Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/21

• demolition, answer, complete answer, confounding, confutation, contradiction, controversion, demolishment, denial, disassembly, discrediting, dismantlement, effective rejoinder, flattening, leveling, overthrow, overthrowal, razing, rebuttal, refutal, refutation, smashing, squelch, subversion, tearing down, undermining, unmaking, upset, upsetting, wreckage, wrecking

• demon, Baba Yaga, Lilith, Mafioso, Satan, Young Turk, addict, afreet, ape-man, atua, barghest, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, brute, bug, cacodemon, collector, daemon, daeva, damned spirits, demonkind, demons, denizens of hell, devil, devil incarnate, dragon, dybbuk, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, evil genius, evil spirit, evil spirits, faddist, fanatic, fiend, fiend from hell, fire-eater, firebrand, freak, fury, genie, genius, ghoul, goon, gorilla, great one for, gunsel, gyre, hardnose, harpy, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish host, hellkite, hobbyist, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, host of hell, hothead, hotspur, hound, incendiary, incubus, infatuate, inhabitants of Pandemonium, intelligence, jinni, jinniyeh, killer, lamia, lost souls, mad dog, madcap, monster, mugger, nut, ogre, ogress, powers of darkness, pursuer, rakshasa, rapist, revolutionary, rhapsodist, satan, savage, she-wolf, shedu, souls in hell, specter, spirit, spitfire, succubus, sucker for, supernatural being, termagant, terror, terrorist, the damned, the lost, the undead, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, vampire, violent, virago, visionary, vixen, werewolf, wild beast, witch, wolf, yogini, zealot

• Demon, His Satanic Majesty, Lucifer, Satan, Satanas, the Adversary, the Arch-fiend, the Common Enemy, the Demon, the Devil, the Devil Incarnate, the Evil One, the Evil Spirit, the Fiend, the Foul Fiend, the Old Enemy, the Old Serpent, the Tempter, the Wicked One, the archenemy, the serpent

• demoniac, aliene, bedlamite, borderline case, crackbrain, crackpot, crazed, crazy, dement, demonic, devilish, diabolic, energumen, fanatic, fired, flake, fou, idiot, insane, inspired, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, meshuggenah, noncompos, nut, phrenetic, raving lunatic, satanic, screwball, serpentine, unhallowed, weirdo

• demoniacal, Draconian, Mephistophelian, Tartarean, abandoned, amok, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bellowing, berserk, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, delirious, demoniac, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like, devilish, diabolic, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, ghoulish, haggard, hellborn, hellish, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, murderous, ogreish, orgasmic, orgiastic, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, roaring, running mad, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, storming, subhuman, transported, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, uncontrollable, ungodly, unhuman, vicious, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wolfish

• demonism, Black Mass, Druidism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Satanism, Zoroastrianism, animal worship, black magic, chthonian worship, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, fetishism, fire worship, heathenism, hero worship, iconoduly, iconolatry, idol worship, idolatrousness, idolatry, idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, paganism, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, snake worship, sorcery, star worship, sun worship, the black art, tree worship

• demonstrable, absolute, actual, admitting no question, apodictic, apparent, attestable, authenticatable, certain, checkable, conclusive, confirmable, demonstratable, demonstrated, displayable, displayed, evident, evincible, exhibitable, exhibited, factual, historical, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, manifest, obvious, positive, provable, real, self-evident, shown, substantiatable, supportable, sustainable, testable, unanswerable, unconfutable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefutable, validatable, verifiable

• demonstrate, account for, adumbrate, advertise, affect, afford proof of, air, allegorize, approve, argue, ascertain, attest, audit, balance, balance the books, beef, bespeak, betoken, bitch, blazon forth, body forth, boggle, boycott, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring home to, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, broaden the mind, call in question, call to mind, catechize, challenge, check, check out, cinch, cite, cite a particular, civilize, clarify, clear up, clinch, complain, connote, crack, cry out against, dangle, decipher, demonstrate against, demur, demythologize, denote, describe, determine, develop, direct, disclose, display, dispute, divulge, document, double-check, dramatize, edify, educate, elucidate, emblazon, embody, enact, enlighten, enter a protest, establish, euhemerize, evidence, evince, example, exemplify, exhibit, explain, explain away, explicate, expose, expose to view, exposit, expostulate, expound, express, figure, fix, flash, flaunt, flourish, follow, follow from, foreshadow, furnish evidence, give a for-instance, give indication of, give instruction, give lessons in, give reason for, give sign, give the meaning, give token, go to show, ground, guide, have a case, highlight, hold good, hold up, hold water, holler, howl, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, image, impersonate, imply, incarnate, indicate, inform, instance, instruct, inventory, involve, itemize, kick, make clear, make good, make out, make plain, manifest, march, mark, materialize, mean, mirror, nail down, name, object, open the eyes, overhaul, parade, particularize, perform, personate, personify, picket, point to, popularize, prefigure, present, press objections, pretypify, proclaim, produce, project, protest, prove, prove to be, prove true, put forth, put forward, quote, raise a howl, rally, rationalize, realize, reeducate, reflect, remonstrate, remove all doubt, represent, reveal, roll out, school, scruple, set, set at rest, set forth, set right, settle, settle the matter, shadow, shadow forth, sharpen the wits, shed light upon, show, show forth, show how, show signs of, show the way, signalize, signify, simplify, sit in, solve, speak for itself, speak volumes, spell out, sport, spotlight, squawk, state a grievance, strike, suggest, symptomatize, take stock, teach, teach a lesson, teach in, teach the rudiments, tell, tend to show, throw light upon, token, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, unfold, unlock, unravel, vaunt, verify, wave, yell bloody murder

• demonstration, absolute indication, allegorization, alphabet, art, beef, bitch, blazon, blueprint, boycott, bravura, brilliancy, burden of proof, case, case in point, challenge, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, citation, clarification, complaint, compunction, conclusive evidence, confirmation, conventional representation, cracking, cross reference, damning evidence, dance notation, daring, dash, decipherment, decoding, deduction, deductive reasoning, delineation, demo, demur, demurrer, demythologization, depiction, depictment, description, determination, diagram, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, display, drama, dramatics, drawing, eclat, editing, elucidation, emblem, emendation, enactment, enlightenment, establishment, etalage, euhemerism, evidence, example, exception, exegesis, exemplar, exemplification, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, explanation, explication, exponent, exposition, expostulation, exposure, expounding, false front, fanfaronade, figuration, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, grievance, grievance committee, hieroglyphic, histrionics, howl, iconography, ideogram, illumination, illustration, imagery, imaging, incontrovertible evidence, indication, indignation meeting, indisputable evidence, induction, inductive reasoning, instance, ironclad proof, item, kick, letter, light, limning, logical thought, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map, march, musical notation, nonviolent protest, notation, object lesson, objection, onus, onus probandi, opening, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, parade, particular, performance, philosophy, picketing, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentation, presentment, printing, production, projection, proof, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, quotation, rally, ratiocination, rationale, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, realization, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, reference, relevant instance, remonstrance, remonstration, rendering, rendition, representation, representative, retrospective, schema, score, script, scruple, settlement, sham, show, showing, showing-off, simplification, sit-in, solution, sophistry, specious reasoning, spectacle, splash, splurge, squawk, staginess, strike, substantiation, sure sign, sweet reason, syllabary, symbol, tablature, teach-in, testimony, theatrics, type, typical example, unfolding, unfoldment, unlocking, unmistakable sign, unveiling, varnishing day, vaunt, verification, vernissage, writing

• demonstrative, Christophanic, Satanophanic, accessible, adoring, affectional, affectionate, affective, allegorizing, angelophanic, annotative, apodictic, appearing, approachable, candid, clarifying, communicative, conjugal, connotative, conversable, critical, demonstrating, demonstrational, demythologizing, denominative, denotative, designative, devoted, diagnostic, disclosive, displaying, editorial, effusive, elucidative, emblematic, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, enlightening, epiphanic, euhemeristic, evident, evidential, evincive, exegetic, exemplificative, exhibitive, expansive, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositional, expositive, expository, expressive, extroverted, faithful, feeling, figural, figurative, filial, fond, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, glandular, glossarial, gossipy, gut, husbandly, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, implicative, incarnating, incarnational, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, manifestative, materializing, maternal, meaningful, melting, metaphorical, naming, newsy, of soul, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, overdemonstrative, parental, paternal, pathognomonic, peculiar, plain, pneumatophanic, presentational, probative, profuse, promulgatory, provable, rationalistic, rationalizing, representative, revelational, revelatory, romantic, scholiastic, self-revealing, self-revelatory, semantic, semiotic, sentimental, showing, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, sociable, soft, soulful, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, talkative, tender, theophanic, typical, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, uxorious, visceral, warm, wifely

• demonstrator, allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between, guide, hermeneut, interpreter, lexicographer, metaphrast, oneirocritic, paraphrast, picket, picket line, picketer, scholiast, textual critic, translator

• demoralize, agitate, bastardize, bewilder, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, browbeat, brutalize, bulldoze, bully, chill, confuse, corrupt, cow, cripple, crush, damp, dampen, dash, daunt, debase, debauch, debilitate, defeat, defile, deject, deprave, depress, devitalize, disarrange, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, disorder, disorganize, disparage, dispirit, disturb, dragoon, enervate, fluster, harass, hector, huff, intimidate, jumble, knock down, muddle, overcome, perturb, pervert, prostrate, psych out, rattle, shake, shake up, snarl, soil, subdue, sully, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, unbrace, undermine, undo, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstring, upset, vitiate, warp, weaken

• demote, abase, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, debase, defrock, degrade, demean, dement, deplume, depose, deprive, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disgrade, dismiss, displace, displume, downgrade, drum out, expel, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, humble, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lower, make redundant, pension off, read out of, reduce, release, remove, replace, retire, sack, separate forcibly, strip, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unfrock

• demotion, banishment, blackballing, comedown, concavity, de-escalation, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, defrocking, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, depluming, deportation, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, deprivation, derogation, descent, deterioration, detrusion, devolution, diminution, disbarment, disfellowship, displuming, downgrading, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, ducking, dying, ebb, effeteness, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, extradition, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, fugitation, hauling down, hollowness, humbling, humiliation, involution, lapse, loss of tone, lowering, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, reduction, regression, relegation, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rustication, sinking, slippage, slump, stripping, submergence, suspension, thrusting under, transportation, unfrocking, wane

• demulcent, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsam, balsamic, benumbing, brilliantine, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cerate, chrism, cleansing, cold cream, collyrium, cream, deadening, dulling, easing, embrocation, emollient, eye-lotion, eyewash, eyewater, face cream, hand lotion, inunction, inunctum, lanolin, lenitive, liniment, loosening, lotion, mitigating, mitigative, mollifying, nard, numbing, oil, ointment, pain-killing, palliative, pomade, pomatum, purgative, relaxing, relieving, remedial, salve, sedative, softening, soothing, soothing syrup, spikenard, subduing, unction, unguent, unguentum, vulnerary

• demur, aversion, back down, balance, balk, bashfulness, beef, bitch, blench, boggle, boggling, boycott, call in question, challenge, combat, combative reaction, complain, complaint, compunction, conscience, counteraction, cry out against, debate, defiance, deliberate, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demurral, demurrer, deprecate, deprecation, difference, difficulty, diffidence, disagreement, disapproval, disapprove, disinclination, dispute, dissent, dissentience, enter a protest, exception, expostulate, expostulation, falter, faltering, fear, fight, fight shy of, flinch, fractiousness, gag, grievance, grievance committee, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold off, holler, hover, howl, hum and haw, indignation meeting, jib, kick, make bones about, march, modesty, negativism, noncooperation, nonviolent protest, object, objection, obstinacy, oppose, opposition, passive resistance, pause, picket, picketing, ponder, press objections, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, pull back, quail, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, question, raise a howl, rally, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recoil, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resist, resistance, retreat, revolt, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, shilly-shally, shrink, shrinking, shy, shy at, shyness, sit in, sit-in, squawk, stand, state a grievance, stick, stick at, stickle, stickling, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain, strain at, strike, stumble, teach in, teach-in, think twice about, uncooperativeness, unwillingness, vacillate, variance, waver, wince, withdraw, withstanding, yell bloody murder, yield

• demure, Quakerish, Victorian, backward, bashful, censorious, close, confused, conscious, coy, decent, decorous, diffident, earnest, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hidebound, inarticulate, long-faced, mid-Victorian, modest, mousy, narrow, nice, old-maidish, overmodest, priggish, prim, proper, prudish, puritanical, reserved, reticent, retiring, sanctimonious, sedate, seemly, self-conscious, serious, shamefaced, shamefast, shy, silent, skittish, smug, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stammering, stiff-necked, stone-faced, straight-faced, straitlaced, stuffy, thoughtful, timid, timorous, unassertive, unassured, unsmiling, weighty

• demurrer, answer, apostate, argument, beef, bitch, boycott, challenge, complaint, compunction, counterstatement, defense, demonstration, demur, demurral, denial, difficulty, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, exception, expostulation, grievance, grievance committee, howl, indignation meeting, kick, march, nonconformist, nonviolent protest, objection, objector, opinionist, opposition voice, picketing, plea, pleading, pleadings, protest, protest demonstration, protestant, protestation, protester, qualm, question, rally, rebuttal, recusant, refutation, remonstrance, remonstration, reply, response, riposte, schismatic, scruple, sectarian, sectary, separatist, sit-in, special demurrer, special pleading, squawk, statement of defense, strike, teach-in

• demythologize, account for, allegorize, clarify, clear up, crack, decipher, demonstrate, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, make clear, make plain, popularize, rationalize, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel

• den of iniquity, Babylon, Gomorrah, Sodom, bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, crib, den, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, fleshpots, hellhole, hole, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, joint, panel den, panel house, red-light district, sink, sink of corruption, sink of iniquity, sporting house, stew, stews, tenderloin, whorehouse

• den, Babylon, Gomorrah, Sodom, adytum, ashram, asylum, bolt-hole, booking office, bordello, box office, branch, branch office, brothel, burrow, cabinet, cache, cathouse, cave, cell, cesspit, cesspool, chambers, chancellery, chancery, clip joint, cloister, closet, concealment, consulate, corner, corporate headquarters, couch, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den of iniquity, den of thieves, dive, dugout, dump, earth, embassy, executive office, fleshpots, form, foxhole, funk hole, gyp joint, headquarters, hellhole, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, holy of holies, home office, ivory tower, joint, lair, legation, lodge, main office, mew, niche, nook, office, pandemonium, privacy, recess, refuge, retreat, run, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, shop, sink, sink of corruption, sporting house, stash, stews, study, sty, ticket office, tunnel, undercovert, whorehouse

• denature, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adulterate, alloy, alter, ameliorate, bastardize, better, break up, canker, change, cheapen, coarsen, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, cut, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, deform, degenerate, degrade, denaturalize, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, dilute, distort, diversify, doctor, doctor up, fit, fortify, improve, infect, lace, meliorate, misuse, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, qualify, ravage, ravish, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refit, reform, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, spike, subvert, taint, tamper with, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, twist, ulcerate, vary, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, water, water down, work a change, worsen

• deniable, arguable, at issue, confutable, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, iffy, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, problematic, questionable, refutable, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious

• denial, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abrogation, absolute contradiction, abstaining, agnosticism, annulment, answer, argument, atheism, ban, bereavement, bucking, challenge, chucking, chucking out, complete answer, confounding, confutation, constraint, contempt, contention, contraband, contradiction, contraposition, contrary assertion, contravention, contraversion, controversion, cost, counteraction, countering, counterstatement, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination, declinature, declining, defense, demolition, demurrer, denudation, deprivation, despisal, despising, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disbelief, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, discredit, discrediting, dismissal, disobedience, disowning, disownment, dispossession, disproof, disregard, dissent, divestment, effective rejoinder, embargo, exception, exclusion, expatriation, expense, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, forfeit, forfeiture, forswearing, frugality, gainsaying, golden mean, head wind, heresy, holding back, ignoring, impugnation, impugnment, inability to believe, incredulity, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, infidelity, inhibition, injunction, injury, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, law, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, minimifidianism, misbelief, moderateness, moderation, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, no-no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonbelief, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, nothing in excess, nullification, nullifidianism, objection, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overthrow, overthrowal, palinode, palinody, passing by, perdition, plea, pleading, preclusion, prevention, privation, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, putting away, putting out, rebuff, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, refraining, refusal, refutal, refutation, rejection, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, reply, repression, repudiation, repulse, resistance, response, restraint, restrictive covenants, retention, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, riposte, robbery, ruin, ruling out, sacrifice, scouting, self, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, special demurrer, special pleading, spoliation, spurning, squelch, standing against, statement of defense, statute, stripping, subversion, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, taking away, temperance, temperateness, throwing out, thumbs-down, total loss, traversal, turndown, turning out, unbelief, unbelievingness, undercurrent, undermining, unsaying, unwillingness, upset, upsetting, veto, withdrawal, withholding, zoning, zoning laws

• denied, belied, confounded, confuted, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, deflated, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, discredited, disdained, dismissed, disowned, disproved, disputed, excepted, excluded, exploded, exposed, forsworn, ignored, impugned, invalidated, negated, negatived, not considered, overthrown, overturned, punctured, rebuffed, refused, refuted, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, shown up, spurned, upset

• denigrate, asperse, bedarken, besmirch, bespatter, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, call names, calumniate, charcoal, cork, darken, defame, defile, deprecate, depreciate, despise, dinge, discommend, disdain, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, hold in contempt, ink, libel, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, put down, revile, ridicule, scandalize, shade, shadow, slander, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, stigmatize, sully, tarnish, tear down, throw mud at, traduce, vilify

• denizen, addressee, artist-in-residence, citizen, colonize, dweller, empeople, frequenter, habitant, haunter, house detective, incumbent, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, national, occupant, occupier, people, plant, populate, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, settle, settle in, sojourner, subject, tenant

• denomination, Amish, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arianism, Athanasianism, Boehmenism, Calvinism, Catholicism, Christian Science, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Conservative Judaism, Eleusinianism, Episcopalianism, Erastianism, Ethical Culture, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Judaism, Lamaism, Laudianism, Laudism, Lingayat Hinduism, Magianism, Mahayana Buddhism, Mandaeism, Methodism, Mithraism, Muhammadanism, New Thought, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Oxford Movement, Parsiism, Parsism, Practical Christianity, Puritanism, Quakerism, Reform Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Rosicrucianism, Sabaeanism, Salvation Army, Shiite Muslimism, Shin Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, Shinto, Shintoism, Sikhism, Socinianism, Sufism, Taoism, Tendai Buddhism, Theosophy, Ubiquitarianism, Uniatism, Unitarianism, Vaishnavite Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, Wahabiism, Yoga, Yogism, Zen, Zen Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, adherents, affiliation, allocation, antinomianism, appellation, appellative, assignment, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, body, branch, brand, breed, byword, calling, cast, character, characterization, christening, church, clan, class, classification, classifying, cognomen, color, communion, community, confession, connection, creed, cryptonym, cult, definition, denotation, description, designation, determination, differentiation, disciples, disclosure, division, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, faction, faith, feather, fellowship, fingering, fixing, followers, form, genre, genus, grade, grain, group, gymnosophy, handle, hint, homoiousianism, honorific, hyponym, identification, identifying, ilk, indication, indicativeness, ism, kidney, kin, kind, label, latitudinarianism, line, lot, make, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, number, offshoot, order, organization, party, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pinning down, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, precision, proper name, proper noun, quietism, race, religious order, schism, school, scientific name, secret name, sect, sectarism, segment, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, size, society, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, suggestion, symptomaticness, tag, tagging, tautonym, term, terming, the like of, the likes of, title, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, unit, value, variety, version

• denotative, allegorical, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, figural, figurative, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, referential, representative, semantic, semiotic, sententious, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, transferred, typical

• denote, add up to, advert to, allude to, announce, approve, argue, attest, be construed as, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, be taken as, bespeak, betoken, breathe, characterize, connote, demonstrate, denominate, designate, differentiate, disclose, display, distinguish, emblematize, entail, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, figure, finger, furnish evidence, give evidence, give indication of, give token, go to show, highlight, hint, identify, illustrate, imply, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, involve, manifest, mark, mean, name, note, pick out, point at, point out, point to, prove, refer to, represent, reveal, select, set forth, show, show signs of, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, specify, spell, stand for, stigmatize, suggest, symbol, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, tell, tend to show, testify, typify

• denouement, Z, accomplishment, action, anagnorisis, angle, answer, apodosis, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascertainment, atmosphere, background, bitter end, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, characterization, clearing up, climax, coda, color, completion, complication, conclusion, consummation, continuity, contrivance, crack of doom, cracking, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, decipherment, decoding, design, destination, destiny, determination, development, device, disentanglement, doom, effect, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, episode, eschatology, expiration, explanation, fable, falling action, fate, final result, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finding, finding-out, finis, finish, gimmick, goal, incident, interpretation, issue, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, line, local color, mood, motif, movement, mythos, omega, outcome, payoff, period, peripeteia, peroration, plan, plot, quietus, reason, recognition, resolution, resolving, resting place, result, riddling, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, slant, solution, solving, sorting out, stoppage, stopping place, story, structure, subject, subplot, swan song, switch, term, terminal, termination, terminus, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, twist, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, windup, working, working-out

• denounce, accuse, allege, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, article, assail, attack, attaint, be imminent, betray, blacklist, blame, bludgeon, book, brand, bring accusation, bring charges, bring home to, bring to book, bulldoze, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, charge, cite, comminate, complain, complain against, condemn, convict, criticize, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denunciate, doom, excommunicate, fasten on, fasten upon, find guilty, finger, forebode, fulminate against, hang something on, impeach, implicate, imply, impugn, impute, incriminate, indict, inform, inform against, inform on, insinuate, intimidate, inveigh against, knock, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, look threatening, lower, menace, pass sentence on, penalize, pillory, pin on, prefer charges, press charges, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, put on report, rap, reflect upon, report, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, reveal, revile, ridicule, sentence, shake up, skin, stigmatize, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, threaten, twit, utter threats against, vilify, vituperate, warn

• dense, Boeotian, adamantine, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockheaded, blockish, bony, bovine, bristling, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, cement, cemental, chumpish, cloddish, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, coarse, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, corneous, corpulent, cowish, crammed, crammed full, crass, crawling, crowded, diamondlike, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, durable, dure, enduring, exuberant, fat, fatheaded, firm, flintlike, flinty, flourishing, foolish, full, full-bodied, gluey, granitelike, granitic, gross, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, heaped, heavy, heavyset, horny, impassable, impassive, impenetrable, impermeable, ineducable, iron-hard, ironlike, jam-packed, jammed, jungled, jungly, klutzy, lapideous, lasting, lethargic, lithoid, lithoidal, lumpish, lush, luxuriant, marble, marblelike, massed, massive, nonporous, numskulled, oafish, obdurate, obtuse, opaque, osseous, overgrown, overrun, packed, phlegmatic, piled, populous, rank, resistant, resistive, riotous, rocklike, rocky, rugged, serried, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, solid, sottish, sound, stable, steady, steellike, steely, stolid, stonelike, stony, stout, strong, stupid, sturdy, substantial, swarming, teeming, thick, thick-bodied, thick-growing, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickset, three-dimensional, tight, torpid, tough, unteachable, unweeded, unyielding, viscid, viscose, viscous, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wrongheaded

• density, asininity, blockishness, body, boobishness, boorishness, bovinity, callosity, callousness, cloddishness, concreteness, crassness, crudeness, denseness, dim-wittedness, dimness, doltishness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, dumbness, duncery, durability, durity, firmness, flintiness, grossness, hardness, hardness of heart, hebetude, impenetrability, induration, lethargy, loutishness, lumpishness, mass, materiality, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness, obduracy, obtuseness, opacity, palpability, ponderability, resistance, restiveness, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness, solidity, sottishness, soundness, stability, steadiness, steeliness, stolidity, stoniness, stoutness, strength, stupidity, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, tangibility, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, toughness, unteachability, wrongheadedness, yokelism

• dent, alveolation, alveolus, baby tooth, bicuspid, boss, bucktooth, bump, canine, colophon, concavity, convexity, crown, cuspid, cutter, dactylogram, dactylograph, deciduous tooth, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, depress, dimple, dint, dogtooth, embossment, engrave, excrescence, eyetooth, fang, fingerprint, footmark, footprint, footstep, fore tooth, fossil footprint, furrow, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, gouge, grinder, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incisor, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, lump, milk tooth, molar, notch, pad, paw print, pawmark, peg, permanent tooth, pimple, pit, pivot tooth, pock, pockmark, premolar, press in, print, pug, pugmark, punch, punch in, recess, scrivello, seal, set back, set in, sigil, signet, snag, snaggletooth, stamp, step, stud, sunken part, tamp, thumbmark, thumbprint, tooth, tush, tusk, vestige, wisdom tooth

• dental, accented, allopathic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bicuspid, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chiropodic, chiropractic, clinical, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dentiform, dentoid, dissimilated, dorsal, exodontic, fanged, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, medical, mid, molar, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, occlusive, odontoid, open, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pediatric, periodontic, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, prosthodontic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, snaggle-toothed, snaggled, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, surgical, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tusked, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• dentate, battlemented, chopped, clawed, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, dentated, digital, digitate, digitated, embrasured, erose, fanged, fingered, gashed, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, jawed, lacerate, lacerated, nicked, notched, prehensile, raptorial, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, taloned, toothed

• denticle, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, 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

• dentifrice, abstergent, cathartic, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, depurant, detergent, diuretic, emetic, enema, gargle, holystone, lotion, mouthwash, nauseant, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse, shampoo, soap, solvent, synthetic detergent, tooth powder, toothpaste, wash

• denude, bankrupt, bare, bleed, bleed white, defoliate, denudate, deplume, deprive, despoil, dismantle, dismember, displume, disrobe, divest, drain, draw and quarter, dry, exhaust, expose, flay, fleece, impoverish, lacerate, lay bare, lay open, maim, mangle, milk, mutilate, peel, pick clean, pick to pieces, pluck, pull apart, remove, shear, shred, skin, strip, strip bare, suck dry, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, uncloak, unclothe, uncover, undress, unsheathe, unveil

• denuded, bare, bared, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denudated, deprived of, divested, exposed, lacking, laid bare, minus, naked, open, out of, parted from, peeled, robbed of, shorn of, showing, stripped, stripped of, uncovered, unveiled, wanting

• denunciate, accuse, allege, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, article, attaint, blacklist, blame, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring home to, bring to book, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, charge, cite, complain, complain against, condemn, convict, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, doom, excommunicate, fasten on, fasten upon, find guilty, finger, fulminate against, hang something on, impeach, imply, impugn, impute, indict, inform, inform against, inform on, insinuate, inveigh against, knock, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, menace, pass sentence on, penalize, pin on, prefer charges, press charges, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, put on report, rap, reflect upon, report, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, sentence, shake up, skin, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, threaten, twit

• denunciation, accusal, accusation, accusing, allegation, allegement, anathema, anathematizing, arraignment, ban, bill of particulars, blame, blasphemy, bringing of charges, bringing to book, bulldozing, castigation, censure, charge, commination, complaint, condemnation, conviction, count, curse, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, decrial, delation, denouncement, doom, empty threat, evil eye, excommunication, excoriation, execration, flaying, foreboding, fulmination, fustigation, guilty verdict, hex, idle threat, imminence, impeachment, implication, implied threat, imprecation, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, intimidation, judgment, lawsuit, laying of charges, malison, malocchio, menace, pillorying, plaint, promise of harm, proscription, prosecution, rap, reprehension, reproach, reprobation, sentence, skinning alive, stricture, suit, sword of Damocles, taxing, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, thundering, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, verdict of guilty, warning, whammy

• deny, abandon, abjure, abstain, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, assert the contrary, avoid, back down, back out, backwater, ban, bar, be contrary to, begrudge, belie, brush aside, call into question, challenge, chuck, chuck out, climb down, close the hand, confound, confute, constrain, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, cross, crush, curb, debar, decline, defeat, demolish, desert, despise, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disbelieve, discard, disclaim, discount, discredit, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispose of, disprove, dispute, disregard, eat crow, eat humble pie, embargo, enjoin, eschew, except, exclude, exclude from, finish, floor, forbear, forbid, forgo, forsake, forswear, gag on, gainsay, grudge, hold back, ignore, impugn, inhibit, interdict, join issue upon, keep back, misbelieve, negate, negative, nonplus, not accept, not admit, not believe, not buy, not swallow, nullify, oppose, oppugn, outlaw, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, pass by, pass up, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, push aside, put to silence, rebuff, rebut, recall, recant, reduce to silence, refrain, refuse, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refuse to credit, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repress, repudiate, repulse, restrain, retract, revoke, rule out, sacrifice, say no to, scout, settle, shove away, shun, shut out, shut up, silence, smash all opposition, spurn, squash, squelch, subvert, suppress, swallow, taboo, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, traverse, turn away, turn down, turn out, unbelieve, undermine, unsay, upset, waive, withdraw, withhold

• deodorize, belie, camouflage, color, disguise, distort, dress up, embellish, embroider, falsify, freshen the air, fudge, fumigate, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pervert, slant, strain, titivate, trick out, twist, understate, varnish, ventilate, warp, whitewash

• depart from, abandon, back out, be distinct, be distinguished, bear off, beg off, bend, branch off, change the bearing, clash with, conflict with, contrast with, cry off, curve, detour, deviate, deviate from, differ, digress, disaccord with, disagree with, discard, divagate, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, drop out, evacuate, forsake, go back on, heel, jar with, jettison, jilt, leave, leave behind, leave flat, maroon, not accord with, not square with, pull out, quit, quit cold, renege, say goodbye to, sheer, shift, stand apart, stand down, stand over against, swerve, tack, take leave of, throw over, trend, turn, turn aside, vacate, vary, veer, withdraw

• depart, abandon, abrupt, abscond, absquatulate, alienate, be consumed, be getting along, be gone, be lost, beat a retreat, beat it, blow, bolt, bow out, buzz off, cast, cast off, cast out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, change, check out, clear out, come away, conk, croak, cut adrift, cut and run, cut off, cut out, decamp, decease, delete, dematerialize, demise, depart from, depart this life, desert, deviate, deviate from, die, die away, die out, differ, digress, disagree, disappear, disarticulate, discard, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dispel, disperse, dissent, dissipate, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divagate, diverge, diverge from, divide, divorce, do a fade-out, duck out, dwindle, egress, eject, elope, erode, escape, estrange, evanesce, evaporate, excurse, exit, expel, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, flee, fly, forsake, fugitate, gang along, get along, get away, get lost, get off, get on, get out, get sidetracked, get under way, go, go AWOL, go along, go astray, go away, go off, go on, go on furlough, go on leave, go out, hide, hit the road, isolate, jump, jump bail, leave, leave no trace, leave the scene, levant, make an exit, make off, march off, march out, maunder, melt, melt away, mosey, move away, move off, move out, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, pass over, perish, pull away, pull back, pull out, put off mortality, quit, quit this world, ramble, reject, repudiate, retire, retire from sight, return to dust, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, run out, sashay, sashay off, scram, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, set out, shove off, show the heels, shut off, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip away, slip off, slip out, slip the cable, sneak out, split, stagger along, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, start, step aside, stop breathing, stray, strike out, subtract, succumb, suffer an eclipse, take French leave, take flight, take leave, take to flight, take wing, throw off, throw out, toddle, toddle along, turn aside, turn tail, uncouple, unyoke, up and die, up and go, vamoose, vanish, vanish from sight, vary, walk out, wander, waste, waste away, wear away, wing it, withdraw, withdraw from, yield the ghost

• departed spirit, Masan, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, banshee, control, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, form, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, larva, lemures, manes, materialization, oni, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist, presence, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, theophany, unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, zombie

• departed, absconded, absent, ago, antiquated, antique, ashes, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, away, bereft of life, blown over, body, bones, breathless, by, bygone, bypast, cadaver, called home, carcass, carrion, clay, cold, corpse, corpus delicti, croaked, crowbait, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, dead body, dead man, dead person, death-struck, deceased, decedent, defunct, deleted, demised, departed this life, destitute of life, disappeared, done for, dry bones, dust, earth, elapsed, embalmed corpse, exanimate, expired, extinct, fallen, finished, food for worms, forgotten, gone, gone away, gone glimmering, gone off, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, has-been, inanimate, irrecoverable, lacking, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, left, lifeless, lost, martyred, missing, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, obsolete, omitted, organic remains, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, pushing up daisies, released, relics, reliquiae, remains, reposing, resting easy, run out, sainted, skeleton, sleeping, smitten with death, stiff, still, stillborn, subtracted, taken away, taken off, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, vanished, wanting, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wound up

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

• department, airspace, ambit, area, arena, bailiwick, beat, belt, border, borderland, branch, bureau, circle, circuit, commissariat, concern, confines, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, continental shelf, control, corridor, country, demesne, discipline, district, division, domain, dominion, environs, field, ground, heartland, hemisphere, hinterland, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, land, march, milieu, ministry, municipality, neighborhood, office, offshore rights, orb, orbit, pale, part, parts, place, precinct, precincts, premises, province, purlieus, quarter, realm, region, responsibility, round, salient, secretariat, section, segment, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, soil, space, sphere, subdiscipline, subdivision, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, unit, vicinage, vicinity, walk, worry, zone

• departure, AWOL, French leave, aberrancy, aberration, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, annihilation, bane, bend, bias, biological death, blackout, blocking, branching off, bypath, byway, cessation of life, circuitousness, clinical death, contrariety, contrast, corner, crook, crossing the bar, curtains, curve, cut, day off, death, death knell, debt of nature, decampment, decease, declination, default, deflection, dematerialization, demise, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, difference, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disappearance, disappearing, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disparity, dispersion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, diversity, dogleg, doom, double, drift, drifting, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, egress, egression, elimination, end, end of life, ending, episode, erasure, errantry, escape, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, excursion, excursus, excused absence, exit, exodus, exorbitation, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, extraction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, far cry, farewell, final summons, finger of death, fleeing, flight, forthcoming, furlough, going, going off, going out, grave, hairpin, hand of death, heterogeneity, holiday, hooky, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indirection, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leave, leave of absence, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, melting, mixture, nonappearance, nonattendance, nonconformity, obliquity, occultation, odds, opposition, otherness, outcome, outcoming, outgo, outgoing, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, pererration, perishing, quietus, rambling, release, rest, retreat, reward, running away, sabbatical leave, sentence of death, separateness, shades of death, shadow of death, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick leave, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, slant, sleep, somatic death, straying, summons of death, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, truancy, truantism, turn, turning, twist, unconformity, unexcused absence, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, vacation, vanishing, vanishing point, variance, variation, variegation, variety, veer, wandering, warp, wipe, withdrawal, yaw, zigzag

• depend on, accrue from, arise from, bank on, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be due to, be predicated on, bet on, bud from, calculate on, come from, come out of, confide in, count on, deem trustworthy, depend, derive from, descend from, emanate from, emerge from, ensue from, flow from, follow from, gamble on, germinate from, grow from, grow out of, hang, hang on, hinge, hinge on, issue from, lean on, lie on, lie with, originate in, place confidence in, place reliance on, proceed from, reckon on, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, spring from, sprout from, stand on, stem from, swear by, think reliable, trust, trust implicitly, trust in, trust to, turn on, turn upon

• depend, all depend, bag, bank, bank on, base, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be predicated on, bottom, build, cascade, count on, daggle, dangle, depend on, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, fall, flap, flop, flow, found, ground, hang, hang down, hang in suspense, hang on, hinge, hinge on, lean, lie on, lie with, lop, nod, pend, reckon on, rely on, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, sag, sling, stand, stand on, stay, suspend, swag, swing, trail, trust in, turn, turn on, turn upon, weep

• dependable, calculable, fail-safe, faithful, faithworthy, fast, firm, guaranteed, harmless, incorruptible, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, predictable, proven, reliable, responsible, riskless, secure, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, straight, substantial, sure, surefire, tested, to be trusted, tried, tried and true, true, trustable, trustworthy, trusty, undangerous, unfailing, unfalse, unhazardous, unperfidious, unperilous, unprecarious, unrisky, untreacherous, warranteed, well-founded, well-grounded

• dependence, Maecenas, a habit, abettor, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, admirer, advocate, aficionado, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, angel, apologist, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, backer, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, belief, buff, certainty, chain smoking, champion, cheerful expectation, chronic alcoholism, clientage, clientship, cocainism, confidence, contingency, conviction, correlation, crash, craving, credence, credit, credulity, danglement, dangling, defender, dependency, desire, dipsomania, doomed hope, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, encourager, endorser, expectation, exponent, fair prospect, faith, fan, favorer, fervent hope, friend at court, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, habituation, hanging, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, interrelation, lover, mainstay, maintainer, nicotine addiction, paranymph, partisan, patron, pendency, pendulosity, pendulousness, pensileness, pensility, physical dependence, prayerful hope, presumption, promise, promoter, prospect, prospects, protagonist, psychological dependence, reception, relativity, reliance, reliance on, sanguine expectation, second, seconder, sectary, security, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stock, store, support, supporter, sureness, surety, suspense, suspension, suspension of disbelief, sustainer, sympathizer, tolerance, trust, tutelage, upholder, votary, wardship, well-grounded hope, well-wisher, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

• dependent on, addicted, addicted to, answerable for, apt to, arising from, attributable to, based on, boxed in, capable of, caused by, circumscribed by, coming from, contingent, contingent on, dependent, depending, depending on, depending on circumstances, derivable from, due to, exposed to, habituated, habitue, hedged about by, hinging on, hooked, hooked on, in a rut, in danger of, incident to, incidental to, liable to, likely to, naked to, never free from, obliged to, occasioned by, open to, owing to, predicated on, prone to, ready for, responsible for, resulting from, revolving on, spaced out, standing to, subject to, susceptive to, turning on, used to, within range of

• dependent, accessory, addicted, addicted to, adherent, ancillary, appendage, appurtenant, at issue, attendant, based on, boxed in, buff, cascading, cavaliere servente, charge, childlike, circumscribed, circumscribed by, client, collateral, conditional, conditioned, confiding, contingent, contingent on, counting, courtier, creature, credulous, dangler, dangling, debased, dependent on, depending, depending on, depending on circumstances, disciple, encumbrance, exposed, falling, falling loosely, fan, feudal, feudatory, flowing, flunky, follower, following, guileless, habituated, habitue, hanger-on, hanging, hedged about by, heeler, henchman, hinging on, homager, homme de cour, hooked, hooked on, humbled, hung, iffy, in a rut, in question, in suspense, in the balance, incident to, incidental to, inferior, innocent, lackey, liable, liege, liege man, limited, man, minion, myrmidon, naive, never free from, open, parasite, partisan, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, pensionary, pensioner, peon, predicated on, protege, provisional, provisory, public, public charge, pursuer, pursuivant, reckoning, relative, reliant, relying, restricted, retainer, revolving on, satellite, secondary, sectary, serf, servant, servile, shadow, slave, spaced out, stooge, sub, subject, subject to, subordinate, subservient, successor, supporter, susceptible, suspended, suspenseful, swinging, tagtail, tail, trainbearer, tributary, trustful, trusting, trusty, turning on, uncertain, uncounted, undecided, under, underling, understrapper, undetermined, unestablished, unfixed, unsettled, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untold, up for grabs, used to, vassal, votary, ward, ward heeler, weeping, without suspicion, yeoman

• depict, act a part, act out, bring to life, cartoon, catch a likeness, chalk, character, characterize, charcoal, chart, color, copy, crayon, create a role, crosshatch, dash off, daub, delineate, describe, design, diagram, doodle, draft, draw, enact, evoke, express, give words to, hatch, hit off, image, impersonate, interpret, limn, map, narrate, notate, outline, paint, paint a picture, pencil, personate, picture, picturize, play a part, play a role, play opposite, portray, print, recite, recount, register, rehearse, relate, render, report, represent, rub, schematize, scratch, scumble, set forth, shade, sketch, state, stencil, support, sustain a part, symbolize, take a part, take a rubbing, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, write

• depiction, alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, evocation, exemplification, figuration, graphic account, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, impression, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, tablature, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing

• deplane, alight, come to land, debark, debus, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dock, drop anchor, go ashore, land, make a landfall, make land, make port, moor, put in, put into port, reach land, tie up, unboat

• deplete, ablate, absorb, assimilate, bankrupt, bleed, bleed white, blow, blow out, burn up, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, consume, cripple, debilitate, decrease, defecate, depreciate, dig into, digest, diminish, disable, dissipate, drain, drain of resources, draw, draw down, draw off, dribble away, dry up, eat, eat up, eliminate, empty, empty out, enfeeble, erode, evacuate, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, gobble, gobble up, impoverish, ingest, lessen, milk, purge, reduce, remove, sap, scour out, shrink, spend, squander, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, sweep out, unclog, undermine, unfoul, use up, vent, void, wash up, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away

• depletion allowance, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, bounty, dole, fellowship, financial assistance, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, help, old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pension, price support, public assistance, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits, scholarship, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, tax benefit, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

• depletion, ablation, absorption, assimilation, attrition, burning up, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, consumption, corrosion, curtailment, cut, cutting, decrease, decrement, defecation, deliquescence, depreciation, derogation, detraction, digestion, diminution, dip, discharging cargo, disparagement, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drainage, draining, eating up, egress, elimination, emptying, erosion, evacuation, evaporation, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, extraction, finishing, impairment, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, lessening, loss, off-loading, reduction, remission, removal, retraction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinkage, spending, squandering, truncation, unloading, using, using up, venting, voidance, voiding, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, wearing down

• deplorable, abominable, affecting, afflictive, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheap, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, debasing, degrading, demeaning, depressing, depressive, desperate, despicable, detestable, difficult, dire, disastrous, discomforting, disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, disreputable, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful, heartbreaking, heartrending, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid, horrifying, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, intolerable, joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, oppressive, opprobrious, outrageous, overwhelming, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, serious, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, tragic, troubling, unbearable, unbecoming, unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unworthy of one, upsetting, vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

• deplore, be sorry for, bemoan, bewail, cry, deprecate, dirge, disapprove, elegize, give sorrow words, grieve, keen, knell, lament, moan, mourn, regret, repent, repine, rue, rue the day, sigh, sing the blues, sorrow, wail, weep, weep over

• deploy, aberrate, adduce, advance, allege, allocate, arrange, array, assign, branch, branch out, bring forward, bring on, bring to bear, clear for action, clear the decks, collocate, cool off, cure, disperse, dispose, divaricate, diverge, divide, dress, emplace, expand, extend, fan, fan out, fix, fix up, flare, form, get a fix, get ready, go away, go off, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, home in on, install, lay out, line up, localize, locate, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, marshal, methodize, mobilize, navigate, normalize, offer, open, open up, order, organize, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, pacify, pin down, pinpoint, place, plan, plead, position, prearrange, prep, prepare, present, pretreat, process, produce, provide, put in place, put in shape, quiet, rally, ramify, rank, ready, ready up, regularize, regulate, routinize, separate, set up, settle preliminaries, situate, splay, spot, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, standardize, structure, systematize, tan, tranquilize, treat, triangulate, trim, try out, unfold, widen, zero in on

• deployment, aberration, addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, allocation, allotment, ampliation, amplification, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignment, augmentation, battle array, broadening, centrifugence, close formation, collation, collocation, concord, constitution, crescendo, decentralization, deposit, deposition, deviation, dispersion, disposal, disposition, distribution, divarication, divergence, divergency, division, echelon, emplacement, enlargement, expansion, extension, fanning, fanning out, flare, form, formation, formulation, harmony, hiking, increase, lading, layout, lineup, loading, localization, locating, location, magnification, marshaling, open order, order, order of battle, ordering, organization, packing, peace, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, proportion, putting, quiet, quietude, raising, regimentation, regularity, reposition, routine, separation, setup, situation, splay, splaying, spotting, spread, spreading, spreading out, stationing, storage, stowage, structure, structuring, symmetry, syntax, system, tranquillity, uniformity, upping, widening

• deplume, abase, bleed, bleed white, boot, bounce, break, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast reproach upon, debase, defrock, degrade, demote, denude, depose, deprive, despoil, disbar, discharge, discredit, disemploy, disgrace, disgrade, dishonor, dismiss, displace, displume, divest, downgrade, drain, drum out, dry, exhaust, expel, fire, flay, fleece, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, humble, humiliate, impoverish, impute shame to, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lower, make redundant, milk, pension off, pick clean, pillory, pluck, put to shame, read out of, reduce, reflect discredit upon, release, remove, replace, reproach, retire, sack, separate forcibly, shame, shear, skin, strip, strip bare, strip of rank, suck dry, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unfrock

• deport, abstract, acquit, act, assign, ban, banish, bear, blackball, carry, carry over, cast off, cast out, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, communicate, comport, conduct, consign, cut, cut out, deliver, demean, diffuse, disfellowship, displace, dispose of, disseminate, eject, elide, eliminate, emigrate, eradicate, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, export, extradite, fugitate, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, go on, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, import, lag, liquidate, make over, metastasize, metathesize, ostracize, oust, out-migrate, outlaw, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, pick out, proscribe, purge, quit, relay, relegate, remigrate, remove, root out, root up, rusticate, send away, send down, send to Coventry, snub, spread, spurn, strike off, strike out, switch, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transport, transpose, turn over, weed out

• deportment, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, comportment, conduct, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, doing, doings, folkway, gestures, goings-on, guise, maintien, manner, manners, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, pattern, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, set, social science, style, tactics, tone, way, way of life, ways

• deposal, abdication, cashiering, conge, deconsecration, defrocking, demission, deposition, deprivation, dethronement, disbarment, disbarring, discharge, discrownment, disemployment, disenthronement, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, displacing, drumming out, emeritus status, excommunication, expulsion, firing, forced resignation, forced separation, furloughing, impeachment, kicking upstairs, layoff, liquidation, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, pensioning off, pink slip, purge, relinquishment, removal, resignation, retiral, retirement, superannuation, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, ticket, unchurching, unfrocking, unhorsing, unplacement, unsaddling, unseating, upset, voluntary resignation, walking papers, withdrawal

• depose, acknowledge, affirm, allege, and candle, assert under oath, asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avouch, avow, bank, bear witness, book, boot, bounce, break, buck off, bump, bust, can, cashier, certify, chuck, declare, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depone, deposit, deprive, deracinate, dethrone, disbar, discharge, disclose, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, displace, displume, drum out, eject, excommunicate, expel, fire, furlough, give evidence, give the ax, give the gate, guarantee, kick, kick upstairs, kiss the book, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, mount, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, predicate, profess, protest, purge, put by, read out of, release, remove, remove from office, replace, retire, root out, root up, sack, separate forcibly, store, stow, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, subvert, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swear, swear by bell, swear the truth, swear to, swear to God, swear to goodness, testify, throw off, throw out, turn off, turn out, unchurch, uncrown, unfrock, unhorse, unmake, unplace, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, uproot, upset, vouch, vow, warrant, witness

• deposit, accumulation, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, allocation, alluvion, alluvium, amortization, amortizement, ash, assignment, bank, binder, bond, bosom, bottle up, bottomry, bundle away, bury, cache, cash, cash payment, caution, caution money, chimney, chute, cinder, clearance, clinker, coffer, collateral, collateral security, collocation, consign, country rock, debris, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deployment, deposition, deposits, detritus, dike, diluvium, disbursal, discharge, disposition, doling out, down payment, draff, dregs, drift, drop, dross, earnest, earnest money, ember, embosom, emplacement, entrust, feces, file, file and forget, forfeit, froth, gangue, go bail, grounds, handsel, hide away, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, hock, hutch, hypothecate, impignorate, installment, installment plan, interest payment, keep, keep hidden, keep secret, lading, lay, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, leave, lees, liquidation, loading, localization, locating, location, lock up, lode, lodestuff, lodge, loess, margin, matrix, mineral deposit, monthly payments, moraine, mortgage, never-never, offscum, ore bed, pack away, packing, pawn, pay dirt, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pinpointing, place, placement, placing, plant, pledge, plunk down, positioning, post, posting, precipitate, precipitation, prepayment, put, put away, put down, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, putting, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, repose, reposit, reposition, reservoir, rest, retirement, salt away, salt down, satisfaction, save, scoria, scree, scum, seal up, secrete, sediment, sedimentate, sedimentation, set aside, set down, settlement, settlings, shoot, silt, sinking-fund payment, sinter, situation, slag, smut, soot, spawn, spot cash, spotting, spout, stake, stash, stationing, stock, storage, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, stowage, sublimate, vein, warehouse, weekly payments

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

• deposition, admission, affidavit, affirmation, allegation, allocation, alluvion, alluvium, ash, assertion, asseveration, assignment, attest, attestation, authority, authorization, averment, avouchment, avowal, bill, bill of complaint, bill of health, cashiering, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, cinder, claim, clinker, collocation, complaint, compurgation, credential, declaration, deconsecration, defrocking, deployment, deposal, deposit, deposits, deprivation, dethronement, diluvium, diploma, disbarment, disbarring, disclosure, discrownment, disenthronement, dismissal, displacement, disposition, draff, dregs, dross, ember, emplacement, excommunication, expulsion, feces, firing, forced resignation, froth, grounds, impeachment, instrument in proof, kicking upstairs, lading, lees, legal evidence, libel, liquidation, loading, localization, locating, location, loess, manifesto, moraine, narratio, navicert, nolle prosequi, nonsuit, notarized statement, note, offscum, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, packing, pensioning off, pinpointing, placement, placing, position paper, positioning, posting, precipitate, precipitation, profession, purge, putting, removal, reposition, retirement, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, sheepskin, silt, sinter, situation, slag, smut, solemn declaration, soot, spotting, statement, statement of belief, statement of facts, statement under oath, stationing, storage, stowage, sublimate, superannuation, suspension, swearing, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testamur, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, ticket, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, visa, vise, voucher, vouching, warrant, warranty, witness, word

• depository, Fort Knox, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, bursary, buttery, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, cellar, chest, closet, coffer, coin box, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, fisc, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, money chest, penny bank, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, tank, till, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

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

• depravation, abandon, abandonment, abjection, comedown, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, demotion, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, dissoluteness, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, involution, lapse, loss of tone, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, regression, reprobacy, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rottenness, slippage, slump, turpitude, wane

• deprave, abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, bastardize, befoul, bewitch, blight, brutalize, canker, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, contaminate, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demoralize, denature, desecrate, despoil, destroy, devalue, disadvantage, disserve, distort, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, envenom, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hurt, impair, infect, injure, jinx, maltreat, menace, mistreat, misuse, molest, outrage, persecute, pervert, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, prostitute, ravage, ravish, savage, scathe, taint, threaten, torment, torture, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

• depraved, abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, cheesy, contaminated, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, crummy, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dissolute, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, infamous, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miscreant, miserable, monstrous, morally polluted, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, perverse, perverted, petty, poky, polluted, poor, profligate, putrid, rank, reprobate, reptilian, rotten, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, small, squalid, steeped in iniquity, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unmentionable, vice-corrupted, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, vitiated, warped, wretched

• depravity, abandon, abandonment, abjection, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, baseness, beggarliness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, crumminess, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, despicableness, dissoluteness, enormity, execrableness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness, immorality, littleness, lowness, meanness, miserableness, monstrousness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, nefariousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, paltriness, pettiness, pokiness, poorness, profligacy, rankness, reprobacy, rottenness, scabbiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, shabbiness, shoddiness, smallness, squalor, turpitude, vice, vileness, wickedness, wretchedness

• deprecate, belittle, bemoan, bewail, de-emphasize, denigrate, deplore, depreciate, derogate, despise, detract, discommend, discountenance, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, downplay, frown, hold in contempt, lament, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, misestimate, misprize, object, play down, put down, ridicule, sell short, set at naught, set little by, shrug off, think little of, think nothing of, underestimate, underplay, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undervalue

• deprecatory, abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, diffident, disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, self-deprecating, self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-distrustful, self-doubting, self-effacing, slanderous, slighting, unselfconfident, unselfreliant, vilifying, vituperative

• depreciate, abate, ablate, abrade, abridge, abstract, abuse, allow, bate, beat down, belittle, break, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, charge off, cheapen, compress, consume, cry down, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, debase, decline, decrease, decry, deduct, deflate, degrade, denigrate, deplete, deprecate, depress, deride, derogate, derogate from, despise, detract, detract from, devaluate, devalue, diminish, disapprove of, discommend, discount, discredit, disdain, disesteem, disgrace, disparage, dispraise, dissipate, disvalue, dive, downgrade, downplay, drain, dribble away, dwindle, eat away, erode, extract, fall, fall in price, file away, give way, hold in contempt, impair, jew down, kick back, knock, leach, lessen, lower, make allowance, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, mark down, minimize, misestimate, misprize, nose-dive, pare, play down, plummet, plunge, purify, put down, rebate, reduce, refine, reflect discredit upon, refund, remove, retrench, ridicule, roll back, rub away, run down, sag, scale down, sell short, set at naught, set little by, shave, shorten, shrink, shrug off, simplify, slash, slight, slump, soften, speak ill of, squander, step down, subduct, submit to indignity, subtract, take a premium, take away, take from, take off, talk down, thin, thin out, think little of, think nothing of, trim, tune down, underestimate, underplay, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undervalue, waste, wear, wear away, weed, withdraw, write down, write off

• depreciation, abatement, ablation, abridgment, agio, alleviation, allowance, attenuation, attrition, backbiting, backstabbing, bank discount, belittlement, belittling, break, breakage, calumny, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, cheapening, comedown, concession, consumption, contempt, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decrial, deduction, defamation, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, denigration, depletion, depravation, depravedness, deprecation, depression, derogation, descent, deterioration, detraction, devaluation, devolution, diminishment, diminution, dip, disapproval, discommendation, discount, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, dispraise, dissipation, disvaluation, dive, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drain, drawback, drop, dying, dying off, ebb, effeteness, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall, falling-off, impairment, impoverishment, indignity, involution, kickback, knocking, languishment, lapse, leakage, lessening, letup, loss of tone, lowering, lukewarm support, markdown, miniaturization, minimization, minimizing, misestimation, misprision, misprizal, misprizing, mitigation, nose dive, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, plummet, plummeting, plunge, premium, price cut, price fall, price reduction, price-cut, putting down, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, regression, relaxation, remission, retraction, retrenchment, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, ridicule, rollback, sag, sagging, salvage, scaling down, scandal, setoff, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, slander, slash, slighting, slippage, slump, sour grapes, subtraction, tale, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, truncation, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, underreckoning, underselling, undervaluation, using, using up, wane, wastage, waste, weakening, wearing, wearing away, write-off

• depredate, bring to ruin, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, havoc, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, rifle, ruin, ruinate, sack, shipwreck, spoil, spoliate, swallow up, sweep, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• depredation, banditry, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, desolation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, direption, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, foraging, foray, freebooting, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, laying waste, looting, marauding, perdition, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravages, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, robbery, ruin, ruination, sack, sacking, shambles, slaughter, spoiling, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

• depress, abridge, bear down, beat down, bring down, bring low, burden, cast down, cheapen, compress, couch, countersink, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, debase, debilitate, decrease, deduct, deepen, deflate, deject, demit, dent, depreciate, detrude, devaluate, devalue, dig, diminish, dimple, dint, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, dive, downbear, downgrade, drill, droop, dull, enervate, engrave, excavate, grieve, haul down, impress, imprint, indent, knock down, lessen, let, let down, lower, lower the spirits, mine, notch, oppress, pare, pit, pock, pockmark, press down, press in, pull down, punch, punch in, push down, recess, reduce, retrench, roll back, sadden, sap, scale down, set back, set in, shorten, simplify, sink, stamp, step down, take down, take from, tamp, thrust down, tune down, tunnel, upset, weaken, weigh down, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon

• depressant, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dial, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Sulfonal, Trional, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbital, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, barbituric acid, belladonna, black, black stuff, bleak, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bromide, calmative, cheerless, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressing, depressive, depressor, dismal, dispiriting, dolly, downer, dreary, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hyoscyamine, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, oppressive, pacifier, pain killer, paraldehyde, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, reserpine, scag, scopolamine, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium bromide, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, thalidomide, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• depressed, alveolar, alveolate, anguished, anxious, bad, badly off, blue, bored, bowed-down, cast down, cheerless, couchant, crouched, dashed, debased, dejected, dented, deprived, despairing, despondent, desponding, dimpled, dire, disadvantaged, disconsolate, discouraged, disgusted, disheartened, dispirited, donsie, doomful, down, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, drooping, droopy, engraved, evil-starred, fallen, fatal, faveolate, feeling low, flat, fortuneless, funest, grim, hapless, heartless, honeycombed, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ill off, ill-starred, in adverse circumstances, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, inauspicious, indented, joyless, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, languishing, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowered, luckless, lugubrious, melancholy, nauseated, nauseous, neap, notched, ominous, out of luck, pessimistic, pining, pitted, planet-struck, pleasureless, pocked, pockmarked, prey to malaise, prone, prostrate, recumbent, reduced, repelled, revolted, runty, sad, short, short of luck, sickened, spiritless, squat, squatty, star-crossed, stooped, stumpy, subdued, submerged, suffering angst, suicidal, sunk, sunken, supine, unblessed, underprivileged, uneasy, unelevated, unfortunate, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential, unquiet, unsatisfied, weary of life, woebegone, world-weary

• depressing, affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressant, depressive, discomforting, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, down, dreary, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, moving, oppressive, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poignant, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, sharp, somber, sore, sorrowful, touching, triste, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched

• depression, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abatement, abridgment, abstraction, abulia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, alienation, alleviation, alveolation, alveolus, anguish, antrum, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, armpit, attenuation, bad times, bale, basin, bitterness, blank despondency, blaze, bleakness, bleeding heart, blues, boom, bottoming out, bowl, broken heart, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, catatonic stupor, cavity, cheerlessness, cleft, comfortlessness, compulsion, concave, concavity, contraction, cooling off, couchancy, crater, crena, crisis, crushing, crypt, cup, cut, dampening, damping, death wish, debasement, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deepening, deflation, dejectedness, dejection, dent, depreciation, depth of misery, desolation, despair, despondency, despondentness, detachment, digging, diminishment, diminution, dimple, dip, discomfort, discouragement, disheartenment, dismalness, dispiritedness, distress, distressfulness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, downturn, dreariness, drilling, drooping spirits, dying, dying off, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economic stagnation, elation, emotionalism, euphoria, evil day, excavation, expanding economy, expansion, extenuation, extremity, fade-out, fold, folie du doute, follicle, funnel chest, gash, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, grievousness, growth, hack, hard times, heartache, heartlessness, heavy heart, heavy weather, high growth rate, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hollowness, hopelessness, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, impression, incision, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, indentation, indifference, infelicity, insensibility, jag, jog, joggle, joylessness, kerf, lacuna, lamentability, lamentation, languishment, lessening, lethargy, letup, low, low spirits, lowering, lowness, lowness of spirit, lying, lying down, malaise, mania, market expansion, melancholia, melancholy, mental distress, miniaturization, mining, misery, mitigation, mournfulness, nick, nock, notch, obsession, oppression, pain, painfulness, pathological indecisiveness, pathos, peak, peaking, pessimism, pit, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, pocket, poignancy, preoccupation, probing, proneness, prosperity, prostration, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, punch bowl, rainy day, recess, recession, reclining, recovery, recumbency, reduction, regrettableness, relaxation, sad times, sadness, sagging, scaling down, scoop, score, scotch, self-destructive urge, sharpness, shell, shortness, simplicity, sink, sinkage, sinking, sinking heart, sinus, slowdown, slump, socket, sorrowfulness, spiritlessness, squatness, squattiness, stormy weather, stumpiness, stupor, subjacency, subtraction, suicidal despair, supineness, taedium vitae, the blues, tic, trough, tunneling, twitching, unhappiness, unresponsiveness, upturn, vug, weakening, weariness of life, withdrawal, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness, wretchedness

• deprivation, abnegation, abridgment, absence, awayness, banishment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, blackballing, blank, cashiering, contradiction, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination, declinature, declining, deconsecration, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, defrocking, degradation, demotion, denial, denudation, depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivement, despoilment, destitution, destruction, dethronement, detriment, disagreement, disallowance, disassembly, disbarment, disbarring, disburdening, disburdenment, disclaimer, disclamation, discrownment, disenthronement, disentitlement, disfellowship, dismantlement, dismemberment, dismissal, disobedience, displacement, displuming, dispossession, dissent, divestment, drought, emptiness, empty purse, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expense, expulsion, extradition, famine, firing, forced resignation, forfeit, forfeiture, fugitation, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, holding back, homelessness, impeachment, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, injury, kicking upstairs, lack, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy, moneylessness, nay, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, negation, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity, neverness, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nowhereness, nullity, omission, ostracism, ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, pauperism, pauperization, pensioning off, penury, perdition, pinch, privation, purge, recantation, refusal, rejection, relegation, relieving, removal, repudiation, retention, retirement, robbery, ruin, rustication, sacrifice, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, spoliation, starvation, stripping, subtraction, superannuation, suspension, taking away, thumbs-down, total loss, transportation, turndown, unactuality, unchurching, undoing, unfrocking, unreality, unseating, unwillingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage, withholding

• deprive, abridge, bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, curtail, cut off, defrock, degrade, demote, denudate, denude, deny, deplume, depose, deprive of, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disentitle, disinherit, dismantle, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, drain, drum out, ease one of, expel, expropriate, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lighten one of, lose, make redundant, milk, mine, mulct, oust, outfit, pension off, read out of, refuse, release, remove, replace, retire, rob, sack, separate forcibly, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, take away, take away from, take from, tap, turn off, turn out, unfrock, withdraw, withhold

• deprived of, bankrupt in, bare of, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bereft of, cut off, denuded, denuded of, destitute of, devoid of, divested, empty of, for want of, forlorn of, in default of, in want of, lacking, minus, missing, needing, out of, out of pocket, parted from, robbed of, scant of, shorn of, short, short of, shy, shy of, stripped of, unblessed with, unpossessed of, void of, wanting

• deprived, badly off, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depressed, destitute, disadvantaged, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned, out at elbows, parentless, pauperized, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged, widowed

• depth, French pitch, Sophia, abstruseness, abysm, abyss, acumen, amplitude, area, astuteness, bigness, bodily size, body, bottomless pit, brain, breadth, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, broad-mindedness, bulk, caliber, cavity, chasm, classical pitch, coarseness, complexity, comprehensively, corpulence, coverage, crater, crevasse, deep, deeply, deepness, deeps, depths, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through, draft, drop, erudition, expanse, expansion, extension, extensively, extent, fatness, gauge, girth, good understanding, greatness, grossness, gulf, height, high pitch, hole, hollow, in detail, innerness, inness, insight, intellect, intelligence, intensity, intensively, interiority, internality, internalization, intricacy, intrinsicality, introversion, intuition, inwardness, keenness, key, largeness, length, low pitch, lowness, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, mellow wisdom, nadir, new philharmonic pitch, note, obscurity, penetration, perception, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, philharmonic pitch, philosophical pitch, pit, pitch, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, reconditeness, register, richness, ripe wisdom, sagacity, sageness, sapience, scale, scope, seasoned understanding, sense, shaft, sharpness, size, sound understanding, sounding, spread, standard pitch, strength, the third dimension, thickness, thoroughly, tonality, tone, tune, understanding, vividness, volume, well, width, wisdom, wiseness, yawning abyss

• depthless, ankle-deep, cursory, epidermal, few, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, jejune, knee-deep, light, little, low, meager, miniature, negligible, no great shakes, not deep, on the surface, petty, picayune, picayunish, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, short, sketchy, skin-deep, slight, small, superficial, surface, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, uncritical, unprofound

• deputation, accession, agency, agentship, anointing, anointment, appointment, arrogation, assignment, assumption, authority, authorization, brevet, care, change, charge, commission, commissioning, commitment, committee, commutation, consecration, consignment, coronation, cure, delegated authority, delegation, deputyship, devolution, devolvement, displacement, election, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, exchange, executorship, exequatur, factorship, full power, jurisdiction, legation, legitimate succession, license, lieutenancy, mandate, mission, office, plenipotentiary power, power of attorney, power to act, procuration, proxy, purview, quid pro quo, regency, regentship, replacement, representation, responsibility, seizure, subcommittee, subrogation, substitution, succession, supersedence, superseding, supersedure, supersession, supplantation, supplanting, supplantment, switch, taking over, task, tit for tat, trust, trusteeship, usurpation, vicarious authority, vicariousness, warrant

• deputize, accredit, act for, answer for, appear for, arm, assign, authorize, back up, charge, charter, clothe, clothe with power, commission, commit, consign, delegate, depute, designate an agent, detach, detail, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, empower, enable, endow, endue, entrust, front for, give in charge, invest, license, mission, pinch-hit for, post, represent, send out, speak for, stand in for, substitute for, transfer, understudy, warrant

• deputy, G-man, MP, acolyte, adjutant, administrator, advocate, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, alternate, alternative, ambassador, amicus curiae, analogy, appointee, assignee, assistant, attendant, attorney, attorney-at-law, auxiliary, backup, bailiff, barrister, barrister-at-law, beadle, beagle, best man, bound bailiff, candidate, captain, catchpole, change, changeling, chief of police, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, commissioner, comparison, conductor, connection, constable, copy, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, counterfeit, delegate, deputy sheriff, detective, directeur, director, double, dummy, emissary, envoy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, executive officer, factor, fake, fed, federal, fill-in, flic, friend at court, front, front man, gendarme, ghost, ghostwriter, go-between, government man, governor, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, imitation, impresario, inspector, intendant, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, intervener, interventionist, interventor, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, legate, licensee, lictor, lieutenant, locum tenens, mace-bearer, makeshift, manager, marshal, mediator, medium, metaphor, metonymy, middleman, minister, mounted policeman, mouthpiece, narc, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, next best thing, nominee, officer, ombudsman, operative, paranymph, paraprofessional, patrolman, peace officer, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, pleader, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, proctor, procurator, producer, proxy, rector, reeve, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, reserves, responsible person, ringer, roundsman, sea lawyer, second, second string, secondary, selectee, self-styled lawyer, sergeant, sergeant at arms, servant, sheriff, sideman, sign, solicitor, spares, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, supercargo, superintendent, superseder, supplanter, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, tipstaff, tipstaves, token, trooper, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent

• derange, afflict, clutter, craze, debilitate, dement, devitalize, disable, disarrange, disarray, discommode, discompose, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, distract, disturb, drive insane, drive mad, enervate, enfeeble, frenzy, hospitalize, incapacitate, incommode, inconvenience, indispose, invalid, lay up, litter, mad, madden, make mad, mess, mess up, misarrange, muss, muss up, perturb, reduce, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, send mad, shatter, sicken, tousle, turn, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weaken

• deranged, abnormal, amiss, askew, awry, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, bereft of reason, berserk, bonkers, brainsick, cockeyed, convulsed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, dippy, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, distraught, disturbed, dotty, flighty, hallucinated, haywire, in disorder, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, misplaced, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, on the fritz, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed, potty, psycho, psychotic, queer, reasonless, roily, screwy, senseless, shuffled, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, turbid, turbulent, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, upset, wacky, wandering, witless

• derangement, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, confusion, convulsion, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, deviation, difference, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, disproportion, disruption, distraction, disturbance, divergence, eccentricity, entropy, erraticism, folie, furor, haphazardness, heteromorphism, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inferiority, inharmonious harmony, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, irregularity, 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, misarrangement, monstrosity, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, oddness, perturbation, pixilation, possession, promiscuity, promiscuousness, psychopathy, queerness, rabidness, randomness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, shuffling, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, subnormality, superiority, teratism, turbulence, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, witlessness

• Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, chase, flat race, handicap, handicap race, harness race, horse race, hurdle race, plate race, purse race, quarter-horse race, stake, stake race, steeplechase, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, trotting race

• derby, Le Mans, Olympic games, Olympics, air race, automobile race, bicycle race, boat race, bout, concours, contest, contest of speed, cross-country race, dash, dog race, drag race, encounter, endurance race, engagement, fight, footrace, game, games, go, gymkhana, heat, hurdle race, joust, lap, marathon, marathon race, match, match race, matching, meet, meeting, motorcycle race, obstacle race, potato race, race, rally, regatta, relay, relay race, rencontre, road race, run, sack race, speedway race, sprint, sprint race, stock-car race, test, three-legged race, tilt, torch race, tournament, tourney, track race, trial, walk, yacht race

• dereism, airy nothing, alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, bubble, chimera, compensation, daydream, deception, decompensation, defense mechanism, deluded belief, delusion, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, dream, dream vision, dreamery, dreamland, dreamworld, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, false belief, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, ignis fatuus, illusion, imaginative exercise, impracticality, isolation, misbelief, misconception, negativism, overcompensation, pipe dream, play of fancy, projection, psychotaxis, quixotism, quixotry, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, trick, trip, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, utopianism, vapor, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, wrong impression

• derelict, Bowery bum, DP, Ishmael, abandoned, battered, beachcomber, beat-up, beaten up, beggar, beggarly fellow, behindhand, blighter, broken-down, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, careless, cast-off, castaway, castoff, culpably negligent, declasse, decrepit, delinquent, deserted, desolate, devil, dilapidated, dilatory, dingy, disaffected, discard, discarded, disloyal, disowned, displaced person, disregardful, disused, dogie, down-and-out, drifter, drunkard, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, faded, faithless, false, fickle, floater, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, forsaken, foundling, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, heedless, hobo, human wreck, in ruins, inadvertent, inattentive, inconstant, irresponsible, jetsam, jettisoned, junk, lagan, laissez-faire, lax, lazzarone, left, leper, loafer, loose, lowlife, malingerer, marooned, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, neglected, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, no-good, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, not true to, of bad faith, off-guard, orphan, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outside the gates, outside the pale, overly permissive, pariah, pauvre diable, permissive, persona non grata, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, procrastinating, ramshackle, recreant, refuse, regardless, reject, rejected, relaxed, remiss, rubbish, ruined, ruinous, run-down, sad case, sad sack, scamping, seedy, shabby, skid-row bum, skimping, slack, slacker, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, slurring, social outcast, solitary, stiff, street arab, sundowner, swagman, threadbare, tottery, tramp, trash, trothless, truant, tumbledown, unacceptable person, uncircumspect, uncouth, undependable, undesirable, unfaithful, unguarded, unloyal, unreliable, unrigorous, unsteadfast, untouchable, untrue, untrustworthy, unwary, unwatchful, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, worthless fellow, wretch

• dereliction, Punic faith, abuse, apostasy, atrocity, bad faith, barratry, betrayal, bolt, breach, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, breakaway, crime, crime against humanity, culpa, culpable negligence, deadly sin, default, defection, delinquency, deserter, desertion, disaffection, disconformity, disloyalty, disregard, enormity, error, evil, failure, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, fault, felony, fickleness, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inconstancy, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infidelity, iniquity, injury, injustice, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness, looseness, mala fides, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misuse, mortal sin, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, offense, omission, outrage, overlooking, oversight, peccadillo, peccancy, permissiveness, poor stewardship, procrastination, ratting, recreancy, remissness, schism, secession, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slackness, slight, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, trothlessness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty, unobservance, unrigorousness, unsteadfastness, untrueness, unutterable sin, venial sin, walkout, wrong

• deride, banter, be above, be contemptuous of, belittle, care nothing for, chaff, contemn, dare, despise, diminish, disdain, disparage, disprize, disregard, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, flout, get fresh, get smart, grin at, have a nerve, have the cheek, have the gall, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in derision, insult, jeer at, jolly, kid, knock, laugh at, laugh to scorn, look down upon, lout, make bold, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, misprize, mock, pan, pillory, point at, poke fun at, pooh-pooh, presume, put down, put one on, quiz, rag, rally, rank low, razz, rib, ride, ridicule, roast, scoff at, scorn, scout, set at defiance, set at naught, slight, slight over, smile at, sneer at, sneeze at, snicker at, sniff at, snigger at, snort at, take liberties, taunt, tease, think nothing of, treat with contempt, twit

• derision, burlesque, butt, caricature, contempt, contumely, disrespect, jest, joke, lampoon, laughter, mock, mockery, pasquinade, pilgarlic, raillery, ridicule, sarcasm, satire, scoffing, scorn, sport, travesty

• derisive, abusive, arrogant, audacious, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, biggety, bitchy, blackening, blameful, bluff, bold, booing, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling, catty, censorious, chaffing, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, damnatory, daring, defamatory, defiant, defying, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, facy, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, grinning, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental, kidding, leering, libelous, malapert, minimizing, mocking, nervy, objurgatory, panning, pejorative, pert, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, regardless of consequences, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, uncalled-for, vilifying, vituperative, wise-ass

• derivation, IC analysis, acceptance, accidence, acquisition, admission, admittance, adoption, affiliation, affix, affixation, allomorph, ancestry, apparentation, appropriation, assumption, beginning, birth, blood, bloodline, borrowed plumes, bound morpheme, bowwow theory, branch, breed, by-product, cognate, commencement, common ancestry, comparative linguistics, conception, conclusion, conjugation, consanguinity, consequence, consequent, copying, corollary, cutting, declension, deduction, derivative, deriving, descent, descriptive linguistics, development, dialectology, difference of form, dingdong theory, direct line, distaff side, distillate, doublet, effect, enclitic, eponym, eponymy, etymology, etymon, event, eventuality, eventuation, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk etymology, formative, foundation, fountain, free form, fruit, genealogy, genesis, getting, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, grass roots, harvest, head, historical linguistics, house, illation, imitation, immediate constituent analysis, inception, induction, inference, infix, infixation, inflection, infringement, issue, language study, legacy, lexicology, lexicostatistics, line, line of descent, lineage, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, logical outcome, male line, mathematical linguistics, mocking, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, offshoot, offspring, origin, original, origination, outcome, outgrowth, paleography, paradigm, pasticcio, pastiche, philology, phonetics, phonology, phylum, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, precipitate, prefix, prefixation, primitive, proclitic, product, provenance, provenience, psycholinguistics, race, radical, radix, receipt, receival, receiving, reception, result, resultant, rise, root, seed, semantic history, semantics, sept, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, side, simulation, sociolinguistics, source, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, structuralism, succession, suffix, suffixation, sword side, syntactics, taking, taproot, theme, transformational linguistics, upshot, well, wellspring, whence, word history, word-formation

• derivative, accountable, acquired, alleged, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, borrowed, by-product, charged, conjugate, consequent, consequential, copied, credited, derivable from, derivation, derivational, derived, descendant, development, due, echoic, ensuing, etymologic, explicable, final, following, imitative, imputable, imputed, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, noncreative, nongerminal, nonseminal, obtained, offshoot, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, owing, paronymic, paronymous, plagiarized, procured, putative, referable, referred to, resultant, resulting, sequacious, sequent, sequential, spin-off, traceable, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal, unpregnant

• derive from, accept, accrue from, acquire, admit, adopt, affiliate to, appropriate, arise, arise from, assume, be contingent on, be due to, bud from, come by, come from, come in for, come out of, copy, depend on, derive, descend from, drag down, draw, draw from, emanate, emanate from, emerge from, ensue from, father, filiate to, flow, flow from, follow from, gain, germinate from, get, grow from, grow out of, hang on, have, have coming in, head, hinge on, imitate, infringe, issue, issue from, make use of, mock, obtain, originate, originate in, pirate, plagiarize, proceed, proceed from, pull down, receive, rise, secure, simulate, spring from, sprout from, steal, stem, stem from, take, take in, take on, take over, trace to, turn on

• derive, accept, acquire, admit, arouse, arrive at, assume, bag, be seized of, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, call out, call up, capture, catch, collect, come by, come in for, come into, conclude, contract, corral, cull, deduce, derive from, develop, drag down, drag out, draw, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw forth, draw from, draw out, earn, educe, elaborate, elicit, emanate from, enter into possession, evoke, evolve, excogitate, extract, fetch, find, flow from, formulate, gain, gather, get, get from, get out of, glean, harvest, have, have coming in, induce, infer, issue from, judge, make, net, obtain, proceed from, procure, pull down, put, reach, reap, reason, reason that, receive, rouse, sack, score, secure, spring from, stem from, stimulate, summon forth, summon up, take, take as proved, take in, take on, take over, wangle, wangle out of, win, winkle out, winnow, worm out, worm out of

• dermal, cortical, cutaneous, dermic, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, furry, hypodermal, hypodermic, skin-deep, skinny, subcutaneous, testaceous

• dermatitis, Lombardy leprosy, acne, acne vulgaris, anemia, ariboflavinosis, beriberi, cachexia, chlorosis, deficiency anemia, dermamycosis, dermatosis, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, goiter, greensickness, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, impetigo, itch, jungle rot, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lupus, lupus vulgaris, maidism, malnutrition, miliaria, night blindness, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pellagra, pemphigus, pernicious anemia, prickly heat, protein deficiency, pruigo, pruritus, psora, rachitis, rickets, ringworm, scabies, scurvy, shingles, skin cancer, struma, tetter, vitamin deficiency, xerophthalmia

• dermis, Leatherette, Leatheroid, blastoderm, coat, corium, cuticle, cutis, cutis vera, derma, ectoblast, ectoderm, endothelium, entoderm, epiblast, epidermis, epithelium, fell, fleece, flesh, fur, furring, hide, hypodermis, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, leather, leather paper, mesoderm, outer layer, outer skin, pavement epithelium, pelt, peltry, rawhide, rind, scarfskin, sheath, skin, skins, tegument, true skin, vair

• derogation, attrition, belittling, comedown, contempt, curtailment, cut, cutting, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrease, decrement, decrial, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depletion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, descent, deterioration, detraction, devolution, diminution, dip, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, extraction, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall, falling-off, impairment, indignity, involution, knocking, lapse, lessening, loss of tone, lukewarm support, minimizing, putting down, reduction, regression, remission, retraction, retrenchment, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, shortening, shrinkage, slighting, slippage, slump, sour grapes, truncation, wane

• derogative, abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogatory, detractory, disparaging, libelous, minimizing, pejorative, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, vilifying

• derogatory, abasing, abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, debasing, defamatory, deflating, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, despiteful, detracting, detractory, diminishing, disadvantageous, discreditable, disdainful, dishonorable, disparaging, disreputable, humiliating, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, insulting, libelous, lowering, malevolent, malicious, maligning, minimizing, mitigating, notorious, offensive, pejorative, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, seamy, shady, slanderous, slighting, sordid, spiteful, uncomplimentary, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, vilifying

• derrick, antenna tower, barbican, belfry, bell tower, campanile, colossus, column, crab, crane, cupola, dome, erector, fire tower, forklift, gantry crane, hoist, hydraulic tailgate, jack, jackscrew, lantern, lever, lift, lifter, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, pylon, pyramid, shaft, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stupa, tackle, television mast, tope, tour, tower, turret, water tower, windlass, windmill tower

• dervish, Albigensian, Black Muslim, Catharist, Franciscan, Mohammedan, Moslem, Motazilite, Muhammadan, Muslim, Mussulman, Sabbatarian, Sectary, Shia, Shiite, Sufi, Sunnite, Trappist, Wahabi, Waldensian, abdal, abstainer, anchorite, ascetic, bhikshu, fakir, flagellant, hajji, hermit, imam, mendicant, muezzin, mufti, mullah, murshid, puritan, qadi, sannyasi, santon, sheikh, yogi, yogin

• descant, Nachtmusik, Vorspiel, absolute music, accompaniment, adaptation, air, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, alto, amplify, anthem, aria, arrangement, article, ballad, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, canto, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, carol, causerie, chamber music, chamber orchestra, chant, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorus, comment upon, composition, concert overture, continuo, contralto, criticize, croon, curtain raiser, deal with, detail, develop, diapason, dilate, discourse, discuss, discussion, disquisition, dissert, dissertate, dissertation, ditty, do-re-mi, dramatic overture, drone, elaborate, electronic music, enlarge, enlarge upon, essay, etude, evolve, examination, excursus, exercise, expand, expatiate, explicate, exposition, feature, figured bass, first approach, go into, ground bass, handle, harmonization, homily, hum, hymn, incidental music, inquire into, instrumental music, intonate, intone, introduction, introductory study, invention, lay, lied, lilt, line, lucubration, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, memoir, minstrel, monograph, morceau, nocturne, note, operatic overture, opus, orchestration, outline, overture, pandect, paper, paragraph, part, particularize, piece, pipe, plain chant, plain song, preliminary study, prelude, prick song, production, program music, prolegomenon, psalm, quaver, refrain, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, remark upon, research paper, review, ricercar, roulade, score, screed, serenade, sermonize, shake, sing, sing in chorus, sketch, sol-fa, solmizate, solo, solo part, sonata, sonatina, song, soprano, soprano part, special article, strain, string orchestra, string quartet, study, survey, take up, tenor, term paper, theme, theme and variations, thesis, thorough bass, touch upon, tract, tractate, treat, treat of, treatise, treatment, treble, tremolo, trill, trio, troll, tune, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, undersong, unfold, vamp, variation, vocalize, voice, voice part, voluntary, warble, whistle, work, work out, write up, yodel

• descend upon, alight upon, ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, drop on, fall on, fall upon, gang up on, go at, go for, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, hit upon, jump, land on, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, light into, light upon, mug, pitch into, pounce upon, pound, sail into, set on, set upon, settle on, strike, strike upon, surprise, swoop down on, take the offensive, wade into

• descend, advance, alight, ascend, assault, attack, back, back up, bank, be shamed, budge, cant, careen, cascade, cataract, change, change hands, change ownership, change place, circle, climb, climb down, collapse, come down, come in, condescend, crash, crash-land, decline, degenerate, deign, derogate, descend on, devolve, dip, dip down, disimprove, disintegrate, ditch, down, downwind, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, fall, fall away, fall down, fall into disrepute, fall off, flow, get down, get over, go, go around, go down, go downhill, go round, go sideways, go uphill, grade, gravitate, gyrate, head, incline, incur discredit, incur disesteem, incur disgrace, invade, keel, land, lead, lean, level off, light, list, lose altitude, lose caste, lose countenance, lose credit, lose face, lower, lower oneself, mount, move, move over, overshoot, pancake, parachute, pass on, pitch, plummet, plunge, point, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour down, precipitate, progress, rain, rake, regress, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, rise, rot, rotate, run, settle, settle down, shelve, shift, sidle, sink, slant, slope, soar, spin, stir, stoop, stream, subside, succeed, swag, sway, swoop, swoop down on, swoop down upon, talk down, tend, tend to go, tilt, tip, touch down, travel, trend downward, uprise, upwind, vouchsafe, wane, whirl, worsen

• descendant, aftermath, backup man, breed, brood, by-product, child, children, conclusion, consequence, daughter, derivative, descendants, descent, dynasty, effect, family, foster child, fruit, grandchild, grandchildren, granddaughter, grandson, great-grandchildren, heir, heiress, heirs, hostages to fortune, inheritor, inheritors, issue, kids, line, lineage, little ones, new generation, offshoot, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, replacement, rising generation, scion, seed, sequel, son, son and heir, sonny, sons, spin-off, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, succession, successor, treasures, younglings, youngsters

• descending, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, collapsing, deciduous, declined, declining, declivate, declivitous, declivous, decurrent, descendant, dipping, down, down-reaching, down-trending, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downgrade, downhill, downsinking, downward, drifting, drooping, dropping, falling, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, mounting, on the descendant, on the downgrade, passing, plummeting, plunging, progressive, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sagging, setting, sideward, sinking, soaring, streaming, submerging, subsiding, tottering, tumbledown, up-trending, upward

• descent, Brownian movement, Indian file, abasement, advance, affiliation, altitude peak, angular motion, apparentation, array, articulation, ascending, ascent, automatic control, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backward motion, bank, birth, blast-off, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brood, burn, burnout, buzz, career, catena, catenation, ceiling, chain, chain reaction, chaining, characterize, check, children, climbing, comedown, coming after, common ancestry, communicate, concatenation, concavity, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, construe, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, current, cycle, de-escalation, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, declivity, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delineate, demotion, depict, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, derivation, derogation, descendants, descending, describe, deterioration, detrusion, devolution, diminution, dip, direct line, discomfiture, disgrace, distaff side, distinguish, down, downgate, downgrade, downhill, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward motion, downward trend, drift, driftage, drone, drop, ducking, dump, dying, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, elucidate, embarrassment, end of burning, endless belt, endless round, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, extension, extraction, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, family, female line, file, filiation, flight, flow, flux, following, forward motion, fruit, gamut, gradation, grade, gradient, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hang, hangdog look, hanging, hauling down, heirs, hollowness, hostages to fortune, house, hum, humbled pride, humiliation, ignition, illustrate, image, impact, impart, incline, inheritors, interpret, involution, issue, kids, lapse, launch, letdown, lift-off, limn, line, line of descent, lineage, little ones, logical sequence, loss of tone, lowering, male line, monotone, mortification, mounting, narrate, new generation, nexus, oblique motion, offspring, ongoing, onrush, order, order of succession, origin, passage, pedigree, pendulum, periodicity, phylum, picture, plenum, plummeting, plunging, portray, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, procession, progeny, progress, progression, prolongation, put-down, queue, race, radial motion, random motion, range, rank, recite, recount, recurrence, reduction, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, rehearse, render, report, reticulation, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, rise, rising, rising generation, rocket launching, rotation, round, routine, row, run, rush, scale, seed, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, sept, sequence, series, set, setback, setdown, severe check, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shoot, shot, side, sideward motion, single file, sinking, slippage, slope, slump, soaring, sons, spear side, spectrum, spindle side, state, stem, sternway, stirps, stock, strain, stream, string, subjunction, submergence, subsiding, succession, successiveness, suffixation, swath, sword side, thread, throwback, thrusting under, tier, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, transmit, treasures, trend, upward motion, velocity peak, wane, windrow, younglings, youngsters

• describe, be characteristic, bring to life, character, characterize, chronicle, construe, define, delineate, demarcate, depict, detail, diagnose, differentiate, distinguish, draw, earmark, evoke, explain, express, give words to, identify, interpret, keynote, label, limn, mark, mark off, mark out, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, read, read into, recite, recount, relate, render, report, represent, retail, set apart, set forth, set the pace, set the tone, sketch, sound the keynote, specify, style, take, take it that, take to mean, trace, traverse, understand, understand by, write

• description, account, anecdote, blood, brand, breed, cast, category, character, characterization, chronicle, clan, class, color, commentary, construction, definition, delineation, denomination, depiction, designation, diagnosis, differentiation, distinction, explanation, feather, form, genre, genus, grain, history, ilk, interpretation, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, manner, mark, meaning, memoir, mold, narration, narrative, nature, number, persuasion, phylum, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, race, reading, recital, record, recountal, recounting, report, representation, shape, sort, species, stamp, statement, story, strain, stripe, style, tale, the like of, the likes of, thumbnail sketch, tribe, type, variety, version, way of seeing, yarn

• descriptive, constructional, constructive, definitional, delineative, depictive, diagnostic, exegetic, expositive, expressive, faithful, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, graphic, hermeneutic, interpretational, interpretive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, naturalistic, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic, realistic, representative, semantic, semeiological, structural, symptomatological, syntactic, tropological, true to life, vivid, well-drawn

• descry, appreciate, behold, catch, catch sight of, clap eyes on, come alive, comprehend, detect, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, glimpse, have in sight, hit, identify, ken, lay eyes on, look on, look upon, make out, mark, meet with, note, notice, observe, penetrate, perceive, pick out, pick up, pierce, plumb, realize, recognize, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, sense, sight, spot, spy, take in, turn up, twig, understand, view, witness

• desecrate, abuse, adulterate, alloy, befoul, canker, cheapen, coarsen, commit sacrilege, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, depredate, desolate, despoil, devalue, devastate, devour, dishonor, distort, divert, embezzle, foul, infect, maladminister, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pillage, poison, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, ravish, sack, spoliate, taint, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, waste

• desecration, abomination, abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, befoulment, blasphemousness, blasphemy, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, disgrace, diversion, embezzlement, fouling, ignominy, impiety, infamy, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pity, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, profaneness, profanity, prostitution, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scandal, shame, terrible thing, violation

• desensitize, KO, anesthetize, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, hebetate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, mull, narcotize, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, put to sleep, stun, stupefy

• desert, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Lebensraum, Sahara, Saharan, abandon, abscond, absquatulate, acarpous, advantageousness, agreeableness, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, anhydrous, apostacize, apostatize, arid, athirst, auspiciousness, back country, bare, barren, barren land, barrens, basin, be unfaithful, beat a retreat, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, betray, bolt, bone-dry, bottomland, break away, break faith, brush, bush, bushveld, campo, celibate, champaign, champaign country, change sides, chastening, chastisement, childless, chuck, class, clear out, clear space, clearance, clearing, coastal plain, cogency, comeuppance, compensation, cut and run, decamp, defect, degenerate, delta, depart, deserted, deserts, deserving, desolate, desolation, discipline, distant prospect, down, downs, drained, dried-up, droughty, dry, dry as dust, due, dust bowl, dusty, elope, empty, empty view, escape, excellence, exhausted, expedience, fail, fairness, fall away, fall off, fallow, favorableness, fell, fineness, first-rateness, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, flee, fly, forsake, fruitless, fugitate, gaunt, gelded, glade, go, go AWOL, go back on, go over, goodliness, goodness, grace, grass veld, grassland, healthiness, heath, helpfulness, high and dry, howling wilderness, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, jilt, juiceless, jump, jump bail, just deserts, justice, karroo, kindness, lande, leached, leave, let down, levant, level, like parchment, living space, llano, lonely, lowland, lowlands, lunar landscape, lunar mare, lunar waste, make off, mare, maroon, menopausal, merit, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, niceness, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, open country, open space, outback, pampa, pampas, pass the buck, payment, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, pleasantness, prairie, profitableness, pull out, punishment, quality, quit, quittance, rat, recompense, renegade, renege, renounce, reprisal, repudiate, requital, retribution, revenge, reward, rewardingness, right, rights, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, run out on, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sandy, sapless, savanna, sebkha, secede, sell out, shift the blame, shift the responsibility, show the heels, sine prole, skedaddle, skillfulness, skip, skip out, slip the cable, soundness, steppe, sterile, strand, sucked dry, superiority, switch, switch over, table, tableland, take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing, teemless, tergiversate, terrain, territory, thirsting, thirsty, throw over, tree veld, tundra, turn, turn against, turn cloak, turn tail, turn traitor, uncultivated, undamped, unfertile, unfruitful, uninhabited, unpeopled, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, unwatered, upland, usefulness, vacant, validity, value, vega, veld, virgin, virtue, virtuousness, waste, wasted, wasteland, waterless, weald, weary waste, what is due, what is merited, wholeness, wide-open spaces, wild, wilderness, wildness, wilds, without issue, wold, worth

• deserted, abandoned, abjured, antiquated, antique, apostasy, archaic, available, bar, bare, castaway, defenseless, demand, derelict, desertion, deserve, desolate, discarded, discontinued, disregarded, disused, done with, empty, falseness, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, free, friendless, gain, get, godforsaken, half-done, have it coming, helpless, homeless, ignored, isolated, jettisoned, kithless, laid aside, left, left undone, lonely, marooned, merit, missed, motherless, neglected, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, omitted, on the shelf, open, out, out of use, out-of-date, outcast, outdated, outmoded, outworn, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, past use, pensioned off, perfidiousness, perfidy, pigeonholed, put aside, rate, recreancy, rejected, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, solitary, stranded, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, tenantless, tergiversation, treacherousness, treachery, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unconsidered, uncouth, undone, unfilled, unfrequented, unfriended, uninhabited, unmanned, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unregarded, unsolicited, unstaffed, untaken, untenanted, untended, unvisited, unwatched, vacant, vacated, win, worn-out

• deserter, Sabbath-breaker, absconder, apostasy, apostate, atheist, backslider, betrayal, blasphemer, bolt, bolter, breakaway, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defection, defector, dereliction, desertion, escapee, fifth columnist, fugitive, mugwump, outlaw, proselyte, quisling, rat, ratting, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, runaway, sacrilegist, schism, schismatic, seceder, secession, secessionist, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, walkout

• desertion, AWOL, French leave, abandonment, absence without leave, absquatulation, apostasy, atheism, backsliding, betrayal, bolt, breakaway, crossing-over, decampment, defection, defenselessness, degeneration, dereliction, deserter, desolation, disappearance, disappearing act, disloyalty, elopement, exit, faithlessness, fall from grace, fatherlessness, flight, forlornness, fugitation, going over, hasty retreat, hegira, helplessness, homelessness, impiety, impiousness, irreligion, irreverence, kithlessness, lapse, lapse from grace, motherlessness, quick exit, ratting, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, renunciation, running away, schism, scramming, secession, skedaddle, skedaddling, treason, turning traitor, undutifulness, walkout

• deserts, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, condign punishment, correction, desert, disciplinary measures, discipline, due reward, dues, ferule, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, just deserts, merits, nemesis, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, punishment, punition, quittance, recompense, reprisal, requital, retribution, retributive justice, revenge, reward, scourge, well-deserved punishment, what is due, what is merited, what-for

• deserved, appropriate, balanced, condign, defensible, due, earned, entitled, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, fitting, good, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, level, meet, meet and right, merited, proper, qualified, requisite, right, right and proper, rightful, square, suitable, warrantable, warranted, well-earned, worthy

• deserving, admirable, ascribable, attributable, beyond all praise, comeuppance, commendable, creditable, deserts, due, entitled to, estimable, exemplary, laudable, merit, merited, meriting, meritorious, model, praiseworthy, rights, unexceptionable, well-deserving, worthy, worthy of

• desiccate, air-dry, anhydrate, bake, blast-freeze, blot, brine, brush, burn, corn, cure, decay, dehumidify, dehydrate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, divest, drain, droop, dry, dry up, dry-cure, dry-salt, embalm, evaporate, exhaust, exsiccate, fade, fade away, fire, flag, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, insolate, irradiate, jerk, kiln, kipper, languish, marinade, marinate, mummify, parch, pickle, pine, preservatize, quick-freeze, refrigerate, rub, salt, scorch, sear, season, shrink, shrivel, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up, sponge, stuff, sun, sun-dry, swab, torrefy, towel, weazen, wilt, wipe, wither, wizen

• desideratum, aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, bare necessities, call for, catch, counsel, dearest wish, demand, demand for, desideration, design, desire, determination, effect, essential, essentials, fixed purpose, forbidden fruit, function, glimmering goal, golden vision, hope, idea, indispensable, intendment, intent, intention, lodestone, magnet, meaning, mind, motive, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nisus, occasion, plan, plum, point, prerequirement, prerequisite, prize, project, proposal, prospectus, purpose, requirement, requisite, requisition, resolution, resolve, sake, striving, study, temptation, the necessary, the needful, trophy, view, want, will, wish

• design, abstract art, action, aim, aim at, ambition, anagnorisis, angle, animus, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrange, arrangement, art, art form, art object, artful dodge, artifice, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, aspiration, aspire after, aspire to, atmosphere, attack, background, background detail, bag of tricks, balance, be after, beget, black and white, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, bluff, bosey, brainchild, breed, bric-a-brac, bring forth, bring into being, brouillon, brushwork, cabal, calculate, calculation, call into being, calligraphy, canon form, cartoon, cast, catastrophe, catch, cave art, ceramics, chalk, characterization, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chart, charting, chiaroscuro, chicanery, chouse, classic, coin, color, complication, composition, conation, conceive, conception, concert, concoct, configuration, connivance, conniving, conspiracy, constitution, construct, construction, contemplate, continuity, contrivance, contrive, cook up, copy, counsel, coup, craft, crayon, create, creation, crosshatch, curve, curve-ball, cut out, cute trick, dash off, daub, deceit, decoration, decorative composition, decorative style, deliberation, delineate, delineation, denouement, depict, desideration, desideratum, designing, designs, desire, destine, detail, determination, determine, develop, development, device, devise, diagram, dirty deal, dirty trick, disposition, dodge, doodle, dope out, draft, draftsmanship, draw, draw up, drawing, dream up, drive at, ebauche, effect, elevation, engender, engraving, enterprise, envisage, envisagement, envision, episode, esquisse, etching, evil intent, evolve, expedient, fable, fabricate, fakement, falling action, fashion, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, figure, figuring, fine arts, fixed purpose, foil, folk art, forecast, foreground detail, foresight, forethought, forge, form, format, formation, frame, fugue form, function, gambit, game, game plan, generate, gimmick, give being to, give rise to, go for, goal, googly, graph, graphic arts, graphing, grift, grotesque, ground plan, grouping, guidelines, harbor a design, hatch, have every intention, hocus-pocus, house plan, ichnography, idea, improvise, incident, intend, intendment, intent, intention, intrigue, invent, invention, joker, juggle, jugglery, kitsch, knavery, lay out, lay plans, layout, lied form, limn, line, line drawing, lineup, little game, local color, long-range plan, machination, make, make a projection, make arrangements, make do with, make up, maneuver, manipulation, map, map out, mapping, master, master plan, masterpiece, masterwork, mature, mean, meaning, method, methodize, methodology, mind, mint, mobile, model, mood, motif, motive, mould, move, movement, museum piece, mythos, national style, nisus, nude, object, objective, old master, operations research, organization, organize, originate, ornamental motif, outline, paint, paint a picture, painterliness, pass, pastel, pasticcio, pastiche, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, period style, peripeteia, perspective, photography, picture, picturize, piece, piece of virtu, plan, plan ahead, planning, planning function, plastic art, plot, ploy, point, portray, prearrange, prearrangement, primary form, primitive art, procedure, procreate, produce, profile, program, program of action, project, projection, proposal, propose, prospectus, prototype, purport, purpose, racket, rationalization, rationalize, recognition, red herring, reflection, repeated figure, resolution, resolve, rising action, rondo form, rough, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, ruse, sake, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, schematize, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scratch, sculpture, scumble, scurvy trick, secondary plot, set out, set up, setting, setup, shade, shading, shadow, shape, shift, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slant, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, sonata allegro, sonata form, spawn, stabile, statue, stencil, still life, story, stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, strike out, striving, structure, study, style, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch, symphonic form, system, systematization, systematize, table, tactic, tactical plan, tactics, target, technique, the arts, the big picture, the picture, thematic development, theme, think, think of, think out, think up, thinking, thought, tint, toccata form, tone, topic, touch, trace, tracing, treatment, trick, trickery, twist, undertaking, values, view, vignette, virtu, visualize, volition, way, wile, will, wily device, work, work of art, work out, work up, working drawing, working plan

• designate, advert to, allocate, allot, allude to, appoint, apportion, appropriate, assign, baptize, be taken as, call, choose, christen, define, delegate, delineate, denominate, denote, depute, determine, dictate, dub, earmark, elect, emblematize, entitle, figure, finger, fix, identify, indicate, label, make, mark, mean, mention, mete out, name, name for office, nickname, nominate, opt, ordain, ordinate, particularize, pick, pick out, pin down, pinpoint, point at, point out, point to, propose, put down, put up, refer to, represent, reserve, run, run for office, select, set, set forth, signify, single, specialize, specify, stand for, state, stigmatize, stipulate, style, submit, symbol, symbolize, tab, tag, tap, term, title, typify, write down

• designation, allocation, appellation, appellative, appointment, assignment, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, brand, breed, byword, calling, cast, character, characterization, christening, clan, classification, cognomen, color, cryptonym, definition, denomination, denotation, description, determination, differentiation, disclosure, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, feather, fingering, fixing, form, genre, genus, grain, handle, hint, honorific, hyponym, identification, ilk, indication, indicativeness, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, nomination, number, ordainment, ordination, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, pinning down, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, posting, precision, proper name, proper noun, proposal, race, recognition, scientific name, secret name, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, suggestion, symptomaticness, tabbing, tag, tautonym, terming, the like of, the likes of, title, transferral, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, variety

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

• designer, a, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, conniver, conspirator, constructor, contriver, costume designer, couturier, craftsman, creator, developer, deviser, discoverer, draughtsman, dress designer, effector, engenderer, engineer, enterpriser, entrepreneur, executor, executrix, father, founder, framer, furniture designer, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, intriguer, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, organizer, originator, past master, planner, plotter, precursor, prime mover, producer, projector, promoter, raiser, realizer, rug designer, schemer, shaper, sire, smith, strategian, strategist, styler, stylist, tactician, wright

• designing, Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstract art, acute, arch, art, art form, artful, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, astute, cagey, calculating, calligraphy, canny, cave art, ceramics, clever, collusive, connivent, conniving, conspiring, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, decoration, deep, deep-laid, design, devious, diplomatic, double-dealing, engraving, etching, feline, fine arts, folk art, foxy, graphic arts, guileful, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, inventive, knowing, pawky, photography, plastic art, plotting, politic, primitive art, ready, resourceful, scheming, sculpture, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, stratagemical, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, the arts, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, underhanded, up to, vulpine, wary, wily

• desirable, acceptable, admirable, admissible, adorable, advantageous, advisable, affable, agreeable, alluring, amiable, amicable, appetizing, appropriate, attractive, becoming, befitting, beneficial, blissful, captivating, cheerful, choice, commendable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, congruous, convenient, cordial, coveted, decent, desired, dulcet, eligible, en rapport, enfranchised, enjoyable, enviable, estimable, excellent, exciting, expedient, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, feasible, felicific, felicitous, fetching, fine, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, fructuous, genial, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, likable, likely, longed-for, lovable, meet, mellifluous, mellow, mouth-watering, nice, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, politic, profitable, proper, provocative, qualified, recommendable, rewarding, right, satisfying, seasonable, seductive, seemly, sortable, suitable, superb, superior, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tempting, timely, to be desired, toothsome, unobjectionable, useful, valuable, wanted, welcome, well-timed, winning, winsome, wise, with voice, with vote, worth having, worthwhile, worthy

• desire, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, address, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, aim, aim at, ambition, andromania, animus, aphrodisia, appeal, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, application, apply for, ardency, ardor, ask, ask for, asking, aspiration, aspire, aspire after, aspire to, assumption, assurance, assured faith, attachment, avarice, bank on, be after, be desirous of, be in heat, beg leave, bespeak, biological urge, bodily appetite, bodily love, brotherly love, call for, caritas, carnal desire, catch, charity, cheerful expectation, choice, choose, choose to, come in, command, conation, conatus, concupiscence, confide, confidence, conjugal love, conviction, counsel, count on, covet, crave, craving, cupidity, dearest wish, decide, decision, decree, demand, dependence, desiderate, desideration, desideratum, desiderium, design, destine, determination, determine, devotion, discretion, disposition, doomed hope, drive at, effect, enjoy, entreaty, eromania, eros, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, estruate, expect, expectation, expressed desire, fair prospect, faith, faithful love, fancy, favor, feel confident, fervent hope, fervor, file for, fixed purpose, flame, fleshly lust, fondness, forbidden fruit, free choice, free love, free will, free-lovism, function, furor uterinus, glimmering goal, go for, goatishness, golden vision, good cheer, good hope, grab, grab at, great expectations, greed, gynecomania, hanker, hanker after, hankering, harbor a design, harbor the hope, have designs on, have every intention, heart, hero worship, high hopes, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, hungering, idea, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impetration, importune, inclination, indecency, indent, infantile sexuality, intend, intendment, intent, intention, itch, itch for, jump at, lasciviousness, lean upon, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, like, liking, live in hopes, lodestone, long, long for, longing, love, lovemaking, lust, lust after, lustfulness, magnet, make a request, make a requisition, make application, married love, mean, meaning, mind, motive, nisus, nurture the hope, nymphomania, objective, order, pant, passion, petition, physical love, pine, pine for, pining, plan, pleasure, plum, point, polymorphous perversity, popular regard, popularity, prayerful hope, prefer, presume, presumption, prize, project, promise, proposal, propose, prospect, prospects, prospectus, prurience, pruriency, purport, purpose, put in for, rapacity, regard, reliance, rely on, request, require, requirement, requisition, resolution, resolve, rest assured, rut, sake, salaciousness, sanguine expectation, satyriasis, satyrism, security, see fit, sentiment, sex, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual love, sexual passion, shine, sigh for, snatch, snatch at, solicit, spiritual love, striving, study, summon, take to, temptation, tender feeling, tender passion, think, think fit, think good, think proper, thirst, thirsting, trophy, truelove, trust, urge, uxoriousness, velleity, venereal appetite, view, volition, want, weakness, well-grounded hope, whistle for, will, will power, wish, wish for, wish to goodness, wish very much, worship, would fain do, yearn, yearn for, yearning, yen

• desirous of, aching for, begrudging, bent on, covetous, crazy to, dying for, dying to, envious, envying, fain of, fond of, green with envy, grudging, inclined toward, invidious, itching for, jealous, keen on, leaning toward, mad on, partial to, set on, spoiling for, wild to

• desirous, acquisitive, agog, alacritous, all agog, amative, amatory, amorous, animated, anxious, appetitive, ardent, avid, breathless, bursting to, desiderative, desireful, desiring, eager, erotic, forward, full of life, grabby, grasping, greedy, hopeful, hoping, hormic, impassioned, impatient, itchy, keen, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lively, longing, loverlike, loverly, lustful, needing, optative, panting, passionate, prehensile, prompt, quick, raring to, ready, ready and willing, sexual, spirited, tempted, vital, vivacious, vivid, wanting, wishful, wishing, yearning, zestful

• desist, abandon, abdicate, abjure, abort, acknowledge defeat, belay, cancel, cease, cede, come off, cry quits, cut it out, cut out, desist from, discontinue, disuse, drop, drop it, end, forgo, forswear, give, give over, give up, halt, hand over, have done with, hold, knock it off, lay down, lay off, leave off, let go, nol-pros, not pursue with, put behind one, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, resign, scrub, stay, stop, surrender, terminate, throw up, waive, yield

• desk, agency, ambo, atelier, bar, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, board, buffet, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, counter, escritoire, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, lectern, loft, organization, parlor, pulpit, reading desk, rostrum, secretaire, secretary, shop, stand, studio, sweatshop, table, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, writing table

• desolate, abandoned, acarpous, acheronian, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, alone, anguish, annihilate, arid, bare, barren, black, bleak, break down, bring to ruin, bring to tears, celibate, cheerless, childless, comfortless, condemn, confound, consume, crush, crushed, cut up, damn, dark, daunt, deal destruction, decimate, deep-troubled, defenseless, deject, dejected, demolish, depopulate, depredate, depress, depressed, desecrate, desert, deserted, desole, despoil, despondent, destitute, destroy, destroyed, devastate, devastated, devour, disconsolate, discourage, discouraged, dishearten, dismal, dismay, dispeople, dispirit, dispirited, dissolve, distressed, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draw tears, drear, dreary, dried-up, dry, embitter, empty, engorge, excruciate, exhausted, fallow, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, funereal, gaunt, gelded, gloomy, gobble, gobble up, godforsaken, grieve, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heartsore, helpless, homeless, hopeless, impotent, incinerate, inconsolable, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inundate, isolated, issueless, jejune, joyless, kithless, lay in ruins, lay waste, leached, lonely, low-spirited, melancholy, menopausal, miserable, motherless, mournful, murky, neglected, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, obliterate, oppress, outcast, overwhelm, pillage, poor, poverty-stricken, prostrate, ravage, ravaged, raze, remote, ruin, ruinate, ruined, sack, sad, sadden, shipwreck, sick, sick at heart, sine prole, solitary, somber, sorrow, sorrowful, soul-sick, spiritless, spoliate, sterile, stricken, sucked dry, suicidal, swallow up, teemless, throw into disorder, torment, torture, unconsolable, uncouth, uncultivated, unfertile, unfrequented, unfriended, unfruitful, unhappy, uninhabited, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unoccupied, unpeople, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, upheave, vacant, vandalize, vaporize, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, woebegone, woeful, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck, wretched

• desolated, ausgespielt, bankrupt, blasted, blighted, broken, broken-down, brokenhearted, crushed, cut up, destroyed, devastated, done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, gone to pot, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, in ruins, inundated, irremediable, kaput, overcome, overthrown, overwhelmed, ravaged, ruined, ruinous, spoiled, stricken, undone, wasted, wrecked

• desolating, agonizing, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, excruciating, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, internecine, nihilist, nihilistic, racking, ravaging, rending, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tormenting, torturous, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering

• desolation, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abandonment, aching heart, agonizingness, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, barren, barren land, barrenness, barrens, bitterness, bleeding heart, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, broken heart, brush, bush, carnage, chaos, comfortlessness, consumption, crushing, damnation, decimation, defenselessness, depopulation, depredation, depression, depth of misery, desert, desertion, desolateness, despair, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disconsolateness, disconsolation, disintegration, disorganization, dispeoplement, disruption, dissolution, distress, dolor, dreariness, dust bowl, excruciatingness, excruciation, extirpation, extremity, fatherlessness, forlornness, gloom, grief, havoc, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, heath, heavy heart, hecatomb, helplessness, holocaust, homelessness, howling wilderness, inconsolability, infelicity, karroo, kithlessness, lunar landscape, lunar waste, melancholia, melancholy, misery, motherlessness, obliteration, prostration, ravage, ravagement, ruin, ruination, sack, sadness, salt flat, shambles, slaughter, sorrow, spoliation, suicidal despair, torment, tormentingness, torture, torturousness, undoing, unhappiness, vandalism, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wild, wilderness, wilds, woe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wretchedness

• despair, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abandon, abandon hope, acedia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apathy, bale, become suicidal, bitterness, blank despondency, bleeding heart, broken heart, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, crushing, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair of, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondency, despondentness, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, distress, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, droop, drooping spirits, drop, extremity, falter, forlornness, give up, give up hope, give way, gloom, gloominess, grief, heartache, heartlessness, heavy heart, hit rock bottom, hopelessness, infelicity, languish, lose heart, lose hope, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, melancholia, melancholy, miserableness, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, oppression, pessimism, plumb the depths, prostration, quit, reach the depths, relinquish, renounce, resign, resignation, sadness, self-destructive urge, sink, sink into despair, sinking heart, sloth, spiritlessness, suicidal despair, surrender, taedium vitae, touch bottom, weariness of life, woe, wretchedness, yield, yield to despair

• desperado, Cain, Judas, apache, assassin, assassinator, badman, bandit, betrayer, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, convict, criminal, crook, cutthroat, deceiver, desperate criminal, devil, double-dealer, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, felon, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, garroter, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, hatchet man, head-hunter, hell-raiser, hellcat, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, jailbird, killer, lawbreaker, mad dog, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, mobster, murderer, outlaw, pesticide, poison, poisoner, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, rough, rowdy, ruffian, scofflaw, slaughterer, slayer, strangler, swindler, thief, thug, torpedo, traitor, trigger man, two-timer

• desperate, Dionysiac, accident-prone, aching for, acute, affording no hope, amok, apathetic, atrocious, bacchic, baffled, balked, berserk, bleak, breakneck, careless, cheerless, climacteric, comfortless, compelling, concentrated, corybantic, craving, critical, crucial, crying, dangerous, desirous of, despairing, despondent, desponding, devil-may-care, dire, disconsolate, dismal, exquisite, fierce, foiled, foolhardy, forlorn, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frustrated, furious, grave, great, grim, hard pressed, hard up, harum-scarum, hasty, hazardous, headlong, heinous, hopeless, hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, in despair, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, monstrous, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, panic-stricken, perilous, pinched, precarious, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, pressing, rabid, raging, ranting, rash, raving, raving mad, reckless, running wild, scandalous, serious, shocking, slap-bang, slapdash, sorely pressed, stark-raving mad, straitened, tenuous, terrible, thwarted, uncontrollable, unhopeful, up against it, urgent, vehement, venturesome, vicious, violent, wanton, wild, without hope, wretched

• desperately, a corps perdu, carelessly, demonically, fanatically, fiercely, forlornly, frantically, frenetically, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hopelessly, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, impossibly, like crazy, like mad, like one possessed, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, ramble-scramble, recklessly, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, uncontrollably, violently, wantonly, wildly

• desperation, acedia, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, apathy, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, defeatism, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, distress, foolhardiness, forlornness, gloom, heedlessness, hopelessness, impetuosity, imprudence, melancholy, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, pessimism, rashness, recklessness, sloth, sorrow, wretchedness

• despicable, abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crude, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, disreputable, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unclean, unmentionable, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

• despise, abhor, abjure, abominate, avoid, be above, be contemptuous of, brush aside, care nothing for, chuck, chuck out, contemn, contradict, decline, deny, deride, detest, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, dismiss, disown, disparage, disprize, disregard, dump on, eschew, except, exclude, execrate, feel contempt for, feel superior to, flout, forswear, hate, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in derision, ignore, insult, laugh at, laugh to scorn, loathe, look down upon, misprize, overlook, pass by, pass up, push aside, put down, rank low, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, ridicule, scoff at, scorn, scout, set at defiance, set at naught, shove away, shun, slight, slight over, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, snub, spurn, think nothing of, throw away, throw out, treat with contempt, turn away, turn out, waive

• despised, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, disliked, dismissed, disowned, excepted, excluded, forsworn, ignored, lowly, misprized, misunderstood, not considered, out of favor, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, spurned, thankless, unappreciated, uncared-for, unlamented, unmissed, unmourned, unpopular, unregretted, unsung, unvalued

• despite, Schadenfreude, abhorrence, abomination, affront, airs, arrogance, aspersion, at all costs, at any cost, atrocity, audacity, aversion, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenness, brickbat, bumptiousness, cattiness, cheekiness, clannishness, cliquishness, cockiness, cold shoulder, contempt, contemptuousness, contumacy, contumely, cut, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despisal, detestation, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disfavor, disgust, dislike, disparagement, disregard, distaste, dump, enormity, even with, flouting, gibe, gloating pleasure, grudge, harm, hate, hatred, hauteur, humiliation, hurt, ignoring, ill will, impertinence, impudence, in defiance of, in despite of, in spite of, incivility, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, irregardless, irrespective of, jeer, jeering, loathing, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mock, mockery, notwithstanding, offense, outrage, pertness, put-down, rebuff, recalcitrance, regardless, regardless of, regardless of cost, rejection, repudiation, ridicule, sauciness, scoff, scorn, scornfulness, scurrility, slap, slight, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, snub, sovereign contempt, spite, spite of, spitefulness, spleen, spurning, stubbornness, superciliousness, taunt, toploftiness, uncomplimentary remark, unholy joy, with

• despiteful, acrid, antagonistic, antipathetic, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cattish, catty, caustic, clashing, colliding, conflicting, detestable, evil, full of hate, hateful, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malignant, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, set against, sore, spiteful, unlikable, venomous, vicious, virulent, vitriolic, wicked

• despoil, abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, befoul, betray, bewitch, bleed, bleed white, blight, bring to ruin, canker, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, consume, contaminate, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, damn, deal destruction, debase, debauch, deceive, decimate, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, denude, deplume, deprave, depredate, desecrate, desolate, destroy, devalue, devastate, devour, disadvantage, displume, disserve, dissolve, distort, distress, divest, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drain, dry, engorge, envenom, exhaust, flay, fleece, forage, foray, force, freeboot, get into trouble, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hurt, impair, impoverish, incinerate, infect, injure, jinx, lay in ruins, lay waste, lead astray, loot, maltreat, maraud, menace, milk, mislead, mistreat, misuse, molest, outrage, persecute, pervert, pick clean, pillage, play havoc with, play hob with, pluck, plunder, poison, pollute, prejudice, prey on, prostitute, raid, ransack, rape, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, rifle, ruin, ruinate, sack, savage, scathe, seduce, shear, shipwreck, skin, soil, spoil, spoliate, strip, strip bare, suck dry, sully, swallow up, sweep, taint, threaten, throw into disorder, torment, torture, twist, ulcerate, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, waste, wound, wrack, wreak havoc, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

• despoliation, abomination, atrocity, bad, banditry, bane, befoulment, blight, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage, consumption, corruption, crying evil, damage, damnation, decimation, defilement, depredation, desolation, despoiling, despoilment, destruction, detriment, devastation, direption, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, evil, foraging, foray, freebooting, grievance, harm, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hurt, ill, infection, injury, looting, marauding, mischief, outrage, perdition, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, poison, pollution, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, ruin, ruination, sack, sacking, shambles, slaughter, spoiling, spoliation, the worst, toxin, undoing, vandalism, venom, vexation, waste, woe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong

• despond, abandon hope, become suicidal, brood, despair, despair of, droop, falter, give up, give up hope, give way, hit rock bottom, languish, lose heart, lose hope, plumb the depths, reach the depths, sag, sink, sink into despair, touch bottom, yield to despair

• despondency, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, acedia, apathy, blank despondency, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondentness, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, forlornness, heartlessness, hopelessness, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, no exit, no way, no way out, oppression, pessimism, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sloth, spiritlessness, suicidal despair, taedium vitae, weariness of life

• despondent, affording no hope, apathetic, bleak, blue, bowed-down, cast down, cheerless, comfortless, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing, desperate, desponding, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, feeling low, forlorn, grieving, grim, heartless, hopeless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in despair, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, languishing, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, morose, mourning, pessimistic, pining, sad, sorrowful, spiritless, subdued, suicidal, unhappy, unhopeful, weary of life, without hope, woebegone, world-weary

• despot, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch, oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, strong man, tyrant, usurper, warlord

• despotic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, autarchic, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, autonomous, bossy, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, dictatorial, domineering, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, governmental, grinding, gubernatorial, heteronomous, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, peremptory, pluralistic, political, repressive, republican, self-governing, severe, strict, suppressive, theocratic, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous

• despotism, Caesarism, Stalinism, absolute monarchy, absolutism, argumentum baculinum, autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, benevolent despotism, big stick, czarism, dictatorship, domination, domineering, fascism, heavy hand, high hand, iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, kaiserism, monarchy, monocracy, one-man rule, one-party rule, oppression, paternalism, reign of terror, repression, suppression, terrorism, thought control, totalitarianism, tyranny

• dessert, ambrosia, antepast, bonne bouche, cate, choice morsel, course, cover, dainty, delicacy, dish, entree, entremets, goody, help, helping, kickshaw, manna, morsel, nectar, place, plate, portion, pudding, savory, second helping, service, serving, sweet, tidbit, titbit, treat

• destigmatize, absolve, account for, acquit, amnesty, clear, cry sour grapes, decontaminate, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, do justice to, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, explain, forgive, free, give absolution, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, justify, let go, let off, nonpros, pardon, purge, quash the charge, rationalize, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, remit, restore, set free, shrive, vindicate, warrant, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• destination, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Z, address, aim, anchorage, apodosis, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, billhead, book of fate, bourn, butt, by-end, by-purpose, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, constellation, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, cup, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destiny, dies funestis, direction, doom, effect, end, end in view, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fatality, fate, final cause, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, foredoom, fortune, future, game, goal, harbor, haven, ides of March, inevitability, izzard, kismet, last, last breath, last gasp, last stop, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, mark, moira, name and address, object, object in mind, objective, omega, payoff, period, peroration, planets, port, portion, postal zone, prey, pursuit, quarry, quietus, quintain, reason for being, resolution, resting place, stars, stop, stoppage, stopping place, superscription, swan song, target, teleology, term, terminal, terminal point, termination, terminus, ultimate aim, unlucky day, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, windup, zip code, zone

• destine, aim, aim at, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate to, aspire after, aspire to, assign, assign to, be after, design, designate, desire, destinate, detail, determine, devote, doom, drive at, earmark, fate, foredoom, foreordain, go for, harbor a design, have every intention, intend, lot, make assignments, mark, mark off, mark out for, mean, ordain, plan, portion off, predestine, predetermine, preordain, project, propose, purport, purpose, reserve, resolve, restrict, restrict to, schedule, set, set apart, set aside, set off, tag, think

• destined, appointed, approaching, bound, certain, coming, designed, desired, destinal, determined, devoted, doomed, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fateful, fatidic, foredoomed, foreordained, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in store, in the cards, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, intended, later, marked, meant, nearing, ordained, planned, plotted, predestined, predetermined, predicted, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, sure, to come, to-be, ultimate, unavoidable, written

• destiny, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Heaven, Paradise, Z, a better place, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, afterlife, afterworld, allotment, allowance, apodosis, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, book of fate, break, budget, casualness, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, chance, chunk, circumstance, coda, commission, conclusion, constellation, consummation, contingent, crack of doom, culmination, cup, curtain, curtains, cut, deal, death, decease, denouement, design, destination, dies funestis, dividend, dole, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, equal share, eschatology, eternal home, expiration, fatality, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, flukiness, foredoom, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, future, future state, gamble, goal, good fortune, good luck, half, halver, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, helping, home, how they fall, ides of March, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, inevitability, intent, intention, interest, izzard, karma, kismet, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, law of averages, life after death, life to come, lot, luck, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, moira, next world, objective, omega, opportunity, otherworld, part, payoff, percentage, period, peroration, piece, planets, portion, postexistence, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, proportion, quantum, quietus, quota, rake-off, random sample, ration, resolution, resting place, risk, run of luck, segment, serendipity, share, slice, small share, stake, stars, statistical probability, stock, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the beyond, the breaks, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter, the hereafter, the unknown, theory of probability, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unlucky day, weird, what bodes, what is fated, whatever comes, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, windup, world to come

• destitute, badly off, bankrupt, bereft of, broke, broken, busted, deficient, depleted, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, divested, down-and-out, drained, empty, exhausted, failed, fortuneless, hard up, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in receivership, in the gutter, in the red, in want, indigent, innocent, insolvent, landless, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the rocks, out of funds, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, propertyless, ruined, stripped, void, without, without a sou

• destitution, absence, adversity, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack, mendicancy, misfortune, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, omission, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want, wantage

• destroy, abolish, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annihilate, annul, assault, atomize, attack, baffle, balk, barbarize, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, befoul, bereave of life, best, bewitch, blast, blight, botch, brave, break down, break up, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, cancel out, carry away, carry off, carry on, challenge, checkmate, chloroform, circumvent, condemn, confound, confront, confute, consume, contradict, contravene, corrupt, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cripple, cross, crucify, crush, curse, cut down, cut off, damage, damn, dash, deal destruction, decapitate, decimate, defeat, defile, defy, demolish, deny, deprave, depredate, deprive of life, desolate, despoil, devastate, devitalize, devour, disable, disadvantage, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dismantle, dispatch, dispose of, disprove, disrupt, disserve, dissolve, distress, do a mischief, do away with, do evil, do for, do ill, do in, do to death, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drub, dynamite, elude, end, enfeeble, engorge, envenom, eradicate, execute, exhaust, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fix, flummox, foil, frustrate, get into trouble, go on, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, hammer, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hide, hors de combat, hurt, immolate, impair, incinerate, infect, injure, interfere with, jinx, kill, knock the chocks, lambaste, lather, launch into eternity, lay in ruins, lay waste, lick, liquidate, loot, lynch, make away with, maltreat, mangle, mar, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace, mistreat, molest, mug, mutilate, negate, neutralize, nonplus, nullify, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrage, outrun, outsail, outshine, overthrow, overturn, perplex, persecute, pillage, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, pull down, pulverize, purge, put, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, quench, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raze, refute, remove from life, reverse, riot, roar, rub out, rubble, ruin, ruinate, sabotage, sack, sacrifice, savage, scathe, scotch, settle, shatter, shipwreck, shoot, skin, skin alive, slaughter, slay, smash, sow chaos, spike, spoil, starve, stonewall, stop, storm, stump, swallow up, taint, take life, take off, tear, tear around, tear down, terminate, terrorize, thrash, threaten, throw into disorder, thwart, torment, torture, trash, trim, triumph over, trounce, unbuild, undermine, undo, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, upset, vandalize, vaporize, violate, waste, weaken, whip, wipe, wipe out, worst, wound, wrack, wreak havoc, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

• destroyed, ausgespielt, bankrupt, blasted, blighted, botched, broken, desolated, devastated, done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, gone to pot, in ruins, irremediable, kaput, marred, overthrown, ravaged, ruined, ruinous, spoiled, spoilt, undone, wasted, wrecked

• destroyer, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, bane, barbarian, battleship, battlewagon, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, can, cannibal, capital ship, demolisher, despoiler, destruction, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, man-eater, nihilist, ruin, ruination, ruiner, savage, shark, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, undoing, vandal, wild man, wrecker

• destruction, Waterloo, abomination, abscission, amputation, annihilation, assassination, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, beating, befoulment, bereavement, blight, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, breakage, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, collapse, confusion, conquering, conquest, corruption, cost, crack-up, crash, crippling, crying evil, damage, dead loss, dealing death, deathblow, debacle, debit, defeat, defilement, demolition, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction of life, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, dispatch, dispossession, disrepair, divestment, downfall, drubbing, elimination, encroachment, end, eradication, euthanasia, evil, excision, exclusion, execution, expense, extermination, extinction, extirpation, failure, fall, flow of blood, forfeit, forfeiture, genocide, gore, grievance, harm, havoc, hiding, hobbling, holocaust, hurt, hurting, ill, immolation, impairment, incapacitation, infection, infringement, injury, inroad, kill, killing, lambasting, lapidation, lathering, laying waste, licking, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, maiming, martyrdom, martyrization, massacre, mastery, mayhem, mercy killing, mischief, murder, mutilation, outrage, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, perdition, poison, poisoning, pollution, privation, putting away, quietus, ravagement, razing, rescission, ritual killing, ritual murder, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shooting, sickening, slaughter, slaying, smash, spoiling, spoliation, stoning, stripping, subdual, subduing, subjugation, taking away, taking of life, tearing down, termination, the worst, thrashing, total loss, toxin, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, venom, vexation, weakening, whipping, wiping out, woe, wrecking, wrong

• destructive, adverse, annihilative, antithetical, bad, baleful, baneful, black, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, catching, communicable, condemnatory, conflicting, consuming, consumptive, contagious, contradictory, contrary, critical, damaging, dangerous, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, derogatory, desolating, destroying, detrimental, devastating, dire, disapproving, disastrous, disparaging, doomful, envenomed, fatal, fateful, fell, feral, fratricidal, grievous, harmful, hurtful, infectious, infective, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, negative, nihilist, nihilistic, noxious, opposed, opposing, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, savage, self-destructive, shattering, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, tragic, unfavorable, unwholesome, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful

• desuetude, abandonment, absentation, abstention, abstinence, casting away, cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, conclusion, discontinuance, discontinuation, disuse, end, ending, evacuation, forsaking, jettison, jettisoning, leaving, nonemployment, nonprevalence, nonuse, obsolescence, obsoleteness, obsoletion, obsoletism, pensioning off, pulling out, retirement, superannuation, throwing overboard, unprevalence, withdrawal

• desultory, aberrant, aberrative, adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, broken, by the way, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, choppy, circuitous, dancing, dangerous, departing, designless, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, dizzy, eccentric, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluttering, fluttery, formless, freakish, frivolous, giddy, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, hazardous, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, indiscriminate, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jerky, labyrinthine, loose, lurching, maundering, mazy, meandering, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, moody, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, on-again-off-again, orderless, out-of-the-way, patchy, perilous, planetary, planless, precarious, promiscuous, provisional, purposeless, rambling, random, restless, risky, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, serpentine, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, slippery, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, straggling, straggly, stray, swerving, systemless, temporary, tentative, ticklish, treacherous, turning, twisting, unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unconsidered, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unfaithworthy, unfixed, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unplanned, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsolid, unsorted, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untrustworthy, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, winding, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag

• detach, abstract, accredit, assign, authorize, break up, call up, cast off, charge, charter, commandeer, commission, commit, conscript, consign, cut off, deactivate, debrief, delegate, demob, demobilize, depute, deputize, detach for service, detail, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, disaffiliate, disassemble, disband, discharge, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, disjoin, dismantle, dismember, dismiss, dismount, disorganize, disperse, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divorce, doff, draft, empower, enlist, enroll, entrust, free, give in charge, go separate ways, impress, induct, join, let go, levy, liberate, license, list, loose, loosen, mission, mobilize, muster, muster in, muster out, part, part company, post, press, raise, recruit, release, remove, scatter, send out, separate, sever, sign on, sign up, split up, summon, sunder, take apart, take off, transfer, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unglue, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unstick, unstrap, untie, warrant, weigh anchor

• detached retina, amaurosis, blepharitis, cataract, choroiditis, conjunctivitis, cross-eye, defective vision, esotropia, eye defect, glaucoma, gutta serena, iritis, keratitis, optic neuritis, pink eye, retinoblastoma, sty, trachoma, uveitis, walleye

• detached, Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, afoot and lighthearted, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, apathetic, at large, at liberty, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, broken, candid, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, clear, cold, colorless, comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, cut off, desensitized, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discreet, discrete, disengaged, disinterested, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispassionate, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, distant, disunited, divided, divorced, dull, easygoing, emancipated, equitable, estranged, evenhanded, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, extraneous, fair, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forbidding, foreign, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, friendless, frigid, frosty, gapped, go-as-you-please, guarded, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, homeless, hopeless, icy, impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a backwater, in a stupor, in the clear, inaccessible, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, incurious, independent, indifferent, insouciant, insular, introverted, irrelative, isolate, isolated, just, kithless, languid, lethargic, liberated, listless, lofty, lone, lonely, lonesome, loose, mindless, modest, neutral, nonadherent, nonadhesive, nonchalant, noncoherent, noncohesive, numb, numbed, objective, offish, on the loose, open, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poker-faced, quarantined, regardless, released, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rootless, scattered, scot-free, secluded, seclusive, segregate, segregated, selfless, separate, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, strange, stupefied, subdued, supine, suppressed, tenuous, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unadhesive, unaffable, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unapproachable, unassisted, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unbiased, uncaring, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncommitted, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected, undazzled, undemonstrative, unemotional, unengaged, unescorted, unexpansive, unfastened, unfrequented, ungenial, uninfluenced, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced, unjoined, unmindful, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unselfish, unsupported, unswayed, untenacious, unvisited, withdrawn

• detachment, Jim Crow, KP, Olympian detachment, abstraction, abulia, accidia, acedia, adjunct, age group, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apartheid, apartness, apathy, army, army group, ataraxia, ataraxy, backwardness, band, bashfulness, battalion, battery, battle group, benumbedness, bevy, blah, blahs, blankness, body, boredom, breakup, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, carelessness, cast, casualness, catatonic stupor, celibacy, chill, chilliness, clearance, clique, cohort, coldness, column, comatoseness, combat command, combat team, company, complement, component, compulsion, constraint, contingent, coolness, corps, coterie, covey, crew, cross section, crowd, deactivation, dejection, demobilization, deportation, depression, detaching, detail, diaspora, disarticulation, disassociation, disbandment, discard, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discreetness, discretion, disengagement, disintegration, disinterest, disinterestedness, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorganization, dispassion, dispassionateness, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, disregard, disregardfulness, dissolution, distance, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, dole, dullness, easygoingness, ejection, elation, elimination, emotionalism, equitability, eradication, euphoria, evenhandedness, exile, expatriation, expressionlessness, expulsion, faction, fairness, field army, field train, file, fleet, flying column, folie du doute, fraction, frigidity, frostiness, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, guardedness, heartlessness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, iciness, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, in-group, inaccessibility, inappetence, inattention, incoherence, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insensibility, insouciance, installment, intellectual inertia, introversion, isolation, isolationism, item, junta, justness, keeping apart, kitchen police, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of interest, lackadaisicalness, languidness, legion, lethargicalness, lethargy, liquidation, listlessness, loftiness, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, luxation, mania, maniple, melancholia, mental distress, mindlessness, mob, modesty, movement, moving apart, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, numbness, objectivity, obsession, offishness, organization, ostracism, out-group, outfit, outlawing, outlawry, pack, parcel, part, particular, parting, partition, party, passiveness, passivity, pathological indecisiveness, peer group, percentage, phalanx, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, platoon, plucklessness, pococurantism, portion, posse, preoccupation, privacy, privatism, privatization, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, purge, quadrant, quarantine, quarter, quota, random sample, rank, recess, recklessness, reclusion, regardlessness, regiment, release, remainder, remoteness, removal, repression, reserve, reservedness, resignation, resignedness, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, retreat, riddance, rupture, rustication, salon, sample, sampling, seclusion, secrecy, section, sector, segment, segmentation, selflessness, separateness, separating, separation, separatism, sequestration, set, severance, share, single blessedness, sloth, sluggishness, solitariness, solitude, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, splendid isolation, split-up, spunklessness, squad, squadron, stable, standoffishness, stolidity, string, stupefaction, stupor, subdivision, subduedness, subgroup, subspecies, subtraction, supineness, suppression, suspension, tactical unit, task force, team, tic, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, train, tribe, troop, troupe, twitching, unaffability, unanxiousness, unapproachability, unbias, unbiasedness, unconcern, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unit, unmindfulness, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness, unresponsiveness, unselfishness, unsolicitousness, wing, withdrawal, withdrawnness, zoning

• detail, KP, accredit, accuracy, add up, adduce, adjunct, age group, allocate, allot, amplify, anatomize, appoint, appropriate to, appurtenance, army, army group, article, aspect, assign, assign to, atomize, attention to detail, authorize, background, background detail, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, block out, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, case, cast, cast up, catalogue, charge, charter, cipher up, circumstance, circumstantiality, circumstantiate, cite, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, commission, commit, company, complement, complete, component, comprehensively, conscientiousness, consign, constituent, contents, contingent, corps, correctness, coterie, count, count up, covey, crew, criticality, criticalness, cross section, crowd, datum, decorative composition, decorative style, delegate, delicacy, delineate, depute, deputize, descant, descend to particulars, design, destine, detach, detachment, details, develop, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, dilate, division, document, dole, duty, earmark, elaborate, element, empower, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, entrust, enumerate, evolve, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exhaustively, expand, expatiate, explicate, exquisiteness, facet, fact, faction, factor, fate, fatigue, feature, field army, field train, figure, figure up, file, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, fixings, fleet, flying column, foil, foot up, foreground detail, form, fraction, fussiness, gang, garrison, give full particulars, give in charge, go into, group, grouping, groupment, in detail, in-group, incidental, individualize, ingredient, inside out, installment, instance, integrant, inventory, item, item by item, itemize, junta, kitchen police, labor, legion, license, list, lot, make assignments, makings, maniple, mark off, mark out for, matter, meticulousness, minor detail, minuteness, minutia, minutiae, mission, mob, motif, movement, name, national style, niceness, niceties, nicety, number, ordain, organization, ornamental motif, out-group, outfit, outline, pack, parcel, parse, part, part and parcel, particular, particularity, particularize, particularly, particularness, particulars, party, pattern, peculiarize, peer group, percentage, perfectly, period style, personalize, phalanx, platoon, point, portion, portion off, posse, post, precise, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, quadrant, quarter, quota, random sample, rank, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, recount, refinement, regard, regiment, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate, relate at large, remainder, repeated figure, reserve, resolve, respect, restrict, restrict to, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, salon, sample, sampling, scan, schedule, schematize, score up, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, section, sector, segment, send, send out, set, set apart, set aside, set off, setting, share, specialize, specialty, specific, specifically, specifics, specify, spell out, squad, squadron, stable, stipulate, strictness, string, style, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, substantiate, subtlety, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, tabulate, tactical unit, tag, tally up, task force, team, technicalities, technicality, theme, thing, thoroughly, tot up, total, total up, tote up, touch, train, transfer, tribe, troop, troupe, unfold, unit, warrant, wing, work out

• detailed, absolute, abundant, accurate, attentive, blow-by-blow, certain, circumstantial, close, complete, complex, complicated, comprehensive, concrete, conscientious, copious, correct, critical, defined, definite, delicate, demanding, determinate, different, distinct, distinguished, elaborate, esoteric, especial, exact, exacting, exceptional, exhausting, exhaustive, exigent, express, exquisite, extraordinary, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fixed, full, fussy, inclusive, individual, inner, intimate, intricate, itemized, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, noteworthy, ornate, particular, particularized, personal, picayune, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, private, punctilious, punctual, refined, religious, respective, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, several, singular, solipsistic, special, specific, strict, subtle, thorough, thoroughgoing

• details, brass tacks, bric-a-brac, cameo, catalog, cataloging, chaff, character, character sketch, characterization, chicken feed, chickenshit, delineation, depiction, description, essential facts, essentials, evocation, froth, gimcrackery, graphic account, image, imagery, impression, itemization, knickknackery, limning, minutiae, particularization, peanuts, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, profile, rendering, rendition, representation, rubbish, sketch, small beer, small change, specification, the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the information, the particulars, the picture, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story, trash, trifles, trivia, trumpery, vignette, vivid description, word painting

• detain, apprehend, arrest, backpedal, backwater, block, bog down, bottle up, box up, brake, bust, buttonhole, cage, check, clip the wings, cloister, confine, constrain, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, countercheck, crib, curb, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, drag, draw rein, ease off, ease up, encage, enclose, fence in, hang up, hem in, hinder, hold, hold back, hold in check, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hold up, immure, impede, impound, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep, keep back, keep in, keep in check, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep out, lag, let down, let up, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, make late, meddle, mew, mew up, mire, moderate, nab, obstruct, oppose, pen, pen up, pick up, pinch, pound, pull in, rail in, reef, rein in, relax, repress, reserve, resist, restrain, restrict, retain, retard, run in, scotch, seal up, set back, shackle, shut in, shut up, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, snub, stay, stop, suppress, take in sail, throttle down, wall in, withhold

• detect, ascertain, catch, descry, determine, dig up, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, feel, find, find out, hit, identify, locate, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, pick up, read, recognize, scent, see, sense, smell, spot, spy, uncover, unearth

• detectable, apparent, appreciable, beholdable, determinable, discernible, disclosable, disclosed, discoverable, evident, exposable, exposed, exposed to view, findable, hanging out, hot, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open to view, outcropping, palpable, perceivable, perceptible, recognizable, revealed, seeable, sensible, showing, spottable, tangible, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, viewable, visible, visual, warm, witnessable

• detection, amassing evidence, blind flying, blind landing, bringing to light, casual discovery, catching, chance discovery, close inquiry, department of investigation, detective work, determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, distinguishment, espial, excavation, exhaustive study, exhumation, exposure, find, finding, finding out, hearing, hurricane tracking, indagation, interception, invention, investigation, investigative bureau, legislative investigation, legwork, locating, location, lucky strike, perscrutation, probe, ranging, recognition, rediscovery, research, revelation, serendipity, sifting, sleuthing, spotting, storm tracking, strike, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncovering, unearthing, witch-hunt

• detective, Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, MP, Secret Service, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, asker, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, captain, catchpole, catechist, chief of police, commissioner, constable, cop, copper, cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, deputy, deputy sheriff, dick, examiner, eye, fed, federal, flic, gendarme, government man, gumshoe, hawkshaw, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquirer, inquiry agent, inquisitionist, inquisitor, inspector, interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix, interviewer, investigator, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, operative, opinion-sampler, patrolman, peace officer, peeper, plainclothesman, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police detective, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, poller, pollster, portreeve, private detective, private eye, private investigator, prober, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quizzer, reeve, revenuer, roundsman, sampler, secret agent, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, sleuth, snoop, snooper, store detective, superintendent, tec, tipstaff, tipstaves, treasury agent, trooper

• detector, calorimeter, chemical detector, clinical thermometer, cryometer, electric thermometer, electronic counter, electronic detector, error corrector, error detector, galvanothermometer, gas thermometer, liquid-level sensor, meat thermometer, metal detector, photoelectric sorter, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, resistance pyrometer, sensor, telethermometer, temperature sensor, thermocouple, thermoelectrometer, thermometrograph, thermostat, ultrasonic detector

• detente, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, United Nations troops, appeasement, balance of power, brinkmanship, calming, coexistence, colonialism, compromise, conciliation, containment, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, dulcification, easing of relations, expansionism, foreign affairs, foreign policy, good-neighbor policy, imperialism, internationalism, isolationism, manifest destiny, mediation, militarism, mollification, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, pacification, peace offensive, peace-keeping force, peaceful coexistence, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, preparedness, propitiation, relaxation of tension, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, soothing, spheres of influence, the big stick, tough policy, tranquilization, world politics

• detention, afterthought, apprehension, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bind, block, blockage, blocking, bureaucratic delay, captivity, check, clogging, close arrest, closing up, closure, confinement, constriction, cramp, custody, deceleration, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detainment, double take, drag, dragging, durance, durance vile, duress, ease-off, ease-up, fixation, flagging, foot-dragging, halt, hampering, hang-up, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, house arrest, immuration, immurement, impediment, imprisonment, incarceration, inhibition, interference, interim, internment, interruption, jailing, jam, lag, lagging, let, letdown, letup, logjam, minus acceleration, moratorium, nab, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, paperasserie, pause, pickup, pinch, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, repression, reprieve, resistance, respite, restraint, restriction, retardance, retardation, retardment, setback, slack-up, slackening, slow-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, squeeze, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, suspension, term of imprisonment, tie-up, time lag, wait

• deter, anticipate, avert, awe, bar, block, blunt, check, chill, cool, damp, dampen, daunt, debar, deflect, disaffect, discourage, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dissuade, distract, divert, estop, exclude, faze, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, frighten, help, hinder, impede, indispose, inhibit, intimidate, keep from, keep off, obstruct, obviate, overawe, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put off, quench, repel, restrain, rule out, save, scare, scare off, shake, shut out, stave off, stop, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, ward, ward off, wean from

• detergent, abstergent, cathartic, cleaner, cleaning, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, depurant, depurative, diuretic, emetic, enema, expurgatory, holystone, lotion, lustral, mouthwash, nauseant, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purging, purificatory, purifier, purifying, rinse, shampoo, soap, solvent, surfactant, synthetic detergent, tooth powder, toothpaste, wash, washing

• deteriorate, agent provocateur, aggravate, alter, ameliorate, amplify, annoy, augment, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, bottom out, break, build up, change, checker, chop, chop and change, come about, come around, come down, come round, crumble, damage, debilitate, decay, decline, decompose, deepen, degenerate, degrade, depreciate, descend, deviate, dilapidate, disimprove, disintegrate, diverge, diversify, embitter, endamage, enhance, enlarge, erode, exacerbate, exasperate, fade, fall back, flag, flop, get worse, go downhill, go to pot, grow worse, harm, haul around, have a comedown, heat up, heighten, hit rock bottom, hot up, hurt, impair, improve, increase, injure, intensify, irritate, jibe, languish, lessen, let down, magnify, make acute, make worse, mar, meliorate, mitigate, modulate, mutate, provoke, put back, reach the depths, regress, relapse, retrograde, retrogress, revive, rot, sharpen, shift, sicken, sink, slacken, slide, slip, slip back, sour, spoil, swerve, tack, take a turn, touch bottom, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, undergo a change, undermine, vary, veer, warp, weaken, worsen

• deterioration, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aggravation, alteration, amelioration, amplification, annoyance, apostasy, atrophy, augmentation, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, comedown, constructive change, contentiousness, continuity, conversion, crumbling, debasement, decadence, decadency, decay, decaying, declension, declination, decline, decomposition, deepening, defection, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degenerative change, degradation, deliberate aggravation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descent, devaluation, deviation, devolution, difference, discontinuity, disintegration, dislocation, disruption, dissolution, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, downfall, downgrade, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dry rot, dying, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, heightening, impairment, improvement, increase, intensification, involution, irritation, lapse, lessening, loss of tone, magnification, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, provocation, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, regression, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rotting, ruin, sharpening, shift, slippage, slump, souring, spoiling, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, wane, waning, worsening

• determinant, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, antecedent, antecedents, authority, base, basis, birth, border line, bordering, borderline, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bounding, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, call, causation, cause, cause and effect, ceiling, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, circumscription, coastal, compass, confine, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, delimitation, determinative, determiner, determining, diathesis, division line, element, end, endowment, etiology, eugenics, extreme, extremity, factor, finish, floor, fringing, frontier, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, ground, grounds, hedge, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, high-water mark, inborn capacity, influence, inheritability, inheritance, interface, limbic, limen, liminal, limit, limitation, limiting, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, littoral, low-water mark, lower limit, march, marginal, mark, matrocliny, mete, occasion, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, principle, reason, recessive character, replication, rimming, skirting, start, starting line, starting point, stimulus, target date, term, terminal, terminal date, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit, weight

• determinate, absolute, admitting no exception, all-out, apodictic, ascertained, assured, attested, bound, categorical, certain, certified, circumscribed, circumscript, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, complete, conclusive, concrete, constant, decided, decisive, defined, definite, definitive, delimited, demarcated, detailed, determined, diagnose, different, distinct, distinguish, distinguished, downright, encircled, entire, esoteric, especial, established, exceptional, explicit, express, extraordinary, final, finger, fixed, flat, flat-out, global, guaranteed, hedged about, immovable, immutable, implicit, in the bag, inalterable, inappealable, indisputable, individual, ineluctable, inevitable, inner, intimate, invariable, limited, made sure, minute, nailed down, narrow, necessary, noteworthy, on ice, open-and-shut, out-and-out, outright, particular, peremptory, perfect, perfectly sure, personal, pinpoint, place, positive, precise, predestined, predetermined, private, proved, recognize, respective, restricted, round, secure, set, settled, several, singular, solipsistic, special, specific, spot, stated, straight, straight-out, sure, sure-enough, surrounded, tested, total, tried, true, unalterable, unambiguous, unchangeable, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, undoubting, unequivocal, unhampered, unhesitating, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmodifiable, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, warranted, whole, without exception, without reserve

• determination, absolute indication, accomplishment, acid test, action, aim, allocation, ambition, animus, answer, appetence, appetency, appetite, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, ascertaining, ascertainment, aspiration, assay, assessment, assignment, assize, assizement, assurance, attribution, award, balkiness, bigotry, blank determination, bounding, bringing to light, brouillon, bullheadedness, burden of proof, calculation, casual discovery, catching, certification, chance discovery, check, checking, choice, circling-in, circumscribing, circumscription, clearing up, collation, command, commitment, computation, conation, conatus, conclusion, conclusive evidence, condemnation, confirmation, consideration, constancy, correction, counsel, cracking, criterion, crucial test, crucible, damning evidence, decidedness, decipherment, decision, decisiveness, decoding, decree, dedication, definiteness, definition, delimitation, deliverance, demarcation, demonstration, denomination, denouement, desideration, desideratum, design, designation, desire, detection, determinateness, determinedness, determining, devotion, diagnosis, dictum, disclosure, discovery, discretion, disentanglement, disposition, distinguishment, docimasy, doggedness, dogmatism, doom, earnestness, effect, effort, encincture, end, end result, endeavor, ensuring, espial, essay, establishment, estimate, estimation, evaluation, excavation, exertion, exhumation, explanation, exposure, fanaticism, fancy, feeling out, find, finding, finding out, finding-out, firmness, first draft, fixed mind, fixed purpose, fixing, fortitude, free choice, free will, function, gauging, grit, guts, hardheadedness, headstrongness, idea, inclination, inclusion-exclusion, incontrovertible evidence, indisputable evidence, inflexible will, instrumentation, intendment, intent, intention, interpretation, intolerance, invention, ironclad proof, issue, judgement, kiteflying, liking, locating, location, lucky strike, lust, meaning, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metric system, mind, motive, mulishness, nisus, obduracy, objective, obstinacy, obstinateness, onus, onus probandi, opinionatedness, ordeal, order, outcome, overzealousness, passion, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pigheadedness, pinning down, plan, pleasure, point, precedent, precision, probation, prognosis, project, pronouncement, proof, proposal, prospectus, purpose, purposefulness, quantification, quantization, rating, reason, reassurance, reassurement, recognition, rediscovery, relentlessness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, resolving, restiveness, result, revelation, riddling, rough draft, rough sketch, ruling, sake, selection, self-will, sentence, serendipity, seriousness, settlement, settling, sexual desire, signification, sincerity, single-mindedness, solution, solving, sorting out, sounding out, specification, spotting, standard, steadfastness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, stipulation, strain, strike, striving, strongheadness, struggle, stubbornness, study, substantiation, sulkiness, sullenness, sure sign, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, tenaciousness, tenacity, termination, test, test case, total commitment, touchstone, treasure trove, trial, triangulation, trouvaille, trove, try, uncooperativeness, uncovering, unearthing, unmistakable sign, unraveling, unregenerateness, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, validation, valuation, velleity, verdict, verification, view, volition, will, will power, willfulness, wish, working, working-out

• determinative, absolute, adducible, admissible, antecedents, arrowhead, article, assuring, attestative, attestive, authentic, authoritative, base, based on, basis, behind the scenes, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, call, caudal, causal, causation, causative, cause, cause and effect, certain, character, circumstantial, coastal, conclusive, constitutive, convictional, convincing, cumulative, cuneiform, damning, decisive, definite article, definitive, demotic character, determinant, determiner, determining, documentary, documented, effectual, element, endmost, etiological, etiology, eventual, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, extreme, eye-witness, factor, factual, farthest, final, firsthand, formative, founded on, fringing, frontier, grammalogue, ground, grounded on, grounds, hearsay, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, implicit, impressive, incontrovertible, indefinite article, indicative, indisputable, institutive, irrefutable, irresistible, kana, katakana, last, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, littoral, logogram, logograph, marginal, material, noun determiner, nuncupative, occasion, occasional, ogham, originative, overwhelming, persuasive, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, pivotal, polar, presumptive, principle, probative, radical, reliable, rimming, rune, satisfactory, satisfying, shorthand, significant, skirting, stimulus, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, tail, telling, terminal, terminating, terminative, threshold, ultimate, valid, wedge, weighty, word letter

• determine, abort, act on, actuate, adjudge, advance, affect, afford proof of, aim, aim at, arbitrate, ascertain, aspire after, aspire to, assign, assure, be after, be informed, become acquainted with, bend, bias, bound, bring, bring home to, broaden the mind, call the shots, carry, catch on, cease, certify, choose, choose to, cinch, circle in, circumscribe, clear up, clinch, close, command, complete, conclude, condition, conduce to, contribute to, control, cram the mind, decide, decide upon, decree, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, demonstrate, denominate, design, designate, desire, destine, detect, determine upon, dictate, direct, directionize, discover, dismiss all doubt, dispose, draw, drive, drive at, enclose, end, engage, enlist, ensure, establish, fate, figure, find, find out, find out about, finish, finish up, fix, fix on, fix upon, follow, follow from, foreordain, forward, gain knowledge, get, get at, get hold of, get to do, go for, govern, guide, halt, harbor a design, have a case, have every intention, hear, hit, hold good, hold on, hold water, hunt down, impel, incline, indicate, induce, infer, influence, insure, intend, interest in, invent, judge, lay off, lead, lead to, learn, learn about, level at, limit, load the mind, locate, lure, make a decision, make certain, make good, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make sure, make sure of, mark, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, mean, measure, mention, move, nail down, name, order, perorate, persuade, pick out, pick up information, pin down, plan, point, point at, point out, point to, predetermine, predispose, preordain, present, procure, project, prompt, propose, prove, prove to be, prove true, purport, purpose, reassure, rediscover, redound to, regulate, remove all doubt, resolve, rope off, rule, run down, run to earth, scrap, scratch, seal, see, see fit, see that, see to it, select, set, set at rest, set the limit, settle, settle on, settle the matter, settle upon, shape, show, sight on, signify, sort out, specialize, specify, stake out, state, stipulate, stop, strike, subserve, surround, sway, take a decision, take a resolution, tempt, terminate, think, think fit, think good, think proper, trace, trace down, track down, train, train upon, tumble, turn, turn the scale, turn upon, ultimate, unearth, verify, wear the pants, will, wind up, wish, wrap up

• determined, actual, adamant, approaching, arrogant, ascertained, assured, attested, authenticated, bent, borne out, bound, bound and determined, categorically true, certain, certified, circumscribed, circumscript, circumstantiated, cocksure, coming, committed, confident, confirmed, constant, convinced, corroborated, decided, decisive, dedicated, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, demonstrated, desired, destinal, destined, determinate, devoted, distinct, documentary, dogged, earnest, effectual, emergent, encircled, established, eventual, exact, experimental, extrapolated, factual, fatal, fated, fatidic, firm, fixed, forthcoming, future, futuristic, guaranteed, hedged about, hereafter, historical, hoped-for, hubristic, identified, imminent, in the bag, intent, later, made sure, nailed down, nearing, not in error, objectively true, obstinate, on ice, open-and-shut, overconfident, oversure, overweening, persevering, persistent, persuaded, planned, plotted, poised, pompous, positive, precise, predetermined, predicted, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, proud, proved, proven, purposeful, real, reassured, relentless, resolute, resolved, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, serious, set, settled, shown, sincere, single-minded, specific, stated, steady, strong-minded, strong-willed, stubborn, substantiated, sure, sure-enough, surrounded, tenacious, tentative, tested, to come, to-be, trial, tried, true, true as gospel, truthful, ultimate, unafraid, unconfuted, undenied, undoubted, undoubting, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, unwavering, unyielding, validated, venturesome, veracious, verified, veritable, warranted, wholehearted, willing

• determinism, Calvinism, aftertime, afteryears, by-and-by, course ahead, crystal ball, distant future, election, eventuality, expectation, fatalism, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, near future, offing, outlook, posteriority, predestinarianism, predeterminism, prediction, probability, project, prophecy, prospect, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow

• deterrent, admonishing, admonitory, alarming, awing, bar, block, blockade, bottleneck, catch, cautionary, cautioning, check, chill, chilling, cold water, cordon, curtain, damp, damper, daunting, determent, deterring, difficulty, disconcerting, discouragement, discouraging, disheartening, disincentive, disinclining, dismaying, disquieting, dissuading, dissuasion, dissuasive, drawback, exemplary, expostulatory, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, forestalling, frightening, frightful, hang-up, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, intimidating, joker, monitorial, monitory, notificational, notifying, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, overawing, preclusive, preventative, preventive, prohibitive, prophylactic, rub, scaring, scary, snag, startling, stumbling block, stumbling stone, warning, wet blanket

• detestable, abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crude, deplorable, despicable, despiteful, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unlikable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

• dethrone, break, bust, cashier, deconsecrate, defrock, depose, disbar, discrown, disenthrone, dismiss, displace, drum out, excommunicate, expel, give the gate, kick upstairs, liquidate, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, purge, read out of, remove, remove from office, retire, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, suspend, unchurch, uncrown, unfrock, unmake, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

• detonate, backfire, bang, bark, blast, blow out, blow up, burst, bust, charge, coal, cock, crack, discharge, drop, eject, explode, feed, fell, fill up, fire, fire off, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, go off, gun, gun for, hit, let fly, let off, load, mushroom, oil, pelt, pepper, pick off, pistol, plug, pop, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, refuel, riddle, set off, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, snipe, stoke, strike, take a potshot, top off, torpedo, touch off

• detonation, backfire, bang, bark, blast, blowout, blowup, boom, bowshot, bullet, burst, cannon, crack, discharge, ejection, explosion, flare, flash, fulguration, fulmination, fusillade, gun, gunfire, gunshot, pop, potshot, report, salvo, shot, spray, stoneshot, tattoo, volley

• detour, aberrancy, aberration, ambages, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, branching off, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, change the bearing, circuit, circuitousness, circumbendibus, circumnavigate, circumvent, corner, crook, curve, declination, depart from, departure, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digress, digression, discursion, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, go around, go round about, hairpin, heel, indirection, make a detour, obliquity, pererration, rambling, roundabout, roundabout way, runaround, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side door, side road, side street, skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, turn away from, turning, twist, variation, vary, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zigzag

• detract from, bedwarf, belittle, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, cry down, de-emphasize, debase, decrease, decry, degrade, depreciate, derogate, derogate from, diminish, disapprove of, discount, discredit, disgrace, disparage, dispraise, downplay, dwarf, hold in contempt, knock, lessen, libel, make little of, minify, minimize, play down, put down, reduce, reflect discredit upon, run down, slander, slight, speak ill of, submit to indignity, underplay, write off

• detract, abate, abrade, abstract, bate, beguile, call away, curtail, decrease, deduct, depreciate, derogate, detract attention, detract from, diminish, disparage, distract, divert, divert the mind, drain, eat away, erode, extract, file away, impair, leach, lessen, purify, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, rub away, shorten, subduct, subtract, take away, take away from, take from, thin, thin out, wear away, weed, withdraw

• detraction, aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, calumniation, calumny, character assassination, damage, defamation, depreciation, disparagement, harm, hurt, injury, injustice, libel, libeling, maligning, scandal, slander, sycophancy, tale, vilification, wrong

• detrain, alight, come to land, debark, debus, deplane, disembark, disemplane, dock, drop anchor, go ashore, land, make a landfall, make land, make port, moor, put in, put into port, reach land, tie up, unboat

• detriment, abomination, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, bereavement, blight, breakage, breakdown, collapse, corruption, cost, crack-up, crippling, crying evil, damage, dead loss, debit, defilement, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, dilapidation, disability, disablement, disadvantage, dispossession, disrepair, divestment, drawback, encroachment, evil, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, grievance, handicap, harm, havoc, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, impairment, incapacitation, infection, infringement, injury, inroad, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, outrage, perdition, poison, pollution, prejudice, privation, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, sickening, spoiling, spoliation, step backward, stripping, taking away, the worst, total loss, toxin, venom, vexation, weakening, woe, wrong

• detrimental, adverse, antagonistic, bad, baleful, baneful, conflicting, contrary, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, destructive, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, evil, hard, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, in opposition, inimical, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, miserable, negative, noisome, not easy, noxious, ominous, opposed, opposing, opposite, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, rigorous, scatheful, sinister, stressful, toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, untoward, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless, wretched

• detritus, afterglow, afterimage, alluvion, alluvium, balance, breccia, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, debris, deposit, diluvium, drift, end, fag end, filings, fossil, grain, granule, granulet, gravel, grit, holdover, husks, leavings, leftovers, loess, moraine, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, parings, rags, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sand, sawdust, scourings, scraps, scree, sediment, shadow, shavings, shingle, silt, sinter, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, vestige, waste

• deuce, ace, best bower, bower, cards, clubs, craps, deck, diamonds, doubleton, dummy, face cards, flush, full house, hand, hearts, jack, joker, king, knave, left bower, pack, pair, picture cards, playing cards, queen, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, singleton, snake eyes, spades, straight, trey, trick, trump

• devaluate, beat down, break, cheapen, circulate, cut, cut prices, decline, decry, deflate, demonetize, depreciate, devalue, dive, fall, fall in price, give way, issue, jew down, lower, mark down, nose-dive, pare, plummet, plunge, reduce, reissue, remonetize, revalue, sag, shave, slash, slump, trim, underrate, undervalue, utter, write, write off

• devalue, adulterate, alloy, canker, cheapen, circulate, coarsen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, decry, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demonetize, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devaluate, distort, infect, issue, lower, mark down, misuse, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, ravage, ravish, reissue, remonetize, revalue, taint, twist, ulcerate, underrate, undervalue, utter, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, write, write off

• devastate, abash, bring to ruin, chagrin, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, demolish, depopulate, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devour, discombobulate, discomfit, disconcert, dispeople, dissolve, embarrass, engorge, flatten, floor, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, havoc, humiliate, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, level, mortify, nonplus, obliterate, overwhelm, pillage, ravage, raze, ruin, ruinate, sack, shatter, shipwreck, shock, spoil, spoliate, swallow up, take aback, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unpeople, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• devastating, acid, baneful, beaming, bewitching, bitter, blooming, bright, brilliant, calamitous, captivating, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, consuming, consumptive, dazzling, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, disastrous, divine, doomful, enthralling, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, incisive, internecine, keen, killing, mordant, nihilist, nihilistic, overpowering, penetrating, radiant, ravaging, raving, ravishing, resplendent, ruining, ruinous, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, savage, self-destructive, shining, sparkling, spectacular, spellbinding, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, telling, trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, vitriolic, wasteful, wasting, withering

• devastation, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, carnage, confusion, consumption, damnation, decimation, depopulation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, disintegration, disorganization, dispeoplement, disruption, dissolution, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, loss, perdition, ravage, ruin, ruination, shambles, slaughter, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

• develop, accrue, accumulate, achieve, acquire, actualize, add to, advance, affect, age, aggrandize, ameliorate, amend, amplify, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, attain, attain majority, attend, augment, balloon, bare, bear fruit, beautify, become of, befall, beget, begin, betide, betoken, bloat, bloom, blossom, blow up, blueprint, boom, brandish, break, break in, break the seal, breathe, breed, brew, bring forth, bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring out, bring to light, bring to notice, bring up, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burgeon, call into being, chance, coin, come, come about, come along, come forth, come of, come of age, come on, come out, come to light, come to maturity, commence, complete, conceive, concoct, condition, contrive, cook up, crescendo, crown, culminate, cultivate, dangle, demonstrate, descant, design, detail, devise, dilate, discipline, disclose, discover, dismask, display, distend, divulge, do to perfection, dramatize, draw the veil, dream up, drill, elaborate, embellish, embody, emerge, enact, end, engender, enlarge, enlarge upon, ensue, establish, eventuate, evidence, evince, evolute, evolve, exercise, exhibit, expand, expatiate, explicate, exploit, expose, expose to view, express, extend, fabricate, fall out, fare, fetch up, fill out, finish, fit, flaunt, fledge, flourish, flower, follow, form, foster, frame, gain, gain ground, gain strength, gather, generate, germinate, get, get ahead, get along, give being to, give rise to, give sign, give token, go ahead, go forward, go up, graduate, greaten, groom, grow, grow better, grow up, happen, hatch, highlight, hike, hike up, house-train, housebreak, huff, hypertrophy, illuminate, impart, improve, improvise, incarnate, increase, indicate, inflate, intensify, invent, issue, lay bare, lay open, leave the nest, let daylight in, let out, lick into shape, look up, magnify, make clear, make do with, make headway, make plain, make progress, make strides, make up, manifest, materialize, maturate, mature, mean, meliorate, mellow, mend, mint, mount, multiply, mushroom, nurse, nurture, obtain, occur, open, open up, originate, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, pan out, parade, particularize, perfect, perform, perk up, pick up, plan, polish, practice, prepare, present, print, process, procreate, produce, progress, proliferate, promote, prosper, prove, prove to be, puff, puff up, pullulate, pump, pump up, put in tune, put to school, raise, raise the curtain, rarefy, reach, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, realize, rear, refine, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, represent, reproduce, result, reveal, ripen, rise, roll out, run up, season, send to school, set forth, settle down, shape up, shoot up, show, show forth, show improvement, show up, skyrocket, snowball, spawn, spotlight, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strengthen, stretch, strike out, strip bare, sufflate, swell, take in hand, take off, temper, terminate, think out, think up, thrive, toga virilis, token, tower, train, transpire, trot out, tumefy, turn out, uncloak, uncover, undrape, unfold, unfurl, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, up, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wave, wax, widen, work out

• developed, advanced, aged, ameliorated, archetypical, beautified, bettered, blooming, blossoming, budding, burgeoning, civilized, classic, complete, consummate, converted, crescent, cultivated, cultured, educated, embellished, enhanced, enriched, entire, exemplary, expert, finished, florescent, flourishing, flowering, full, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, fully developed, global, growing, grown, grown-up, hypertrophied, improved, in full bloom, intact, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, mellow, mellowed, model, overdeveloped, overgrown, perfected, polished, proficient, quintessential, refined, reformed, ripe, ripened, seasoned, solid, sprouting, tempered, thriving, total, transfigured, transformed, unabbreviated, uncut, undiminished, unexpurgated, whole

• developer, a, architect, contriver, designer, deviser, enterpriser, entrepreneur, fixer, fixing bath, framer, hypo, organizer, planner, processing solution, projector, promoter, short-stop, short-stop bath, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, soup, stop bath, strategian, strategist, tactician

• development, abiogenesis, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, action, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, aging, amplification, anacrusis, anagnorisis, angle, appreciation, apprenticeship, archigenesis, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascent, atmosphere, augmentation, background, ballooning, basic training, bass passage, beautification, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bourdon, breaking, breeding, bridge, broadening, budding, buildup, burden, burgeoning, by-product, cadence, catastrophe, characterization, chorus, circumstance, coda, color, complication, condition, conditioning, consequence, consequent, continuity, contrivance, corollary, crescendo, cultivation, denouement, derivation, derivative, design, developmental change, device, digenesis, dilation, discipline, distillate, division, drill, drilling, edema, effect, elaboration, elevation, embellishment, enlargement, epigenesis, episode, eumerogenesis, event, eventuality, eventuation, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, excrescence, exercise, expansion, expatiation, explication, exposition, extension, fable, falling action, fetching-up, figure, flood, flowering, folderol, fostering, fruit, furtherance, gain, gemmation, generation, genesis, germination, gimmick, gradual change, greatening, grooming, growth, gush, happening, harmonic close, harvest, heterogenesis, hike, histogenesis, homogenesis, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, incident, increase, increment, inflation, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, isogenesis, issue, jump, leap, legacy, line, local color, logical outcome, manual training, maturation, maturescence, maturing, maturity, measure, mellowing, merogenesis, metagenesis, military training, monogenesis, mood, motif, mounting, movement, multiplication, musical phrase, musical sentence, mythos, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, nurture, nurturing, occurrence, offshoot, offspring, on-the-job training, ongoing, ornament, orthogenesis, outcome, outgrowth, overgrowth, pangenesis, part, parthenogenesis, passage, perfection, period, peripeteia, phenomenon, phrase, plan, plot, practice, precipitate, preparation, procreation, product, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferation, pullulation, raise, raising, readying, rearing, recognition, refinement, refrain, rehearsal, reproduction, resolution, response, result, resultant, ripening, rise, rising action, ritornello, scheme, seasoning, secondary plot, section, senescence, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, situation, slant, sloyd, snowballing, spontaneous generation, spread, sprouting, stanza, statement, story, strain, structure, subject, subplot, surge, swelling, switch, tailpiece, tempering, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, training, tumescence, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unfolding, up, upbringing, upgrowth, upping, upshot, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, variation, vegetation, verse, vocational education, vocational training, waxing, widening, working-out

• deviant, aberrant, abnormal, bent, bizarre, curious, deviate, deviating, different, divergent, eccentric, freaky, homosexual, idiosyncratic, kinky, odd, offbeat, peculiar, queer, quirky, singular, strange, uncommon, unusual, weird

• deviate, alter, ameliorate, angle, angle off, be changed, be converted into, be distinct, be distinguished, be in error, be mistaken, be renewed, be wrong, bear off, bend, bias, bottom out, branch off, break, bypass, change, change the bearing, checker, chop, chop and change, clash with, come about, come around, come round, conflict with, contrast with, crook, curve, deflect, degenerate, depart, depart from, deteriorate, detour, deviant, deviate from, differ, diffract, diffuse, digress, disaccord with, disagree with, disperse, distort, divagate, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, diversify, divert, dogleg, drift, err, excurse, fall into error, flop, get sidetracked, go amiss, go around, go astray, go awry, go round about, go wrong, hairpin, haul around, heel, improve, jar with, jibe, lapse, make a detour, maunder, meliorate, misbelieve, miscalculate, mitigate, modulate, mutate, not accord with, not square with, oblique, pervert, pull, ramble, refract, revive, scatter, serve Mammon, sex criminal, sex fiend, sexual deviant, sexual deviate, sexual pervert, sexual psychopath, sheer, shift, skew, slip, slip up, slue, stand apart, stand over against, stray, stumble, sway, swerve, tack, take a turn, trend, trip, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn into, turn the corner, twist, undergo a change, vary, veer, wander, warp, worsen, zigzag

• deviating, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, assorted, at odds, at variance, backhanded, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, circuitous, circular, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, desultory, deviant, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, differentiated, differing, digressive, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, discursive, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, errant, erratic, excursive, helical, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, labyrinthine, many, mazy, meandering, mercurial, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rambling, rotary, rough, round, roundabout, roving, separate, separated, serpentine, several, shifting, snaky, spasmodic, spiral, sporadic, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, unconformable, undirected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vagrant, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, widely apart, winding, worlds apart, zigzag

• deviation, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allowance, alteration, ambages, amelioration, amorphism, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, apostasy, approximation, asymmetry, bend, betterment, blunder, breach, break, buckle, bypass, bypath, byway, capriciousness, centrifugence, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, conceit, constructive change, continuity, contortion, contrariety, contrast, conversion, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crookedness, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, decentralization, declination, defection, deflection, deflexure, degeneration, degenerative change, departure, deployment, derangement, deterioration, detorsion, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation, differentness, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disorder, disparity, disproportion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, distortion, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, dottiness, double, eccentricity, episode, erraticism, erraticness, error, excursion, excursus, failing, fanning, fanning out, far cry, fault, fitting, flip-flop, freakiness, freakishness, gnarl, gradual change, gyre, gyring, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, imprecision, improvement, inaccordance, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, incorrectness, indirection, indirectness, inequality, inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, kink, knot, lapse, laxity, looseness, lopsidedness, maggot, mannerism, meandering, melioration, mercuriality, mitigation, mixture, modification, modulation, monstrosity, motleyness, mutability, negligence, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, odds, opposition, orbit, orbiting, originality, otherness, overthrow, peculiarity, pluralism, predictable error, probable error, protest, qualification, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, radical change, raggedness, re-creation, realignment, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, redesign, reform, reformation, refractoriness, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, rounding, screw, separateness, separation, shift, side path, side road, sidetrack, singularity, skewness, spiral, spiraling, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, standard deviation, strangeness, subnormality, sudden change, superiority, switch, tack, teratism, tolerance, torsion, tortuosity, total change, transgression, transition, transverseness, trick, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, uncorrectness, unevenness, unfactualness, unlikeness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unpreciseness, unrigorousness, unsteadiness, unsymmetry, upheaval, vagary, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, violation, violent change, warp, wavering, wheeling, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, worsening, wrench, wrest, wring, yaw

• device, AM receiver, AM tuner, AM-FM receiver, AM-FM tuner, CB, Charlie McCarthy, Fathometer, Flexowriter typewriter, Geiger counter, John Hancock, RDF, X, X-ray microscope, ability, achievement, action, ad hoc measure, agency, agent, airborne controls, alerion, alibi, alphabetic character, alternator, amplifier, anagnorisis, ancilla, angle, animal charge, annulet, anode, answer, apology, apparatus, appliance, approach, architectonics, architecture, argent, argument, armature, armorial bearings, armory, arrangement, art, artful dodge, artifice, asiaticism, atmosphere, attack, attribute, auto radio, autoclave, autoconverter, autograph, automatic pilot, automatic pistol, automatic printer, automatic sight, automatic sprinkler, automatic stop, automatic telephone, automaton, autostarter, autotransformer, aviation radio, azure, background, badge, bag of tricks, bandeau, banner, bar, bar sinister, baton, battery charger, battery radio, bearings, behind-the-scenes influence, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, bluff, bordure, bosey, broad arrow, broom, brush, cadency mark, calculation, calutron, canton, cap, capacitor, capacity, capital, carpet sweeper, catastrophe, catch, catchword, cathode, chaplet, character, characteristic, characterization, charge, charger, charting, chevron, chicanery, chief, choking coil, chouse, christcross, cipher, citizens band, cloak, coat of arms, cockatrice, cognizance, coil, colophon, color, comb, commutator, compensator, complication, conception, condenser, conspiracy, continuity, contraption, contrivance, controller, converter, coronet, countermark, countermove, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, coup, coupling, course of action, cover, cover story, cover-up, craft, creation, creature, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, crystal set, currycomb, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, cutout, cytoanalyzer, deceit, demarche, denouement, depth sounder, design, desire, development, devices, diathermy machine, dielectric heater, dielectric preheater, difference, differencing, differentia, dingus, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishcloth, dishwasher, disposable resources, disposition, distributor, dodge, doormat, dummy, dupe, duster, dustpan, dynamo, dynamotor, eagle, earmark, effort, electric eye, electrocardiograph, electrode, electroencephalograph, electrograph, electron lens, electron microscope, electronic air filter, electronic altimeter, electronic battery, electronic clock, electronic computer, electronic detector, electronic drum, electronic fuel gauge, electronic heater, electronic nutcracker, electronic oscillator, electronic refrigerator, electronic timer, electronic typewriter, electrophorus, electrophotometer, electroscope, emblem, endorsement, enterprise, envisagement, epigraph, episode, epithet, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, euphuism, excuse, expedient, expedients, fable, facade, facecloth, fakement, falcon, falling action, fancy, fast deal, feint, fess, fess point, fetch, ficelle, field, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, figuring, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, floridity, flourish, flower, flowery style, foresight, forethought, fret, front, funds, fur, fuse, fusil, gadget, galvanic pile, galvanoscope, gambit, game, garland, generator, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, gloss, go-between, going between, googly, graph, grapheme, graphing, grid, griffin, grift, ground, ground plan, guided missile, guidelines, guise, gules, gyron, gyroscopic pilot, hackle, hairbrush, hallmark, hand, hand tool, handkerchief, handle, handmaid, handmaiden, hatchment, hearing aid, helmet, heraldic device, hickey, high-frequency heater, hocus-pocus, holystone, honor point, hose, idea, idiosyncrasy, ignition, image, image dissector, imagery, impalement, impaling, implement, improvisation, incident, inclination, index, indicant, indicator, induction heater, inductor, inescutcheon, influence, infrared cooker, infrared telescope, initials, inscription, insignia, instrument, instrumentality, insulator, intention, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermediation, intermedium, interrupter, intrigue, invention, isotron, joker, juggle, jugglery, jumper, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keynote, knavery, label, lame excuse, last expedient, last resort, last shift, layout, legend, letter, lever, lever pilot, lexigraphic character, lie detector, lightning rod, line, lineup, lion, little game, local color, locus standi, logo, logotype, long-range plan, lozenge, machination, machine, machinery, magnet, magnetic recorder, magneto, magnetoscope, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, manner of speaking, mantling, mapping, mark, mark of signature, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mask, mass spectrograph, mass spectrometer, mass spectroscope, master plan, means, measure, mechanical device, mechanical heart, mechanism, mediation, mediator, medium, metal, method, methodology, midwife, minion, monogram, mood, mop, motif, motive, motor-generator, motto, move, movement, mullet, multiplex receiver, mythos, napkin, neon light, neon tube, nombril point, nonliterality, nonliteralness, note, octofoil, operations research, or, ordinary, organ, organization, orle, ornament, oscillator, oscillograph, oscilloscope, ostensible motive, outlet, pacemaker, pale, paly, pass, pattern, pawn, pean, peculiarity, peripeteia, pheon, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, photoelectric counter, photoelectric recorder, photoelectric sorter, photoflash bulb, pictographic character, picture, pile, pis aller, plan, planning, planning function, play, plaything, pleasure, plot, ploy, plug, pocket, pocket radio, points, political influence, polygraph, poor excuse, power, power tool, preamplifier, prearrangement, precision tool, pretense, pretension, pretext, procedure, program, program of action, property, protestation, public motive, pumice stone, puppet, purple passage, purpure, push button, put-off, quarter, quartering, racket, radar, radar controls, radio, radio direction finder, radio telescope, radio-frequency heater, radio-record player, radiophone, radiosonde, railroad radio, rake, rationalization, reactor, receiver, receptacle, recognition, recourse, recourses, rectifier, red herring, refuge, regenerative receiver, relay, relay receiver, representation, representative, resistance box, resistor, resort, resorts, resource, resources, rheostat, rising action, robot pilot, robot plane, robot submarine, rose, ruse, sable, saltire, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scraper, screen, scrub brush, scrubber, scurvy trick, scutcheon, seal, secondary plot, self-starter, selsyn, semblance, servant, service, serviette, setup, shake-up, sham, shield, shift, ship-to-shore radio, show, shunt, sigil, sign, sign manual, signal, signature, signet, slant, slave, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slogan, smoke screen, socket, solution, sonar, spark coil, spark plug, spectrophotometer, speed tool, speedometer, sponge, spread eagle, stalking-horse, stamp, starter, step, step-down transformer, stereo, stock, stooge, stopgap, story, stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, structure, subject, subordinary, subplot, subscription, subterfuge, sudarium, superheterodyne, supply, sure sign, swab, switch, syllabic, symbol, symptom, synchronous converter, system, systematization, table radio, tactic, tactical maneuvers, tactical plan, tactics, tag line, tap, telltale sign, temporary expedient, tenne, terminal, the big picture, the picture, thematic development, theme, thermal timing relay, thingumajig, time switch, time-delay relay, timer, tincture, toggle switch, tone, tool, toothbrush, toothpick, topic, torse, towel, toy, trait, transceiver, transformer, transmit-receiver, tressure, trick, trickery, trickle charger, trope, trump, tuner, turn of expression, twist, type, unicorn, utensil, vacuum cleaner, vair, varnish, vehicle, veil, vert, visa, vise, voltage changer, voltage regulator, voltage transformer, walkie-talkie, washboard, washer, washing machine, watcher, watchword, way, way of speaking, ways, ways and means, weapon, wherewith, wherewithal, whim, whisk, widget, wile, will, wily device, wire-pulling, wisp, working hypothesis, working plan, working proposition, wreath, wringer, writing, written character, yale

• devil worship, Black Mass, Druidism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Satanism, Zoroastrianism, animal worship, black magic, chthonian worship, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, fetishism, fire worship, heathenism, hero worship, iconoduly, iconolatry, idol worship, idolatrousness, idolatry, idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, paganism, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, snake worship, sorcery, star worship, sun worship, tree worship

• devil, Abaddon, Apollyon, Baba Yaga, Beelzebub, Belial, Bowery bum, Lilith, Linotyper, Lucifer, Mafioso, Mephistopheles, Old Nick, Old Scratch, Satan, Succubus, Xanthippe, Young Turk, adventurer, adventuress, adversary, afreet, aggravate, annoy, antagonist, ape-man, apprentice printer, archenemy, bad boy, badger, bait, bake, barbarian, barbecue, barghest, baste, be at, beachcomber, beast, bedevil, beggar, beggarly fellow, beldam, berserk, berserker, beset, bitter enemy, blackguard, blanch, blighter, bloke, boil, bomber, booger, bother, braise, bravo, brazenface, brew, bristle, broil, brown, brown off, brute, bucko, budmash, buffoon, bug, bugger, bully, bullyboy, bullyrag, bum, bummer, burn up, cacodemon, caitiff, chap, chivy, coddle, compositor, con artist, con man, confidence man, confoundedly, cook, crone, curry, cutthroat, cutup, daeva, daredevil, demon, derelict, desperado, deuce, deucedly, devil incarnate, diablo, discompose, distemper, disturb, do, do to perfection, dog, dragon, drifter, drunkard, dust storm, dybbuk, electrotyper, elf, enemy, enfant terrible, evil genius, evil spirit, exasperate, exceedingly, excessively, exercise, extremely, fash, fellow, fiend, fiend from hell, fire, fire-eater, firebrand, foe, foeman, fox, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, funmaker, fury, genie, genius, get, ghoul, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goon, gorilla, griddle, grill, gripe, gunman, gunsel, guy, gyre, hag, harass, hardnose, harmattan, harpy, harry, harum-scarum, heat, heckle, hector, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellkite, hobo, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead, hotspur, hound, human wreck, imp, in hell, in the world, incendiary, incubus, irk, jinni, jinniyeh, joker, jokester, keyboarder, khamsin, killer, knave, lamia, limb, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lowlife, mad dog, madbrain, madcap, makeup man, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, miff, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, molest, monster, mucker, mugger, nag, needle, nettle, no-good, nudzh, ogre, ogress, open enemy, operator, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, parboil, pauvre diable, peesash, peeve, persecute, person, pester, pick on, pilgarlic, pique, pixie, plague, pluck the beard, poach, poor creature, poor devil, pother, practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, prepare, prepare food, pressman, printer, proofer, provoke, public enemy, puck, rake, rakehell, rakshasa, rantipole, rapist, rapscallion, rascal, revolutionary, ride, rile, roast, rogue, roil, rough, rowdy, ruffian, ruffle, sad case, sad sack, samiel, sandstorm, satan, saute, savage, scalawag, scallop, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, sear, serpent, shaitan, she-wolf, shedu, shirr, shrew, shyster, simmer, simoom, sirocco, skid-row bum, sly dog, slyboots, smoothie, sneak, sod, spalpeen, speedily, spitfire, steam, stereotyper, stew, stiff, stir-fry, stoneman, succubus, sundowner, swagman, sworn enemy, tease, termagant, terror, terrorist, the undead, thug, tiger, tigress, toast, torment, tough, tough guy, tramp, trickster, truant, try the patience, tweak the nose, typesetter, typographer, ugly customer, unfortunate, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vampire, vaurien, vex, villain, violent, violently, virago, vixen, wag, wastrel, werewolf, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf, worry, worthless fellow, wretch, yogini

• devilish, Acherontic, Draconian, Lethean, Mephistophelian, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, accursed, animal, anthropophagous, arch, atrocious, bad, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chthonian, chthonic, crazy, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like, diabolic, diabolical, elfish, elvish, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, foolish, full of mischief, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, high-spirited, impish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, knavish, madcap, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischief-loving, mischievous, murderous, naughty, nefarious, ogreish, pandemoniac, pandemonic, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, purgatorial, roguish, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scampish, scapegrace, serpentine, sharkish, sinful, sinister, slavering, sportive, subhuman, sulfurous, trickish, tricksy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unhuman, vicious, villainous, waggish, wicked, wolfish

• devilment, aggravation, annoyance, bad news, bedevilment, bitchiness, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, crashing bore, cussedness, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, difficulty, dogging, downer, drag, elfishness, evil intent, exasperation, foolishness, harassment, harmfulness, harrying, hatefulness, headache, high spirits, hounding, impishness, iniquitousness, invidiousness, maleficence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, mischief, mischievousness, molestation, nastiness, noxiousness, nuisance, orneriness, persecution, pest, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, problem, puckishness, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, sportiveness, trial, trouble, vexation, vexatiousness, waggery, waggishness, wickedness, worriment, worry, youthful spirits

• devilry, Black Mass, Satanism, arrantness, badness, baseness, bitchiness, black magic, chthonian worship, cruelty, cussedness, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilishness, devilment, deviltry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, elfishness, evil, evil intent, evilness, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foolishness, foulness, harmfulness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, high spirits, impishness, iniquitousness, iniquity, invidiousness, knavery, knavishness, maleficence, malevolence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, mischief, mischievousness, nastiness, naughtiness, nefariousness, noxiousness, orneriness, perversity, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rankness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, sinfulness, sorcery, sportiveness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, waggery, waggishness, wickedness, youthful spirits

• devious, Byzantine, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, amoral, anfractuous, artful, backhand, backhanded, balled up, bending, calculating, canny, circuitous, circular, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, conscienceless, convoluted, corrupt, corrupted, crabbed, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, curving, daedal, dark, deceitful, deceptive, deflectional, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, digressive, discursive, dishonest, dishonorable, divagational, divergent, diverting, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, errant, erratic, erring, evasive, excursive, felonious, fishy, fouled up, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, helical, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, implicated, indirect, insidious, insincere, intricate, involuted, involved, knotted, knowing, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, left-handed, lonesome, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, misleading, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, not kosher, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, pawky, perplexed, planetary, plotting, questionable, rambling, ramified, remote, removed, retired, rotary, rotten, round, roundabout, roving, scheming, screwed up, secret, secretive, serpentine, shady, shameless, shifting, shifty, shrewd, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuous, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, snarled, sneaking, sneaky, spiral, stray, subtile, subtle, surreptitious, suspicious, swerving, tangled, tangly, tortuous, treacherous, tricky, turning, twisted, twisting, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, undirected, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vagrant, veering, vulpine, wandering, wily, winding, without remorse, without shame, zigzag

• devise, add a codicil, arrange, assemble, assign, attested copy, beget, bequeath, bequeathal, bequest, bestow, blueprint, breed, bring forth, bring into being, build, calculate, call into being, cast, chart, codicil, cogitate, coin, collogue, collude, compose, compound, conceive, concert, concoct, connive, conspire, construct, contrive, convey, cook up, create, cut out, design, develop, discover, dispose of, dope out, draft, dream up, elaborate, engender, entail, erect, evolve, execute a will, extrude, fabricate, fashion, figure, forecast, forge, form, formulate, frame, fudge together, generate, get up, give, give being to, give rise to, hand down, hand on, hatch, hatch up, improvise, indite, inheritance, intend, intrigue, invent, lay plans, leave, legacy, legate, machinate, make, make a bequest, make a projection, make a will, make arrangements, make do with, make up, manufacture, mature, methodize, mint, mold, organize, originate, pass on, patch together, piece together, plan, plan ahead, prearrange, prefabricate, prepare, probate, procreate, produce, program, project, put together, put up, raise, rationalize, rear, run up, schedule, schematize, scheme, set up, shape, spawn, strike out, systematize, testament, think out, think up, transfer, transmit, vamp up, whomp up, will, will and bequeath, will to, work out, work up, write

• devising, architecture, assembly, authorship, beginning, building, casting, coinage, composition, conception, concoction, construction, contrivance, contriving, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creative effort, cultivation, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, generation, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatching, improvisation, invention, machining, making, making do, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mintage, molding, origination, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, workmanship

• devitalize, abate, afflict, attenuate, blunt, castrate, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, demasculinize, deprive, derange, desex, desexualize, disable, disorder, dry up, dull, effeminize, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, hospitalize, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, lay low, lay up, mitigate, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, sicken, soften up, sterilize, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken

• devitalized, ausgespielt, burned-out, castrated, debilitated, demasculinized, disabled, drained, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, eunuchized, eviscerated, exhausted, fatigued, gelded, incapacitated, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, played out, run-down, sapped, sinewless, spent, unmanned, unnerved, unsexed, used up, wasted, weakened, worn, worn-out

• devoid, bankrupt in, bare, bare of, barren, bereft of, bland, blank, bleached, characterless, clear, deficient, denuded of, deprived of, destitute, destitute of, devoid of, empty, empty of, existless, featureless, for want of, forlorn of, hollow, in default of, in want of, inane, innocent, insipid, lacking, minus, missing, needing, negative, nonexistent, null, null and void, out of, out of pocket, scant of, short, short of, shy, shy of, unblessed with, unexisting, unpossessed of, unrelieved, vacant, vacuous, void, void of, wanting, white, with nothing inside, without being, without content

• devolve, accredit, assign, authorize, change hands, change ownership, charge, charter, commission, commit, consign, delegate, depute, deputize, descend, detach, detail, devolute, devolve upon, empower, entrust, give in charge, license, mission, pass on, post, send out, succeed, transfer, warrant

• devote, allocate, allot, apply, appoint, appropriate, assign, attempt, attend to business, beatify, bend, bestow, bless, buckle down, busy, canonize, cleanse, commit, confide, consecrate, consecrate to, consume, dedicate, dedicate to, destinate, destine, direct, donate, doom, employ, endeavor, engage, enshrine, exalt, expend, fate, foredoom, give, give away, give over to, give to, give up, glorify, hallow, hand out, mark, mind the store, occupy, ordain, pass, pass the time, pledge, present, purify, put aside, put away, put in, saint, sanctify, set apart, set aside, spend, spend the time, strive, struggle, throw, try, turn, use, use up, utilize, vow, while, while away, wile

• devoted, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, abandoned, absorbed, absorbed in, acquiescent, active, adoring, affectionate, afire, altruistic, appointed, ardent, beatified, believing, blessed, bound, bound and determined, buried in, burning, canonized, caring, caught up in, committed, compliant, complying, conforming, conjugal, conscientious, consecrated, consistent, constant, contemplating, contemplative, cultish, cultist, cultistic, dear, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, demonstrative, destined, determined, devoted to, devout, disinterested, doomed, doting, duteous, dutiful, earnest, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enthusiastic, faithful, fast, fatal, fated, fateful, fervent, fervid, fiery, filial, firm, flaming, fond, foredoomed, hallowed, hearty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, humble, husbandly, immersed in, impassioned, in earnest, in store, in the cards, inevitable, intense, intent, intent on, involved, languishing, law-abiding, lost in, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, loyal, marble-constant, marked, maternal, meditating, meditative, melting, meticulous, mindful, modest, monomaniacal, monopolized, obedient, observant, obsessed, obstinate, occupied, on fire, ordained, parental, passionate, paternal, perfervid, persevering, persistent, pietistic, pious, practicing, prayerful, preoccupied, punctilious, punctual, purposeful, red-hot, regardful, relentless, religious, resolute, resolved, reverent, reverential, romantic, sacrificing, sainted, saintly, sanctified, scrupulous, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, sentimental, serious, set apart, sincere, single-minded, soft, solemn, spirited, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, studious, studying, submerged in, submissive, swept up, taken up with, tenacious, tender, tested, theistic, thoughtful, totally absorbed, tried, tried and true, true, true-blue, unacquisitive, unfailing, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self, uxorious, vehement, venerational, venerative, warm, white-hot, wholehearted, wifely, willing, worshipful, wrapped in, wrapped up in, written, zealous

• devotee, Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, addict, adherent, admirer, aficionado, amateur, aspirant, aspirer, believer, booster, buff, bug, candidate, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, collector, communicant, convert, coveter, crank, daily communicant, desirer, devotionalist, dilettante, disciple, energumen, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fanatico, fancier, fiend, follower, freak, good Christian, groupie, habitue, hankerer, head, hopeful, hound, idolater, idolizer, infatuate, junkie, lover, lunatic fringe, monomaniac, neophyte, nut, pietist, proselyte, receiver, religionist, rooter, saint, solicitant, suitor, theist, truster, votary, wanter, wisher, worshiper, yearner, zealot

• devotion, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, abandon, adherence, adhesion, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, allegiance, altruism, ardency, ardor, assigned task, attachment, beatification, beatitude, blessedness, blessing, bodily love, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, bounden duty, brotherly love, burden, business, call of duty, canonization, caritas, charge, charity, churchgoing, co-worship, commitment, committedness, conformity, conjugal love, consecration, constancy, cult, cultism, cultus, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, deference, definiteness, desire, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devoir, devotedness, devoutness, disinterest, disinterestedness, dulia, duties and responsibilities, dutifulness, duty, eagerness, earnestness, enshrinement, enthusiasm, ethics, exaltation, faith, faithful love, faithfulness, fanaticism, fancy, fastness, fealty, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, firmness, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, glorification, godliness, good faith, grace, hallowing, heart, heartiness, heat, heatedness, hero worship, holiness, homage, humility, hyperdulia, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impassionedness, imperative, infatuation, intensity, intentness, justification, justification by works, lasciviousness, latria, libido, like, liking, line of duty, love, love of God, lovemaking, loyalty, married love, mission, modesty, must, obligation, observance, obstinacy, onus, ordainment, ordination, ought, passion, passionateness, perseverance, persistence, physical love, pietism, piety, piousness, place, popular regard, popularity, prayer, prostration, purification, purpose, purposefulness, readiness, regard, relentlessness, religion, religionism, religiosity, religiousness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, respect, reverence, ritual, sacrifice, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, sanctity, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-imposed duty, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, self-will, selflessness, sentiment, seriousness, setting apart, sex, sexual love, shine, sincerity, single-mindedness, spirit, spiritual love, spirituality, state of grace, staunchness, steadfastness, tenacity, tender feeling, tender passion, theism, tie, total commitment, transcendent wonder, tried-and-trueness, triedness, troth, true blue, truelove, trueness, unacquisitiveness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, uxoriousness, vehemence, veneration, warmth, weakness, will, willingness, worship, worshipfulness, worshiping, yearning, zeal

• devotions, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Mass, Paternoster, aid prayer, appeal, beadroll, beads, bedtime prayer, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, camp meeting, chaplet, church, church service, collect, communion, compline, contemplation, divine service, duty, entreaty, evening devotions, evensong, exercises, grace, impetration, imploration, intercession, invocation, lauds, litany, liturgy, matins, meditation, meeting, morning devotions, night song, none, nones, novena, obsecration, obtestation, office, orison, petition, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayer wheel, prayers, prime, prime song, public worship, revival, revival meeting, rogation, rosary, service, sext, silent prayer, suit, supplication, tent meeting, thanks, thanksgiving, tierce, undersong, vesper, vespers, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

• devour, absorb, adore, and sinker, annihilate, appreciate, bask in, batten, be a sucker, be pleased with, be taken in, bite, bolt, bolt down, bring to ruin, condemn, confound, consume, cram, damn, deal destruction, decimate, delight in, demolish, depredate, derive pleasure from, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, dispatch, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, down, drink, drink in, eat, eat up, engorge, engulf, enjoy, eradicate, exhaust, fall for, feast on, feed on, freak out on, get away with, get down, get high on, gloat over, glut, gluttonize, go for, gobble, gobble up, gorge, gormandize, groove on, gulp, gulp down, gut, gut with fire, guttle, guzzle, havoc, imbibe, incinerate, indulge in, ingest, ingurgitate, lap up, lay in ruins, lay waste, like, line, live to eat, love, luxuriate in, meal, nibble, obliterate, overcome, overwhelm, partake of, pig, pillage, polish off, put away, ravage, raven, rejoice in, relish, revel in, riot in, ruin, ruinate, sack, savor, shipwreck, smack the lips, spoliate, squander, stuff, surround, swallow, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow up, swallow whole, swamp, swill, swill down, swim in, swing at, take, take down, take in, take pleasure in, take the bait, throw into disorder, tuck in, tumble for, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, use up, vandalize, vaporize, wallow in, waste, wipe out, wolf, wolf down, worshiping, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• devouring, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, appetite, avaricious, avid, bottomless, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, coveting, covetous, cropping, deglutition, devourment, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, esurient, feasting, feeding, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, grasping, grazing, greedy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hoggish, hunger, ingestion, insatiable, insatiate, licking, limitless, manducation, mastication, mercenary, messing, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorous, omnivorousness, omophagy, overgreedy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, slakeless, sordid, swinish, tasting, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, vegetarianism, venal, voracious, wolfing

• devout, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, abandoned, active, adorant, adoring, afire, ardent, assured, believing, burning, certain, churchgoing, committed, compliant, confident, conforming, conscientious, constant, convinced, cultish, cultist, cultistic, dedicated, devoted, devotional, dogmatic, doubtless, duteous, dutiful, earnest, faithful, fervent, fervid, fideistic, fiery, flaming, genuine, godly, heartfelt, hearty, heated, holy, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, imploring, impressed with, in earnest, in the dust, intense, intent, intent on, loyal, meticulous, mindful, observant, on bended knee, on fire, passionate, perfervid, persuaded, pietistic, pious, pistic, positive, practicing, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, punctilious, punctual, pure, red-hot, regardful, religious, resolute, reverent, reverential, saintly, satisfied, scrupulous, secure, serious, sincere, sold on, solemn, spirited, staunch, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, sure, theistic, true, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting, vehement, venerational, venerative, warm, white-hot, worshipful, worshiping, zealous

• dew, asperge, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, dawn dew, dewdrops, douche, evening damp, false dew, fog drip, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, moisten, night dew, paddle, slobber, slop, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, swash, syringe, water, wet, wet down

• dewy eyed, airy, autistic, dereistic, idealistic, impractical, in the clouds, otherworldly, poetic, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, starry-eyed, storybook, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, visionary, wish-fulfilling

• dewy, boggy, budding, callow, damp, dampish, dank, ever-new, evergreen, fenny, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, humid, immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, maiden, maidenly, marshy, minor, moist, muggy, naive, neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, original, pristine, rainy, raw, ripening, roric, roriferous, sappy, sempervirent, sticky, swampy, tacky, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped, undried, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vernal, virgin, virginal, wet, wettish, young

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

• dexter, astarboard, auspicious, benign, bright, clockwise, conservative, dextrad, dextral, dextrally, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, fortunate, off, on the right, propitious, reactionary, right, right-hand, right-wing, right-wingish, rightward, rightwardly, rightwards, starboard, to the right, white

• dexterity, ability, acuity, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, aptitude, aptness, art, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, astuteness, braininess, bravura, brightness, brilliance, canniness, capability, capacity, clear thinking, cleverness, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterousness, dextrality, dextrocularity, dextroduction, dextrogyration, dextrorotation, dextrousness, dextroversion, diplomacy, efficiency, effortlessness, esprit, expertise, facility, finesse, flair, genius, giftedness, gifts, grace, grip, guile, handiness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, keen-wittedness, keenness, knack, know-how, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mental alertness, mercurial mind, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, practical ability, proficiency, prowess, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, readiness, ready wit, resource, resourcefulness, right-handedness, rightness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, sleight, sleight of hand, smartness, smarts, smoothness, sprightly wit, style, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, touch, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• dexterous, Daedalian, adept, adroit, agile, apt, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, canny, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dextromanual, dextrous, diplomatic, easy, effortless, excellent, expert, facile, fancy, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, lithe, magisterial, masterful, masterly, neat, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, no mean, not born yesterday, politic, professional, proficient, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, quite some, ready, resourceful, right-handed, scintillating, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, skilled, skillful, slick, slim, sly, smart, smooth, some, statesmanlike, steel-trap, stylish, supple, tactful, talented, the compleat, the complete, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike

• dextral, clockwise, conservative, dexter, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, off, reactionary, right, right-hand, right-wing, right-wingish, starboard

• dextrous, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextromanual, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fancy, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, magisterial, masterful, masterly, neat, no mean, politic, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, right-handed, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the complete, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike

• dharma, body-build, brand, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, crasis, diathesis, disposition, ethos, fiber, frame, genius, grain, habit, hue, humor, humors, ilk, kind, makeup, mold, nature, physique, property, quality, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, streak, stripe, suchness, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tone, type, vein, way

• diabetic, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, cancerous, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, palsied, paralytic, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, tabetic, tabid, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous

• diabolic, Draconian, Mephistophelian, Tartarean, abominable, accursed, animal, anthropophagous, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, corrupt, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, depraved, devil-like, devilish, diabolical, dreadful, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, foul, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill, impious, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, monstrous, murderous, odious, ogreish, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, serpentine, sharkish, sinful, sinister, slavering, subhuman, terrible, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unhuman, vicious, vile, wicked, wolfish

• diabolical, Draconian, Mephistophelian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like, devilish, diabolic, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, hellborn, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, murderous, ogreish, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhuman, vicious, wolfish

• diabolism, Black Mass, Satanism, black magic, chthonian worship, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilry, diablerie, diabology, diabolology, sorcery, the black art

• diadem, O, anklet, annular muscle, annulus, areola, armlet, aureole, bangle, beads, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, discus, disk, earring, ermine, eternal return, fairy ring, fob, garland, gem, glory, great seal, halo, jewel, lasso, locket, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, necklace, noose, nose ring, orb, orbit, pin, precious stone, privy seal, purple, purple pall, radius, regalia, rhinestone, ring, robe of state, rod, rod of empire, rondelle, round, roundel, royal crown, saucer, scepter, seal, signet, sphincter, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, triple plume, uraeus, vicious circle, wampum, wheel, wreath, wristband, wristlet

• diaeresis, Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, analysis, anapest, anatomy, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, breakdown, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dimeter, dipody, dissection, 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, resolution, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee

• diagnose, bandage, bathe, care for, construe, cure, define, describe, determinate, determine, distinguish, doctor, finger, flux, give care to, heal, identify, interpret, massage, minister to, name, nurse, operate on, physic, pinpoint, place, plaster, poultice, purge, read, read into, recognize, remedy, rub, splint, spot, strap, take, take it that, take to mean, treat, understand, understand by

• diagnosis, Pap test, action, anatomic diagnosis, award, biological diagnosis, biopsy, clinical diagnosis, condemnation, consideration, construction, cytodiagnosis, decision, decree, definition, deliverance, description, determination, dictum, differential diagnosis, digital examination, doom, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, electromyography, examination, finding, interpretation, laboratory diagnosis, mammography, meaning, oral examination, order, physical diagnosis, physical examination, postmortem diagnosis, precedent, prognosis, pronouncement, reading, resolution, ruling, sentence, serodiagnosis, smear, study, test, urinalysis, uroscopy, verdict, way of seeing, work-up

• diagnostic, characteristic, characterizing, connotative, constructional, constructive, contrastive, definitional, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diacritical, differencing, differential, differentiative, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, evidential, exegetic, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, hermeneutic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, individualizing, individuating, interpretational, interpretive, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, personalizing, proper, representative, semantic, semeiological, semiotic, separative, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, symptomatological, tropological, typical

• diagonal, across, air line, athwart, axis, band, bar, beeline, bend, bendwise, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, chord, cross-hatching, crossways, crosswise, dash, delineation, diameter, direct line, directrix, dotted line, edge, great-circle course, hachure, hairline, hatching, kittycorner, line, lineation, normal, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, perpendicular, radius, radius vector, rhomboid, right line, score, scratch comma, secant, segment, separatrix, shortcut, side, slant, slanted, slanting, slash, solidus, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streak, streaking, streamline, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, tangent, thwart, transversal, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, vector, virgule

• diagram, alphabet, art, black and white, blueprint, brouillon, cartoon, catalog, catalogue raisonne, catch a likeness, chalk, character, charactering, characterization, characterize, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chart, chiaroscuro, choreography, color, conventional representation, copy, crayon, crosshatch, dance notation, dash off, daub, delineate, delineation, demonstration, depict, depiction, depictment, design, doodle, draft, drama, draw, drawing, ebauche, elevation, esquisse, exemplification, figuration, figure, graph, ground plan, hatch, hieroglyphic, hit off, house plan, ichnography, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, lay off, lay out, letter, limn, limning, line drawing, logogram, logograph, map, map out, mark off, mark out, musical notation, notate, notation, outline, paint, paint a picture, pastel, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, pictogram, picture, picturization, picturize, plan, plot, plot out, portraiture, portray, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, print, printing, profile, projection, realization, register, render, rendering, rendition, represent, representation, rough, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, rub, schema, schematize, scheme, score, scratch, script, scumble, set out, shade, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, stencil, study, syllabary, symbol, symbolize, tablature, table, table of contents, take a rubbing, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, tracing, vignette, working drawing, write, writing

• dial, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, buzz, calculate, calibrate, caliper, call, call up, check a parameter, compute, countenance, divide, estimate, evaluate, face, fathom, features, gauge, give a ring, graduate, hang up, hold the phone, kisser, listen in, make a call, map, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, mug, pace, pan, phiz, phone, plumb, prize, probe, puss, quantify, quantize, rate, ring, ring off, ring up, size, size up, sound, span, step, survey, take a reading, telephone, triangulate, valuate, value, visage, weigh

• dialect, Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, accent, argot, brogue, bundle of isoglosses, burr, cant, choice of words, class dialect, composition, dialect atlas, dialect dictionary, dialectal, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, idiomatic, isogloss, jargon, language, langue, lingo, lingua, linguistic atlas, linguistic community, linguistic island, local, local dialect, localism, locution, parlance, parole, patois, patter, personal usage, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pidgin, pronunciation, provincial, provincialism, regional, regional accent, regionalism, rhetoric, slang, speech, speech community, subdialect, talk, tongue, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, vernacular, wordage, wording

• dialectic, Aristotelian logic, Boolean algebra, Ramistic logic, airing, algebra of classes, algebra of relations, analysis, buzz session, canvassing, colloquium, conference, consideration, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectics, dialogue, discussion, disputation, doctrine of inference, doctrine of terms, epistemological logic, examination, exchange of views, experimental logic, forensic, formal logic, forum, investigation, joint discussion, logic, logical analysis, logical discussion, logics, logistic, material logic, mathematical logic, open discussion, open forum, panel discussion, propositional calculus, psychological logic, psychologism, rap, rap session, review, seminar, set theory, study, symposium, town meeting, treatment, ventilation

• dialectical materialism, Bolshevism, Castroism, Communist Information Bureau, Communist Party, Maoism, Marxian socialism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Titoism, Trotskyism, animalism, atomism, behaviorism, commonsense realism, communism, democratic centralism, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, iron curtain, materialism, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, pragmaticism, pragmatism, realism, representative realism, revisionism, secularism, substantialism, temporality, worldliness

• dialectical, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, argumental, argumentative, categorical, combative, conditional, contentious, controversial, deductive, dialectic, discursive, disputatious, enthymematic, epagogic, eristic, hypothetical, ill-humored, inductive, inferential, litigious, logomachic, maieutic, pilpulistic, polemic, pro and con, quarrelsome, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic

• dialectics, Aristotelian logic, Boolean algebra, Ramistic logic, algebra of classes, algebra of relations, dialectic, doctrine of inference, doctrine of terms, epistemological logic, experimental logic, formal logic, logic, logics, logistic, material logic, mathematical logic, propositional calculus, psychological logic, psychologism, set theory

• dialogue, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, airing, analysis, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, bull session, burlesque show, buzz session, canvassing, charade, chat, chinfest, cliff hanger, closet drama, colloquium, colloquy, comedy drama, communication, confab, confabulation, conference, consideration, conversation, converse, critical success, daytime serial, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectic, discussion, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, examination, exchange of views, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, forum, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, huddle, improvisational drama, investigation, joint discussion, legitimate drama, logical analysis, logical discussion, masque, meeting, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, open discussion, open forum, opera, pageant, palaver, panel discussion, panel show, pantomime, parley, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, question-and-answer session, quiz show, radio drama, rap, rap session, review, revue, seminar, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, speech, stage play, stage show, straight drama, study, success, suspense drama, symposium, tableau, tableau vivant, talk, talk show, talkfest, teleplay, television drama, television play, tete-a-tete, theater of cruelty, total theater, town meeting, treatment, trialogue, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, ventilation, word-of-mouth success, words, work

• diameter, air line, amplitude, area, axis, beeline, bigness, bisector, body, bore, boundary, breadth, bulk, caliber, center, chord, core, coverage, depth, diagonal, diaphragm, dimension, dimensions, direct line, directrix, divider, edge, equator, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, gauge, girth, great-circle course, greatness, halfway mark, heart, height, interior, kernel, largeness, length, line of demarcation, magnitude, mass, mean, measure, measurement, median, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, normal, nucleus, partition, perpendicular, proportion, proportions, radius, radius vector, range, reach, right line, scale, scope, secant, segment, semidiameter, shortcut, side, size, spread, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, tangent, thick, thick of things, transversal, vector, volume, waist, waistline, width, zone

• diamond in the rough, acceptable person, capital fellow, crude, diamond, gem, gentleman, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, honest man, jewel, lady, mensch, ore, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, persona grata, prince, raw material, real man, rich ore, rich vein, right sort, rough diamond, unanalyzed mass, unlicked cub, virgin soil, worthy

• diamond, acceptable person, ace, adamant, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, aquamarine, archery ground, athletic field, badminton court, baseball field, basketball court, beryl, best bower, billiard parlor, bloodstone, boast, bone, bower, bowling alley, bowling green, brick, brilliant, capital fellow, carbuncle, cards, carnelian, catch, cement, chalcedony, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, citrine, clubs, concrete, coral, course, court, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, deck, demantoid, deuce, diamonds, dummy, emerald, face cards, fairway, field, find, flint, flush, football field, full house, garnet, gem, gentleman, girasol, glaciarium, godsend, golf course, golf links, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good thing, good woman, granite, gridiron, gym, gymnasium, hand, harlequin opal, heart of oak, hearts, heliotrope, honest man, hyacinth, ice rink, infield, iron, jack, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, jewel, joker, king, knave, lady, lapis lazuli, left bower, links, marble, mensch, moonstone, morganite, nails, oak, onyx, opal, outfield, oval, pack, pair, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, peridot, persona grata, picture cards, plasma, playground, playing cards, playing field, playroom, plum, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, pride, pride and joy, prince, prize, putting green, queen, racecourse, racket court, real man, right sort, rink, rock, rose quartz, rough diamond, round, royal flush, rubber, ruby, ruff, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, singleton, skating rink, soccer field, spades, spinel, spinel ruby, squash court, steel, stone, straight, stretch, tennis court, topaz, track, treasure, trey, trick, trophy, trouvaille, trump, turf, turquoise, windfall, winner, worthy

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

• diapason, English horn, accord, accordance, air, attune, attunement, bassoon, baton, block flute, bombard, bourdon, carry, cello, chime, chiming, chromatic scale, claribel, clarinet, clarion, compass, concentus, concert, concert flute, concord, concordance, consecutive intervals, consonance, consonancy, consort, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cymbel, degree, descant, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, dodecuple scale, dulciana, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, enharmonic scale, euphony, fifth, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, fourth, gamba, gamut, gedeckt, gemshorn, great scale, half step, halftone, harmonic flute, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, hybrid stop, interval, koppel flute, larigot, lay, less semitone, major scale, measure, melodia, melodic interval, melodic minor, metronome, minor scale, mixture, monochord, monody, music stand, mutation stop, mute, nazard, note, oboe, octave, octave scale, organ stop, parallel octaves, pentatonic scale, piccolo, pitch pipe, plein jeu, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, radius, range, rank, ranket, reach, reed stop, register, rhythmometer, rohr flute, scale, scope, second, semitone, sesquialtera, seventh, shawm, sixth, sonometer, spectrum, spitz flute, step, stick, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, strain, stretch, string diapason, string stop, sweep, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, temperament, third, three-part harmony, tierce, tone, tone measurer, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, tune, tuning, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, twelfth, unda maris, unison, unison interval, unisonance, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, warble, whole step, whole-tone scale

• diaphanous, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, clear, clear as crystal, cloudless, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, delicate, diaphane, diluted, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, lacy, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, lucent, lucid, luculent, misty, nonopaque, papery, peekaboo, pellucid, rare, rarefied, relucent, revealing, see-through, serene, sheer, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, unobscured, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

• diaphony, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, sharpness, sour note, sourness, stridor, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf

• diaphragm, IUD, abdomen, abomasum, acoustical network, bag, barrier, bay window, beerbelly, belly, birth control device, brattice, breadbasket, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, capacitor speaker, center, cloison, coaxial speaker, collision mat, condom, cone, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, core, craw, crop, crossover network, cushion, diameter, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, dynamic speaker, earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker, embonpoint, equator, excited-field speaker, fender, first stomach, full-fidelity speaker, gizzard, gullet, gut, headphone, headset, heart, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, honeycomb stomach, horn, interior, interseptum, intrauterine device, kernel, kishkes, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker, manyplies, mat, maw, mean, median, middle, midmost, midrange speaker, midriff, midsection, midst, monorange speaker, moving-coil speaker, nucleus, omasum, oral contraceptive, pad, panel, paries, partition, party wall, paunch, permanent magnet speaker, pessary, pot, potbelly, potgut, property line, prophylactic, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rubber, rumen, second stomach, separation, septulum, septum, shock pad, skin, spare tire, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, stomach, swagbelly, the pill, thick, thick of things, third stomach, triaxial speaker, tum-tum, tummy, tweeter, underbelly, ventripotence, voice coil, waist, waistline, wall, woofer, zone

• diarist, Boswell, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, autobiographer, autobiographist, belletrist, bibliographer, biographer, calendar maker, calendarist, chronicler, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, clockmaker, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, historian, historiographer, horologist, humorist, inditer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, memorialist, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prose writer, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, timekeeper, timer, watchmaker, word painter, wordsmith, writer

• diarrhea, BM, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, bloody flux, bowel movement, cachexia, cachexy, cardialgia, catharsis, chill, chills, cholera morbus, colic, constipation, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, crap, cyanosis, defecation, dejection, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, evacuation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, gripe, gripes, growth, heartburn, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, irregularity, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lientery, loose bowels, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, movement, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, obstipation, pain, paralysis, pruritus, purgation, purge, pyrosis, rash, rheum, runs, sclerosis, seizure, shit, shits, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, stool, tabes, tachycardia, trots, tumor, turistas, upset stomach, vertigo, voidance, vomiting, wasting

• diary, Clio, Domesday Book, Muse of history, account book, address book, adventures, adversaria, album, annals, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, autobiography, bimonthly, biographical sketch, biography, biweekly, blankbook, blotter, calendar, case history, cashbook, catalog, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, classified catalog, clock card, commonplace book, confessions, court calendar, curriculum vitae, daily, date slip, datebook, daybook, desk calendar, diptych, docket, engagement book, ephemeris, experiences, fortnightly, fortunes, gazette, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, journal, ledger, legend, life, life and letters, life story, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, magazine, martyrology, memo book, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum book, memorial, memorials, memory book, monthly, necrology, newsmagazine, notebook, obituary, organ, pad, periodical, petty cashbook, photobiography, pictorial, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, profile, quarterly, record, register, registry, resume, review, scrapbook, scratch pad, serial, slick magazine, spiral notebook, story, table, tablet, theory of history, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, trade magazine, triptych, weekly, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

• diastole, arsis, beat, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, bout, circle, circuit, course, cycle, dilatation, dilation, distension, downbeat, dropsy, edema, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, inflation, intumescence, meteorism, puff, puffiness, puffing, pulse, revolution, rotation, round, series, spell, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, systole, thesis, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, turn, tympanism, tympany, upbeat, wheel, windiness

• diathesis, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, a thing for, affinity, allele, allelomorph, animus, aptitude, aptness, bent, bias, birth, body-build, brand, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, complexion, composition, conatus, conduciveness, constituents, constitution, crasis, delight, determinant, determiner, dharma, disposition, eagerness, eccentricity, endowment, ethos, eugenics, factor, feeling for, fiber, frame, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, genius, grain, habit, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inborn capacity, inclination, individualism, inheritability, inheritance, kidney, kind, leaning, liability, liking, make, makeup, matrocliny, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, nature, patrocliny, penchant, pharmacogenetics, physique, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, property, quality, readiness, recessive character, replication, sensitivity to, set, slant, soft spot, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, suchness, susceptibility, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tone, tropism, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, vein, warp, way, weakness, willingness