, presage, prescience, presentiment, psychometry, pythonism, satori, savvy, second sight, second-sightedness, sixth sense, sorcery, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, understanding, unmediated perception, wisdom

• clairvoyant, anticipant, anticipatory, automatist, clairaudient, clairsentient, divinatory, extrasensory, farseeing, farsighted, feeling, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, intuitional, intuitive, longsighted, mediumistic, precognitive, precognizant, prepared, prescient, pretersensual, provident, providential, prudent, psychic, psychokinetic, psychometer, psychometrist, psychosensory, ready, sagacious, second-sighted, sensing, spiritual, spiritualistic, supersensible, supersensual, telekinetic, telepathic

• clam, Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Laconian, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, Spartan, angle, bait the hook, blue point, bob, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, dap, dib, dibble, drive, fish, fly-fish, gig, go fishing, grig, guddle, jack, jacklight, jig, laconic, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, net, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop, seine, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, spin, steamer, still-fish, torch, trawl, troll, whale, whelk

• clambake, ]$100-a-plate dinner, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, campaign dinner, campaigning, coffee break, cookout, diner, dinner, electioneering, elevenses, fish fry, fund-raising dinner, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, politicking, rally, stumping, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, whistle-stopping, wiener roast, wienie roast

• clammy, adhesive, amylaceous, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, curdled, damp, diaphoretic, doughy, drenched with sweat, foggy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, humid, in a sweat, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, misty, moist, mucilaginous, muggy, pasty, perspiring, perspiry, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous, wet, wet with sweat, wilted

• clamor for, ache for, adjure, appeal, appeal to, ask, ask for, be dying for, be hurting for, be indicated, beg, beseech, blackmail, call for, call for help, call on, call upon, challenge, claim, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry out for, cry to, demand, entreat, exact, extort, gape for, have occasion for, hone for, hope for, impetrate, implore, impose, imprecate, indent, invoke, issue an ultimatum, itch for, kneel to, languish for, levy, long for, lust for, make a demand, need, obtest, order, order up, pant for, pine for, place an order, plead, plead for, pray, prerequire, put in requisition, require, requisition, run to, screw, sigh for, spoil for, supplicate, take doing, thirst for, want, want doing, warn, weary for, wish for, yearn for, yen for

• clamor, Babel, Bedlam let loose, adjuration, agitate, air a grievance, appeal, babel, bawl, be noisy, bedlam, beef, bellow, bellow out, bellyache, beseechment, bid, bitch, blast, bluster, bobbery, brawl, brouhaha, bustle, call, call out, charivari, chirm, claim, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, commotion, complain, convulsion, crab, croak, cry, cry out, debate, demand, din, discord, dispute, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, entreaty, ferment, flap, fracas, free-for-all, fret, fret and fume, fuss, gaff, gripe, groan, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, harshness, hassle, hell broke loose, holler, holler out, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, invocatory plea, jangle, jar, kick, lodge a complaint, loud noise, maffick, make a noise, make a racket, make an outcry, make an uproar, mere noise, murmur, mutter, noise, noise and shouting, obsecration, obtestation, outcry, pandemonium, pipe up, plea, prayer, racket, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise a howl, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rattle, register a complaint, rhubarb, roar, rogation, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, shivaree, shout out, sing out, squawk, suit, supplication, take on, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, tumult, turmoil, upheaval, uproar, upturn, vociferate, vociferation, whirl, whoop it up, yap, yell out, yelp

• clamorous, acute, articulate, bawling, begging, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, burning, clamant, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, compelling, critical, crucial, crying, demanding, dire, draining, eloquent, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, grasping, high-pressure, high-priority, imperative, imperious, imploring, importunate, insistent, instant, loud, loudmouthed, mafficking, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, persistent, pertinacious, pivotal, pressing, rackety, rip-roaring, rowdy, screaming, shouting, strepitant, strepitous, strident, taxing, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, urgent, vocal, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, voluble, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

• clamp down on, asphyxiate, beat down, bottle up, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, castrate, censor, choke off, coerce, compel, cork, cork up, cow, crack down on, crush, damp down, daunt, despotize, domineer, domineer over, drown, enslave, extinguish, gag, grind, grind down, henpeck, hold down, intimidate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, lord it over, muzzle, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, pour water on, press heavy on, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smother, squash, squelch, stanch, stifle, strangle, stultify, subdue, subjugate, suffocate, suppress, terrorize, throttle, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on

• clamp, affix, alum, anchor, annex, astringent, attach, bear hug, belay, bite, brace, bracket, cement, cinch, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clip, clutch, compress, compressor, constrictor, contractor, cramp, crush, death grip, embrace, engraft, ensphere, fasten, fastener, firm hold, fix, foothold, footing, graft, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, iron grip, knit, make fast, moor, nip, pincer, pinch, press, purchase, put to, screw up, secure, seizure, set, set to, squeeze, styptic, styptic pencil, tenure, tight grip, tighten, toehold, trice up, trim, tweak, vice, vise, wad up

• clan, animal kingdom, ashram, band, blood, body, bracket, branch, brand, breed, brood, brotherhood, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, cast, caste, category, cell, character, charmed circle, circle, class, clique, closed circle, colony, color, commonwealth, commune, community, coterie, crew, crowd, deme, denomination, description, designation, division, dynasty, economic class, elite, elite group, endogamous group, estate, extended family, faction, family, feather, fellowship, folk, form, fraternity, gang, genre, gens, genus, grade, grain, group, grouping, head, heading, house, ilk, ingroup, inner circle, junta, junto, kidney, kin, kind, kindred, kinship group, label, level, line, lineage, lot, make, manner, mark, matriclan, mob, moiety, mold, nation, nature, nuclear family, number, order, outfit, party, patriclan, people, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, ring, rubric, section, sept, set, settlement, shape, sly, social class, society, sort, species, stamp, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subcaste, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, the like of, the likes of, title, totem, tribe, type, variety, we-group

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

• clang, animal noise, bark, barking, belch, birdcall, blare, blat, bray, burr, buzz, cackle, call, caw, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, chirr, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clash, clink, craunch, croak, crump, crunch, cry, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, gong, grind, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, howl, howling, jangle, jar, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling, mating call, note, peal, peal ringing, pealing, rasp, ring, ring changes, ringing, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, snarl, snore, sound, sound a knell, stridulation, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, twang, ululation, woodnote

• clank, belch, blare, blat, bray, burr, buzz, cackle, caw, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, chirr, clang, clanging, clangor, clanking, clash, clink, craunch, croak, crump, crunch, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, gong, grind, groan, growl, grumble, jangle, jar, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling, peal, peal ringing, pealing, rasp, ring, ring changes, ringing, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, snarl, snore, sound, sound a knell, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, twang

• clannish, arrogant, cliquey, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, elect, ethnic, ethnocentric, exclusive, family, genetic, gentile, gentilic, haughty, lineal, national, phyletic, phylogenetic, racial, scornful, select, selective, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, totemic, tribal, withering

• clansman, agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, near relation, next of kin, people, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

• clap, Bedlam let loose, French disease, Spanish pox, VD, acclaim, acclamation, acquired syphilis, applaud, applause, apply, balanitis gangrenosa, bang, bar, barricade, bash, bat, batten, batten down, bedlam, belt, biff, big hand, blast, bobbery, bolt, bonk, boom, brawl, brouhaha, bump, burst, burst of applause, bust, button, button up, cast, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, charivari, cheer, cheer on, chirm, choke, choke off, chuck, clamor, clangor, clap the hands, clapping, clapping of hands, claps, clash, clatter, climatic bubo, clip, clobber, close, close up, clout, clump, coldcock, commotion, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, constrict, contain, contract, cover, crack, crash, crump, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, din, discord, donnybrook, dose, dose of clap, drunken brawl, dustup, eclat, encore, fasten, fetch, fetch a blow, fifth venereal disease, flap, fling, flop, fold, fold up, fracas, free-for-all, general paresis, give a hand, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, hail, hand, handclap, handclapping, hard chancre, hear it for, hell broke loose, hit, hit a clip, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurl, impose, jab, jangle, key, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, latch, latent syphilis, lay, let have it, lock, lock out, lock up, locomotor ataxia, loud noise, morbus Gallicus, noise, noise and shouting, occlude, outcry, ovation, padlock, pandemonium, paralytic dementia, paresis, paste, pat, place, plank, plaudit, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, poke, popularity, pox, pudendal ulcer, punch, put, racket, rap, rattle, report, rhubarb, roar, root for, round of applause, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shindy, shivaree, shut, shut the door, shut up, simple chancre, slam, slap, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, social disease, sock, soft chancre, splat, squeeze shut, stick, strangle, strike, strike at, swap, swat, swipe, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tap, tertiary syphilis, throw, thrust, thump, thunder, thunder of applause, thunderclap, thwack, tintamarre, toss, tropical bubo, tumult, uproar, venereal disease, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whomp, whop, yerk, zip up, zipper

• clapboard, Formica, Masonite, asphalt, beam, billet, blacktop, board, boarding, brick, canvas, carpeting, cobblestone, concrete, cord, cordwood, cork tile, deal, driftwood, fiber glass, firewood, flag, flagging, flagstone, flooring, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, linoleum, log, lumber, macadam, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, pantile, paper, parquet, pavement, pavestone, paving, plank, planking, plasterboard, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, roofage, roofing, roofing paper, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, slate, softwood, splat, spun glass, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, tar paper, thatch, three-by-four, tile, tilestone, tiling, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wainscoting, wallboard, walling, wallpaper, weatherboard, wood

• clapper, Klaxon, bell, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, catcall, cherry bomb, chimes, church bell, clack, clacker, cowbell, cracker, cricket, dinner bell, dinner gong, doorbell, fire bell, firecracker, gong, gong bell, hand bell, horn, jingle bell, noisemaker, passing bell, rattle, rattlebox, sacring bell, sheepbell, siren, sleigh bell, snapper, steam whistle, telephone bell, ticktack, tintinnabulum, tongue, triangle, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

• clappers, battery, bells, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, 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

• clapping, acclaim, acclamation, applause, big hand, burst of applause, cheer, clap, clapping of hands, eclat, encore, hand, handclap, handclapping, ovation, plaudit, popularity, round of applause, thunder of applause

• claptrap, absurdity, amphigory, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, babble, babblement, bad case, balderdash, balls, baloney, begging the question, bibble-babble, blabber, blague, blather, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, circular argument, crap, crowd-pleasing argument, double-talk, drivel, drool, empty words, eyewash, fallacy, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, formal fallacy, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, hysteron proteron, insincere argument, jabber, jargon, jiggery-pokery, logical fallacy, malarkey, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, non sequitur, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, paralogism, petitio principii, philosophism, prate, prattle, pseudosyllogism, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, solecism, sophism, sophistry, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, verbal fallacy, waffling, weak point

• claqueur, adherent, applauder, appreciator, attender, audience, booster, buff, commender, deadhead, encomiast, eulogist, eulogizer, extoller, fan, groundling, hired applauder, lauder, moviegoer, panegyrist, pass holder, playgoer, plugger, praiser, promoter, puffer, rooter, spectator, standee, theatergoer, tout, touter

• clarification, allegorization, bolting, colature, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, destructive distillation, distillation, easing, editing, edulcoration, elucidation, elution, elutriation, emendation, enlightenment, essentialization, euhemerism, exegesis, exemplification, expediting, expedition, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, extraction, facilitation, filtering, filtration, hastening, illumination, illustration, leaching, light, lixiviation, percolation, purification, quickening, rationale, reason, refinement, riddling, screening, separation, sieving, sifting, simplification, simplifying, smoothing, solution, speeding, spiritualization, straining, streamlining, sublimation, unlocking, winnowing

• clarify, account for, allegorize, analyze, bolt, break down, clean, cleanse, clear, clear up, crack, decipher, decrassify, define, delineate, demonstrate, demythologize, depurate, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, distill, edulcorate, elucidate, elute, enlighten, essentialize, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, extract, filter, filtrate, formulate, get across, get over, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, leach, lixiviate, make clear, make it clear, make plain, percolate, popularize, purify, put across, put over, rationalize, ravel, rectify, refine, screen, separate, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, sieve, sift, simplify, solve, sort out, spell out, spiritualize, straighten out, strain, sublimate, sublime, throw light upon, try, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, unfold, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, vulgarize, winnow

• clarinet, English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, cello, claribel, clarion, concert flute, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cromorne, cymbel, diapason, double bassoon, double reed, dulciana, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, hybrid stop, koppel flute, larigot, licorice stick, melodia, mixture, musette, mutation stop, nazard, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, octave, organ stop, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, plein jeu, pommer, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sax, saxophone, sesquialtera, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, tierce, tin-whistle, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unda maris, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

• clarion, English horn, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, bagpipe, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, bassoon, bay, beep, bell, blare, blast, blat, block flute, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, bombard, bourdon, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bray, bugle, bugle call, bugle horn, call to arms, call-up, carillon, catchword, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion call, clear, cloudless, concert flute, conscription, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, cromorna, cymbel, diapason, doodle, double-bell euphonium, double-tongue, dulciana, euphonium, exhortation, fife, fine, flute, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, go for broke, gung ho, harmonic flute, helicon, honk, horn, hunting horn, hybrid stop, key trumpet, koppel flute, larigot, levy, lip, lituus, lur, mellophone, melodia, mixture, mobilization, muster, mutation stop, nazard, oboe, octave, ophicleide, orchestral horn, organ stop, peal, piccolo, pipe, pleasant, plein jeu, pocket trumpet, posaune, post horn, principal, quint, quintaten, rainless, rally, rallying cry, rank, ranket, rebel yell, recruitment, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, sesquialtera, shawm, shriek, slide trombone, sliphorn, slogan, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, sousaphone, spitz flute, squeal, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, sunny, sunshiny, tenor tuba, tierce, tongue, toot, tootle, tremolo, triple-tongue, tromba, trombone, trumpet, trumpet call, tuba, tweedle, twelfth, unclouded, unda maris, undarkened, valve trombone, valve trumpet, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, war cry, war whoop, watchword, whistle, wind, wind the horn

• clarity, Atticism, accuracy, admission of light, appropriateness, articulateness, articulation, atmospheric visibility, care, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, chasteness, chastity, classicalism, classicism, clear coast, clear road, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, comeliness, comprehensibility, connectedness, consistency, conspicuity, conspicuousness, correctitude, correctness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity, definiteness, definition, diaphaneity, diaphanousness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, distinctness, ease, easiness, easy going, effortlessness, elegance, elegancy, evidence, evidentness, exactitude, explicitness, facileness, facility, felicitousness, felicity, filminess, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, freedom, fussiness, gauziness, glassiness, glasslikeness, good taste, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, high visibility, highroad, intelligibility, lack of hindrance, limpidity, low visibility, lucidity, manifestness, meticulousness, naturalness, neatness, nicety, nonopacity, obviousness, patentness, pellucidity, percipi, perspicuity, plain English, plain sailing, plain speech, plain style, plainness, plane sailing, polish, precision, prominence, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, royal road, seeing, seemliness, sheerness, show-through, simplicity, smooth road, smooth sailing, smoothness, straight sailing, straightforwardness, structure, taste, tastefulness, terseness, thinness, transmission of light, transparence, transparency, transpicuity, transpicuousness, unadorned style, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, uncloudedness, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, understandability, unequivocalness, unmistakableness, visibility unlimited, visibility zero, vitreosity, vitreousness, vitrescence

• clash, Babel, Discordia, Eris, action, aerial combat, affray, agree to disagree, altercation, antagonism, antagonize, antipathy, appulse, argue, argument, armored combat, bang, bang into, battle, battle royal, be antipathetic, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, be distinct, be distinguished, be inimical, be opposed to, beat against, belch, belligerence, blare, blat, box, brawl, bray, break, break off, broil, brunt, brush, bulldozing, bullfight, bulling, bump, bump into, burr, burst, bust, buzz, cackle, cannon, carambole, carom, carom into, caw, chirr, clamor, clang, clangor, clank, clap, clash of arms, clash with, clashing, close, cockfight, collide, collision, combat, come into collision, come to blows, concuss, concussion, conflict, conflict with, confront each other, confute, contend, contention, contest, contradict, contrapose, contrast with, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, counterattack, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, crack, crack up, crack-up, crash, crash into, craunch, croak, cross, cross swords, crump, crunch, cut and thrust, dash into, depart from, despitefulness, deviate from, differ, differ in opinion, difference, disaccord, disaccord with, disaffinity, disagree, disagree with, disagreement, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dispute, dissent, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, dogfight, duel, embroilment, encounter, engagement, enmity, exchange blows, exchange of blows, fall foul of, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fire fight, flap, flop, foul, fracas, fray, fret, friction, gall, give and take, give satisfaction, go against, go counter to, grapple, grapple with, grate, grind, groan, ground combat, growl, grumble, hammering, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, harshness, hate, hatred, hit, hit a clinker, hit against, hold opposite views, hostility, house-to-house combat, hurt, hurtle, impact, impinge, impingement, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, interfere with, jangle, jar, jar with, jolt, jostle, joust, juxtapose in opposition, knock, knock against, lock horns, malevolence, malice, malignity, mauling, meet, meet head-on, meeting, melee, mere noise, militate against, mischief, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, mix it up, naval combat, negate, noise, noncooperation, not accord with, not get along, not square with, object, offset, onslaught, open conflict, oppose, oppugn, passage of arms, percuss, percussion, pitched battle, play at cross-purposes, pull different ways, quarrel, quarrelsomeness, ramming, rap, rasp, rassle, report, repugnance, resist, riot, row, rub, rumble, rumpus, run a tilt, run against, run counter to, run into, running fight, scramble, scranch, scrap, scrape, scratch, scrimmage, scrunch, scuffle, set off, set-to, shock, shoving match, sideswipe, skirmish, slam, slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammering, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, snarl, snore, spar, spite, spitefulness, splat, squabble, stand apart, stand over against, stand-up fight, strained relations, street fight, strike, strike against, strive, struggle, swap, swim upstream, tap, tauromachy, tension, thrust and parry, thrusting, thwack, tilt, tourney, try, tug-of-war, tussle, twang, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, unstring, untune, vary, wage war, wallop, war, whack, wham, whap, whomp, whop, work against, wrangle, wrestle

• clashing, acrid, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, ajar, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, balancing, belligerent, bitter, breakaway, caustic, colliding, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting, confused, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, dead against, despiteful, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, divergent, enemy, eyeball to eyeball, fractious, full of hate, grating, harsh, hateful, hostile, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonious, inimical, inverse, jangling, jangly, jarring, jostling, malevolent, malicious, malignant, negative, nonconformist, noncooperative, obstinate, obverse, off-color, off-tone, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, quarrelsome, rancorous, reactionary, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, repugnant, resistant, reverse, revolutionary, rival, set against, sore, spiteful, squared off, uncongenial, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unharmonious, unpropitious, variant, venomous, virulent, vitriolic, warring

• clasp, abduct, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, around, articulate, batten, batten down, bear hug, bite, bolt, bosom, brooch, buckle, bunch, butt, button, carry off, catch, clamp, cleat, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clinging, clip, close, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, congeal, conglomerate, death grip, dovetail, embosom, embrace, enclose, enfold, enfoldment, envelop, fasten, fastener, fastening, firm hold, fold, follow close upon, foothold, footing, freeze to, go with, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow together, hang about, hang on, hang on to, hang together, hasp, hinge, hitch, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold together, hook, hover over, huddle, hug, hug the shore, iron grip, jam, joint, keep close to, keep hold of, kidnap, latch, lie by, lock, march with, mass, miter, mortise, nail, never let go, nip, peg, persist, pin, press, purchase, rabbet, rivet, scarf, screw, seizure, set, sew, shanghai, skewer, snap, solidify, squeeze, stand by, staple, stay, stay inshore, stay near, stay put, stick, stick to, stick together, stitch, tack, tailgate, take hold of, tenure, throttle, tight grip, toehold, toggle, wedge, zipper

• class, account, adherents, advantageousness, agreeableness, allot, alphabetize, analyze, animal kingdom, antonomasia, appraise, appreciate, arrange, ashram, assembly, assess, assign, assort, auspiciousness, bearing, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, birth, blood, body, bracket, branch, brand, break down, breed, breeding, brethren, brood, caliber, call, caste, catalog, categorize, category, church, churchgoers, clan, classification, classify, codify, cogency, colony, color, commonwealth, commune, communion, community, condition, confession, congregation, consider, deme, denomination, descent, description, desert, digest, discernment, disciples, distinction, divide, division, domain, echelon, economic class, elegance, endogamous group, estate, estimate, evaluate, excellence, expedience, extended family, extraction, factor, fairness, faith, family, favorableness, feather, figure, file, fineness, first-rateness, flock, fold, folk, followers, footing, form, form an estimate, gauge, genotype, genre, gens, genus, give an appreciation, glossology, goodliness, goodness, grace, grade, grain, group, grouping, guess, head, heading, healthiness, helpfulness, hierarchy, hold, house, identify, ilk, importance, index, ism, judge, kidney, kin, kind, kindness, kingdom, kinship group, label, laity, laymen, league, level, line, lineage, list, make an estimation, mark, matriclan, measure, merit, minyan, moiety, nation, nature, niceness, nomenclature, nonclerics, nonordained persons, nuclear family, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, parish, parishioners, part, patriclan, pedigree, people, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, place, place-names, place-naming, plant kingdom, pleasantness, polyonymy, position, power structure, precedence, predicament, presence, prestige, prize, profitableness, quality, race, range, rank, rate, rating, realm, reckon, refinement, regard, rewardingness, rubric, savoir faire, school, score, sect, section, seculars, separate, sept, series, set, settlement, sheep, sift, skillfulness, social class, society, sort, sort out, soundness, species, sphere, stage, stamp, standing, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subcaste, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, superclass, superfamily, superiority, superorder, superspecies, systematics, tabulate, taste, taxonomy, terminology, thrash out, tier, title, toponymy, totem, track, tribe, trinomialism, type, usefulness, validity, valuate, value, variety, virtue, virtuousness, weigh, wholeness, winnow, worth, year

• classic, French literature, Renaissance literature, ageless, ancient literature, archetypal, archetype, art object, belles lettres, best seller, book, bound book, brainchild, bric-a-brac, capital, champion, classical, classical music, classics, coloring book, composition, concert music, concertino, concerto, concerto grosso, contemporary literature, creation, deathless, definitive, definitive work, design, enduring, epitome, erotic literature, erotica, excellent, exemplar, exemplary, famous, fine, first-rate, folio, folk literature, great work, grotesque, hardback, humane letters, ideal, immortal, juvenile, juvenile book, kitsch, leading, legendary, letters, limp-cover book, literature, longhair music, magnum opus, master, masterpiece, masterwork, medieval literature, mirror, mobile, model, museum piece, national literature, nonbook, notable, notebook, noteworthy, novel, nude, obscene literature, old master, opus, opuscule, opusculum, outstanding, paperback, paradigm, paradigmatic, paragon, pasticcio, pastiche, pattern of perfection, picture book, piece, piece of virtu, playbook, pocket book, polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, pornographic literature, pornography, prayer book, prime, production, prototypal, prototype, prototypical, psalmbook, psalter, pseudonymous literature, publication, quintessence, quintessential, representative, republic of letters, rhapsody, scatological literature, semiclassical music, serial, serious literature, sinfonietta, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, stabile, standard, standard work, statue, still life, storybook, study, superior, symphonia, symphonic music, symphonic ode, symphony, time-honored, timeless, title, tome, tone poem, top, top-notch, tour de force, trade book, travel literature, underground literature, undying, venerable, very model, virtu, volume, wisdom literature, work, work of art, writing

• classical, Attic, Ciceronian, Gothic, Greek, Latin, Roman, Victorian, absolute, aesthetic, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, archetypical, arrant, artistic, authoritative, belletristic, capital, champion, chaste, choice, classic, clear, common, commonplace, complete, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, developed, direct, downright, easy, egregious, elegant, established, everyday, excellent, exemplary, expert, famous, fine, finished, flagrant, fossil, fossilized, fully developed, garden, garden-variety, glaring, graceful, gracile, gross, grown old, homely, homespun, household, ideal, in good taste, influential, intolerable, limpid, literary, lucid, masterful, masterly, matter-of-fact, mature, matured, medieval, mid-Victorian, model, natural, neat, nondescript, of choice, of other times, of quality, old-world, ordinary, out-and-out, outright, paradigmatic, pellucid, perfect, perfected, perspicuous, petrified, plain, pleasing, polished, positive, precedential, precious, prime, proficient, profound, pronounced, proper, prosaic, prosy, prototypal, pure, pure and simple, quiet, quintessential, rank, refined, regular, representative, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, serious, shattering, shocking, simple, standard, stark, stark-staring, straightforward, subdued, superannuated, superior, superlative, surpassing, tasteful, terse, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, top, top-notch, total, traditional, trim, typical, unaffected, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, understated, unequivocal, unlabored, unmitigated, unobtrusive, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, utter, weighty, well-chosen, workaday, workday

• classicist, Jonathan Oldbuck, Miniver Cheevy, Pre-Raphaelite, academician, antiquarian, antiquary, antique collector, antique dealer, antique-car collector, archaeologist, archaist, bookman, clerk, colossus of knowledge, dryasdust, genius, giant of learning, humanist, laudator temporis acti, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, medievalist, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, plain stylist, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, purist, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia

• classification, antonomasia, appraisal, assessment, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, categorization, class, evaluation, factoring, family, gauging, genus, glossology, grouping, identification, kingdom, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, species, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, trinomialism, weighing, winnowing

• classified, aligned, arcane, arranged, arrayed, assorted, cabalistic, cataloged, categorized, censored, close, closed, composed, concealed, constituted, cryptic, dark, disposed, enigmatic, esoteric, filed, fixed, graded, grouped, harmonized, hermetic, hidden, hierarchic, hush-hush, indexed, latent, marshaled, methodized, mysterious, normalized, occult, on file, ordered, orderly, organized, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranged, ranked, rated, regularized, regulated, restricted, routinized, secret, smothered, sorted, standardized, stifled, stratified, suppressed, synchronized, systematized, tabular, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable

• classify, alphabetize, analyze, appraise, arrange, assess, assort, bolt, bosom, break down, catalog, categorize, class, codify, collate, conceal, digest, divide, evaluate, factor, file, file and forget, gauge, gradate, grade, group, hold out on, identify, in petto, index, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under wraps, list, make no sign, never let on, not give away, not tell, order, pigeonhole, place, play dumb, range, rank, rate, riddle, screen, secrete, separate, sieve, sift, size, sort, sort out, subdivide, subordinate, tabulate, thrash out, type, veil, weigh, winnow, withhold

• classmate, ace, amigo, associate, bedfellow, bedmate, birthmate, bosom buddy, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, clubmate, colleague, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, copemate, copesmate, couchmate, cradlemate, crony, cupmate, fellow, fellow student, general partner, girl friend, gossip, grade schooler, high schooler, infant, intermediate schooler, jailmate, kindergartner, mate, messmate, nursery school child, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, pewmate, playfellow, playmate, prep schooler, preschool child, preschooler, primary schooler, roommate, school child, school kid, school lad, schoolboy, schoolfellow, schoolgirl, schoolmate, secondary schooler, secret partner, shelfmate, shipmate, shopmate, side partner, sidekick, sidekicker, silent partner, sleeping partner, special partner, tablemate, teammate, tentmate, watchmate, waymate, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

• classy, ambitious, braw, chic, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, flossy, genteel, high-flown, high-flying, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, in, jaunty, lofty, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, ostentatious, posh, pretentious, recherche, ritzy, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, swish, tony, tricksy, trig, trim, vaunting, well-dressed, well-groomed

• clatter, Bedlam let loose, babble, babblement, bavardage, bedlam, bibble-babble, bicker, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blast, blather, blether, blethers, bobbery, brattle, brawl, brouhaha, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, charivari, chat, chatter, chirm, chitter-chatter, clack, clacket, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter about, clitter, clitterclatter, clunter, commotion, din, discord, dither, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, flap, fracas, free-for-all, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, hassle, haver, hell broke loose, hot air, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, idle talk, jabber, jangle, jaw, loud noise, mere talk, natter, noise, noise and shouting, nonsense talk, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, patter, pother, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, racket, ramble on, rattle, rattle around, rattle on, rattletybang, rattling, reel off, retail gossip, rhubarb, roar, row, ruckle, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, run on, shatter, shindy, shivaree, spout, spout off, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tattle, tell idle tales, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tittle-tattle, to-do, tumult, turmoil, twaddle, twattle, uproar, waffle, yak, yakkety-yak

• clause, adjectival phrase, article, back matter, bill, book, boundary condition, calendar, catch, chapter, column, companion bills amendment, condition, construction, donnee, dragnet clause, enacting clause, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, expression, fascicle, fine print, folio, front matter, gathering, given, grounds, headed group, hold-up bill, idiom, idiotism, installment, joker, kicker, limiting condition, livraison, locution, manner of speaking, motion, noun phrase, number, obligation, omnibus bill, page, paragraph, parameter, part, passage, peculiar expression, period, phrasal idiom, phrase, prerequisite, privileged question, provision, provisions, proviso, question, requisite, rider, saving clause, section, sentence, serial, set phrase, sheet, signature, sine qua non, small print, specification, standard phrase, stipulation, string, syntactic structure, term, terms, text, turn of expression, turn of phrase, ultimatum, usage, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verse, volume, way of speaking, whereas, word-group

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

• claw, abduct, abrade, agonize, bark, blemish, bloody, break, burn, carry off, catch, chafe, check, chip, convulse, crack, craze, crucify, cut, excruciate, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, grab, grapple, harrow, hurt, impale, incise, injure, kidnap, kill by inches, lacerate, lancinate, macerate, maim, make mincemeat of, martyr, martyrize, maul, mutilate, nail, pierce, puncture, punish, rack, rake, rend, rip, run, rupture, savage, scald, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrabble, scrape, scratch, scuff, shanghai, skin, slash, slit, sprain, stab, stick, strain, talon, tear, throttle, torment, torture, traumatize, wound, wrench, wring

• clawed, agonized, convulsed, crucified, dentate, digital, digitate, digitated, fanged, fingered, footed, harrowed, hoofed, jawed, lacerated, lancinated, on the rack, pedal, plantar, prehensile, racked, raptorial, ripped, savaged, taloned, toed, toothed, tortured, under the harrow, ungulate, wrung

• claws, administration, authority, clutches, command, control, digits, disposition, domination, dominion, empery, empire, fangs, fingernails, fingers, governance, government, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, hands, helm, hold, hooks, iron hand, jaws, jurisdiction, mandibles, mastership, mastery, maxillae, meathooks, mitts, nails, nippers, palm, pincers, pounces, power, raj, regnancy, reign, reins of government, rule, sovereignty, sway, talons, teeth, unguals, ungulae

• clay, Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Missouri meerschaum, acres, alluvion, alluvium, anatomy, arable land, ashes, blubber, body, bones, breeze, briar, briar pipe, butter, cadaver, calean, calumet, carcass, carrion, china, china clay, china stone, churchwarden, clod, corncob, corncob pipe, corpse, corpus, corpus delicti, crowbait, crust, cushion, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dirt, dough, down, dry bones, dry land, dust, earth, eiderdown, embalmed corpse, enamel, fallen humanity, feather bed, feathers, figure, fireclay, fleece, flesh, floss, flue, fluff, flux, foam, food for worms, form, frame, freehold, generation of man, genus Homo, glaze, glebe, grassland, ground, gumbo, hominid, homo, hookah, hubble-bubble, hulk, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, kaolin, kapok, land, landholdings, late lamented, le genre humain, lithosphere, man, mankind, marginal land, marl, material body, meerschaum, mire, mold, mortal flesh, mortal remains, mortality, mortals, muck, mud, mummification, mummy, nargileh, ooze, organic remains, peace pipe, person, petuntse, physical body, physique, pillow, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, plush, porcelain, porcelain clay, pudding, puff, putty, race of man, real estate, real property, refractory, refractory clay, region, regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, rubber, satin, silk, skeleton, slime, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, sod, soil, soma, squash, stiff, subaerial deposit, subsoil, swansdown, swill, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thistledown, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, topsoil, torso, trunk, velvet, water pipe, wax, woodland, wool, zephyr

• clean cut, clean, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, comely, connected, consistent, conspicuous, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, direct, distinct, evident, explicit, express, glaring, in focus, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, neat, obvious, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, prominent, pronounced, shapely, simple, staring, straightforward, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unambiguous, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unmistakable, well-defined, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-proportioned, well-resolved, well-shaped

• clean out, bleach, blow, blow out, bowdlerize, clean, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, defecate, delouse, deplete, depurate, deterge, drain, dry-clean, dust, dust off, eliminate, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, expurgate, freshen, lustrate, purge, purify, reform, remove, scavenge, scour out, spruce, steam-clean, sweep out, sweeten, tidy, unclog, unfoul, vent, void, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

• clean slate, blamelessness, blank, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakdown, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, clean sweep, cleanliness, cleanness, clear conscience, computer revolution, convulsion, counterrevolution, debacle, empty space, faultlessness, guiltlessness, immaculacy, impeccability, inanity, innocence, innocency, innocentness, nothing, nothing to hide, nothingness, offenselessness, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, prelapsarian state, purity, radical change, reproachlessness, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, sinlessness, spasm, spotlessness, stainlessness, striking alteration, subversion, sweeping change, tabula rasa, taintlessness, technological revolution, total change, transilience, unblemishedness, unguiltiness, upset, vacuum, violent change, void, whiteness

• clean sweep, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakdown, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, clean slate, computer revolution, convulsion, counterrevolution, debacle, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, radical change, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, spasm, striking alteration, subversion, sweeping change, tabula rasa, technological revolution, total change, transilience, upset, violent change

• clean up, bleach, bowdlerize, button up, cap, capitalize on, carry to completion, cash in on, clean, clean out, cleanse, clear, clear out, clear the decks, clear up, climax, close out, close up, coin money, commercialize, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, delouse, depurate, deterge, dry-clean, dust, dust off, end, expurgate, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, fix up, freshen, gain, gain by, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, groom, gross, lustrate, make, make a killing, make money, make money by, mop up, neaten, net, perfect, police, police up, profit, purge, purify, put in trim, realize, realize on, reform, round out, scavenge, spruce, spruce up, steam-clean, straighten up, sweep out, sweeten, terminate, tidy, tidy up, top off, top out, trig up, trim, trim up, turn a penny, turn to account, turn to profit, whiten, wind up, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, wrap up

• clean, Christian, Daedalian, absolute, absolutely, acknowledge, adept, admit, adroit, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, altogether, antiseptic, apt, artistic, authoritative, bath, bathe, blameless, bleach, bleached, blotless, born, bowdlerize, bravura, bright, brighten, brilliant, broad-based, chaste, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, clean-cut, cleanly, cleanse, cleansed, clear, clear out, clever, come clean, comely, completely, comprehensive, confess, congenital, consummate, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, creditable, cunning, cute, daedal, dainty, decent, decontaminate, decontaminated, deep-dyed, definite, deft, delouse, deplete, depurate, deterge, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, dirt-free, disinfect, disinfected, do, do up, downright, dry-clean, dust, dust off, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, empty, entirely, erect, estimable, ethical, evacuate, even, excellent, exhaust, exhaustive, expert, expurgate, fair, fancy, fastidious, faultless, fresh, freshen, full of integrity, fully, furbish, good, goodish, graceful, guiltless, gut, handy, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, immaculately, impeccable, inculpable, ingenious, innocent, inoffensive, intensive, inviolate, irreproachable, irretrievably, irrevocably, just, kosher, launder, lave, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lustrate, magisterial, manly, masterful, masterly, modest, mop, moral, neat, neaten, no mean, noble, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, omnibus, omnipresent, order, out-and-out, outright, own up, perfect, perfectly, pervasive, plain, plumb, police, polish, politic, principled, professional, proficient, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, purely, purge, purified, purify, quick, quite, quite some, radical, ready, recondition, reform, regular, renew, renovate, reputable, resourceful, respectable, reveal, right, right-minded, righteous, ritually pure, sanitary, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, scrubbed, sexually innocent, shapely, sheer, shining, shiny, simple, sing, skillful, slick, smooth, smut-free, smutless, snowy, some, sparkling, spill the beans, sponge, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, spotless, spotlessly, spruce, stainless, stark, statesmanlike, steam-clean, sterile, sterling, straight, straighten out, straighten up, stylish, sweep, sweep out, sweeping, sweet, sweeten, tactful, tahar, taintless, the compleat, the complete, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoroughly, through-and-through, tidy, total, totally, trim, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, tubbed, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unarmed, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, unclutter, uncomplicated, unconditional, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, uninfected, universal, unmitigated, unmixed, unmuddied, unpolluted, unqualified, unrelievedly, unreserved, unrestricted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, utter, utterly, vacuum, veritable, virtuoso, virtuous, wash, wash up, weaponless, well-done, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-scrubbed, well-shaped, well-washed, white, whiten, whitened, wholesale, wholesome, wholly, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, workmanlike, worthy, yeomanly

• cleaner, abstergent, cathartic, char, charwoman, cleaner-off, cleaner-up, cleaning agent, cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning solvent, cleaning woman, cleanser, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, custodian, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, diuretic, emetic, enema, holystone, janitor, janitress, lotion, mouthwash, nauseant, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse, shampoo, soap, solvent, synthetic detergent, tooth powder, toothpaste, wash

• cleaning, abstergent, abstersion, autoclave, bowdlerization, broom, brush, carpet sweeper, catharsis, cathartic, cleansing, comb, currycomb, depurative, detergent, detersion, dishcloth, dishwasher, diuretic, doormat, dry cleaning, duster, dustpan, emetic, expurgation, expurgatory, facecloth, hackle, hairbrush, handkerchief, holystone, hose, lustral, lustration, mop, napkin, pumice stone, purgation, purgative, purge, purging, purification, purificatory, purifying, rake, scraper, scrub brush, scrubber, serviette, sponge, steam cleaning, sudarium, swab, toothbrush, toothpick, towel, vacuum cleaner, washboard, washer, washing machine, whisk, wisp, wringer

• cleanliness, asepsis, blamelessness, blotlessness, chastity, clean slate, cleanly habits, cleanness, clear conscience, daintiness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, freshness, guiltlessness, honor, hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impeccability, innocence, innocency, innocentness, nothing to hide, offenselessness, prelapsarian state, pureness, purity, reproachlessness, sexual innocence, sinlessness, snowiness, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterility, taintlessness, tidiness, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, unguiltiness, unsoiledness, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, virtue, virtuousness, whiteness

• cleanse, beatify, bleach, bless, bowdlerize, canonize, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse away, clear out, consecrate, dedicate, deliver, delouse, depurate, deterge, devote, discharge, disinfect, dry-clean, dust, dust off, enshrine, exalt, expiate, expurgate, free, free from, freshen, give release, give respite, glorify, hallow, intermit, lustrate, purge, purge away, purify, reform, release, remove, reprieve, saint, sanctify, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, set apart, spruce, steam-clean, sterilize, suspend, sweep out, sweeten, tidy, wash, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

• cleanser, Carbona, abstergent, benzine, bleach, borax, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, cathartic, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, diuretic, emetic, enema, holystone, lotion, mouthwash, nauseant, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse, sal soda, shampoo, soap, soda, solvent, synthetic detergent, tooth powder, toothpaste, wash, washing soda

• cleansing, abstergent, abstersion, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, ascetic, assuasive, atoning, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bowdlerization, catharsis, cathartic, cleaning, compensational, compensatory, deadening, deliverance, demulcent, depurative, detergent, detersion, discharge, diuretic, dry cleaning, dulling, easing, emetic, emollient, emotional release, expiatory, expurgation, expurgatory, freeing, intermission, lenitive, lustral, lustration, lustrational, lustrative, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgation, purgative, purgatorial, purge, purging, purification, purificatory, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, release, relieving, remedial, removal, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, reprieve, respite, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, softening, soothing, squaring, steam cleaning, subduing, surcease, suspension

• clear away, abstract, attenuate, blow, blow off, blow out, cast forth, cast off, cast out, chuck, clean out, clear, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, cut out, defecate, deplete, deport, dilute, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disentangle, dispel, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, drain, drive away, eject, elide, eliminate, empty, empty out, eradicate, evacuate, evaporate, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expel, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, liquidate, outlaw, pick out, purge, remove, root out, root up, scour out, strike off, strike out, sweep out, take out, thin, thin out, throw over, throw overboard, unclog, unfoul, untangle, vent, void, volatilize, weed out

• clear out, abscond, absquatulate, abstract, be off, beat a retreat, beat it, begone, bleach, blow, blow out, bolt, bowdlerize, cast off, cast out, chuck, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear away, clear off, clear the decks, cut and run, cut out, decamp, defecate, delouse, depart, deplete, deport, depurate, desert, deterge, dispose of, drain, dry-clean, dust, dust off, eject, elide, eliminate, elope, empty, empty out, eradicate, evacuate, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expel, expurgate, flake off, flee, fly, freshen, fugitate, get, get going, get lost, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, git, go AWOL, hightail, hit the road, jump, jump bail, kite, levant, liquidate, lustrate, make off, make yourself scarce, outlaw, pick out, purge, purify, reform, remove, root out, root up, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, scavenge, scour out, scram, shove off, show the heels, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable, spruce, steam-clean, strike off, strike out, sweep out, sweeten, take French leave, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, throw over, throw overboard, tidy, turn tail, unclog, unfoul, vamoose, vent, void, weed out, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

• clear sighted, Argus-eyed, alert, alive, awake, cat-eyed, clear-eyed, clear-witted, clearheaded, eagle-eyed, eye-minded, farseeing, farsighted, ferret-eyed, hawk-eyed, on the ball, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, telescopic, wide-awake

• clear the decks, abstract, arrange, ballast, blow, blow out, break bulk, break out ballast, cast off, cast out, chuck, clean out, clean up, clear, clear away, clear for action, clear off, clear out, clear up, consider every angle, cure, cut out, defecate, deplete, deploy, deport, dispose of, drain, dress, eject, elide, eliminate, empty, empty out, eradicate, evacuate, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expel, fix, fix up, forearm, get quit of, get ready, get rid of, get shut of, groom, guard against, hedge, leave out nothing, liquidate, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, make sure, make sure against, marshal, mobilize, neaten, outlaw, overlook no possibility, pick out, plan, play safe, police, police up, prearrange, prep, prepare, prepare for, pretreat, process, provide, provide a hedge, provide against, provide for, purge, put in shape, put in trim, ready, ready up, reef down, remove, root out, root up, scour out, settle preliminaries, shift ballast, shoot ballast, shorten sail, spruce, spruce up, straighten up, strike off, strike out, sweep out, take measures, take precautions, take steps, tan, throw over, throw overboard, tidy, tidy up, treat, trig up, trim, trim ship, trim up, try out, unclog, unfoul, vent, void, weed out, wing out ballast

• clear the way, aid, blaze the trail, break the ice, cultivate the soil, ease, expedite, explain, facilitate, go in advance, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, hasten, help along, lay the foundation, lay the groundwork, loose, lubricate, make clear, make way for, oil, open the way, open up, pave the way, prepare the way, quicken, remove friction, run interference for, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, soap the ways, sow the seed, speed, unbar, unblock, unclog, unjam

• clear up, account for, allegorize, answer, ascertain, assure, bottom, certify, cinch, cipher, clarify, clean up, clear, clear the decks, clinch, crack, debug, decide, decipher, decode, demonstrate, demythologize, determine, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, dismiss all doubt, dissolve, divine, do, dope, dope out, elucidate, enlighten, ensure, establish, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fix, fix up, get, get at, get right, give reason for, give the meaning, groom, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, illuminate, illustrate, insure, interpret, make certain, make clear, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make plain, make sure, make sure of, nail down, neaten, open the lock, plumb, police, police up, popularize, psych, psych out, put in trim, puzzle out, rationalize, ravel, ravel out, reassure, remove all doubt, resolve, riddle, see that, see to it, set at rest, settle, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, sort out, spell out, spruce, spruce up, straighten up, throw light upon, tidy, tidy up, trig up, trim, trim up, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, undo, unfold, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, work, work out

• clear, Attic, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, above water, abroad, absolute, absolve, absolved, abstract, account for, accumulate, acquire, acquit, acute, admitting no exception, adrift, afield, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, all abroad, all clear, all straight, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, altogether, ameliorate, amnesty, amortize, angelic, apodictic, apparent, appreciable, apprehensible, articulate, assured, astray, at large, at liberty, audible, bald, balmy, bare, barren, beat it, become airborne, bell-like, bestraddle, bestride, better, blameless, bland, blank, bleached, blooming, blossoming, blow, blow out, bolt, booming, born, bounce, bound, break, break loose, break out, bright, brightly, broad-based, buck, buckjump, burn off, capitalize on, capriole, cash in on, cast off, cast out, casual, categorical, certain, characterless, chaste, childlike, chuck, clarified, clarify, clarion, classic, clean, clean out, clean up, clean-cut, cleanly, cleanse, clear, clear and distinct, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear away, clear of, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, clear the hurdle, clear up, clear-cut, cleared, clearly, close, cloudless, coherent, coin money, come along, come on, command, commercialize, complete, completely, comprehensible, comprehensive, conclusive, confident, congenital, connected, consistent, conspicuous, consummate, contrastive, contrive, convinced, crisp, cry sour grapes, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, curvet, cushy, cut away, cut down, cut loose, cut out, cut the mustard, decamp, decided, decisive, decontaminate, decrassify, deep-dyed, defecate, defined, definite, definitive, defray, deobstruct, depart, deplete, deport, depurate, destigmatize, detached, determinate, determined, devoid, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, disappear, disburden, discernible, discernibly, discerning, discharge, disclose, disclosed, disembarrass, disembarrassed, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disengaged, disentangle, disinvolve, dislodge, dismiss, dispense from, dispose of, distill, distilled, distinct, distinctive, distinctly, do justice to, dominate, dovelike, downright, drain, dyed-in-the-wool, earn, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, edulcorate, effortless, effulgently, egregious, eject, elegant, elide, eliminate, elucidate, elute, emancipated, empty, empty out, engineer, entire, entirely, eradicate, essentialize, evacuate, evanesce, evaporate, evident, exact, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exhaust, exhaustive, exile, exonerate, exonerated, expatriate, expel, explain, explicate, explicit, expose, exposed, express, extract, extricate, exuberant, facile, fade, fair, far afield, fat, faultless, featureless, filmy, filter, filtrate, final, fine, finished, fixed, flat, flat-out, floating, flourishing, flowering, fly aloft, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forgive, forgiven, free, free and clear, free and easy, free as air, free of, free up, freeborn, freed, fresh, fruiting, fully, gain, gain by, gather, gauzy, get, get along, get by, get on, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give absolution, glaring, glean, glib, global, go off, go on, go-as-you-please, going strong, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, graspable, gross, guileless, guiltless, hack it, halcyon, hearable, hi-fi, high-fidelity, hippety-hop, hollow, honor, hop, hurdle, illuminate, illustrate, implicit, improve, in focus, in full swing, in good case, in the clear, inane, inappealable, incontrovertible, incorrupt, indisputable, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, innocent, insipid, intelligible, intensive, jump, jump off, jump over, justify, keen, knowable, lamblike, leach, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, leave the ground, legible, let go, let off, liberate, liberated, lift, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, liquidate, lixiviate, look down upon, loose, lose, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, luminously, lustrous, make, make a killing, make accounts square, make clear, make it, make money, make money by, make out, make plain, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, manifest, meliorate, milky, muddle through, naked, natural, neat, necessary, negotiate, net, nonopaque, nonpros, not guilty, nothing to it, noticeable, null, null and void, observable, obtain, obvious, offenseless, omnibus, omnipresent, on the loose, opalescent, open, open up, open-and-shut, openhanded, out of debt, out-and-out, outlaw, outright, outtop, over, overarch, overjump, overleap, overlook, overshadow, overskip, overt, overtop, painless, palmy, palpable, pardon, patefy, patent, pay, pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, peekaboo, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perceptibly, perceptive, percolate, peremptory, perfect, perfectly, perfectly sure, perspicacious, perspicuous, pervasive, pick out, pick up, piping, plain, plain as day, pleasant, plumb, polished, positive, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, precise, predestined, predetermined, prelapsarian, pristine, profit, prominent, prominently, pronounced, prospering, public, published, pure, purge, purified, purify, put in order, put over, put through, quash the charge, quit, quit of, quite, radiantly, radical, rainless, rationalize, readable, realize, realize on, recognizable, rectified, rectify, redeem, refine, refined, regular, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, released, relucent, remit, remove, repay, reproachless, restore, restrained, retire, reveal, revealing, rickety, rid, rid of, rise above, root out, root up, rosy, rotate, round, rule out, run off, sans reproche, satisfy, scot-free, scour out, scram, scrape along, screen, secure, see-through, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sensible, sensitive, separate, serene, set free, set in order, settle, shake off, shaky, sharp, shed of, sheer, shining, shiny, shrive, shut of, sieve, sift, simple, simple as ABC, sink, sinless, ski jump, skip, sleek, smooth, soft, solve, solvent, sparkling, spiritualize, spring, square, square accounts, stabilize, staring, stark, starkly, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, straight, straight-out, straightforward, strain, strike a balance, strike off, strike out, sublimate, sublime, succeed in, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny, sure, sure-enough, surmount, sweep out, sweeping, swing, swing the deal, take, take off, take up, tangible, tasteful, taxi, tear loose, terse, thin, thorough, thoroughgoing, thriving, through-and-through, throw off, throw over, throw overboard, tidy up, to be seen, top, total, totally, tower above, tower over, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, true, try, turn a penny, turn to account, turn to profit, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unambiguous, unanchored, unattached, unblemished, unblended, unblock, unblocked, unbound, unburden, unburdened, unburdensome, uncase, uncircumscribed, unclench, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclouded, unclutch, unclutter, uncombined, uncommitted, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconditional, unconfused, uncork, uncorrupted, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undarkened, undefiled, understandable, understandably, undiluted, undisputed, undo, undone, undoubting, undrape, unembarrassed, unencumbered, unengaged, unequivocal, unfallen, unfastened, unfixed, unfold, unfortified, unfoul, unhampered, unhandicapped, unhesitating, unhidden, unhindered, unimpeded, unindebted, uninvolved, universal, univocal, unknot, unlabored, unladen, unlapsed, unlatch, unleavened, unlimited, unlock, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unobscured, unobstructed, unowing, unplug, unprevented, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, unravel, unrelieved, unreserved, unrestricted, unroll, unscarred, unscramble, unseal, unsheathe, unshut, unsnarl, unsophisticated, unstop, unstopped, unstuck, untangle, untie, untied, untinged, untouched by evil, untrammeled, untwine, unveil, unwaivable, unwavering, unwrap, updive, upleap, upspring, utter, utterly, vacant, vacuous, vault, vent, veritable, vigorous, vindicate, visible, vivid, void, warrant, weed out, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, white, whitewash, whole, wholesale, wholly, wide, wide-open, win, winnow, with clean hands, with nothing inside, withdraw, withdraw the charge, without content, without exception, without reproach, without reserve, worry along

• clear-cut, assured, biting, categorical, chiseled, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, coherent, connected, consistent, conspicuous, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, cutting, defined, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, evident, exact, explicit, express, glaring, in focus, indubitable, ingoing, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luminous, manifest, nice, obvious, past dispute, patent, pellucid, penetrating, perspicuous, plain, positive, precise, prominent, pronounced, simple, specific, staring, straightforward, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trenchant, unambiguous, unconfused, undisputed, undoubted, unequivocal, univocal, unmistakable, unquestioned, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved

• clearance, Lebensraum, absolution, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, aesthetic distance, air space, allowance, amortization, amortizement, ample scope, approval, authority, authorization, back country, bill of health, binder, blank check, caesura, carte blanche, cash, cash payment, certification, cleaning out, clear space, clearing, compass, compurgation, consent, countenance, debt service, deep space, defecation, defrayal, defrayment, depletion, deportation, deposit, depths of space, desert, destigmatization, destigmatizing, detachment, disbursal, discard, discharge, discharging cargo, discontinuity, disculpation, disjunction, dismissal, disposal, disposition, distance, distance between, distant prospect, divergence, doling out, double space, down payment, drainage, draining, earnest, earnest money, egress, ejection, elbowroom, elimination, em space, empowerment, empty view, emptying, en space, enabling, endorsement, enfranchisement, entitlement, eradication, evacuation, excretion, exculpation, excuse, exhausting, exhaustion, exile, exoneration, expatriation, explanation, expulsion, extent, farness, fiat, field, forgiveness, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freeboard, full pratique, full scope, full swing, gap, glade, headroom, hiatus, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, hole, infinity, installment, installment plan, interest payment, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, justification, lacuna, latitude, leap, leave, leeway, length, light-years, liquidation, living space, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, mileage, monthly payments, never-never, no holds barred, off-loading, open country, open space, ostracism, outback, outlawing, outlawry, pardon, parsecs, pass, passport, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, permission, perspective, piece, plain, play, prairie, pratique, prepayment, protection, purgation, purge, purging, quarterly payments, quietus, quittance, range, ratification, rationalization, reach, regular payments, rehabilitation, reinstatement, release, remission, remittance, remoteness, removal, restoration, retirement, riddance, room, room to spare, rope, safe-conduct, safeguard, sanction, satisfaction, scope, sea room, separation, settlement, severance, single space, sinking-fund payment, space, space between, span, spare room, spot cash, steppe, stretch, stride, suspension, swing, terrain, territory, time interval, tolerance, unloading, venting, verdict of acquittal, vindication, visa, voidance, voiding, warrant, warranty, way, ways, weekly payments, wide berth, wide-open spaces, wilderness, withdrawal

• clearing house, Bank of England, Bank of France, Federal Reserve bank, International Monetary Fund, Lombard Street bank, Swiss bank, World Bank, bank, branch bank, central bank, commercial bank, farm loan bank, federal land bank, investment bank, member bank, moneyed corporation, mutual savings bank, national bank, nonmember bank, reserve bank, savings bank, state bank, trust company

• clearing, Lebensraum, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, air space, aperture, back country, breaking out, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, cleaning out, clear space, clearance, cleft, compurgation, corn field, crack, cultivated land, defecation, depletion, desert, destigmatization, destigmatizing, disburdening, discharge, discharging cargo, disclosure, disculpation, disembarrassment, disembroilment, disencumbrance, disengagement, disentanglement, disinvolvement, dislodgment, dismissal, distant prospect, drainage, draining, egress, elimination, empty view, emptying, evacuation, excretion, exculpation, excuse, exhausting, exhaustion, exoneration, explanation, extrication, fenestra, field, fistula, fontanel, foramen, forgiveness, freeing, gap, gape, gat, glade, gulf, hayfield, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, justification, lacuna, laying open, leak, living space, off-loading, open country, open space, opening, opening up, orifice, outback, outlet, paddy, parcel of land, pardon, passageway, patch, piece of land, plain, plat, plot, pore, prairie, purgation, purging, quietus, quittance, rationalization, rehabilitation, reinstatement, release, releasing, remission, removal, restoration, rice paddy, slot, space, split, steppe, stoma, terrain, territory, throwing open, tract, uncluttering, uncorking, unhampering, unknotting, unloading, unraveling, unscrambling, unsnarling, unstopping, untangling, venting, verdict of acquittal, vindication, voidance, voiding, wheat field, wide-open spaces, wilderness, yawn

• clearly, absolutely, actually, aloud, and no mistake, apparently, apprehensibly, articulately, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, audibly, by all means, certainly, coherently, comprehensibly, conspicuously, decidedly, decisively, definitely, demonstrably, discernibly, distinctly, evidently, explicitly, expressly, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for real, for sure, forsooth, glaringly, in all conscience, in plain English, in plain terms, in plain words, in truth, incontestably, indeed, indeedy, indubitably, intelligibly, limpidly, lucidly, manifestly, markedly, most assuredly, most certainly, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of course, out, out loud, palpably, patently, pellucidly, perceivably, perceptibly, perspicuously, plainly, positively, prominently, pronouncedly, quite, really, recognizably, seeably, sensibly, seriously, simply, staringly, starkly, surely, to a certainty, truly, unambiguously, unconcealedly, undeniably, understandably, undisguisedly, undoubtedly, unequivocally, unmistakably, unquestionably, utterly, verily, visibly, with clarity, without doubt

• cleavage, abscission, alienation, alpha decay, amputation, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, bombardment, breach, breach of friendship, break, breeding, bullet, butchering, chain reaction, chasm, chopping, cleft, cutting, dichotomy, disaffection, disfavor, disintegration series, disruption, dissociation, disunion, disunity, divergence, dividedness, division, enucleation, estrangement, exchange reaction, excision, falling-out, fission, fission reaction, gamma decay, ionization, laceration, mutilation, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, open rupture, photodisintegration, proton gun, proton reaction, recall of ambassadors, rending, resection, reversible reaction, rift, ripping, rupture, schism, scission, section, separation, severance, slashing, slicing, split, splitting, splitting the atom, stimulation, surgery, target, tearing, thermonuclear reaction

• cleave, accelerate, activate, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, amputate, associate, atomize, ax, bifurcate, bisect, bite, bombard, branch, breach, break, break to pieces, broach, bunch, butcher, by two, carve, check, chink, chop, clasp, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clip, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, combine, congeal, conglomerate, conjoin, crack, crevasse, cross-bombard, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, demolish, dichotomize, dimidiate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dispart, dissect, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, divorce, embrace, excise, fission, fissure, fly open, fork, fracture, fragment, freeze to, furrow, gap, gash, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, groove, grow together, hack, halve, hang on, hang on to, hang together, hew, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold together, hug, in half, incise, jigsaw, join, keep hold of, lance, lay open, link, make mincemeat of, mass, never let go, nip, nucleize, ope, open, open up, pare, part, persist, pick to pieces, prune, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, ramify, reduce to rubble, rend, rent, rift, rip, rive, rupture, saw, scissor, separate, set, sever, shatter, slash, slice, slit, slot, smash, smash the atom, snip, solidify, split, split in two, spread, spread out, spring open, stay, stay put, stick, stick to, stick together, subdivide, sunder, swing open, take apart, take hold of, tap, tear, tear apart, tear open, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, throw open, total, transect, trench, unbuild, undo, unite, unmake, whittle, wrack up, wreck

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

• cleft, abysm, abyss, alienation, aperture, arroyo, bifurcated, bisected, blaze, box canyon, branched, branching, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakage, broaching, burst, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleuch, clough, clove, cloven, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, crena, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dehiscent, dell, depression, dichotomous, dike, dimidiate, disaffection, disclosure, disfavor, disruption, disunion, disunity, ditch, divergence, divided, dividedness, division, donga, draw, estrangement, excavation, falling-out, fault, fenestra, fissure, fissured, fissury, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, forked, forking, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halved, hiatus, hole, hollow, in pieces, in shreds, incision, indentation, inlet, interval, jag, jog, joggle, joint, kerf, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, lacuna, laying open, leak, mangled, moat, mutilated, nick, nock, notch, nullah, open rupture, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pore, quartered, ragged, ramified, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, riven, rupture, scale, schism, scissure, score, scotch, seam, separation, severed, shredded, slash, slice, slit, slot, space, splinter, splintered, split, stoma, tattered, tear, throwing open, torn, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, yawn

• clemency, acceptance, benevolence, caritas, charity, clementness, commiseration, compassion, condolence, easiness, easygoingness, endurance, equitableness, fairness, favor, feeling, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, just, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation, moderateness, pardon, pathos, patience, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, ruth, self-pity, softness, sufferance, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, toleration

• clement, accepting, benevolent, benign, benignant, bleeding, charitable, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, easy, easygoing, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, human, humane, indulgent, kind, kindly, lax, lenient, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, patient, pitying, ruthful, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, warmhearted

• clench, abduct, adhere to, bear hug, bite, carry off, clamp, clasp, cleave to, clinch, cling, clinging, clip, clutch, death grip, embrace, firm hold, foothold, footing, freeze to, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hang on, hang on to, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hug, iron grip, keep hold of, kidnap, never let go, nip, purchase, seizure, shanghai, stick to, tenure, throttle, tight grip, toehold

• clerestory, entresol, first floor, flat, floor, ground floor, level, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, rez-de-chaussee, ridgepole, roof, roofpole, rooftop, story, street floor, surface, top, top floor, top side, topside, topsides, upper side, upside

• clergyman, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, ayatollah, brother, canon, cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate, cure, deacon, dean, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, friar, guru, holy man, imam, man of God, military chaplain, minister, missionary, monastic, monk, padre, parson, pastor, preacher, prebend, prebendary, predicant, presbyter, priest, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, pulpiter, rabbi, rector, religious, reverend, revivalist, sacristan, sermonizer, servant of God, sexton, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicar

• cleric, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, chaplain, churchman, clergyman, clerical, clerk, curate, cure, divine, ecclesiastic, man of God, military chaplain, minister, padre, parson, pastor, preacher, rector, reverend, servant of God, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric

• clerical, abbatial, abbatical, accounting, apostolic, archiepiscopal, bookkeeping, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, churchman, cleric, clerk, divine, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, hieratic, minister, ministerial, monastic, office, papal, parson, pastoral, pontifical, preacher, prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, professional, rabbinic, reverend, sacerdotal, secretarial, stenographic, ultramontane

• clerk, Bible clerk, Bible reader, CA, CPA, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Federal, Holy Joe, abbe, academician, accountant, accountant general, acolyte, actuary, agent, almoner, amanuensis, anagnost, archivist, auditor, baggage agent, bank accountant, bank examiner, beadle, bedral, bookkeeper, bookman, business agent, calculator, calligrapher, capitular, capitulary, certified public accountant, chaplain, chartered accountant, chirographer, choir chaplain, churchman, churchwarden, claim agent, classicist, clergyman, cleric, clerical, colossus of knowledge, commercial agent, commission agent, comptroller, consignee, controller, copier, copyist, cost accountant, cost keeper, curate, cure, customer agent, deacon, deaconess, divine, documentalist, dupe, ecclesiastic, elder, elderman, engraver, factor, fed, federal agent, filing clerk, floorwalker, freight agent, functionary, general agent, genius, giant of learning, humanist, implement, ink spiller, inkslinger, instrument, insurance agent, journalizer, land agent, law agent, lay elder, lay reader, learned clerk, learned man, lector, lecturer, letterer, librarian, literary agent, literary man, litterateur, loan agent, lover of learning, man of God, man of learning, man of letters, marker, mastermind, military chaplain, mine of information, minister, news agent, notary, notary public, official, padre, parish clerk, parliamentary agent, parson, passenger agent, pastor, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, preacher, precentor, press agent, prothonotary, pundit, puppet, purchasing agent, reader, real estate agent, reckoner, record clerk, recorder, recording secretary, recordist, rector, register, registrar, reverend, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sales agent, sales engineer, sales force, sales manager, sales personnel, salesclerk, salesgirl, saleslady, salesman, salespeople, salesperson, saleswoman, savant, scalper, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, scorekeeper, scorer, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, seller, selling agent, servant of God, sexton, shames, shepherd, shop assistant, shop clerk, sidesman, sky pilot, special agent, station agent, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, store clerk, student, succentor, suisse, supply clergy, supply minister, teaching elder, the Reverend, the very Reverend, theatrical agent, thurifer, ticket agent, ticket scalper, timekeeper, tonsured cleric, tool, transcriber, travel agent, verger, vergeress, walking delegate, walking encyclopedia, word-slinger, writer

• clever, Attic, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, able, acute, adept, adroit, agile, alert, all-around, amusing, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, biting, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, cagey, canny, capable, clean, competent, coordinated, coruscating, crack, crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cute, daedal, dazzling, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discerning, docile, droll, educable, entertaining, excellent, expert, facetious, facile, fanciful, fancy, feline, formable, foxy, funny, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, humorous, humorsome, imaginative, impressionable, ingenious, insidious, instructable, intelligent, inventive, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, knowing, laughable, magisterial, malleable, many-sided, masterful, masterly, moldable, mordant, motivated, neat, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, no mean, not born yesterday, original, pawky, perceptive, piquant, plastic, pleasing, pliable, pointed, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, prompt, pungent, qualified, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, quite some, racy, rapier-like, ready, receptive, resourceful, ripe for instruction, risible, sagacious, sage, salt, salty, scheming, schoolable, scintillating, serpentine, sharp, sharp-witted, shifty, shrewd, skilled, skillful, slick, slim, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, sparkling, sprightly, statesmanlike, stealthy, steel-trap, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, supple, susceptible, tactful, tactical, talented, teachable, the compleat, the complete, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, trickish, tricksy, tricky, versatile, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-considered, well-contrived, well-designed, well-done, well-invented, well-laid, well-planned, well-reasoned, well-thought-out, well-weighed, whimsical, wicked, willing, wily, wise, witty, workmanlike

• cleverness, Italian hand, ability, acuity, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, aptitude, aptness, art, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, astuteness, braininess, bravura, brightness, brilliance, cageyness, callidity, canniness, capability, capacity, clear thinking, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, cunning, cunningness, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, docility, educability, efficiency, esprit, expertise, facetiousness, facility, fine Italian hand, finesse, flair, foxiness, funniness, gamesmanship, genius, giftedness, gifts, grace, grip, guile, handiness, horsemanship, humorousness, impressionability, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, intelligence, inventiveness, jocoseness, jocularity, joking, joshing, keen-wittedness, keenness, know-how, malleability, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mental alertness, mercurial mind, moldability, motivation, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, one-upmanship, plasticity, pleasantry, pliability, practical ability, proficiency, prowess, pungency, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, readiness, ready wit, receptivity, resource, resourcefulness, saltiness, satanic cunning, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, slipperiness, slyness, smartness, smarts, sneakiness, sophistry, sprightly wit, stealth, stealthiness, style, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, teachability, teachableness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, trainableness, trickiness, virtuosity, wariness, wiles, wiliness, willingness, wit, wittiness, wizardry, workmanship

• cliche, abstraction, banality, banalness, bathetic, bromide, byword, catch phrase, catchword, chestnut, cliched, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, cry, fad word, familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hack, hackneyed, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, hackneyedness, lieu commun, locus communis, mustiness, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, pet expression, platitude, platitudinousness, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, slogan, squareness, stale, staleness, stereotype, stereotyped saying, sweeping statement, tag, timeworn, tired cliche, trite saying, triteness, triticism, truism, twice-told tale, unoriginality, vogue word

• click, be blooded, be successful, bump, catch on, chink, clack, clink, clop, clump, clunk, come off, connect, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitate, crepitation, crump, decrepitate, decrepitation, dull thud, farewell, flick, flump, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, make a hit, meet with success, pad, pan out, pass, pat, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pop, prevail, prosper, prove out, qualify, rap, sizzling, snap, snapping, spit, spitting, succeed, take, tap, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tunk, work well, work wonders

• cliff dwelling, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, building, casa, consulate, country house, country seat, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, farm, farmhouse, hall, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, parsonage, penthouse, prefabricated house, presidential palace, ranch house, rectory, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, town house, vicarage

• cliff hanger, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• cliff hanging, agitating, anxiety, apprehension, breathtaking, charged, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, dread, electric, exciting, exhilarating, expectant waiting, galvanic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, pessimism, piquant, provocative, provoking, ravishing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspense, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, uncertainty, unsettling, upsetting, waiting

• climacteric, change of life, charged, clutch, convergence of events, crisis, critical, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial, crucial period, crunch, decisive, desperate, dire, emergency, emergent, exigency, exigent, extremity, grand climacteric, hinge, kairotic, loaded, menopause, pass, pinch, pivotal, pregnant, push, rub, strait, turn, turning point

• climactic, acmatic, apical, capital, chief, consummate, head, headmost, highest, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, overmost, paramount, preeminent, summital, supreme, tip-top, top, topmost, ultimate, upmost, uppermost, vertical, zenithal

• climate, Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Frigid Zones, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, Weltanschauung, air, ambiance, ambience, ambient, atmosphere, aura, calm weather, climate of opinion, clime, cold weather, equator, ethos, fair weather, feel, feeling, forces of nature, good weather, halcyon days, horse latitudes, hot weather, ideology, intellectual climate, latitude, longitude, longitude in arc, macroclimate, medium, meridian, microclimate, milieu, mise-en-scene, mood, moral climate, mores, norms, note, overtone, parallel, prime meridian, quality, rainy weather, roaring forties, sense, spirit, spiritual climate, stormy weather, subtropics, surroundings, the elements, the line, tone, tropic, tropics, undertone, weather, windiness, world view, zone

• climatology, aerial photography, aeroballistics, aerodynamics, aerogeology, aerography, aerology, aeromechanics, aeromedicine, aerometry, aeronautical meteorology, aerophotography, aerophysics, aeroscopy, aerospace research, aerostatics, anemology, aviation technology, avionics, barometry, climatography, forecasting, hydrostatics, kinematics, kinetics, long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology, photometry, pneumatics, rocketry, supersonics, weatherology

• climax, achieve satisfaction, acme, acme of perfection, act of love, adultery, all, apex, aphrodisia, apogee, apoplexy, ass, balling, bench mark, bitter end, breakup, brow, button up, cap, capstone, cardinal point, carnal knowledge, carry to completion, cataclysm, catastrophe, ceiling, chief thing, clean up, close out, close up, cloud nine, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, come, commerce, complete, completion, conclude, conclusion, congress, connection, consummate, consummation, content, convulsion, copestone, copula, copulation, core, cornerstone, coupling, crest, crisis, critical point, crossroads, crown, crux, culmen, culminate, culmination, denouement, diastrophism, diddling, disaster, edge, ejaculate, end, end result, essence, essential, essential matter, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, final result, final stroke, final touch, finale, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, finisher, finishing stroke, fit, fornication, frost, fundamental, get done, get it over, get off, get through, get through with, gist, gravamen, great point, head, heart, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, high point, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, ice, important thing, intercourse, intimacy, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, last act, last stroke, last touch, last word, limit, lovemaking, main point, main thing, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, material point, mating, maximum, meat, meridian, milestone, mop up, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, nth degree, nub, onanism, orgasm, outtop, overarch, overthrow, overtop, ovum, pareunia, paroxysm, payoff, peak, perfect, perfection, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, pith, pivot, please, point, pole, procreation, quake, reach orgasm, real issue, relations, ridge, round out, salient point, satisfy, screwing, seventh heaven, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sine qua non, sky, sleeping with, spasm, sperm, spire, stroke, substance, substantive point, summit, surmount, temblor, terminate, termination, the bottom line, the point, the whole, tidal wave, tip, tip-top, top, top off, top out, tsunami, turning point, ultimate, upheaval, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, venery, vertex, very top, wind up, wrap up, zenith

• climb down, abjure, alight, back down, back out, backwater, crawfish out, deny, disavow, disclaim, dismount, disown, eat crow, eat dirt, eat humble pie, forswear, get down, get off, land, lick the dust, light, perch, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, settle, sing small, swallow, take back, touch down, unhorse, unsay, withdraw

• climb, abandon, abruptness, acclivity, advance, anabasis, arise, ascend, ascension, ascent, back, back up, bank, budge, cant, careen, chandelle, change, change place, circle, clamber, clamber up, climb down, climb over, climb up, climbing, crawl, creep, decline, descend, descent, dip, drop, ebb, edge, elevation, escalade, escalate, fall, fall away, fall off, flow, fountain, gain altitude, get over, give up, go, go around, go down, go downhill, go round, go sideways, go up, go uphill, grade, grow, gush, gyrate, gyring up, hoick, inch, incline, increase, jet, jump, keel, lean, leap, levitation, list, mount, mounting, move, move over, pitch, plunge, precipitousness, progress, rake, ramp, regress, renounce, retreat, retrogress, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, rotate, route, run, saltation, scale, scale the heights, scrabble up, scramble up, shelve, shift, shin, shin up, shinny, shooting up, sidle, sink, slant, slope, soar, soaring, spin, spout, spring, spurt, steepness, stir, stream, struggle up, subside, surge, surmount, swag, sway, takeoff, taking off, tilt, tip, trail, travel, twine, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, verticalness, wane, whirl, withdraw from, zoom, zooming

• climber, adventurer, algae, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, camper, comers and goers, commuter, conferva, confervoid, cosmopolite, cragsman, creeper, cruiser, diatom, excursionist, explorer, fare, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, hajji, herb, heterophyte, ivy, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mariner, mold, moss, mountaineer, mushroom, palmer, parasite, parasitic plant, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, pilgrim, pioneer, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rust, sailor, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sightseer, smut, straphanger, succulent, toadstool, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, vetch, viator, vine, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler, wort, wrack

• climbing, Brownian movement, acclinate, acclivitous, advance, ambition, ambitiousness, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, career, careerism, clamber, climb, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, elevation, escalade, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, fountain, gush, gyring up, in the ascendant, increase, jet, jump, leap, leaping, levitation, lofty ambition, magnanimity, mount, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, power-hunger, progress, radial motion, rampant, random motion, rearing, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, retrogression, rise, rising, rocketing up, run, rush, saltation, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, set, shooting up, sideward motion, sinking, skyrocketing, soaring, social climbing, spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, status-seeking, sternway, stream, subsiding, surge, takeoff, taking off, traject, trajet, trend, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, upwith, vault, vaulting ambition, zooming

• clime, Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Frigid Zones, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, calm weather, climate, cold weather, equator, fair weather, forces of nature, good weather, halcyon days, horse latitudes, hot weather, latitude, longitude, longitude in arc, macroclimate, meridian, microclimate, parallel, prime meridian, rainy weather, roaring forties, stormy weather, subtropics, the elements, the line, tropic, tropics, weather, windiness, zone

• clinch, abduct, adhere, adhere to, affix, afford proof of, agglomerate, anchor, ankle, annex, articulation, ascertain, assure, attach, bear hug, belay, bite, boundary, bring home to, bunch, butt, carry off, cement, certify, cervix, cinch, clamp, clasp, clear up, cleave, cleave to, clench, cling, cling to, clinging, clip, close quarters, closure, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, come together, communicate, complete, conclude, confirm, congeal, conglomerate, connect, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, converge, coupling, cramp, cuddle, death grip, decide, demonstrate, determine, dismiss all doubt, dispose of, dovetail, elbow, embrace, enfold, engraft, ensure, establish, fasten, find out, firm hold, fix, follow, follow from, foothold, footing, freeze to, get at, gliding joint, graft, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow together, hang on, hang on to, hang together, have a case, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hold, hold fast, hold good, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold together, hold water, hug, insure, intercommunicate, interface, iron grip, join, joining, joint, juncture, keep hold of, kidnap, knee, knit, knuckle, link, make certain, make fast, make good, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make sure, make sure of, mass, meet, merge, miter, moor, mortise, nail down, neck, never let go, nip, persist, pivot, pivot joint, press, prove, prove to be, prove true, purchase, put to, rabbet, reassure, remove all doubt, scarf, screw up, seam, secure, see that, see to it, seizure, set, set at rest, set to, settle, settle the matter, shanghai, shoulder, show, solidify, sort out, squeeze, stay, stay put, stick, stick to, stick together, stitch, suture, symphysis, take hold of, tenure, throttle, tie rod, tight grip, tighten, toehold, toggle, toggle joint, trice up, trim, union, unite, weld, wind up, wrist

• clincher, KO, conclusive argument, coup de grace, crusher, death stroke, deathblow, end-all, ender, final stroke, finisher, finishing stroke, floorer, kayo, kayo punch, knockdown argument, knockout, knockout blow, last dab, quietus, settler, sockdolager, stopper, trump

• cling to, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, around, bear, bite, bosom, bunch, cherish, clasp, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, clip, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, congeal, conglomerate, embosom, embrace, entertain, follow close upon, fondle, foster, freeze to, go with, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow together, hang about, hang on, hang on to, hang together, harbor, have, have and hold, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold together, hover over, huddle, hug, hug the shore, keep, keep close to, keep hold of, lie by, march with, mass, never let go, nip, nurse, nurture, persist, set, solidify, stand by, stay, stay inshore, stay near, stay put, stick, stick to, stick together, tailgate, take hold of, treasure, treasure up

• cling, accretion, adhere, adhere to, adherence, adhesion, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, attach, bear hug, bite, bond, bunch, cherish, clamp, clasp, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling to, clinging, clip, clot, clotting, cluster, clustering, clutch, coagulate, coagulation, cohere, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, compaction, concretion, condensation, congeal, congealment, congelation, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, consolidation, death grip, embrace, fasten, favor, firm hold, fix, foothold, footing, freeze to, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow together, hang on, hang on to, hang together, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold together, hug, inseparability, iron grip, junction, keep, keep hold of, mass, never let go, nip, persist, purchase, retain, seizure, set, solidification, solidify, stay, stay put, stick, stick to, stick together, sticking, take hold of, tight grip, toehold

• clinging, adhering, adhesion, agglutinate, bond, cleaving, cling, coherence, coherent, cohering, cohesion, cohesive, grasping, gripping, holding, holding together, keeping, retentive, sticking, stuck, tenacious

• clinic, VA hospital, X ray, asylum, base hospital, blood bank, charity ward, community hospital, consultation room, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, delivery room, dispensary, emergency, evacuation hospital, examining room, fever ward, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, hospital room, infirmary, inpatient clinic, intensive care, isolation, labor room, laboratory, maison de sante, maternity ward, mental hospital, nursery, nursing home, operating room, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, pharmacy, policlinic, polyclinic, prison ward, private hospital, private room, proprietary hospital, public hospital, recovery room, rest home, sanatorium, semi-private room, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgery, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, therapy, treatment room, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic

• clinical, allopathic, chiropodic, chiropractic, dental, exodontic, homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, medical, naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, pediatric, periodontic, prosthodontic, surgical

• clink, alliteration, assonance, blank verse, bump, calaboose, can, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, chokey, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, click, clop, clump, clunk, consonance, cooler, coop, crambo, crump, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, double rhyme, dull thud, eye rhyme, flick, flump, gong, hoosegow, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, jug, knell, knelling, lockup, near rhyme, pad, paronomasia, pat, patter, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pokey, pop, pun, quod, rap, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, ring, ring changes, ringing, single rhyme, slammer, slant rhyme, sound, sound a knell, stir, tail rhyme, tap, thud, thump, tick, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, tunk, unrhymed poetry

• clinker, adobe, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, ashlar, atonalism, atonality, brand, brick, bricks and mortar, cacophony, calx, carbon, cement, charcoal, cinder, coal, coke, concrete, coom, covering materials, deposition, deposits, diluvium, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, draff, dregs, dross, ember, feces, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flatness, flooring, froth, fume, grounds, inharmoniousness, inharmony, lath and plaster, lava, lees, loess, masonry, moraine, mortar, off note, offscum, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, precipitate, precipitation, prestressed concrete, reek, roofage, roofing, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, sharpness, siding, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, sour note, sourness, stone, stridor, sublimate, sullage, tile, tiling, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, walling, wolf

• Clio, Calliope, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Muse of history, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, adventures, annals, artistic imagination, autobiography, biographical sketch, biography, case history, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, conception, confessions, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, curriculum vitae, diary, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, experiences, fortunes, genius, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, inspiration, journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, necrology, obituary, photobiography, poetic imagination, profile, record, resume, shaping imagination, story, theory of history

• clip, abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, adhere to, amputate, annihilate, articulate, attach, ball the jack, ban, bang, bar, barrel, bash, bat, batten, batten down, bear, beating, belt, biff, bilk, bit, bite, bleed, bleed white, blow, bob, boil down, bolt, bonk, boom, bosom, bowl along, box, breeze, breeze along, broach, brush, buckle, butt, button, capsulize, career, cheat, cherish, chip, chop, chunk, clap, clasp, cleat, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clipping, clobber, clout, clump, clutch, coldcock, collop, compress, condense, contract, crack, crop, crumb, cuff, cull, curtail, cut, cut along, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, cutting, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, diminish, dint, dock, dollop, dovetail, drub, drubbing, drumming, elide, eliminate, embosom, embrace, end, enfold, entertain, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excerpt, excise, exclude, exploit, extinguish, extirpate, extract, fasten, fastener, fetch, fetch a blow, fix, fleece, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, fondle, foot, foreshorten, foster, fragment, freeze to, fusillade, gait, go fast, gob, gobbet, gouge, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hang on, hang on to, harbor, hasp, have, have and hold, highball, hinge, hit, hit a clip, hitch, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold up, hook, hug, hunk, interval, isolate, jab, jam, joint, keep, keep hold of, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock off, knock out, latch, let have it, lick, lock, lop, lower, lump, make knots, mark down, miter, modicum, moiety, morsel, mortise, mow, mutilate, nail, never let go, nip, nurse, nurture, outstrip the wind, overcharge, overprice, overtax, pace, pare, paring, part, particle, paste, peel, peg, pelt, pick out, piece, pin, plunk, poke, poll, pollard, portion, pound, pour it on, press, profiteer, progress, prune, punch, rabbet, rap, rasher, rate, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, rip, rivet, rook, root out, rule out, scarf, scoop, scorch, scrap, screw, section, segment, set apart, set aside, sew, shard, shave, shaving, shear, shiver, shorten, shred, sizzle, skewer, skim, skin, skive, slam, slash, slice, sliver, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snip, snippet, snub, soak, sock, speed, splinter, squeeze, stamp out, staple, step, stick, stick to, sting, stitch, storm along, stride, strike, strike at, strike off, strip, strip off, stroke, stump, stunt, sum up, summarize, surcharge, swat, sweep, swindle, swing, swipe, synopsize, tack, take in, take off, take out, tatter, tattoo, tear, tear along, telescope, thump, thunder along, thwack, toggle, travel, tread, treasure, treasure up, trim, truncate, victimize, wallop, wedge, whack, wham, whisk, whiz, whop, wipe out, yerk, zing, zip, zipper, zoom

• clipped, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

• clipping, abbreviation, ana, analects, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, contraction, crasis, crumb, cut, cutting, cuttings, dollop, elision, ellipsis, end, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragment, fragments, gleanings, gob, gobbet, hunk, lump, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, moiety, morsel, paring, particle, piece, pruning, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, syncope, syneresis, tatter, truncation

• clique, age group, associate with, assort with, band, battalion, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, cast, cell, charmed circle, chum, chum together, chum with, circle, clan, clique with, closed circle, club together, cohort, company, complement, consort with, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, elite, elite group, faction, fellowship, fleet, flock together, fraternize, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hang around with, hang out with, herd together, hobnob with, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, join, join in fellowship, junta, junto, keep company with, mingle with, mix with, mob, movement, out-group, outfit, pack, pal, pal up with, pal with, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, regiment, ring, run in couples, run with, salon, set, sort with, squad, stable, string, take up with, team, tie up with, tribe, troop, troupe, we-group, wing

• cliquish, arrogant, clannish, cliquey, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, elect, ethnocentric, exclusive, haughty, scornful, select, selective, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, withering

• clitoris, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, beard, breasts, cervix, cod, cods, cullions, family jewels, female organs, genitalia, genitals, gonads, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, lips, male organs, meat, nuts, nymphae, ovary, penis, phallus, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, rocks, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, spermary, testes, testicles, uterus, vagina, vulva, womb, yoni

• cloak, alibi, apology, apply to, arm, armor, becloud, befog, blanket, bless, blind, block, bonnet, boot, breech, camouflage, canopy, cap, cape, champion, clothe, cloud, coat, coif, color, compass about, conceal, concealment, cope, copyright, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, cushion, defend, device, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, distract attention from, drape, drapery, dress up, eclipse, ensconce, enshroud, ensure, envelop, excuse, facade, face, feint, fence, fend, film, frock, front, gloss, gloss over, gown, guarantee, guard, guise, handle, hanging, harbor, hat, haven, hide, hood, housing, insure, jacket, keep, keep from harm, keep under cover, lame excuse, lay on, lay over, locus standi, make safe, mantle, mask, muffle, nestle, obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, ostensible motive, overcoat, overlay, overspread, pall, patent, police, poncho, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protect, protestation, public motive, put on, put-off, refuge, register, ride shotgun for, robe, safeguard, screen, scum, secure, semblance, shade, sham, shelter, shield, shirt, shoe, show, shroud, slur over, smoke screen, sock, spread over, stalking-horse, stocking, stratagem, subterfuge, superimpose, superpose, trick, underwrite, varnish, veil, veneer, vestment, whitewash, wrap

• clobber, bang, bash, bat, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, belt, best, biff, blank, blast, bonk, bulldoze, clap, clip, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, cream, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, defeat, defeat utterly, drub, fetch, fetch a blow, hit, hit a clip, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lambaste, let have it, lick, overbear, overwhelm, paste, plunk, poke, punch, schmear, shellac, shut out, skin, skunk, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, smear, smite, smother, snap, snow under, soak, sock, steamroller, strike, strike at, swat, swipe, take the cake, thrash, thump, thwack, trim, triumph, trounce, wallop, whack, wham, whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop, win, worst, yerk

• clock in, accomplish, achieve, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, blow in, bob up, check in, come, come in, come to, come to hand, fetch, fetch up at, find, gain, get in, get there, get to, hit, hit town, make, make it, pop up, pull in, punch in, reach, ring in, roll in, show up, sign in, time in, turn up

• clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, eye-servant, faineant, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, malingerer, mope, moper, old soldier, potterer, putterer, shirk, shirker, skulk, skulker, slacker, slouch, sloucher, slug, sluggard, soldier, stick-in-the-mud, tax dodger, time killer, time waster, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsher

• clock, Big Ben, beat time, brood, chronometer, clock movement, clockworks, cover, fix the time, horologe, horologium, keep time, mark time, measure time, set, set the time, sit, ticker, time, timekeeper, timepiece, timer, turnip, watch, watchworks

• clockwise, anticlockwise, around, conservative, counterclockwise, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, earthward, head over heels, heavenward, heels over head, homeward, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in circles, landward, leeward, leftward, off, positive, reactionary, right, right-hand, right-wing, right-wingish, rightward, round, round about, round and round, seaward, starboard, widdershins, windward

• clod, Boeotian, Chateaubriand, Neanderthal, acres, alluvion, alluvium, anatomy, arable land, ass, batch, blade roast, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, body, bones, boob, boor, botcher, breast, brisket, bucolic, bulk, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, carcass, chuck, chuck roast, chump, chunk, clay, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, clump, cold cuts, corpus, country bumpkin, crust, dimwit, dirt, dolt, donkey, dope, dry land, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dust, earth, farmer, figure, filet mignon, flank, flesh, fool, form, frame, freehold, fumbler, gawk, gawky, glebe, gob, gowk, grassland, ground, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hulk, hunch, hunk, idiot, jerk, jobbernowl, klutz, knuckle, lackwit, lamebrain, land, landholdings, lightweight, lithosphere, loaf, loin, looby, loon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, marginal land, marl, mass, material body, mold, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nugget, oaf, ox, pat, person, physical body, physique, plate, plate piece, pot roast, put, quantity, rack, real estate, real property, region, regolith, rib roast, ribs, roast, rolled roast, round, rube, rump, rump roast, rustic, saddle, shank, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, simpleton, sirloin, slouch, slubberer, sod, soil, soma, stupid, subaerial deposit, subsoil, tenderloin, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, thickwit, topsoil, torso, trunk, vegetable, wad, witling, woodland, yokel

• cloddish, Boeotian, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, boorish, bovine, carlish, chumpish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, countrified, country-born, country-bred, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, farmerish, fat, from the sticks, gross, hayseed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, ill-bred, ineducable, inurbane, klutzy, loobyish, loutish, lubberly, lumpen, lumpish, oafish, opaque, raffish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, sottish, stupid, thick, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unteachable, up-country, wrongheaded, yokel, yokelish

• clog, arrest, bar, barrier, bearing rein, bind, bit, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, block up, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, brake, bung, caulk, cecum, chain, check, checkrein, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, clog up, congest, congestion, constipate, constipation, cork, costiveness, countercheck, cover, cul-de-sac, curb, curb bit, dam, dam up, damper, dance, dead end, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, embolism, embolus, encumber, fetter, fill, fill up, foot, foul, fox-trot, gorge, hamper, holdback, hoof, hop, impasse, impede, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, martingale, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, pack, pelham, plug, plug up, prance, remora, scotch, sea anchor, sealing off, shackle, shake, shimmy, shuffle, skip, snaffle, spile, spoke, stanch, stay, stench, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strangulation, stuff, stuff up, tap-dance, trammel, trip, waltz

• cloister, Easter sepulcher, abbey, access, adytum, aisle, alley, ambry, ambulatory, aperture, apse, arcade, areaway, artery, ashram, avenue, baptistery, blindstory, bottle up, box in, box up, breezeway, cabin, cage, casket, cell, chancel, channel, check, choir, cloisters, closet, coffin, colonnade, communication, conduit, confessional, confessionary, confine, connection, constrain, convent, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, corridor, covered way, cramp, crib, crypt, defile, den, detain, diaconicon, diaconicum, encage, encase, enclose, entomb, exit, fence in, ferry, ford, friary, gallery, hall, hallway, hem in, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, holy of holies, house, immure, impound, inhibit, inlet, interchange, intersection, ivory tower, junction, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, lair, lamasery, lane, loggia, mew, mew up, monastery, nave, nunnery, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, pen, pen up, pergola, peristyle, porch, portico, pound, presbytery, priorate, priory, privacy, rail in, railroad tunnel, recess, restrain, restrict, retreat, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, seal up, secret place, shackle, shut in, shut up, straiten, traject, trajet, transept, triforium, tunnel, underpass, vestry, wall in

• cloistered, anchoritic, at rest, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calm, claustral, closed-in, confined, conventical, conventual, cool, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, detained, domestic, dwindling, ebbing, enclosed, eremitic, even-tenored, fenced, halcyon, hedged, hemmed, hermitic, hermitish, hushed, immured, impassive, impounded, imprisoned, in confinement, incarcerated, isolated, jailed, kept in, leaguered, mewed, moldering, monachal, monasterial, monastic, pacific, paled, peaceable, peaceful, penned, pent, pent-up, placid, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, railed, recluse, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, restrained, restricted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, smooth, stay-at-home, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, under restraint, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, walled, walled-in, waning

• clone, Photostat, Xerox, copy, counterpart, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, hectograph, manifold, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, model, multigraph, quadruplicate, reduplicate, repetition, replica, replicate, replication, representation, reproduce, reproduction, stat, trace, transcribe, triplicate

• clop, bump, chink, click, clink, clump, clunk, crump, drub, dull thud, flick, flump, footfall, footstep, hippety-hop, hoofbeat, hop, jump, pace, pad, pat, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pop, rap, skip, stamp, step, stomp, stride, tap, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, trample, tread, tunk

• close in, accost, advance, approach, appropinquate, approximate, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bound, box in, cage, center, centralize, chamber, close, close up, close with, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come together, come up, compass, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, confront, contain, converge, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, draw near, draw nigh, encircle, enclose, encompass, encounter, enshrine, envelop, fall in with, fence, fence in, funnel, gain upon, hedge, hedge in, hem, hem in, house in, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, intersect, jail, kennel, leaguer, meet, mew, mew up, narrow the gap, near, nip, pen, pen in, pinch, pocket, proximate, quarantine, rail in, run together, shrine, shut in, shut up, sidle up to, stable, step up, surround, taper, unite, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

• close out, balance, balance the books, bar, book, button up, cap, capitalize, carry, carry over, carry to completion, cast up accounts, charge off, clean up, clear the trade, climax, close the books, close up, complete, conclude, convert, convert into cash, credit, crown, culminate, cut under, debit, disenable, disqualify, docket, dump, effect a sale, end, enter, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, job, journalize, keep books, liquidate, log, make a sale, make an entry, make impossible, market, merchandise, minute, mop up, move, note, perfect, post, post up, prohibit, resell, retail, round out, rule out, sacrifice, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, strike a balance, terminate, terminate the account, top off, top out, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, wholesale, wind up, wrap up

• close up, approach, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, block, block up, blockade, bolt, boom shot, button, button up, cap, carry to completion, cease, center, centralize, chock, choke, choke off, cicatrize, clap, clean up, climax, close, close down, close in, close off, close out, close shop, close tight, close with, come together, complete, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, conclude, constrict, contain, contract, converge, cover, crowd, crown, culminate, debar, deuce shot, dog, end, fall in with, fasten, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, fold, fold up, follow-focus shot, full shot, funnel, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, granulate, group shot, heal, heal over, intersect, jam, key, kinescope, knit, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, long shot, matte shot, medium shot, meet, mop up, motion picture, narrow the gap, nip, obstruct, occlude, pack, padlock, pan shot, panoramic shot, perfect, pinch, plumb, process shot, rap shot, retake, right itself, round out, run together, scab over, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, set, shot, shut, shut down, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, shut up shop, shutter, slam, snap, squeeze, squeeze shut, stifle, stop up, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, take, taper, terminate, top off, top out, travel shot, trucking shot, unite, wind up, wrap up, zip up, zipper, zoom shot

• close, Autobahn, Spartan, US highway, abandonment, abbreviated, abort, about, about to be, abridged, abstruse, accented, accommodate, accost, accurate, adjacent, adjust, advance, agree, airless, airtight, alert, all but, alley, alleyway, almost, along toward, alongside, already in sight, alveolar, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, aposiopestic, approach, approaching, appropinquate, approximate, approximately, approximating, approximative, arcane, arena, arm-in-arm, around, arrange, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, articulated, as good as, assiduous, assimilated, at close quarters, at hand, attached, attentive, autistic, autoroute, autostrada, avaricious, avenue, back, bang, bar, barricade, barytone, bashful, batten, batten down, battle, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, beclouded, belt highway, bilabial, blind, blind alley, block, block up, blockade, bolt, bonded, boulevard, box, brawl, breakoff, breathless, breezeless, brewing, brief, bristling, broad, broil, brusque, buddy-buddy, buried, burning, button, button up, bypass, byway, cabalistic, cacuminal, camino real, careful, carriageway, causeway, causey, cease, ceasing, cemented, censored, center, central, centralize, cerebral, cessation, chaussee, cheap, checked, cheek-by-jowl, chock, choke, choke off, cincture, circumferential, circumscribed, clap, clash, classified, climax, clinch, clipped, clos, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close down, close in, close off, close tight, close up, close with, close-fitting, close-knit, close-lipped, close-textured, close-tongued, close-woven, closed, closefisted, closely, closemouthed, closing, clouded, collide, combat, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come to blows, come together, come up, coming, compact, compacted, compactly, comparable, compass, compass about, compendious, complete, completing, completion, compose, compressed, concealed, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, concentrated, concise, conclude, conclusion, concrete, condensed, confidential, confine, confined, confining, confront, congested, connect, conscientious, consolidated, consonant, consonantal, constant, constrict, constricted, contain, container, contend, contest, continuant, contract, contracted, converge, coop, corduroy road, correct, county road, court, courtyard, cover, covered, covert, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramped, crawling, crescent, crisp, critical, croft, crowd, crowded, cryptic, cul-de-sac, culmination, curt, curtilage, cut, cut and thrust, dark, dead-end street, debar, decline, delicate, delimited field, demanding, dense, densely, dental, desinence, desistance, detailed, determine, devoted, dike, direct, dirt road, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinue, discreet, disregard, dissimilated, dissociable, docked, dog, dorsal, draw near, draw nigh, drive, driveway, duel, dumb, dustproof, dusttight, eclipsed, economical of words, elliptic, embay, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, encounter, end, ending, enfold, enigmatic, envelop, environ, enwrap, epigrammatic, esoteric, establish, evasive, even, exact, exacting, exchange blows, exigent, express, expressway, exquisite, faithful, fall in with, familiar, fast, fast by, fasten, fastened, fence, feud, field, fight, fight a duel, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, finish, finish up, finishing, firm, firmly, fix, fixed, flat, fold, fold up, forthcoming, forty, freeway, front, full, full development, funnel, fussy, fusty, future, gain upon, gasproof, gastight, gathering, give and take, give satisfaction, glide, glossal, glottal, glued, gluey, gnomic, go around, go round, going to happen, grapple, grapple with, gravel road, ground, guarded, guttural, hand and glove, hand-in-hand, hard, hard by, hardfisted, heavily, heavy, hereabout, hereabouts, hermetic, hermetically sealed, hid, hidden, high, highroad, highway, highways and byways, homestretch, homologous, hot, humid, hush-hush, ignore, ill-ventilated, illiberal, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, impenetrable, impermeable, in a cloud, in a fog, in danger imminent, in eclipse, in prospect, in purdah, in reserve, in spitting distance, in store, in the cards, in the neighborhood, in the offing, in the vicinity, in the wind, in the wings, in view, incapacious, incommodious, incommunicado, incompatible, indisposed to talk, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inseparable, insociable, instant, intense, intent, intersect, interstate highway, intimate, intonated, invest, involve, isthmian, isthmic, jam, jam-packed, jammed, join, jostle, joust, just about, key, kill, kraal, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laconic, lane, lap, lapse, last lap, last round, last stage, latch, latent, lateral, lax, light, lightproof, lighttight, like, limited, lingual, liquid, list, local road, lock, lock out, lock up, looming, lot, low, lowering, lurking, main drag, main road, make, make up, massive, mathematical, maturation, maturity, meager, mean, meet, menacing, meticulous, mews, micrometrically precise, microscopic, mid, mingy, minuscule, minute, miserly, mix it up, monophthongal, mopey, mopish, morose, motorway, much at one, much the same, muggy, mum, musty, mute, muted, mysterious, narrow, narrow the gap, nasal, nasalized, near, near at hand, near the mark, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearing, nearish, nearly, nearly the same, nice, niggardly, nigh, nigh about, nighhand, nighish, nip, nongregarious, nonporous, not far, not far from, not quite, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obstruct, obturate, occlude, occlusive, occult, oilproof, oiltight, on the horizon, only a step, open, oppressive, overhanging, overlook, oxytone, pack, packed, padlock, painstaking, palatal, palatalized, pale, paling, pally, palsy-walsy, parcel of land, park, parkway, parsimonious, particular, patch, pave, paved road, pen, penny-pinching, penurious, perfection, perorate, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pike, pinch, pinchfisted, pinching, pinpoint, pitch, pitched, pithy, place, plank road, plat, plot, plot of ground, plumb, pointed, populous, posttonic, practically, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, preparing, pretty near, primary highway, private, private road, privy, propinque, proximal, proximate, pruned, punctilious, punctual, quad, quadrangle, quarrel, quasi, quiet, rainproof, raintight, rassle, real estate, recondite, refined, relatable, religious, religiously exact, relinquishment, renunciation, reserved, resolve, restricted, reticent, retroflex, right-of-way, rigid, rigorous, ring road, riot, ripeness, road, roadbed, roadway, round, round about, rounded, rounding off, rounding out, route nationale, row, royal road, run a tilt, run together, same but different, save-all, scant, scanty, scientific, scientifically exact, scramble, scrap, scratch, scrupulous, scrutinizing, scuffle, seal, seal off, seal up, sealed, searching, secluded, secluse, secondary road, secret, secretive, section, secure, self-contained, self-sufficient, semivowel, sententious, sequestered, serried, set, settle, settle with, severe, shifty, short, short and sweet, shortened, shut, shut down, shut fast, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, shut up shop, shutdown, side-by-side, sidle up to, sign, silent, similar, skirmish, slam, slender, smokeproof, smoketight, smothered, snap, snug, socially incompatible, soft, solid, solidly, sonant, spar, sparing of words, speechless, speedway, square, squeeze, squeeze shut, stale, state highway, staunch, step up, sticky, stifle, stifled, stifling, stingy, stop, stop up, stopped, stopping, stormproof, stormtight, straighten out, strait, strangle, strangulate, street, stressed, strict, strive, strong, struggle, stuck, stuffy, substantial, subtle, succinct, suffocate, suffocating, sullen, sultry, summary, superhighway, suppressed, surcease, surd, surround, suspend, swarming, switch off, syllabic, synopsized, taciturn, taped, taper, teeming, tense, terminate, termination, terminus, terrace, terse, that will be, theater, thereabout, thereabouts, thick, thick as thieves, thick-growing, thickly, thickset, thorough, thoroughfare, threatening, throaty, through street, thrust and parry, thruway, tight, tight-fisted, tight-lipped, tightfisted, tilt, tiny, to come, to the point, toft, toll road, tonal, tongue-tied, tonic, top secret, topping off, tourney, township road, tract, truncated, turn off, turnpike, tussle, twangy, ulterior, unaccented, unbreatheable, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under wraps, underground, undeviating, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unerring, unfriendly, ungenerous, ungenial, unite, unknown, unloquacious, unrevealable, unrevealed, unrounded, unsociable, unsocial, unspoken, unstressed, untalkative, untellable, untold, unutterable, unvented, unventilated, unwhisperable, upcoming, velar, vicinal, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wage war, waiting, war, warm, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, weak, wedged, well-nigh, wide, wind up, windless, windproof, windtight, windup, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach, word-bound, wordless, work out, wrap, wrapped in clouds, wrestle, wynd, yard, zip up, zipper

• closed minded, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, parochial, petty, provincial, purblind, shortsighted, small, small-minded, straitlaced, stuffy, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal

• closed, arcane, authoritarian, beyond reach, bigot, bigoted, blank, blind, blind-alley, borne, cabalistic, cecal, censored, choked, choked off, classified, close, closed forever to, closed to, concealed, constricted, contracted, cramped, creedbound, cryptic, dark, dead, dead-end, deaf, deaf to reason, enigmatic, esoteric, fanatical, hermetic, hidden, hidebound, hush-hush, illiberal, impenetrable, impersuadable, impersuasible, impervious, inaccessible, inflexible, inhospitable, insular, latent, little, little-minded, lost to, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mysterious, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obstinate, occult, out of reach, parochial, petty, provincial, purblind, restricted, secret, shortsighted, shut, small, small-minded, smothered, squeezed shut, stifled, straitlaced, strangulated, stuffy, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, un-come-at-able, unaccessible, unamenable, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unbreatheable, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncordial, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undivulgable, undivulged, unfriendly, ungenerous, ungettable, ungracious, unhospitable, unimpressionable, uninfluenceable, unliberal, unmovable, unneighborly, unobtainable, unopen, unopened, unpersuadable, unpliable, unprocurable, unreachable, unreceptive, unresponsive, unrevealable, unrevealed, unsecurable, unspoken, unsuggestible, unsusceptible, unswayable, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unvented, unventilated, unwhisperable, unyielding

• closefisted, avaricious, cheap, clinging, close, grasping, hardfisted, illiberal, keeping, miserly, narrow, near, niggardly, penny-pinching, pinchfisted, pinching, save-all, stingy, tenacious, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous

• closely, all but, almost, as good as, barely, carefully, close, compactly, densely, firmly, hardly, heavily, heedfully, intently, just about, meticulously, mindfully, minutely, narrowly, near, nearly, nigh, nighhand, not quite, only just, pretty near, punctiliously, scrupulously, sharply, solidly, thick, thickly, thoughtfully, well-nigh

• closemouthed, brief, brusque, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, concise, curt, dark, discreet, dumb, economical of words, evasive, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, secret, secretive, shifty, short, silent, snug, sparing of words, speechless, taciturn, terse, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, uncommunicative, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless

• closeness, THI, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agreement, airlessness, airtight secrecy, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assemblage, assimilation, association, avarice, bond, cheapness, chumminess, close secrecy, closefistedness, combination, community, compactness, comparability, comparison, concealment, confinement, confines, conformity, congestedness, congestion, connectedness, connection, consistence, consistency, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, copying, correspondence, crowdedness, crypticness, dealings, deduction, denseness, density, discreetness, discretion, disjunction, environs, evasion, evasiveness, familiarity, filiation, firmness, foreground, gluiness, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hardfistedness, hardness, hiddenness, hoarding, homology, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, humidity, humidness, identity, illiberality, imitation, immediacy, immediate foreground, impenetrability, impermeability, imporosity, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, incompressibility, indisposition to speak, inseparableness, intercourse, intimacy, intimate acquaintance, jammedness, junction, lack of meaning, lack of message, liaison, likeness, likening, limitation, link, linkage, linking, mateyness, meaninglessness, metaphor, mimicking, miserliness, mugginess, mutual attraction, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, oppression, oppressiveness, palliness, parallelism, parity, penny-pinching, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relative density, resemblance, restrictedness, restriction, sameness, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, slenderness, solidity, solidness, special affinity, specific gravity, spissitude, stickiness, stinginess, straitness, strictness, stuffiness, subterfuge, swelter, sympathy, temperature-humidity index, the dark, thickness, tie, tie-in, tight purse strings, tight squeeze, tightfistedness, tightness, uncommunicativeness, unconversableness, ungenerosity, union, unsociability, vicinage, vicinity, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness

• closet, WC, academic, adytum, anonymous, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backhouse, bank, basement, bathroom, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, booking office, bottle up, box, box in, box office, box up, branch, branch office, bunker, buttery, cabin, cabinet, can, cargo dock, casket, cellar, chambers, chancellery, chancery, chest, cloakroom, cloister, clothes closet, coffin, comfort station, confidential, confine, conservatory, consulate, convenience, corporate headquarters, cramp, crapper, crate, crib, cupboard, den, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dressing room, dump, earth closet, embassy, encase, entomb, exchequer, executive office, fitting room, glory hole, godown, head, headquarters, hold, holy of holies, home office, hushed, hutch, immure, incognito, inmost, innermost, inside, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, jakes, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, legation, library, linen closet, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, main office, necessary, office, outhouse, personal, powder room, private, privy, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rest room, retired, retreat, rick, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secluded, sequestered, shelf, shop, speculative, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, straiten, study, supply base, supply depot, tank, ticket office, toilet, toilet room, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, urinal, vat, vault, wardrobe, warehouse, washroom, water closet, wine cellar, withdrawn

• closing, abandonment, accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, blockade, breakoff, capping, cease, ceasing, cessation, close, closure, concluding, conclusion, consummative, consummatory, crowning, culminating, culminative, decline, desinence, desistance, discontinuance, discontinuation, end, ending, eventual, final, finish, finishing, hindmost, homestretch, lag, lapse, last lap, last round, last stage, latest, latter, occlusion, perfecting, perfective, period, relinquishment, renunciation, sealing, settlement, shutdown, shutting, shutting up, signature, signing, solemnization, stop, stopping, surcease, terminal, terminating, termination, ultimate

• closure, accomplishment, ankle, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, articulation, blockage, blocking, boundary, butt, cease, cervix, cessation, check, clinch, clogging, close, closing, closing up, completion, conclusion, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, constriction, consummation, coupling, cramp, culmination, delay, desistance, detainment, detention, dovetail, elbow, embrace, end, ending, fixation, foot-dragging, fulfillment, gliding joint, hampering, hindering, hindrance, hinge, hinged joint, hip, holdback, holdup, impediment, inhibition, interface, interference, interruption, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, let, link, miter, mortise, neck, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, perfection, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, realization, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, scarf, seam, setback, shoulder, squeeze, stitch, stop, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, suture, symphysis, termination, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, topping-off, union, weld, wrist

• clot, Devonshire cream, adhere, agglomerate, agglomeration, ament, array, assemble, batch, battery, beat up, blockhead, blood clot, blunderer, blunderhead, body, bonnyclabber, boor, born fool, botcher, breccia, bumbler, bunch, bunch up, bundle, bungler, cake, casein, churn, clabber, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clotted cream, clown, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulum, cohere, collect, colloid, colloidize, come together, concrete, concretion, congeal, congenital idiot, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, crassamentum, cream, cretin, crowd, curd, curdle, date, defective, dolt, embolus, embrace, emulsify, emulsionize, flock together, flow together, forgather, freeze to, fumbler, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gawk, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, golem, gowk, grasp, grow together, grume, half-wit, hang on, hang together, herd together, hive, hold, hold on, hold together, horde, huddle, hug, idiot, imbecile, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, juggins, klutz, knot, league, legumin, link, looby, lopper, loppered milk, lout, lubber, lump, mass, meet, merge, mill, mongoloid idiot, moron, muster, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, oaf, ox, paracasein, persist, rally, rally around, rendezvous, seethe, set, simp, simpleton, slouch, slubberer, solidify, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, stream, surge, swarm, take hold of, thick, thicken, thrombus, throng, unite, whip, yokel

• cloth, act drop, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, batten, boltrope, border, canonicals, canvas, ceremonial attire, clericals, clew, coulisse, counterweight, cringle, crowd of sail, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, decor, drapery, drop, drop curtain, earing, episcopal vestments, etoffe, fabric, felt, fire curtain, flat, flipper, foot, fore-and-aft sail, goods, hanging, head, lace, leech, liturgical garments, luff, material, muslin, napery, plain sail, pontificalia, pontificals, press of sail, rag, reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, robes, sail, scene, scenery, screen, side scene, silk, square sail, stage screw, stuff, tab, tableau, teaser, textile, textile fabric, texture, the cloth, tissu, tissue, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, vestments, vesture, weave, web, weft, wing, wingcut, woodcut, woof, wool

• clothe, accommodate, accouter, afford, apparel, apply to, arm, array, attire, authorize, bedeck, bedrape, blanket, block, bundle up, canopy, caparison, clad, cloak, clothe with power, cloud, contribute, cope, costume, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, deck, deputize, dight, do up, donate, drape, dress, dress up, dud, eclipse, empower, enable, enclothe, endow, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equip, fill, fill up, film, find, fit out, fit up, fund, furnish, garb, garment, give, habilitate, hood, invest, keep, lap, lay on, lay over, maintain, make available, make provision for, mantle, mask, muffle, muffle up, obduce, obscure, occult, outfit, overlay, overspread, prepare, present, provide, provide for, put on, rag out, raiment, recruit, replenish, rig out, robe, screen, scum, sheathe, shield, shroud, spread over, stock, store, subsidize, superimpose, superpose, supply, support, swaddle, swathe, tire, veil, wrap, wrap up, yield

• clothes conscious, braw, chic, classy, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, recherche, ritzy, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed

• clothes, afghan, apparel, array, attire, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedizenment, bedsheet, bedspread, blanket, buffalo robe, case, clobber, clothing, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, costume, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, eiderdown, ensemble, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fitted sheet, garb, garments, gear, getup, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habit, investiture, investment, lap robe, linen, outfit, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, quilt, rags, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, robes, rug, sheet, sheeting, slip, sportswear, spread, style, things, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vestments, vesture, wardrobe, wear, wearing apparel

• clotheshorse, Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, clubman, clubwoman, coxcomb, dandy, deb, debutante, dude, exquisite, fashion plate, fashionable, fine gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, horse, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lady-killer, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, mondain, mondaine, puppy, sawbuck, sawhorse, socialite, spark, sport, subdeb, subdebutante, swell, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter, trestle, trestle and table, trestle board, trestle table, trestlework, trestling

• clothier, antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, bookstore, bootery, candy store, chemist, cigar store, clothiers, clothing store, confectionery, costumer, costumier, draper, dress shop, drugstore, dry goods dealer, dry goods store, florists, fur salon, furniture store, furrier, gift shop, glover, haberdasher, haberdashery, hardware store, hat shop, hobby shop, hosier, ironmongery, jewelers, jewelry store, leather goods store, liquor store, luggage shop, mercer, milliners, novelty shop, package store, pharmacy, 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

• clotted, adhesive, amylaceous, caked, cakey, clabbered, clammy, coagulated, congealed, curded, curdled, doughy, gaumy, gelatinized, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, incrassate, inspissate, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lumpish, lumpy, mucilaginous, pasty, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous

• cloture, cloture by compartment, committee consideration, debate, deliberation, division, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, guillotine, introduction, kangaroo cloture, logrolling, roll call, second reading, steamroller methods, tabling, talkathon, third reading, vote

• cloud nine, acme, apex, apogee, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, brow, cap, cheer, cheerfulness, climax, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, edge, elation, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, extreme limit, extremity, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, high spirits, highest pitch, highest point, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, limit, maximum, meridian, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, peak, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, rapture, ravishment, ridge, seventh heaven, sky, spire, summit, sunshine, tip, tip-top, top, transport, unalloyed happiness, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vertex, very top, zenith

• cloud seeder, Dry Ice, aeronaut, aeroplaner, aeroplanist, air pilot, airplanist, artificial nucleation, astronaut, aviator, barnstormer, birdman, captain, cloud-seeding, commercial pilot, copilot, crop-duster, flier, instructor, jet jockey, licensed pilot, pilot, rain doctor, rainmaker, rainmaking, seeding, silver iodide, stunt flier, stunt man, test pilot, wingman

• cloud, a mass of, a world of, addle, addle the wits, adumbrate, afterdamp, apply to, army, ball up, becloud, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, befuddle, befuddlement, begloom, bemist, besmear, besmirch, bevy, bewilder, bewilderment, black, black out, blackdamp, blacken, blanket, blind, block, block the light, blot out, blur, bother, botheration, breath, brown, bug, bunch, camouflage, canopy, cast a shadow, chaos, charm, chokedamp, clabber up, cloak, clothe, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, clutter, conceal, confuse, confusion, cope, cover, cover up, covey, cowl, crowd, curtain, damp, darken, darken over, daze, dazzle, dim, dim out, discolor, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disguise, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, dissemble, distract, distract attention from, disturb, disturbance, eclipse, effluvium, embarrass, embarrassment, encloud, encompass with shadow, enmist, ensconce, enshroud, entangle, envelop, exhalation, fetid air, film, firedamp, flatus, flight, flock, flocks, fluid, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, gaggle, gloom, gloss over, hail, haze, hide, hive, hood, host, jam, jumble, keep under cover, large amount, lay on, lay over, legion, lots, malaria, mantle, many, mask, masses of, maze, mephitis, mess, miasma, mist, mix up, mob, moider, muchness, muddle, muddlement, muddy, muffle, multitude, murk, murmuration, nest, nubilate, numbers, obduce, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, overcast, overcloud, overlay, overshadow, oversmoke, overspread, pack, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, plague, plurality, pother, pucker, puff of smoke, put on, put out, puzzle, quantities, quite a few, raise hell, rattle, reek, rout, ruck, ruffle, scores, screen, scum, shade, shadow, shield, shoal, shroud, shuffle, skein, slur over, smear, smog, smoke, smudge, somber, spread over, spring, steam, stew, sully, superimpose, superpose, swarm, sweat, swivet, tar, tarnish, throng, throw into confusion, tidy sum, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, vapor, varnish, veil, volatile, watch, water vapor, whitewash, worlds of

• cloudburst, brash, burst of rain, deluge, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, flood, gushing rain, heavy rain, plash, pour, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, scud, soaker, soaking rain, spate, spout, torrent of rain, waterspout

• clouded, Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, abstruse, ambiguous, armored, beclouded, blind, buried, calico, cased, castellatus, ceiled, cirrose, cirrous, cloaked, close, cloud-flecked, cloudy, coated, concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, cumuliform, cumulous, curtained, dapple, dappled, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty, dubious, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, equivocal, filmed, floored, funereal, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, heavy, hid, hidden, hooded, housed, ill-lighted, ill-lit, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, latent, lenticularis, loricate, loricated, lowering, mammatus, mantled, marbled, masked, motley, mottled, muffled, mysterious, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, open, overcast, overclouded, packaged, paved, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, problematic, recondite, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, shady, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, skewbald, somber, sombrous, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous, swathed, tented, thunderheaded, uncertain, unclear, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, unknown, unsettled, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped, wrapped in clouds

• cloudland, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, cap cloud, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, dreamland, dystopia, faerie, fairyland, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, heaven, high fog, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, millennium, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, paradise, promised land, rain cloud, scud, snail cloud, squall cloud, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, thundercloud, thunderhead, utopia, water carrier, wonderland, woolpack

• cloudy, Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, adiaphanous, amorphous, angry, beclouded, befuddled, blind, castellatus, cirrose, cirrous, clear as mud, cloud-flecked, clouded, cumuliform, cumulous, cyclonic, dark, dark and gloomy, dim, dirty, dull, fogged, foggy, foul, fuddlebrained, fuddled, funereal, fuzzy, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, grumly, hazy, heavy, ill-lighted, ill-lit, impervious to light, in a fog, in a muddle, indeterminate, indistinct, intransparent, lenticularis, lowering, mammatus, misted, misty, mucky, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, murky, mushy, muzzy, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, overclouded, puzzleheaded, raging, rainy, roiled, roily, shadowy, shapeless, somber, sombrous, squally, storming, stormy, stratiform, stratous, tempestuous, thunderheaded, tornadic, transcendent, turbid, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, unclear, unplain, vague, vaporous, vapory

• clout, amperage, armipotence, ascendancy, authoritativeness, authority, backlash, backwash, bang, bash, bat, beating, beef, belt, biff, black power, blow, bonk, box, brute force, buffet, cabbage, charge, charisma, charm, chop, clap, clip, clobber, clump, cogence, cogency, coldcock, collar, compulsion, consequence, control, cop, crack, credit, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, dominance, domination, drag, drive, driving force, drub, drubbing, drumming, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, eminence, enchantment, energy, esteem, favor, fetch, fetch a blow, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, fusillade, good feeling, heist, hit, hit a clip, hold, hook, impact, impellent, impelling force, impetus, importance, impress, impression, imprint, impulse, impulsion, in, incentive, incidental power, incitement, influence, influentiality, insinuation, irresistible force, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, leadership, let have it, leverage, lick, magisterialness, magnetism, main force, main strength, mana, mark, mastery, might, might and main, mightiness, moment, momentum, motive power, moxie, muscle power, nail, nick, nip, paste, pelt, personality, persuasion, pizzazz, plunk, poke, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, pound, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, predominance, preponderance, prepotency, pressure, prestige, print, productiveness, productivity, propulsion, puissance, pull, punch, purchase, push, rap, reaction, recoil, reflex, reign, repercussion, repute, response, rule, say, sinew, slam, slap, slog, slosh, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, steal, steam, strength, strike, strike at, stroke, strong arm, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, superiority, superpower, supremacy, swat, sway, swing, swipe, tattoo, thrust, thump, thwack, upper hand, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wallop, wattage, weight, whack, wham, whip hand, whop, yerk

• cloven, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, chinky, cleft, cracked, cut, dehiscent, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided, fissured, fissury, forked, forking, gaping, gappy, halved, in pieces, in shreds, lacerate, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, quartered, ragged, ramified, rent, rift, rimose, rimulose, riven, severed, shredded, slit, splintered, split, tattered, torn

• clover, Easy Street, affluence, bed of roses, comfort, contentment, deuce-ace, ease, easy circumstances, felicity, fleshpots, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, lap of luxury, leash, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, prosperity, prosperousness, security, set of three, shamrock, solid comfort, success, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, the affluent life, the good life, three, threesome, thriving condition, tierce, trefoil, trey, triad, trialogue, triangle, tricorn, trident, triennium, trihedron, trilogy, trimester, trine, trinity, trinomial, trio, triphthong, triple crown, triple threat, triplet, triplopy, tripod, triptych, trireme, triseme, triskelion, trisul, triumvirate, triunity, trivet, troika, upward mobility, velvet, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being

• clown, Babbitt, Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Philistine, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, acrobat, aerialist, apple knocker, arriviste, ass, banana, bareback rider, be foolish, be stupid, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, born fool, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, buffo, buffoon, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, burlesquer, cad, caper, caricaturist, churl, circus artist, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown around, comedian, comic, country bumpkin, cut up, cutup, dolt, doodle, egregious ass, epicier, epigrammatist, equestrian director, equilibrist, farceur, farmer, figure of fun, flier, fool, fool around, frivol, fumbler, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, galoot, gawk, get funny, go haywire, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, harlequin, hayseed, hick, high-wire artist, hillbilly, hooligan, horse around, humorist, ignoramus, ill-bred fellow, invite ridicule, ironist, jack-pudding, jackass, jerk, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, juggler, klutz, lampooner, lion tamer, looby, lout, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lunatic, madcap, merry-andrew, milksop, mime, mooncalf, motley, motley fool, mountebank, mucker, mummer, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parodist, parvenu, peasant, perfect fool, pickle-herring, play the buffoon, play the fool, prankster, provincial, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, ribald, ringmaster, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, satirist, schmuck, slack-rope artist, slouch, slubberer, snake charmer, softhead, sop, stupid ass, sword swallower, tightrope walker, tomfool, trapeze artist, trifle, tumbler, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, yahoo, yokel, zany

• cloy, allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit

• cloying, bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloysome, fetid, filling, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, jading, luscious, maggoty, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious, offensive, overfilling, overripe, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy, satiating, sating, satisfying, sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening, sickly-sweet, sloppy, soft, spoiled, sticky, stinking, surfeiting, tear-jerking, teary, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky

• club, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, affiliate, agate, alliance, ally, amphitheater, arena theater, associate, association, auditorium, ball, band together, baseball bat, baste, bastinado, bat, baths, baton, battering ram, battledore, bauble, be in cahoots, beat, belabor, belt, billy, billy club, birch, blackjack, blocks, bludgeon, brotherhood, buffet, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cabaret, cane, casino, cement a union, centralize, checkerboard, chessboard, circle theater, club together, clubhouse, cockhorse, combine, come together, company, concert hall, confederate, confraternity, confrerie, consociate, consortium, conspire, cooperate, cosh, country club, couple, cowhide, cricket bat, cudgel, cue, cut, doll, doll carriage, drub, federalize, federate, federation, fellowship, ferule, flagellate, flail, flog, fraternal order, fraternity, fustigate, gambling house, gang, gang up, gathering place, gewgaw, gimcrack, give a whipping, give the stick, go in partners, go in partnership, golf club, guild, hall, hangout, haunt, health resort, hobbyhorse, hook up with, horsewhip, house, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, kickshaw, knickknack, knobkerrie, knout, lace, lambaste, lash, lay on, league, life preserver, little theater, lodge, mace, marble, marionette, marry, meeting place, mig, morning star, music hall, night spot, nightclub, nightstick, opera, opera house, order, organization, organize, outdoor theater, paddle, pair, pair off, pandybat, paper doll, partner, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, pistol-whip, playhouse, plaything, pommel, pummel, puppet, purlieu, quarterstaff, racket, rag doll, rallying point, ram, rattan, rawhide, resort, rocking horse, rod, ruler, sandbag, scourge, secret society, shillelagh, showboat, sisterhood, smite, society, sodality, sorority, spa, spank, spontoon, sport, springs, staff, stamping ground, stand together, stand up with, stave, steelie, stick, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, taw, team up, team up with, team with, teetotum, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron, thrash, throw in with, thump, tie in with, tie up with, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, trounce, truncheon, union, unionize, unite with, wallop, war club, watering place, wed, whale, whim-wham, whip, whop

• clubby, affable, amiable, civil, clubbable, clubbish, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, congenial, courteous, fit for society, fond of society, friendly, genial, gregarious, hospitable, sociable, social, social-minded, urbane

• clubfoot, arch, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, crookback, defacement, deformation, deformity, digit, disfigurement, dog, extremity, fetlock, flatfoot, foot, forefoot, forepaw, freakishness, harefoot, harelip, heel, hoof, humpback, hunchback, instep, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, mutilation, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pes, pied, pug, sole, splayfoot, swayback, talipes, teratology, toe, tootsy, torticollis, trotter, truncation, ungula, valgus, wryneck

• clubwoman, Beau Brummel, Greek, affiliate, arbiter of fashion, associate, belonger, bon vivant, brother, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charter member, clotheshorse, clubber, clubman, committeeman, comrade, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, dandy, deb, debutante, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, excellent companion, fashion plate, fashionable, fellow, fop, fraternity man, good company, good mixer, guildsman, honorary member, initiate, insider, joiner, life member, man-about-town, member, mixer, mondain, mondaine, nightclub habitue, one of us, playboy, pleasant company, pledge, sister, social lion, socialite, socius, sorority girl, sorority woman, subdeb, subdebutante, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter

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

• clue, acquaint, advice, advise, alerting, answer, apprise, basis for belief, body of evidence, broad hint, catchword, caution, chain of evidence, cue, cue word, data, datum, documentation, evidence, exhibit, fact, facts, fill in, gentle hint, gesture, glimmer, glimmering, grounds, grounds for belief, hint, hot lead, implication, imply, index, indicate, indication, indicator, inform, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimate, intimation, item of evidence, key, key word, kick, lead, look, manifestation, mark, material grounds, monition, muniments, mute witness, nod, notify, notion, nudge, office, passing word, piece of evidence, pointer, post, premises, prompt, proof, reason to believe, relevant fact, scent, sign, signal, spoor, steer, suggest, suggestion, suspicion, symptom, tell, telltale, tip, tip-off, token, trace, track, vestige, warn, warning, whiff, whisper, wind, wink

• clump, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, amble, array, assemble, bang, barge, bash, bat, batch, beating, belt, biff, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, block, blow, body, bonk, boss, bow, bowl along, bring together, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulk, bulla, bump, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bundle, burl, button, cahot, cake, chine, chink, chop, chunk, clabber, clap, click, clink, clip, clobber, clod, clop, clot, clout, clunk, cluster, clutter, coagulate, coldcock, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, concrete, concretion, condyle, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration, convex, copse, corral, crack, crop, crump, cumulate, curd, curdle, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, dig up, dint, dowel, drag, draw together, dredge up, drive together, drub, drubbing, drumming, dull thud, ear, fetch, fetch a blow, flange, flap, flick, flounce, flump, foot, footslog, fusillade, gall, gather, gather in, gather together, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, get in, get together, gnarl, gob, group, grouping, groupment, grove, growth, halt, handle, hassock, heap, hill, hippety-hop, hit, hit a clip, hitch, hobble, hodgepodge, hop, hump, hunch, hunk, incrassate, inspissate, jab, jell, jellify, jelly, jog, joggle, join, jolt, jumble, jump, juxtapose, knob, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knot, knur, knurl, let have it, lick, limp, lip, loaf, loop, lopper, lot, lumber, lump, lump together, lunge, lurch, make up, mass, match, mess, mince, mobilize, mole, mountain, muster, nevus, node, nub, nubbin, nubble, nugget, omnium-gatherum, pace, pad, paddle, pair, papilloma, parcel, partner, paste, pat, patter, peg, pelt, piaffe, piaffer, pile, pitapat, pitter-patter, plantation, planting, plod, plump, plunk, poke, pop, pound, prance, punch, put together, quantity, rack, raise, rake up, rally, rap, rib, ridge, ring, roll, round up, sashay, saunter, scrape together, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, set, shamble, shock, shoulder, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slam, slew, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, solid, solid body, spine, spinney, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand, stomp, stook, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, strike at, stroke, stroll, strut, stud, stumble, stump, style, swagger, swat, swing, swipe, tab, take up, tap, tattoo, thick, thicken, thicket, thud, thump, thwack, tick, tinkle, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trample, tread, trip, trudge, tubercle, tubercule, tuft, tunk, tussock, verruca, vesicle, wad, waddle, wale, wallop, wamble, wart, welt, whack, wham, whip in, whop, wiggle, wisp, wobble, wood, yerk

• clumsily, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, ass-backwards, awkwardly, blunderingly, bunglingly, carelessly, casually, cumbersomely, cursorily, disregardfully, forgetfully, gracelessly, haphazardly, heedlessly, helter-skelter, hit and miss, hit or miss, hulkily, inattentively, inconsiderately, inconveniently, inelegantly, maladroitly, messily, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, perfunctorily, ponderously, promiscuously, recklessly, regardlessly, slapdash, sloppily, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, uncouthly, ungracefully, unguardedly, unhandily, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmanageably, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily, unwieldily

• clumsy, Doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, botched, bovine, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, cloddish, clownish, clumsy-fisted, coarse, contrary, crosswise, crude, cumbersome, cumbrous, deficient, discommodious, doggerel, dysphemistic, elephantine, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, haphazard, harsh, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky, impractical, improper, impure, in bad taste, incommodious, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, inept, infelicitous, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, messy, oafish, outlandish, perverse, ponderous, promiscuous, rude, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, splay, stiff, tasteless, troublesome, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraced, ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unmanageable, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untidy, unwieldy, vulgar, wooden

• clunk, bump, chink, click, clink, clop, clump, crump, dull thud, flick, flump, pad, pat, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pop, rap, tap, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tunk

• cluster, accumulate, adhere, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggroup, amass, army, array, assemblage, assemble, assembly, associate, band, batch, bevy, block, body, breccia, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bundle, cake, clabber, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clump, clutch, coagulate, cohere, cohue, collect, collection, colligate, collocate, combine, come together, company, compare, compile, concrete, concretion, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregation, converge, copse, copulate, corral, couple, covey, crew, crop, crowd, crush, cumulate, curd, curdle, date, deluge, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, embrace, flock, flock together, flood, flow together, forgather, freeze to, fuse, galaxy, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gather in, gather together, gathering, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, get in, get together, grasp, group, grouping, groupment, grove, grow together, hang on, hang together, hassock, heap, herd together, hive, hold, hold on, hold together, horde, host, huddle, hug, incrassate, inspissate, jam, jell, jellify, jelly, join, juxtapose, knot, league, legion, link, lopper, lot, lump, lump together, make up, mass, match, meet, merge, mess, mill, mob, mobilize, multitude, muster, node, package, pair, panoply, parcel, partner, party, persist, press, put together, rabble, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, rendezvous, round up, rout, ruck, scrape together, seethe, set, shock, slew, solid, solid body, solidify, spate, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, stook, stream, surge, swarm, take hold of, take up, thick, thicken, thicket, throng, tuft, tussock, unite, whip in, wisp

• clutch, abduct, adhere to, amount, array, batch, bear hug, bind, bite, body, brood, budget, bunch, bundle, carry off, catch, cherish, chunk, clamp, clasp, cleave to, clench, climacteric, clinch, cling, clinging, clip, clump, cluster, clutches, complication, cone clutch, control, convergence of events, count, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, deal, death grip, disk clutch, dominance, domination, dose, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embrace, emergency, exigency, extremity, farrow, fine how-do-you-do, firm hold, foothold, footing, freeze to, friction clutch, fry, get, gob, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, group, hang on, hang on to, harbor, hatch, heap, hell to pay, high pressure, hinge, hobble, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hot water, how-do-you-do, hug, hunk, imbroglio, imperativeness, influence, iron grip, jam, keep, keep hold of, kidnap, large amount, lay hold of, litter, lot, measure, mess, mix, morass, multiple-disk clutch, nab, nail, nest, never let go, nip, number, pack, parcel, parlous straits, part, pass, pickle, pinch, plate clutch, plight, portion, possession, power, predicament, press, pressure, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, purchase, push, quagmire, quantity, quicksand, ration, rim clutch, rub, scrape, seize, seizure, set, shanghai, slip friction clutch, slough, small amount, snag, snatch, spat, spawn, spot, squeeze, stew, stick to, sticky wicket, strait, straits, stress, sum, swamp, take, take hold of, tension, tenure, throttle, tight grip, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, toehold, tricky spot, turn, turning point, unholy mess, urgency, young

• clutches, administration, authority, claws, command, control, digits, disposition, domination, dominion, empery, empire, fangs, fingernails, fingers, governance, government, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, hands, helm, hold, hooks, iron hand, jaws, jurisdiction, mandibles, mastership, mastery, maxillae, meathooks, mitts, nails, nippers, palm, pincers, pounces, power, raj, regnancy, reign, reins of government, rule, sovereignty, sway, talons, teeth, unguals, ungulae

• clutter, a mass of, a world of, abound with, army, arsy-varsiness, ataxia, atmospheric attenuation, be alive with, bevy, blind spots, bristle with, bunch, burst with, chaos, cloud, confusion, covey, crawl with, creep with, crowd, deflection, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, false echoes, farrago, flight, flock, flocks, gallimaufry, ground clutter, hail, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hive, hodgepodge, host, huddle, hugger-mugger, hysteron proteron, jam, jumble, jungle, large amount, legion, litter, lots, macedoine, many, mash, masses of, medley, melange, mess, mess up, misarrange, mishmash, mob, muchness, muddle, multiply, multitude, muss, muss up, nest, numbers, olla podrida, overflow with, pack, plurality, pullulate with, quantities, quite a few, refraction, rout, ruck, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, scores, scramble, sea clutter, shoal, shuffle, snarl, strew, superrefraction, swarm, swarm with, tangle, teem with, throng, throng with, tidy sum, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tousle, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, welter, worlds of

• co op, boutique, chain store, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

• coach, Privatdocent, Privatdozent, Pullman, Pullman car, advise, advocate, amateur athlete, archer, athlete, athletic coach, baggage car, ballplayer, barge, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, boat, bowman, boxcar, brief, bus, caboose, car, carriage, cart, catcher, center, chair car, coacher, coal car, competitor, confer, consult with, counsel, covered waggon, cram, cram with facts, crammer, cricketer, day coach, defensive lineman, diner, dinghy, dining car, direct, drawing room, dray, drill, driller, drillmaster, end, exercise, ferry, flat, flatcar, float, footballer, forerunner, games-player, gamester, gondola, groomer, guard, guide, infielder, instruct, instructor, jock, jumper, kibitz, lighter, lineman, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, meddle, mentor, motor coach, offensive lineman, omnibus, outfield, outfielder, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, pathfinder, player, poloist, preparationist, preparator, prepare, preparer, prescribe, prime, private instructor, professional athlete, prompt, propose, pugilist, quarterback, racer, raft, railway car, recommend, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, school, ship, skater, sled, sledge, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, sport, sportsman, stockcar, stuff with knowledge, submit, suggest, tackle, tailback, tank, teacher, tender, toxophilite, trailblazer, train, trainer, truck, tutor, tutorer, van, waggon, wagon, wheelbarrow, wingback, wrestler

• coached, accomplished, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, at concert pitch, booted and spurred, briefed, career, cocked, conversant, equipped, familiarized, finished, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, initiate, initiated, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, mobilized, on the mark, planned, practiced, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, professional, provided, psyched up, ready, ready for anything, ripe, set, skilled, technical, trained, up in arms, vigilant, well-prepared

• coachman, Jehu, boy, bullwhacker, butler, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, cameleer, carter, cartman, charioteer, chauffeur, coachy, cocher, cochero, drayman, driver, elephant driver, equerry, gardener, gentleman, gharry-wallah, gillie, hack, hackman, hacky, harness racer, houseboy, houseman, lord-in-waiting, mahout, man, manservant, mule skinner, muleteer, reinsman, skinner, stage coachman, teamster, truckman, valet, valet de chambre, vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, whip

• coact, accord, act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, ally, amalgamate, associate, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, club together, coadunate, coalesce, coincide, collaborate, collude, combine, concert, concord, concur, confederate, conjoin, connive, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, correspond, do business with, dovetail, engage, federate, fuse, get heads together, get together, go partners, hang together, happen together, harmonize, hold together, hook up, interact, interchange, interlace, intermesh, interplay, intertwine, interweave, interwork, join, join in, join together, keep together, league, league together, make common cause, merge, mesh, mortise, partner, play ball, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, stand together, synchronize, synergize, team up, throw in together, tie in, tie up, unite, unite efforts, work together

• coadjutant, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, coacting, coactive, coadjutor, coadjuvant, coefficient, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combine, combined, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, concerted, concordant, concur, concurrent, concurring, conjoin, conniving, cooperant, cooperate, cooperating, cooperative, ecumenic, fellow, harmonious, harmonized, joint, league, lieutenant, mutual, noncompetitive, reciprocal, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, uncompetitive

• coadjutor, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, ally, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, assistant, associate, attendant, auxiliary, bedfellow, best man, bishop, bishop coadjutor, brother, brother-in-arms, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, coadjutant, coadjutress, coadjutrix, cohort, colleague, companion, compatriot, compeer, comrade, confederate, confrere, consociate, consort, crony, curate, dean, deputy, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, executive officer, fellow, fellow member, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, hierarch, high priest, lieutenant, metropolitan, papa, paranymph, paraprofessional, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, second, servant, sideman, subdean, suffragan, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, vicar

• coagulate, Devonshire cream, adhere, agglomerate, beat up, blood clot, bonnyclabber, bunch, cake, casein, churn, clabber, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clotted cream, clump, cluster, coagulum, coalesce, cohere, colloid, colloidize, compact, concentrate, concrete, condense, congeal, conglomerate, consolidate, crassamentum, cream, curd, curdle, dehydrate, dry, embolus, embrace, emulsify, emulsionize, freeze, freeze to, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, grasp, grow together, grume, hang on, hang together, harden, hold, hold on, hold together, hug, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, legumin, lopper, loppered milk, lump, mass, paracasein, persist, set, solidify, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, take hold of, thick, thicken, thrombus, whip

• coal, alcohol, anthracite, ash, ashes, benzine, blaze, blister, brand, briquette, brown coal, bunker, burn, burn in, burn off, burnable, burning ember, butane, calx, carbon, cast, cater, cauterize, char, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coke, combustible, coom, crack, crow, cupel, detonate, dope, dross, ebon, ebony, ember, ethane, ethanol, explode, feed, fill up, fireball, firebrand, firing, flame, flammable, flammable material, forage, found, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, fuel up, fulminate, fume, gas, gas carbon, gas up, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, ink, isooctane, jet, jet fuel, kerosene, lava, lignite, live coal, methane, methanol, natural gas, night, octane, oil, oxidate, oxidize, paraffin, parch, peat, pentane, pitch, propane, propellant, provender, provision, purvey, pyrolyze, raven, reek, refuel, rocket fuel, scorch, scoria, sea coal, sear, sell, singe, slag, sloe, smoke, smudge, smut, solder, soot, stoke, sullage, swinge, tar, top off, torrefy, turf, vesicate, victual, vulcanize, weld

• coalesce, act in concert, act together, add, adhere, admix, affiliate, alloy, ally, amalgamate, assimilate, associate, band, band together, be in league, bemingle, blend, bracket, cleave, cling, club together, coact, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, commingle, commix, compose, compound, comprise, concert, concoct, concord, concur, confederate, conglomerate, conjoin, connect, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, do business with, embody, emulsify, encompass, federate, flux, fuse, get heads together, get together, go partners, hang together, harmonize, hash, hold together, homogenize, hook up, identify, immingle, immix, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, join, join in, join together, jumble, keep together, knead, league, league together, link, lump together, make common cause, make one, meld, melt into one, merge, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, partner, play ball, pull together, put heads together, put together, reciprocate, reembody, relate, roll into one, scramble, shade into, shuffle, solidify, stand together, stick, stir up, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, team up, throw in together, throw together, tie in, tie up, toss together, unify, unite, unite efforts, wed, work, work together

• coalition, Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, anschluss, assemblage, assimilation, association, axis, band, blend, blending, bloc, body, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, colleagueship, college, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, common market, communist front, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, corps, council, credit union, customs union, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, faction, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, front, fusion, gang, grass-roots movement, ground swell, group, grouping, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, machine, marriage, meld, melding, mergence, merger, merging, mob, movement, package, package deal, partnership, party, political front, political machine, popular front, ring, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding

• coarse, Adamic, Circean, Doric, Mickey Mouse, acerb, acerbic, acrid, amaroidal, animal, animalistic, arrested, astringent, backward, barbaric, barbarous, base, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bitter, bitter as gall, blustering, blustery, bodily, boorish, brassy, brazen, bristly, broad, broad-bodied, broken, brutal, brute, brutish, bulky, bullnecked, bumpy, cacophonous, caddish, caked, cakey, carnal, carnal-minded, caustic, cheap, cheesy, choked, choppy, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, corpulent, corrugated, cracked, crass, croaking, croaky, cross-grained, crude, dense, dirty, doggerel, dry, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, fallen, fat, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, fourth-class, frank, full, full-bodied, furious, gaudy, graceless, grained, grainy, granular, granulated, gritty, gross, gruff, gutter, guttural, hard, harsh, harsh-sounding, heavy, heavyset, hoarse, homespun, horripilant, husky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, inequal, inexpert, infelicitous, inferior, insensitive, irregular, jolty, kitschy, lapsed, lascivious, lewd, linsey-woolsey, loud, loutish, louty, low, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpy, massive, material, materialistic, mean, meretricious, metallic, nasty, nonspiritual, obscene, offensive, orgiastic, outlandish, oversimple, paltry, physical, pimply, pitted, pocky, poor, postlapsarian, potholed, prentice, prickly, pungent, punk, raffish, ragged, raging, rank, raucid, raucous, raunchy, raw, reductionistic, reductive, ribald, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughhewn, roughneck, roupy, rowdy, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scatological, scratchy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, shabby, shagged, shaggy, sharp, shoddy, simplistic, smutty, sour, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stormy, strangled, stunted, swinish, tacky, tactless, tart, tasteless, tawdry, tempestuous, textured, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, third-class, third-rate, three-dimensional, throaty, tinny, trashy, turbulent, unblown, uncivil, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven, unfashioned, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfinished, unformed, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unladylike, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unseemly, unsmooth, unsolicitous, unspiritual, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, viscous, vulgar, vulgarian, wimpled

• coarsen, adulterate, alloy, boss, brutify, canker, carnalize, cheapen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, gnarl, grain, granulate, horripilate, infect, knob, misuse, pervert, pimple, poison, pollute, popularize, prostitute, ravage, ravish, rough, rough up, roughen, smooth, stud, taint, tooth, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp

• coarseness, Adam, Gothicism, animalism, animality, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bodily size, body, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, bulk, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, callowness, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, clumsiness, coarse-grainedness, commonness, corpulence, cracked voice, crassness, crudeness, crudity, cumbrousness, depth, discord, discourteousness, discourtesy, distance through, dryness, dysphemism, earthiness, fallen nature, fallen state, fatness, flesh, fleshliness, fourth-rateness, frankness, gaudiness, gracelessness, graininess, granularity, granulation, greenness, grittiness, gross behavior, grossness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, humbleness, huskiness, ill breeding, ill manners, ill-balanced sentences, immatureness, immaturity, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, incivility, inconcinnity, inconsiderateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, inferiority, inferiorness, insensitivity, inurbanity, lack of finish, lack of polish, lapsed state, leadenness, loudness, loutishness, lowliness, mannerlessness, mass, materialism, meanness, meretriciousness, nondevelopment, nonspirituality, obscenity, offensiveness, oversimplicity, oversimplification, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poorness, postlapsarian state, raciness, rankness, raspiness, raucity, rawness, reductionism, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, saltiness, scrapiness, scratchiness, second-rateness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, simplism, slipshod construction, spiciness, stertorousness, stiltedness, swinishness, tactlessness, tastelessness, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the rough, the third dimension, thickness, third-rateness, throatiness, turgidity, ugliness, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uncultivation, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungracefulness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unripeness, unseemliness, unsolicitousness, unspirituality, unwieldiness, vulgarism, vulgarity

• coast guard, Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, advance guard, air-sea rescue, argosy, armada, armed guard, bank guard, cordon, cordon sanitaire, division, escadrille, fleet, flotilla, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, guard, guarder, guardsman, inlying picket, jailer, lifeboat, lifeguard, lifesaver, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mosquito fleet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, outguard, outpost, picket, rear guard, rescuer, savior, security guard, squadron, task force, task group, train guard, van, vanguard, warder

• coast, abide, avalanche, bank, be a sideliner, be effortless, be painless, be still, beach, beam, berm, board, boat, border, bordure, brim, brink, broadside, brow, canoe, carry sail, cheek, chop, circumnavigate, coastland, coastline, cross, cruise, delay, do nothing, drift, edge, embankment, featheredge, flange, flank, flit, flow, fly, foreshore, frame, freeze, fringe, give no trouble, glide, glissade, glissando, go by ship, go easily, go like clockwork, go on shipboard, go to sea, hand, handedness, hang fire, haunch, hem, hibernate, hip, hug the shore, ice-skate, idle, ironbound coast, jowl, keep quiet, labellum, labium, labrum, landslide, landslip, laterality, ledge, lido, lie dormant, lie still, limb, limbus, lip, list, littoral, make a passage, many-sidedness, marge, margin, mark time, motorboat, multilaterality, navigate, not breathe, not budge, not stir, plage, planking, playa, ply, present no difficulties, profile, quarter, ragged edge, range the coast, remain, remain motionless, repose, rest, rim, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, roll, roller-skate, row, run, run smoothly, sail, sail coast-wise, sail round, sail the sea, sands, scull, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seafare, seashore, seaside, selvage, shingle, shore, shoreline, side, sideline, sideslip, siding, sit back, sit it out, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, skirt, skirt the shore, sled, sleigh, slidder, slide, slide down, slip, slippage, slither, snowslide, snowslip, stagnate, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand still, stay, stay in soundings, stay put, steam, steamboat, stick, stick fast, strand, submerged coast, subsidence, sweep, take a voyage, take it easy, tarry, temple, tidewater, toboggan, traverse, tread water, unilaterality, vegetate, verge, voyage, wait and see, watch and wait, waterfront, waterside, work well, yacht

• coastal, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, determinant, determinative, determining, extreme, fringing, frontier, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, littoral, marginal, rimming, riparial, riparian, riparious, riverside, seaside, shore, shoreside, shoreward, skirting, terminal, threshold

• coat of arms, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale

• coat, Eton jacket, Leatherette, Leatheroid, Mao jacket, anorak, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, blanket, blazer, blouse, body coat, bolero, bomber jacket, bonnet, boot, breech, bristle, brush on paint, butter, calcimine, cap, capillament, capuchin, car coat, chaqueta, chesterfield, chromogen, cilium, claw hammer, claw-hammer coat, cloak, coat of paint, coating, coif, collop, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complexion, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, cut, cutaway coat, cuticle, dab, daub, dead-color, deal, deep-dye, dermis, dinner jacket, dip, disk, distemper, double-dye, doublet, drape, drapery, dress coat, drier, duffel, dye, dyestuff, emblazon, enamel, engild, exterior paint, face, facing, fast-dye, fell, feuille, film, fingertip coat, fitted coat, flap, flat coat, flat wash, fleece, flesh, floor enamel, foil, fold, fresco, frock, frock coat, fur, furring, gild, glaze, gloss, gown, grain, greatcoat, ground, guise, hair, hanging, hat, hide, hood, horsehair, housing, hue, illuminate, imbue, imitation fur, imitation leather, ingrain, integument, interior paint, jacket, japan, jerkin, jumper, jupe, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lay on, lay on color, layer, leaf, leather, leather paper, loden coat, mackinaw, mane, mantle, mask, medium, membrane, mess jacket, midicoat, monkey jacket, opaque color, outer layer, outer skin, overcoat, overlay, paint, pall, pane, panel, parget, parka, patina, pea jacket, peel, pellicle, pelt, peltry, pigment, pile, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, prime, prime coat, primer, priming, pubescence, pubic hair, rasher, rawhide, reefer, revetment, rind, sack, safety glass, san benito, scale, screen, scum, setula, shade, shadow, shag, sheath, sheet, shellac, shelter, shield, shirt, shoe, shroud, ski jacket, skin, skins, slab, slap on, slat, slather, sleeve waistcoat, slice, slop on paint, smear, smear on, smoking jacket, sock, spiketail coat, spread, spread on, spread with, stain, stipple, stocking, swallowtail, tabard, table, tablet, tail coat, tails, tar, tegument, tempera, thinner, tinct, tinction, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, topcoat, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, vair, varnish, vehicle, veil, veneer, vestment, wafer, wash, wash coat, watch coat, whitewash, windbreaker, wool, woolly

• coating, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, calcimining, cementwork, chromogen, cloaking, clouding, coat, coat of paint, collop, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, coverage, covering, curtaining, cut, dead-color, deal, disk, distemper, drier, dye, dyestuff, eclipse, eclipsing, enamel, enameling, enveloping, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, exterior paint, facing, feuille, film, flap, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, foil, fold, fresco, fur, gilding, glazing, glossing, ground, hiding, incrustation, interior paint, japanning, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, laying on, leaf, mantling, masking, medium, membrane, obduction, obscuring, occultation, opaque color, overlaying, overspreading, paint, painting, pane, panel, pargeting, patina, peel, pellicle, pigment, plait, plank, plasterwork, plate, plating, ply, plywood, prime coat, primer, priming, rasher, revetment, safety glass, scale, screening, scum, sheathing, sheet, shellacking, shielding, shrouding, skin, slab, slat, slice, stain, staining, stippling, stuccowork, superimposition, superposition, table, tablet, tempera, thinner, tinction, tincture, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, upholstering, upholstery, varnish, varnishing, vehicle, veiling, veneer, wafer, wash, wash coat, whitewashing, wrapping

• coauthor, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, collaborate, collaborationist, collaborator, columnist, compiler, compose, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, dash off, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, editorialize, encyclopedist, essayist, formulate, free lance, free-lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, humorist, indite, inditer, knock off, knock out, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, novelize, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prepare, produce, prose writer, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scenarize, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, throw on paper, word painter, wordsmith, write, writer

• coax, advocate, allure, apply pressure, bait, bait the hook, banter, barter, beguile, beset, besiege, blandish, blarney, bug, butter up, buttonhole, cajole, call on, call upon, charm, con, decoy, draw, draw in, draw on, dun, ensnare, entice, exert pressure, exhort, flirt, flirt with, get, give the come-on, high-pressure, importune, induce, insist, insist upon, inveigle, jawbone, jolly, lead on, lobby, lure, manipulate, nag, nag at, offer bait to, persuade, pester, plague, plead with, ply, press, pressure, prevail, push, recommend, rope in, seduce, soft-soap, suck in, sweet-talk, tease, tempt, urge, wheedle, woo, work on

• cob, ambler, auricle, bang, cap, corncob, ding, ear, ear of corn, exceed, excel, gaited horse, galloper, high-stepper, mealie, outdo, outmatch, outshine, outstrip, pacer, pad, padnag, prancer, racker, side-wheeler, single-footer, spike, stepper, trotter

• cobbler, booter, bootmaker, doctor, fixer, little Miss Fixit, maintenance man, mechanic, mechanician, mender, renovator, repairer, repairman, restorer, serviceman, shoemaker, tinker, trouble man, troubleshooter

• cobblestone, Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, brick, carpet, causeway, cement, cobble, concrete, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, flag, flagging, flagstone, floor, gravel, kerb, kerbstone, macadam, metal, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, pebble, road metal, stone, tar, tarmacadam, tile, washboard

• cobweb, air, animal fiber, artificial fiber, bait, birdlime, bola, bubble, cambric tea, capillament, chaff, chip, cilium, cirrus, cork, denier, dishwater, down, dragnet, dust, entanglement, ether, fairy, feather, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, fishhook, flagellum, flue, fluff, fly, foam, froth, fuzz, gill net, gossamer, ground bait, gruel, hair, hank, hook, house of cards, jig, lariat, lasso, lime, lure, matchwood, meshes, milk and water, mote, net, noose, plug, pound net, purse seine, reed, rope of sand, sand castle, seine, skein, snare, sniggle, spinner, sponge, springe, spume, squid, strand, straw, suture, tendril, thistledown, thread, threadlet, toils, trawl, water, web, wobbler

• cocaine, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, coke, crystal, dextroamphetamine sulfate, football, heart, jolly bean, methamphetamine hydrochloride, pep pill, purple heart, snow, speed, stimulant, upper

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

• cock, Bantam, anemograph, anemometer, anemometrograph, anemoscope, anthill, backslide, ball cock, ball valve, baloney, bank, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, bilge, billy, billy goat, boar, bosh, boss, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, bung, bunghole, bunkum, capital, capon, chanticleer, charge, check valve, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, chief, chieftain, cockerel, cork, crap, detonate, discharge, dog, domestic fowl, dominant, drain cock, drake, draw cock, drift, drop, duck, duckling, dune, dunghill fowl, eject, embankment, entire, entire horse, fall astern, fall behind, faucet, fell, fire, fire off, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gate, get behind, get up steam, go backwards, go behind, gobbler, goose, gosling, guff, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, gun, gun for, hart, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, he-goat, head, headman, heap, hen, hen turkey, hierarch, hill, hit, hokum, honcho, hydrant, jerk back, lapse, leader, let fly, let off, lid, load, lose ground, main, major, mass, master, molehill, mound, mountain, mow, needle valve, number one, outstanding, partlet, peacock, peg, pelt, pepper, petcock, pick off, pile, pin, pistol, plug, pontificate, pot, potshoot, potshot, poulard, poult, poultry, predominant, preeminent, prime, principal, pull back, pullet, pyramid, ram, recede, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, rick, riddle, roaster, rooster, rot, ruck, sea cock, set, setting hen, shock, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, slip back, snipe, snowdrift, spigot, spike, spile, spill, spring chicken, stack, stag, stallion, steam up, steer, stewing chicken, stop, stopcock, stopgap, stopper, stopple, stot, strike, stud, studhorse, swagger, swank, swell, take a potshot, tap, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, torpedo, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, valve, valvula, valvule, vane, warm up, weather vane, weathercock, wether, wind, wind cone, wind indicator, wind sock, wind up, wind vane, wind-speed indicator