Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/19

• cuddle, bill and coo, bundle, burrow, caress, cosset, croodle, cuddle up, curl up, dandle, embrace, enfold, fondle, hold, hug, lap, love, neck, nestle, nuzzle, pet, smooch, snug, snug up, snuggle, snuggle up to

• cudgel, baste, bastinado, bat, baton, beat, belabor, belt, billy, billy club, birch, blackjack, bludgeon, buffet, cane, club, clue, cosh, cowhide, cue, cut, drub, ferule, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hickory, horsewhip, indication, inkling, intimation, knobkerrie, knout, lace, lash, lay on, mace, nightstick, notion, paddle, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quarterstaff, rattan, rawhide, rod, sandbag, scourge, shillelagh, smite, spank, spontoon, strap, stripe, suggestion, swinge, switch, telltale, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, war club, whale, whip, whop, wind

• cue, actor, advice, agate, aide-memoire, alerting, antagonist, antihero, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bit, bit part, blocks, book, braid, broad hint, brush, bun, cast, catchword, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, caution, character, checkerboard, chessboard, chignon, club, clue, cockhorse, coil, continuity, cricket bat, cue word, dock, doll, doll carriage, evidence, fantail, fat part, feeder, flapper, frame, frame of mind, gentle hint, gesture, gewgaw, gimcrack, glimmer, glimmering, golf club, heart, heavy, hero, heroine, hint, hobbyhorse, hot lead, humor, implication, index, indication, ingenue, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jogger, key, key word, kick, kickshaw, knickknack, knot, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, libretto, lines, look, marble, marionette, memorandum, mig, mind, monition, mood, morale, nod, note, nudge, office, paper doll, part, passing word, person, personage, pick-up sticks, piece, pigtail, pinwheel, plait, playbook, plaything, pointer, prompt, prompter, prompting, protagonist, puppet, queue, racket, rag doll, rattail, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, rocking horse, role, scenario, scene plot, scent, score, script, shooting script, side, sign, signal, soubrette, spirit, spirits, spoor, sport, state of mind, steelie, steer, straight part, stub, suggestion, supporting character, supporting role, suspicion, symptom, tail, tailpiece, taw, teetotum, telltale, temper, text, tickler, tip, tip-off, title role, tone, top, topknot, toy, toy soldier, trace, track, trinket, twist, vein, vestige, villain, walk-on, walking part, warning, whiff, whim-wham, whisper, wink

• cuff, Oregon boat, bat, bilbo, blip, blow, bond, bonds, box, box the ears, bridle, buffet, bust, camisole, chains, chop, clip, clout, collar, cuffs, cut, fetter, flap, gag, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, haymaker, hit, hobbles, hopples, irons, lash, leading strings, leash, manacle, muzzle, paste, pillory, poke, punch, reins, restraint, restraints, shackle, slap, slap the face, smack, sock, spank, spat, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, strike, stripe, swack, tether, token punishment, trammel, trammels, wallop, whack, whip, whomp, yoke

• cuisine, bakehouse, bakery, baking, barbecuing, basting, board, boiling, braising, bread, bread and butter, brewing, broil, broiling, caboose, camboose, catering, cheer, comestibles, cookery, cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, creature comfort, culinary science, daily bread, domestic science, eatables, edibles, fare, fast food, feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, frying, galley, grilling, health food, home economics, ingesta, junk food, kitchen, kitchen stuff, kitchenette, meat, nutrition, pan-broiling, poaching, provender, provision, roasting, sauteing, scullery, searing, shirring, simmering, spread, steeping, stewing, sustenance, table, toasting, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles

• cull, abscind, accumulate, amass, amputate, annihilate, assemble, ban, bar, bob, bolt, bring together, choose out, clip, collect, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull out, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, decide between, dig up, discriminate, divide, dock, elect, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excerpt, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, extract, garner, gather, gather in, get in, get together, ghettoize, gin, glean, grub, grub up, handpick, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, knock off, lay aside, lop, make a selection, mark, mutilate, nip, opt for, pare, peel, pick, pick out, pick up, pluck, prefer, prune, put aside, quarantine, rake up, riddle, root out, round up, rule out, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, screen, seclude, segregate, select, separate, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, sieve, sift, single out, sort out, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, take, take off, take out, take up, thrash, thresh, truncate, winnow, wipe out

• culminate, button up, cap, carry to completion, clean up, climax, close out, close up, complete, conclude, consummate, crest, crown, develop, do to perfection, end, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, frost, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, head, ice, improve, mature, mop up, outtop, overarch, overtop, peak, perfect, ripen, round out, surmount, terminate, tip, top, top off, top out, wind up, wrap up

• culminating, capping, closing, completing, completive, completory, concluding, conclusive, consummating, consummative, consummatory, crowning, culminative, ending, final, finalizing, finishing, fulfilling, heading, last, outtopping, overtopping, perfecting, perfective, terminal, terminating, terminative, topping, ultimate

• culmination, Z, accomplishment, acme, acme of perfection, apex, apodosis, apogee, bitter end, brow, cap, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, climax, close, closure, cloud nine, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, crest, crown, culmen, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, edge, effect, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, extreme limit, extremity, fate, final result, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, fulfillment, full development, goal, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last word, last words, latter end, limit, maturation, maturity, maximum, meridian, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, omega, payoff, peak, perfection, period, peroration, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, quietus, realization, resolution, resting place, ridge, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, seventh heaven, sky, spire, stoppage, stopping place, summit, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tip, tip-top, top, topping off, topping-off, ultimate, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vertex, very top, windup, zenith

• culpability, arraignability, arraignableness, blameworthiness, bloody hands, burden, censurability, censurableness, chargeability, complicity, criminality, dirty hands, fault, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, impeachability, impeachableness, implication, inculpation, indictability, indictableness, involvement, onus, peccancy, red-handedness, reprehensibility, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness

• culpable, accusable, amiss, arraignable, at fault, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, chargeable, criminal, faulty, guilty, impeachable, implicated, imputable, inculpated, indictable, involved, open to criticism, peccant, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, sinful, to blame, unholy

• cult, Sabbatarianism, Weltanschauung, adoration, articles of religion, catechism, celebration, ceremonialism, church, co-worship, communion, connection, credenda, credo, creed, cultism, cultus, denomination, devotion, doctrinal statement, dulia, faith, formalism, formulated belief, gospel, homage, hyperdulia, ideology, idolatry, ism, latria, liturgics, liturgiology, liturgism, mystique, persuasion, political faith, political philosophy, prostration, religion, reverence, ritualism, rituality, ritualization, sabbatism, sacramentalism, sacramentarianism, school, sect, solemn observance, solemnization, symbolics, symbolism, system of belief, transcendent wonder, veneration, world view, worship, worshiping

• cultism, Sabbatarianism, adoration, celebration, ceremonialism, churchgoing, co-worship, conformity, cult, cultus, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, dulia, dutifulness, faith, faithfulness, formalism, homage, hyperdulia, idolatry, ism, latria, liturgics, liturgiology, liturgism, love of God, mystique, observance, pietism, piety, piousness, prostration, religion, religionism, religiousness, reverence, ritualism, rituality, ritualization, sabbatism, sacramentalism, sacramentarianism, solemn observance, solemnization, symbolics, symbolism, theism, transcendent wonder, veneration, worship, worshipfulness, worshiping

• cultist, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, adoring, believer, believing, cultish, cultistic, devoted, devout, dutiful, faithful, ist, pietistic, pious, prayerful, religioner, religionist, religious, reverent, reverential, solemn, theistic, venerational, venerative, worshipful

• cultivate, advance, ameliorate, apprentice, approach, backset, beautify, better, break, break in, break the ice, breed, bring up, brown-nose, butter up, care for, carve, cherish, chisel, coddle, condition, convert, cosset, court, courteous, cradle, crop, cultivated, culture, cultured, cut, delve, develop, dig, discipline, distingue, dress, drill, dry-nurse, educate, elaborate, embellish, encourage, evolve, excite, exercise, extract, fallow, farm, feed, fertilize, fetch up, finish, fit, fondle, force, form, foster, further, groom, grow, harrow, harvest, hoe, house-train, housebreak, improve, instruct, labor, lavish care on, lick into shape, list, machine, make advances, make sensitive, make up to, manage, mature, mill, mine, mother, mulch, nourish, nurse, nurture, pamper, pay addresses to, pay court to, perfect, play up to, plow, polish, polished, polite, practice, prepare, process, produce, promote, propagate, prune, pump, put in tune, put to school, quicken, raise, rake, ready, rear, refine, refined, rehearse, ripen, run after, season, send to school, sensibilize, sensitize, sharpen, shine up to, smelt, spade, spoon-feed, stimulate, stir, suck up to, suckle, sustain, take in hand, teach, tend, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, train, urbane, weed, weed out, well-bred, wet-nurse, whet, woo, work, work on

• cultivated, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, aristocratic, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cosmopolitan, cultured, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, soignee, sophisticated, studious, suave, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wise

• cultivation, acculturation, acquired taste, agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, appreciation of excellence, apprenticeship, architecture, assembly, basic training, breaking, breeding, building, casting, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, composition, conditioning, construction, contour farming, contour plowing, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivated taste, cultivating, culture, daintiness, delicacy, development, devising, dirt farming, discipline, discrimination, dressing, drill, drilling, dry farming, dryland farming, education, elaboration, elegance, enculturation, enlightenment, erection, excellence, exercise, extraction, fabrication, fallowing, farm economy, farming, fashioning, fastidiousness, fetching-up, finesse, formation, forming, formulation, fostering, framing, fruit farming, furrowing, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, geoponics, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grain farming, grooming, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harrowing, harvesting, hoeing, housebreaking, husbandry, hydroponics, improvement, in-service training, intensive farming, ladylikeness, listing, machining, making, manual training, manufacture, manufacturing, military training, milling, mining, mixed farming, molding, niceness, nicety, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, plowing, polish, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pruning, quality, raising, readying, rearing, refinement, refining, rehearsal, rural economy, shaping, sharecropping, sloyd, smelting, socialization, sophistication, strip farming, subsistence farming, subtlety, tank farming, taste, tastefulness, thinning, thremmatology, tillage, tilling, tilth, training, truck farming, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training, weeding, working, workmanship

• cultural, autodidactic, coeducational, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary

• culture, Acheulean, Aurignacian, Azilian, Chellean, Eolithic, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Pre-Chellean, Solutrean, acculturation, acquired taste, agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, appreciation of excellence, background, backset, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, breed, breeding, cation, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, classical scholarship, classicism, community, complex, contour farming, contour plowing, cultivate, cultivated taste, cultivating, cultivation, cultural drift, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, customs, cut, daintiness, delicacy, delve, dig, dirt farming, discernment, discrimination, donnishness, dress, dressing, dry farming, dryland farming, education, elegance, enculturation, enlightenment, eruditeness, erudition, ethnic group, ethos, excellence, fallow, fallowing, farm, farm economy, farming, fastidiousness, fatten, feed, fertilize, finesse, folkways, force, fruit farming, furrowing, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, geoponics, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grain farming, grow, harrow, harrowing, hatch, hoe, hoeing, humanism, humanistic scholarship, husbandry, hydroponics, intellectualism, intellectuality, intensive farming, keep, key trait, ladylikeness, learnedness, learning, letters, list, listing, literacy, mixed farming, mores, mulch, nation, nationality, niceness, nicety, nurture, pedantism, pedantry, people, plow, plowing, polish, prune, pruning, quality, race, raise, rake, ranch, reading, rear, refinement, run, rural economy, savoir faire, savoir-faire, scholarship, sharecropping, socialization, society, sophist, sophistication, spade, speech community, stock, strain, strip farming, suavity, subsistence farming, subtlety, tank farming, taste, tastefulness, thin, thin out, thinning, thremmatology, till, till the soil, tillage, tilling, tilth, trait, trait-complex, truck farming, urbanity, way of life, weed, weed out, weeding, work, working

• cultured, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cultivated, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, distingue, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wise

• culvert, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, canal, creek bed, donga, dry bed, flume, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, irrigation ditch, nullah, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, spillbox, spillway, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks

• cumbersome, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contrary, crosswise, cumbrous, elephantine, encumbering, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hampering, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, impractical, inconvenient, incumbent, inelegant, irksome, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, onerous, oppressive, perverse, ponderous, sloppy, stiff, superincumbent, tiresome, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, wearisome

• cumbrous, Latinate, awkward, bombastic, bulky, burdensome, clogging, clumsy, cramped, cumbersome, elephantine, encumbering, forced, formal, guinde, halting, hampering, heavy, hindering, hulking, hulky, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, incumbent, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, onerous, oppressive, pompous, ponderous, sesquipedalian, stiff, stilted, superincumbent, turgid, unhandy, unwieldy

• cumulate, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, assemble, backlog, batch, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, conglomerate, corral, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, garner, garner up, gather, gather in, gather into barns, gather together, get in, get together, group, heap up, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, join, juxtapose, keep, lay up, lump together, make up, mass, match, mobilize, muster, obtain, pair, partner, pile up, put together, put up, raise, rake up, rally, roll up, round up, save, save up, scrape together, secrete, secure, squirrel, squirrel away, stock up, stockpile, store up, take up, treasure, treasure up, whip in

• cumulation, abundance, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, assembling, backlog, bringing together, budget, chunk, collection, colluvies, commissariat, commissary, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, cornucopia, dump, gathering, gleaning, glomeration, gob, heap, hoard, hunk, inventory, larder, lump, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, pile, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, rations, repertoire, repertory, rick, snowball, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasury, trove, wad

• cumulative, absolute, accumulated, accumulative, additional, additive, additory, adducible, admissible, advancing, amassed, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, certain, chain, circumstantial, conclusive, convincing, damning, decisive, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, heightening, implicit, incontrovertible, increasing, indicative, indisputable, intensifying, irrefutable, irresistible, magnifying, material, multiplying, nuncupative, overall, overwhelming, presumptive, probative, reliable, significant, snowballing, suggestive, summational, summative, sure, symptomatic, telling, total, valid, weighty

• cumulus, Cloudcuckooland, 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, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, high fog, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud, scud, snail cloud, squall cloud, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier, woolpack

• cuneiform, arrowhead, character, cuneate, cuneated, deltoid, demotic character, determinative, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, ogham, oxygonal, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, radical, rune, shorthand, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, wedge, word letter

• cunning, Byzantine, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, Machiavellic, ability, acute, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, agility, airmanship, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, animal cunning, apt, arch, art, artful, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistic, artistry, astute, authoritative, bad faith, bravura, brilliance, brilliant, cagey, cageyness, calculating, canniness, canny, capability, capacity, chiseling, clean, clever, cleverness, collusive, command, competence, control, coordinated, coordination, covinous, crack, crackerjack, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, crafty, crooked, cunning, cunningness, cute, daedal, dainty, deceit, deceitful, deceitfulness, deep, deep-laid, deft, deftness, delicate, designing, devious, deviousness, dexterity, dexterous, dexterousness, dextrous, dextrousness, diplomacy, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicitous, duplicity, efficiency, excellent, expert, expertise, expertness, facility, faithless, faithlessness, false, false-principled, falsehearted, falseheartedness, falseness, fancy, feline, finagling, finesse, foxiness, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, furtiveness, good, goodish, grace, graceful, grip, guile, guileful, guilefulness, handiness, handy, horsemanship, hypocrisy, improbity, indirect, indirection, ingenious, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidious, insidiousness, inventive, keen, know-how, knowing, low cunning, magisterial, marksmanship, masterful, masterly, mastership, mastery, mignon, neat, no mean, pawkiness, pawky, perfidious, politic, practical ability, professional, proficiency, proficient, prowess, quick, quickness, quite some, readiness, ready, resource, resourceful, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, savoir-faire, savvy, scheming, seamanship, serpentine, sharp, sharpness, shiftiness, shifty, shrewd, shrewdness, skill, skillful, skillfulness, slick, slickness, slim, slippery, sly, slyness, smart, smooth, snaky, sneak attack, sneakiness, sneaky, some, sophistical, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, style, stylish, subtile, subtility, subtilty, subtle, subtlety, supple, surreptitious, surreptitiousness, tact, tactful, tactfulness, tactical, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the compleat, the complete, timing, treacherous, treacherousness, treachery, trickiness, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, two-facedness, underhand, underhanded, underhandedness, virtuosity, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-considered, well-contrived, well-designed, well-devised, well-done, well-invented, well-laid, well-planned, well-reasoned, well-thought-out, well-weighed, wile, wiliness, wily, wit, wizardry, workmanlike, workmanship

• cup, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Old Mug, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, appointed lot, arch, armpit, astral influences, astrology, bail, barrow, basin, bays, beaker, blackjack, bleed, book of fate, boundary stone, bowl, brass, bucket, bust, cairn, cave, cave in, cavity, cenotaph, chalice, chaplet, civic crown, coffee cup, column, concave, concavity, constellation, crater, cromlech, cross, crown, crypt, cyclolith, decant, depression, destination, destiny, dies funestis, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dolmen, doom, eggcup, end, fatality, fate, fold, follicle, footstone, foredoom, fork, fortune, funnel chest, future, garland, give a transfusion, glass, goblet, grave, gravestone, headstone, highball glass, hoarstone, hole, hollow, hollow out, hollow shell, horn, ides of March, incurve, inevitability, inscription, jigger, kismet, lacuna, ladle, laurel, laurels, leech, let blood, lot, loving cup, marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, moira, monolith, monument, mound, mug, necrology, noggin, obelisk, obituary, palm, palms, perfuse, phlebotomize, pillar, pit, planets, plaque, pocket, pony, portion, pot, pour, prize, punch bowl, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, retire, retreat, ribbon, rostral column, schooner, schooper, scoop, shaft, shell, shot glass, shovel, shrine, sink, sinus, socket, spade, spoon, stars, stein, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, tankard, tassie, teacup, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, transfuse, trophy, trough, tumbler, unlucky day, vug, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, wineglass, wreath

• cupboard, Canterbury, archives, armoire, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, buffet, bunker, bureau, buttery, cabinet, cargo dock, cellar, cellaret, chest, chest of drawers, chiffonier, closet, clothespress, commode, conservatory, crate, credenza, crib, davenport, depository, depot, desk, dock, drawer, dresser, dump, escritoire, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hutch, kitchen cabinet, library, locker, lowboy, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, press, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, secretaire, secretary, shelf, sideboard, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tallboy, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vargueno, vat, vault, vitrine, wardrobe, warehouse, whatnot, wine cellar

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

• cupidity, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, craving, desire, eagerness, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, hoggishness, incontinence, infatuation, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, itching palm, lust, overgreediness, passion, piggishness, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, sordidness, swinishness, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness

• cupola, antenna tower, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archway, barbican, belfry, bell tower, camber, campanile, ceilinged roof, colossus, column, concameration, concha, cove, derrick, dome, fire tower, geodesic dome, igloo, keystone, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, ogive, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, pylon, pyramid, shaft, skewback, skyscraper, span, spire, standpipe, steeple, stupa, television mast, tope, tour, tower, turret, vault, vaulting, voussoir, water tower, windmill tower

• cupped, boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cymbiform, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, navicular, naviform, retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, spoonlike, sunk, sunken

• cupping, aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, leeching, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, venesection

• cur, animal, beast, bounder, dog, hound, hyena, insect, lurcher, mongrel, mutt, pariah dog, pig, polecat, reptile, riffraff, rotter, scum, serpent, shit, shithead, skunk, snake, stinkard, stinker, swine, toad, varmint, vermin, viper, whelp, worm

• curable, ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, emendable, fixable, improvable, medicable, mendable, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible

• curacy, abbacy, advowson, archbishopric, archdeaconry, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, benefice, bishopdom, bishopric, canonicate, canonry, cardinalship, care of souls, chaplaincy, chaplainship, charge, cure, deaconry, deaconship, deanery, deanship, episcopacy, episcopate, glebe, incumbency, living, pastorate, pastorship, prebend, prebendaryship, prelacy, prelateship, prelature, presbyterate, presbytery, primacy, rectorate, rectorship, rectory, vicarage, vicariate, vicarship

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

• curative, adjuvant, alterative, analeptic, beneficial, corrective, curing, healing, helpful, iatric, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, remedial, reparative, reparatory, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, salutary, sanative, sanatory, therapeutic, theriac, tonic, vulnerary, wholesome

• curator, MC, accountant, air warden, attendant, attorney, auditor, bailiff, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, bookkeeper, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, bursar, butler, caretaker, cashier, cashkeeper, castellan, cataloger, chamberlain, chief librarian, college editor, comptroller, conservator, controller, copy editor, croupier, custodian, depositary, depository, dictionary editor, editor, editor-in-chief, emcee, executive editor, factor, financial officer, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, governor, guardian, guardian angel, housekeeper, janitor, juvenile editor, keeper, landreeve, librarian, library director, lifeguard, lifesaver, liquidator, majordomo, managing editor, master of ceremonies, next friend, paymaster, permissions editor, philobiblist, printer, prochein ami, proctor, procurator, production editor, publisher, purse bearer, purser, ranger, receiver, reference editor, reference librarian, seneschal, shepherd, steward, textbook editor, trade editor, treasurer, trustee, warden, warder

• curb, American Stock Exchange, Amex, Tarmac, Tarvia, Wall Street, abstain, arrest, arrestation, asphalt, back band, backpedal, backstrap, backwater, bearing rein, bellyband, bit, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, blinders, blinds, board, border stone, bottle up, bourse, brake, breeching, brick, bridle, caparison, cavesson, cement, chain, check, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, chock, cinch, clip the wings, clog, cobble, cobblestone, collar, commodity exchange, concrete, constrain, constraint, contain, control, cool, cool off, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, corn pit, countercheck, crownband, crupper, curb bit, curb exchange, curb market, curbing, curbstone, curtail, curtailment, dam up, damp, dampen, damper, decelerate, deceleration, delay, detain, dompt, doorstop, drag, drag sail, draw rein, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, ease off, ease up, edgestone, enjoin, entrammel, exchange, exchange floor, fetter, flag, flagging, flagstone, gag swivel, girth, govern, gravel, guard, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, hamper, harness, headgear, headstall, hinder, hindrance, hip straps, hobble, hog-tie, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold down, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, holdback, impede, inhibit, inhibition, injunction, intercept, interdict, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, jaquima, jerk line, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, kerb, kerbstone, lay under restraint, leash, legal restraint, let down, let up, lines, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, macadam, manacle, martingale, meddle, moderate, monopoly, noseband, obstruct, oppose, outside market, over-the-counter market, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, pelham, pit, pole strap, prohibit, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, pull, pull in, quotation board, rationing, reef, refrain, rein, rein in, reins, relax, remora, repress, resist, restrain, restraint, restraint of trade, retard, retardation, retrench, retrenchment, ribbons, road metal, saddle, scotch, sea anchor, self-control, set back, shackle, shaft tug, side check, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, slowing down, snaffle, snub, spoke, stay, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, stone, stop, straiten, subdue, suppress, surcingle, tack, tackle, take in sail, tariff wall, tarmacadam, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange, third market, thought control, throttle down, ticker, ticker tape, tie, tie up, tile, trammel, trappings, tug, washboard, wheat pit, winker braces, withhold, yoke

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

• curd, Devonshire cream, albumen, batter, blood clot, bonnyclabber, butter, buttermilk, casein, certified milk, cheese, clabber, clot, clotted cream, coagulate, coagulum, condensed milk, cornstarch, crassamentum, cream, dairy products, dough, egg white, embolus, gaum, gel, gelatin, ghee, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, grume, gumbo, gunk, half-and-half, heavy cream, jam, jell, jelly, legumin, light cream, loblolly, lopper, loppered milk, margarine, milk, molasses, mucilage, mucus, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, pap, paracasein, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, raw milk, rob, semifluid, semiliquid, size, skim milk, soup, sour cream, starch, sticky mess, syrup, thrombus, treacle, turn, whey, whipping cream, yogurt

• curdle, beat up, cake, churn, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, concrete, condense, congeal, cream, curd, emulsify, emulsionize, ferment, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, go off, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, set, sour, spoil, thick, thicken, turn, whip

• curdled, adhesive, amylaceous, caked, cakey, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, congealed, curded, 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

• cure, administration, advowson, agency, agentship, aid, air-dry, alterative, ameliorate, analeptic, anhydrate, antidote, arrange, assignment, assistance, auspices, authority, authorization, bake, balm, balsam, bandage, bathe, benefice, better, blast-freeze, blot, break of, brevet, brine, bring around, bring round, brush, burn, care, care for, care of souls, charge, clear for action, clear the decks, commission, commissioning, commitment, consignment, corn, correct, corrective, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curacy, curative measures, cure-all, curing, custodianship, custody, dehumidify, dehydrate, delegated authority, delegation, deploy, deputation, desiccate, devolution, devolvement, diagnose, disaccustom, doctor, drain, dress, drug, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, elixir, embalm, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, evaporate, executorship, exequatur, exsiccate, factorship, fire, first aid, fix, fix up, flux, freeze, freeze-dry, full power, fume, get ready, give care to, glebe, governance, government, guardianship, guidance, hands, heal, healing, healing agent, healing quality, help, hospitalization, incumbency, insolate, irradiate, jerk, jurisdiction, keeping, kiln, kipper, legation, license, lieutenancy, living, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, management, mandate, marinade, marinate, marshal, massage, medical treatment, medicament, medicamentation, medicate, medication, medicine, mend, minister to, ministry, mission, mobilize, mummify, nostrum, nurse, office, operate on, oversight, panacea, parch, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, pharmacon, physic, pickle, plan, plaster, plenipotentiary power, poultice, power of attorney, power to act, prearrange, prelacy, prep, prepare, prescribe, prescription, preservatize, preserve, pretreat, process, procuration, protectorship, provide, proxy, pull round, purge, purview, put in shape, quick-freeze, ready, ready up, receipt, recipe, rectify, rectory, recure, refrigerate, regency, regentship, regime, regimen, relief, remedial measure, remedy, repair, responsibility, restorative, restore, restore to health, rub, safe hands, salt, scorch, sear, season, settle preliminaries, shrivel, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, splint, sponge, stewardship, stop, strap, stuff, succor, sun, sun-dry, swab, tan, task, therapy, torrefy, towel, treat, treatment, trim, trust, trusteeship, try out, tutelage, vicarage, vicarious authority, ward, wardenship, wardship, warrant, watch and ward, wean, weazen, wing, wipe, wither, wizen, work a cure

• curing, anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, corning, cure, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, embalming, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, healing, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, remedial, remedy, restorative, salting, sanative, sanatory, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, therapy, tinning, vulnerary, wholesome

• curio, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abnormality, anomaly, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, conversation piece, curiosity, exception, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, improbability, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, minikin, mockery, molehill, museum piece, nonesuch, oddity, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pretty-pretty, prodigiosity, prodigy, rap, rarity, red cent, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, strange thing, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whatnot, whim-wham

• curiosity, abnormality, amazement, anomaly, ardor, astonishing thing, astonishment, bauble, bric-a-brac, cathexis, concern, concernment, concupiscence, conversation piece, curio, desideration, desire, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, exception, fancy, fantasy, freak, gazingstock, gewgaw, hope, horme, improbability, inquisitiveness, intellectual curiosity, interest, interestedness, interference, intrusiveness, libido, lust for learning, marvel, marvelment, matter of interest, meddlesomeness, mind, miracle, monstrosity, museum piece, need, nonesuch, nosiness, objet d'art, oddity, passion, phenomenon, pleasure, pleasure principle, prodigiosity, prodigy, prying, questioning, quite a thing, rarity, regard, sensation, sexual desire, sight, snooping, something else, special interest, spectacle, strange thing, stunner, thirst for knowledge, trinket, urge, want, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

• curious, aberrant, abnormal, absurd, agape, agog, all agog, analytical, attentive, attracted, barmy, bizarre, burning with curiosity, careful, catechistic, cathectic, cautious, circumspect, concerned, considerate, consumed with curiosity, deviant, deviate, eccentric, enthusiastic, erratic, examining, excited, exotic, extraordinary, fascinated, freaked out, freakish, freaky, funny, ghoulish, gossipy, grotesque, heedful, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitional, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, interfering, intermeddling, interrogational, interrogative, interrogatory, intrusive, investigative, irregular, itchy, keen on, kinky, kooky, loving, meddlesome, meddling, mindful, morbid, morbidly curious, nosy, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, offbeat, open-eyed, openmouthed, out, outlandish, outrageous, outre, overcurious, passing strange, passionate, peculiar, piqued, pixilated, prurient, prying, quaint, queer, querying, questioning, quizzical, quizzing, regardful, scopophiliac, scrutinizing, searching, singular, snooping, snoopy, solicitous, strange, supercurious, tantalized, tender, thoughtful, tickled, titillated, turned-on, unconventional, unearthly, unusual, voyeuristic, weird, wondrous strange

• curl up, bed, bed down, bundle, couch, croodle, cuddle, cuddle up, go to bed, go to rest, lie down, loll, lounge, nestle, recline, repose, rest, settle to rest, snug down, snug up, snuggle, snuggle up to, sprawl, take it easy, take life easy

• curl, arc, arch, bend, bend back, bow, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, circle, cirrus, coil, conchoid, corkscrew, crimp, crisp, crook, curlicue, curve, decurve, deflect, diacaustic, dome, ellipse, embow, entwine, evolute, festoon, flex, frizz, frizzle, gyre, helix, hook, hump, hunch, hyperbola, incurvate, incurve, inflect, involute, kink, lituus, lock, loop, parabola, ponytail, recurve, reflect, reflex, retroflex, ringlet, roll, round, sag, screw, scroll, sinus, spiral, swag, sweep, swirl, tendril, tracery, turn, twine, twirl, twist, vault, volute, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl, wind, wreathe

• curlicue, cirrus, coil, corkscrew, curl, evolute, gyre, helix, involute, kink, ringlet, roll, screw, scroll, spiral, swirl, tendril, twirl, twist, volute, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl

• currency, PR, and pence, averageness, ballyhoo, blurb, bon ton, bright light, cash, celebrity, circulating medium, coin, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, common knowledge, commonality, commonness, commonplaceness, cry, daylight, dollars, dough, eclat, emergency money, exposure, extensiveness, fame, famousness, fashionableness, filthy lucre, fractional currency, generality, glare, gold, habitualness, hard cash, hard currency, hoopla, hue and cry, legal tender, lettuce, limelight, lucre, mammon, managed currency, maximum dissemination, medium of exchange, mintage, modishness, money, necessity money, needful, normality, notoriety, ordinariness, pelf, plug, popularity, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, press notice, prevalence, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, rampantness, reclame, reign, report, rifeness, routineness, run, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, spotlight, standardness, sterling, stylishness, sweepingness, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, usualness, voguishness, widespreadness, write-up

• current, AC, Brownian movement, DC, Zeitgeist, a la mode, absorption current, accepted, accessible, accidental, accompanying, accustomed, active current, actual, ado, advance, advised, affirmed, affluence, afflux, affluxion, afloat, afoot, aim, air current, all the rage, all the thing, alternating current, angular motion, announced, as is, ascending, ascent, au courant, au fait, average, aware, axial motion, azimuth, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bandied about, base current, bearing, being, bent, besetting, broadcast, brought to notice, bruited about, career, cathode current, circulated, circumstantial, climbing, coeval, collector current, common, common knowledge, common property, commonly known, commonplace, concourse, conduction current, confluence, conflux, conformable, consuetudinary, contemporaneous, contemporary, convection current, conventional, course, crosscurrent, current of air, customary, cycle, declared, defluxion, delta current, descending, descent, dielectric displacement current, diffused, direct current, direction, direction line, displacement current, disseminated, distributed, doing, dominant, downdraft, downflow, downpour, downward motion, draft, drift, driftage, ebbing, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, electron cloud, electron flow, electron gas, electron stream, emission current, epidemic, established, eventuating, everyday, exciting current, existent, existing, extant, fall wind, familiar, fashionable, flight, flood, flow, flow of air, flowing, fluency, flux, following wind, forward motion, free alternating current, fresh, galvanic current, generally accepted, glacial movement, going about, going around, going on, gush, habitual, hackneyed, happening, head wind, heading, helmsmanship, high-frequency current, hip, household, idle current, immanent, immediate, in being, in circulation, in effect, in existence, in fashion, in force, in hand, in print, in style, in the air, in the know, in the news, in the wind, in vogue, incidental, inclination, indraft, induced current, induction current, inflow, informed, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, instant, ionization current, jetstream, juice, katabatic wind, known, latest, lay, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, living, low-frequency current, made public, magnetizing current, main current, mainstream, mill run, millrace, mod, modern, modish, monsoon, motion, mounting, movement, movement of air, multiphase current, navigation, new, newfashioned, normal, normative, notorious, oblique motion, obtaining, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, ongoing, onrush, onward course, open, ordinary, orientation, outflow, output current, pandemic, passage, passing, piloting, plate current, platitudinous, plunging, point, popular, posted, predominant, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevailing, prevalent, proclaimed, progress, propagated, proverbial, public, published, pulsating direct current, quarter, race, radial motion, rampant, random motion, range, reactive current, received, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regnant, regression, regular, regulation, reigning, reported, resultant, retrogression, rife, rising, rotary current, routine, ruling, rumored, run, running, rush, set, sideward motion, simultaneous, single-phase alternating current, sinking, smart, soaring, space charge, spate, spread, standard, stated, steerage, steering, stereotyped, sternway, stock, stray current, stream, stream of air, stylish, subsiding, subsistent, subsisting, surge, swing, tail wind, taking place, talked about, talked-about, talked-of, telecast, televised, tendency, tenor, that be, that is, the general tendency, the main course, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, three-phase alternating current, tide, time spirit, time-honored, tone, topical, track, traditional, traject, trajet, trend, trendy, trite, truistic, under the sun, under way, undercurrent, undertow, universal, universally admitted, universally recognized, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, updraft, upward motion, usual, vernacular, voltaic current, water flow, watt current, way, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, whispered, whispered about, widely known, widespread, wind, wonted

• curriculum, academic specialty, area, classical education, core curriculum, course, course of study, discipline, elective, field, general education, general studies, humanities, liberal arts, major, minor, proseminar, quadrivium, refresher course, scientific education, seminar, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject, technical education, trivium

• curried, baked, boiled, braised, brisk, broiled, browned, burning, coddled, cooked, deviled, fired, fricasseed, fried, grilled, heated, high-seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, lively, nippy, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, peppery, poached, racy, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, seared, seasoned, shirred, snappy, spiced, spicy, steamed, stewed, tangy, toasted, with a kick, zestful, zesty, zippy

• curry, Irish stew, bake, barbecue, baste, bed, bed down, blanch, boil, bouillabaisse, braise, break, brew, bridle, broil, brown, brush, card, chowder, clobber, coddle, comb, cook, currycomb, devil, do, do to perfection, drench, drub, etuvee, feed, fire, fodder, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, gentle, goulash, griddle, grill, groom, hackle, handle, harness, hatchel, heat, heckle, hitch, lick, litter, manage, meat stew, milk, mulligan, mulligan stew, olio, olla, olla podrida, oven-bake, overwhelm, oyster stew, paella, pan, pan-broil, parboil, poach, prepare, prepare food, ragout, rake, roast, rub down, saddle, saute, scallop, sear, shellac, shirr, simmer, smear, smother, steam, stew, stir-fry, tame, tend, thrash, toast, train, trim, water, yoke

• curse, Jonah, abuse, accurse, adverse circumstances, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggravation, aggrieve, anathema, anathematize, annoyance, bad influence, bad language, bane, befoul, bewitch, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blaspheme, blasphemy, blast, blight, bugbear, bummer, burden, burden of care, calamity, cankerworm of care, cantrip, care, catamenia, catamenial discharge, charm, commination, condemn, confound, corrupt, courses, cross, crown of thorns, crucify, crushing burden, curse and swear, cuss, cuss word, damage, damn, damnation, damning, darn, death, defile, denounce, denunciation, deprave, despoil, destroy, destruction, difficulties, difficulty, dirty name, dirty word, disadvantage, disease, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, downer, dysphemism, dysphemize, enchantment, encumbrance, envenom, epithet, evil, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, excommunicate, execrate, execration, exorcism, expletive, flowers, foul invective, fulminate against, gall, gall and wormwood, get into trouble, glamour, grievance, handicap, harass, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harm, hex, hoodoo, hurt, ill wind, impair, imprecate, imprecation, infect, infliction, injure, irritation, jinx, load, magic spell, malediction, malevolent influence, malocchio, maltreat, menace, menses, menstrual discharge, menstruation, misfortune, mistreat, molest, monthlies, naughty word, nemesis, no-no, oath, objurgate, objurgation, obscenity, open wound, oppression, outrage, pack of troubles, peck of troubles, period, periods, persecute, pest, pestilence, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, predicament, prejudice, pressure, profanation, profane oath, profanity, rigor, running sore, sacrilege, saddle, savage, scathe, scatologize, scourge, sea of troubles, sorrow, spell, stress, stress of life, swear, swear at, swearword, taint, talk dirty, that time, the curse, thorn, threaten, throw a whammy, thunder against, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, vexation, vicissitude, vilify, violate, visitation, voodoo, wanga, waters of bitterness, weigh down, weight, weird, whammy, woe, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

• cursed, accursed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, confounded, cussed, damn, damnable, damned, demoniac, demonic, devilish, diabolic, disgusting, doggone, execrable, fiendish, ghoulish, goddamn, goddamned, hateful, hellish, infernal, odious, satanic, ungodly

• cursing, Rabelaisian, abusive, bad language, billingsgate, blasphemous, blue language, calumniatory, calumnious, colorful language, comminatory, contumelious, cussing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, dysphemistic, epithetic, evil speaking, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execration, execratory, filth, filthy language, foul, foul language, fulminatory, imprecation, imprecatory, maledictory, obscene, obscenity, profane, profane swearing, profanity, raw, ribald, ribaldry, risque, scatologic, scatology, scurrile, scurrilous, strong language, swearing, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vile, vile language, vituperative, vulgar language

• cursive, Italian hand, Spencerian writing, autograph, autographic, block letter, bold hand, book hand, calligraphic, chancery hand, chirographic, copperplate hand, cursive hand, effortless, engrossed, flowing, fluent, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, law hand, lettering, longhand, majuscule script, manuscript, minuscule script, on paper, penciled, penned, printed, printing, round hand, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, smooth, stylographic, text hand, uncial, written

• cursory, airy, ankle-deep, at odds, averse, brief, careless, casual, degage, depthless, desultory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, epidermal, expeditious, fast, festinate, feverish, few, flippant, flying, footling, forced, forgetful, fractious, free and easy, furious, haphazard, hasty, heedless, hurried, immediate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indifferent, indisposed, indocile, insignificant, insouciant, instant, involuntary, jejune, knee-deep, last-minute, lazy, light, little, low, meager, miniature, mutinous, negligible, no great shakes, not deep, oblivious, offhand, on the spot, on the surface, opposed, passing, perfunctory, petty, picayune, picayunish, prompt, quick, random, rapid, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, regardless, resistant, respectless, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, short, sketchy, skin-deep, slap-bang, slapdash, slight, small, snap, speedy, sulky, sullen, summary, superficial, surface, swift, tactless, thin, thoughtless, tiny, trifling, trivial, unconsenting, uncritical, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unprofound, unready, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unwilling, urgent

• curt, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, aggressive, aposiopestic, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, brusque, cavalier, churlish, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, crusty, curtal, curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, gruff, harsh, imperious, indisposed to talk, instantaneous, laconic, little, low, mum, mute, peremptory, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, rough, rude, sententious, severe, sharp, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, snappish, snippety, snippy, snug, sparing of words, speechless, succinct, summary, surly, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, transient, truculent, truncated, unceremonious, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless

• curtail, abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, arrest, bate, bereave, bleed, bob, boil down, bridle, capsulize, check, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrain, constrict, constringe, contain, contract, control, cool, cool off, cramp, crop, curb, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decelerate, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, deprive, deprive of, derogate, detract, diminish, disentitle, disparage, divest, dock, dompt, downgrade, drain, draw, draw in, draw together, ease one of, eat away, elide, enjoin, epitomize, erode, extract, file away, foreshorten, govern, guard, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, impair, inhibit, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, knit, lay under restraint, leach, lessen, lighten one of, lower, milk, mine, minify, mow, narrow, nip, pare, poll, pollard, prohibit, prune, pucker, pucker up, pull, pull in, purify, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refine, rein, rein in, remove, restrain, retard, retrench, roll back, rub away, scale down, set back, shave, shear, shorten, simplify, slash, slow down, snub, solidify, step down, straiten, strangle, strangulate, stunt, subduct, subtract, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take away, take away from, take from, take in, tap, telescope, thin, thin out, trim, truncate, tune down, wear away, weed, withdraw, withhold, wrinkle

• curtailed, abated, abbreviated, ablated, abridged, abstracted, attenuated, bated, belittled, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, consumed, contracted, cropped, cut short, decreased, deflated, digested, diminished, dissipated, docked, dropped, elided, elliptic, eroded, fallen, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, mowed, mown, nipped, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shaved, sheared, shorn, short-cut, shortened, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, snub, snubbed, trimmed, watered-down, weakened, worn

• curtailment, abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, arrest, arrestation, astriction, astringency, attrition, bereavement, bottleneck, cervix, check, cheeseparing, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, conspectus, constraint, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, cut, cutback, cutting, deceleration, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, deprivation, deprivement, derogation, detraction, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, disparagement, divestment, economization, economizing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, extraction, foreshortening, hindrance, hourglass, hourglass figure, impairment, inhibition, injunction, interdict, isthmus, knitting, legal restraint, lessening, low growth rate, monopoly, narrow place, narrowing, neck, precis, privation, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, puckering, pullback, pursing, rationing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, rein, relieving, remission, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retraction, retrenchment, rollback, saving, scraping, scrimping, self-control, shortening, shrinkage, skimping, slowdown, slowing down, solidification, sparing, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, summary, summation, syncope, synopsis, systole, tariff wall, telescoping, thought control, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling

• curtain call, act, afterpiece, bit, chaser, curtain, curtain raiser, divertimento, divertissement, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, finale, hoke act, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, number, prologue, routine, scene, shtick, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, striptease, turn

• curtain raiser, Vorspiel, act, afterpiece, bit, chaser, coming out, concert overture, curtain, curtain call, debut, descant, divertimento, divertissement, dramatic overture, embarkation, embarkment, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, finale, first appearance, floating, flotation, hoke act, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, launching, maiden speech, number, opener, operatic overture, overture, preliminary, prelude, prologue, routine, scene, shtick, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, striptease, turn, unveiling, vamp, voluntary

• curtain, Z, abatis, act, act drop, advanced work, afterpiece, apodosis, apply to, asbestos, asbestos board, awning, backdrop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, barrier of secrecy, bartizan, bastion, batten, battlement, beach umbrella, becloud, befog, bit, blackout, blanket, blind, block, blockade, border, bottleneck, breastwork, bulwark, camouflage, canopy, casemate, catastrophe, catch, ceasing, censorship, cessation, chaser, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cloak, cloth, clothe, cloud, coat, coda, conceal, conclusion, consummation, contravallation, cope, cordon, coulisse, counterscarp, counterweight, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crack of doom, culmination, curtain board, curtain call, curtain raiser, curtains, cyclorama, death, decease, decor, demibastion, denouement, destination, destiny, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dike, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, divertimento, divertissement, doom, drape, drapery, draw the curtains, drawback, drawbridge, drop, drop curtain, earthwork, eclipse, effect, enclosure, end, end point, ending, ensconce, enshroud, entanglement, envelop, envoi, epilogue, escarp, escarpment, eschatology, exode, exodus, expiration, expository scene, fate, fence, fieldwork, film, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fire curtain, flat, flipper, fortalice, fortification, glacis, gloss over, goal, guise, hang-up, hanging, hazard, hide, hitch, hoke act, hood, housing, hurdle, hush-up, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, iron curtain, ironbound security, izzard, joker, keep under cover, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, lay on, lay over, light shield, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, mantle, mask, merlon, mound, muffle, number, oath of secrecy, obduce, obfuscate, objection, obscure, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occult, official secrecy, omega, one small difficulty, outwork, overlay, overshadow, overspread, palisade, pall, parados, parapet, parasol, payoff, period, peroration, portcullis, postern gate, prologue, put on, quietus, rag, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, repression, resolution, resting place, routine, rub, sally port, scarp, scene, scenery, sconce, screen, scum, seal of secrecy, security, shade, shader, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, shtick, shutter, side scene, sketch, skit, slur over, smothering, snag, song and dance, spread over, stage screw, stand-up comedy act, stifling, stockade, stoppage, stopping place, striptease, stumbling block, stumbling stone, sunblind, sunshade, superimpose, superpose, suppression, swan song, tab, tableau, teaser, tenaille, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, turn, umbrella, vallation, vallum, varnish, veil, veil of secrecy, vestment, whitewash, windup, wing, wingcut, woodcut, work, wraps

• curtains, Z, annihilation, apodosis, bane, biological death, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, clinical death, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, crossing the bar, culmination, curtain, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, demise, denouement, departure, destination, destiny, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, goal, going, going off, grave, hand of death, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, omega, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, period, perishing, peroration, quietus, release, resolution, rest, resting place, reward, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, silence, sleep, somatic death, stoppage, stopping place, summons of death, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, windup

• curtly, abruptly, aphoristically, bearishly, bluffly, bluntly, boorishly, brashly, briefly, brusquely, cavalierly, churlishly, compendiously, concisely, crisply, crustily, economically, gruffly, harshly, in brief compass, laconically, nastily, pithily, pointedly, sententiously, sharply, shortly, snippily, sparely, succinctly, summarily, synoptically, tersely

• curtness, abruptness, aggressiveness, bearishness, beastliness, bluntness, boorishness, brachylogy, brashness, brevity, briefness, brusqueness, brusquerie, churlishness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, concision, crispness, crustiness, dumbness, economy of words, gruffness, harshness, instantaneousness, laconicalness, laconism, littleness, lowness, muteness, nastiness, obmutescence, pauciloquy, pithiness, pointedness, quietness, quietude, reserve, roughness, sententiousness, severity, sharpness, short time, shortness, silence, sparingness of words, speechlessness, succinctness, summariness, surliness, taciturnity, terseness, transience, truculence, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, wordlessness

• curtsy, accost, address, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bending the knee, bid good day, bid good morning, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bow to, bowing and scraping, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, dipping the colors, do homage, do obeisance, duck, embrace, exchange greetings, fall down before, genuflect, genuflection, greet, greeting, grovel, hail, hand-clasp, handshake, hello, homage, how-do-you-do, hug, inclination, kiss, kiss hands, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knuckle to, kowtow, lift the hat, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, making a leg, nod, nod to, obeisance, obsequiousness, presenting arms, prostration, pull the forelock, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, say hello, scrape, servility, shake, shake hands, smile, smile of recognition, squat, standing at attention, stoop, submission, submissiveness, supination, touch the hat, truckle to, uncover, wave

• curvaceous, Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming, bent, billowing, billowy, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, charming, comely, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, fair, geosynclinal, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, likely, lovely to behold, mazy, meandering, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rounded, serpentine, shapely, sightly, sinuous, slender, stacked, statuesque, tortuous, undulant, wavy, well-built, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

• curve, aberrancy, aberration, arc, arch, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, bear off, bend, bend back, bias, blind, bluff, bosey, bow, bowl, branch off, branching off, cast, catacaustic, catch, catenary, caustic, change of pace, change the bearing, change-up, chicanery, chouse, chuck, chunk, circle, circuit, circuitousness, circumference, coil, compass, conchoid, corner, crook, curl, curvation, curvature, curve-ball, declination, decurve, deflect, depart from, departure, design, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, device, deviousness, diacaustic, diffract, diffuse, digress, digression, dirty deal, dirty trick, discursion, disperse, distort, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dodge, dogleg, dome, double, downcurve, drift, drifting, ellipse, embow, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fast deal, fastball, feint, festoon, fetch, ficelle, flex, fling, flip, forward pass, gambit, gimmick, googly, hairpin, heave, heel, hocus-pocus, hook, hump, hunch, hurl, hyperbola, incurvate, incurvation, incurvature, incurve, indirection, inflect, inflection, joker, juggle, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lituus, lob, loop, obliquity, outcurve, parabola, pass, peg, pererration, pitch, ploy, pull, put, rambling, recurve, reflect, reflex, refract, retroflex, rondure, round, ruse, sag, scatter, scheme, screwball, scurvy trick, serve, service, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shot-put, shy, sinker, sinus, skew, slant, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slider, sling, spiral, spitball, spitter, stratagem, straying, subterfuge, swag, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, throw, toss, tracery, trend, trick, turn, turn aside, turning, twist, upcurve, variation, vary, vault, veer, wandering, warp, wile, wind, yaw, zigzag

• curved, arched, arciform, bending, bent, billowing, billowy, bowed, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, embowed, excurved, geosynclinal, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, round, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, undulant, wavy

• curvy, Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, becoming, bendy, bent, billowing, billowy, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, chevronwise, chevrony, comely, crankled, crooked, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, fair, flexuous, geosynclinal, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, hairpin, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, likely, lovely to behold, mazy, meandering, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rounded, serpentine, shapely, sightly, sinuous, slender, stacked, staggered, statuesque, tortuous, twisty, undulant, wavy, well-built, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways

• cushion, abate, absorb, absorb the shock, acoustic tile, aegis, afford support, air mattress, allay, alleviate, alleviative, alleviator, anesthetize, anodyne, antiknock, appease, arm, arm guard, armor, assuage, assuager, back, back up, backstop, baffle, baffler, balm, barrier, bear, bear up, bedding, benumb, bless, blubber, bolster, bolster up, brace, brattice, break the fall, breeze, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bulwark, bumper, buoy up, butter, buttress, calmative, carry, champion, clay, cloak, cloison, collision mat, compass about, contraceptive, copyright, cover, cradle, crash helmet, crutch, damp, dampen, dampener, damper, dashboard, deaden, deaden the pain, deafen, defend, diaphragm, diminish, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, dodger, dolorifuge, dough, down, dull, ease, ease matters, eiderdown, ensure, face mask, feather bed, feathers, fence, fend, fender, finger guard, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, foment, foot guard, fuse, gag, gentle, give relief, give support, goggles, governor, guarantee, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, harbor, hard hat, haven, helmet, hold, hold up, hushcloth, innerspring mattress, insulate, insulation, insure, interlock, interseptum, kapok, keep, keep afloat, keep from harm, keep up, knead, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, laxate, lay, lend support, lenitive, lessen, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, limber, limber up, litter, loosen, lull, mainstay, maintain, make safe, mash, mask, massage, mat, mattress, mellow, midriff, midsection, milden, mitigate, mitigator, moderator, modulator, mollifier, mollify, mudguard, muffle, muffler, mute, muzzle, nestle, neutralize, nose guard, numb, offset, pacificator, pacifier, pad, padding, palladium, pallet, palliate, palliative, panel, paries, partition, party wall, patent, peacemaker, pillow, pilot, plump, plush, police, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, preventive, prop, property line, prophylactic, protect, protective clothing, protective umbrella, pudding, puff, pulp, putty, quietener, reduce, register, reinforce, relax, relieve, restraining hand, ride shotgun for, rubber, rug, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, salve, satin, screen, seat belt, secure, sedative, separation, septulum, septum, shake up, shelter, shield, shin guard, shock absorber, shock pad, shore, shore up, shoulder, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, shroud, silence cloth, silencer, silk, slacken, slake, sleeping bag, smash, soft pedal, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up, soothe, soother, soothing syrup, sordine, sordino, sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation, sourdine, springs, squash, stabilizer, stay, stop, stupe, subdue, subsidize, subvention, sun helmet, supple, support, suppress, sustain, swansdown, temperer, tenderize, thistledown, tone down, tranquilizer, tune down, umbrella, underbed, underbedding, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, underwrite, upbear, uphold, upkeep, velvet, wall, wax, windscreen, windshield, wiser head, wool, zephyr

• cushioned, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushiony, cushy, easeful, easy, friendly, homelike, homely, homey, lived-in, luxurious, peaceful, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, snug, soft, warm

• cushioning, abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, blunting, chastening, dampening, damping, deadening, diminishing, dulling, easing, laxation, lessening, mellowing, mitigating, mollification, mollifying, padding, reducing, relaxation, relaxing, softening, softening-up, subduing, tempering

• cushy, Mickey Mouse, casual, clear, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, easeful, easy, easy as pie, effortless, facile, friendly, glib, homelike, homely, homey, light, lived-in, luxurious, nothing to it, painless, peaceful, plain, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, simple, simple as ABC, smooth, snug, soft, straightforward, unburdensome, uncomplicated, warm

• cuspid, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, crown, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, tooth, tush, tusk, wisdom tooth

• cuss out, abuse, bawl out, blackguard, call names, chew, chew ass, chew out, damn, epithet, epithetize, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, jack up, lambaste, ream, ream ass, ream out, revile, sit on, swear at, vilify, vituperate

• cuss, bloke, boy, buck, chap, curse, curse and swear, cuss word, damn, dirty name, dirty word, dysphemism, dysphemize, epithet, execrate, expletive, fellow, foul invective, gent, guy, he, imprecate, man, naughty word, no-no, oath, obscenity, profane oath, scatologize, swear, swearword, talk dirty

• cussed, baleful, bearish, bitchy, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, confounded, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cursed, disagreeable, doggone, excitable, feisty, fractious, harmful, hateful, huffish, huffy, infernal, iniquitous, invidious, irascible, irritable, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, noxious, ornery, perverse, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, waspish, wicked

• cussedness, bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, contrariness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, difficultness, disagreeability, dourness, evil intent, excitability, fractiousness, frowardness, harmfulness, hatefulness, huffiness, huffishness, iniquitousness, invidiousness, irascibility, irritability, maleficence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, noxiousness, orneriness, perverseness, perversite, perversity, snappishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, testiness, ugliness, waspishness, waywardness, wickedness, wrongheadedness

• custodial, Argus-eyed, all ears, all eyes, aux aguets, covering, defensive, eagle-eyed, fostering, guarded, guardian, guarding, hawk-eyed, immunizing, keen-eyed, lidless, observant, on guard, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eyed, parental, preventive, prophylactic, protecting, protective, prudent, safeguarding, screening, sharp-eyed, sheltering, shielding, sleepless, tutelary, vigilant, wary, watchful, with open eyes

• custodian, MC, air warden, attendant, attorney, bailiff, bull, butler, caretaker, castellan, cerberus, char, charwoman, cleaner, cleaner-off, cleaner-up, cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning woman, commandant, conservator, croupier, curator, custos, emcee, factor, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, gaoler, governor, guard, guardian, guardian angel, housekeeper, jailer, janitor, janitress, keeper, landreeve, librarian, lifeguard, lifesaver, majordomo, master of ceremonies, next friend, overseer, principal keeper, prison guard, prochein ami, proctor, procurator, ranger, screw, seneschal, shepherd, steward, supervisor, turnkey, warden, warder, watchdog

• custody, administration, auspices, captainship, care, chairmanship, charge, cold storage, confinement, conservation, convenership, cure, custodianship, dead storage, detention, dictatorship, directorate, directorship, dry storage, eagle eye, foremanship, generalship, governance, government, governorship, guard, guardedness, guardianship, guarding, guidance, hands, headship, hold, imprisonment, incarceration, intendancy, invigilation, jurisdiction, keep, keeping, leadership, lookout, management, managership, mastership, ministry, monitoring, observance, overseership, oversight, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peeled eye, preservation, presidency, preventive custody, proctoring, proctorship, protection, protective custody, protectorship, prudence, qui vive, safe hands, safekeeping, sharp eye, shelf-room, sovereignty, stewardship, storage, storage space, stowage, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, supervisorship, surveillance, trust, tutelage, vigil, vigilance, ward, wardenship, wardship, warehousing, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye, wing

• custom made, assembled, bespoke, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, sartorial, shaped, smelted, store-bought, tailor-made, tailored, vestmental, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

• custom, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, ancient wisdom, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, assembled, automatism, bad habit, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bienseance, bon ton, built, business, canon, carriage, carriage trade, cast, characteristic, civility, clientage, clientele, common law, comportment, conduct, conformity, constructed, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctness, crafted, created, creature of habit, culture pattern, custom-built, custom-made, customs, decency, decorousness, decorum, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, dues, duty, especially, etiquette, excise, exclusively, expressly, extracted, fabricated, fashion, fashioned, fixture, folk motif, folklore, folktale, folkway, force of habit, forged, form, formality, formed, gathered, gestures, goings-on, good form, good name, goodwill, grown, guise, habit, habit pattern, habitude, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, haute couture, high fashion, homemade, homespun, immemorial usage, impost, institution, law, legend, levy, lore, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, maintien, man-made, manner, manners, manufactured, market, matter of course, method, methodology, methods, mien, milled, mined, mode, modus vivendi, mold, molded, motions, movements, moves, myth, mythology, observable behavior, particularly, patronage, pattern, peculiarity, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, prefab, prefabricated, prescription, presence, prevailing taste, procedure, proceeding, processed, proper thing, propriety, public, purchasing public, put together, racial memory, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, repute, ritual, routine, rubric, rule, rural market, second nature, seemliness, shaped, smelted, social convention, social science, social usage, specially, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, stream of fashion, style, suburban market, support, swim, tactics, tailor-made, tariff, tax, to order, toll, tone, trade, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, traffic, trend, trick, usage, use, vogue, way, way of life, ways, well-built, well-constructed, well-made, wont, youth market

• customarily, according to use, accustomedly, as a rule, as is proper, as is usual, as per usual, as things go, as usual, chiefly, comme il faut, commonly, consistently, conventionally, correctly, decorously, generally, habitually, mainly, most often, mostly, naturally, normally, normatively, ordinarily, orthodoxly, prescriptively, properly, regularly, routinely, to be expected, traditionally, usually, wontedly

• customary, Christian, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, canonical, chronic, comme il faut, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, current, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, firm, fixed, folk, formal, frequent, general, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, household, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, received, recognized, regular, regulation, right, rooted, routine, scriptural, seemly, set, sound, standard, stipulated, stock, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, understood, universal, unwritten, usual, venerable, vernacular, widespread, wonted, worshipful

• customer, Adamite, being, bloke, body, buyer, cat, chap, character, client, consumer, creature, duck, earthling, fellow, groundling, guy, hand, head, homo, human, human being, individual, joker, life, living soul, man, mark, mortal, nose, one, party, patron, person, personage, personality, prospect, purchaser, regular, regular customer, shopper, single, somebody, someone, soul, sucker, tellurian, terran, worldling

• customs, Internal Revenue Service, VAT, ad valorem duty, alcohol tax, amusement tax, assessment on default, assessor, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, corporation tax, customhouse, customs duty, death duty, death tax, doomage, duty, estate duty, estate tax, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, exciseman, export tax, farmer, federal tax, gabelle, gift tax, head tax, import tax, income tax, inheritance tax, internal revenue tax, land tax, liquor tax, local tax, luxury tax, nuisance tax, personal property tax, poll, poll tax, property tax, property-increment tax, protective tariff, provincial tax, publican, rates, revenue tariff, revenuer, sales tax, salt tax, school tax, severance tax, specific duty, state tax, tariff, tariff duty, tax assessor, tax collector, tax farmer, taxer, taxman, telephone tax, use tax, value added tax, window tax

• cut across, bar, catercorner, chiasmal, chiasmic, chiastic, crisscross, cross, crossbar, crosscut, crossed, crossing, cruciate, cut, cut a corner, cut corners, cut crosswise, cut through, decussate, decussated, diagonalize, intercross, intersect, intersected, intersecting, lie across, make a beeline, secant, short-cut, slant across, slash, slash across, transverse, traverse

• cut back, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, curtail expenses, cut, cut corners, cut down, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, diminish, dock, downgrade, elide, epitomize, foreshorten, lessen, lower, mark down, mow, nip, pare, pare down expenses, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, roll back, scale down, shave, shear, shorten, simplify, slash, slow down, snub, step down, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take a reef, take from, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, tune down

• cut corners, blink, carefully ignore, cold-shoulder, curtail expenses, cut a corner, cut across, cut back, cut down, cut through, dodge, fudge, make a beeline, pare down expenses, pass over, pass over lightly, retrench, roll back, scamp, short-cut, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slight, slow down, slubber over, slur, slur over, take a reef, touch upon, touch upon lightly

• cut down, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, annihilate, beat down, bereave of life, blow down, blow over, blow to pieces, blow up, bob, boil down, bowl down, bowl over, brain, break down, bring down, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, burn to death, capsulize, carry away, carry off, cast down, chloroform, chop down, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, curtail expenses, cut, cut back, cut corners, cut off, cut off short, cut short, cut to pieces, damp, dampen, dash down, deal a deathblow, deck, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, deprive of life, destroy, diminish, disintegrate, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, dock, down, downgrade, drop, elide, end, epitomize, execute, exterminate, fell, fetch down, finish, finish off, flatten, floor, foreshorten, frag, give the quietus, ground, gun down, hew down, immolate, incinerate, jugulate, kill, knock down, knock over, lapidate, launch into eternity, lay level, lay low, lay out, lessen, level, liquidate, lower, lynch, make away with, mark down, martyr, martyrize, mow, mow down, nip, pare, pare down expenses, pistol, poison, poleax, poll, pollard, precipitate, prostrate, prune, pull down, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, rase, raze, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, remove from life, retrench, riddle, roll back, sacrifice, scale down, send headlong, shave, shear, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shorten, shotgun, silence, simplify, slash, slay, slow down, smash, snub, spread-eagle, stab to death, starve, steamroller, step down, stone, stone to death, strike dead, stunt, sum up, summarize, supinate, synopsize, take a reef, take down, take from, take in, take life, take off, tear down, telescope, throw, throw down, topple, trim, trip, truncate, tumble, tune down, vaporize, whack down

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

• cut it out, abandon, abort, belay, cancel, cease, desist, discontinue, drop it, end, give over, halt, have done with, hold, knock it off, lay off, leave off, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, scrub, stay, stop, terminate

• cut loose, bail out, board, boom, break away, break jail, break loose, break out, carouse, cast loose, celebrate, clap on ratlines, clear, clear hawse, create a disturbance, create a riot, debauch, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, dislodge, escape, escape prison, evade, extricate, flee, fly the coop, free, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, give way to, go all out, go berserk, go flat out, go unrestrained, haul, haul down, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, hell around, jollify, jolly, jump, kedge, lark, lay, lay aloft, let go, let loose, let off steam, log, make a commotion, make a getaway, make an ado, make merry, make trouble, make whoopee, open up, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, raise hell, ratline down, release, revel, riot, roil, roister, run amok, run riot, run wild, see life, skip, skylark, slip the collar, spar down, spree, step out, stream the log, tear loose, traverse a yard, unknot, unlash, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, wanton, warp, whoop it up

• cut off, abridge, abrupt, abscind, alienate, amputate, annihilate, ax, ban, bar, bar out, bereave, bereave of life, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bisect, bleed, block, blockade, bob, break, break off, butcher, carry away, carry off, carve, cast off, cast out, catch, chloroform, chop, cleave, clip, close off, count out, crop, cull, curtail, cut, cut adrift, cut away, cut down, cut in two, cut out, cut short, debar, delete, denuded, depart, deprive, deprive of, deprive of life, deprived of, destroy, dichotomize, disarticulate, disconnect, disendow, disengage, disentitle, disherison, disinherit, disjoin, disjoint, disown, dispatch, displace, dispose of, dispossess, disseise, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divest, divested, divide, divorce, do away with, do for, do to death, dock, drain, ease one of, eject, eliminate, embargo, end, enisle, enucleate, eradicate, estrange, evict, except, excise, exclude, execute, expel, expropriate, exsect, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fissure, foreclose, freeze out, gash, get rid of, hack, halve, hew, ignore, immolate, incise, insulate, intermit, interrupt, island, isolate, jigsaw, keep out, kill, knock off, lacking, lance, launch into eternity, lay low, leave, leave out, lighten one of, liquidate, lock out, lop, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, milk, mine, minus, mutilate, nip, omit, ostracize, out of, pare, part, parted from, pass over, peel, pick out, poison, preclude, prohibit, prune, pull away, pull back, pull out, purge, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to sleep, reject, relegate, remove from life, rend, repudiate, rive, robbed of, root out, rule out, sacrifice, saw, scissor, scrag, segregate, send to Coventry, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shave, shear, shorn of, shut off, shut out, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, snap the thread, snip, split, stamp out, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, starve, step aside, strike off, strip, strip off, stripped of, subtract, sunder, suspend, taboo, take a break, take away from, take from, take life, take off, take out, tap, tear, throw off, throw out, to, truncate, uncouple, unyoke, usurp, wanting, whittle, wipe out, withdraw

• cut out, abjure, abrupt, abscind, abstract, act for, alienate, amputate, annihilate, arrange, avulse, ban, bar, bob, calculate, cast, cast off, cast out, change places with, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip, come off, concert, contrive, cooked-up, crop, crowd out, cull, cut, cut adrift, cut and run, cut away, cut off, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, delete, depart, deport, deracinate, design, desist, devise, dig out, dig up, disarticulate, disconnect, discontinue, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, displace, dispose of, dissociate, disunite, disuse, divide, divorce, dock, double for, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drop, eject, elide, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, estrange, evolve, evulse, excavate, except, excise, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, exsect, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, figure, fill in for, fixed, flee, fly, forecast, frame, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, ghost, ghostwrite, give over, give up, gouge out, grub up, have done with, hightail, in the bag, intend, isolate, knock off, lay plans, leave, leave off, let go, liquidate, lop, make a projection, make arrangements, make tracks, methodize, mine, mutilate, nip, nol-pros, not pursue with, on ice, organize, outlaw, packed, pare, part, peel, pick out, pinch-hit, plan, plan ahead, planned, plotted, pluck out, pluck up, prearrange, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, premeditated, preordered, program, project, prune, pull, pull away, pull back, pull out, pull up, purge, put behind one, put-up, quarry, quit, rake out, rationalize, relieve, relinquish, remove, renounce, replace, represent, resign, rigged, rip out, root out, root up, rule out, run along, run away, run away from, run off, schedule, schematize, schemed, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, set up, set-up, shape, shave, shear, shut off, spell, spell off, split, stacked, stamp out, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, stand in for, step aside, stop, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, subrogate, substitute for, subtract, succeed, supersede, supplant, swap places with, sweep away, systematize, take off, take out, take to flight, tear out, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, truncate, uncouple, understudy for, unearth, unravel, unyoke, uproot, waive, weed out, wipe out, withdraw, work out, work up, wrest out

• cut short, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridge, abridged, abstract, abstracted, arrest, block, bob, bobbed, boil down, brake, bring to, bring up short, butchered, capsule, capsulize, capsulized, castrated, check, checkmate, choke, choke off, clip, clipped, compress, compressed, condense, condensed, contract, crop, cropped, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, dam, deadlock, digested, dispose of, do away with, dock, docked, draw rein, dumbfound, elide, elided, elliptic, end, epitomize, finish, finish off, foreshorten, freeze, gag, garbled, get rid of, halt, hashed, hush, hush-hush, kill, lopped, make away with, mangled, mow, mowed, mown, muffle, mutilated, muzzle, nip, nipped, poll, pollard, polled, prune, pruned, pull up, put paid to, put to silence, quiet, quieten, reap, reaped, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, shave, shaved, shear, sheared, short-cut, shorten, shortened, shush, shut down on, silence, slaughter, snub, snubbed, soft-pedal, squash, squelch, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stifle, still, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, strike dumb, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, take off, telescope, throttle, to, trim, trimmed, truncate, truncated

• cut the mustard, be able, be up to, can, can do, clear, clear the hurdle, come along, come on, contrive, cut it, engineer, get along, get by, get on, go on, hack it, make it, make out, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, may, muddle through, negotiate, possess authority, put over, put through, scrape along, succeed in, swing, swing the deal, take charge, worry along

• cut up, act up, afflict, aggrieve, anguish, antic, apportion, barb the dart, behave ill, break down, bring to tears, broken-down, brokenhearted, bruise, caper, caracole, carp, carry on, carve, carve up, catch at straws, cavil, cavort, censure, clown, condemn, crush, crushed, curvet, cut, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up rough, dance, deep-troubled, denounce, desolate, desolated, disconsolate, disport, district, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, divvy, divvy up, draw tears, embitter, fault-find, find fault, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambol, get into mischief, go on, grieve, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, hell around, horse, horse around, horseplay, hurt, hurt the feelings, inundate, inundated, knock, maffick, misbehave, misdemean, miserable, nitpick, oppress, overcome, overwhelm, overwhelmed, pain, pan, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, pettifog, pick holes, pick to pieces, pierce, play, play the fool, portion, prick, prostrate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quibble, raise Cain, raise hell, raise sand, raise the deuce, raise the devil, raise the roof, rap, reprehend, reprobate, rollick, romp, roughhouse, section, segment, share, share out, share with, show off, skin, skip, slice, slice the pie, slice up, sorrow, split, split up, sport, stab, sting, stricken, subdivide, suicidal, take exception, tear apart, tear to pieces, torment, trip, twist the knife, undone, whoop it up, woebegone, woeful, wound, wretched, zone

• cut, AWOL, French leave, Parthian shot, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Spartan, Vandyke, abandon, abate, abatement, abbreviate, abbreviated, abrade, abrasion, abridge, abridged, abscind, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, abstract, abysm, abyss, ache, aching, acuminate, adulterate, adulterated, aesthetic form, afflict, affront, aggravated, aggrieve, aggrieved, agio, agonize, ail, air line, airy, allotment, allow, allowance, amount, amputate, anguish, anguished, annihilate, aposiopestic, apportion, aquatint, aqueduct, archetype, aroma, arroyo, art form, aspersion, assemble, atrocity, attenuate, attenuated, attribute, attrition, autolithograph, ax, back answer, backset, badge, ban, bang, banish, bank discount, baptize, bar, barb the dart, bark, bash, bastardize, baste, bastinado, bat, bate, be a printmaker, be keen, beat, beat back, beat down, beating, beeline, belabor, belt, benumb, best, bezel, biff, big end, bigger half, birch, birthmark, bisect, bit, bite, blackball, blaze, bleeding, blemish, block, block out, block print, bloody, blot out, blotch, blotto, blow, blue-pencil, bob, boil down, bonk, book, bottom, bowdlerize, box, box canyon, brand, breach, break, breakage, brickbat, brief, bring in, bristle with, broach, broken, bruise, bruised, brush off, brush-off, brusque, budget, buffet, build, burn, burned, burst, busted, butcher, butt, cachet, calendar, caliber, canal, canaliculate, canaliculated, canalization, canalize, cancel, cane, canned, canyon, capsulize, carve, carve up, carved, cash discount, cast, cast out, caste mark, catalog, catercorner, caustic remark, cavity, censor, chafe, chain discount, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, chamfered, channel, channeled, chap, character, characteristic, charge off, charge-off, chase, chase away, chase off, chasm, cheapen, cheapening, check, check in, checked, checkmark, chill, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, chipped, chisel, chop, chromolithograph, chronicle, chunk, cicatrix, clap, claw, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clip, clipped, clipping, clobber, close, clough, clout, cloven, club, clump, coat, coating, cockeyed, col, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, coldcock, colliquate, collop, color print, comeback, commission, compact, compass, compendious, compress, compressed, concession, concise, concussion, condense, condensed, configuration, conformation, contaminate, contempt, contingent, contract, contracted, contumely, convulse, copperplate, copperplate print, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, corrugation, corrupt, costate, coulee, couloir, covering, cowhide, crack, cracked, crackle, cramp, cranny, crayon engraving, craze, crazed, crease, creased, create, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crevasse, crevice, cribble, crimp, crimped, crisp, crocked, crop, crop herbs, cross out, crosshatch, crucify, crumb, cudgel, cuff, cull, cultivate, culture, curt, curtail, curtailment, cut across, cut apart, cut away, cut back, cut crosswise, cut dead, cut direct, cut down, cut in two, cut off, cut off short, cut open, cut out, cut prices, cut short, cut up, cutback, cutoff, cutting, cutting remark, cwm, dado, dadoed, damaged, damp, dampen, dapple, dash, day off, deal, deal a blow, debase, deck, decline, decoagulate, decoct, decrease, decrement, deduct, deduction, default, defile, deflate, deflation, degree, dehiscent, delete, deliquesce, dell, delve, denaturalize, denature, departure, depletion, deport, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, derogation, description, despite, destiny, deteriorated, detraction, devaluate, devaluation, diagonalize, dice, dichotomize, differentia, differential, dig, dike, dilute, diluted, diminish, diminution, dint, dip, disappearance, discoloration, discount, disdain, disfellowship, disk, dismiss, dismissal, disparagement, dispart, disregard, dissect, dissever, dissolve, distinctive feature, distress, ditch, divaricate, dive, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, dividend, division, divvy up, dock, docked, docket, doctor, doctor up, dole, dollop, dolor, donga, dot, downgrade, draw, drawback, dress, drive away, drive back, drub, drubbing, drumming, drunk, drunken, dump, earmark, edit, edit out, efform, elide, eliminate, elliptic, embittered, enchase, enchased, end, engrave, engraved, engravement, engraving, enormity, enroll, enscroll, enter, entrenchment, enucleate, epigrammatic, epitomize, equal share, eradicate, erase, escape, etching, ethereal, etherealize, exacerbated, excavation, except, excise, exclude, excommunicate, excruciate, excused absence, exile, expand, expatriate, expel, expunge, expurgate, extent, extinguish, extirpate, extraction, extradite, fall, fall in price, fallow, fashion, fate, fault, feather, feature, feint, fend off, fertilize, fester, fetch, fetch a blow, feuille, figuration, figure, file, fill out, film, fine, fissure, fissured, fissury, fix, flagellate, flail, flap, flash burn, flavor, flaw, fleck, fleeing, fleer, flick, flimsy, flog, flout, flouting, fluidify, fluidize, flume, flute, fluted, fluting, flux, fly open, foil, fold, foolery, force, foreshorten, forge, form, formalize, format, formation, fortify, fosse, found, fracture, fragment, frame, fray, frazzle, freckle, freeze, fret, frost, frostbite, fugitate, furlough, furrow, furrowed, fuse, fusillade, fustigate, gall, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gaseous, gash, gashed, gather, gather in, genre, gibe, gibing retort, give a whipping, give pain, give the go-by, give the stick, give way, giveaway, glean, glyphic, gnaw, gnomic, go AWOL, go awol, go through, gob, gobbet, goffer, goffered, goldbrick, goof off, gorge, gouge, gouged, grabble, grade, graphotype, grate, grave, graved, graven, graving, grief, grieve, grieved, grind, gripe, groove, grooved, gulch, gulf, gutter, ha-ha, hack, half, half-price, hallmark, halve, halver, harmed, harrow, harvest, hash, hatch, have an edge, hay, height, helping, hew, hit, hit a clip, hoe, hold in solution, hold off, hole, holiday, home thrust, hooky, horsewhip, humiliation, hunk, hurt, hurt the feelings, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ignore, ilk, impaired, impairment, impanel, imperfect, impress, impressed, impression, imprint, imprinted, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incise, incised, incision, indent, indentation, index, indignity, individualism, inflame, inflict pain, infuse, injure, injured, injury, inner form, inscribe, inscribed, insculpture, insculptured, insert, insubstantial, insult, interest, interval, irrigate, irritate, irritated, isolate, jab, jag, jape, jeer, jeering, jest, jew down, jigsaw, jog, joggle, joint, jot, jot down, jump, jump ship, keep off, kennel, kerf, keynote, kick back, kickback, kill, kill by inches, kind, kloof, knead, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock off, knock out, knout, knurl, lace, lacerate, lacerated, laceration, laconic, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lance, lap, lash, lay on, lay open, lay out, layout, leach, leaf, leak, leap, leave, leave loose ends, leave of absence, leave undone, leaving, leg-pull, lentigo, lesion, lessen, lessening, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let have it, level, lick, lick into shape, line, lineaments, lined, linoleum-block print, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, list, lit, lithograph, lixiviate, log, look right through, lop, lot, lower, lowering, lowest, lump, lunge, machicolate, macula, maim, make, make a memorandum, make a note, make allowance, make an entry, make little of, make mincemeat of, make out, make prints, makeup, malinger, mangled, mannerism, mark, mark down, markdown, marked, marked down, marking, martyr, martyrize, matriculate, matrix, maul, mauled, measure, meed, melt, melt down, member, membrane, mess, mezzotint, microgroove, mill, mince, mint, minute, miss, moat, mock, mockery, modality, mode, model, modicum, moiety, mold, mole, morsel, mottle, mow, mulch, mutilate, mutilated, mutilation, nasty blow, nature, negative, neglect, nevus, nick, nip, nock, nonappearance, nonattendance, nose dive, nose-dive, notch, note, note down, np, nuance, nullah, numb, nut, odor, offend, offense, omit, ope, open, open up, opening, ostracize, outlaw, outrage, overlook, pack off, pain, pained, pane, panel, pang, parcel, pare, paring, part, particle, particularity, parting shot, partition, pas, pass, pass by, pass over, pass up, passage, passion, paste, patch, patina, pattern, peculiarity, peel, peg, pellicle, pelt, penalty, penalty clause, penetrate, percentage, percolate, period, pick, pick out, picot, piece, pierce, pinch, pink, pistol-whip, pitch, pithy, place upon record, plait, plane, plank, plate, plateau, plating, play hooky, play truant, pleat, pleated, plow, pluck, plummet, plummeting, plunge, plunk, ply, plywood, point, pointed, poke, polka dot, poll, pollard, pollute, pommel, pooh-pooh, portion, post, post up, pound, premium, pretermit, price cut, price fall, price reduction, price-cut, prick, print, printed, procrastinate, prolong the agony, property, proportion, proscribe, prototype, prune, pruned, pullback, pummel, punch, puncture, push back, put back, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, put to torture, put-down, put-on, quality, quantum, quartered, quip, quirk, quota, rabbet, rabbeted, rack, ragged, rake, rake-off, range, rankle, rap, rare, rarefied, rarefy, rasher, rasp, ratio, ration, ravine, rawhide, reach, reap, reap and carry, rebate, rebatement, rebuff, recap, recapitulate, record, reduce, reduce to writing, reduced, reduction, refrigerate, refund, refusal, refuse, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to receive, refuse to recognize, register, reject, relegate, remission, remove, rend, rent, repel, repulse, rescind, reserved, retraction, retrench, retrenchment, ribbed, rifle, rifled, rifling, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, riven, rock-bottom, roll back, rollback, root out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, round, royalty, rub, rub out, rubber-block print, ruck, rude reproach, rule out, run, rung, running away, rupture, ruptured, rusticate, rut, rutted, rutty, sabbatical leave, sacrificial, safety glass, sag, salvage, savage, savor, saw, scald, scalded, scale, scale down, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, scissor, scissure, scoff, scoop, scope, scorch, scorched, score, scored, scotch, scourge, scrap, scrape, scratch, scratched, scratching, scuff, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, sculptured, scum, scurrility, seal, seam, second-degree burn, section, segment, send away, send down, send off, send packing, send to Coventry, sententious, separate, serrate, set, set apart, set aside, set down, setoff, sever, severed, shade, shadow, shape, shard, share, share out, share with, shattered, shave, shaving, shear, sheet, shirk, shiver, shock, short, short and sweet, short answer, shortcut, shorten, shortened, shortening, shortest way, shred, shredded, shrinkage, shrub, shut, shut down, sick leave, significant form, simplify, singularity, skin, skip, skive, slab, slack, slam, slant across, slap, slash, slash across, slashed, slat, slice, slice the pie, slice up, slight, slit, sliver, slog, slot, slug, slump, smack, small share, smash, smashed, smite, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, sneer, sniff, snip, snippet, snob, snort, snub, soak, sock, solder, solubilize, solve, sore, sore spot, sort, space, spade, spank, spasm, specialty, speck, speckle, spike, splash, splinter, splintered, split, split up, splotch, spot, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open, sprung, spurn, spurning, stab, stab wound, stain, stair, stake, stamp, stamp out, stamped, standard, step, step down, stick, stigma, sting, stint, stipple, stitch, stock, strain, strap, strawberry mark, streak, stress, stress of life, stria, striate, striated, striation, strike, strike at, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, stripe, stroke, structure, stump, stung, stunt, style, subtile, subtilize, subtle, succinct, suffering, sulcate, sulcated, sulcation, sulcus, sum up, summarize, summary, sunder, sunk fence, swat, swing, swing open, swinge, swipe, switch, switch off, synopsize, synopsized, table, tablet, tabulate, taciturn, tailor, taint, take French leave, take a premium, take down, take from, take in, take off, take out, tamper with, tang, tap, tape, tape-record, tare, taste, tatter, tattered, tattoo, tattoo mark, taunt, tear, tear open, telescope, tender spot, tenuous, terse, thaw, the cold shoulder, the go-by, the worse for, thermoform, thin, thin out, thinned, thinned-out, third-degree burn, thrash, throes, throw open, thrust, thrust back, thrust out, thump, thwack, tick, tight, till, till the soil, time discount, tittle, to the point, token, tool, tooled, tooth, torment, torn, torture, trade discount, trait, transport, trauma, traumatize, tread, trench, tret, trick, trifle, trim, trough, troughed, trounce, truancy, truantism, truncate, truncated, truncation, truncheon, tune down, turn, turn away, turn back, turn off, tweak, twist, twist the knife, twit, type, unclot, uncompact, uncomplimentary remark, uncompressed, underselling, unexcused absence, unsubstantial, vacation, valley, vaporous, veneer, verbal thrust, videotape, vignette, void, wadi, wafer, wallop, ward off, water, water down, watered, watered-down, watermark, weaken, weakened, weed, weed out, weld, well-worn groove, whack, whale, wham, whip, whittle, whop, windy, wipe out, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, work, worse, worse off, worsened, wound, wounded, wrench, wring, wrinkle, wrinkled, write, write down, write in, write off, write out, write up, write-off, xylograph, yerk

• cutaneous, cortical, dermal, dermic, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, furry, hypodermal, hypodermic, intracardiac, intradermal, intramedullary, intraspinal, intrathecal, intravenous, percutaneous, skin-deep, skinny, subcutaneous, testaceous

• cutback, cheeseparing, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cut, economization, economizing, low growth rate, pullback, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, retrenchment, rollback, saving, scraping, scrimping, skimping, slowdown, sparing

• cute, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adorable, adroit, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, attractive, authoritative, beautiful, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, daedal, dainty, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, delicate, designing, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fancy, feline, foxy, good, goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lovely, magisterial, masterful, masterly, mignon, neat, no mean, pawky, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, supple, tactful, tactical, the compleat, the complete, trickish, tricksy, tricky, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-done, wily, workmanlike

• cuticle, Leatherette, Leatheroid, coat, dermis, fell, fleece, flesh, fur, furring, hide, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, leather, leather paper, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, rawhide, rind, sheath, skin, skins, tegument, vair

• cutie, babe, baby, broad, chick, colleen, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, heifer, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, nymphet, piece, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, wench, young creature, young thing

• cutlery, ax, blade, cold steel, cutter, dagger, dining utensils, edge tools, flat silver, flatware, forks, hollow ware, knife, knives, naked steel, pigsticker, point, puncturer, sharpener, silver, silver plate, silverware, spoons, stainless-steel ware, steel, sword, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, toad sticker, whittle

• cutoff, air line, arrest, beeline, bell, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, check, checkmate, circumscription, compass, confine, cut, cutoff point, dead stop, deadline, deadlock, delimitation, determinant, division line, end, endgame, ending, extremity, final whistle, finish, floor, frontier, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, hedge, high-water mark, interface, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, lockout, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mete, shortcut, shortest way, sit-down strike, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, start, starting line, starting point, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit, walkout, work stoppage

• cutter, abridger, abstracter, analyzer, ax, baby tooth, bicuspid, blade, breaker, bucktooth, canine, centrifuge, cold steel, crown, cuspid, cutlery, dagger, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, edge tools, epitomist, epitomizer, eyetooth, fang, finisher, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, garmentmaker, garmentworker, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, knife, milk tooth, molar, naked steel, needleworker, peg, permanent tooth, pigsticker, pivot tooth, point, premolar, puncturer, scrivello, separator, sharpener, shortener, sieve, snag, snaggletooth, steel, stitcher, stripper, sword, toad sticker, tooth, tush, tusk, whittle, wisdom tooth

• cutthroat, Cain, apache, assassin, assassinator, barbaric, barbarous, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bravo, brutal, brutish, bucko, bully, bullyboy, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cold-blooded, competing, competitive, cruel, deadly, desperado, devil, emulous, eradicator, exacting, excessive, executioner, exorbitant, exterminator, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, feral, ferocious, fierce, garroter, gorilla, gory, gouging, grossly overpriced, gun, gunman, gunsel, gunslinger, hatchet man, head-hunter, hell-raiser, hellcat, hit man, homicidal, homicidal maniac, homicide, immoderate, in competition, in rivalry, inflationary, inhuman, inordinate, killer, lethal, mad dog, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, merciless, murderer, murderous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overpriced, pesticide, pirate, pitiless, poison, poisoner, preposterous, prohibitive, red-handed, relentless, rival, rivaling, rough, rowdy, ruffian, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, self-destructive, skyrocketing, slaughterer, slaughterous, slayer, spiraling, strangler, suicidal, thug, torpedo, trigger man, truculent, unconscionable, undue, unmerciful, unprincipled, unreasonable, unwarranted, usurious, vicious, violent, vying

• cutting remark, Parthian shot, back answer, caustic remark, comeback, crack, cut, dig, dump, fleer, flout, foolery, gibe, gibing retort, jab, jape, jeer, jest, leg-pull, mock, parting shot, put-down, put-on, quip, rude reproach, scoff, scurrility, short answer, slam, slap, swipe, taunt, twit, verbal thrust

• cutting, IC analysis, Siberian, abbreviation, abscission, accidence, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, adulteration, affix, affixation, algid, allomorph, amphibian, amputation, ana, analects, angiosperm, annual, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, apportionment, appositive, aquatic plant, arctic, asperous, astringent, attribute, attributive, attrition, bastardizing, below zero, biennial, bit, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, bound morpheme, brisk, brumal, budgeting, butchering, butt, caustic, chill, chip, chopping, chunk, clear-cut, cleavage, clip, clipping, clippings, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, collectanea, collection, collop, complement, conjugation, construction modifier, contamination, contemptuous, contraction, corroding, corrosive, corruption, cosmopolite, crasis, crisp, crop, crumb, curtailment, cut, cutting the pie, cuttings, debasement, deciduous plant, declension, decrease, decrement, deep structure, depletion, depreciation, derivation, derogation, detraction, dichotomy, dicot, dicotyledon, difference of form, diluent, dilution, diminution, dip, direct object, disparagement, dissolvent, dividing, division, divvy, doctoring, dollop, double-edged, drastic, driving, edged, effective, elision, ellipsis, enclitic, end, enucleation, ephemeral, escharotic, evergreen, excerpta, excerpts, excessive, excision, exorbitant, exotic, extraction, extracts, extravagant, extreme, featheredged, fierce, filler, fine, fission, florilegium, flowering plant, flowers, forceful, forcible, form-function unit, formative, fortifying, fragment, fragments, free form, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, function, fungus, furious, gametophyte, gathering, gelid, glacial, gleaning, gleanings, gob, gobbet, great, gutsy, gymnosperm, harsh, harvest, harvesting, hibernal, hiemal, hunk, hydrophyte, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immediate constituent analysis, immoderate, impairment, imperative, impressive, incisive, inclement, indirect object, infix, infixation, inflection, ingoing, intemperate, intense, invidious, irritating, keen, keen-edged, knifelike, laceration, lacing, lessening, levels, lump, malevolent, malicious, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, modifier, moiety, monocot, monocotyl, mordacious, mordant, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, morsel, mutilation, nervous, nipping, nippy, nose-tickling, numbing, nutting, object, outrageous, paradigm, parceling, paring, particle, partition, partitioning, penetrating, perennial, phrase structure, piece, piercing, pinching, piquant, plant, poignant, pollution, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, portioning, powerful, predicate, prefix, prefixation, probing, proclitic, pruning, punchy, pungent, qualifier, radical, ranks, rasher, rationing, raw, razor-edged, reaping, reduction, remission, rending, repartition, resection, resolutive, resolvent, retraction, retrenchment, rigorous, ripping, root, rough, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, scion, scission, scoop, scorching, scornful, scrap, section, seed plant, seedling, sensational, set, severance, severe, shallow structure, shard, sharing, sharing out, sharp, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, shrinkage, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sleety, slice, slicing, slip, sliver, slot, slot and filler, slushy, smithereen, snack, snappy, snatch, sneering, snip, snippet, solvent, sour, spermatophyte, spiking, splinter, splitting, sporophyte, stabbing, stem, stern, stinging, stitch, stone-cold, strata, strident, stringent, strong, structure, stump, subject, subzero, suffix, suffixation, supercooled, surface structure, surgery, syncope, syneresis, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, tart, tatter, tearing, telling, thallophyte, theme, thinning, tough, trenchant, triennial, truncation, two-edged, unconscionable, underlying structure, vascular plant, vegetable, vehement, venomous, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, watering, weed, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering, word arrangement, word order, word-formation, wounding

• cutup, bad boy, banana, booger, buffoon, bugger, burlesquer, caricaturist, carouser, clown, comedian, comic, contestant, devil, elf, enfant terrible, epigrammatist, farceur, frisker, frolicker, funmaker, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, gamboler, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, humorist, imp, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, knave, lampooner, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, madcap, merrymaker, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, parodist, pixie, playboy, player, pleasure-seeker, pleasurer, pleasurist, practical joker, prankster, puck, punner, punster, quipster, rapscallion, rascal, reparteeist, reveler, rogue, rollicker, rowdy, ruffian, satirist, scamp, scapegrace, skylarker, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany

• cwm, abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cirque, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, combe, corrie, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi

• cyanosis, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, azure, azureness, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, blue, blueness, bluishness, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lividity, lividness, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pruritus, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting

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

• cybernation, action, automatic control, automation, automatism, automatization, cascade control, control action, electronic control, feedback control, robot control, self-action, self-activity, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-motion, self-propulsion, self-regulation, servo control, supervisory control

• cybernetics, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, automatic electronics, autonetics, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, circuit analysis, communication theory, cryobiology, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, information theory, life science, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radio control, radiobiology, servo engineering, servomechanics, system engineering, systems analysis, systems planning, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

• cyclamates, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, blackstrap, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, edulcoration, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, maple syrup, molasses, nectar, saccharification, saccharin, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, treacle

• cycle, AC, AF, CPS, DC, EHF, HF, Hz, Indian file, Kekule formula, MF, O, Platonic year, RF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF, absorption current, active current, aeon, age, alternate, alternating current, ambit, annular muscle, annulus, annus magnus, areola, array, arsis, articulation, atomic cluster, audio frequency, aureole, bank, be here again, beat, benzene ring, bicycle, bicycle-built-for-two, bike, bout, branched chain, bus, buzz, carrier frequency, catch a train, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chaplet, chauffeur, chopper, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumvent, circus, close the circle, closed chain, closed circle, come again, come and go, come around, come full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, compass, compound radical, concatenation, conduction current, connection, consecution, continuum, convection current, corona, coronet, course, crown, cycle of indiction, cycles, date, day, delta current, descent, describe a circle, diadem, diastole, dielectric displacement current, direct current, discus, disk, displacement current, downbeat, drive, drone, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, emission current, encircle, encompass, endless belt, endless round, entrain, eternal return, exciting current, extremely high frequency, fairy ring, file, filiation, flank, free alternating current, frequency, frequency spectrum, full circle, galvanic current, gamut, garland, generation, girdle, girdle the globe, glory, go about, go around, go by rail, go round, go the round, gradation, great year, gyre, halo, hertz, heterocycle, high frequency, high-frequency current, homocycle, hum, idle current, indiction, induced current, induction current, intermediate frequency, intermit, ionization current, iron, joyride, juice, kilocycles, kilohertz, lap, lasso, lattice, line, lineage, logical circle, loop, looplet, low frequency, low-frequency current, lower frequencies, magic circle, magnetizing current, make a circuit, make a train, medium frequency, megacycles, megahertz, minibike, molecule, monocycle, monotone, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, multiphase current, nexus, noose, orbit, oscillate, pattern, pedal, pedicab, pendulum, periodicity, pig, plenum, powder train, progression, pulsate, pulsating direct current, pulse, queue, radical, radio frequency, radius, range, rank, reactive current, reappear, recur, recurrence, recycle, reoccur, repeat, reticulation, return, revolution, revolve, ride, ring, road-bike, roll around, rondelle, rotary current, rotate, rotation, round, round trip, roundel, rounds, routine, row, run, saucer, scale, scooter, sequel, sequence, series, side chain, sidewalk bike, simple radical, single file, single-phase alternating current, skirt, space-lattice, spark frequency, spectrum, spell, sphincter, spiral, straight chain, stray current, string, succession, superhigh frequency, surround, swath, systole, take a joyride, tandem, taxi, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, thesis, thread, three-phase alternating current, tier, time, tour, trail bike, train, tricycle, trike, turn, two-wheeler, ultrahigh frequency, undulate, upbeat, upper frequencies, velocipede, very high frequency, very low frequency, vicious circle, voltaic current, walk, watt current, wheel, wheel around, windrow, wreath

• cyclic, alternate, annular, annulate, annulose, articulated, atomatic, atomic, atomiferous, atomistic, beating, catenated, ceaseless, circinate, circling, circular, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, coronary, crownlike, cyclical, cycloid, diatomic, dibasic, direct, discoid, disklike, endless, epochal, even, ever-recurring, every other, featureless, frequent, gapless, haunting, heteroatomic, heterocyclic, hexatomic, homocyclic, immediate, incessant, interminable, intermittent, isobaric, isochronal, isocyclic, isoteric, isotopic, joined, jointless, linked, measured, metronomic, monatomic, monotonous, never-ending, nonstop, oscillatory, pentatomic, perennial, periodic, periodical, pulsing, reappearing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, repetitive, returning, revenant, rhythmic, ring-shaped, ringlike, rotary, round, round-the-clock, rounded, running, seamless, seasonal, serial, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, subatomic, tetratomic, thematic, thick-coming, triatomic, tribasic, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, undulant, undulatory, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, wavelike, wheeling

• cyclical, alternate, annular, annulate, annulose, articulated, atomatic, atomic, atomiferous, atomistic, beating, catenated, ceaseless, circinate, circling, circular, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, coronary, crownlike, cyclic, cycloid, diatomic, dibasic, direct, discoid, disklike, endless, epochal, even, ever-recurring, every other, featureless, frequent, gapless, haunting, heteroatomic, heterocyclic, hexatomic, homocyclic, immediate, incessant, interminable, intermittent, isobaric, isochronal, isocyclic, isoteric, isotopic, joined, jointless, linked, measured, metronomic, monatomic, monotonous, never-ending, nonstop, oscillatory, pentatomic, perennial, periodic, periodical, pulsing, reappearing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, repetitive, returning, revenant, rhythmic, ring-shaped, ringlike, rotary, round, round-the-clock, rounded, running, seamless, seasonal, serial, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, subatomic, tetratomic, thematic, thick-coming, triatomic, tribasic, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, undulant, undulatory, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, wavelike, wheeling

• cyclone, air mass, anticyclone, baguio, blaze, burst, cold front, cold sector, convulsion, dirty weather, dust devil, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, foul weather, front, gale, gust, high, high-pressure area, hurricane, irruption, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, line squall, low, low-pressure area, occluded front, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, polar front, rainspout, rainstorm, rotary storm, rough weather, sand column, sandspout, seizure, snowstorm, spasm, squall, squall line, stationary front, storm, stormy weather, tempest, tempestuous rage, thunderstorm, tornado, twister, typhoon, upheaval, warm front, waterspout, weather map, whirlblast, whirlwind, wind eddy, wind-shift line, windstorm

• cyclonic, aerographic, aerologic, angry, baric, barographic, barometric, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, climatologic, cloudy, dirty, elemental, foul, gulfy, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, high-pressure, isobaric, isometric, isopiestic, macroclimatic, meteorologic, microclimatic, microclimatologic, raging, rainy, rotary, rotational, rotatory, storming, stormy, swirly, tempestuous, tornadic, trochilic, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, vertiginous, vortical, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy, whirly

• Cyclopean, Antaean, Atlantean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, astronomic, colossal, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, profound, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast

• cyclopedia, atlas, bibliography, body of knowledge, body of learning, calendar, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, city directory, classified catalog, concordance, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, directory, encyclopedia, gazetteer, harmony, index, literature, lore, materials, phone book, polyglot, publications, record book, reference book, source book, store of knowledge, studbook, system of knowledge, telephone book, telephone directory, treasury of information, work of reference

• cyclorama, abstract, abstraction, act drop, altarpiece, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, batten, block print, border, cloth, collage, color print, copy, cosmorama, coulisse, counterweight, curtain, curtain board, daub, decor, diorama, diptych, display, drop, drop curtain, engraving, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, fire curtain, flat, flipper, fresco, georama, hanging, icon, illumination, illustration, image, light show, likeness, miniature, montage, mosaic, mural, myriorama, pageant, pageantry, panorama, parade, phantasmagoria, photograph, picture, pomp, presentation, print, psychedelic show, rag, representation, reproduction, scene, scenery, screen, shifting scene, show, side scene, sight, spectacle, stage screw, stage show, stained glass window, stencil, still life, tab, tableau, tableau vivant, tapestry, teaser, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, triptych, wall painting, wing, wingcut, woodcut

• cygnet, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, cage bird, chick, diving bird, dove, eagle, eaglet, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, insect-eating bird, migrant, migratory bird, nestling, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, ratite, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shore bird, songbird, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl

• cymbal, apple fritter, battery, beignet, beignet aux pommes, bells, bismarck, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, clappers, crash cymbal, cruller, cymbals, doughnut, fastnacht, finger cymbals, friedcake, fritter, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, idiophone, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, olykoek, orchestral bells, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, raised doughnut, rattle, rattlebones, sinker, sizzler, snappers, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, twister, vibes, vibraphone, xylophone

• cynic, Cassandra, Eeyore, Thersites, backbiter, belittler, calamity howler, calumniator, caustic critic, debunker, decrier, defamer, defeatist, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, hatchet man, killjoy, knocker, libeler, malist, man-hater, misanthrope, misanthropist, misogynist, muckraker, mudslinger, negativist, nihilist, pessimist, prophet of doom, railer, retreatist, seek-sorrow, sexist, slanderer, social critic, traducer, woman-hater, worrywart

• cynical, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Rabelaisian, Timonistic, antisocial, captious, carping, caustic, caviling, critical, defeatist, dismal, downbeat, dry, faultfinding, gloomy, hairsplitting, hypercritical, ironic, man-hating, misogynous, nagging, negative, negativistic, niggling, nihilistic, overcritical, pessimist, pessimistic, pettifogging, quibbling, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, sexist, trichoschistic, ultracritical, uncheerful, unsociable, woman-hating

• cynicism, Timonism, antisocial sentiments, antisociality, causticity, defeatism, dismalness, gloominess, gloomy outlook, innuendo, invective, irony, malism, misanthropism, misanthropy, negativism, nihilism, pessimism, retreatism, sarcasm, satire, satiric wit, uncheerfulness, unsociability

• cynosure, North Star, Polaris, acme, adductor, apotheosis, attractant, attrahent, beau ideal, best type, big name, celebrity, center, center of attraction, center of consciousness, center of interest, constellation, ego ideal, figure, focal point, focus, focus of attention, folk hero, galaxy, great man, guiding star, hero, heroine, ideal, idol, immortal, important person, lion, lodestar, luminaries, luminary, lure, magnet, man of mark, master spirit, mirror, name, notability, notable, paragon, person of note, personage, pleiad, point of convergence, polar star, polestar, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, prime focus, public figure, shining example, social lion, somebody, star, superstar, worthy

• cyst, benign tumor, boil, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, corn, dilatation, dilation, distension, edema, excrescence, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, growth, intumescence, lump, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pimple, pock, proud flesh, pustule, rising, sarcoma, sebaceous cyst, swell, swelling, swollenness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, verruca, wart, wen

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

• cytoplasm, animal cell, bioplast, cell, cellular tissue, cellule, chromatoplasm, coenocyte, corpuscle, ectoplasm, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, germ cell, plant cell, plasmodium, procaryotic cell, protoplasm, reticulum, somatic cell, syncytium, trophoplasm

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

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

• dab, ace, adept, apply paint, atom, authority, beak, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bit, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, brush, brush on paint, bunt, butter, calcimine, chuck, coat, color, complexion, cover, dabster, dash, daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, dole, dollop, dot, double-dye, drag, dram, dress, dribble, driblet, drop, dub, dwarf, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, equalize, even, eyesore, face, farthing, fast-dye, fillip, flatten, fleck, flick, flip, flirt, flyspeck, fragment, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, gobbet, grade, grain, granule, graze, grease, groat, hair, handful, harrow, hint, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, iota, japan, jot, lacquer, lay, lay on, lay on color, level, little, little bit, lubricate, macula, maculation, macule, mark, master, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, mow, nutshell, oil, ounce, paint, parget, particle, pat, patch, pebble, peck, pick, pigment, pinch, pittance, plane, planish, plaster, point, poke, prime, professional, proficient, rap, scruple, shade, shadow, shave, shellac, slap on, slather, slop on paint, smarm, smear, smear on, smidgen, smidgin, smirch, smitch, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snap, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spoonful, spot, spread on, spread with, stain, stigma, stipple, suggestion, taint, tamp, tap, tar, tarnish, thimbleful, tickle, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tiny bit, tip, tittle, tone, touch, trace, trifling amount, trivia, undercoat, varnish, wash, whisk, whit, whitewash, whiz, wizard

• dabble, asperge, be innocent of, bedabble, bedew, beguile the time, bespatter, besprinkle, burn daylight, consume time, coquet, coquet with, dally, damp, dampen, dash, dew, diddle, dip, doodle, douche, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away time, frivol, give up, have no idea, horse around, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, idle, irrigate, jerk off, kid around, kill time, know a little, know not, know not what, know nothing of, loiter, lose time, mess around, moisten, monkey, monkey around, not know, not rightly know, paddle, pass, pass the time, piddle, play, play around, play with, potter, putter, scratch the surface, slobber, slop, slosh, smatter, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, splotch, sponge, spot, spray, sprinkle, swash, syringe, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, trifle with, twiddle, waste time, water, wet, wet down, wonder, wonder whether, wot not of

• dabbler, Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead, putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unintelligentsia

• dacha, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, building, casa, cliff dwelling, consulate, country house, country seat, 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

• dactyl, Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee

• dad, Methuselah, abba, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservative, daddy, dodo, elder, father, fogy, fossil, foster father, fud, fuddy-duddy, genitor, governor, granny, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, pa, pap, papa, pappy, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, sire, square, starets, stepfather, the old man, traditionalist

• daddy longlegs, arachnid, arthropod, beetle, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, diplopod, fly, harvestman, hexapod, insect, larva, maggot, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, scorpion, spider, tarantula, tick

• daddy, abba, dad, father, foster father, genitor, governor, old man, pa, pap, papa, pappy, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, pop, pops, sire, stepfather, the old man

• dado, baluster, balustrade, banister, base, baseboard, basement, bezel, canal, canalize, carve, caryatid, chamfer, channel, chase, chassis, chink, chisel, colonnade, column, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cranny, crimp, cut, die, dike, ditch, engrave, engraving, flute, fluting, foot, footing, footstalk, foundation, frame, furrow, gash, goffer, gouge, groove, gully, incise, incision, jack, keel, microgroove, mopboard, nadir, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pleat, plinth, plow, pole, post, queen-post, rabbet, rifle, rifling, ruck, rut, score, scratch, shaft, shoemold, slit, socle, sole, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, streak, stria, striate, striation, subbase, sulcation, sulcus, surbase, toe, trench, trough, trunk, upright, wainscot, well-worn groove, wrinkle

• daedal, Byzantine, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, balled up, bicolor, bicolored, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, colorful, colory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, coordinated, crabbed, crack, crackerjack, crazy, cunning, cute, deft, devious, dexterous, dextrous, dichromatic, diplomatic, divers-colored, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, excellent, expert, fancy, fouled up, good, goodish, gordian, graceful, handy, harlequin, implicated, ingenious, intricate, involuted, involved, kaleidoscopic, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, magisterial, many-colored, many-faceted, masterful, masterly, matted, mazy, meandering, medley, messed up, mixed up, motley, mucked up, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, neat, no mean, parti-color, parti-colored, perplexed, politic, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ramified, ready, resourceful, roundabout, screwed up, shot, shot through, skillful, slick, snarled, some, sophisticated, spectral, statesmanlike, stylish, subtle, tactful, tangled, tangly, the compleat, the complete, thunder and lightning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, twisted, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike

• daemon, Geist, Muse, afflatus, ancestral spirits, angel, attendant godling, atua, control, creative thought, creativity, daimonion, demon, divine afflatus, evil spirits, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, fire of genius, genius, genius domus, genius loci, good angel, good genius, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guide, household gods, inspiration, intelligence, invisible helper, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, manes, ministering angel, numen, penates, soul, special providence, specter, spirit, supernatural being, talent, totem, tutelar god, tutelary

• daffy, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, crackers, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daft, dazed, demented, deranged, dippy, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, haywire, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, just plain nuts, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, maniac, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, slaphappy, stupid, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless

• daft, abnormal, absurd, apish, asinine, batty, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, bereft of reason, besotted, boneheaded, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, cockamamie, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, crazy about, credulous, cretinous, daffy, dazed, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, dim-witted, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, dopey, doting, dumb, fat-witted, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, goofy, gulled, hallucinated, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, infatuated with, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, moronic, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsensical, not all there, not right, nuts about, nutty, obtuse, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, ridiculous, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sick, silly, slow-witted, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, sweet on, tetched, thoughtless, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet, witless

• daftness, aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, oddness, pixilation, possession, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

• dagger, Calvary cross, Christogram, Greek cross, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Russian cross, T, X, ankh, avellan cross, ax, bayonet, blade, bowie knife, chi, chi-rho, christcross, cold steel, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, cutlery, cutter, dirk, dudgeon, edge tools, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, impale, inverted cross, knife, lance, long cross, naked steel, papal cross, pectoral cross, pierce, pigsticker, plunge in, point, poniard, potent cross, puncturer, rood, run through, saber, saltire, sharpener, spear, spike, spit, stab, steel, stick, stiletto, swastika, sword, tau, toad sticker, transfix, transpierce, trefled cross, voided cross, whittle

• dago, Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, Guinea, Hunk, Hunkie, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead, Mick, Mickey, Paddy, frog, greaseball, greaser, limey, wetback

• daily bread, TLC, board, bread, bread and butter, care, cheer, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, eatables, economic support, edibles, endowment, fare, fast food, feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, health food, ingesta, junk food, keep, kitchen stuff, livelihood, living, maintenance, manna, meat, mothering, nourishment, nurture, price support, provender, provision, spread, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, table, tender loving care, tucker, upkeep, viands, victuals, vittles

• daily, always, annual, at all times, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, ceaselessly, centenary, centennial, circadian, common, commonplace, constantly, continually, continuously, cyclically, daily and hourly, daily newspaper, day after day, day and night, day by day, daybook, decennial, diary, diurnal, ephemeris, epochally, ever, ever and anon, every day, every hour, every moment, everyday, extra, extra edition, fortnightly, gazette, habitually, hebdomadal, hour after hour, hour by hour, hourly, in time, incessantly, journal, magazine, menstrual, momentary, momently, month after month, monthly, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, news, newsmagazine, newspaper, newspaper of record, night and day, on and on, on the beat, ordinary, organ, paper, perennially, periodical, periodically, perpetually, pictorial, quarterly, quotidian, rag, rapidly, recurrently, regular, regularly, review, rhythmically, right along, routine, seasonally, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, serial, sheet, slick magazine, special, special edition, steadily, sustainedly, synchronously, tabloid, tertian, trade magazine, triennial, unceasingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unvaryingly, weekly, weekly newspaper, without cease, without letup, without stopping, year after year, yearbook, yearly

• daintiness, acquired taste, airiness, amiable weakness, appreciation of excellence, ascent, asepsis, breakability, brittleness, bubbliness, buoyancy, changeableness, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, collapse, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, cunningness, cuteness, delicacy, delicateness, destructibility, diminutiveness, discrimination, disintegration, down, downiness, effeminacy, elegance, ethereality, excellence, exiguity, exiguousness, exquisiteness, fastidiousness, fewness, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, floatability, fluff, fluffiness, foaminess, fragility, frailty, frangibility, freshness, frothiness, fuzz, fuzziness, gentleness, good taste, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, hospital cleanliness, human frailty, immaculacy, immaculateness, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indecisiveness, infirmity of will, inherent vice, insignificance, insufficiency, irresolution, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, moderateness, moral weakness, niceness, nicety, peach fuzz, pettiness, picayunishness, polish, pubescence, puniness, pureness, purity, quality, refinement, satin, satininess, scantiness, silk, silkiness, sleaziness, slightness, smallness, smoothness, softness, sophistication, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterility, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tenderness, tidiness, tininess, triviality, unheaviness, unimportance, unspottedness, unsubstantiality, velleity, velvet, velvetiness, volatility, weightlessness, whiteness, wispiness, womanishness, yeastiness

• dainty, acute, agreeable, airy, ambrosia, ambrosial, appetizing, attenuate, attenuated, beautiful, bleached, bonne bouche, bonny, breakable, bright, brittle, cate, cheap-jack, choice, choice morsel, civilized, clean, cleanly, cobwebby, comestible, comfit, crumbly, cultivated, cultured, cunning, cute, delectable, delicacy, delicat, delicate, delicately weak, delicious, delightful, dessert, diaphanous, dirt-free, discriminating, downy, easy, eatable, edible, effeminate, elegant, esculent, ethereal, exquisite, fair, fastidious, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frail, frangible, fresh, fussy, fuzzy, gauzy, genteel, gentle, gimcrack, gimcracky, good, good to eat, good-tasting, goody, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, gracious, gustable, gusty, immaculate, jerry, jerry-built, juicy, kickshaw, kosher, light, lightweight, likable, lovely, luscious, lush, manna, mignon, mincing, morsel, namby-pamby, neat, nectar, nectareous, nectarous, nice, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, of gourmet quality, overrefined, palatable, papery, particular, pasteboardy, perceptive, pernickety, persnickety, pleasing, polished, pretty, pubescent, puny, pure, rare, rarefied, recherche, refined, ritually pure, sapid, satin, satiny, savorous, savory, scrumptious, select, sensitive, shattery, shiny, silky, sissified, sleazy, slight, smooth, smut-free, smutless, soft, sophisticated, spotless, squeamish, stainless, subtile, subtle, succulent, superior, sweet, sweetmeat, tacky, tahar, tasty, tender, tenuous, thin, thin-spun, tidbit, titbit, toothsome, treat, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsubstantial, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, velutinous, velvety, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish, yummy

• dairy farmer, breaker, breeder, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, cow keeper, cowman, dairyman, equerry, farrier, grazier, groom, horseshoer, hostler, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, sheepman, stableboy, stableman, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, tamer, trainer

• dairy farming, animal husbandry, animal rearing, bee culture, beekeeping, breeding, cattle-ranching, chicken-farming, dressage, gnotobiotics, grazing, herding, horse training, horsemanship, mink-ranching, pig-keeping, sheepherding, stock raising, stockbreeding, thremmatology, zootechnics, zootechny

• dairy products, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, cheese, condensed milk, cream, ghee, half-and-half, heavy cream, light cream, margarine, milk, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, raw milk, skim milk, sour cream, whey, whipping cream, yogurt

• dairy, appetizing store, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bakery, bakeshop, bindery, boatyard, bodega, boilery, bookbindery, brewery, brickyard, butcher shop, buttery, cannery, creamery, dairy house, defense plant, deli, delicatessen, distillery, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, food shop, food store, fruit stand, grocery, grocery store, groceteria, health food store, industrial park, industrial zone, larder, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, meat market, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, pantry, plant, pork store, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, root cellar, sawmill, shipyard, spence, stillroom, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, superette, supermarket, tannery, vegetable store, winery, yard, yards

• dais, balcony, bench, catafalque, chair, curule chair, emplacement, estrade, floor, gallery, heliport, helm, hustings, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launching pad, platform, podium, pulpit, rostrum, saddle, seat, seat of power, seat of state, soapbox, stage, step terrace, stump, terrace, tribunal, tribune, woolsack

• daisy, ace, beaut, corker, crackerjack, dandy, darb, dilly, dream, honey, humdinger, killer-diller, knockout, lollapaloosa, lulu, nifty, peach, pip, pippin, sweetheart, the nuts, whiz

• Dalai Lama, Grand Lama, Holy Roman Emperor, Inca, Kaiser, Panchen Lama, ardri, bey, bhikku, bonze, cacique, caesar, cham, czar, kaid, khan, lama, mikado, negus, padishah, pendragon, pharaoh, poonghie, rig, sachem, sagamore, shah, sheikh, shogun, tenno, tycoon

• dale, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, combe, dell, dingle, gap, gill, glen, grove, intervale, lunar rill, pass, ravine, strath, trench, trough, vale, valley, wadi

• dalliance, amorous dalliance, amorous looks, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, come-hither look, coquetry, coquettish glances, coquettishness, coyness, cuddling, dabbling, dallying, dawdling, dilatoriness, dillydallying, fiddling, flirtation, flirtatiousness, fondling, fooling, fooling around, goo-goo eyes, hugging, idling, jerking off, kidding around, kissing, lag, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging, lovemaking, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, necking, nestling, nuzzling, ogle, petting, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, procrastination, puttering, sexual intercourse, shilly-shallying, smattering, snuggling, spooning, tarriance, tarrying, tinkering, toying, trifling, waiting

• dally, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, bill and coo, caress, copulate, coquet, cosset, cuddle, dabble, dally away, dandle, dawdle, delay, diddle, diddle away, dillydally, doodle, drag, dribble away, drivel away, falter, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flag, flirt, fondle, fool, fool around, fool away, fool with, fribble, fritter away, frivol, frolic, gambol, goof off, halt, hang about, hang around, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, horse around, idle, idle away, jerk off, kid around, lag, lead on, linger, loiter, lollygag, make love, make out, mark time, mess around, monkey, monkey around, muddle away, neck, pet, piddle, piss away, play, play around, play with, poke, potter, potter away, procrastinate, put off, putter, rollick, romp, shilly-shally, sit tight, sit up, smatter, smooch, spoon, sport, stay, stay up, stick around, string along, sweet-talk, take time, tarry, tinker, toy, toy with, trail, trifle, trifle away, twiddle, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wanton, waste time, while away, whisper sweet nothings

• dallying, Micawberish, backward, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, easygoing, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, foot-dragging, goofing off, idling, jerking off, kidding around, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging, lax, lazing, lazy, lingering, loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, lounging, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, mopery, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, puttering, remiss, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, smattering, tarriance, tarrying, tinkering, toying, trifling, waiting

• dam, arch dam, arrest, artificial lake, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bayou lake, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, bind, block, block up, blockade, boom, bottle up, brake, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, bring to, bring up short, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bung, caulk, check, checkmate, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, cistern, clog, clog up, cofferdam, congest, constipate, cork, countercheck, cover, curb, cut short, dam up, damp, dampen, dead water, deadlock, defense, delay, detain, dike, ditch, draw rein, earthwork, embankment, etang, farm pond, fence, fill, fill up, fishpond, foster mother, foul, freeze, freshwater lake, gate, genetrix, glacial lake, gravity dam, groin, halt, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, hydraulic-fill dam, impede, inhibit, inland sea, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, iron curtain, jam, jetty, keep back, keep in check, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, leaping weir, levee, linn, loch, logjam, lough, ma, mam, mama, mammy, mater, materfamilias, maternal ancestor, matriarch, meddle, mere, milldam, millpond, millpool, moat, mole, mom, mommy, mother, mound, mummy, nyanza, obstipate, obstruct, oppose, oxbow lake, pack, parapet, plash, plug, plug up, pond, pondlet, pool, portcullis, puddle, pull up, put paid to, rampart, repress, reservoir, resist, restrain, retard, roadblock, rock-fill dam, salina, salt pond, scotch, seawall, set back, shutter dam, slacken, snub, spile, stagnant water, stalemate, stall, stanch, standing water, stay, stem, stem the tide, stench, stepmother, still water, stone wall, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stop up, stopper, stopple, stuff, stuff up, sump, suppress, tank, tarn, the old woman, tidal pond, volcanic lake, wall, water hole, water pocket, weir, well, wicket dam, work

• damage, abomination, abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, amount, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoul, befoulment, bereavement, bewitch, bill, blemish, blight, breakage, breakdown, charge, check, collapse, compensation, condemn, corrupt, corruption, cost, crack-up, crippling, crucify, crying evil, curse, damages, dead loss, debit, deface, defile, defilement, deleteriousness, demolish, denial, denudation, deprave, deprivation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, deteriorate, deterioration, detriment, devastation, dilapidate, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, disfigure, dispossession, disrepair, disserve, distress, divestment, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, embitter, encroachment, endamage, envenom, evil, exacerbate, expenditure, expense, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, get into trouble, grievance, handicap, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, ill-treat, impair, impairment, incapacitation, indemnity, infect, infection, infringement, injure, injury, inroad, invoice, irritate, jinx, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, make worse, maltreat, mar, mayhem, menace, mischief, mistreat, misuse, molest, mutilate, mutilation, outrage, perdition, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, prejudice, price, price tag, privation, put back, rate, raze, reparation, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, savage, scathe, score, sickening, spoil, spoiling, spoliation, step backward, stripping, tab, taint, taking away, tarnish, the worst, threaten, torment, torture, total loss, toxin, venom, vexation, violate, vitiate, weaken, weakening, woe, worsen, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecking, wrong

• damaged, adulterated, aggravated, blemished, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, defective, deficient, deteriorated, embittered, erroneous, exacerbated, fallible, faulty, flawed, found wanting, harmed, hurt, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in bits, in pieces, in shards, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, injured, irritated, lacerated, lacking, makeshift, mangled, marred, mediocre, mixed, mutilated, not perfect, off, partial, patchy, rent, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, short, sketchy, slashed, slit, smashed, split, spoiled, sprung, the worse for, torn, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unsound, unthorough, wanting, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• damages, amends, amercement, atonement, blood money, compensation, consideration, distraint, distress, escheat, escheatment, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, meed, mulct, price, quittance, recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution, retribution, return, reward, salvage, satisfaction, sconce, smart money, solatium, wergild

• damaging, bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, eroding, erosive, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent

• dame, Eve, Frau, Fraulein, Jane, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, abbess, archduchess, babe, baby, baroness, beldam, biddy, bird, bitch, broad, chatelaine, chick, colleen, countess, crone, cutie, damoiselle, damsel, daughter of Eve, demoiselle, distaff, doll, domina, dona, donna, dowager, duchess, duenna, educatress, femme, filly, first lady, frail, frow, frump, gal, gentlewoman, girl, girlie, goodwife, governess, grand duchess, grandam, grandmother, granny, great lady, hag, heifer, hen, homemaker, housewife, hoyden, instructress, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, khanum, lady, lass, lassie, little missy, madam, madame, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, marchioness, margravine, matriarch, matron, mem-sahib, mesdames, milady, minx, miss, missy, mistress, mother superior, noblewoman, nymphet, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, peeress, piece, romp, schooldame, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmarm, schoolmiss, schoolmistress, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, skirt, slip, squaw, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, trot, tutoress, virgin, viscountess, vrouw, wahine, war-horse, weaker vessel, wench, witch, woman, young creature, young thing

• damn, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abominate, abuse, accurse, accursed, accuse, ace, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, attack, attaint, bagatelle, banish, bauble, be concerned, bean, berate, bibelot, bit, blackguard, blacklist, blame, blaspheme, blast, brass farthing, bring home to, bring to ruin, button, call names, call to account, care, cast blame upon, cast into hell, cast out, cast reflection upon, castigate, censure, cent, complain against, condemn, condemn to hell, confound, consign to hell, consume, convict, criticize, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, curio, curse, cursed, cuss, cuss out, damnable, damned, darn, deal destruction, decimate, decry, denounce, denunciate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, discipline, dissolve, doom, doom to perdition, engorge, epithet, epithetize, excommunicate, execrable, execrate, expel, farce, farthing, feather, fig, find guilty, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, fulminate against, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gobble, gobble up, goddamn, goddamned, gut, gut with fire, hair, halfpenny, havoc, hex, hill of beans, hoot, impeach, imprecate, impugn, incinerate, indict, inveigh against, jest, joke, jot, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, lay in ruins, lay waste, lota, mind, minikin, mockery, modicum, molehill, objurgate, ounce, pass sentence on, penalize, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, punish, rap, ravage, red cent, reflect upon, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, row of pins, ruin, ruinate, rush, sentence, shake up, shipwreck, shit, shred, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, swallow up, swear, swear at, throw a whammy, throw into disorder, thunder against, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upbraid, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, vilify, vituperate, waste, whim-wham, whit, whoop, worry, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• damnable, abhorrent, abominable, absolute, accursed, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, black, blamable, blamed, blameworthy, blasted, blessed, complete, criminal, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, dark, darn, demoniac, demonic, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, disgraceful, downright, dreadful, evil, execrable, fiendish, flagitious, flagrant, foul, ghoulish, goddamn, goddamned, gross, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, infernal, iniquitous, knavish, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, odious, offensive, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, peccant, pernicious, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten, satanic, scandalous, shameful, sinful, terrible, unforgivable, ungodly, unmitigated, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong

• damnation, anathema, anathematizing, arraignment, ban, blame, blasphemy, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, carnage, castigation, censure, commination, condemnation, consumption, conviction, curse, death sentence, death warrant, decimation, decrial, denouncement, denunciation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, doom, evil eye, excommunication, excoriation, execration, flaying, fulmination, fustigation, guilty verdict, havoc, hecatomb, hex, holocaust, impeachment, imprecation, indictment, judgment, malison, malocchio, perdition, pillorying, proscription, rap, ravage, reprehension, reprobation, ruin, ruination, sentence, shambles, skinning alive, slaughter, spoliation, stricture, thundering, undoing, vandalism, verdict of guilty, waste, whammy, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

• damnatory, Rabelaisian, abusive, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, cursing, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, dirty, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrating, execrative, execratory, foul, fulminatory, imprecatory, invective, inveighing, judgmental, maledictory, objurgatory, obscene, priggish, profane, proscriptive, raw, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald, ridiculing, risque, scatologic, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, vile, vilifying, vituperative

• damned, absolute, accursed, awful, awfully, big, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bleeding, blessed, blighted, blinding, blinking, blistering, bloody, blooming, complete, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, damnable, damned spirits, darn, dashed, demonkind, demons, denizens of hell, doggone, done for, doomed, downright, evil spirits, execrable, extremely, goddamn, goddamned, godless, graceless, greatly, gross, hellish host, host of hell, hugely, infernal, inhabitants of Pandemonium, lost, lost souls, much, out-and-out, outright, perishing, powers of darkness, rank, reprobate, ruddy, shriftless, souls in hell, straight-out, the damned, the lost, unconverted, unmitigated, unredeemed, unregenerate, whacking, whopping

• damning, absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, convincing, cumulative, decisive, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, implicit, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, presumptive, probative, reliable, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, valid, weighty

• damp, abate, abridge, absorb the shock, acoustic tile, afterdamp, allay, alleviate, antiknock, arrest, asperge, asphyxiate, assimilate to, assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, baffler, balance, bank the fire, beat down, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, blackdamp, blow out, blunt, bogginess, boggy, bottle up, break the fall, breath, cast down, censor, chasten, check, chill, choke, choke off, chokedamp, clamminess, clammy, clamp down on, cloud, cold water, compress, constrain, control, cool, cork, cork up, countercheck, crack down on, cramp, crepehanger, cripple, crush, curb, curtail, cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, dabble, dam up, damp down, dampen, dampen the spirits, dampener, damper, dampish, dampness, dank, darken, dash, de-emphasize, deaden, deafen, debilitate, decrease, deduct, deflate, deflect, deject, delay, depreciate, depress, detain, deter, determent, deterrent, devitalize, dew, dewiness, dewy, diminish, disaffect, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dispirit, distract, divert, douche, douse, downgrade, downplay, drenched, drown, dull, effluvium, enervate, enfeeble, equalize, equilibrize, even, eviscerate, exhalation, exhaust, extenuate, extinguish, exudation, fenny, fetid air, firedamp, flatten, flatus, fluid, fogginess, fume, gag, gruel, harmonize, hinder, hold back, hold down, hold in check, hold up, homogenize, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humidity, humor, hushcloth, impede, indispose, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, irrigate, jump on, keep back, keep down, keep in check, keep under, keep within bounds, kill, killjoy, knock down, lay, lay low, lenify, lessen, level, lighten, lower, lower the spirits, make uniform, malaria, marshiness, marshy, meddle, mephitis, miasma, mistiness, misty, mitigate, moderate, modulate, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness, moisture, muffle, muffler, muggy, mute, muzzle, neutralize, normalize, obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, out, paddle, palliate, pare, pessimist, play down, pour water on, press down, puff of smoke, put down, put off, put out, quash, quell, quench, quietener, rainfall, raininess, rainy, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, reek, regularize, regulate, repel, repress, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, roll back, roric, sadden, sap, saturated, scale down, scotch, set back, shake, shake up, shorten, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, showeriness, shut down on, silence, silence cloth, silencer, simplify, sink, sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slobber, slop, slosh, slow down, smash, smoke, smooth, smother, smudge, snub, snuff, snuff out, soaked, soaking, sober, sober down, soddenness, soft pedal, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up, sogginess, soggy, soppiness, sordine, sordino, sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation, sourdine, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spoilsport, sponge, spray, sprinkle, squash, squelch, stabilize, stamp out, stanch, standardize, steam, steamy, step down, stereotype, sticky, stifle, stop, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, swampiness, swampy, swash, symmetrize, syringe, tacky, take from, tame, temper, throttle, tone down, tune down, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undried, uniformize, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, vapor, volatile, water, water vapor, wateriness, weaken, wean from, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, wet, wet blanket, wet down, wetness, wettish, wettishness

• dampen, abate, abridge, absorb the shock, allay, alleviate, arrest, asperge, assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, bank the fire, beat down, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, blunt, bottle up, break the fall, cast down, chasten, check, chill, compress, constrain, control, cool, countercheck, cramp, cripple, curb, curtail, cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, dabble, dam up, damp, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, de-emphasize, deaden, deafen, debilitate, decrease, deduct, deflate, deflect, deject, delay, depreciate, depress, detain, deter, devitalize, dew, diminish, disaffect, discourage, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dispirit, distract, divert, douche, downgrade, downplay, dull, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, impede, indispose, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, irrigate, keep back, keep in check, keep within bounds, knock down, lay, lay low, lenify, lessen, lighten, lower, lower the spirits, meddle, mitigate, moderate, modulate, moisten, muffle, mute, neutralize, obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, paddle, palliate, pare, play down, press down, put off, quench, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, repel, repress, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, roll back, sadden, sap, scale down, scotch, set back, shake, shake up, shorten, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, simplify, sink, slacken, slobber, slop, slosh, slow down, smother, snub, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, step down, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, swash, syringe, take from, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unbrace, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, water, weaken, wean from, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, wet, wet down

• damper, acoustic tile, andiron, antiknock, arrest, baffler, bearing rein, bit, brake, chain, check, checkrein, chill, chock, clog, coal tongs, cold water, countercheck, crane, crepehanger, crook, curb, curb bit, cushion, damp, dampener, determent, deterrent, discouragement, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, fetter, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, gag, grate, grating, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, holdback, hushcloth, killjoy, lifter, martingale, muffle, muffler, mute, muzzle, pelham, pessimist, poker, pothook, quietener, remora, salamander, scotch, sea anchor, shackle, silence cloth, silencer, snaffle, soft pedal, sordine, sordino, sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation, sourdine, spit, spoilsport, spoke, stay, stop, tongs, trammel, tripod, trivet, turnspit, wet blanket

• dampness, bogginess, damp, dewiness, exudation, fogginess, humectation, humor, marshiness, mistiness, moistiness, moistness, moisture, rainfall, raininess, showeriness, soddenness, sogginess, soppiness, swampiness, wateriness, wet, wetness, wettishness

• damsel, babe, baby, broad, chick, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, demoiselle, doll, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, heifer, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, nymphet, piece, quail, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, wench, young creature, young thing

• dance hall, amphitheater, amusement park, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, ballroom, cabaret, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, chapel, concert hall, convention hall, dance floor, dancery, dancing pavilion, entertainment industry, exhibition hall, fun-fair, gallery, hall, juke joint, lecture hall, meetinghouse, music hall, night spot, nightclub, nitery, opera house, resort, roadhouse, show biz, show business, stadium, tavern, theater

• dance, Charleston, Highland fling, Lambeth Walk, Mexican hat dance, Portland fancy, Virginia reel, Watusi, acid rock, allemande, antic, arabesque, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, avant-garde jazz, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, ballet, balletic, ballroom dancing, ballroom music, barn dance, beam, beat, beating, bebop, belly dance, bicker, bolero, boogaloo, boogie-woogie, bop, bourree, boutade, branle, brawl, breakdown, bunny hop, cakewalk, can-can, caper, caracole, carol, carry on, caucus, cavort, cha-cha, chasse, chirp, chirrup, chonchina, choreodrama, choreography, clap hands, classical ballet, clog, colloquium, comedy ballet, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, conga, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, cotillion, council, country dance, country rock, coupe, courante, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance drama, dance music, dances, dancing, date, delight, diet, disport, eisteddfod, exult, fan dance, fancy-dress ball, fandango, festivity, fete, flamenco, flap, flick, flicker, flickering, flickering light, fling, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flounce, flutter, fluttering, folk dance, folk rock, fool around, foot, foot it, forgathering, forum, fox trot, fox-trot, frisk, frolic, galliard, gambade, gambado, gambol, gathering, gavotte, german, get-together, glancing light, glory, glow, go pitapat, grapevine, gutter, hard rock, hokey-pokey, hoof, hoof it, hoofing, hootchy-kootchy, hop, hopak, hornpipe, horse around, hot jazz, housewarming, hover, hula, hula-hula, hustle, interpretative dance, jazz, jig, jive, joy, jubilate, kola, lambency, lancers, laugh, leap, levee, light show, lilt, limbo, lindy, mainstream jazz, mambo, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, mazurka, meet, meeting, minuet, mixer, modern ballet, modern dance, monkey, musical suite, ox dance, pachanga, palpitate, palpitation, panel, party, pas, pas de deux, pas seul, paso doble, passamezzo, peabody, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, plenum, polka, polonaise, prance, prom, promenade, pulse, quadrille, quaver, quickstep, quiver, quivering, quorum, radiate cheer, rag, ragtime, rain dance, rally, reception, record hop, reel, rejoice, rendezvous, revel, rhythm-and-blues, rigadoon, rock, rock-and-roll, rollick, romp, rumba, samba, sashay, seance, session, shake, shimmy, shindig, shindy, shuffle, sing, sit-in, sitting, skip, skip for joy, slat, smile, snake dance, social, soiree, sparkle, splutter, sport, sputter, square dance, stag dance, step, strathspey, suite, suite of dances, swim, swing, sword dance, symposium, syncopated music, syncopation, synod, tango, tap dance, tap dancing, tap-dance, tarantella, tea dance, terpsichore, terpsichorean, the dansant, the new music, throb, tread, tremble, trepak, trip, truck, turkey trot, turnout, twist, valse, waltz, war dance, wave, waver, whistle, wobble

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

• dancing, aflicker, balletic, beaming, beatific, beatified, bickering, blessed, blinking, blissful, capering, cheerful, chirping, dance, desultory, flashing, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flickery, flicky, flushed with joy, flutter, fluttering, fluttery, gay, glad, glancing light, glowing, guttering, happy, joyful, joyous, lambency, lambent, laughing, leaping, light show, play, play of light, playing, purring, quiver, quivering, quivery, radiant, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, spluttering, sputtering, sputtery, starry-eyed, stroboscopic, terpsichorean, thrice happy, unsteady, wavering, wavery

• dandruff, carrion, chip, corruption, decay, excrement, filth, flake, floccule, flocculus, flock, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, mess, muck, mucus, obscenity, ordure, paring, pus, putrid matter, rot, scale, scurf, scuz, shaving, slime, smut, snot, sordes

• dandy, Beau Brummel, OK, ace, ace-high, arbiter of fashion, bad, bang-up, beau, beaut, blade, blood, bonzer, boss, boulevardier, buck, bully, but good, capital, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman, conceited, cool, corker, corking, coxcomb, coxcombical, crackerjack, daisy, dandified, darb, deb, debutante, delicious, dilly, dream, ducky, dude, exquisite, fab, famous, fashion plate, fashionable, fine, fine and dandy, fine gentleman, first-class, first-rate, first-string, fop, foppish, fribble, gallant, gear, glorious, grand, great, groovy, heavy, honey, hot, humdinger, hunky-dory, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jam-up, just dandy, keen, killer-diller, knockout, lady-killer, lollapaloosa, lounge lizard, lulu, macaroni, man-about-town, marvy, masher, mean, mondain, mondaine, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peach, peachy, peachy-keen, pip, pippin, popinjay, prime, puppy, rake, ripping, rum, scrumptious, slap-up, smashing, socialite, solid, something else, spark, spectacular, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, sport, stunning, subdeb, subdebutante, superior, sweetheart, swell, swinger, taste-maker, terrific, the nuts, tone-setter, tough, trend-setter, whiz, wizard

• danger sign, early symptom, falling barometer, gathering clouds, high sign, omen, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, skull and crossbones, storm petrel, stormy petrel, symptom, thundercloud, thunderhead, warning sign, warning signal, yellow flag, yellow jack

• danger, dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, exigency, hazard, in danger of, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, jeopardy, menace, pass, peril, perilousness, precariousness, precipice, risk, riskiness, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, thin ice, threat, ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness

• dangerous, alarming, bad, chance, chancy, critical, dangersome, desultory, explosive, fell, fraught with danger, grievous, hairy, haphazard, harmful, hazardous, hit-or-miss, iffy, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, major, menacing, parlous, periculous, perilous, precarious, provisional, random, rickety, risky, serious, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, temporary, tentative, threatening, ticklish, treacherous, ugly, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, wicked

• dangle, advertise, affect, air, around, bag, betoken, blazon forth, bob, bobble, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, careen, cascade, coggle, daggle, demonstrate, depend, develop, disclose, display, divulge, drabble, drag, draggle, dramatize, drape, droop, emblazon, embody, enact, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, fall, flap, flash, flaunt, flop, flourish, flow, fluctuate, flutter, follow, follow at heel, follow the crowd, give sign, give token, hang, hang about, hang down, highlight, hold up, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, librate, lop, lurch, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, nod, nutate, oscillate, parade, pend, pendulate, perform, pitch, present, produce, put forth, put forward, reel, represent, resonate, reveal, rock, roll, roll out, sag, set forth, shake, show, show forth, sling, sport, spotlight, suspend, swag, sway, swing, token, toss, trail, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, unfold, vacillate, vaunt, vibrate, wag, waggle, wait, wave, waver, weep, wobble

• dangling, bagging, baggy, careening, cascading, danglement, dependence, dependency, dependent, depending, drooping, easy, falling, falling loosely, flapping, flowing, hanging, hung, lax, loose, lurching, pendency, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulosity, pendulous, pendulousness, pensile, pensileness, pensility, pitching, reeling, relaxed, rickety, rocking, rolling, shaky, slack, sloppy, streaming, suspended, suspense, suspension, swaying, swinging, tossing, weeping

• Danish pastry, Danish, English muffin, French pastry, Parker House roll, Yorkshire pudding, bagel, baklava, bialy, bialystoker, blintz, bun, chocolate eclair, clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, cream puff, crescent roll, croissant, cross bun, crumpet, dowdy, eclair, gem, hard roll, hot cross bun, kaiser roll, muffin, onion roll, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, pinwheel roll, popover, puff, quiche, roll, rosette, scone, soft roll, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, vol-au-vent

• dank, boggy, damp, dampish, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, muggy, rainy, roric, roriferous, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, wet, wettish

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

• dapple gray, Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, buckskin, calico pony, canescent, chestnut, cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dun, dusty, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, iron-gray, lead-gray, leaden, livid, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, paint, painted pony, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, roan, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, taupe

• dapple, Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, brindled, calico, canescent, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, cut, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, dingy, discolor, discoloration, dismal, dot, dotted, dottedness, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, earmark, engrave, engraving, flake, flea-bitten, fleck, flecked, flick, freckle, freckliness, gash, glaucescent, glaucous, graving, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, iris, iron-gray, jot, lead-gray, leaden, lentigo, line, livid, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble, marbled, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole, motley, mottle, mottled, mottledness, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, nevus, nick, notch, paint, patch, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pencil, pepper, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, sad, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, spangle, speck, speckle, speckled, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot, spotted, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, steel-gray, steely, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, stone-colored, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, taupe, tessellate, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark

• dappled, Quaker-colored, acier, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, ashen, ashy, blended, calico, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled-gray, dingy, discolor, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, half-and-half, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, iron-gray, ironic, jumbled, lead-gray, leaden, livid, many-sided, marbled, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, mottled, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, multicolor, multicolored, multifaceted, multihued, multinational, multiracial, parti-colored, patchy, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, pluralistic, promiscuous, sad, scrambled, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, syncretic, taupe, thrown together, varicolored, varied, versicolor, versicolored

• dare, affront, aim to, assume, attempt, attempt to, battle cry, be a man, beard, bid defiance, bid to combat, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, call out, cartel, challenge, chance, change, confront, confront with, court destruction, dare to, defi, defy, defy danger, deride, double dare, double-dare, encounter, envisage, face, face out, face up to, face with, forget the odds, front, gage, gage of battle, gamble, gauntlet, get fresh, get smart, glove, have a nerve, have the cheek, have the gall, have the guts, have the nerve, hazard, hold in contempt, lay before, make bold, make bold to, make free, meet, meet squarely, outdare, outface, place before, play with fire, present to, presume, pretend, pretend to, provocation, provoke, put it to, rebel yell, ridicule, risk, run the chance, run the risk, scream defiance, seek to, set before, show fight, stare down, stem, strive to, study to, stump, take a chance, take chances, take liberties, take the liberty, taunt, tempt Providence, try and, try to, ultimatum, venture, venture to, war cry, war whoop

• daredevil, adventurer, adventuresome, adventuress, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, brazenface, courageous, daring, dashing, death-defying, devil, devil-may-care, exhibitionist, fearless, fire-eater, fire-eating, foolhardy, forward, gallant, harebrained, harum-scarum, hellcat, hotspur, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, presumptuous, rantipole, rash, reckless, show-off, showman, soldier of fortune, stunt man, temerarious, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild man, wild-ass

• daresay, account as, assume, be afraid, believe, conceive, conclude, consider, deduce, deem, divine, dream, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel, gather, grant, guess, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, imagine, infer, judge, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, opine, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, reckon, regard, repute, say, set down as, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, think likely, trow, understand, venture to say, view as, ween

• daring, adventuresome, adventuresomeness, adventurous, adventurousness, arrogance, arrogant, audacious, audaciousness, audacity, balls, blazon, bold, bold front, boldness, bottle, brash, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, brassy, bravado, brave, bravery, bravura, braw, brazen, brazenness, brilliancy, brinkmanship, bumptious, bumptiousness, challenging, cheekiness, cheeky, chichi, cockiness, cocky, contempt, contemptuous, contemptuousness, courage, courage fou, courageous, courting disaster, daredevil, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daringness, dash, dashing, death-defying, defial, defiance, defiant, defying, demonstration, derision, derisive, derring-do, despite, disdain, disdainful, display, disregard, disregardful, dramatics, dressy, eclat, enterprise, enterprising, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic, false front, fanfaronade, fearless, fearlessness, figure, fire-eating, flair, flashing, flashy, flaunt, flaunting, flirting with death, flourish, foolhardiness, foolhardy, forward, forwardness, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, going for broke, greatly daring, grit, guts, gutsy, hardy, harebrained, harebrainedness, histrionics, impertinence, impertinent, impudence, impudent, insolence, insolent, intrepid, intrepidity, jaunty, jazzy, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, manifestation, mettle, mettlesome, nerve, nervy, overbold, overboldness, pageant, pageantry, parade, pert, pertness, playing with fire, pluck, plucky, presumption, presumptuous, presumptuousness, rakish, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, sauciness, saucy, sham, show, showing-off, showy, snazzy, spectacle, spirit, splash, splashy, splurge, splurgy, sporty, spunk, staginess, temerarious, theatrics, unafraid, valor, valorous, vaunt, venturesome, venturesomeness, venturous, venturousness, wild, wild-ass

• daringly, audaciously, boldly, bravely, bulldoggishly, chivalrously, courageously, dashingly, doughtily, fearlessly, flashily, flauntingly, foolhardily, gaily, gallantly, gamely, glitteringly, gutsily, hardily, harebrainedly, heroically, intrepidly, jauntily, knightly, like a man, like a soldier, pertinaciously, pluckily, presumptuously, resolutely, showily, spunkily, stalwartly, stoutly, tenaciously, unfearfully, unfearingly, valiantly, valorously, with a flair, yeomanly

• dark cloud, Black Magellanic Cloud, Crab Nebula, angry clouds, black cat, black clouds, bright diffuse nebula, broken mirror, coalsack, dark nebula, diffuse nebula, dust cloud, gaseous nebula, gathering clouds, halcyon bird, nebula, nebula of Lyra, nebular hypothesis, nebulosity, nebulous stars, owl, planetary nebula, rainbow, raven, ring nebula, shooting star, storm clouds, stormy petrel, the Coalsack, thundercloud, thunderhead

• dark horse, also-ran, aspirant, baby kisser, bare possibility, candidate, defeated candidate, dud, enigma, favorite son, fighting chance, frontier, frontiers of knowledge, gambling chance, hardly a chance, hopeful, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, lame duck, little chance, little opportunity, long odds, long shot, matter of ignorance, mystery, n, off chance, office seeker, outside chance, political hopeful, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, presidential timber, puzzle, remote possibility, riddle, running mate, sealed book, slim chance, small chance, stalking-horse, terra incognita, the incalculable, the strange, the unfamiliar, the unknowable, the unknown, unexplored ground, unexplored territory, unknown quantity, unlikelihood, x, z

• dark, Egyptian darkness, Erebus, Gothicism, Stygian, ableptical, abominable, abstruse, adiaphanous, age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad, baleful, baneful, barbarism, base, beamless, beetle-browed, benighted, benightedness, benightment, bereft of light, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black-browed, black-skinned, blackish, blackness, blamable, blameworthy, bleak, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blurred, blurry, bodeful, boding, brown, brunet, cabalistic, caliginous, castellatus, censored, cheerless, cirrose, cirrous, classified, clear as mud, close, closed, closemouthed, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, coal-black, coaly, color-blind, colored, complicated, concealed, confused, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cryptic, cumuliform, cumulous, damnable, dark age, dark as night, dark as pitch, dark-colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, darkling, darkness, darkness visible, darksome, dead of night, deep, deep black, dejected, devilish, devious, dim, dim-sighted, dire, dirty, discreet, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, dismal, doleful, doomful, doubtful, dour, drab, drear, drearisome, dreary, dubious, dull, dumpish, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, enigmatic, esoteric, evasive, evil, evil-starred, execrable, eyeless, faint, fateful, feeble, felonious, filmy, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, fog, fogginess, foggy, foreboding, foul, fraudulent, frowning, funebrial, funereal, fuzziness, fuzzy, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, glowering, glum, grave, gray, grim, grum, grumly, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, heathenism, heavy, heinous, hellish, hemeralopic, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, ignorance, ignorant, ill, ill-boding, ill-defined, ill-fated, ill-got, ill-gotten, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-omened, ill-starred, immoral, impenetrable, impervious to light, improper, in darkness, in the dark, inauspicious, incomprehensible, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indeterminateness, indirect, indistinct, indistinctness, indistinguishable, infamous, iniquitous, ink-black, inky, insidious, intense darkness, intransparent, intricate, jetty, joyless, knavish, knotty, latent, lenticularis, lightlessness, low, low-profile, lowering, mammatus, melancholy, melanian, melanic, melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, menacing, merely glimpsed, midnight, mind-blind, mist, mistiness, misty, monstrous, moodish, moody, moonlessness, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, muddy, mumbo jumbo, mumpish, murk, murkiness, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystification, mystifying, naughty, nebulous, nefarious, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nightfall, nigrescent, nigrous, nimbose, not kosher, nubilous, nyctalopic, obfuscated, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscure darkness, obscured, obscurity, occult, occulted, of evil portent, ominous, opacity, opaque, out of focus, overcast, overclouded, paganism, pale, peccant, perplexity, pessimistic, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch-darkness, pitchy, pitchy darkness, portending, profound, puzzling, questionable, rank, raven, raven-black, rayless, recondite, reprehensible, reprobate, restricted, roiled, roily, rotten, sable, sad, satanic, saturnine, savagery, scandalous, scowling, secret, secretive, semivisible, shadowy, shady, shameful, shameless, shapeless, shapelessness, shifty, sightless, sinful, sinister, slippery, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smothered, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorrowful, spiritually blind, squally, stark blind, starless, starlessness, stifled, stone-blind, stormy, stratiform, stratous, subfusc, sulky, sullen, sunless, sunlessness, suntanned, suppressed, surly, suspicious, swart, swarth, swarthiness, swarthy, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrosity, tenebrous, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, threatening, thunderheaded, top secret, total darkness, transcendent, tricky, triste, turbid, ulterior, unbreatheable, uncertain, unclarity, unclear, unclearness, uncommunicative, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, undefined, under security, under wraps, underhand, underhanded, undiscerning, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unenlightened, unenlightenment, unethical, unfathomable, unfavorable, unforgivable, unfortunate, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, unlucky, unobserving, unpardonable, unperceiving, unplain, unplainness, unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unrecognizable, unrevealable, unrevealed, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseeing, unspeakable, unspoken, unstraightforward, untellable, untold, untoward, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, unworthy, vague, vagueness, velvet darkness, vicious, vile, villainous, visionless, weak, weariful, wearisome, weary, wicked, without remorse, without shame, wrong

• darken, attaint, bandage, beat down, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, benight, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, black out, blacken, blackwash, blanch, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, blur, blush, brand, brown, cast a shadow, cast down, change color, charcoal, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, color, cork, crimson, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken over, darkle, dash, daub, daze, dazzle, deject, denigrate, depress, deprive of sight, dim, dim out, dinge, dirty, discolor, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, dusk, ebonize, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, enmist, excecate, flush, fog, glare, gloam, gloom, glow, gouge, grow dark, grow dim, haze, hoodwink, ink, knock down, look black, lower, lower the spirits, make blind, mantle, mark, melanize, mist, murk, nigrify, nubilate, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, oppress, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pale, press down, redden, sadden, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, sink, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smog, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, snow-blind, soil, somber, soot, strike blind, taint, tarnish, turn color, turn pale, turn red, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, whiten

• darkened, bedazzled, besmirched, blackened, blindfold, blindfolded, dazed, dazzled, discolored, excecate, foxed, foxy, hoodwinked, inky, murky, obscured, smirched, smoky, snow-blind, snow-blinded, soiled, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, tainted, tarnished

• darkening, blackening, blocking the light, burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, deception, denigration, dimming, eclipsing, extinguishment, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, masking, melanization, mystification, nigrification, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration, obscurement, obumbration, occultation, occulting, overcast, overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, shading, shadowing, smirch, smirching, smudge, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, subterfuge, uncommunicativeness

• darkish, blackish, dark, dark-colored, darksome, dim, dimmish, dimpsy, dusk, dusky, funereal, grave, murk, murksome, murky, nigrescent, sad, semidark, sober, somber, sombrous, subfusc, swart, swarthy

• darkness, Gothicism, ablepsia, adiaphanousness, age of ignorance, amaurosis, amorphousness, barbarism, benightedness, benightment, blackishness, blackness, bleakness, bleariness, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blinding, blindness, blur, blurriness, blurring the eyes, cataract, cecity, cloudiness, dark, dark age, dark of night, darkishness, darksomeness, defocus, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, dimness, dismalness, dreariness, drop serene, duskiness, duskness, economic blindness, ever-during dark, excecation, eyelessness, faintness, feebleness, filminess, fog, fogginess, funereality, fuzziness, glaucoma, gloom, gloominess, graveness, gravity, grimness, gutta serena, half-visibility, haziness, heathenism, hoodwinking, imperviousness to light, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, intransparency, lack of vision, low profile, making blind, mist, mistiness, mumbo jumbo, murk, murkiness, mystification, night, nighttide, nighttime, niphablepsia, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, opacity, opaque, opaqueness, paganism, paleness, partial blindness, perplexity, psychic blindness, reduced sight, roil, roiledness, sable night, sadness, savagery, semivisibility, shadowiness, shapelessness, sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soberness, sobriety, soft focus, solemnity, somberness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, stone-blindness, swarth, swarthiness, swartness, total blindness, trachoma, turbidity, turbidness, uncertainty, unclarity, unclearness, unenlightenment, unplainness, unseeingness, vague appearance, vagueness, weakness, wearifulness, wearisomeness

• darky, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man

• darling, admired, adorable, adored, alluring, ambrosial, angel, attractive, babe, baby, baby-doll, bairn, beloved, beloved object, bewitching, buttercup, charming, cherished, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child, chit, cosset, crush, dear, dear one, dearly beloved, deary, delectable, delicious, doll, duck, duckling, enchanting, engaging, esteemed, favorite, fetching, flame, fondling, heavenly, held dear, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, idol, innocent, jewel, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, light of love, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, love, loved, loved one, lovely, lover, luscious, lush, matinee idol, minion, mite, nipper, offspring, peewee, pet, petkins, pleasing, popular, precious, precious heart, preference, prized, revered, scrumptious, shaver, snookums, spoiled child, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, tad, tot, treasured, truelove, wee tot, well-beloved, well-liked, white-haired, yummy

• darn, absolute, accurse, anathematize, blamed, blankety-blank, blaspheme, blast, blasted, blessed, cobble, commission, condition, confound, confounded, curse, cursed, cussed, damn, do up, doctor, doggone, downright, excommunicate, execrate, fix, fix up, fulminate against, hex, imprecate, infernal, mend, outright, overhaul, patch, patch up, positive, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, ready, recap, recondition, repair, retread, service, set to rights, sew up, straight-out, throw a whammy, thunder against, tinker, tinker up, unmitigated

• dart, antelope, arrow, arrowhead, barb, beesting, blue darter, blue streak, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bowl, bustle, buzz about, cannonball, career, cast, catapult, chested arrow, chuck, chunk, cloth yard shaft, courser, dash, eagle, electricity, express train, fang, fire, flash, flight, fling, flip, float, flutter, fly, fork, fuss, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, haste, hasten, heave, hie, hump, hump it, hurl, hurry, hurry about, hurtle, jerk, jet plane, lance, launch, let fly, light, lightning, lob, make a fuss, make haste, mercury, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, post, precipitate, put, put the shot, quarrel, quicksilver, race, reed, rocket, run, rush, rush about, rush around, sail, scamper, scared rabbit, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, serve, shaft, shoot, shot, shy, skedaddle, skim, sling, snakebite, snap, speed, sprint, spurt, step on it, sting, stinger, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, swallow, tang, tear, tear around, thought, throw, thunderbolt, tilt, torrent, toss, volley, whiz about, wind

• dash off, ad-lib, author, bat out, botch, bundle, bungle, bustle, cartoon, chalk, charcoal, chase, coauthor, collaborate, color, compose, cook up, copy, crayon, crosshatch, crowd, dash, dash on, daub, delineate, depict, design, diagram, dig out, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, doodle, double-time, draft, draw, editorialize, extemporize, fake, fake up, festinate, formulate, free-lance, fudge up, get going, get moving, ghost, ghostwrite, hasten, hasten off, hatch, hurry, hurry away, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, improvisate, improvise, indite, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, leap, light out, limn, lose no time, make haste, make up, move quickly, nip, nip off, novelize, paint, paint a picture, pamphleteer, patch, patch together, patch up, pencil, picture, picturize, play by ear, plunge, portray, post, pound out, prepare, press on, produce, push on, race, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, run, rush, rush through, scamper, scamper off, scenarize, scramble, scrap the plan, scratch, scumble, scurry, scuttle, shade, sketch, skin out, slap up, spurt, stencil, strike off, tear, tear off, tear out, throw off, throw on paper, throw together, tint, toss off, toss out, toss together, trace, trifle with, vamp, whip off, whip up, whiz off, whomp up, wing it, write

• dash, Le Mans, abruptly, aggressiveness, air race, animation, ardor, asperge, automobile race, baffle, bafflement, balk, band, bang, bar, bash, bat, be poised, beat, beat down, beating, bedew, belt, bespatter, besprinkle, betrayed hope, bicycle race, biff, bilk, billow, bit, blast, blasted expectation, blatancy, blaze, blaze a trail, blazon, blemish, blight, blighted hope, blotch, blow, boat race, boil, bolt, bonk, bound, bowl, brand, brave, bravura, brazenness, break, brilliancy, brio, buffet, bundle, burst, burst of speed, bustle, canter, career, cast, cast down, catapult, chalk, chalk up, challenge, charge, chase, check, check off, checkmate, chop, chuck, chunk, cicatrize, circumvent, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, colorfulness, comb, comedown, confound, confront, contest of speed, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crack, crash, cross, cross-country race, cross-hatching, crowd, crudeness, cruel disappointment, crush, cut, dabble, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, dapple, daring, darken, dart, dash off, dash on, dashed hope, dazzle, dazzlingness, dead run, deal, deal a blow, deck, defeat, defeat expectation, define, defy, deject, delimit, delineation, demarcate, demonstration, demoralize, depress, derby, destroy, dew, diagonal, dig, dint, disappoint, disappointment, discolor, discomfit, discomfiture, disconcert, discountenance, discourage, dish, dishearten, disillusion, disillusionment, dispirit, display, disrupt, dissatisfaction, dissatisfy, dog race, dogtrot, dot, dotted line, double-time, douche, drag race, dramatics, drive, drop, drub, drubbing, drumming, ebb and flow, eclat, elan, elude, endurance race, energy, engrave, enterprise, esprit, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, failure, fallen countenance, false front, fanfaronade, fervor, festinate, fetch, fetch a blow, fiasco, figure, fire, fizzle, flagrancy, flair, flamboyance, flank speed, flashiness, flat-out speed, flaunt, flaunting, fleck, fling, flip, flourish, flummox, flurry, flutter, fly, foil, foiling, footrace, force, forced draft, fork, forlorn hope, fragment, freckle, frustrate, frustration, full gallop, fusillade, gaiety, gallop, garishness, gash, gaudery, gaudiness, get going, get moving, get-up-and-go, ginger, glare, gleam, glitter, gorgeousness, hachure, hairline, hand gallop, haste, hasten, hastily, hatch, hatching, headlong rush, heat, heave, heavy right foot, helter-skelter, hie, high lope, hint, histrionics, hit, hit a clip, hope deferred, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, hump, hump it, hurdle race, hurl, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, idea, impetuously, impress, impression, impressiveness, imprint, impulsively, infusion, initiative, inkling, intensity, intimation, irrigate, jab, jauntiness, jazziness, jerk, jog trot, kick, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knock the chocks, lance, lap, lash, launch, leap, let down, let fly, let have it, letdown, lick, life, lift, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, line, lineation, liveliness, lob, look, lope, lose no time, loudness, lower, lower the spirits, luridness, make a mark, make haste, manifestation, marathon, marathon race, mark, mark off, mark out, match race, maximum speed, meretriciousness, might, mirage, moisten, motorcycle race, mottle, move quickly, nick, nip, nonplus, notch, obliterate, obstacle race, obtrusiveness, of a sudden, on short notice, oomph, open throttle, oppress, overcome, paddle, pageant, pageantry, panache, parade, pass, paste, peak, peg, pelt, pencil, pep, pepper, perplex, piece, pinch, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pitch, pitchfork, pizzazz, plop, plump, plunge, plunk, poignancy, point, poke, poop, pop, popple, post, potato race, pound, power, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, press down, press on, prick, print, prostrate, psych out, punch, punctuate, puncture, pungency, push, push on, put, put the shot, race, raciness, rap, regatta, relay, relay race, riddle, rise, rise and fall, road race, roll, ruin, run, rush, rush through, sabotage, sack race, sadden, sauce, scamper, scar, scarify, scend, scintilla, scoot, score, scotch, scour, scramble, scratch, scribble, scud, scurry, scuttle, seal, seam, seasoning, send, sensationalism, serve, setback, shade, shadow, shake, sham, shamelessness, sharp, shatter, shiver, shoot, show, showiness, showing-off, shy, sink, sip, skedaddle, skin, slam, slap, slash, sling, slobber, slog, slop, slosh, slug, smack, smash, smattering, smell, smidgen, smidgin, smite, snap, soak, sock, sore disappointment, soupcon, sparge, spark, sparkle, spatter, speck, speckle, spectacle, speed, speedway race, spice, spike, spirit, splash, splatter, split, splotch, splurge, spoil, sponge, sportiness, spot, spray, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, sprint, sprint race, spunk, spurt, staginess, stain, stamp, starch, startlingly, step on it, stigmatize, stock-car race, stonewall, streak, streaking, strength, striate, striation, strike, strike at, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, stump, style, sublineation, sudden, suddenly, suggestion, sup, surge, surprisingly, suspicion, swash, swat, swell, swing, swipe, syringe, tad, taint, tantalization, tantalize, taste, tattoo, tawdriness, tear, tease, tempering, theatrics, thought, three-legged race, throw, thrust, thump, thwack, thwart, tick, tick off, tilt, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, torch race, toss, touch, trace, track race, trifle, trot, unawares, unbrace, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, undo, undulate, unexpectedly, unman, unnerve, unstring, upset, vaunt, vehemence, verve, vestige, vigor, vim, virgule, vivacity, vividness, vulgarness, walk, wallop, water, wave, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, wet, wet down, whack, wham, whop, wide-open speed, without notice, without warning, yacht race, yerk, zest, zing, zip

• dashed hope, bafflement, balk, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, buffet, comedown, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hopes, defeat, disappointment, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fizzle, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, hope deferred, letdown, mirage, setback, sore disappointment, tantalization, tease

• dashed, absolute, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, blighted, bowed-down, cast down, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, damnable, danged, darned, defeated, dejected, demoralized, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, deuced, disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dished, disillusioned, dispirited, dissatisfied, doggone, doggoned, down, downcast, downhearted, downright, drooping, droopy, feeling low, foiled, frustrated, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ill done-by, ill-served, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, infernal, languishing, let down, low, low-spirited, neurasthenic, out of countenance, outright, overcome, pessimistic, pining, prostrate, prostrated, reduced to jelly, regretful, ruddy, shaken, shot, shot to pieces, sorely disappointed, soured, spiritless, stricken, subdued, suicidal, thwarted, undone, unglued, unmanned, unmitigated, unnerved, unstrung, upset, weary of life, woebegone, world-weary

• dashing, agile, alert, animate, animated, brave, bravura, braw, breakneck, bright, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, daring, double-quick, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, dynamic, eagle-winged, elegant, energetic, exclusive, exhibitionistic, expeditious, express, exquisite, fashionable, fast, flamboyant, flashing, flashy, flaunting, fleet, flying, frilly, frothy, gallant, galloping, gay, genteel, glittering, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, impetuous, jaunty, jazzy, keen, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nimble, nimble-footed, nobby, ostentatious, peppy, posh, precipitate, pretentious, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rakish, rapid, recherche, reckless, ritzy, rousing, running, sharp, showy, sleek, smart, smug, snappy, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spanking, speedy, spiffy, spirited, splashy, splurgy, sporty, spruce, style-conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, swift, swish, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, vigorous, vivacious, well-dressed, well-groomed, winged, with-it

• data, ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Festschrift, a priori principle, account, acquaintance, affirmation, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, ana, angular data, announcement, anthology, apriorism, aquarium, assembler, assertion, assumed position, assumption, axiom, basis, basis for belief, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, blue book, body, body of evidence, brass tacks, briefing, bug, bulletin, byte, categorical proposition, chain of evidence, chrestomathy, clue, collectanea, collection, command pulses, commands, communication, communique, compilation, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, control signals, controlled quantity, corpus, correcting signals, datum, details, directory, dispatch, documentation, enlightenment, error, error signals, essential facts, essentials, evidence, exhibit, experience, expertise, fact, facts, factual base, factual information, familiarity, familiarization, feedback pulses, feedback signals, figures, film data, first principles, florilegium, foundation, fund, gen, general information, ground, grounds, grounds for belief, guidebook, handout, hard information, hexadecimal system, holdings, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, incidental information, indication, info, information, input data, input quantity, instruction, instructions, intelligence, intimacy, item of evidence, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, lemma, library, light, machine language, major premise, manifestation, mark, material grounds, materials, matter, menagerie, mention, message, minor premise, multiple messages, muniments, museum, mute witness, noise, notice, notification, numeric data, octal system, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, piece of evidence, play, polar data, position, postulate, postulation, postulatum, practical knowledge, premise, premises, presentation, presupposition, private knowledge, privity, promotional material, proof, proposition, propositional function, publication, publicity, punch-card data, random data, ratio cognoscendi, raw data, reason to believe, rectangular data, reference quantity, release, relevant fact, report, ruly English, self-knowledge, sidelight, sign, signals, single messages, statement, statistics, sumption, supposal, symptom, technic, technics, technique, text, the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the goods, the information, the know, the particulars, the picture, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story, theorem, thesis, token, transmission, treasure, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, unorganized data, visible-speech data, white book, white paper, word, zoo

• date, International Date Line, Platonic year, accompany, aeon, age, ancient, annus magnus, antedate, antiquate, antiquated, appointment, archaic, arrangement, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, backdate, ball, be dated, bear date, beau, become extinct, become obsolete, blind date, booking, borscht circuit, boy, boyfriend, brawl, bunch, bunch up, captive, catch, caucus, circuit, clot, cluster, collect, colloquium, come together, commission, committee, companion, conclave, concourse, congregate, congregation, congress, conquest, contemporary, conventicle, convention, converge, convocation, copulate, coquette, council, couple, court, crowd, current, cycle, cycle of indiction, dance, date at, date line, date-stamp, dated, dateline, datemark, day, diet, double date, eisteddfod, engagement, engagement book, entertain, epoch, era, escort, fade, fashionable, festivity, fete, fixture, flirt, flock together, flow together, forgather, forgathering, forum, fossilize, friend, fuse, fust, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gathering, generation, get-together, girl, great year, grow old, herd together, hive, honey, horde, housewarming, huddle, indiction, interview, latest, league, levee, link, lose currency, lover, make a date, man, mass, meet, meeting, merge, mill, modern, molder, muster, obsolesce, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, out of date, outdate, outmoded, panel, party, passe, period, perish, phase, playing engagement, plenum, point of time, postdate, predate, prom, quorum, rally, rally around, reception, rendezvous, run, rust, seance, season, see, seethe, session, set the date, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, stage, stand, steady, stream, superannuate, surge, swain, swarm, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, symposium, synod, take out, throng, time, tour, trendy, tryst, turnout, unite, update, vamp, vampire, vaudeville circuit, woman, woo, year

• dated, ago, ahead of time, anachronistic, annalistic, antedated, antiquated, antique, archaic, back-number, beforehand, behind the times, behind time, behindhand, belated, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, calendarial, calendric, chronogrammatic, chronographic, chronologic, chronoscopic, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, demode, departed, diaristic, disused, early, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, foredated, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone out, gone-by, has-been, horologic, intercalary, intercalated, irrecoverable, lapsed, late, metachronistic, metronomic, misdated, mistimed, no more, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, old-timey, oldfangled, out, out of date, out of fashion, out of season, out of style, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over, overdue, parachronistic, passe, passed, passed away, past, past due, postdated, prochronistic, run out, styleless, tardy, temporal, timekeeping, unfashionable, unpunctual, unseasonable, vanished, wound up

• dateless, age-old, ageless, ancient, antique, auld, ceaseless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, elderly, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, hoary, immemorial, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, of old, of yore, olamic, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, sempiternal, steady, timeless, unceasing, unending, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, venerable, without end

• datum, absolute fact, accepted fact, account, acquaintance, actual fact, admitted fact, announcement, article, aspect, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, basis for belief, blue book, body of evidence, briefing, brutal fact, bulletin, case, chain of evidence, circumstance, clue, cold fact, communication, communique, conceded fact, corpus, count, data, demonstrable fact, detail, directory, dispatch, documentation, element, empirical fact, enlightenment, established fact, evidence, exhibit, experience, expertise, facet, fact, fact of experience, factor, facts, factual base, factual information, familiarity, familiarization, gen, general information, given fact, grounds, grounds for belief, guidebook, handout, hard fact, hard information, incidental, incidental information, indication, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, info, information, instance, instruction, intelligence, intimacy, item, item of evidence, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, light, manifestation, mark, material grounds, matter, matter of fact, mention, message, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, muniments, mute witness, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, notice, notification, particular, piece of evidence, plain, point, positive fact, postulate, practical knowledge, premises, presentation, private knowledge, privity, promotional material, proof, provable fact, publication, publicity, ratio cognoscendi, reason to believe, regard, release, relevant fact, report, respect, salient fact, self-evident fact, self-knowledge, sidelight, sign, significant fact, simple fact, sober fact, statement, stubborn fact, symptom, technic, technics, technique, the case, the dope, the goods, the know, the nitty-gritty, the scoop, thing, token, transmission, undeniable fact, well-known fact, white book, white paper, word

• daub, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, anamorphosis, anoint, apply paint, attaint, bad likeness, bedaub, bedizen, beeswax, begild, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bestain, black, blacken, block print, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, botch, brand, brush on paint, burlesque, butter, calcimine, caricature, cartoon, chalk, charcoal, coat, collage, color, color print, complexion, copy, cover, crayon, crosshatch, cyclorama, dab, dapple, darken, dash off, deep-dye, delineate, depict, design, diagram, dip, diptych, dirty, discolor, distemper, distortion, doodle, double-dye, draft, draw, dress, dye, emblazon, embrocate, enamel, engild, engraving, eyesore, face, fast-dye, fleck, flick, flyspeck, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, glycerolate, grain, grease, grease the wheels, hatch, hue, icon, illuminate, illumination, illustration, image, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lard, lay on, lay on color, likeness, limn, lubricate, macula, maculation, macule, mark, miniature, misdraw, mispaint, montage, mosaic, mural, oil, paint, paint a picture, panorama, parget, parody, patch, pencil, photograph, picture, picturize, pigment, plaster, pomade, portray, prime, print, representation, reproduction, salve, scorch, scratch, scribble, scumble, sear, shade, shadow, shellac, singe, sketch, slap on, slather, slick, slick on, slop on paint, slubber, slur, smarm, smear, smear on, smirch, smoke, smooth the way, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soap the ways, soil, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, spread on, spread with, stain, stained glass window, stencil, stigma, stigmatize, still life, stipple, sully, tableau, taint, tapestry, tar, tarnish, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, trace, travesty, triptych, undercoat, unguent, variegate, varnish, wall painting, wash, wax, whitewash

• daughter, aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, child, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, descendant, father, first cousin, foster brother, foster child, frater, grandchild, granddaughter, grandnephew, grandniece, grandson, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, heiress, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, offspring, scion, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, son and heir, sonny, stepbrother, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepsister, stepson, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

• daunt, admonish, alarm, appall, awe, baffle, beat down, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, castrate, caution, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, cry out against, despotize, deter, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, dissuade, domineer, domineer over, enslave, expostulate, faze, foil, frighten, frighten off, frustrate, grind, grind down, henpeck, horrify, intimidate, keep down, keep under, kid out of, lord it over, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, press heavy on, put off, remonstrate, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, scare, shake, stop, subjugate, suppress, talk out of, terrify, terrorize, threaten, thwart, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, unnerve, unpersuade, upset, walk all over, walk over, warn, weigh heavy on

• daunted, affrighted, afraid, alarmed, chicken, chickenhearted, consternated, coward, cowardly, cowed, dismayed, disquieted, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, funking, funky, henhearted, in a fright, in a funk, intimidated, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, startled, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow

• dauntless, audacious, aweless, bold, brave, confident, courageous, daring, dreadless, fearless, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, gutty, heroic, indomitable, intrepid, invincible, lionhearted, mettlesome, plucky, spunky, stalwart, unafraid, unapprehensive, unbashful, unconquerable, undaunted, undiffident, unfearful, unfearing, unflinching, unfrightened, unscared, unshy, unterrified, untimid, untimorous, valiant, valorous, venturesome

• Davy Jones, Davy, Dylan, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Varuna, fresh-water nymph, kelpie, limniad, man fish, mermaid, merman, naiad, nix, nixie, ocean nymph, sea devil, sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman, siren, undine, water god, water spirit, water sprite

• dawdle, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, clock watcher, continue, dallier, dally, dawdler, delay, diddle, diddler, dillydallier, dillydally, do-nothing, dolittle, doodle, doodler, drag, drag out, draw out, drone, dwell on, extend, faineant, fall behind, falter, flag, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, get behind, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, goof-off, halt, hang about, hang around, hang back, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, idle, idler, lag, laggard, laze, lengthen, lengthen out, lie-abed, linger, linger behind, linger on, lingerer, loafer, loiter, loiterer, loller, lollygag, lotus-eater, lounge, lounger, lubber, mark time, mope, moper, piddle, plodder, poke, potterer, procrastinate, procrastinator, prolong, protract, putterer, shilly-shally, sit tight, sit up, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, spin out, stay, stay up, stick around, stick-in-the-mud, straggle, stretch out, take time, tarry, temporize, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trail, trail behind, trifler, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waiter on Providence, waste time

• dawdler, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, plodder, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence

• dawdling, dalliance, dallying, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, goofing off, idling, lag, lagging, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, lounging, mopery, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, shilly-shallying, tarriance, tarrying, trifling, waiting

• dawn on, be glimpsed, come through, come to mind, dawn upon one, get across, get over, grab one, occur, occur to, offer itself, penetrate, present itself, register, rise to mind, sink in, soak in, strike, strike the mind, suggest itself

• dawn, A, advent, alpha, antemeridian, appear, appearance, arise, arrival, arrive, aurora, auroral, awakening, begin, beginning, birth, blast-off, break, break of day, brighten, brightening, broad day, chanticleer, cockcrow, cocklight, come to mind, commence, commencement, crack of dawn, creation, cutting edge, dawning, day, day glow, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayshine, dayspring, daytide, daytime, develop, dusk, edge, emerge, emergence, establishment, first brightening, first light, flying start, foundation, fresh start, full sun, genesis, gleam, green flash, grow bright, grow light, inauguration, inception, institution, jump-off, kick-off, leading edge, light, light of day, lighten, matin, matinal, matutinal, midday sun, morn, morning, new departure, noonlight, noontide light, occur to, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, originate, origination, outbreak, outset, outstart, peep of day, prime, ray of sunshine, rise, running start, send-off, setting in motion, setting-up, shine, square one, start, start-off, starting point, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine, sunup, take-off, twilight, unfold, vestibule of Day

• day by day, again and again, cyclically, daily, day after day, epochally, every day, every hour, frequently, hour by hour, hourly, in time, many a time, many times, many times over, often, on the beat, over and over, periodically, recurrently, repeatedly, rhythmically, seasonally, several times, synchronously, time after time, time and again, times without number, year after year

• day in day out, always, and night, at all times, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, enduringly, ever, ever and anon, every day, every hour, every moment, for an age, for life, for long, hour after hour, hourly, incessantly, interminably, long, long ago, long since, month after month, morning, night and day, noon, on and on, perennially, perpetually, persistently, protractedly, rapidly, regularly, right along, since time began, steadily, sustainedly, the livelong day, till doomsday, time immemorial, unceasingly, undyingly, unendingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unvaryingly, without cease, without letup, without stopping, year after year

• Day of Atonement, Fast of Av, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Weeks, Hanukkah, High Holy Days, New Year, Ninth of Av, Passover, Pentecost, Pesach, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Shabuoth, Simhath Torah, Sukkoth, Yom Kippur, asceticism, cold purgatorial fires, fasting, flagellation, hair shirt, lustration, maceration, mortification, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, purgation, purgatory, repentance, sackcloth and ashes

• day off, AWOL, French leave, High Holiday, High Holy Day, abeyance, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, bank holiday, break, caesura, cease-fire, church feast, cut, day of festivities, default, departure, disappearance, drop, escape, excused absence, feast, feast day, festival day, fete day, fixed feast, fleeing, furlough, gala day, hesitation, high day, holiday, holy day, hooky, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, lapse, layoff, leave, leave of absence, leaving, legal holiday, letup, lull, nonappearance, nonattendance, pause, recess, red-letter day, remission, respite, rest, running away, sabbatical leave, sick leave, stand-down, stay, suspension, truancy, truantism, truce, unexcused absence, vacation

• day, International Date Line, Platonic year, abundant year, academic year, aeon, age, annum, annus magnus, antedate, bissextile year, broad day, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, cycle, cycle of indiction, date, date line, datemark, dawn, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dusk, epoch, era, fateful moment, fiscal year, fortnight, full sun, generation, great year, green flash, heyday, hour, indiction, instant, interval, juncture, kairos, leap year, lifetime, light, light of day, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, midday sun, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, moment of truth, month, moon, noonlight, noontide light, period, point, point of time, postdate, pregnant moment, prime, psychological moment, quarter, quinquennium, ray of sunshine, regular year, season, second, semester, session, shine, sidereal year, solar year, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, sun, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunshine, term, time, time lag, trimester, twelvemonth, twilight, week, weekday, while, year

• daybook, Domesday Book, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, address book, adversaria, album, annals, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, bimonthly, biweekly, blankbook, blotter, books, calendar, card ledger, cashbook, catalog, check sheet, chronicle, chronology, classified catalog, clock card, commonplace book, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, court calendar, daily, date slip, datebook, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, ephemeris, factory ledger, fortnightly, gazette, inventory, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, magazine, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, monthly, newsmagazine, notebook, organ, pad, passbook, periodical, petty cashbook, pictorial, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, purchase ledger, quarterly, record, record book, register, registry, review, sales journal, sales ledger, scrapbook, scratch pad, serial, slick magazine, spiral notebook, stock ledger, stores ledger, suspense ledger, table, tablet, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, trade magazine, triptych, weekly, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

• daybreak, aurora, break of day, brightening, chanticleer, cockcrow, cocklight, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daylight, dayspring, first brightening, light, morn, morning, peep of day, prime, sunrise, sunup, vestibule of Day

• daydream, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, airy nothing, autism, bad dream, be absent, bemusement, brown study, bubble, castle-building, chimera, conceiving, daydreamer, daydreaming, deception, deluded belief, delusion, depth of thought, dereism, divagate, dream, dream of, dream vision, dreaming, dreamland, dreamworld, engrossment, false belief, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, freak out, go woolgathering, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagination, imagining, incubus, misbelief, misconception, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, nightmare, nostalgia, phantasm, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, reverie, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, trance, trick, trip, vapor, vision, wander, wishful thinking, wishfulness, wistful eye, wistfulness, woolgathering, wrong impression, yearnfulness

• daydreamer, Don Quixote, Quixote, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, daydream, daydreaming, depth of thought, dream, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, dreaming, engrossment, enthusiast, escapist, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, idealist, lotus-eater, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, prophet, reverie, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, stargazing, study, trance, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, visionary, wishful thinker, woolgathering

• daylight, PR, aurora, ballyhoo, blurb, break of day, bright light, brightening, broad day, celebrity, chanticleer, clarity, cockcrow, cocklight, common knowledge, crack of dawn, cry, currency, dawn, dawning, day, day glow, day-peep, daybreak, dayshine, dayspring, daytide, daytime, dusk, eclat, exposure, fame, famousness, first brightening, full sun, glare, green flash, hoopla, hue and cry, light, light of day, limelight, maximum dissemination, midday sun, morn, morning, noonlight, noontide light, notoriety, open, peep of day, plug, press notice, prime, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, ray of sunshine, reclame, report, shine, spotlight, sun, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine, sunup, twilight, vestibule of Day, write-up

• daystar, Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, North Star, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Sirius, Sol, Venus, Vesper, celestial body, chromosphere, comet, corona, evening star, fixed stars, heavenly body, living sapphires, lodestar, morning star, orb, orb of day, phoebus, photosphere, polar star, polestar, solar flare, solar prominence, solar wind, sphere, starry host, stars, sun

• daytime, broad day, dawn, day, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, dusk, full sun, green flash, light of day, midday sun, noonlight, noontide light, ray of sunshine, shine, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunshine, twilight

• daze, addle, addle the wits, amaze, amazed, amnesia, astonish, astonished, astound, astounded, awe, awestrike, baffle, baffled, ball up, bamboozle, bandage, be bright, beacon, beam, beat, becloud, bedaze, bedazzle, bedazzled, befuddle, befuddled, befuddlement, bemuse, bemused, benight, benumb, bewilder, bewildered, bewilderment, blaze, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, boggle, bother, botheration, bowl down, bowl over, buffalo, bug, burn, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, chaos, cloud, confound, confuse, confused, confusion, darken, daydreaming, dazzle, dazzled, deprive of sight, diffuse light, dim, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disoriented, distract, disturb, disturbance, dizzy, dream state, dumbfound, dumbfounder, eclipse, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle, excecate, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flame, flare, flash, floor, floored, flummox, flurry, fluster, flustered, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fugue, fugue state, fulgurate, fuss, get, give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glow, gouge, haze, hoodwink, hypnotic trance, in a daze, in a trance, incandesce, jumble, keep in suspense, lick, luster, make blind, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, muddleheadedness, muddlement, mystified, mystify, nonplus, nonplussed, obscure, overcome, overpower, overpowered, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, perplexed, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, petrify, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, puzzled, radiate, raise hell, rattle, reverie, rock, ruffle, send out rays, shine, shine brightly, shock, shocked, shoot, shoot out rays, shuffle, sleepwalking, snow-blind, somnambulism, spin, stagger, staggered, startle, startled, stew, stick, strike blind, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stump, stun, stunned, stupefied, stupefy, stupor, surprise, surprised, sweat, swivet, throw, throw into confusion, tizzy, trance, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, whirl

• dazed, addled, apish, asinine, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, batty, beat, bedazzled, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blindfold, blindfolded, brainless, buffaloed, buffoonish, cockeyed, confounded, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, darkened, dazzled, dizzy, dopey, doting, dumb, excecate, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, floored, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, groggy, gulled, hoodwinked, idiotic, imbecile, in a daze, in a dilemma, in suspense, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, knocked silly, kooky, licked, loony, mad, maudlin, mazed, moronic, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, nutty, obscured, on tenterhooks, perplexed, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, slaphappy, snow-blind, snow-blinded, stuck, stumped, stunned, stupefied, stupid, thoughtless, thrown, wacky, wet, witless, woozy

• dazzle, addle, addle the wits, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, ball up, bandage, be bright, beacon, beam, becloud, bedaze, bedazzle, befuddle, beguile, benight, bewilder, bewitch, blatancy, blaze, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, boggle, bother, bowl down, bowl over, brazenness, brilliance, bug, burn, captivate, charm, cloud, colorfulness, confound, confuse, crudeness, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, darken, dash, daze, dazzlingness, deprive of sight, diffuse light, dim, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, disturb, dumbfound, dumbfounder, eclipse, embarrass, enchant, entangle, entrance, excecate, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, fascinate, flabbergast, flagrancy, flamboyance, flame, flare, flash, flashiness, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fulgurate, fuss, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, gorgeousness, gouge, hoodwink, hypnotize, impress, incandesce, intrigue, jauntiness, jazziness, loudness, luridness, luster, magnificence, make a figure, make a show, make a splash, make blind, maze, meretriciousness, mesmerize, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, obscure, obtrusiveness, overwhelm, panache, paralyze, perplex, perturb, petrify, pother, put out, radiate, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, send out rays, sensationalism, shamelessness, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, showiness, snow-blind, sparkle, spellbind, splash, splendor, splurge, sportiness, stagger, startle, strike blind, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise, tawdriness, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset, vulgarness

• dazzler, Miss America, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, bunny, charmer, cover girl, dream, enchantress, great beauty, knockout, lady fair, looker, model, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner

• dazzling, beaming, bedazzling, blinding, blooming, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, devastating, divine, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, fulgid, garish, glamorous, glaring, glary, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, mind-boggling, obscuring, overpowering, overwhelming, radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, stupefying, sublime, vivid

• DC, AC, absorption current, active current, alternating current, conduction current, convection current, cycle, delta current, dielectric displacement current, direct current, displacement current, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, emission current, exciting current, free alternating current, galvanic current, high-frequency current, idle current, induced current, induction current, ionization current, juice, low-frequency current, magnetizing current, multiphase current, pulsating direct current, reactive current, rotary current, single-phase alternating current, stray current, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, three-phase alternating current, voltaic current, watt current

• DDT, DDD, Paris green, antimony, arsenic, arsenic trioxide, beryllium, bichloride of mercury, cadmium, carbolic acid, carbon monoxide, carbon tetrachloride, chlorine, cyanide, hydrocyanic acid, hyoscyamine, lead, mercuric chloride, mercury, mustard gas, nicotine, phenol, poison gas, prussic acid, selenium, strychnine

• de emphasize, abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bedwarf, belittle, blunt, chasten, conceal, constrain, control, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, deprecate, depreciate, detract from, diminish, disguise, downplay, dull, dwarf, extenuate, hush up, keep within bounds, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minify, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modulate, muffle, obtund, palliate, play down, reduce, reduce the temperature, restrain, set at naught, set little by, silence, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, stifle, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, think little of, think nothing of, tone down, tune down, underplay, weaken

• de energize, bugger, cripple, debilitate, disable, disenable, drain, enfeeble, hamstring, hors de combat, inactivate, incapacitate, kibosh, lame, maim, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wreck

• de facto, absolute, actual, actually, authentic, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, historical, honest-to-God, positive, real, really, substantial, true, truly, undeniable, veritable, veritably

• de rigueur, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, approved, au fait, becoming, being done, binding, comme il faut, conformable, conventional, correct, customary, decent, decorous, done, formal, imperative, imperious, mandatory, meet, must, necessary, nice, obligatory, orthodox, peremptory, proper, received, recognized, required, right, seemly, traditional

• de trop, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, extra, gratuitous, in excess, needless, nonessential, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose

• deacon, Aaronic priesthood, Bible clerk, Bible reader, Melchizedek priesthood, Seventy, acolyte, acolytus, almoner, anagnost, apostle, beadle, bedral, bishop, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deaconess, diaconus, doorkeeper, elder, elderman, exorcist, exorcista, high priest, holy orders, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, major orders, minor orders, ostiarius, parish clerk, patriarch, precentor, presbyter, priest, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sexton, shames, sidesman, subdeacon, subdiaconus, succentor, suisse, teacher, teaching elder, thurifer, verger, vergeress

• deactivate, break up, debrief, decommission, demilitarize, demob, demobilize, detach, disarm, disband, discharge, disintegrate, dismiss, disorganize, disperse, dissolve, go separate ways, let go, muster out, part, part company, reconvert, release, scatter, separate, sheathe the sword, split up

• dead end, bar, barrier, blank, blank wall, blind, blind alley, blind gut, blind-alley, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, box, cecal, cecum, choked, choked off, choking, choking off, clog, closed, congestion, constipation, constricted, contracted, corner, costiveness, cul-de-sac, dead, dead-end street, deadlock, embolism, embolus, extremity, gorge, halt, hole, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, pocket, sealing off, shut, squeezed shut, stalemate, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage, strangulated, strangulation, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated

• dead giveaway, babbling, betrayal, blabbering, blabbing, communication leak, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, divulging, evulgation, giveaway, indiscretion, leak, letting out, obvious clue, telltale, telltale sign, unwitting disclosure

• dead letter, Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, aimlessness, air letter, airgraph, billet-doux, bull, chain letter, dimissorial, dimissory letter, drop letter, emptiness, empty sound, encyclical, fan letter, form letter, futility, inanity, insignificance, letter of credit, letter of introduction, letters credential, letters of marque, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, love letter, meaninglessness, mere noise, monitory, newsletter, nixie, noise, nonsensicality, nullity, open letter, pastoral letter, phatic communion, poison-pen letter, purposelessness, round robin, senselessness, unmeaningness, unsignificancy

• dead march, andante, burial, burial at sea, burying, claudication, coronach, cortege, crawl, creep, death knell, death song, deep six, dirge, dogtrot, elegy, epicedium, eulogy, footpace, funeral, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral procession, funeral song, graveside oration, hobble, jog, jog trot, keen, knell, last post, leisurely gait, limp, lumbering pace, march, martial music, military march, military music, mincing steps, monody, muffled drum, muffled drums, passing bell, plod, processional march, quick march, quickstep march, rack, recessional march, requiem, saunter, shamble, shuffle, slouch, slow march, slow motion, stroll, taps, threnode, threnody, trudge, waddle, walk, wedding march

• dead of night, Egyptian darkness, Erebus, awful silence, blackness, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, inaudibility, intense darkness, lightlessness, lucid stillness, lull, midnight, moonlessness, mum, night, noiselessness, noonday night, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, peace, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, rest, silence, silentness, solemn silence, soundlessness, starlessness, still, stillness, sunlessness, swarthiness, tacitness, taciturnity, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, tomblike silence, total darkness, tranquillity, velvet darkness, whisht

• dead pan, anesthesia, autism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, expressionlessness, frigidity, frostiness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, inexcitability, inexpressiveness, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, objectivity, obtuseness, passionlessness, poker face, self-absorption, soullessness, spiritlessness, straight face, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unexpressiveness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal

• dead reckoning, aspect, astronavigation, attitude, azimuth, bearing, bearings, celestial navigation, chronometer, coastwise navigation, consolan, exposure, fix, frontage, lay, lie, line of position, loran, orientation, pilotage, plane sailing, point-to-point navigation, position, position line, radar, radio beacon, radio bearing, radio navigation, set, sextant, shoran, sofar, sonar, tables

• dead ringer, Doppelganger, actual thing, carbon copy, companion, copy, ditto, double, duplicate, effigy, equivalent, exact counterpart, exact likeness, facsimile, fellow, homograph, homonym, homophone, icon, idem, identical same, idol, image, likeness, living image, living picture, match, mate, miniature, mirroring, model, no other, none other, photograph, picture, portrait, reflection, replica, resemblance, rubbing, selfsame, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, spit and image, spitting image, synonym, the same, the same difference, trace, tracing, twin, very image, very picture, very same

• dead shot, Admirable Crichton, Nimrod, adept, archer, artilleryman, artisan, artist, attache, authority, bowman, cannoneer, carabineer, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, deadeye, diplomat, diplomatist, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, good shot, graduate, gun, gunman, gunner, handy man, hunter, journeyman, marksman, markswoman, musketeer, no slouch, politician, pro, professional, professor, proficient, rifleman, savant, shark, sharp, sharpshooter, shooter, shot, sniper, statesman, targetshooter, technical adviser, technician, toxophilite, trapshooter

• dead stop, arrest, bell, cessation, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead set, dead stand, deadlock, dying down, ebb, ebbing, end, endgame, ending, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, lock, lockout, sit-down strike, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stillstand, stop, stoppage, strike, subsidence, walkout, wane, waning, work stoppage

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

• dead to the world, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, asleep, bemused, blind, castle-building, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, daydreaming, daydreamy, dead, dead asleep, deaf, deep asleep, doped, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, drugged, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, fast asleep, flaked-out, half-awake, half-conscious, in a reverie, in the clouds, insensible, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcotized, nirvanic, nodding, oblivious, out, out cold, out of it, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, semiconscious, senseless, sleeping, slumbering, somewhere else, sound asleep, spaced out, stargazing, stoned, strung out, taken up, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zonked, zonked out

• dead to, a stranger to, asleep, blind to, caught napping, deaf to, impercipient, in ignorance of, incognizant, insensible, insensible to, lost to, mindless, napping, nonconceiving, not with it, oblivious, out of it, unaware, unaware of, unconscious, unconscious of, unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwitting, witless

• dead, SOL, a outrance, abeyant, abrupt, abruptly, absolute, absolutely, accurate, achromatic, achromic, ago, all bets off, all gone, all in, all off, all out, all over, all up, all-out, anechoic, anemic, anesthetized, annihilated, antiquated, antique, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashes, ashy, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at an end, at rest, awful silence, barren, bated, beat, beat up, beaten, beige, belowground, benumbed, bereft of life, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, blah, bland, blank, blase, bleak, bled white, blind, blind-alley, bloodless, bloody, blown over, body, bone-weary, bones, bored, boring, breathless, buried, bushed, by, bygone, bypast, cadaver, cadaverous, called home, callous, calm, canceled, carcass, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, categorical, categorically, cecal, certain, characterless, chloranemic, choked, choked off, clay, closed, cold, collapsing, colorless, comatose, commonplace, complete, completely, concluded, constricted, contracted, cool, corpse, corpselike, corpus delicti, crack, croaked, crowbait, damned, damped, dampened, dated, dead ahead, dead and buried, dead and gone, dead asleep, dead body, dead man, dead of night, dead person, dead-and-alive, dead-end, dead-tired, deadbeat, deadened, deadly, deadly pale, death-struck, deathful, deathlike, deathlike silence, deathly, deathly pale, debilitated, deceased, decedent, decided, deep, deep asleep, definitely, defunct, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, depths, destitute of life, dilute, diluted, dim, dimmed, dingy, direct, directly, discolored, dismal, disused, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in, done up, done with, doped, dopey, dormant, down the drain, downright, drab, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, droopy, drugged, dry, dry bones, dryasdust, due, due north, dull, dulled, dun, dust, dusty, earth, effete, elapsed, elephantine, embalmed corpse, emotionless, empty, ended, enervated, entire, entirely, essentially, etiolated, even, exact, exactly, exanimate, exhausted, expired, expressly, expunged, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extinct, extinguished, extreme, extremely, fade, faded, fagged out, faint, faithfully, fallen, fallow, fast asleep, fatigued, fini, finished, flaked-out, flat, flat out, flavorless, food for worms, forgotten, forthright, foul, frigid, full, fundamentally, ghastly, golden silence, gone, gone glimmering, gone out, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, gray, grey, groggy, gruelly, had it, haggard, half-conscious, hardened, has-been, heavy, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hush, hush of night, hypochromic, immeasurably, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient, impervious, in a beeline, in abeyance, in all respects, in every respect, in line with, in suspense, in the extreme, inactive, inane, inanimate, inaudibility, incalculably, indefinitely, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, infertile, infinitely, inorganic, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, inured, ipsissimis verbis, irrecoverable, jaded, jejune, just, kaput, kaputt, knocked out, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, lapsed, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, literally, literatim, livid, logy, lost, low-spirited, lucid stillness, lukewarm, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, martyred, mat, mealy, middle, midst, mild, milk-and-water, monotonous, moribund, mortal remains, most, motionless, muddy, muffled, mum, mummification, mummy, muted, narcotized, neutral, nirvanic, no more, noiselessness, numb, numbed, obdurate, oblivious, obsolete, obtuse, ordinary, organic remains, out, out cold, out of it, out of style, out of use, out-and-out, outmoded, outright, outworn, over, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pappy, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, passive, past, pasty, peace, pedestrian, perfect, perfected, perfectly, perished, phlegmatic, played out, plodding, plumb, point-blank, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, pooped out, positively, precise, precisely, profound, prosaic, prostrate, pulpy, purely, pushing up daisies, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, radically, ready to drop, released, relics, reliquiae, remains, reposing, rest, resting easy, right, rigid, rigidly, rigorously, run out, run-of-the-mill, sainted, sallow, sapless, sated, savorless, sedentary, semiconscious, senseless, set at rest, settled, shot, shut, sickly, silence, silentness, skeleton, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, smothered, softened, solemn, solemn silence, somber, somnolent, sordo, sound asleep, soundlessness, spaced out, spent, spiceless, spiritless, square, squarely, squeezed shut, stagnant, stagnating, stale, standing, static, sterile, stiff, stifled, still, stillborn, stillness, stodgy, stoned, stony, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, strangulated, strictly, strung out, stuffy, stultified, subdued, sudden, suddenly, superficial, superseded, supine, sure, suspended, tacitness, taciturnity, taken away, taken off, tallow-faced, tame, tasteless, tedious, tenement of clay, terminated, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the great majority, the loved one, the majority, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thin, thorough, thoroughly, through, through and through, through with, tired out, tired to death, tiresome, to the letter, tomblike silence, toneless, torpid, total, totally, tranquillity, tuckered out, two-dimensional, unanimated, unaroused, unbroken, uncolored, unconcerned, unconditionally, unconscious, undeviatingly, unemotional, unequivocally, unerring, unerringly, unfeeling, unfelt, unflavored, unfruitful, uninterested, uninteresting, unlively, unmitigated, unmoving, unopen, unopened, unperceptive, unproductive, unqualified, unrelieved, unresponsive, unsavory, unswervingly, unsympathetic, unveeringly, unvented, unventilated, used up, utter, utterly, vanished, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, wan, washed up, washed-out, washed-up, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, waxen, weak, weary, weary unto death, whacked, whey-faced, whisht, white, wiped out, wishy-washy, with a vengeance, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wooden, word by word, word for word, world-weary, worn out, worn-out, wound up, zapped, zonked, zonked out

• deaden, KO, abate, absorb the shock, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, bank the fire, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, break the fall, chasten, chloroform, coldcock, constrain, control, cramp, cripple, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden the pain, deafen, debilitate, desensitize, devitalize, diminish, dope, downplay, drug, dull, ease, ease matters, enervate, enfeeble, etherize, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, foment, freeze, give relief, gruel, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay low, lay out, lenify, lessen, lighten, lull, mat, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, muffle, mull, mute, narcotize, neutralize, numb, obtund, offset, pad, palliate, palsy, paralyze, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, put to sleep, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, relieve, restrain, salve, sap, shake, shake up, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, slacken, slake, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up, soothe, stifle, stop, stun, stupe, stupefy, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, unbrace, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken

• deadening, abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive, attenuation, attrition, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, calming, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, debilitation, demulcent, demulsion, devitalization, dilution, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, effemination, emollient, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, falling-off, fatigue, hushing, inanition, languishment, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, modulation, mollification, narcotic, numbing, pacification, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, purgative, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, relaxation, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, salving, slackening, softening, soothing, stunning, stupefying, subduement, subduing, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, weakening

• deadeye, Nimrod, air hole, archer, armhole, artilleryman, blowhole, bowman, bullet-hole, bunghole, cannoneer, carabineer, crack shot, cringle, dead shot, eye, eyelet, gasket, good shot, grommet, guide, gun, gunman, gunner, hunter, keyhole, knothole, loop, loophole, manhole, marksman, markswoman, mousehole, musketeer, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, porthole, punch-hole, rifleman, sharpshooter, shooter, shot, sniper, spiracle, tap, targetshooter, toxophilite, trapshooter, vent, venthole

• deadfall, Dionaea, baited trap, booby trap, deathtrap, decoy, firetrap, flytrap, gin, mine, mole trap, mousetrap, pitfall, rattrap, set gun, spring gun, springe, trap, trapfall

• deadline, A-day, D day, H hour, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, charged moment, circumscription, compass, confine, critical moment, crucial moment, cutoff, cutoff point, decisive moment, delimitation, determinant, division line, eleventh hour, end, extremity, finish, floor, frontier, hedge, high-water mark, interface, kairos, kairotic moment, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mete, moment of truth, nick of time, pregnant moment, psychological moment, start, starting line, starting point, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit, zero hour

• deadlock, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, arrest, bell, blind alley, block, box, brake, bring to, bring up short, cessation, check, checkmate, condition, corner, cul-de-sac, cut short, cutoff, dam, dead end, dead heat, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street, dilemma, draw, draw rein, dying down, ebb, ebbing, end, endgame, ending, even break, extremity, fair shake, final whistle, freeze, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, hole, impasse, knotted score, lock, lockout, neck-and-neck race, photo finish, plight, posture, predicament, pull up, put paid to, quandary, sit-down strike, situation, slow down, stalemate, stall, stand, stand-off, standoff, standstill, state, stay, stem, stem the tide, stillstand, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stoppage, strike, stymie, subsidence, the same, tie, walkout, wane, waning, work stoppage

• deadly, a la mort, abominably, accurate, agonizingly, ashen, awful, awfully, baldly, baleful, balefully, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, bitterly, blatantly, bloodthirsty, blue, boring, brashly, brutal, cadaverous, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, catching, cold-blooded, communicable, confoundedly, consuming, consumptive, contagious, corpselike, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cruelly, damaging, damnably, dangerous, dead, deadened, death-bringing, deathful, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, detrimental, deucedly, devastating, disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, distressing, distressingly, dolorously, doomful, dreadful, dreadfully, dreary, dull, eerie, egregiously, envenomed, exact, excessively, excruciating, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, fatal, fateful, fearful, feral, ferocious, flagrantly, fratricidal, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grievously, grisly, gruesome, haggard, harmful, heartless, hellishly, homicidal, horrible, horribly, howling, humdrum, hurtful, implacable, improperly, inexcusably, infectious, infective, infernally, inhuman, injurious, inordinately, internecine, intolerably, killing, lamentably, lethal, livid, lurid, macabre, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mephitic, merciless, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, miserably, mortal, mortuary, murderous, nakedly, nihilist, nihilistic, noisome, noxious, ominous, openly, painfully, pale, pallid, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, piteously, pitiless, poisonous, precise, prejudicial, ravaging, rousing, ruining, ruinous, ruthless, sadly, savage, scatheful, self-destructive, shatteringly, shockingly, slaying, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tedious, terrible, terribly, terrific, thumping, tiresome, to the death, torturously, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, true, unashamedly, unbearably, uncanny, unconscionably, unduly, unearthly, unerring, unfailing, unpardonably, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wan, wasteful, wasting, wearisome, wearying, weird, whacking, white, withering, woefully

• deadness, analgesia, anesthesia, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, callousness, characterlessness, colorlessness, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, electronarcosis, emptiness, etiolation, flatness, flavorlessness, heaviness, hollowness, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inanity, inconsiderateness, inexcitability, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, mildness, muffled tone, mutedness, narcosis, narcotization, numbness, obtuseness, paleness, pallor, pins and needles, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, saplessness, savorlessness, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, staleness, sterility, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, thick skin, thinness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unperceptiveness, unsavoriness, vapidity, vapidness, veiled voice, voce velata, weakness, wishy-washiness, woodenness

• deadpan, blank, cold-bloodedly, coldheartedly, coldly, dispassionately, empty, expressionless, fishy, glassy, heartlessly, impassive, in cold blood, inexpressive, poker-faced, spiritlessly, unemotionally, unexpressive, unfeelingly, unpassionately, vacant, with dry eyes, wooden

• deadweight, avoirdupois, bale, beef, beefiness, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, cross, cumber, cumbrance, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, fatness, freight, gravity, gross weight, hamper, handicap, heaviness, heft, heftiness, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, liveweight, load, loading, lumber, millstone, neat weight, net, net weight, onus, oppression, overbalance, overload, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, penalty, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, pressure, saddling, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, tonnage, trouble, underweight, weight, weightiness, white elephant

• deadwood, allowance, bine, bones, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, bulge, burgeon, chaff, culm, dishwater, draff, dregs, dust, edge, filings, flagellum, fork, frond, garbage, gash, handicap, head start, hogwash, husks, leavings, lees, limb, odds, offal, offscourings, offshoot, orts, overhand, parings, potsherds, rags, ramage, ramification, raspings, refuse, runner, sarment, scion, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shards, shavings, shoot, slack, slag, slip, slop, slops, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, start, stolon, stubble, sucker, sweepings, swill, switch, tares, tendril, thallus, twig, vantage, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds

• deaf mute, deaf, deaf and dumb, deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-eared, deafened, dull-eared, dummy, earless, hard of hearing, lip reader, mute, stone-deaf, stunned, surd, surdo-mute, the deaf, the hard-of-hearing, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, unhearing, word-deaf

• deaf to, a stranger to, asleep, blind to, caught napping, dead to, declinatory, disobedient, impercipient, in ignorance of, incognizant, insensible, insensible to, lost to, mindless, napping, negative, nonconceiving, nonconsenting, not with it, oblivious, out of it, rejective, unaware, unaware of, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconscious, unconscious of, unconsenting, uncooperative, unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwilling, unwitting, witless

• deaf, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf and dumb, deaf to reason, deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dogmatic, dull-eared, earless, fanatical, hard of hearing, headstrong, heedless, hidebound, illiberal, impervious, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insular, intractable, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mulish, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, oblivious, parochial, pertinacious, perverse, petty, pigheaded, positive, preoccupied, provincial, purblind, self-willed, shortsighted, small, small-minded, stone-deaf, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy, stunned, surd, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconcerned, unconscious, ungenerous, unhearing, unheedful, unliberal, unmoved, unpersuadable, unresponsive, unyielding, word-deaf

• deafen, awake the dead, baffle, blast, blast the ear, boom, crash, crescendo, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, din, dull, fill the air, muffle, mute, peal, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resound, ring, rise, rock the sky, soft-pedal, soften, split the eardrums, split the ears, startle the echoes, stop, stun, subdue, surge, swell, thunder, tone down

• deafening, booming, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, intense, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, pealing, penetrating, piercing, plangent, pungent, reeking, resounding, ringing, sonorous, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thundering, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, window-rattling

• deal out, accord, administer, afford, align, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, array, award, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, broadcast, circumfuse, collocate, communicate, compose, confer, deal, diffract, diffuse, disburse, dish, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, dole, dole out, donate, extend, fan out, fix, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, grant, hand out, heap, help, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, line, line up, marshal, measure out, mete, mete out, offer, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel out, pass around, pay out, place, portion out, pour, present, proffer, propagate, publish, radiate, rain, rally, range, regiment, render, retail, scatter, serve, set out, share out, shell out, shower, slip, snow, sow, sow broadcast, space, splay, spoon out, spread, spread out, strew, tender, utter, vouchsafe, yield

• deal with, accomplish, achieve, act toward, affect, air, analyze, answer to, appertain to, apply to, attain, be in connection, be in contact, be responsible for, bear on, bear upon, behave toward, belong to, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, canvass, care for, carry on, carry out, carry through, castigate, chasten, chastise, clear, comment upon, commerce with, commune with, communicate, compass, complete, concern, conduct, connect, consider, consummate, contend with, control, controvert, converse, cope with, correct, correspond to, criticize, deal by, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, descant, direct, discharge, discipline, discourse, discourse about, discuss, dispatch, dispose of, dissert, dissertate, do, do business with, do by, do the job, do the trick, do with, drive, effect, effectuate, enact, examine, exchange views, execute, fetch, fulfill, go into, handle, have connection with, have dealings with, have intercourse, have truck with, hold communication, inflict upon, inquire into, interchange, intercommunicate, interest, investigate, involve, knock around, knock off, liaise with, link with, make, make go, manage, maneuver, manipulate, masthead, operate, pass under review, patronize, penalize, perform, perform on, pertain to, pillory, pilot, play, polish off, practice, produce, punish, put away, rap, realize, reason, reason about, reason the point, refer to, regard, relate to, remark upon, respect, respond to, review, rid, run, see to, serve, settle with, shop at, sift, speak, square accounts, steer, steward, study, succeed, survey, take, take care of, take to task, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thresh out, tie in with, touch, touch upon, trade at, trade with, traffic with, transact, transact business with, treat, treat of, turn the trick, unburden, use, ventilate, visit upon, work, work out, write up

• deal, Byzantine intrigues, abatement of differences, accommodation, accord, act, act on, adjustment, administer, affair, afford, agreement, align, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allowance, amount, apportion, arrangement, array, attempt, attend to, award, backstairs influence, bang, bargain, barter, bash, bat, batch, beam, behave, belt, bestow, bestow on, biff, big end, bigger half, billet, binding agreement, bit, bite, blind bargain, board, boarding, bond, bonk, budget, bunch, business, business deal, buy and sell, cartel, change, chunk, clap, clapboard, clip, clobber, clout, clump, clutch, coat, coating, coldcock, collective agreement, collocate, collop, commercial transaction, commission, commitment, communicate, compact, compose, composition, compromise, concession, confer, connections, considerable, consortium, contingent, contract, convention, cop-out, cord, cordwood, count, covenant, covenant of salt, covering, crack, cut, dash, deal a blow, deal out, deal with, deals, deck, deliver, desertion of principle, destiny, dicker, disburse, dish out, disk, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dividend, divvy, do business, dole, dole out, donate, dose, driftwood, effort, employment contract, end, engage in, engagement, enterprise, equal share, evasion of responsibility, exchange, extend, extent, fate, fetch, fetch a blow, feuille, film, firewood, fix, flap, foil, fold, fork out, formal agreement, games, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give in exchange, give out, give-and-take, giving way, gob, gobs, good deal, grant, grapple with, great deal, group, half, halver, hand out, handle, hard bargain, hardwood, heap, heaps, help to, helping, hit, hit a clip, horse trade, horse-trade, hunk, impart, inflict, influence peddling, interchange, interest, intrigues, ironclad agreement, issue, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, large amount, lashings, lath, lathing, lathwork, lavish, leaf, legal agreement, legal contract, let have, let have it, line, line up, loads, lobbying, lobbyism, log, lot, lots, lumber, marshal, measure, measure out, meed, membrane, mess, mete, mete out, mint, modicum, moiety, mutual agreement, mutual concession, negotiation, number, obligation, offer, oodles, operation, pack, package deal, pact, paction, pane, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, parcel, parcel out, part, partake, participate, partition, pass around, paste, patina, pay out, peck, peel, pellicle, percentage, piece, pile, piles, place, plait, plan, plank, planking, plate, plating, ploys, plunk, ply, plyboard, plywood, poke, pole, portion, portion out, post, pot, pour, present, proffer, program, project, promise, proportion, proposition, protocol, punch, puncheon, quantity, quantum, quite a little, quota, raft, rafts, rain, rake-off, rally, range, rasher, ration, reckon with, regiment, render, ropes, safety glass, scads, schemes, scum, see to, segment, serve, set out, settlement, shake, share, sheathing, sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shell out, shingle, shower, sideboard, siding, sight, skin, slab, slam, slat, slew, slews, slice, slip, slog, slug, smack, small amount, small share, smite, snap, snow, soak, sock, softwood, space, spate, splat, spoon out, stack, stacks, stake, stave, stick, stick of wood, stipulation, stock, stovewood, strike, strike at, strings, sum, surrender, swap, swap horses, swat, swipe, switch, table, tablet, take care of, take in exchange, task, tender, three-by-four, thump, thwack, tidy sum, timber, timbering, timberwork, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, trade-in, traffic, transaction, treat, truck, turn, two-by-four, understanding, undertaking, union contract, valid contract, veneer, venture, vouchsafe, wad, wads, wafer, wage contract, wallop, weatherboard, whack, wham, whole slew, whop, wire-pulling, wires, wood, work, yerk, yield, yielding

• dealer, Mafioso, Wall Streeter, agent, black marketeer, bond crowd, bootlegger, broker, businessman, businesswoman, chandler, curb broker, distributor, drug pusher, floor broker, floor trader, floorman, gray marketeer, importer, jobber, marketer, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, monger, moonshiner, odd-lot dealer, pit man, pusher, racketeer, registered representative, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, salesman, sharebroker, shopkeeper, specialist, stock dealer, stock-exchange broker, stockbroker, stockjobber, storekeeper, supplier, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, two-dollar broker, vendor, wholesaler