Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/25

• drudgery, chore, dirty work, donkeywork, employment, fag, fatigue, grind, handiwork, handwork, industry, labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, moil, plugging, rat race, scut work, slavery, slog, slogging, spadework, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, task, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, work

• drug addict, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, junkie, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pillhead, pothead, snowbird, speed freak, tripper, user

• drug addiction, a habit, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, drug culture, drug dependence, habituation, nicotine addiction, physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

• drug culture, a habit, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, drug addiction, drug dependence, habituation, nicotine addiction, physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

• drug user, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, alternating personality, antisocial personality, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, disordered personality, disturbed personality, dope fiend, doper, double personality, drug abuser, drug addict, drunkard, dual personality, emotionally unstable personality, escapist, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hostile personality, hype, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, idiot, imaginary invalid, immature personality, inadequate personality, inferior personality, junkie, malade imaginaire, maladjusted personality, marijuana smoker, mentally defective personality, methhead, moral insanity, multiple personality, narcotics addict, neuropath, neurotic, neurotic personality, paranoid personality, perverse personality, pillhead, pothead, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic personality, schizoid, schizoid personality, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, snowbird, sociopath, speed freak, split personality, tripper, user, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality

• drug, Adrenalin, Benzedrine, Dexamyl, Dexedrine, KO, Methedrine, Mickey Finn, aloes, ammonium carbonate, amphetamine, amphetamine sulphate, analgesic, anesthetic, anesthetize, anoint, antidepressant, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, balm, balsam, bedaze, belladonna, benumb, benzoin, besot, bismuth, blunt, caffeine, chloroform, chocolate, cocaine, cocoa, coffee, coldcock, colocynth, commodity, cure, cure-all, deaden, desensitize, desoxyephedrine, dextroamphetamine sulfate, dope, dose, downer, drops, dull, electuary, elixir, embrocate, entrance, ergot, etherize, ethical drug, feature, freeze, generic name, hallucinogenic, herbs, hop, hypnotic, hypnotize, inhalant, item, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, knockout drop, kola, kola nut, lay out, lead item, leader, lincture, linctus, loss leader, lull to sleep, magnetize, materia medica, medicament, medicate, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, mesmerize, methamphetamine hydrochloride, mixture, narcotic, narcotize, nonprescription drug, numb, obtund, officinal, oil, opiate, pain-killer, palsy, panacea, paralyze, patent medicine, pharmaceutical, pharmacon, physic, poison, powder, preparation, prescription drug, product, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, psychedelic, put to sleep, put under, quinine, remedy, rock to sleep, sal ammoniac, salve, sassafras, seconds, sedate, sedative, simple, simples, sleeping pill, soporific, special, specific, standard article, staple, staple item, stimulant, strychnine, stun, stupefy, syrup, tea, theraputant, tisane, trance, tranquilizer, treat, treatment, upper, vegetable remedies, vendible, ware

• drugged, affectless, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, asleep, autistic, benumbed, blase, blunt, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, comatose, cool, dead, debilitated, dispassionate, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, droopy, drowsy, drugged with sleep, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, enervated, exanimate, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, half asleep, half-conscious, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, high, hopped-up, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, in a stupor, inanimate, inert, inexcitable, insusceptible, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nirvanic, nodding, nonemotional, numb, objective, oblivious, obtuse, oscitant, out, out cold, out of it, out of touch, passionless, phlegmatic, pooped, sated, sedated, self-absorbed, semiconscious, senseless, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soporific, soulless, spaced out, spaced-out, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stoned, stretchy, strung out, stultified, stuporose, stuporous, supine, torpid, unaffectionate, unconscious, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, wiped out, world-weary, yawning, yawny, zonked, zonked out

• drugstore cowboy, TV-viewer, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, observer, ogler, onlooker, perceiver, percipient, seer, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, televiewer, television-viewer, video-gazer, viewer, watcher, witness

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

• Druid, Cassandra, Druidess, Parsi, Sabaist, Zoroastrian, animal worshiper, anthropolater, arborolater, archaeolater, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, chthonian, crystal gazer, daduchus, demon worshiper, demonolater, dendrolater, devil worshiper, divinator, diviner, divineress, epopt, fetishist, fire worshiper, flamen, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, hierodule, hierophant, hieros, idol worshiper, idolater, idolatress, idolatrizer, idolist, idolizer, mystes, nature worshiper, ophiolater, palmist, phallic worshiper, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pyrolater, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, snake worshiper, soothsayer, star worshiper, sun worshiper, theriolater, therolater, tree worshiper, vates, weather prophet, zoolater

• drum out, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, chase out, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, dismiss, displace, displume, drive out, excommunicate, expel, fire, force out, freeze out, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, harry out, hunt out, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, purge, push out, read out of, release, remove, remove from office, replace, retire, rout out, run out, sack, separate forcibly, smoke out, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

• drum, barrage, barrel, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beat the drum, beat time, beating, bole, bongo drum, cackle, call, canvass, carol, cask, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, column, conga, coo, count, count the beats, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, cylinder, cylindroid, din, ding, drizzle, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumhead, drumming, drumskin, drumstick, fall, flutter, gabble, gaggle, go pitapat, gobble, guggle, hammer, honk, hoo, hoot, jazz stick, keep time, kettle, kettledrum, membranophone, mizzle, palpitate, palpitation, pant, paradiddle, patter, peep, pelt, pillar, pip, pipe, pitapat, pitter-patter, play drum, pound, pounding, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, quack, rain, rain tadpoles, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, roller, rouleau, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, scold, shower, shower down, side drum, sing, snare, snare drum, sound a tattoo, spatter, spit, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, sputter, squawk, staccato, stream, tabor, taboret, tabret, tam-tam, tambourine, tap, tat-tat, tattoo, tenor drum, throb, throbbing, thrum, thump, thumping, tick, ticktock, timbrel, timpani, tom-tom, trill, troll-drum, trunk, tube, tweet, twit, twitter, tymp stick, tympan, tympanon, tympanum, war drum, warble, weep, whistle

• drumbeat, barrage, beat, beating, drum, drum music, drumfire, drumming, flutter, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, pound, pounding, pulsation, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, spatter, splutter, sputter, staccato, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping, tom-tom

• drumhead, bender, bloat, blotter, booze, boozehound, boozer, brannigan, bust, drunk, guzzler, inebriate, jag, lush, soak, sot, souse, spree, tear, tippler

• drumming, arrhythmia, bang, barrage, bash, bat, beat, beating, belt, biff, blinding, blow, bonk, cat-and-doggish, chop, clicking, clip, clout, clump, crack, cut, dash, dig, dint, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, flutter, fluttering, fusillade, heartbeat, heartthrob, hit, jab, knock, lick, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pelt, pelting, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, poke, pound, pounding, pouring, pulsation, pulse, punch, rainy, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rhythm, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, showery, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, sock, spatter, spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, streaming, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack, ticking, tom-tom, whack, whop, yerk

• drumstick, ankle, bayonet legs, bongo drum, bowlegs, breast, calf, chicken foot, cnemis, conga, dark meat, drum, drumhead, drumskin, foreleg, gamb, gambrel, giblets, gigot, ham, hind leg, hock, jamb, jazz stick, kettle, kettledrum, knee, leg, limb, membranophone, neck, oyster, podite, popliteal space, scissor-legs, shank, shin, side drum, snare, snare drum, stems, stumps, tabor, taboret, tabret, tam-tam, tambourine, tarsus, tenor drum, thigh, timbrel, timpani, tom-tom, troll-drum, trotters, turkey foot, tymp stick, tympan, tympanon, tympanum, war drum, white meat, wing, wishbone

• drunk, ablaze, addled, afire, aflame, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, animated, ardent, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, beery, bemused, bender, besotted, bibber, big drunk, binge, blind drunk, blotto, boiling over, boozer, boozy, bout, breathless, burning, bust, carousal, carouse, carouser, celebration, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, compotation, cordial, crapulent, crapulous, crocked, debauch, delirious, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, dizzy, drenched, drinker, drinking, drinking bout, drunkard, drunken, drunken carousal, ecstatic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, far-gone, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, glowing, groggy, guzzle, guzzler, happy, hard drinker, hearty, heated, heavy drinker, hot, imbiber, impassioned, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inflamed, inspirited, intense, intoxicated, invigorated, jag, jolly, juiced, keen, lit, lit up, lively, loaded, lovepot, lush, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, oenophilist, oiled, on fire, orgy, out cold, passionate, pathological drinker, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, polluted, pot companion, potation, problem drinker, pub-crawl, red-hot, reeling, revel, reveler, rummy, serious drinker, shikker, smashed, soak, soaker, social drinker, sodden, sot, sotted, souse, soused, sponge, spree, squiffy, steaming, steamy, stewed, stiff, stinko, stoned, swigger, swiller, symposium, tanked, tear, thirsty soul, tiddly, tight, tippler, tipsy, toot, toper, tosspot, under the influence, under the table, under the weather, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, wassail, wassailer, well-oiled, wet, winebibber, wino, zealous, zonked

• drunkard, Bowery bum, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanal, bacchanalian, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, bibber, big drunk, blighter, bloat, blotter, boozehound, boozer, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, carouser, chain smoker, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, derelict, devil, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drifter, drinker, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunk, elbow bender, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guzzler, habitual, hard drinker, head, heavy drinker, heavy smoker, hobo, hophead, human wreck, hype, imbiber, inebriate, junkie, lovepot, lowlife, lush, lusher, marijuana smoker, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, methhead, mucker, narcotics addict, no-good, oenophilist, pathological drinker, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, pillhead, poor creature, poor devil, pot companion, pothead, problem drinker, reveler, rummy, sad case, sad sack, serious drinker, shikker, skid-row bum, snowbird, soak, soaker, social drinker, sot, speed freak, sponge, stiff, sundowner, swagman, swigger, swiller, thirsty soul, tippler, toper, tosspot, tramp, tripper, truant, user, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, wassailer, wastrel, winebibber, wino, worthless fellow, wretch

• drunken, addicted to drink, addled, beery, bemused, besotted, bibacious, bibulous, blind drunk, crapulent, crapulous, dizzy, drenched, drinking, drunk, far-gone, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, given to drink, glorious, happy, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, lightheaded, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, reeling, shikker, sodden, sotted, sottish, swilling, swimming, tiddly, tippling, tipsy, toping, turned around, under the influence, vertiginous, winebibbing

• drunkenness, Dutch courage, a high, alcoholism, befuddlement, besottedness, bibulousness, compotation, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, dipsomania, dizziness, drinking, ebriosity, excess, excessiveness, extravagance, fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement, giddiness, gluttony, gulping, guzzling, hangover, imbibing, imbibition, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inebriation, inebriety, inordinacy, inordinateness, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, intoxication, katzenjammer, lapping, lightheadedness, morning after, nipping, overdoing, overindulgence, pot-valiance, pot-valor, potation, prodigality, pulling, quaffing, self-indulgence, slipping, sottedness, sottishness, spinning head, swigging, swilling, swimming, swinishness, symposium, tasting, tipsiness, too much, too-muchness, unconstraint, uncontrol, unrestraint, vertiginousness, vertigo, wooziness

• druthers, affinity, alternative, bag, bent, bias, chosen kind, cup of tea, election, fancy, favor, inclination, leaning, option, partiality, particular choice, personal choice, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, selection, style, taste, tendency, thing, type

• dry clean, bleach, bowdlerize, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, delouse, depurate, deterge, dust, dust off, expurgate, freshen, lustrate, purge, purify, reform, scavenge, spruce, steam-clean, sweep out, sweeten, tidy, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

• dry cure, anhydrate, blast-freeze, brine, corn, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dry, dry-salt, embalm, evaporate, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, irradiate, jerk, kipper, marinade, marinate, mummify, pickle, preservatize, quick-freeze, refrigerate, salt, season, smoke, smoke-cure, stuff

• dry dock, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, dock, dockage, dockyard, embankment, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, marina, mole, moorings, pier, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, shipyard, slip, wharf

• dry land, acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, clay, clod, crust, dirt, dust, earth, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, land, landholdings, lithosphere, marginal land, marl, mold, real estate, real property, region, regolith, sod, soil, subaerial deposit, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, woodland

• dry nurse, aliment, amah, ayah, breast-feed, care for, cherish, coddle, cosset, cradle, cultivate, fatten, fatten up, feed, fondle, force-feed, foster, lactate, lavish care on, mammy, mother, nanny, nourish, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid, nurture, nutrify, pamper, sitter, spoon-feed, stuff, suckle, sustain, wet nurse, wet-nurse

• dry rot, blast, blight, cancer, canker, caries, carrion, decay, decomposition, foulness, fungus, gangrene, mildew, mold, mortification, moth, moth and rust, must, necrosis, pest, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, rot, rottenness, rust, slough, smut, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, tooth decay, worm

• dry run, Gedankenexperiment, action, air cover, air raid, air support, amphibious operations, audition, bench test, bombing, combined operations, cover, flight test, fluid operations, hearing, logistics, maneuver, maneuvers, military operations, milk run, minor operations, mission, movement, operation, operations, overseas operations, pilot plan, practical test, practice, reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission, rehearsal, road test, scramble, shakedown, shakedown cruise, shuttle raid, sortie, staff work, strafing, test flight, test run, training mission, trial run, tryout, umbrella, war game, war plans, workout

• dry up, Sanforize, air-dry, anhydrate, attenuate, bake, be consumed, be used up, blot, brush, burn, consume, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, devitalize, diminish, drain, droop, dry, dummy up, emacerate, emaciate, evaporate, exsiccate, fade, fade away, fire, flag, give out, insolate, kiln, languish, macerate, mummify, mummy, parch, peter out, pine, pipe down, preshrink, ring off, rub, run dry, run out, scorch, sear, shrink, shrivel, shut up, smoke, soak up, sponge, sun, sun-dry, swab, thin, torrefy, towel, waste, waste away, weazen, welter, wilt, wipe, wither, wizen

• dry, Rabelaisian, Saharan, Spartan, WCTU, acarpous, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, acetose, acid, acidulous, air-dry, anhydrate, anhydrous, antisaloon, apathetic, arid, ascetic, athirst, austere, bake, baked, bald, bare, barren, blah, blank, blast-freeze, bleed, bleed white, bloodless, blot, bone-dry, brassy, brazen, brine, broken-record, bromidic, brush, burn, cake, candid, caustic, celibate, characterless, childless, choked, coarse, cold, colorless, common, commonplace, concrete, congeal, corn, crab, crabbed, cracked, croaking, croaky, cure, cynical, dead, dehumidify, dehydrate, dehydrated, denude, deplete, depleted, deplume, desert, desiccate, desiccated, desolate, despoil, direct, discreet, dismal, displume, divest, draggy, drain, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, droughty, dry as dust, dry-cure, dry-salt, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound, effete, elephantine, embalm, empty, etiolated, evaporate, everlasting, exhaust, exhausted, exsiccate, fade, fallow, fire, flat, flay, fleece, frank, freeze, freeze-dry, fruitless, fume, gaunt, gelded, grating, green, gruff, guttural, harping, harsh, harsh-sounding, heavy, high and dry, ho-hum, hoarse, hollow, homely, homespun, humdrum, husky, impotent, impoverish, impoverished, inane, indurate, ineffectual, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, insipid, insolate, invariable, ironic, irradiate, issueless, jarring, jejune, jerk, jog-trot, juiceless, kiln, kipper, leached, leaden, lean, lifeless, like parchment, literal, long-winded, low-spirited, marinade, marinate, matter-of-fact, menopausal, metallic, milk, modest, moistureless, monotonous, mummify, mundane, natural, neat, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, open, pale, pallid, parch, parched, pedestrian, phlegmatic, pick clean, pickle, pickled, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plodding, pluck, pointless, poky, ponderous, preservatize, prohibitionist, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pungent, pure, quick-freeze, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, refrigerate, rough, roupy, rub, rude, rugged, rustic, salt, sandy, sapless, sapped, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, scorch, sear, season, sec, sere, set, severe, shear, shovel, shrivel, simple, simple-speaking, sine prole, singsong, skin, slow, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up, sober, solemn, solidify, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, spare, spiritless, sponge, squawking, squawky, staid, stark, sterile, stertorous, stiff, stodgy, stoic, stolid, straightforward, strangled, strident, stridulous, strip, strip bare, stuff, stuffy, suck dry, sucked dry, sun, sun-dry, superficial, swab, tart, tartish, tasteless, tedious, teemless, teetotal, thick, thirsting, thirsty, throaty, tinny, torrefy, towel, treadmill, unadorned, unaffected, uncultivated, undamped, unembellished, uneventful, unfanciful, unfertile, unfruitful, ungarnished, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, uninventive, unlively, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic, unpoetical, unpretentious, unproductive, unprolific, unripe, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown, unsweet, unsweetened, untilled, unvarnished, unvarying, unwatered, vapid, vinegarish, vinegary, virgin, waste, wasted, waterless, weariful, wearisome, weazen, wipe, wither, without issue, wizen, wooden

• dryasdust, Jonathan Oldbuck, Miniver Cheevy, Pre-Raphaelite, academic, antiquarian, antiquary, antique collector, antique dealer, antique-car collector, archaeologist, archaist, arid, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bookish, bore, broken-record, bromidic, buttonholer, characterless, classicist, cold, colorless, crashing bore, dead, devoted to studies, diligent, dismal, donnish, drag, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drip, dry, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, fade, flat, flat tire, frightful bore, harping, headache, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, jejune, jog-trot, laudator temporis acti, leaden, lifeless, long-winded, low-spirited, mandarin, medievalist, monotonous, nuisance, owlish, pale, pallid, pedantic, pedestrian, pest, pill, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, professorial, prolix, proser, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, singsong, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, studious, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, treadmill, twaddler, uneventful, uninteresting, unlively, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearisome, wet blanket, wooden

• drying, Sanforizing, air-drying, anhydration, atrophy, attenuation, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, consumption, corning, curing, dehumidification, dehydrating, dehydration, desiccant, desiccation, desiccative, drainage, dry-curing, drying up, emaceration, emaciation, embalming, evaporation, evaporative, exsiccant, exsiccative, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, parching, pickling, potting, preshrinkage, quick-freezing, refrigeration, salting, searing, seasoning, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, siccative, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, thinning, tinning, wasting, withering

• dryness, acerbity, acescency, acidity, acidulousness, appetite, aridity, aridness, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, cacophony, canine appetite, characterlessness, coarseness, colorlessness, contraception, cracked voice, deadness, dearth, dearth of ideas, discord, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, drought, dry womb, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, empty stomach, etiolation, family planning, famine, flatness, greenness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, hollow hunger, hollowness, hunger, hungriness, huskiness, hyperacidity, impotence, inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood, pointlessness, pokiness, polydipsia, ponderousness, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, pungency, raspiness, raucity, relish, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, slowness, solemnity, sour, sourishness, sourness, spiritlessness, staidness, sterileness, sterility, stertorousness, stiffness, stodginess, stolidity, stomach, stuffiness, subacidity, superficiality, sweet tooth, tapeworm, tartishness, tartness, taste, tastelessness, tediousness, thickness, thirst, thirstiness, throatiness, torment of Tantalus, ugliness, uncreativeness, unfancifulness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unimaginativeness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unproductiveness, unripeness, unsweetness, vapidity, vapidness, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, withered loins, woodenness

• drypoint, aquatint, cerography, chalcography, crayon engraving, cribbling, etching, intaglio, metal cut, mezzotint, photoengraving, plate engraving, pyrogravure, relief method, steel engraving, wood engraving, woodburning, woodcut, zincography

• dual personality, alcoholic, alternating personality, antisocial personality, catatonia, catatonic schizophrenia, dementia praecox, depersonalization, disconnection, disordered personality, dissociation, dissociation of personality, disturbed personality, double personality, drug user, emotional dissociation, emotionally unstable personality, escapist, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, hostile personality, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, idiot, imaginary invalid, immature personality, inadequate personality, inferior personality, malade imaginaire, maladjusted personality, mental dissociation, mentally defective personality, moral insanity, multiple personality, neuropath, neurotic, neurotic personality, paranoia, paranoid personality, paranoid psychosis, paraphrenia, personality disorganization, perverse personality, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic personality, schizoid, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizophrenia, schizothymia, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, sociopath, split personality, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality

• dual, Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bipartisan, bipartite, bivalent, conduplicate, dichotomous, disomatous, double, double-barreled, double-faced, duadic, dualistic, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, geminate, geminated, identical, matched, paired, second, secondary, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold

• dualism, Janus, acosmism, allotheism, ambiguity, ambivalence, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, cosmotheism, deism, dichotomy, ditheism, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, dyotheism, equivocality, halving, henotheism, hylotheism, irony, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, pairing, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, pluralism, polarity, polytheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, zootheism

• dualistic, bifold, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, binary, bipartisan, bipartite, dichotomous, double, double-barreled, duadic, dual, duple, duplex, duplicated, dyadic, identical, matched, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-sided

• dub, baptize, blow, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, butterfingers, call, christen, clumsy, dab, define, denominate, designate, double, drag, dress, duffer, entitle, equalize, even, flatten, flub, fluff, foozler, foul-up, fumble-fist, goof, goof up, goofball, goofer, grade, grease, harrow, hick, identify, label, lay, level, lubricate, lummox, lump, mow, muff, muffer, name, nickname, nominate, oil, plane, planish, plaster, rube, shave, slob, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, specify, stumblebum, stumblebunny, style, tag, term, title

• dubious, Humean, Pyrrhonic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, agnostic, ambitendent, ambivalent, amoral, arguable, at issue, at loose ends, beguiling, beyond belief, capricious, catchy, changeable, confutable, conjectural, conscienceless, contestable, controversial, controvertible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debatable, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, deniable, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, disinclined, disputable, distrustful, double-minded, doubtable, doubtful, doubting, dubitable, equivocal, evasive, fallacious, false, felonious, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fishy, fly-by-night, fraudulent, from Missouri, hallucinatory, hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, hesitant, iffy, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, implausible, improbable, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous, indecisive, indirect, infirm of purpose, insecure, insidious, irresolute, irresolved, leery, mercurial, misleading, mistakable, mistrustful, mistrusting, moot, more than doubtful, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, not deserving belief, not kosher, of two minds, open, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, questionable, questioning, refutable, reluctant, ridiculous, rocky, rotten, scrupulous, shady, shaky, shameless, shifty, shy, sinister, skeptic, skeptical, slippery, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspecting, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, tottery, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trustless, unbelievable, uncertain, unclear, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconvincing, undecided, undependable, underhand, underhanded, undetermined, unearthly, unethical, ungodly, unhealthy, unimaginable, unlikely, unpredictable, unprincipled, unpromising, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unstraightforward, unsure, unthinkable, untrusting, untrustworthy, untrusty, unworthy of belief, wary, without remorse, without shame

• ducal, aristocratic, chivalrous, exalted, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, high, kinglike, kingly, knightly, ladylike, noble, of gentle blood, of rank, patrician, princelike, princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, titled

• ducat, coin, crown, double eagle, doubloon, eagle, five-dollar gold piece, gold piece, guinea, half crown, half eagle, hard money, moidore, napoleon, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, pound sovereign, roll of coins, rouleau, sovereign, specie, ten-dollar gold piece, twenty-dollar gold piece

• duce, Mahdi, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader, caesar, charismatic leader, choirmaster, choragus, commissar, conductor, coryphaeus, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, file leader, forerunner, fugleman, hard master, inspired leader, leader, leader of men, martinet, messiah, oligarch, oppressor, pacemaker, pacesetter, pharaoh, precentor, ringleader, slave driver, standard-bearer, stickler, strong man, symphonic conductor, torchbearer, tyrant, usurper, warlord

• duchy, Kreis, ally, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, body politic, borough, buffer state, canton, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, congressional district, constablewick, country, county, departement, diocese, district, domain, dominion, dukedom, earldom, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, free city, government, grand duchy, hamlet, hundred, kingdom, land, magistracy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, metropolis, metropolitan area, nation, nationality, oblast, okrug, parish, polis, polity, possession, power, precinct, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, region, republic, riding, satellite, seneschalty, settlement, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, sovereign nation, stake, state, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, village, wapentake, ward

• duck out, beat it, blow, bow out, depart, disappear, dog it, duck and run, escape, exit, go on furlough, go on leave, lam, leave the scene, mooch off, scram, skin out, skulk away, slide off, slink off, slip away, slip off, slip out, slip out of, slither off, sneak off, sneak out, split, steal away, take a powder, take leave, vamoose

• duck, Adamite, Bantam, Cornish hen, about the bush, also-ran, angel, avert, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, babe, baby, baby-doll, back and fill, banty, baptism, baptize, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, bastard, beat around, beg the question, being, bend, bend the knee, biddy, bilk, bird, blench, blink, bob, body, booby, bow, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bugger, burial, bury, buttercup, caille, canard, caneton, capon, case, cat, chanticleer, chap, chapon, character, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, circumvention, cock, cockerel, creature, cringe, crouch, curtsy, customer, darling, dear, deary, defeatee, defense mechanism, deluge, dindon, dip, dipping, dive, dodge, dog it, doll, domestic fowl, double, douse, dousing, drake, draw back, draw in, drown, duck duty, ducking, duckling, dunghill fowl, dunk, dunking, earthling, elude, elusion, elusiveness, engulf, engulfment, equivocate, equivocation, escape, eschew, evade, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, fade, faisan, fall back, fall guy, fallback, feller, fellow, fence, flinch, float, flood, flow on, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fowl, fryer, game fowl, game loser, gander, genuflect, genuflection, get out of, getting around, gobbler, goldbrick, good loser, good sport, goof off, goose, gosling, groundling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, guy, hand, hang back, head, hedge, hem and haw, hen, hen turkey, homo, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hum and haw, human, human being, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, individual, inundate, inundation, jasper, jib, jink, joker, kneel, kneeling, kowtow, lad, lamb, lambkin, life, living soul, loser, love, lover, make a reverence, malinger, man, merge, mince the truth, mince words, mortal, neutrality, nod, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nose, not pull fair, obeisance, oddball, oddity, oie, one, original, overwhelm, palter, parry, partlet, partridge, party, person, personage, personality, pet, petkins, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, plunge, plunge in water, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pour on, precious, precious heart, prevaricate, prevent, prevention, prostration, pull away, pull back, pull in, pull out, pullback, pullet, pullout, pussyfoot, put off, quail, quiz, rain, recoil, reel back, refraining, retract, retreat, reverence, roaster, rooster, salaam, setting hen, sheer off, shift, shift off, shirk, shrink, shrink back, shun, shunning, shunting off, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, single, sink, sinking, skulk, slack, slide out of, slip, slip out of, sluice, sneak out of, snookums, soldier, somebody, someone, soul, souse, sousing, spook, sport, spring chicken, squab, squat, start aside, start back, steer clear of, step aside, stewing chicken, stooge, stoop, stud, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, sugar, supination, swamp, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swerve, tellurian, tergiversate, terran, the runaround, the vanquished, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, turn aside, underdog, victim, volaille, waffle, ward, ward off, weasel, weasel out, welsh, whelm, wild duck, wince, withdraw, worldling, zigzag, zombie

• duckling, Bantam, Cornish hen, angel, babe, baby, baby-doll, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birdling, broiler, brooder, broody hen, buttercup, caille, calf, canard, caneton, capon, catling, chanticleer, chapon, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chickling, chicky, cock, cockerel, colt, cub, darling, dear, deary, dindon, dogie, doll, domestic fowl, drake, duck, dunghill fowl, faisan, fawn, fledgling, foal, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, love, lover, nest, nestling, oie, partlet, partridge, pet, petkins, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, piglet, pigling, polliwog, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, precious, precious heart, pullet, pup, puppy, quail, roaster, rooster, setting hen, shoat, snookums, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, tadpole, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, volaille, weaner, whelp, wild duck, yeanling

• ducky, OK, ace-high, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, cool, corking, crackerjack, dandy, delicious, fab, fine and dandy, gear, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, just dandy, keen, marvy, mean, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, ripping, rum, scrumptious, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else, spiffing, spiffy, stunning, swell, tough, wizard

• duct, Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, adit, aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, course, ditch, egress, emunctory, entrance, exit, fistula, ingress, intestines, meatus, ostium, oviduct, passage, passageway, pore, salpinx, thoracic duct, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas, vessel, watercourse, way

• ductile, adaptable, bendable, bending, biddable, compliant, convenient, docile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, like putty, limber, liquid, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, submitting, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, untroublesome, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, yielding

• dud, abortion, abortive attempt, also-ran, aspirant, baby kisser, bankrupt, blank cartridge, bogy, bomb, bugaboo, bugbear, bust, candidate, castrato, cipher, cry of wolf, dark horse, defeated candidate, dummy, eunuch, failure, false alarm, favorite son, flop, gelding, hollow man, hopeful, impotent, incompetent, invalid, jackstraw, lame duck, lay figure, lemon, loser, man of straw, merry chase, miscarriage, miscarrying, misfire, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, office seeker, political hopeful, presidential timber, puppet, pushover, running mate, stalking-horse, thing of naught, trifle, vain attempt, washout, weakling, wet squib, wild-goose chase, zero

• dude ranch, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, collective farm, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, mains, manor farm, orchard, pasture, pen, plantation, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, sheep farm, station, steading, stock farm, toft, truck farm

• dude, Beau Brummel, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, chap, clotheshorse, coxcomb, dandy, exquisite, fashion plate, fellow, fine gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, guy, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lady-killer, lounge lizard, macaroni, man, man-about-town, masher, popinjay, puppy, spark, sport, swell

• dudgeon, ferment, fret, fume, fury, high dudgeon, huff, humor, ire, miff, mood, pet, pique, rage, resentment, snuff, stew, temper, tiff, umbrage, wrath

• duds, apparel, array, attire, bedizenment, clothes, clothing, costume, drapery, dress, dressing, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, frock, garb, garment, garments, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habit, investiture, investment, linen, rag, rags, raiment, robe, robes, sportswear, style, tatters, things, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel

• due process, actionability, applicability, constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality, jurisdiction, justice, justiciability, lawfulness, legal form, legal process, legalism, legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, licitness, rightfulness, scope, validity

• due to, after, arising from, attributable to, because of, by reason of, by virtue of, caused by, coming from, considering, contingent on, dependent on, derivable from, in consideration of, in view of, in virtue of, occasioned by, on account of, over, owing to, resulting from, thanks to, through

• due, according to Hoyle, accountable, accounts payable, accounts receivable, acknowledgment, adequate, alleged, amount due, ample, anticipated, appropriate, appurtenance, arrearage, arrears, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, authority, awaited, back, bad debts, balanced, barely sufficient, bill, bills, birthright, borrowing, charged, charges, chits, claim, cognizance, comeuppance, coming, coming to, commensurate, compensation, competent, condign, conjugal right, correct, corresponding, credit, credited, crediting, dead, dead ahead, debt, decent, decorous, defensible, demand, derivable from, derivational, derivative, deserts, deserved, deserving, direct, directly, divine right, droit, due north, dueness, dues, earned, enough, entitled to, entitlement, equal to, equitable, even, evenhanded, expected, explicable, faculty, fair, fair and square, financial commitment, fit, fitting, floating debt, foreseen, forthright, funded debt, good, good enough, guerdon, hoped-for, imminent, imputable, imputed, in a beeline, in arrear, in arrears, in line with, in prospect, in view, inalienable right, indebtedness, indebtment, interest, just, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawful, legal, level, liability, long-expected, lust, mature, maturity, meet, meet and right, merit, merited, meriting, meritorious, minimal, minimum, national debt, natural right, need, nice, normal, normative, obligation, on the horizon, outstanding, outstanding debt, overdue, owed, owing, payable, payment, pledge, plenty, plenty good enough, power, prerogative, prescription, presumed, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, probable, promised, proper, proper claim, property right, proportionate, prospective, public debt, putative, receivable, recognition, recompense, recompensing, redeemable, referable, referred to, repayment, reprisal, requisite, retaliation, retribution, revenge, reward, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rights, satisfaction, satisfactory, score, seemly, square, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, title, traceable, uncollectibles, undeviatingly, unfulfilled pledge, unpaid, unsettled, unswervingly, unveeringly, up to, vengeance, vested interest, vested right, warrantable, warranted, what is owing, worthy of

• duel, affair of honor, battle, box, brawl, broil, buck, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, contend, contest, cut and thrust, dispute, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, jostle, joust, mix it up, monomachy, oppose, quarrel, rassle, repel, riot, run a tilt, satisfaction, scramble, scuffle, single combat, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, traverse, tussle, wage war, war, withstand, wrestle

• duelist, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, enforcer, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, militant, plug-ugly, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, wrangler

• duenna, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, betweenmaid, biddy, bodyguard, cavalier, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, conductor, convoy, cook, dame, educatress, escort, esquire, fellow traveler, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, gentlewoman, girl, governess, guard, handmaid, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, instructress, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, mistress, nursemaid, parlormaid, safe-conduct, schooldame, schoolmarm, schoolmistress, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, shepherd, soubrette, squire, swain, tutoress, tweeny, upstairs maid, usher, waiting maid, wench

• dues, accounts payable, accounts receivable, admission, admission fee, amount due, anchorage, bad debts, bill, bills, borrowing, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, chits, comeuppance, cover charge, debt, demand, deserts, dockage, due, due reward, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, fare, fee, financial commitment, floating debt, funded debt, hire, indebtedness, indebtment, just deserts, liability, license fee, maturity, merits, national debt, obligation, outstanding debt, pilotage, pledge, portage, public debt, salvage, score, scot, scot and lot, shot, storage, toll, towage, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, wharfage

• duet, bipartisanship, both, brace, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, couple, couplet, distich, double harness, doublet, duad, duettino, duo, duumvirate, dyad, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, ensemble music, ensemble singing, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, harmony, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, mass action, match, mates, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, pair, part music, part singing, part song, polyphonic music, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, septet, septuor, sestet, set of two, sextet, solidarity, span, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team, team spirit, teamwork, terzet, terzetto, the two, trio, triumvirate, troika, twain, two, twosome, united action, yoke

• duff, arse, bad, beat, behind, bilk, bottom, broken, butt, can, cheat, counterfeit, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, dud, fake, false, fanny, gyp, inoperable, inoperative, overreach, prat, rear, screw, tail, unworkable, useless, worthless

• duffel, accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, bag and baggage, baggage, conveniences, dunnage, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, gear, impedimenta, installations, kit, luggage, machinery, materiel, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, rig, rigging, stock-in-trade, tackle, things, traps, utensils

• duffer, arab, blockhead, blunderer, boob, bungler, butterfingers, clumsy, dimwit, dolt, dope, dub, dumbbell, foozler, foul-up, fumble-fist, goof, goofball, goofer, hawker, hick, higgler, huckster, idiot, ignoramus, incompetent, lummox, lump, monger, muff, muffer, numskull, oaf, ox, roadman, rube, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, vendor

• dugout, abri, air-raid shelter, antre, approach trench, asylum, bolt-hole, bomb shelter, bombproof, bunker, burrow, cache, cave, cavern, communication trench, concealment, corner, countermine, coupure, cove, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, cyclone cellar, dark corner, den, ditch, double sap, earth, entrenchment, fallout shelter, fire trench, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, funk hole, gallery, grot, grotto, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, lair, mine, moat, niche, nook, parallel, recess, refuge, retreat, safety zone, sanctuary, sap, secret place, sewer, shelter, slit trench, stash, storm cave, storm cellar, subterrane, subway, trench, tunnel, undercovert, warren

• duke, Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, count, daimio, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

• dukedom, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, baronetcy, barony, body politic, buffer state, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, country, county, domain, dominion, duchy, earldom, empery, empire, free city, grand duchy, kingdom, kingship, knight-errantship, knighthood, ladyship, land, lordship, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, marquisate, nation, nationality, pashadom, polis, polity, possession, power, princedom, princeship, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, queenship, realm, republic, satellite, seignioralty, seigniory, seneschalty, settlement, sovereign nation, state, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, viscountcy, viscountship, viscounty

• dulcet, achingly sweet, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso, blissful, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable, en rapport, engaging, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, likable, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nice, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding, rich, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tunable, tuneful, welcome, winning, winsome

• dulcify, allay, appease, calm, calm down, candy, compose, conciliate, cool, cradle, defuse, ease, edulcorate, even out, gentle, glaze, honey, hush, lay, lay the dust, lull, mollify, mull, pacify, placate, pour balm into, pour balm on, propitiate, quell, quiet, rest, rock, rock to sleep, saccharify, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, soothe, stabilize, steady, still, subdue, sugar, sugar off, sugarcoat, sweeten, tranquilize

• dull, KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker-colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant, abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless, allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize, anesthetized, apathetic, appease, arctic, arid, ascetic, ashen, ashy, asleep, assuage, asthenic, attemper, attenuate, austere, autistic, backward, bad, baffle, bald, banausic, bank the fire, bare, barren, bate, bated, becloud, bedaze, bedim, beef-witted, befog, benumb, benumbed, besot, betwixt and between, blah, blanch, blank, blase, bleach, blear, blear-witted, bled white, blind, bloodless, blue, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, blurry, bored, boring, bovine, brainless, broken-record, bromidic, cadaverous, callous, candid, canescent, cast down, cataleptic, catatonic, characterless, chasten, chicken, chill, chilly, chloranemic, chloroform, cinereous, cinerous, cloddish, cloud, clouded, cloudy, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock, coldhearted, colorless, comatose, common, commonplace, constrain, control, cool, cowardly, cramp, crass, cripple, cushion, damp, damped, dampen, dampened, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, darken, de-emphasize, dead, deaden, deaden the pain, deadened, deadly pale, deafen, deathly pale, debilitate, debilitated, decolor, decolorize, dejected, dense, depressed, depressing, desensitize, desensitized, detached, devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish, dimmed, dingy, direct, discolor, discolored, disedge, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate, dispirited, doltish, dope, dopey, dormant, dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downhearted, downplay, drab, draggy, drain, drain of color, draw the teeth, drearisome, dreary, drooping, droopy, drug, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull of mind, dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted, dulled, dullish, dumb, dun, duncical, dusty, earthbound, ease, ease matters, edgeless, effete, elephantine, emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, enervate, enervated, enfeeble, etherize, etiolate, etiolated, even-tempered, everlasting, eviscerate, exanimate, exhaust, exhausting, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extenuate, fade, faded, fagging, faint, faintish, fair, fair to middling, faired, fairish, fallow, fat-witted, fatiguing, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy, foment, foul, frank, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, fume, ghastly, give relief, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gone, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, gross-headed, gruel, gutless, haggard, half-witted, hard, hardened, harping, hazy, heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, homely, homespun, hopeless, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, icy, imbecile, immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient, imperturbable, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indistinct, inert, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, insouciant, insusceptible, inured, invariable, irksome, iron-gray, jaded, jejune, jog-trot, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lay, lay low, lay out, lead-gray, leaden, lean, lenify, lessen, lethargic, lifeless, lighten, limber, limp, listless, literal, livid, logy, long-winded, low-spirited, lowering, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, lustless, marrowless, mat, matter-of-fact, mealy, mediocre, medium, middling, mitigate, moderate, modest, modulate, mollify, monotone, monotonous, moribund, moronic, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, muffle, muffled, mull, mundane, murky, mute, muted, namby-pamby, narcotize, natural, neat, nerveless, neutral, nonchalant, nonemotional, nubilous, numb, numbed, numbing, numskulled, obdurate, objective, obscure, obtund, obtundent, obtuse, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, opaque, open, ordinary, out of touch, overcast, overclouded, pad, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, palliate, pallid, palsy, paralyze, passable, passionless, passive, pasty, patient, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, peroxide, phlegmatic, pithless, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, play down, plodding, pluckless, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, powerless, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, put to sleep, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, relieve, repress, resigned, respectable, restrain, retard, retund, rocky, rounded, rubbery, rustic, sad, sallow, salve, sap, sapless, sated, sedentary, self-absorbed, severe, shake, shake up, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking, simpleminded, sinewless, singsong, slack, slacken, slake, slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, slow down, slow-witted, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering, smoothed, smother, smothered, so-so, sober, sober down, soft, soft-pedal, soften, soften up, softened, solemn, somber, somnolent, soothe, soporific, sordo, soulless, spare, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, staid, standing, stark, static, steady, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stifle, stifled, stodgy, stoic, stolid, stone-colored, stop, straightforward, strengthless, stuffy, stultified, stun, stupe, stupefied, stupefy, stupid, subdue, subdued, subfusc, sunless, superficial, supine, suppress, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tarnish, tasteless, taupe, tedious, temper, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickskulled, tiresome, tiring, tolerable, tone down, toneless, torpid, treadmill, tune down, turn, unadorned, unaffected, unaffectionate, unaroused, unbrace, uncaring, uncolored, unconcerned, undermine, underplay, undisturbable, unedged, unembellished, unemotional, uneventful, unfanciful, unfeeling, unfelt, unflappable, unhardened, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, uninspired, uninterested, uninteresting, uninventive, unirritable, unlively, unloving, unman, unnerve, unnerved, unnervous, unoriginal, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpoetic, unpoetical, unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unromantic, unromanticized, unsharp, unsharpened, unstrengthen, unstring, unstrung, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvarnished, unvarying, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen, weak, weaken, weakly, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced, white, whiten, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary

• dullard, Boeotian, block, clod, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullhead, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, gowk, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, moron, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, put, simpleton, stupid, thickwit, witling

• dulling, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing, easing, emollient, lenitive, lessening, mitigating, mitigative, narcotic, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, purgative, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, softening, soothing, stunning, stupefying, subduing, tempering

• dullness, abruptness, absence of color, acedia, achromaticity, achromatism, adynamia, aloofness, analgesia, anemia, anesthesia, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, aridity, aridness, ashiness, asininity, ataraxia, ataraxy, atony, autism, barrenness, benumbedness, blah, blah feeling, blahs, blockishness, bloodlessness, bluffness, bluntness, boobishness, boorishness, boredom, boringness, bovinity, cachexia, cachexy, cadaverousness, callousness, canescence, catatonia, cheerlessness, chill, chilliness, chloranemia, cloddishness, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, colorlessness, coma, comatoseness, commonness, commonplaceness, coolness, cowardice, crassness, crudeness, deadness, deadpan, dearth of ideas, deathly hue, deathly pallor, debilitation, debility, denseness, density, detachment, dim-wittedness, dimness, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, disinterest, dislike, dispassion, dispassionateness, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, doltishness, drabness, dread, drowsiness, dryness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dumbness, duncery, easy temper, electronarcosis, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, emptiness, enervation, ennui, etiolation, even temper, existential woe, exsanguination, fadedness, faintness, fairishness, fairness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, flatness, frigidity, frostiness, ghastliness, glaucescence, glaucousness, good temper, gray, grayishness, grayness, grimness, grossness, haggardness, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, hopelessness, huelessness, humdrumminess, humdrumness, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, imperturbability, imperturbableness, impotence, inanimation, inappetence, inconsiderateness, indifference, inexcitability, inexcitableness, infecundity, infertility, inirritability, inquietude, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insipidness, insouciance, irksomeness, jadedness, joylessness, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of bite, lack of feeling, lack of pleasure, lack of touch, lackadaisicalness, lackluster, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, leadenness, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, lightness, listlessness, lividity, lividness, long-windedness, loutishness, lumpishness, malaise, matter-of-factness, mediocreness, mediocrity, middlingness, moderateness, modestness, modesty, monotonousness, mousiness, muddiness, muffled tone, mutedness, narcosis, narcotization, nausea, neutral tint, ninnyism, nonchalance, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, numbness, oafdom, oafishness, objectivity, obtundity, obtuseness, opacity, oscitancy, painfulness, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, passableness, passionlessness, passiveness, passivity, pastiness, patience, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, pins and needles, plainness, plucklessness, poker face, prison pallor, prolixity, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, prostration, resignation, resignedness, respectability, sallowness, satedness, savorlessness, self-absorption, sickliness, sickly hue, silveriness, simpletonianism, slatiness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, smokiness, smooth temper, soberness, softness, somberness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, sottishness, soullessness, spiritlessness, spleen, spunklessness, staidness, staleness, steadiness, stoicism, stolidity, straight face, strengthlessness, stuffiness, stupefaction, stupidity, stupor, supineness, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, thick skin, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, tiresomeness, tolerableness, tonelessness, toothlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uncomfortableness, unconcern, uncreativeness, unease, uneasiness, unembellishedness, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfancifulness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unhappiness, unidealism, unimaginativeness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unirritableness, unnervousness, unoriginality, unpassionateness, unperceptiveness, unpleasure, unpoeticalness, unresponsiveness, unromanticism, unsatisfaction, unsharpness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, unteachability, untouchability, vapidity, veiled voice, vexation of spirit, voce velata, wanness, weakliness, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, wearisomeness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrongheadedness, yokelism

• duly constituted, absolute, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dominant, eminent, empowered, ex officio, governing, great, hegemonic, hegemonistic, imperative, important, influential, leading, mighty, momentous, monocratic, official, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruling, senior, substantial, superior, supreme, totalitarian, weighty

• duly, accordingly, appropriately, as is proper, as is right, by right, by rights, condignly, correctly, deservedly, disinterestedly, dispassionately, equally, equitably, evenly, fair, fairly, fittingly, impartially, impersonally, in all conscience, in reason, inequity, injustice, justifiably, justifiedly, justly, meetly, on time, properly, punctually, right, rightfully, rightly, suitably, upon even terms, warrantably, warrantedly, without distinction

• dumb show, acting, aping, bearing, beck, beckon, body language, carriage, characterization, charade, chironomy, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, embodiment, enacting, enactment, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, hand signal, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, kinesics, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, motion, movement, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, personification, playing, poise, portrayal, pose, posing, posture, shrug, sign language, stance

• dumb, Boeotian, abiotic, anaudic, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, aphasic, aphonic, apish, asinine, awkward, azoic, batty, beastlike, beastly, beef-brained, beef-witted, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bestial, blankminded, blockheaded, blockish, bovine, brainless, breathless, brief, brusque, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, buffoonish, callow, chumpish, cloddish, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, cockeyed, concise, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, curt, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dizzy, doltish, doting, dull, dullard, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, duncical, duncish, economical of words, empty, empty-headed, exanimate, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gross, gulled, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, inane, inanimate, inanimated, inarticulate, incoherent, indisposed to talk, indistinct, ineducable, inept, inert, inexperienced, infatuated, innocent, insane, insensate, insensible, insentient, instinctive, instinctual, klutzy, know-nothing, kooky, laconic, lifeless, loony, lumpish, mad, maudlin, maundering, mindless, moronic, mum, mute, naive, nescient, nonconscious, nonliving, nonrational, numskulled, nutty, oafish, opaque, quiet, raw, reticent, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, short, silent, silly, simple, snug, sottish, soulless, sparing of words, speechless, strange to, stricken dumb, stupid, subhuman, taciturn, tentative, terse, thick, thick-witted, thoughtless, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, tongueless, unacquainted, unanimated, unapprized, uncommunicative, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unfeeling, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent, unknowing, unloquacious, unposted, unripe, unsure, untalkative, unteachable, unversed, vacuous, voiceless, wacky, wet, witless, word-bound, wordless, wrongheaded, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

• dumbbell, Boeotian, Indian club, barbell, block, clod, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dullhead, dumb cluck, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, exerciser, gowk, horse, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, long horse, looby, loon, moron, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, parallel bars, punching bag, put, rings, rowing machine, side horse, simpleton, stupid, thickwit, trampoline, trapeze, weight, witling

• dumbfound, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, choke, choke off, confound, confuse, daze, dazzle, dumbfounder, flabbergast, floor, gag, hush, hush-hush, muffle, muzzle, nonplus, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, put to silence, quiet, quieten, shock, shush, shut down on, silence, soft-pedal, squash, squelch, stagger, startle, stifle, still, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise, throttle

• dumbfounded, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, baffled, beguiled, bemused, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, confounded, confused, dazed, dazzled, disconcerted, dismayed, dumb, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, floored, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, inarticulate, knocked out, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, mum, mute, nonplussed, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, perplexed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, shocked, speechless, spellbound, staggered, staring, startled, stricken dumb, stunned, stupefied, surprised, taken aback, thunderstruck, tongue-tied, tongueless, under a charm, voiceless, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, wordless

• dumbness, anaudia, aphasia, aphonia, asininity, blockishness, boobishness, boorishness, bovinity, brevity, briefness, brusqueness, cloddishness, conciseness, crassness, crudeness, curtness, deaf-muteness, denseness, density, dim-wittedness, dimness, doltishness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, duncery, economy of words, grossness, hebetude, inarticulateness, laconicalness, laconism, lethargy, loutishness, lumpishness, muteness, mutism, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness, obmutescence, obtuseness, opacity, pauciloquy, quietness, quietude, shortness, silence, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness, sottishness, sparingness of words, speechlessness, stolidity, stupidity, taciturnity, terseness, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, tonguelessness, unloquaciousness, untalkativeness, unteachability, voicelessness, wordlessness, wrongheadedness, yokelism

• dumbstruck, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, confounded, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, inarticulate, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, mum, mute, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, speechless, spellbound, staggered, staring, stricken dumb, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, tongue-tied, tongueless, under a charm, voiceless, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, wordless

• dummy, Boeotian, Charlie McCarthy, Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, a nobody, a nothing, ace, adherent, advocate, affected, agent, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, ancilla, apocryphal, appliance, artificial, ass, assumed, attorney, backup, backup man, bastard, best bower, block, blockhead, bogus, bower, brummagem, burlesque, bust, cards, carving, champion, change, changeling, cheat, cipher, clay model, clinquant, clod, clubs, cold-type typesetting, colorable, colored, common man, comparison, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, contrivance, copy, counterfeit, counterfeited, creature, deaf-mute, deck, deputy, deuce, device, diamonds, dimwit, disciple, distorted, doll, dolly, dolt, donkey, dope, double, dressed up, dud, dullard, dullhead, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dunce, dupe, duplication, embellished, embroidered, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, executive officer, exponent, face cards, facsimile, factitious, fake, faked, fakement, false, falsified, fantoccini, feigned, fictitious, fictive, figure, figurehead, figurine, fill-in, flunky, flush, follower, fool, forgery, frame-up, fraud, front, front man, full house, furniture, galley chase, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter, gillie, gingerbread man, go-between, goon, gowk, hand, handmaid, handmaiden, hanger-on, hearts, henchman, hoax, hollow man, hot-metal typesetting, idiot, ignoramus, illegitimate, imitation, implement, imposition, impostor, insignificancy, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jack, jackal, jackstraw, jobbernowl, joker, junk, junky, justification, king, knave, knockoff, lackey, lackwit, lamebrain, lay figure, layout, left bower, lever, lieutenant, lightweight, likeness, line of type, little fellow, little guy, locum, locum tenens, looby, loon, make-believe, makeshift, man, man of straw, man-made, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, marionette, mechanism, mediator, mediocrity, medium, metaphor, metonymy, midwife, minion, mock, mock-up, model, monument, moron, mute, myrmidon, nebbish, next best thing, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, nobody, nobody one knows, noddy, nominal head, nonentity, nothing, nullity, numskull, obscurity, organ, pacifier, pack, pair, paranymph, paraphrase, parody, paste, pawn, personnel, perverted, phony, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, picture cards, pilot model, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck, pip-squeak, playing cards, plaything, pleader, portrait bust, pretended, procurator, provisional, proxy, pseudo, punk, puppet, pushover, put, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queen, queer, quoin, relief, replacement, replica, representation, representative, reprint, reproduction, reserve, reserves, ringer, rip-off, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, runt, sample, satellite, scarecrow, scrub, sculpture, second in command, second string, secondary, self-styled, servant, setting, sham, shoddy, shrimp, sign, simpleton, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, singleton, slave, slug, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, snowman, so-called, soi-disant, spades, spare, spares, spurious, squirt, squit, stand-in, statuary, statue, statuette, stooge, stopgap, straight, stupid, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, supposititious, surrogate, swindle, sycophant, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic, tentative, thickwit, thing of naught, third string, thug, tin, tinsel, titivated, token, tool, toy, travesty, trey, trick, trifle, trump, twisted, typesetting, typesetting machine, unauthentic, understudy, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, utility, utility man, utility player, vehicle, version, vicar, vicar general, vicarious, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, votary, warped, wax figure, waxwork, whiffet, whippersnapper, whited sepulcher, witling, wood carving, wood model, yes-man, zero

• dump on, abase, abash, affront, barrack, be above, be contemptuous of, bring down, bring low, call names, care nothing for, chaff, contemn, crush, cut at, debase, degrade, demean, deride, despise, dig at, diminish, disdain, dishonor, disoblige, disparage, disprize, dump, feel contempt for, feel superior to, fleer, fleer at, flout, gibe, gibe at, give offense to, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, humiliate, hurl a brickbat, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe at, look down upon, lower, misprize, mock, offend, outrage, pooh, pooh-pooh, put down, rail at, rally, rank low, rank out, reduce, revile, ridicule, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scout, set at naught, set down, slam, slap at, sneer, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, swipe, take down, taunt, think nothing of, treat with indignity, trip up, twit

• dump, Augean stables, Parthian shot, abandon, abase, abasement, abash, abjure, abundance, accumulation, affront, amassment, ammo dump, archives, armory, arsenal, artillery park, aspersion, atomic arsenal, atrocity, attic, back answer, backlog, bank, basement, baste, batter, bay, beat, belabor, bin, bog, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bordello, box, break bulk, brickbat, bring down, bring low, brothel, budget, buffet, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cathouse, caustic remark, cede, cellar, cesspool, chest, chuck, chuck out, clear the trade, clip joint, cloaca, cloaca maxima, close out, closet, collection, colluvies, comeback, comedown, commissariat, commissary, compost heap, conservatory, contempt, contumely, convert, convert into cash, cornucopia, crack, crate, crib, crush, cumulation, cupboard, cut, cut under, cutting remark, debase, debasement, deep-six, deflation, degrade, demean, den, den of thieves, deposit, depository, depot, descent, despite, dig, diminish, disburden, discard, discharge, disgorge, disgrace, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, dive, do without, dock, drain, drawer, drop, drub, dump on, dunghill, dustheap, effect a sale, eighty-six, eliminate, embarrassment, empty, enormity, exchequer, fleer, fleshpots, flout, flouting, foolery, forgo, forswear, garbage dump, get along without, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, gibe, gibing retort, give away, give up, glory hole, godown, gun park, gyp joint, hammer, hangdog look, have done with, heap, hoard, hold, hole, hovel, humbled pride, humiliation, hutch, indignity, injury, insult, inventory, jab, jape, jeer, jeering, jest, jettison, jilt, job, joint, junk, junkyard, kiss good-bye, kitchen midden, lair, lam, lambaste, larder, leg-pull, letdown, library, liquidate, locker, lower, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, make a sacrifice, make a sale, manure pile, market, marsh, mass, material, materials, materiel, merchandise, midden, mire, mixen, mock, mockery, mortification, move, munitions, off-load, offense, offload, outrage, park, part with, parting shot, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, pile, plague spot, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, put down, put-down, put-on, quagmire, quip, quitclaim, rack, rations, recant, reduce, refuse heap, reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renounce, repertoire, repertory, repository, resell, reservoir, resign, retail, retract, rick, rookery, rubbish heap, rude reproach, sacrifice, scoff, scrap, scurrility, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, septic tank, set down, setdown, sewer, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shelf, short answer, sink, slam, slap, slough, slum, spare, sporting house, stable, stack, stack room, stews, stock, stock room, stock-in-trade, stockpile, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, stores, sty, sump, supplies, supply base, supply depot, supply on hand, surrender, swamp, swear off, swipe, take down, tank, taunt, tenement, terminate the account, the slums, throw away, throw down, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, tip, toss out, toss overboard, trash pile, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trip up, tumbledown shack, turn into money, turn over, twit, unburden, uncomplimentary remark, undercut, undersell, unlade, unload, unpack, unship, vacate, vat, vault, verbal thrust, waive, wallop, warehouse, warren, wasteyard, wholesale, whorehouse, wine cellar, yield

• dumpling, Italian paste, blimp, fedellini, fettuccine, knaydlach, lasagne, macaroni, matzo balls, noodles, pasta, paste, ravioli, spaetzle, spaghetti, spaghettini, vermicelli, won ton, ziti

• dumps, blahs, blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, dismals, dods, doldrums, dolefuls, dorts, frumps, gloom, grumps, heavyheartedness, megrims, melancholy, mopes, mulligrubs, mumps, pouts, sulks, sullens, unhappiness

• dumpy, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, fat, fattish, fleshy, formless, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, incipient, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, nanoid, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shapeless, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, stunted, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, undersize, undersized, unformed, well-fed, wizened

• Dun and Bradstreet rating, bank credit, book credit, borrowing power, cash credit, commercial credit, consumer credit, credit, credit insurance, credit rating, credit union, financial condition, hire purchase plan, installment credit, installment plan, investment credit, line of credit, never-never, rating, tax credit, tick, trust

• dun, account, annoy, apply pressure, bay, bayard, bedevil, beige, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bill, bill collector, bill of account, bill of lading, blandish, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin, bug, buttonhole, cajole, calico pony, caliginous, call, call in, check, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, collection agent, credit man, creditor, creditress, dapple-gray, debtee, demand payment, dim, drab, dun-brown, dun-drab, dunner, dusk, dusky, ecru, exert pressure, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, gloomy, gnaw, gray, grege, grizzle, harass, hazel, importune, invoice, itemized bill, khaki, lurid, manifest, mortgage-holder, mortgagee, murky, nag, nag at, needle, note-holder, nut-brown, obscure, olive-brown, olive-drab, paint, painted pony, pester, piebald, pinto, plague, ply, press, pressure, push, reckoning, roan, score, seal, seal-brown, send a statement, sepia, skewbald, snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, statement, tab, tan, taupe, tawny, tease, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, urge, walnut, walnut-brown, wheedle, work on, yellowish-brown

• dunce, Boeotian, block, blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpate, clodpoll, cluck, dabbler, dilettante, dimwit, dodo, dolt, dolthead, donkey, dope, drip, duffer, dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, fool, gowk, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, jobbernowl, know-nothing, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, lowbrow, middlebrow, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, no scholar, noddy, puddinghead, put, stupid, tenderfoot, thickwit, unintelligentsia, witling

• dunderhead, addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blockhead, blubberhead, blunderhead, bonehead, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodhead, clodpate, clodpoll, dolthead, dope, dullhead, dumbhead, dunderpate, fathead, jolterhead, jughead, knucklehead, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, noddy, noodle, noodlehead, numskull, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, stupe, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead

• dune, anthill, bank, barrow, brae, butte, cock, down, drift, drumlin, embankment, fell, foothills, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, hill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mow, pile, pyramid, rick, sand dune, snowdrift, stack, swell

• dung, BM, ammonia, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca, castor-bean meal, commercial fertilizer, compost, coprolite, coprolith, cow, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, defecation, dingleberry, dressing, droppings, enrichener, excrement, feces, feculence, fertilizer, guano, jakes, manure, movement, muck, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, ordure, organic fertilizer, phosphate, sewage, sewerage, shit, stool, superphosphate, turd

• dungarees, Bermuda shorts, Capri pants, bags, bells, bloomers, blue jeans, breeks, buckskins, chivarras, clam diggers, cords, corduroys, culottes, denims, drawers, flannels, hot pants, jeans, jodhpurs, knee breeches, knickerbockers, knickers, overalls, pajamas, pantalets, pantaloons, peg pants, pegtops, plus-fours, rompers, sacks, shintiyan, shorts, slacks, smallclothes, tights, trews, trunks, tweeds, whites

• dungeon, POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, donjon, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, stronghold, the hole, tollbooth, training school, vault

• dunk, baptize, bury, deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, engulf, float, flood, flow on, immerge, immerse, inundate, merge, overwhelm, plunge in water, pour on, rain, saturate, sink, sluice, soak, sop, souse, submerge, submerse, swamp, whelm

• dunking, baptism, brewing, burial, dip, dipping, dousing, drench, drenching, duck, ducking, engulfment, imbruement, imbuement, immergence, immersion, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, inundation, leaching, lixiviation, maceration, percolation, permeation, pulping, saturation, seething, sinking, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steeping, submergence, submersion

• dunning, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, coaxing, demanding, importunate, importunateness, importunity, insistent, nagging, pestering, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressure, teasing, urgency, urgent, urging, wheedling

• duo, both, brace, couple, couplet, distich, double harness, doublet, duad, duet, duettino, dyad, ensemble music, ensemble singing, match, mates, octet, pair, part music, part singing, part song, polyphonic music, quartet, quintet, septet, septuor, sestet, set of two, sextet, span, team, terzet, terzetto, the two, trio, twain, two, twosome, yoke

• duodenal, abdominal, anal, appendical, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, coronary, duodecimal, duodenary, enteric, gastric, ileac, intestinal, jejunal, mesogastric, pyloric, rectal, splanchnic, twelfth, visceral

• duodenum, abdomen, anus, appendix, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, colon, endocardium, entrails, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, perineum, pump, pylorus, rectum, small intestine, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

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

• dupable, cullible, deceivable, deludable, easy, exploitable, foolable, green, gullible, hoaxable, hoodwinkable, humbugable, ingenuous, naive, persuadable, seduceable, simple, soft, unsophisticated, victimizable

• dupe, Charlie McCarthy, Federal, Photostat, Xerox, agent, amanuensis, ancilla, apple-polisher, appliance, ass-licker, babe, backscratcher, backslapper, baffle, baggage agent, bamboozle, befool, beguile, betray, bilk, bluff, boob, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, business agent, butt, byword, byword of reproach, cajole, catch, cheat, cheat on, chicane, child, child of nature, chump, circumvent, claim agent, clawback, clerk, clone, commercial agent, commission agent, con, conjure, consignee, contrivance, copy, counterpart, courtier, cozen, creature, cringer, customer agent, deceive, defraud, delude, derision, device, diddle, ditto, double, double-cross, dove, dummy, duplicate, duplication, dust, facsimile, factor, fair game, fall guy, fawner, fed, federal agent, figure of fun, flatterer, flimflam, flunky, fool, footlicker, forestall, freight agent, functionary, game, gammon, gazingstock, geminate, general agent, get around, go-between, goat, groveler, gudgeon, gull, handmaid, handmaiden, handshaker, hectograph, helot, hick, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, implement, infant, infatuate, ingeminate, ingenue, innocent, instrument, insurance agent, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jackal, jest, jestingstock, job, joke, juggle, kid, kowtower, lackey, lamb, land agent, laughingstock, law agent, led captain, let down, lever, lickspit, lickspittle, literary agent, loan agent, lout, manifold, mark, mealymouth, mechanism, mediator, medium, mere child, microcopy, microfilm, midwife, mimeo, mimeograph, minion, mislead, mock, mockery, model, monkey, mug, multigraph, multiply by two, news agent, noble savage, oaf, official, organ, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, patsy, pawn, peon, pigeon, play one false, plaything, press agent, puppet, purchasing agent, pushover, put on, put something over, quadruplicate, real estate agent, redouble, reduplicate, repeat, repetition, replica, replicate, replication, representation, reproduce, reproduction, rip off, rook, rube, sales agent, sap, secretary, serf, servant, simple soul, slave, snooker, snow, spaniel, special agent, stat, station agent, steward, stock, stooge, string along, stultify, suck, sucker, swindle, sycophant, take, take in, target, theatrical agent, ticket agent, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, toy, trace, transcribe, travel agent, trick, triplicate, truckler, trusting soul, tufthunter, twin, two-time, unsophisticate, vehicle, victim, victimize, walking delegate, yes-man, yokel

• duplex, Janus-like, ambidextrous, apartment house, bifacial, bifold, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bipartisan, bipartite, bivalent, condominium, conduplicate, cooperative apartment house, dichotomous, disomatous, double, double-barreled, double-faced, duadic, dual, dualistic, duple, duplex house, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, flats, geminate, geminated, high-rise apartment building, identical, matched, second, secondary, tenement, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold

• duplicate, Doppelganger, Janus-like, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, actual thing, alike, all one, all the same, ambidextrous, analogous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, carbon, carbon copy, clone, come again, companion, comparable, conduplicate, conduplication, consubstantial, copy, copying, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, dead ringer, disomatous, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, double-faced, doubling, dual, dupe, duple, duplex, duplication, echo, effigy, equal, equivalent, exact counterpart, exact likeness, exactly alike, facsimile, fellow, geminate, geminated, gemination, hectograph, homograph, homonym, homoousian, homophone, icon, idem, identic, identical, identical same, idol, image, imitate, imitation, indistinguishable, ingeminate, ingemination, iteration, just alike, like, likeness, living image, living picture, make over, manifold, match, matching, mate, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, miniature, mirroring, model, multigraph, multiply by two, no other, none other, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, one, parallel, paralleling, parrot, photocopy, photograph, picture, plagiarize, portrait, quadruplicate, quote, re-create, re-form, rebuild, reconstitute, reconstruct, redesign, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reduplication, reecho, reestablish, refashion, reflection, refound, regenerate, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinstitute, reissue, reiteration, remake, renew, renovate, reorganize, repeat, repetition, replica, replicate, replication, representation, reprint, reproduce, reproduction, resemblance, reshape, restore, restructure, resurrect, revise, revive, rubbing, same, say again, second, secondary, selfsame, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, spit and image, spitting image, stat, synonym, tantamount, the same, the same difference, trace, tracing, transcribe, triplicate, twin, twinned, twinning, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, undifferent, very image, very picture, very same, without difference, without distinction

• duplicated, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, bipartisan, bipartite, dichotomous, double, doubled, duadic, dual, dualistic, duplex, dyadic, echoed, identical, matched, plagiarized, quoted, rechauffe, redoubled, reduplicated, reechoed, regurgitated, reiterate, reiterated, repeated, reproduced, retold, twain, twice-told, twin, twinned, two, two-sided, warmed up

• duplication, Janus, ambiguity, ambivalence, bedizenment, biformity, bifurcation, burlesque, clone, conjugation, copy, counterpart, dichotomy, ditto, double, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, dummy, dupe, duplexity, duplicate, duplication of effort, duplicity, echo, embellishment, equivocality, expletive, extravagance, facsimile, fat, featherbedding, filling, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, halving, hectography, imitation, irony, knockoff, luxury, mimeography, mock-up, model, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, pairing, palingenesis, paraphrase, parody, payroll padding, plagiarism, pleonasm, polarity, prolixity, quadruplicate, quotation, re-creation, re-formation, reappearance, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, reconstruction, recurrence, redesign, redoing, redoubling, redundance, redundancy, reduplication, reecho, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, regurgitation, reincarnation, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, renascence, renewal, renovation, reoccurrence, reorganization, repetition, replica, replication, representation, reprinting, reproduction, reprography, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resumption, resurrection, return, revision, revival, rubbing, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tracing, transcription, travesty, triplicate, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unnecessariness, verbosity, version, xerography

• duplicity, Janus, Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, ambiguity, ambivalence, artfulness, artifice, bad faith, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dichotomy, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, equivocality, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falseness, foul play, furtiveness, guile, halving, hypocrisy, improbity, indirection, insidiousness, irony, low cunning, pairing, perfidiousness, perfidy, polarity, shiftiness, sneak attack, sneakiness, surreptitiousness, treacherousness, treachery, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, underhandedness, wile

• durability, abidingness, body, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity, cohesiveness, concreteness, constancy, continualness, continuance, density, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, firmness, fixedness, foreverness, frozenness, hardening, hardiness, hardness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, incessancy, indestructibility, infinite duration, infinity, infrangibility, interminability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, leatherlikeness, long standing, mass, materiality, never-endingness, palpability, perdurability, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, ponderability, quiescence, resistance, rigidity, ropiness, sempiternity, solidity, soundness, stability, stamina, standing, stasis, steadfastness, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, tangibility, tenacity, timelessness, torpor, toughness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, unceasingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, viscidity, vitality

• durable, abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic, cohesive, constant, continuing, coriaceous, dense, dependable, diuturnal, enduring, evergreen, fast, fibrous, firm, fixed, frozen, gristly, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immutable, indestructible, intact, intransient, inveterate, inviolate, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, massive, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quiescent, reliable, remaining, resistant, rigid, ropy, rugged, sempervirent, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, substantial, sustained, tenacious, torpid, tough, tough as leather, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unfading, unfailing, unshifting, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vigorous, viscid, vital, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiry

• durables, appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, dinnerware, durable goods, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flatware, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, metalware, ovenware, silverware, sporting goods, stoneware, tableware, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware

• duration, abidingness, age, antiquity, changelessness, chronology, constancy, continuance, continuation, continuity, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duree, endurance, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintenance, perdurability, perennation, period, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, psychological time, quiescence, rigidity, run, solidity, space, space-time, span, spell, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, survival, survivance, tense, tenure, term, the future, the past, the present, tide, time, timebinding, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, while

• duress, amperage, argumentum baculinum, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, brute force, captivity, charge, charisma, close arrest, clout, coercion, cogence, cogency, compulsion, compulsoriness, confinement, constraint, detention, dint, drive, durance, durance vile, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, high pressure, house arrest, immuration, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, influence, internment, intimidation, jailing, main force, main strength, mana, mandatedness, mandatoriness, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, necessariness, necessitation, necessitude, necessity, obligation, obligatoriness, obligement, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, pressure, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, restraint, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, strong-arm tactics, superiority, superpower, term of imprisonment, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, threat, throughout, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight

• dusk, bad light, blackish, broad day, brown of dusk, brownness, caliginous, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular, crepuscule, dark, dark-colored, darken, darkish, darkishness, darkle, darksome, darksomeness, dawn, day, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, deadness, dim, dim light, dimmish, dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, duskiness, duskingtide, duskness, dusky, evening, evensong, eventide, flatness, full sun, funereal, gloam, gloaming, gloom, glooming, gloomy, grave, green flash, grow dark, grow dim, half-light, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness, light of day, lower, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, midday sun, murk, murkiness, murksome, murky, nightfall, nigrescent, noonlight, noontide light, obscure, owllight, partial darkness, ray of sunshine, sad, semidark, shine, sober, somber, somberness, sombrous, subfusc, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sundown, sunlight, sunset, sunsetty, sunshine, swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, vesper, vespertine

• dusky, acheronian, ambiguous, amphibological, black, blackish, bleak, brunet, caliginous, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, dark-colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, desolate, dim, dimmish, dimpsy, dismal, double-edged, double-faced, drear, dusk, ebony, equivocal, evening, evensong, funereal, gloomy, grave, joyless, murk, murksome, murky, nigrescent, nubilous, obscure, opaque, sable, sad, semidark, shadowy, shady, sibylline, sober, somber, sombrous, subfusc, sunsetty, swart, swarth, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, unlit, vesper, vespertine

• dust bowl, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, agricultural region, arable land, barren, barren land, barrens, black belt, brush, bush, citrus belt, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, desert, desolation, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fruit belt, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, heath, highlands, howling wilderness, karroo, lowlands, lunar landscape, lunar waste, meadows and pastures, moors, outback, plains, prairies, province, provinces, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, steppes, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, uplands, veld, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wild, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

• dust, acres, air, air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, altercation, arable land, ashes, attritus, bamboozle, barrel, beat, beeline, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, besprinkle, bickering, biscuit, bleach, body, bone, bones, bowdlerize, bran, bread, bubble, cadaver, carcass, carrion, chaff, chicane, chip, clamjamfry, clay, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, clobber, clod, cobweb, collateral, cork, corpse, corpus delicti, cosmic dust, cracker, crowbait, crumb, crumble, crust, culm, dead body, dead man, dead person, deadwood, debris, decedent, delouse, depurate, deterge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dishwater, dispute, dot, down, draff, dredge, dregs, drub, dry bones, dry land, dry-clean, dust ball, dust off, dustup, earth, efflorescence, embalmed corpse, ether, expurgate, fairy, falling-out, fallout, farina, feather, filings, flimflam, flit, flour, flue, fluff, fly, foam, food for worms, fool, fracas, freehold, freshen, froth, fuzz, garbage, gash, glebe, gossamer, grassland, grime, grits, groats, ground, gull, hassle, hasten, hoax, hogwash, hoodwink, hotfoot, husks, hustle, junk, kittens, lambaste, land, landholdings, larrup, late lamented, leavings, lees, lick, lint, lithosphere, litter, lumber, lustrate, marginal land, marl, meal, mire, mold, mortal remains, mote, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, mummification, mummy, offal, offscourings, organic remains, orts, overwhelm, parchment, parings, pepper, potsherds, powder, powdering, purge, purify, pussies, raff, rags, raspings, real estate, real property, reform, refuse, region, regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, riffraff, row, rubbish, rubble, run, run-in, sawdust, scavenge, scourings, scrap, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shards, shavings, shellac, shoddy, skeleton, slack, slag, slime, slop, slops, smoke, smut, sod, soil, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, speed, splatter, sponge, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, spruce, spume, steam-clean, stick, stiff, straw, stubble, stud, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sweep out, sweepings, sweeten, swill, tares, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thistledown, thrash, tidy, topsoil, trash, trick, truck, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, woodland

• dusty, Quaker-colored, Saharan, acier, anhydrous, arid, ashen, ashy, athirst, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bone-dry, branny, broken-record, bromidic, canescent, chalklike, chalky, characterless, cinereous, colorless, comminute, comminuted, crumbling, crushed, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dead, desert, detrital, detrited, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, disintegrated, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, draggy, drearisome, dreary, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dryasdust, dull, effete, efflorescent, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, fade, farinaceous, fine, flaky, flat, floury, furfuraceous, fusty, glaucescent, glaucous, gone to dust, gone to seed, grated, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, ground, grubby, grungy, harping, heavy, high and dry, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, impalpable, inane, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, iron-gray, jejune, jog-trot, juiceless, lead-gray, leaden, levigated, lifeless, like parchment, livid, long-winded, low-spirited, mealy, messy, mildewed, milled, miry, moldering, moldy, monotonous, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, musty, pale, pallid, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pestled, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, powdered, powdery, prolix, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, road-weary, ruined, ruinous, rusty, sad, sandy, sapless, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scruffy, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, singsong, slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, slow, smirchy, smoke-gray, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, solemn, somber, sooty, spiritless, stale, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, thirsting, thirsty, time-scarred, timeworn, travel-jaded, travel-sated, travel-stained, travel-weary, travel-worn, treadmill, triturated, undamped, uneventful, uninteresting, unlively, untidy, unvarying, unwatered, vapid, waterless, way-weary, wayworn, weariful, wearisome, wooden, worn

• Dutch uncle, Polonius, admonisher, adviser, backseat driver, buttinsky, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, expert, guide, instructor, kibitzer, meddler, mentor, monitor, nestor, orienter, preceptist, teacher

• duteous, acquiescent, active, compliant, complying, conforming, conscientious, constant, deferential, devoted, devout, dutiful, ethical, faithful, law-abiding, loyal, meticulous, mindful, moral, obedient, observant, practicing, punctilious, punctual, regardful, respectful, scrupulous, submissive, true, willing

• dutiful, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, accommodating, acquiescent, active, adoring, attentive, believing, cap in hand, ceremonious, compliant, complying, conforming, conscientious, considerate, constant, courteous, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deferential, devoted, devout, diligent, duteous, ethical, faithful, filial, flexible, honorific, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meticulous, mindful, moral, obedient, obliging, observant, pietistic, pious, pliant, polite, practicing, prayerful, punctilious, punctual, regardful, reliable, religious, respectful, responsible, reverent, reverential, scrupulous, solemn, submissive, theistic, true, venerational, venerative, willing, worshipful, yielding

• duty, Mass, VAT, accountability, active service, ad valorem duty, admiration, adoration, alcohol tax, allegiance, amenability, amusement tax, answerability, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, assessment, assessment on default, assignment, awe, bedtime prayer, bit, blackmail, breathless adoration, burden, business, busywork, call, call for, calling, camp meeting, capacity, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, cargo, ceremonial, ceremony, cess, character, chare, charge, chore, church, church service, claim, commission, commitment, committal, compline, conscience money, consideration, contribution, corporation tax, courtesy, customs, customs duty, deadweight, death duty, death tax, deference, deification, demand, demand for, devoir, devotions, direct tax, divine service, doomage, draft, drain, end use, errand, estate duty, estate tax, esteem, estimation, evening devotions, evensong, exaction, exaggerated respect, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, exercise, exercises, export tax, extortion, extortionate demand, faithfulness, favor, fealty, federal tax, fidelity, fish to fry, form, form of worship, formality, formula, formulary, freight, function, gabelle, gift tax, goal, graduated taxation, great respect, head tax, heavy demand, hero worship, high regard, holy rite, homage, homework, honor, idolatry, idolization, immediate purpose, import tax, imposition, impost, income tax, indent, indirect tax, inheritance tax, insistent demand, institution, internal revenue tax, job, job of work, joint return, labor, land tax, lauds, levy, liability, liquor tax, liturgy, load, local tax, loyalty, luxury tax, make-work, mark, matins, matters in hand, meeting, millstone, mission, mode of worship, morning devotions, must, mystery, national service, need, night song, none, nones, nonnegotiable demand, notice, novena, nuisance tax, object, objective, obligation, observance, occupation, odd job, office, onus, operation, operational purpose, order, order of worship, ordinance, ought, part, personal property tax, piece of work, place, poll, poll tax, position, practice, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prescribed form, prestige, prime, prime song, progressive tax, project, property tax, property-increment tax, protective tariff, province, provincial tax, public worship, purpose, rates, regard, requirement, requisition, respect, responsibility, revenue tariff, reverence, reverential regard, revival, revival meeting, right, rite, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, role, rush, rush order, sacrament, sacramental, sales tax, salt tax, school tax, selective service, separate returns, service, severance tax, sext, single tax, solemnity, specific duty, state tax, stint, supertax, surtax, target, tariff, tariff duty, task, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, telephone tax, tent meeting, things to do, tierce, tithe, toll, tribute, ultimate purpose, ultimatum, undersong, use, use tax, value added tax, veneration, vesper, vespers, vigils, warning, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, weight, window tax, withholding tax, work, worship

• dwarf, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon, Titania, Tom Thumb, ace, atom, banshee, bedwarf, belittle, bit, bitsy, brownie, cluricaune, dab, de-emphasize, detract from, diminish, diminutive, dole, dominate, dot, downplay, dram, dribble, driblet, dumpy, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, fairy, fairy queen, farthing, fay, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnome, gobbet, goblin, grain, granule, gremlin, groat, hair, handful, hob, homunculus, imp, incipient, iota, jot, kobold, leprechaun, lilliputian, little, little bit, manikin, meager, midge, midget, miniature, minify, minikin, minim, minimize, minimum, minimus, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nanoid, nutshell, ounce, ouphe, overshadow, particle, pebble, peewee, peri, pinch, pip-squeak, pittance, pixie, play down, point, pooka, puca, pwca, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, scruple, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, sprite, squat, stunted, suppress, sylph, sylphid, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, underplay, undersize, undersized, wart, wee, whit, wizened

• dwarfed, Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, Tom Thumb, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, club-footed, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfish, elfin, exiguous, flatfooted, frugal, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, impoverished, incipient, jejune, knock-kneed, lean, limited, malformed, marred, meager, mean, midget, misbegotten, miserly, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, nanoid, narrow, niggardly, out of shape, paltry, parsimonious, pigeon-toed, poor, pug-nosed, puny, pygmy, rachitic, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scant, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, simous, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, snub-nosed, spare, sparing, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stumpy, stunted, subsistence, swaybacked, talipedic, thin, truncated, undersize, undersized, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery, wizened

• dwell in, abide in, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be found, be located, be met with, be present, be present in, be situated, be there, consist in, exist, exist in, indwell, inhabit, inhere, inhere in, lie, lie in, occur, remain, repose in, reside in, rest in, stand, subsist in

• dwell on, accent, accentuate, always trot out, bear in mind, belabor, breathe vengeance, brood over, cherish, continue, dawdle, drag out, draw out, dwell upon, emphasize, extend, fan the embers, give emphasis to, hammer away at, harbor revenge, harp on, have in mind, highlight, hold in mind, insist upon, italicize, keep, keep in memory, keep in mind, keep in view, labor, lengthen, lengthen out, linger on, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, place emphasis on, point up, procrastinate, prolong, protract, punctuate, retain, rub in, spin out, spotlight, star, stress, stretch out, temporize, thresh over, treasure, underline, underscore, upon

• dwell, abide, berth, bide, bunk, carry on, cohabit, continue, continue to be, defeat time, defy time, dig, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, emphasize, endure, exist, extend, focus on, go on, hang out, harp on, hold, hold on, hold out, inhabit, inhere, keep, keep on, labor, last, last long, last out, lie, live, live on, live through, lodge, maintain, nest, occupy, perch, perdure, perennate, persist, persist in, prevail, remain, reside, rest, room, roost, run, run on, squat, stand, stay, stay on, stress, subsist, survive, sustain, tarry, tenant, tide over, wear, wear well

• dweller, addressee, artist-in-residence, denizen, habitant, house detective, incumbent, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, occupant, occupier, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, sojourner, tenant

• dwelling, abiding, abiding place, abode, address, cantonment, cohabitation, commorancy, commorant, crash pad, crib, domicile, domus, dwelling place, habitancy, habitation, home, homestead, house, in residence, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, living, living in, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, nest, nesting, occupancy, occupation, pad, place, place to live, quarters, remaining, residence, residency, resident, residentiary, residing, roof, seat, sojourning, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, tenancy

• dwindle, abate, ablate, attenuate, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, calm, calm down, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, close, condense, consume, consume away, contract, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die down, die out, diminish, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, drift away, droop, drop, drop off, ebb, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, extenuate, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, fall short, flag, flee, fly, go, go away, halt, hide, languish, leave no trace, leave the scene, lessen, let up, lose strength, lull, melt, melt away, moderate, molder, move away, move off, pacify, pass, pass away, pass out, peak, perish, peter out, pine, plummet, plunge, pull away, quiesce, quiet, quieten, recede, reduce, retire, retire from sight, retreat, retrocede, run down, run low, sag, shrink, shrivel up, sink, sink away, soothe, stand off, stop, subside, suffer an eclipse, tail off, taper, taper off, thin, tranquilize, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, widen the distance, wilt, withdraw, wither, wither away

• dwindling, at rest, calm, catabasis, cloistered, collapse, coming apart, contractive, cool, cracking, crash, crumbling, decadent, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, degenerate, deliquescent, deteriorating, diminishing, diminuendo, disintegrating, dive, downtrend, downturn, draining, drooping, drop, dying, ebb, ebbing, effete, even-tenored, fading, failing, fall, falling, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, halcyon, hushed, impassive, isolated, languishing, lapse, lessening, marcescent, moldering, on the wane, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pining, placid, plunge, quiescent, quiet, receding, reductive, regressive, remission, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retiring, retreat, retreating, retrograde, retrogressive, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slowdown, slump, slumping, smooth, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsidence, subsiding, tabetic, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, wane, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening

• dyad, both, brace, couple, couplet, distich, double harness, doublet, duad, duet, duo, match, mates, pair, set of two, span, team, the two, twain, two, twosome, yoke

• dybbuk, Baba Yaga, Lilith, Masan, afreet, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, banshee, barghest, cacodemon, control, daeva, demon, departed spirit, devil, disembodied spirit, duppy, eidolon, evil genius, evil spirit, fiend, fiend from hell, form, genie, genius, ghost, ghoul, grateful dead, guide, gyre, hant, haunt, hellion, idolum, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus, jinni, jinniyeh, lamia, larva, lemures, manes, materialization, oni, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist, presence, rakshasa, revenant, satan, shade, shadow, shape, shedu, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, succubus, the undead, theophany, unsubstantiality, vampire, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, yogini, zombie

• dye, acid color, aniline, aniline dye, apply paint, artificial dye, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, besprinkle, breathe, brew, brush on paint, calcimine, chromogen, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complexion, cover, dab, daub, dead-color, decoct, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dredge, drier, dyestuff, emblazon, enamel, engild, entincture, exterior paint, face, fast-dye, flat coat, flat wash, flavor, floor enamel, fresco, fuchsine, garancine, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, ground, hue, illuminate, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, instill, interior paint, japan, lacquer, lake, lay on color, leaven, madder, medium, opaque color, paint, parget, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pigment, prime, prime coat, primer, priming, saturate, season, shade, shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, stain, steep, stipple, suffuse, temper, tempera, thinner, tinct, tinction, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, transfuse, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, varnish, vehicle, wash, wash coat, whitewash, woad

• dyed-in-the-wool, absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, born, broad-based, chronic, clean, clear, colorfast, comprehensive, confirmed, congenital, constant, consummate, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, double-dyed, downright, egregious, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, exhaustive, fadeless, fast, firmly established, fixed, graven, implanted, impressed, imprinted, incorrigible, inculcated, indelible, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrain, ingrained, ingrown, instilled, intensive, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, long-established, old-line, omnibus, omnipresent, on a rock, on bedrock, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, pure, radical, regular, rooted, set, settled, settled in habit, sheer, stabilized, straight, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unconditional, unfading, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, wholesale

• dying, abatement, abridgment, alleviation, annihilation, attenuation, bad, bane, biological death, brittle, burning out, burnout, capricious, cessation of life, changeable, choking, clinical death, comedown, contraction, controlling, corruptible, crossing the bar, curtains, dampening, damping, death, death knell, debasement, debt of nature, decadence, decadency, decease, deciduous, declension, declination, decline, declining, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demise, demotion, departure, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, derogation, descent, despaired of, deterioration, devolution, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, dissolution, done for, doom, dousing, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dwindling, dying off, ebb, ebb of life, ebbing, effeteness, end, end of life, ending, ephemeral, eternal rest, evanescent, exit, expiration, expiring, extenuation, extinction, extinguishment, facing death, fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fire fighting, flame-out, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, given up, going, going off, going out, grave, hand of death, hopeless, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, inconstant, insubstantial, involution, jaws of death, knell, languishment, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, lessening, letup, loss of life, loss of tone, low, lowering, making an end, miniaturization, mitigation, momentary, moribund, mortal, mutable, near death, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonviable, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, perishable, perishing, putting out, quenching, quietus, receding, reduction, regression, relaxation, release, rest, retiring, retreating, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reward, sagging, scaling down, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, short-lived, shrinking, simplicity, sinking, sleep, slippage, slipping, slipping away, slump, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, somatic death, stifling, subtraction, summons of death, temporal, temporary, terminal, terminal case, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile, wane, waning, weakening

• dyke, amazon, androgyne, auntie, bi-guy, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, catamite, chicken, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gunsel, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hoyden, invert, lesbian, nance, pansy, pathic, punk, queen, queer, romp, sapphist, tomboy, tribade, virago

• dynamic, activating, active, acute, adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, alive, ambitious, animated, armipotent, authoritative, brisk, cogent, driving, dynamical, eager, effective, electric, electrodynamic, emphatic, energetic, energizing, enterprising, enthusiastic, forceful, forcible, full of pep, functioning, geodynamic, go-ahead, go-go, hearty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, hustling, impetuous, in force, in power, incisive, intense, irresistible, keen, kinematic, kinetic, live, lively, living, lusty, mettlesome, mighty, mighty in battle, operative, peppy, potent, powerful, prepotent, puissant, pushful, pushing, pushy, radiodynamic, red-blooded, robust, ruling, running, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, spry, strenuous, striking, strong, take-charge, take-over, telling, trenchant, up-and-coming, valid, vehement, venturesome, venturous, vibrant, vigorous, violent, vital, vitalizing, vivacious, vivid, working, zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy

• dynamics, activity, actuation, aerodynamics, barodynamics, biodynamics, fluid dynamics, geodynamics, going, hydrodynamics, kinematics, kinesiology, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics, mobilization, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, myodynamics, restlessness, running, statics, stir, stirring, thermodynamics, unrest, velocity, zoodynamics

• dynamism, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, demonic energy, drive, energy, enterprise, enterprisingness, ergal, force, forcefulness, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, gumption, hustle, initiative, intensity, kinetic energy, liveliness, pep, potency, potential energy, power, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, spirit, spiritedness, spunk, strength, strenuousness, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, vigor, vitality, zip

• dynamite, Ballistite, TNT, annihilate, cellulose nitrate, cordite, decimate, demolish, dismantle, dissolve, explosive, gunpowder, high explosive, melinite, nitrocotton, nitroglycerin, plastic explosive, powder, raze, ruin, shatter, smokeless powder, trinitrotoluol, villanous saltpetre

• dynamiter, annihilator, arsonist, biblioclast, bomber, burner, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, exterminator, hun, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, nihilist, ruiner, syndicalist, terrorist, vandal, wrecker

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

• dyne, atomerg, calorie, carat, centigram, decagram, decigram, dinamode, dram, dram avoirdupois, energid, erg, foot-pound, force, grain, gram, horsepower-hour, horsepower-year, hundredweight, joule, kilo, kilogram, kilogram-meter, kilowatt-hour, mass, megaton, milligram, mole, ounce, ounce avoirdupois, ounce troy, pennyweight, photon, pound, pound avoirdupois, pound troy, poundal, quantum, scruple, slug, stone, ton, units of weight, weight

• dysentery, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, BM, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, abscess, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, anthrax, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, bacillary dysentery, backache, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, bleeding, blennorhea, bloody flux, bowel movement, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cachexia, cachexy, cardialgia, catharsis, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, chill, chills, cholera, cholera morbus, colic, constipation, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, cowpox, crap, cyanosis, dandy fever, deer fly fever, defecation, dejection, dengue, dengue fever, diarrhea, diphtheria, dizziness, dropsy, dumdum fever, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, elephantiasis, emaciation, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, evacuation, fainting, famine fever, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, five-day fever, flu, flux, frambesia, glandular fever, gripe, gripes, grippe, growth, hansenosis, heartburn, hemorrhage, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, high blood pressure, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammation, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, insomnia, irregularity, itching, jail fever, jaundice, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, labored breathing, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, lientery, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, loose bowels, low blood pressure, lumbago, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marasmus, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, movement, mumps, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, obstipation, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, pain, paralysis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pruritus, psittacosis, purgation, purge, pyrosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rash, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheum, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, runs, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, sclerosis, seizure, septic sore throat, shingles, shit, shits, shock, skin eruption, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sneezing, sore, spasm, splenic fever, spotted fever, stool, strep throat, swamp fever, tabes, tachycardia, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, trots, tuberculosis, tularemia, tumor, turistas, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, upset stomach, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, vertigo, viral dysentery, voidance, vomiting, wasting, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

• dyspepsia, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, cardialgia, chill, chills, cholera morbus, colic, constipation, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, 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, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, obstipation, pain, paralysis, pruritus, pyrosis, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, tabes, tachycardia, trots, tumor, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting

• dyspeptic, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, bitter, cancerous, case, chlorotic, choleric, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, edematous, embittered, encephalitic, epileptic, hot-tempered, ill-humored, ill-natured, incurable, inpatient, invalid, jaundiced, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, rusty, scorbutic, scrofulous, shut-in, sick person, sour, sour-tempered, soured, spastic, sufferer, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian, vinegarish

• dysphasia, aphasia, aphonia, artificial voice, broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, childish treble, choked voice, cracked voice, croak, crow, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, echolalia, falsetto, harshness, hawking voice, hiss, hoarseness, hysterical aphonia, idioglossia, idiolalia, impairment of speech, imperfect speech, incoherence, lisp, lisping, loss of voice, mutism, muzzy speech, nasal tone, nasalization, psychophonasthenia, quaver, shake, sibilation, speech defect, speech impediment, tremor, twang, verbigeration

• dystopia, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, cloudland, dreamland, faerie, fairyland, heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, paradise, promised land, utopia, wonderland

• each, all, all and some, all and sundry, any, apiece, aside, each and all, each and every, each one, each to each, every, every one, one and all, one by one, particular, per, per annum, per capita, respective, respectively, several, severally, specific, various

• eager beaver, activist, addict, ball of fire, beaver, big-time operator, bug, bustler, busy bee, collector, demon, doer, energumen, enthusiast, faddist, fanatic, fiend, freak, go-getter, great one for, hobbyist, hound, human dynamo, hustler, infatuate, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, nut, operator, political activist, powerhouse, pursuer, rhapsodist, sucker for, take-charge guy, visionary, wheeler-dealer, winner, zealot

• eager, accordant, acquiescent, acquisitive, affirmative, agape, agog, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, all agog, ambitious, amenable, animated, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, appetitive, approving, ardent, assenting, athirst, avid, awaiting, breathless, bursting to, certain, chafing, compliable, compliant, confident, consentient, consenting, content, cooperative, covetous, craving, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, disposed, docile, dying, earnest, edgy, endorsing, energetic, energized, enthusiastic, excited, expectant, expecting, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fervent, fervid, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, forward, fretful, fretting, full of life, game, gaping, gung ho, hankering, hasty, heated, honing, hopeful, hoping, hopped-up, hormic, hot, hungry, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, in anticipation, in expectation, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inspirited, intent, itchy, keen, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lively, longing, looking for, looking forward to, lustful, minded, needing, not surprised, nothing loath, on edge, optative, optimistic, panting, passionate, permissive, pining, pliant, predisposed, prepared, prompt, prone, quick, raring, raring to, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, restive, restless, sanctioning, sanguine, solicitous, spirited, squirming, squirmy, stimulated, submissive, sure, tempted, thirsty, tractable, uneasy, ungrudging, unloath, unpatient, unquiet, unrefusing, unreluctant, unsurprised, vehement, vital, vitalized, vivacious, vivid, waiting, waiting for, wanting, watching for, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, wishful, wishing, yearning, zealous, zestful

• eagerly, animatedly, anxiously, ardently, avidly, breathlessly, de bonne volonte, enthusiastically, impatiently, keenly, promptly, quickly, readily, vivaciously, willingly, with a will, with alacrity, with good will, with gusto, with open arms, with relish, with zest, zealously, zestfully

• eagerness, OK, a thing for, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, alacrity, ambition, amenability, animation, anxiety, appetite, approbation, approval, aptitude, aptness, ardor, assent, avidity, aye, bent, bias, blessing, breathless impatience, cast, chafing, cheerful consent, compliance, conatus, concupiscence, conduciveness, connivance, consent, cooperativeness, curiosity, dash, delight, desideration, desire, diathesis, disposition, disquietude, docility, drive, earnestness, elan, endorsement, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, fancy, fantasy, favorable disposition, favorableness, feeling for, fervor, forwardness, fretfulness, fretting, gameness, get-up-and-go, go, goodwill, gusto, haste, hope, horme, hunger, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, inclination, intellectual curiosity, keenness, lather, leaning, liability, libido, liking, longing, lust for learning, mind, mustard, need, okay, passion, penchant, permission, pleasure, pleasure principle, pliability, pliancy, predilection, predisposition, prejudice, probability, proclivity, promptitude, promptness, proneness, propensity, quickness, ratification, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, relish, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, right mood, sanction, sensitivity to, sexual desire, soft spot, spirit, spiritedness, stew, submission, susceptibility, sweat, tendency, tense readiness, thirst for knowledge, tractability, tropism, turn, twist, uneasiness, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unpatientness, unquietness, unreluctance, urge, vehemence, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, want, wanting, warp, weakness, will, will and pleasure, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, wish, wish fulfillment, wishing, yearning, zeal, zealousness, zest, zing, zip

• eagle eye, X-ray eye, custodianship, custody, eye, gimlet eye, guard, guardedness, guardianship, invigilation, keen eye, lookout, monitoring, observance, peeled eye, penetrating eye, proctoring, prudence, qui vive, scrutiny, sharp eye, stewardship, surveillance, tab, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye

• eagle, Argus, Hershey bar, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, antelope, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arrow, aviation badge, avifauna, azure, baby bird, badge, badge of office, badges, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, blazon, blazonry, blue darter, blue streak, bordure, brassard, broad arrow, button, cadency mark, cage bird, cannonball, canton, cap and gown, cat, chain, chain of office, chaplet, charge, chevron, chick, chicken, chief, class ring, coat of arms, cockade, cockatrice, coin, collar, coronet, courser, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cygnet, dart, decoration, device, difference, differencing, diving bird, double eagle, doubloon, dove, dress, ducat, eagle-eyed, eaglet, electricity, emblems, ensigns, epaulet, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, express train, falcon, fasces, ferret, fess, fess point, field, figurehead, file, fish-eating bird, five-dollar gold piece, flanch, flash, fledgling, fleur-de-lis, flightless bird, fowl, fret, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, fur, fusil, game bird, garland, gazelle, gold piece, greased lightning, greyhound, griffin, guinea, gules, gyron, half crown, half eagle, hammer and sickle, hard money, hare, hash mark, hatchment, hawk, hawk-eyed, helmet, heraldic device, heraldry, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, insect-eating bird, insignia, insignia of branch, jet plane, label, lapel pin, lark, light, lightning, lion, livery, lozenge, lynx, mace, mantle, mantling, markings, marshaling, martlet, mascle, medal, mercury, metal, migrant, migratory bird, moidore, mortarboard, motto, mullet, napoleon, nestling, nombril point, oak leaf, octofoil, old school tie, or, ordinary, organization insignia, orle, oscine bird, overseas bar, owl, pale, paly, parachute badge, passerine bird, patch, peacock, peafowl, peahen, pean, perching bird, pheon, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, pigeon, pin, pip, pound sovereign, purpure, quarter, quartering, quicksilver, ratite, regalia, ring, rocket, roll of coins, rose, rouleau, sable, saltire, scared rabbit, school ring, scutcheon, sea bird, seed-eating bird, service stripe, shamrock, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, shield, shore bird, shot, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sigillography, skull and crossbones, skylark, skyrocket, songbird, sovereign, specie, sphragistics, spread eagle, squab, staff, star, storm petrel, stormy petrel, streak, streak of lightning, stripe, striped snake, submarine badge, subordinary, swallow, swan, swastika, tartan, ten-dollar gold piece, tenne, thistle, thought, thunderbolt, tie, tincture, torrent, torse, tressure, twenty-dollar gold piece, unicorn, uniform, vair, verge, vert, wading bird, wand, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, weasel, wildfowl, wind, wreath, yale

• ear lobe, Eustachian tube, anvil, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear, cochlea, conch, concha, drape, drumhead, ear, eardrum, endolymph, external ear, hammer, hanger, hanging, incus, inner ear, lappet, lobation, lobe, lobule, lug, malleus, mastoid process, middle ear, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, pendant, perilymph, pinna, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, stapes, stirrup, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, uvula, vestibule

• ear piercing, acute, argute, booming, creaky, deafening, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, howling, keen, keening, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, pealing, penetrating, piercing, piping, plangent, reedy, resounding, ringing, screaky, screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sonorous, squeaking, squeaky, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thin, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, ululant, wailing, whining, whistling, window-rattling

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

• ear, Eustachian tube, advertence, advertency, alertness, anvil, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, audibility, audience, audition, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, aural examination, aural sense, auricle, auscultation, awareness, basilar membrane, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bony labyrinth, boss, bow, bubble, bugging, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, care, cauliflower ear, chine, clump, cob, cochlea, concentration, conch, concha, condyle, conference, consciousness, consideration, convex, corncob, diligence, dowel, drumhead, eager attention, ear lobe, ear of corn, eardrum, earnestness, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, endolymph, examination by ear, external ear, favorable attention, flange, flap, gall, gnarl, hammer, handle, hearing, heed, heedfulness, heeding, hill, hump, hunch, hushed attention, incus, inner ear, intentiveness, intentness, interview, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, listening, listening in, lobe, lobule, loop, lug, lump, malleus, mark, mastoid process, mealie, middle ear, mind, mindfulness, mole, mountain, nevus, note, notice, nub, nubbin, nubble, observance, observation, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, papilloma, peg, perilymph, pinna, rapt attention, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, rib, ridge, ring, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, sense of hearing, shell, shoulder, spike, spine, stapes, stirrup, stud, style, tab, thought, tryout, tubercle, tubercule, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, verruca, vesicle, vestibule, wale, wart, welt, wiretapping

• eardrum, Eustachian tube, allantoic membrane, amnion, amniotic sac, anvil, arachnoid membrane, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basement membrane, basilar membrane, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear, cochlea, conch, concha, conjuctiva, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, endolymph, external ear, hammer, hymen, incus, inner ear, lobe, lobule, lug, maidenhead, malleus, mastoid process, membrana serosa, membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, middle ear, neurilemma, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, pellicle, pericardium, perilymph, perineurium, pinna, pleura, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, serosa, shell, stapes, stirrup, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, velum, vestibule

• earl, Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, count, daimio, duke, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

• earlier, aforetime, already, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, as yet, before, before all, before now, beforehand, beforetime, ci-devant, down, early, elder, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, erstwhile, first, fore, foregoing, former, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in the past, in times past, inferior, lower, lowest, nether, older, once, only yesterday, or ever, preceding, precurrent, preexistent, prehistorically, previous, previously, prime, prior, priorly, recently, senior, so far, sooner, subjacent, then, theretofore, thus far, under, whilom, yesterday, yet

• earliness, anachronism, antecedence, antecedency, antedate, antedating, anteriority, anticipation, earlier state, historical error, lateness, metachronism, misdate, misdating, mistiming, parachronism, past time, postdating, precedence, precedency, precession, predating, preexistence, priority, prochronism, prolepsis, status quo ante, tardiness, unpunctuality

• early, a priori, advanced, ages ago, ahead, ahead of time, already, anachronistic, ancient, anciently, antecedent, antedated, antediluvian, anterior, anticipative, anticipatory, antiquated, antique, away back, back, backward, before, before all, beforehand, beforetime, beginning, behind time, behindhand, betimes, bright and early, ci-devant, dated, earlier, elder, ere, ere then, erenow, erstwhile, ex post facto, first, fore, foredated, foregoing, forehand, forehanded, foresighted, foresightedly, former, formerly, heretofore, hitherto, immemorial, in advance, in ancient times, in anticipation, in good time, in olden times, in times past, inappropriate, initial, initially, inopportune, into the past, late, long ago, long since, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, of old, of yore, old, olden, older, once, onetime, or ever, original, originally, out of date, out of season, overdue, oversoon, parachronistic, past, past due, pioneer, postdated, preceding, precipitant, precocious, precociously, precurrent, preexistent, prehistoric, premature, prematurely, prevenient, previous, previously, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, prior, priorly, pristine, prochronistic, quondam, recent, retroactive, retrospective, seasonably, senior, some time ago, some time back, sometime, soon, tardy, then, theretofore, timely, unanticipated, unexpected, unpunctual, unseasonable, untimely, years ago, yet

• earmark, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate to, aroma, assign, assign to, attribute, badge, banner, be characteristic, birthmark, blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, cachet, cast, caste mark, character, characteristic, characterize, check, checkmark, cicatrix, configuration, cut, dapple, define, demarcate, describe, destine, detail, device, differentia, differential, differentiate, discoloration, distinctive feature, distinguish, dot, engraving, fate, feature, figure, flavor, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, gust, hack, hallmark, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, impress, impression, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, insignia, jot, keynote, label, lentigo, lineaments, lot, macula, make assignments, mannerism, mark, mark off, mark out, mark out for, marking, measure, mold, mole, mottle, nature, nevus, nick, notch, note, odor, ordain, particularity, patch, peculiarity, picture, point, polka dot, portion off, prick, property, puncture, quality, quirk, representation, representative, reserve, restrict, restrict to, savor, scar, scarification, schedule, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, set, set apart, set aside, set off, set the pace, set the tone, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, singularity, smack, sound the keynote, specialty, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stigma, strawberry mark, sure sign, symptom, tab, tag, taint, tang, taste, tattoo, tattoo mark, telltale sign, tick, ticket, tittle, token, trait, trick, watermark

• earn, acquire, attain, bag, be deserving, be entitled to, be paid, be remunerated, be salaried, be seized of, be worthy of, bring in, capture, catch, clear, collect, come by, come in for, come into, contract, corral, derive, deserve, drag down, draw, draw down, draw wages, effect, enter into possession, gain, get, get an income, gross, harvest, knock down, make, merit, net, obtain, pocket, procure, pull down, rate, realize, reap, receive, sack, score, secure, take, warrant, win, work for wages

• earnest, abandoned, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, advertent, afire, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, amortization, amortizement, ardent, assiduous, attention, attentive, aware, awe-inspiring, bail, binder, bond, bound, bound and determined, burning, busy, careful, cash, cash payment, clearance, committed, concentrated, conscientious, conscious, debt service, decided, decisive, decorous, dedicated, definite, defrayal, defrayment, demure, deposit, determined, devoted, devout, diligent, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, eager, earnest money, enthusiasm, enthusiastic, escrow, faithful, fatal, fateful, fervent, fervid, fiery, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, flaming, formal, formidable, frowning, gage, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, guarantee, handsel, hard-working, hearty, heated, heavy, heedful, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, hock, hostage, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, imposing, in earnest, industrious, installment, installment plan, intense, intent, intent on, intentive, intentness, interest, interest payment, keen, liquidation, long-faced, loyal, mainprise, meticulous, mindful, monthly payments, never-never, nice, niggling, no-nonsense, observant, observing, obstinate, on fire, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, passionate, pawn, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, perfervid, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pignus, pledge, portentous, prepayment, pressing, purposeful, quarterly payments, quittance, recognizance, red-hot, regardful, regular payments, relentless, remittance, replevin, replevy, resolute, resolved, retirement, satisfaction, security, sedate, sedulous, serious, seriousness, settlement, sincere, single-minded, sinking-fund payment, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, spirited, spot cash, staid, steady, stone-faced, straight-faced, surety, tenacious, thoughtful, token, token payment, undertaking, unsmiling, vadimonium, vadium, vehement, warm, warmth, warrant, watchful, weekly payments, weighty, white-hot, wholehearted, zeal, zealous

• earnestly, actively, ardently, assiduously, bec et ongles, committedly, decidedly, decisively, decorously, demurely, determinedly, devotedly, devoutly, dingdong, down, exhaustively, fervently, fervidly, firmly, fixedly, for real, formally, gravely, grimly, hammer and tongs, heart and soul, heartily, heatedly, impassionedly, in all seriousness, in earnest, in good earnest, inflexibly, intensely, intently, like a bulldog, like a leech, obstinately, painstakingly, passionately, perfervidly, perseveringly, persistently, purposefully, relentlessly, resolutely, resolvedly, sedately, seriously, sincerely, singlemindedly, sober-mindedly, soberly, sobersidedly, solemnly, somberly, staidly, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, tenaciously, thoroughly, thoughtfully, tooth and nail, unremittingly, unswervingly, unyieldingly, vehemently, wholeheartedly, with a will, with constancy, with total dedication, zealously

• earnestness, abandon, absorption, advertence, advertency, alertness, ardency, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, awareness, care, commitment, committedness, concentration, consciousness, consideration, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, decorousness, dedication, definiteness, deliberation, demureness, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, diligence, doggedness, ear, earnest, engrossment, faith, faithfulness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, firmness, formality, gravity, grimness, heartiness, heat, heatedness, heed, heedfulness, impassionedness, intensity, intentiveness, intentness, long face, loyalty, mindfulness, note, notice, observance, observation, obstinacy, passion, passionateness, perseverance, persistence, purpose, purposefulness, regard, regardfulness, relentlessness, remark, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, respect, sedateness, self-will, seriousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, somberness, spirit, staidness, straight face, tenacity, thought, thoughtfulness, total commitment, vehemence, warmth, weightiness, will, zeal

• earnings, accession, acquirement, acquisition, addition, attainment, avails, base pay, box office, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, coming by, commissions, compensation, credit, credits, dismissal wage, disposable income, dividend, dividends, dragging down, earned income, emolument, escalator clause, escalator plan, filthy lucre, financial remuneration, gain, gaining, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, getting, getting hold of, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, guaranteed annual wage, hire, hoard, income, intake, interest, killing, living wage, lucre, make, making, makings, minimum wage, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, obtainment, obtention, output, paper profits, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, portal-to-portal pay, proceeds, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, produce, profit, profits, purchasing power, rake-off, real wages, receipt, receipts, receivables, remuneration, return, returns, revenue, royalties, salary, securement, severance pay, sliding scale, stipend, store, take, take-home, take-home pay, take-in, takings, taxable income, total compensation, trover, unearned income, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wealth, winning, winnings, yield

• earphone, acoustical network, capacitor speaker, coaxial speaker, cone, crossover network, diaphragm, dynamic speaker, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker, full-fidelity speaker, headphone, headset, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, horn, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker, midrange speaker, monorange speaker, moving-coil speaker, permanent magnet speaker, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit, triaxial speaker, tweeter, voice coil, woofer

• earring, anklet, armlet, band, bangle, beads, belt, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, cincture, cingulum, circle, collar, collarband, coronet, crown, diadem, ecliptic, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, fob, gem, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, hoop, jewel, locket, neckband, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, quoit, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

• earshot, ace, auditory range, bit, bowshot, brief span, carrying distance, close quarters, close range, crack, earreach, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hearing, inch, little, little ways, pistol shot, range, reach, short distance, short piece, short way, sound, span, spitting distance, step

• earth, Earth, Gaea, Ge, Tellus, Terra, abri, acres, air, air-raid shelter, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, ashes, atom, atomic particles, billiard table, biosphere, body, bomb shelter, bombproof, bones, bowling green, brute matter, building block, bunker, burrow, cadaver, carcass, carpet, carrion, cave, chemical element, clay, clod, component, concealment, constituent, corpse, corpus delicti, cosmos, couch, cover, covert, coverture, creation, crowbait, crust, cyclone cellar, dead body, dead flat, dead level, dead man, dead person, decedent, deck, den, dirt, dry bones, dry land, dugout, dust, earthbound, earthly, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, embalmed corpse, esplanade, fallout shelter, fill, fire, flat, flatland, floor, floor covering, flooring, fluvioterrestrial, food for worms, form, foxhole, freehold, fundamental particle, funk hole, geography, geophilous, geosphere, glebe, globe, grassland, gravel, ground, hole, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, humus, hyle, hypostasis, lair, land, landholdings, late lamented, ledge, level, level line, level plane, lithosphere, loam, lodge, macrocosm, marginal land, marl, material, material world, materiality, matter, mean sea level, mew, mold, molecule, monad, mortal remains, mother earth, mould, mud, mummification, mummy, natural world, nature, orb, organic remains, parquet, parterre, pave, pavement, paving, physical world, plain, plane, planet, platform, plenum, prairie, real estate, real property, region, regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, run, safety zone, sand, sea level, sea of grass, shelter, skeleton, sod, soil, sphere, steppe, stiff, storm cave, storm cellar, stuff, subaerial deposit, subastral, sublunar, subsoil, substance, substratum, surfacing, table, tellurian, telluric, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma, terrace, terrain, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, terrestrial globe, territory, the blue planet, the country, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the four elements, the loved one, this pendent world, topsoil, trench, tunnel, turf, unit of being, universe, vale, vale of tears, water, water level, whole wide world, woodland, world

• Earth, Gaea, Ge, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Tellus, Terra, Uranus, Venus, asteroid, biosphere, geography, geosphere, globe, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, mother earth, planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terra, terrestrial globe, terrestrial planet, the blue planet, this pendent world, vale, vale of tears, wanderer, whole wide world, world

• earthborn, Adamite, Adamitic, anthropocentric, anthropological, baseborn, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, earthy, finite, fleshly, frail, homely, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, humble, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, man-centered, mean, mortal, nonclerical, only human, ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, tellurian, third-estate, unangelic, ungenteel, vulgar, weak

• earthbound, arid, barren, dry, dull, earth, earthly, fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, infecund, infertile, literal, mundane, prosaic, prosing, prosy, staid, stolid, stuffy, subastral, sublunar, tellurian, telluric, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unfanciful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized

• earthenware, Kinkozan ware, Leeds pottery, Limoges, Meissen ware, Nabeshima ware, Satsuma ware, Seto ware, appliances, basalt, brassware, china, chinaware, clayware, copperware, crackle, delft, dinnerware, durable goods, durables, enamel, enamelware, faience, fixtures, flatware, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironstone, ironware, jasper, jasper ware, kitchenware, luster pottery, majolica, metalware, ovenware, porcelain, silverware, spongeware, sporting goods, stoneware, tableware, terra cotta, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, white pottery, woodenware

• earthiness, Adam, Philistinism, animalism, animality, beastliness, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, down-to-earthness, earthliness, earthly-mindedness, fallen nature, fallen state, flesh, fleshliness, frankness, freedom from illusion, gaudiness, grossness, hardheadedness, lack of feelings, lapsed state, loudness, materialism, matter-of-factness, meretriciousness, mundaneness, nonspirituality, obscenity, positivism, postlapsarian state, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, raciness, rankness, rationality, rawness, realism, reasonableness, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, saltiness, saneness, scientism, secularism, sensibleness, sober-mindedness, spiciness, swinishness, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, uncouthness, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, unspirituality, vulgarity, worldliness, worldly-mindedness

• earthling, Adamite, antichristian, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, fellow, groundling, guy, hand, head, homo, human, human being, iconoclast, idoloclast, individual, irreligionist, joker, life, living soul, man, materialist, mortal, nose, one, party, person, personage, personality, single, somebody, someone, soul, tellurian, terran, worldling

• earthly, Philistine, base, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, conceivable, corporal, corporeal, earth, earthbound, earthy, feasible, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, human, hylic, imaginable, likely, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, natural, nonspiritual, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular, sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual, worldly

• earthquake, apoplexy, breakup, cataclysm, climax, convulsion, diastrophism, disaster, fit, overthrow, paroxysm, quake, quaker, shake, shock, spasm, stroke, temblor, tidal wave, tremor, tsunami, upheaval

• earthshaker, astonishment, blockbuster, blow, bomb, bombshell, catch, eye-opener, joker, kicker, peripeteia, revelation, shocker, staggerer, startler, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending, surprise package, surprise party, switch, thunderbolt, thunderclap

• earthshaking, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, booming, consequential, considerable, deafening, double-barreled, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, forte, fortissimo, full, grand, great, heavyweight, high-powered, important, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, major, material, momentous, name, pealing, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, self-important, significant, sonorous, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, substantial, superior, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, window-rattling, world-shaking

• earthwork, abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

• earthy, Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, Philistine, abandoned, adobe, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, coarse, crass, crude, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite, fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled, hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent, lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy, mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical, positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic, reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded, soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unrefined, unromantic, unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldly

• ease off, abate, arrest, avert, backpedal, backwater, bate, bear off, brake, check, clip the wings, curb, decelerate, delay, detain, die down, diffuse, disjoin, disperse, draw aside, draw rein, ease, ease up, ebb, edge off, fall, fly off, free, gee, glance, glance off, go off, haw, head off, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, jib, keep back, lax, let down, let go, let up, let up on, loose, loosen, loosen up, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, make way for, mitigate, moderate, move aside, obstruct, reef, rein in, relax, relent, remit, retard, scatter, set back, sheer off, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow, slow down, slow up, stay, steer clear of, step aside, subside, switch, take in sail, throttle down, turn aside, turn away, turn back, unbend, unbrace, unglue, unlax, unleash, unstick, unstrain, unstring, untighten, unwind, veer off, wane

• ease up, abate, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bate, brake, check, clip the wings, curb, decelerate, delay, detain, draw rein, ease, ease off, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, keep back, let down, let up, let up on, loose, loosen, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, mitigate, moderate, obstruct, reef, rein in, relax, remit, retard, set back, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow, slow down, slow up, stay, take in sail, throttle down, unbend, unbrace, unlax, unstrain, unstring, unwind

• ease, Atticism, Bohemianism, Easy Street, abandon, abate, abatement, abet, abundance, acceptance, adeptness, adroitness, advance, affability, affluence, aid, alienation, allay, allayment, alleviate, alleviation, allow for, ameliorate, amusement, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetize, anesthetizing, animal pleasure, aplomb, appease, appeasement, appropriateness, artfulness, artlessness, assist, assistance, assuage, assuagement, assure, attenuate, avail, bail out, bate, be light, bear a hand, bear up, bed of roses, befriend, benefit, benumb, better, bodily pleasure, calm, calm down, calming, calmness, carnal delight, casualness, chasteness, chastity, cheer, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear, clear coast, clear road, clear the way, clearness, cleverness, clover, color, comeliness, comfort, common touch, compose, composure, condole with, content, contentedness, contentment, convenience, cool, cordiality, correctness, coziness, cradle, creature comforts, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, deadening, decrease, deftness, diffuse, dignity, dilute, diminish, diminishment, diminution, directness, disburden, discrimination, disencumber, disengage, disjoin, dispatch, disperse, distinction, do good, doctor, dulcify, dull, dulling, ease matters, ease off, ease up, easement, easiness, easing, easy circumstances, easy going, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, elegance, elegancy, encourage, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, entire satisfaction, euphoria, even out, expedite, expertise, expertness, explain, extenuate, facileness, facilitate, facility, familiarity, favor, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, fleshpots, flow, flowing periods, fluency, fluff, folksiness, foment, forepleasure, forward, free, free time, freedom, fruition, fulfillment, fun, further, gentle, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give comfort, give help, give relief, gloss over, good offices, good taste, goof-off time, grace, gracefulness, gracility, gracious life, gracious living, graciousness, gratification, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, great satisfaction, guide, gusto, happiness, hasten, have little weight, hearten, hearty enjoyment, help, help along, highroad, homeliness, homeyness, hush, idle hours, idleness, ignore, improve, inactivity, inch, inertia, inertness, informality, informalness, ingenuousness, insouciance, intellectual pleasure, intelligibility, irregularity, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kick the beam, kicks, knack, knead, lack of hindrance, lap of luxury, lax, laxate, lay, leisure, lend a hand, lend one aid, lessen, lessening, let down, let go, let up, let up on, liberate, life of ease, lighten, limber, limber up, limpidity, loaves and fishes, loose, loosen, looseness, lubricate, lucidity, lull, lulling, luxury, make allowance for, make clear, make light, make lighter, make way for, manipulate, mash, massage, mellow, milden, mince, ministration, ministry, mitigate, mitigation, moderation, mollification, mollify, naturalness, neatness, nonchalance, numb, numbing, odd moments, off-load, offhandedness, office, offices, oil, open the way, open up, opulence, pacify, pad, palliate, palliation, passivity, pave the way, peace, peace and quiet, peace of mind, peacefulness, pellucidity, perspicuity, physical pleasure, plain sailing, plainness, plane sailing, pleasure, plenty, plump, poetry, poise, polish, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, prepare the way, proffer aid, promote, propriety, prosperity, prosperousness, protect, protection, pulp, purity, put at ease, quell, quicken, quiet, quiet pleasure, quieten, rally, reassure, reclaim, reconcilement, reconciliation, redeem, reduce, reduce weight, reduction, refinement, relax, relaxation, relaxedness, release, relief, relieve, relish, remedy, remit, remove friction, render assistance, repose, rescue, resignation, rest, restfulness, restore, restraint, resuscitate, retirement, revive, rock, rock to sleep, royal road, run interference for, salve, salving, satisfaction, save, scatter, security, seemliness, self-gratification, self-indulgence, semiretirement, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, serenity, service, set at ease, set up, sexual pleasure, shake up, simplicity, simplify, skillfulness, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, sleep, slip, slow down, slur over, smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smooth road, smooth sailing, smooth the way, smoothen, smoothness, soap the ways, sociability, soft-pedal, soften, soften up, softening, solace, solid comfort, soothe, soothing, spare time, speed, spontaneity, squash, stabilize, steady, steer, still, straight sailing, straightforwardness, stupe, subdue, subduement, success, succor, supple, support, sweetness of life, sympathize with, take in tow, taste, tastefulness, tenderize, terseness, the affluent life, the good life, therapy, thriving, thriving condition, time, time to kill, time to spare, titillation, tone down, tranquilize, tranquillity, tune down, unaffectedness, unballast, unbar, unbend, unblock, unbrace, unburden, unbuttoned ease, unceremoniousness, unclog, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, unconcern, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, unglue, unjam, unlade, unlax, unleash, unload, unpretentiousness, unrestraint, unstick, unstrain, unstring, untighten, unwind, upward mobility, varnish, velvet, voluptuousness, water down, weaken, weal, wealth, weigh lightly, welfare, well-being, whitewash, zest

• easel, air brush, art paper, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, chalk, charcoal, crayon, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, fixative, ground, lay figure, maulstick, medium, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, pastel, pencil, pigments, scratchboard, siccative, sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, stump, varnish

• easement, abatement, absolute interest, aid and comfort, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, assurance, benefit, claim, comfort, common, condolence, consolation, contingent interest, deadening, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulling, ease, easing, encouragement, equitable interest, equity, estate, holding, interest, lessening, lightening, limitation, lulling, mitigation, mollification, numbing, palliation, part, percentage, reassurance, reduction, relief, remedy, right, right of entry, salving, settlement, shred of comfort, softening, solace, solacement, soothing, stake, strict settlement, subduement, support, sympathy, title, trust, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, use, vested interest

• easily, absolutely, actually, assuredly, by far, cautiously, certainly, circumspectly, clearly, comfortably, commodiously, competently, compliantly, conclusively, conveniently, cozily, crawlingly, creepingly, decidedly, definitely, definitively, deliberately, delicately, dexterously, dilatorily, doubtless, doubtlessly, easy as pie, efficiently, effortlessly, facilely, falteringly, far and away, fluently, freely, gently, haltingly, handily, hands down, idly, in low gear, in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, indeed, indisputably, indolently, indubitably, languidly, languorously, leisurely, lightly, like clockwork, like nothing, limpingly, lingeringly, loiteringly, luxuriously, moderately, most likely, no doubt, no sweat, obviously, on easy terms, patently, peacefully, pokily, pokingly, positively, probably, readily, really, relaxedly, reluctantly, reposefully, restfully, roomily, simply, slow, slowly, sluggishly, smoothly, snugly, softly, submissively, surely, swimmingly, tarryingly, tenderly, tentatively, truly, undeniably, under easy sail, undoubtedly, unequivocally, unhurriedly, unquestionably, very likely, voluptuously, well, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation, with ease, without difficulty

• easing, abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, calming, cathartic, chastening, clarification, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumbering, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, emollient, expediting, expedition, facilitation, falling-off, hastening, hushing, laxation, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mellowing, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, modulation, mollification, mollifying, numbing, pacification, padding, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, purgative, quickening, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, relaxation, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, salving, simplification, simplifying, slackening, smoothing, softening, softening-up, soothing, speeding, streamlining, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing

• East, Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East Coast, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle Atlantic, Middle East, Middle West, Near East, New England, New World, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Western Hemisphere, Yankeeland, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, northland, the Coast, the old country, westland, wild West

• east, E, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, eastabout, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastward, eastwardly, eastwards, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northward, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westward

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

• easterly, E, Euroclydon, Tehuantepec wind, Tehuantepecer, antarctic, arctic, austral, bise, boreal, east, east wind, eastabout, eastbound, easter, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastward, eastwardly, eastwards, gregale, hyperborean, levanter, meridional, mistral, north, north wind, northbound, northeast, northeaster, northeasterly, northeastern, norther, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwester, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, south wind, southbound, southeast, southeaster, southeasterly, southeastern, souther, southerly, southerly buster, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwester, southwesterly, southwestern, tramontane, west, west wind, westbound, wester, westerly, western, westernmost

• easy going, clarity, clear coast, clear road, ease, easiness, effortlessness, facileness, facility, freedom, highroad, intelligibility, lack of hindrance, plain sailing, plane sailing, royal road, simplicity, smooth road, smooth sailing, smoothness, straight sailing, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness

• easy mark, babe, boob, butt, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dupe, easy pickings, fall guy, fish, fool, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, innocent, leadpipe cinch, mark, monkey, patsy, pigeon, plaything, prize sap, pushover, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sitting duck, soft, stooge, sucker, toy, trusting soul, victim

• Easy Street, affluence, bed of roses, clover, comfort, ease, easy circumstances, felicity, fleshpots, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, prosperity, prosperousness, security, success, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvet, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being

• easy, Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Paphian, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, affable, affluent, agreeable, ambling, amenable, amiable, amicable, apparent, at ease, at home, at rest, bagging, baggy, blase, bone-lazy, bonhomous, budget, cadging, calm, calmly, cannily, carefree, carefully, careless, casual, casually, cautious, cautiously, chambering, charmed, chaste, cheap, circumspect, circumspectly, classic, claudicant, clear, clear-cut, clement, comfortable, comfortably situated, comfy, commodious, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, composed, content, contented, convenient, cordial, cosy, cozy, crawling, credulous, creeping, cullible, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, dainty, dangling, deceivable, degage, deliberate, delicate, delighted, deludable, devil-may-care, dilatory, direct, discreetly, distinct, do-nothing, docile, doless, down-to-earth, dronish, drony, drooping, dupable, easeful, easy as pie, easy-natured, easygoing, economic, economy, effortless, effortlessly, elegant, elementary, ergophobic, eupeptic, euphoric, even, evident, exhilarated, exploitable, facile, faineant, faltering, familiar, favorably impressed with, finished, flagging, flapping, flexible, flowing, fluent, folksy, foolable, foolproof, foot-dragging, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, free and easy, friendly, frugal, genial, gentle, gingerly, glad, gladsome, glib, good-for-nothing, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, graceful, gracile, gracious, gradual, gratified, green, guardedly, gullible, halting, hands down, hanging, happy, hasteless, haymish, heedfully, hoaxable, hobbled, hobbling, homelike, homely, homey, hoodwinkable, humane, humbugable, idle, impotent, imprecise, in clover, in good case, in luxury, inactive, indifferent, indolent, indulgent, inexpensive, informal, ingenuous, intrigued, irregular, judiciously, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, leisurely, lenient, light, limpid, limping, lived-in, loose, loose-moraled, low, low-priced, lucid, lumbering, luxurious, manageable, manifest, mellow, mellowy, merciful, mild, mindfully, moderate, modest, mollified, naive, natural, neat, negligent, nominal, nonaggressive, nonchalant, nonchalantly, nonresistive, nonrigid, nothing to it, obvious, of easy virtue, of good comfort, of loose morals, offhand, offhanded, on Easy Street, on velvet, outgoing, overindulgent, overpermissive, painless, parasitic, patient, pawkily, peaceful, peacefully, pellucid, permissive, perspicuous, persuadable, plain, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, pleasing, pliant, poking, poky, polished, procrastinative, promiscuous, prosperous, prudently, pure, quiet, reasonable, reconciled, refined, regardfully, relaxed, relaxing, reluctant, remiss, reposeful, resigned, restful, restrained, rickety, roomy, round, royal, sans souci, satisfied, sauntering, scrounging, seduceable, sensible, serene, serenely, shabby, shaky, shiftless, shoddy, shuffling, simple, simple as ABC, slack, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, smooth, snail-paced, snaillike, snug, sociable, soft, soft as putty, softened, sold on, sponging, staggering, steady, straightforward, streaming, strolling, submissive, successful, suggestible, sweet, sweet-tempered, taken with, tasteful, temperately, tender, tentative, terse, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, toddling, token, tolerant, tortoiselike, tottering, tractable, tranquil, tranquilly, trim, tripping, trudging, trusting, turtlelike, unaffected, unassuming, unburdensome, unceremonious, uncomplaining, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconcerned, unconstrained, unconventional, undemanding, undisturbed, unenterprising, unexacting, unexpensive, unhasty, unhurried, uninvolved, unlabored, unofficial, unrepining, unreserved, unrestrained, unsophisticated, unstrained, unstudied, untroubled, untroublesome, victimizable, waddling, wanton, warm, wayward, weak, wealthy, well-natured, whisper-soft, whorish, with care, with caution, within means, without care, work-shy, worth the money

• easygoing, Bohemian, Micawberish, accepting, affable, afoot and lighthearted, airy, apathetic, at ease, at large, at liberty, ataractic, backward, blase, breezy, carefree, careless, casual, clear, clement, collected, comfortable, common, compassionate, composed, content, contented, cordial, cursory, dallying, degage, delaying, detached, devil-may-care, dilatory, dillydallying, disengaged, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, drony, easy, emancipated, eupeptic, euphoric, even-tempered, faineant, familiar, flexible, flippant, folksy, foot-dragging, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forbearant, forbearing, forgetful, forgiving, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, gentle, go-as-you-please, gracious, happy, haymish, heedless, homely, homey, humane, impotent, imprecise, in the clear, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, inexcitable, informal, insouciant, irregular, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, lax, lazy, lenient, liberated, lingering, listless, loitering, loose, low-pressure, mellow, merciful, mild, mindless, moderate, natural, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, of good comfort, offhand, offhanded, on the loose, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, perfunctory, permissive, placid, plain, pleased, pococurante, poised, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, reconciled, regardless, relaxed, released, remiss, resigned, respectless, sans souci, satisfied, scot-free, self-possessed, serene, shuffling, simple, slack, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, sluggish, sociable, soft, tactless, tender, thoughtless, tolerant, tranquil, turned-off, unaffected, unambitious, unanxious, unassuming, unattached, unceremonious, uncommitted, uncomplaining, unconcerned, unconstrained, unconventional, undemanding, undiplomatic, undiscriminating, unengaged, unfussy, unheedful, unheeding, uninhibited, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unofficial, unprepared, unready, unrepining, unreserved, unrestrained, unsolicitous, unstudied, untactful, unthinking, weak, wishy-washy, without care, work-shy

• eat away, abate, abrade, abstract, bate, bite, canker, corrode, curtail, decrease, deduct, depreciate, derogate, detract, diminish, disparage, drain, eat, eat into, erode, extract, file away, gnaw, impair, leach, lessen, nibble away, oxidize, purify, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, rub away, rust, scour, shorten, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, thin, thin out, wear away, weed, withdraw

• eat crow, abjure, back down, back out, backwater, climb down, crawfish out, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, eat dirt, eat humble pie, forswear, kiss the rod, lick the dust, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, sing small, swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw

• eat up, ablate, absorb, adore, and sinker, appreciate, assimilate, banquet, bask in, be a sucker, be pleased with, be taken in, bite, bleed white, bolt, burn up, consume, delight in, deplete, derive pleasure from, devour, digest, dispatch, dispose of, do justice to, down, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat heartily, enjoy, erode, exhaust, expend, fall for, feast, feast on, finish, finish off, freak out on, get away with, get down, get high on, gloat over, go for, gobble, gobble up, groove on, gulp down, impoverish, indulge in, ingest, lap up, like, line, love, luxuriate in, mop up, nibble, polish off, polish the platter, put away, put it away, regale, rejoice in, relish, revel in, riot in, savor, smack the lips, spend, squander, suck dry, surround, swallow, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow up, swallow whole, swim in, swing at, take down, take in, take pleasure in, take the bait, tuck in, tumble for, use up, wallow in, waste away, wear away, wolf

• eat, ablate, absorb, assimilate, bite, bleed white, break bread, burn up, canker, consume, corrode, count calories, deplete, devour, diet, digest, disregard, dissolve, down, drain, drain of resources, drink, eat away, eat into, eat out, eat up, engorge, engulf, erode, etch, exhaust, expend, fall to, fare, feed, feed on, finish, finish off, gnaw, gobble, gobble up, gulp, gulp down, hunger, ignore, imbibe, impoverish, ingest, ingurgitate, meal, nibble away, oxidize, partake, partake of, pitch in, pocket, pocket the affront, relish, rust, savor, spend, squander, stomach, suck dry, swallow, swallow an insult, swallow up, swill, swill down, take, taste, turn aside provocation, use up, waste away, wear away, wolf down

• eating, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, drinking, engorgement, engulfment, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, gulp, gulping, herbivorous, imbibition, ingestion, ingurgitation, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, slurp, swallow, swallowing, vegetable-eating, vegetarian

• eaves, ceiling, housetop, lantern, overhead, penthouse, plafond, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, shingles, skylight, slates, tiles, top

• eavesdrop, attend, attend to, auscultate, be all ears, bend an ear, bug, cock the ears, examine by ear, give attention, give audience to, give ear, hark, hear, hear out, hearken, heed, intercept, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen in, listen to, overhear, pry, sit in on, snoop, spy, tap, wiretap

• eavesdropper, Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, audient, auditor, busybody, gossip, hearer, hearkener, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, listener, nosy Parker, overhearer, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, rubberneck, rubbernecker, scopophiliac, sightseer, snoop, snooper, voyeur, yenta

• ebb and flow, Lissajous figure, alternate, alternation, back and fill, back-and-forth, battledore and shuttlecock, be poised, billow, break, comb, come and go, coming and going, crash, dash, direct tide, ebb, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flounder, flow, fluctuate, flux, flux and reflux, full tide, go through phases, heave, high tide, high water, hitch and hike, lift, low tide, low water, lunar tide, neap, neap tide, opposite tide, oscillate, pass and repass, peak, pendulate, popple, reciprocate, reciprocation, refluence, reflux, rhythmic play, ride and tie, ring the changes, rip, riptide, rise, rise and fall, roll, scend, seesaw, seesawing, send, shift, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, sine wave, smash, solar tide, spring tide, stagger, surge, sway, swell, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, thalassometer, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, to-and-fro, toss, totter, tottering, turn, undulate, ups and downs, vacillate, vary, wave, waver, wax and wane, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wobble, zigzag

• ebb tide, dead low water, direct tide, ebb, ebb and flow, flood, flood tide, flow, flux, flux and reflux, full tide, high tide, high water, low tide, low water, lunar tide, neap, neap tide, opposite tide, refluence, reflux, rip, riptide, solar tide, spring tide, thalassometer, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway

• ebb, abate, ablate, advance, ascend, back, back up, bate, be eaten away, budge, calm, calm down, catabasis, cease, cessation, change, change place, circle, climb, collapse, comedown, consume, consume away, corrode, course, crash, crumble, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock, debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, decrease, decrescendo, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, deliquesce, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descend, descent, deterioration, devolution, die, die away, die down, diminish, diminuendo, direct tide, dive, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drift away, drop, drop off, dwindle, dwindling, dying, dying down, ease off, ebb and flow, ebb tide, ebbing, effeteness, erode, fade, fade away, fading, fail, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, fall away, fall off, falling-off, flood, flood tide, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flush, flux, flux and reflux, full stop, full tide, get over, go, go around, go away, go down, go downhill, go off, go round, go sideways, gush, gyrate, halt, high tide, high water, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, involution, issue, languish, lapse, lessen, let up, lock, loss of tone, low tide, low water, lull, lunar tide, make, melt away, moderate, molder, mount, move, move away, move off, move over, neap, neap tide, opposite tide, pacify, peter out, plummet, plunge, pour, progress, pull away, quiesce, quiet, quieten, reach the depths, recede, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, regurgitate, relent, remission, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrocession, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogress, retrogression, rip, riptide, rise, rotate, run, run down, run low, rush, sag, set, shift, shrink, sink, slacken, slide, slip, slippage, slowdown, slump, soar, solar tide, soothe, spin, spring tide, stand, stand off, standstill, stillstand, stir, stop, stream, subside, subsidence, surge, surge back, tail off, thalassometer, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, touch bottom, tranquilize, travel, trend, wane, waning, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, whirl, widen the distance, withdraw

• ebony, acacia, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, atramentous, avocado, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bay, bayberry, beamless, beech, beechwood, betel palm, birch, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black race, blackness, buckeye, burl, butternut, buttonwood, cacao, caliginous, candleberry, cashew, cassia, catalpa, charcoal, cherry, chestnut, chinquapin, cinnamon, citron, clove, coal, coal-black, coaly, coconut, cork, cork oak, crow, cypress, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darkness, darksome, deep black, dogwood, ebon, eclipsed, elder, elm, eucalyptus, fig, fir, frankincense, grapefruit, guava, gum, gumwood, hawthorn, hazel, hemlock, henna, hickory, holly, hop tree, horse chestnut, ink, ink-black, inkiness, inky, ironwood, jet, jetty, juniper, kumquat, laburnum, lancewood, larch, laurel, lemon, lime, linden, litchi, litchi nut, locust, logwood, magnolia, mahogany, mango, mangrove, maple, medlar, melanism, midnight, mountain ash, mulberry, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrescence, nigritude, nigrous, nutmeg, oak, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, olive, orange, palm, papaw, papaya, peach, pear, pecan, persimmon, pine, pistachio, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plane, plum, pomegranate, poplar, quince, raffia palm, rain tree, raven, raven-black, rayless, redwood, sable, sandalwood, sassafras, senna, sequoia, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spruce, starless, sumac, sunless, sycamore, tangerine, tar, tar-black, tarry, teak, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, tulip tree, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, walnut, willow, witch hazel, yew

• ebullient, active, activist, activistic, agog, alive, animated, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, atwitter, baking, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, boiling, bouncing, bouncy, brash, breezy, brisk, broiling, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burning, burning hot, bursting, canicular, carbonated, carried away, chiffon, chipper, effervescent, energetic, excited, exhilarated, feverish, fired, fizzy, flushed, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, grilling, heated, high, high-spirited, hopped up, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, impassioned, inflamed, keyed up, lathered up, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively, manic, mercurial, militant, moved, overheated, overwarm, parching, peppy, perky, pert, piping hot, puffed, quicksilver, ready to burst, red-hot, roasting, roused, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smacking, smoking hot, snappy, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, thrilled, tingling, tingly, toasting, torrid, turned-on, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, whipped, whipped up, white-hot, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zingy

• ebullition, ado, agitation, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, bustle, cacophony, carbonation, chaos, churn, coction, commotion, conturbation, decoction, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ebullience, ebulliency, ebulliometer, eddy, effervescence, effervescency, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fizz, fizzle, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foaming, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, frothiness, frothing, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, perturbation, racket, rage, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruckus, ruffle, rumpus, seethe, seething, simmer, simmering, sparkle, spumescence, stewing, stir, storminess, swirl, swirling, tempestuousness, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vortex, whirl, wildness, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness

• eccentric, aberrant, abnormal, absurd, adrift, afloat, alien, alternating, amorphous, amusing, anomalistic, anomalous, beezer, bizarre, bohemian, broken, capricious, careening, case, catchy, caution, changeable, changeful, character, choppy, coot, crackpot, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, curious, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, disconnected, discontinuous, dissenter, divergent, dizzy, dotty, droll, duck, erratic, exceptionable, exceptional, fanatic, fantastic, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flake, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, formless, freak, freaked out, freakish, freaky, funny, giddy, grotesque, guttering, halting, heretic, herky-jerky, hermit, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hilarious, hobo, humorous, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, incongruous, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jerky, kinky, kook, kooky, laughable, lone wolf, loner, ludicrous, lurching, maggoty, maverick, mazy, mercurial, meshuggenah, moody, natural, nonconformist, nonuniform, nut, nutty, odd, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, off, off the wall, off-balance, off-center, original, out, outlandish, outsider, pariah, passing strange, patchy, peculiar, priceless, quaint, queer, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, quirky, quiz, quizzical, rambling, rara avis, recluse, restless, rich, ridiculous, risible, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, screaming, screwball, screwy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular, snatchy, solitary, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, spook, sporadic, spotty, staggering, strange, strange duck, stray, straying, subnormal, tramp, twisted, type, unaccountable, unbalanced, uncentered, uncertain, unconformist, uncontrolled, unconventional, undependable, undisciplined, unearthly, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unmethodical, unmetrical, unnatural, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, vacillating, vagrant, variable, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weird, weirdo, whimsical, wishy-washy, witty, wobbling, wobbly, wondrous strange, zealot, zombie

• eccentricity, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, absurdity, absurdness, amorphism, animus, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, aptitude, arrhythmia, asininity, battiness, bent, bias, bizarreness, bizarrerie, brainlessness, brokenness, buffoonery, capriciousness, cast, character, choppiness, clownishness, constitution, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, derangement, desipience, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, diathesis, difference, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disposition, divergence, drollery, drollness, erraticism, erraticness, fatuity, fatuousness, fibrillation, fickleness, fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, freakishness, frivolity, frivolousness, funniness, giddiness, goofiness, grain, heteromorphism, hilarity, humorousness, idiocy, idiosyncrasy, imbecility, impulsiveness, inanity, inclination, incongruity, inconsistency, inconstancy, individualism, ineptitude, inferiority, insanity, instability, intermittence, irregularity, jerkiness, kidney, laughability, leaning, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, make, makeup, mental set, mercuriality, mettle, mind, mind-set, mindlessness, mold, monstrosity, moodiness, nature, niaiserie, nonuniformity, nugacity, nuttiness, patchiness, predilection, predisposition, preference, pricelessness, proclivity, propensity, quaintness, queerness, quizzicalness, restlessness, richness, ridiculousness, roughness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, set, shiftiness, silliness, slant, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, stupidity, subnormality, superiority, temper, temperament, tendency, teratism, the funny side, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, uncertainty, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unmethodicalness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variability, variation, variety, wackiness, wantonness, warp, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness, witlessness, wittiness, wobble, zaniness, zanyism

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

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

• echelon, battle array, caste, class, close formation, condition, deployment, disposition, file, footing, formation, formation flying, hierarchy, open order, order, order of battle, place, position, power structure, precedence, queue, rank, rate, rating, row, sphere, stage, standing, station, status, string, tier

• echo, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, accord, acknowledge, acknowledgment, act like, action and reaction, adumbration, affect, agree, agree in opinion, agree with, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon, antiphonal chanting, antiphony, ape, assume, automatic reaction, autonomic reaction, back answer, back talk, backchat, be affected, be in tune, be inspired, be involved, be moved, be reflected, be sent back, beam, beat signal, blips, boom, booming, borrow, bounce back, bounceback, bounces, care about, caring, catch the flame, catch the infection, change color, chime in with, choir, chord, chorus, claviature, close with, coincide, color with emotion, come again, come back, come back at, come up again, comeback, concern, concur, conform to, conformist, console, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, crib, cuckoo, dig, display, dissembler, dissimulator, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, double-dot display, doubling, duplicate, duplication, echo back, echo signal, echoer, echoist, eighty-eight, empathize with, empathy, emulate, encore, evasive reply, facsimile, fake, faker, fall in with, fellow feeling, fingerboard, flash back, forge, forger, give acknowledgment, give answer, go along with, go back, go like, go with, great, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, hoke, hoke up, hypocrite, identification, identify with, imitate, imitation, imitator, impersonator, impostor, involvement, iteration, ivories, keep coming, keyboard, keys, local oscillator signal, make like, manual, meet, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mirror, mirror image, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, organ manual, outline, output signal, parrot, pathos, pedals, phony, piano keys, picture, pips, plagiarism, plagiarist, plagiarize, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, predictable response, quotation, quote, radar signal, react, reaction, reading, ready reply, reappear, reappearance, rebirth, reboation, rebound, receipt, recur, recurrence, redo, redouble, redoubling, reduplicate, reduplication, reecho, reflect, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, regurgitate, regurgitation, reincarnate, reincarnation, reiteration, rejoin, rejoinder, relate to emotionally, relating, renew, renewal, reoccur, reoccurrence, repartee, repeat, repeat performance, repercussion, repetition, replica, replication, reply, repost, reproduce, reproduction, rescript, rescription, resound, resounding, respond, respondence, response, responsion, responsiveness, responsory, responsory report, resume, resumption, retort, retroaction, return, return answer, return for answer, return signal, reverberate, reverberation, revert, revive, revulsion, ring, riposte, rise, roll, rumble, rumbling, say, say again, say in reply, send back, shadow, share, sharing, sheep, shoot back, short answer, side with, signal, signal display, silhouette, simulate, simulation, simulator, snappy comeback, solo, sound, spot, strike in with, swell, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathize with, sympathy, talk back, target image, thunder, thundering, trace, transmitter signal, unthinking response, vibes, vibrations, video signal, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

• echoic, answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative, echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous, parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational, representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological, tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid

• echoing, answering, antiphonal, battological, booming, confutative, duplicative, echoic, growling, imitative, iterative, lingering, parrotlike, persistent, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, resounding, respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, sounding, tautological, tautologous, thundering, undamped

• eclair, Danish pastry, French pastry, baklava, blintz, chocolate eclair, cream puff, dowdy, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, puff, quiche, rosette, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, vol-au-vent

• eclampsia, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, blockage, cardiac epilepsy, clonic spasm, clonus, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, cramp, cursive epilepsy, diurnal epilepsy, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, falling sickness, fit, focal epilepsy, frenzy, grand mal, grip, haute mal, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lockjaw, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, paroxysm, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, reflex epilepsy, rotatoria, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, spasm, stoppage, stroke, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, visitation

• eclat, PR, acclaim, acclamation, applause, ballyhoo, bang, big hand, blazon, blurb, bravura, bright light, brilliance, brilliancy, burst of applause, celebrity, character, cheer, clap, clapping, clapping of hands, common knowledge, cry, currency, daring, dash, daylight, demonstration, display, distinction, dramatics, encore, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, exposure, false front, fame, famousness, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, glare, glory, hand, handclap, handclapping, histrionics, hoopla, hue and cry, kudos, limelight, luster, manifestation, maximum dissemination, name, notoriety, notoriousness, ovation, pageant, pageantry, parade, plaudit, plug, popularity, press notice, prominence, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, reclame, recognition, remarkableness, renown, report, reputation, repute, round of applause, sham, show, showing-off, spectacle, splash, splurge, spotlight, staginess, standing, the bubble reputation, theatrics, thunder of applause, vaunt, vogue, write-up

• eclectic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, adoptive, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, animist, animistic, appointive, assimilated, assorted, atomistic, blended, broad, catholic, choosing, choosy, combinative, combinatory, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, comprehensive, conglomerate, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connective, consolidated, constituent, cosmotheistic, dappled, derived, discerning, discriminating, diverse, diversified, elective, electoral, empirical, equivocal, eudaemonistic, existential, fastidious, fifty-fifty, finicky, fused, fussy, half-and-half, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, heterogeneous, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, inclusive, incorporated, indiscriminate, instrumentalist, integrated, intricate, ironic, joined, joint, jumbled, many-sided, materialistic, mechanistic, medley, merged, metaphysical, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, monistic, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multiform, multinational, multiracial, naturalistic, nominalist, one, panlogistical, pantheistic, particular, patchy, picky, pluralistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, promiscuous, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, scrambled, select, selecting, selective, sensationalistic, syncretic, syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, theistic, thrown together, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, united, unoriginal, utilitarian, varied, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic

• eclipse, adumbrate, annular eclipse, apply to, bandage, becloud, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, benight, black, black out, blacken, blackout, blanket, blanketing, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, block, block the light, blockage, blocking, blot out, blotting out, brown, camouflage, canopy, cast a shadow, cementwork, central eclipse, cloak, cloaking, clothe, cloud, cloud over, clouding, coating, conceal, concealment, cope, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, cowl, curtain, curtaining, darken, darken over, darkening, daze, dazzle, decline, dematerialization, departure, deprive of sight, dim, dim out, dimming, disappearance, disappearing, disguise, dispersion, dissemble, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, distract attention from, downturn, eclipsing, elimination, encloud, encompass with shadow, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, excecate, extinction, extinguish, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fake out, film, glare, gloom, gloss over, going, gouge, hide, hiding, hood, hoodwink, incrustation, keep under cover, lay on, lay over, laying on, lunar eclipse, make blind, mantle, mantling, mask, masking, melting, muffle, murk, obduce, obduction, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscuration, obscure, obscuring, obumbrate, occult, occultate, occultation, outshine, overcast, overcloud, overlay, overlaying, overshadow, overspread, overspreading, pargeting, partial eclipse, passing, plasterwork, put down, put on, put to shame, recession, screen, screening, scum, shade, shading, shadow, sheathing, shield, shielding, show up, shroud, shrouding, slump, slur over, snow-blind, solar eclipse, somber, spread over, strike blind, stuccowork, superimpose, superimposition, superpose, superposition, surpass, top, total eclipse, upholstering, upholstery, vanishing, vanishing point, varnish, veil, veiling, whitewash, wipe, wrapping

• ecliptic, anklet, aphelion, apogee, armlet, astronomical longitude, autumnal equinox, band, belt, bracelet, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, cincture, cingulum, circle, collar, collarband, colures, earring, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, fascia, fillet, finger ring, galactic longitude, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, heliocentric longitude, hoop, longitude, meridian, neckband, necklace, nose ring, orbit, perigee, perihelion, period, quoit, ring, small circle, solstitial colure, trajectory, vernal equinox, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

• ecology, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, animal physiology, anthropology, astrobiology, autecology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, commensality, comparative anatomy, conchology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecosystem, electrobiology, element, embryology, entomology, enzymology, ethnobiology, ethology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, helminthology, herpetology, ichthyology, life science, malacology, mammalogy, medium, microbiology, molecular biology, ornithology, parasitism, pharmacology, physiology, protozoology, radiobiology, symbiosis, symbiotics, synecology, taxidermy, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy, zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy

• economic, Scotch, budget, budgetary, canny, careful, chary, cheap, cheeseparing, commercial, conserving, easy, economizing, economy, financial, fiscal, forehanded, frugal, inexpensive, labor-saving, low, low-priced, manageable, mercantile, moderate, modest, monetary, money-saving, nominal, parsimonious, pecuniary, penny-wise, politico-economic, productive, profitable, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, remunerative, saving, scrimping, sensible, shabby, shoddy, skimping, socio-economic, solvent, spare, sparing, thrifty, time-saving, token, trade, unexpensive, unwasteful, within means, worth the money

• economical, Scotch, budget, canny, careful, chary, cheap, cheeseparing, close, conservative, conserving, easy, economic, economizing, economy, forehanded, frugal, inexpensive, labor-saving, low, low-priced, manageable, mean, miserly, moderate, modest, money-saving, niggardly, nominal, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, politico-economic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, saving, scrimping, sensible, shabby, shoddy, skimping, socio-economic, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, time-saving, token, unexpensive, unwasteful, within means, worth the money

• economically, briefly, cannily, carefully, charily, compendiously, concisely, curtly, frugally, husbandly, in brief compass, providently, prudently, shortly, sparely, sparingly, succinctly, summarily, synoptically, thriftily

• economics, Keynesian economics, Keynesianism, Lombard Street, Wall Street banking, classical economics, dynamic economics, econ, econometrics, economic determinism, economic man, economic science, economism, finance, finances, high finance, international banking, investment banking, money matters, plutology, political economy, the dismal science, theoretical economics, world of finance

• economizing, Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cutback, economic, economization, forehanded, frugal, labor-saving, low growth rate, money-saving, parsimonious, penny-wise, provident, prudent, prudential, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, retrenchment, saving, scraping, scrimping, skimping, slowdown, spare, sparing, thrifty, time-saving, unwasteful

• economy, GNP, barter economy, brevity, briefness, budget, capitalistic economy, carefulness, cheap, cheeseparing, collectivized economy, compactness, conciseness, concision, conservation, conservatism, consumer economy, control, curtness, discretion, diversified economy, easy, economic, economic system, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, farm economy, forehandedness, free-enterprise economy, frugal, frugality, gross national product, handicraft economy, hot economy, husbandry, industrial economy, inexpensive, laissez-faire, law of parsimony, local economy, low, low-priced, manageable, meanness, mercantile economy, miserliness, moderate, modest, national economy, niggardliness, nominal, overheated economy, parsimoniousness, parsimony, paucity, pinching, planned economy, private-enterprise economy, providence, prudence, reasonable, restraint, rural economy, saving, scrimping, sensible, shabby, shoddy, skimping, socialistic economy, sound economy, stinginess, stinting, succinctness, terseness, thrift, thriftiness, token, town economy, unexpensive, urban economy, village economy, war economy, within means, world economy, worth the money

• ecosphere, aerosphere, all that lives, atmosphere, biochore, biocycle, biosphere, biota, biotope, brawn, fiber, flesh, flora and fauna, gaseous envelope, lift, living matter, living nature, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, plasm, tissue, welkin

• ecru, aureate, auric, beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, chocolate, cinnamon, citron, citron-yellow, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, cream, creamy, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, fallow, fawn, fawn-colored, flaxen, fuscous, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, grege, hazel, khaki, lemon, lemon-yellow, lurid, luteolous, lutescent, nut-brown, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, olive-brown, olive-drab, or, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seal, seal-brown, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, straw, straw-colored, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish, yellowish-brown

• ecstasy, abandon, affection, affectionateness, afflatus, amativeness, amorousness, ardency, ardor, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, delectation, delight, delirium, demonstrativeness, dharana, dhyana, ecstasis, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exaltation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, fire and fury, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, goatishness, gratification, gusto, happiness, heart, heartiness, heat, heaven, high spirits, horniness, hypnosis, hysteria, impassionedness, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, liveliness, lovelornness, lovesickness, madness, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, paroxysm, passion, passionateness, pleasure, rage, rapture, ravishment, relish, rhapsody, romanticism, samadhi, savor, sentimentality, seventh heaven, sexiness, soul, spirit, sunshine, susceptibility, tearing passion, thrill, towering rage, trance, transport, unalloyed happiness, vehemence, verve, warmth, warmth of feeling, yoga trance, zeal

• ecstatic, abandoned, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, amok, bellowing, bemused, berserk, blissful, bursting with happiness, carried away, castle-building, cock-a-hoop, daydreaming, daydreamy, delighted, delirious, demoniac, distracted, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, engrossed, enraptured, enravished, entranced, euphoric, exalted, excited, exhilarated, exultant, faraway, feral, ferocious, fierce, flushed, flying, frantic, freaked out, frenzied, fulminating, furious, glad, gleeful, haggard, half-awake, happy, high, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, imparadised, in a reverie, in a transport, in ecstasies, in heaven, in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the clouds, intoxicated, joyful, jubilant, lost, lost in thought, mad, madding, maniac, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, on cloud nine, orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, pensive, pipe-dreaming, possessed, preoccupied, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving, ravished, rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, sent, somewhere else, stargazing, storming, taken up, thrilled, transported, unconscious, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

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

• ectoplasmic, astral, ethereal, etheric, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, incorporeal, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, psychic, shadowy, specterlike, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, wraithlike, wraithy

• ecumenical, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, broad, broad-gauged, broad-minded, catholic, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coefficient, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combined, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, comprehensive, concerted, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conniving, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, cosmic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, ecumenic, ecumenistic, fellow, galactic, general, global, harmonious, harmonized, heaven-wide, inclusive, international, joint, mutual, national, noncompetitive, nondenominational, noninsular, nonsectarian, planetary, reciprocal, spacious of mind, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, total, unbigoted, uncompetitive, unfanatical, unhidebound, universal, unparochial, unprovincial, wide, wide-minded, world-wide, worldwide

• ecumenism, Anschluss, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, bipartisanship, blend, blending, breadth, broad gauge, broad-mindedness, broadness, cabal, cartel, centralization, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, coalescence, coalition, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, combination, combine, combo, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, cooperation, cooperativeness, cosmopolitanism, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenicity, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, esprit, esprit de corps, federalization, federation, fellow feeling, fellowship, fusion, harmony, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, junction, junta, large-mindedness, latitude, league, marriage, mass action, meld, melding, merger, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, noninsularity, octet, package, package deal, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, septet, sextet, solidarity, solidification, spacious mind, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergism, synergy, synthesis, team spirit, teamwork, tie-up, trio, triumvirate, troika, unbigotedness, unhideboundness, unification, union, united action, unparochialism, unprovincialism, wedding, wide-mindedness

• eczema, acne, acne vulgaris, allergen, allergic disorder, allergy, asthma, conjunctivitis, cosmetic dermatitis, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, elephantiasis, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, hay fever, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, impetigo, itch, jungle rot, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lupus, lupus vulgaris, miliaria, pemphigus, pollinosis, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psora, ringworm, rose cold, scabies, shingles, skin cancer, tetter, urticaria

• eddy, Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, brouhaha, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, commotion, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, cyclone, disturbance, dizzy round, dust devil, ebullience, ebullition, effervescence, embroilment, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fume, gulf, gurge, gyre, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry, maelstrom, pell-mell, perturbation, pirouette, purl, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, round, ruffle, spin, stir, surge, swirl, swirling, to-do, tornado, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twister, typhoon, uproar, vortex, waterspout, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl, yeastiness

• edema, abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, ague, amplification, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appreciation, ascent, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, augmentation, backache, ballooning, bleeding, blennorhea, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, bump, bunion, cachexia, cachexy, carbuncle, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, corn, coughing, crescendo, cyanosis, cyst, development, diarrhea, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, elevation, emaciation, enlargement, expansion, extension, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, flood, flux, furuncle, gain, gassiness, greatening, growth, gush, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hike, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, increase, increment, indigestion, inflammation, inflation, insomnia, intumescence, itching, jaundice, jump, labored breathing, leap, low blood pressure, lumbago, lump, marasmus, meteorism, mounting, multiplication, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pimple, pock, productiveness, proliferation, pruritus, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, raise, rash, rheum, rise, rising, sclerosis, sebaceous cyst, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, snowballing, sore, spasm, spread, stretching, surge, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tabes, tachycardia, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, upping, upset stomach, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, waxing, wen, widening, windiness

• Eden, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, faerie, fairyland, heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, paradise, promised land, utopia, wonderland

• edge in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, break in upon, breeze in, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, cut in, drag in, drop in, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, foist, foist in, fudge in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, horn in, impinge, implant in, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, inject in, insert, insert in, insinuate, insinuate in, intercalate, interfere, interjaculate, interject, interlope, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, invade, irrupt, jam in, jump in, look in, lug in, obtrude, pack in, pop in, press in, push in, put between, put in, put on, put upon, run in, rush in, sandwich, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, smuggle in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, step in, storm in, take in, throng in, throw in, thrust in, trench, trespass, visit, wedge in, work in, worm, worm in

• edge tool, adz, ax, blade, bread knife, bushwhacker, butcher knife, carving knife, chaser, chisel, cleaver, clipper, clippers, cold steel, cutlery, cutter, cutting edge, dagger, edge, edge tools, featheredge, gouge, hack, hatchet, hoe, hunting knife, jackknife, knife, knife-edge, lance, lancet, letter-opener, machete, mattock, naked steel, nippers, paper cutter, paper knife, paring knife, penknife, pick, pickax, pigsticker, plowshare, point, puncturer, razor, razor blade, razor-edge, saw knife, sax, scalpel, scissors, scoop, scraper, scuffle hoe, scythe, share, sharpener, shears, sheath knife, sickle, sidecutters, snips, spear, spokeshave, steel, surgical knife, sword, table knife, toad sticker, weapon, wedge, whittle

• edge, A, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acme, acridity, acrimony, acuity, aculeate, acuminate, acumination, acuteness, adjoin, advantage, air line, allowance, alpha, anxious, apex, apogee, apprehensive, asperity, astringency, axis, bank, barb, beeline, befringe, beginning, bind, bite, bitingness, bitterness, blast-off, board, border, bordure, bound, boundary, bourn, brim, brink, brow, bulge, cap, causticity, chord, climax, cloud nine, coast, coign of vantage, commencement, crabbed, crawl, creation, creep, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, cuspidate, cut, cutting edge, cuttingness, dawn, deadwood, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, draw, drop, edge tool, edgy, effectiveness, end, enframe, establishment, extreme limit, extremity, featheredge, fidgety, fierceness, file, flange, flank, flying start, force, foundation, frame, fresh start, fringe, go crabwise, go sideways, great-circle course, grind, grip, handicap, harshness, head start, heaven, heavens, height, hem, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hone, ill at ease, inch, incisiveness, inside track, institution, irascible, irritable, jump, jump-off, keenness, kick-off, knife-edge, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lateral, lateralize, lead, leading edge, ledge, limb, limbus, limit, line, lip, list, make leeway, march, marge, margin, marginate, maximum, meridian, mordacity, mordancy, mountaintop, move, mucronation, ne plus ultra, nervous, new departure, no place higher, noon, normal, odds, oilstone, on edge, on tenterhooks, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outline, outset, peak, peevish, penetration, perimeter, periphery, perpendicular, pinnacle, piquancy, pitch, poignancy, point, pointedness, pole, prickliness, prickly, pungency, purfle, purl, radius, radius vector, ragged edge, razor-edge, reset, restive, restless, ridge, right line, rigor, rim, roughness, running start, secant, segment, selvage, send-off, sensitive, set, set off, setting in motion, setting-up, seventh heaven, severity, sharp, sharpen, sharpness, shore, shortcut, shrillness, side, sideline, sideslip, sidestep, sidle, skew, skid, skirt, sky, something extra, something in reserve, sourness, spiculate, spinosity, spire, spur, square one, start, start-off, starting point, steal, sting, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, strap, streamline, stridency, stringency, strop, summit, superiority, surround, take-off, tangent, taper, tartness, teeth, tense, thinness, thorniness, threshold, tip, tip-top, top, touchy, transversal, trenchancy, trim, upmost, upper extremity, upper hand, uppermost, uptight, urgency, utmost, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, vector, veer, vehemence, verge, vertex, very top, violence, virulence, weapon, whet, whip hand, worm, zenith

• edgewise, aside, askance, askant, asquint, broadside, broadside on, crabwise, edgeway, edgeways, glancingly, laterad, laterally, on its side, on the beam, right and left, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling

• edgy, agitable, all nerves, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, apprehensive, breathless, chafing, combustible, eager, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fretful, fretting, frightened, hasty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hopped-up, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, prickly, restive, restless, sensitive, skittery, skittish, squirming, squirmy, startlish, touchy, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, uptight, volatile, volcanic

• edible, board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, comestible, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, dainty, delicious, digestible, eatable, eatables, edibles, esculent, fare, fast food, feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, good to eat, gustable, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, kosher, meat, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, palatable, provender, provision, savory, spread, succulent, sustenance, table, tasty, toothsome, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles, wholesome

• edict, act, announcement, annunciation, appointment, bill, brevet, bull, bulletin board, bylaw, canon, circular, communique, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, dictate, dictation, dictum, diktat, directive, edictum, enactment, encyclical, enunciation, fiat, form, formality, formula, formulary, institution, instrument, ipse dixit, jus, law, legislation, lex, manifesto, measure, notice, notification, order, ordinance, ordonnance, position paper, precept, prescript, prescription, proclamation, program, programma, pronouncement, pronunciamento, public notice, regulation, report, rescript, rubric, rule, ruling, senatus consult, senatus consultum, standing order, statement, statute, ukase, white book, white paper

• edification, accomplishments, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, attainments, catechization, coaching, didactics, direction, education, enlightening, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, improvement, information, instruction, learning, liberal education, pedagogics, pedagogy, private teaching, programmed instruction, reeducation, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, sophistication, spoon-feeding, store of knowledge, teaching, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, uplifting

• edifice, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, architecture, building, casa, cliff dwelling, construct, construction, consulate, country house, country seat, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, embassy, erection, establishment, fabric, farm, farmhouse, hall, house, houseboat, hut, lake dwelling, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, packaged house, parsonage, penthouse, pile, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, presidential palace, pyramid, ranch house, rectory, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, superstructure, tower, town house, vicarage

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

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

• edit, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, alter, amend, annotate, arrange, assemble, blip, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, change, clean up, comment upon, commentate, compile, compress, condense, copy, copy out, correct, crop, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, draft, draw up, edit out, emend, emendate, enface, engross, erase, expunge, expurgate, gloss, inscribe, kill, make a recension, make an edition, make out, modify, omit, order, organize, pen, pencil, polish, prepare, push the pen, put in writing, recense, record, rectify, redact, redraft, reduce, remark upon, reorder, reorganize, rephrase, rescind, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, rub out, scribe, scrive, scroll, select, shorten, spill ink, spoil paper, strike, strike off, strike out, style, superscribe, touch up, trace, transcribe, type, void, work over, write, write down, write out

• edition, arrangement, back number, collection, composite reading, conflation, copy, critical edition, diplomatic text, draft, edited text, hymnal, hymnbook, impression, instrumental score, issue, lection, library, library edition, libretto, lute tablature, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, normalized text, notation, number, opera, opera score, orchestral score, part, piano score, printing, reading, reissue, rendering, rendition, reprinting, scholarly edition, school edition, score, series, set, sheet music, short score, songbook, songster, tablature, text, trade book, trade edition, transcript, transcription, variant, version, vocal score, volume, written music

• editor, allegorist, annotator, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book reviewer, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, captious critic, carper, cataloger, caviler, censor, censurer, chief librarian, cicerone, city editor, clarifier, cognoscente, collector, college editor, columnist, commentator, commenter, compiler, connoisseur, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, cub reporter, curator, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dictionary editor, dragoman, editor-in-chief, editorial writer, editorialist, emendator, emender, euhemerist, executive editor, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, faultfinder, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glossarist, glossographer, go-between, guide, hermeneut, interpreter, interviewer, journalist, juvenile editor, leader writer, leg man, lexicographer, librarian, library director, literary critic, man of letters, managing editor, metaphrast, muckraker, news analyst, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, oneirocritic, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, paraphrast, permissions editor, philobiblist, pressman, printer, production editor, publicist, publisher, reader, redactor, reference editor, reference librarian, reporter, reviewer, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, scholiast, slotman, smellfungus, sob sister, social critic, special correspondent, sports editor, subeditor, textbook editor, textual critic, trade editor, translator, war correspondent, writer

• editorial, allegorizing, analysis, annotative, article, clarifying, column, comment, commentary, commentation, critical, critical review, criticism, critique, demonstrative, demythologizing, elucidative, enlightening, essay, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, gloss, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, journalese, journalistic, leader, leading article, magazinish, magaziny, newspaperish, newspapery, notice, periodical, rationalistic, rationalizing, remark, report, reportorial, review, running commentary, scholiastic, serial, write-up

• editorialize, author, coauthor, collaborate, compose, dash off, formulate, free-lance, ghost, ghostwrite, indite, knock off, knock out, novelize, pamphleteer, prepare, produce, scenarize, throw on paper, write

• educable, apt, bright, clever, docile, facile, formable, impressionable, instructable, intelligent, malleable, moldable, motivated, plastic, pliable, quick, ready, receptive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, willing

• educate, acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, better, boost, brief, bring forward, bring up, broaden the mind, catechize, civilize, coach, cultivate, demonstrate, develop, direct, discipline, drill, edify, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, explain, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give instruction, give lessons in, go straight, ground, guide, illumine, improve, improve upon, inculcate, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, lard, lift, make an improvement, meliorate, mend, nurture, open the eyes, prepare, promote, raise, ready, rear, reeducate, refine upon, reform, school, set right, sharpen the wits, show, show how, socialize, straighten out, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, train, transfigure, transform, tutor, upgrade, uplift

• educated, abreast of, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, au courant, autodidactic, beautified, bettered, briefed, civilized, converted, critical, cultivated, cultured, deep, developed, discerning, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched, erudite, improved, informed, instructed, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literary, literate, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, posted, primed, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, schooled, self-instructed, sensitive, studious, taught, trained, transfigured, transformed, up on, up-to-date, versed, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise

• education, accomplishments, acculturation, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, attainments, broadening the mind, catechization, civility, civilization, coaching, course of study, cultivation, culture, didactics, direction, drilling, edification, enculturation, enlightenment, erudition, guidance, illumination, indoctrination, information, instruction, intellectual acquirement, knowledge, learning, lesson, liberal education, literacy, lore, mastery of skills, memorization, mental cultivation, mental culture, pedagogics, pedagogy, polish, private teaching, programmed instruction, reeducation, refinement, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, socialization, sophistication, spoon-feeding, store of knowledge, storing the mind, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, upbringing

• educational, academic, advisory, autodidactic, coeducational, communicative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, eye-opening, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, informational, informative, informing, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitory, pedagogical, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, revelatory, scholastic, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary

• educator, abecedarian, certified teacher, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, fellow, guide, guru, instructor, maestro, master, melamed, mentor, mullah, pandit, pedagogist, pedagogue, preceptor, professor, pundit, rabbi, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, starets, teacher

• educe, arouse, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, call out, call up, deduce, derive, distill, drag, drag out, draw, draw forth, draw out, elicit, evince, evoke, evolve, excogitate, extort, extract, gain, get, get from, get out of, induce, milk, obtain, procure, pull, reason out, rouse, secure, stimulate, summon forth, summon up, think out, wangle, wangle out of, winkle out, worm out, worm out of, wrest, wring

• edulcorate, bolt, candy, clarify, clear, decrassify, depurate, distill, dulcify, elute, essentialize, extract, filter, filtrate, glaze, honey, leach, lixiviate, mull, percolate, purify, rectify, refine, saccharify, screen, separate, sieve, sift, spiritualize, strain, sublimate, sublime, sugar, sugar off, sugarcoat, sweeten, try, winnow

• eerie, arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, bizarre, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, crawly, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dreadful, eldritch, esoteric, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fantastic, fey, frightening, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hypernormal, hyperphysical, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, mysterious, numinous, occult, otherworldly, pale, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, scary, spectral, spiritual, spookish, spooky, strange, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unhuman, unworldly, wan, weird

• eeriness, Hippocratic face, alarmingness, appallingness, awfulness, cadaverousness, corpselikeness, creepiness, deadliness, deathlikeness, deathliness, direness, disconcertingness, dismayingness, disquietingness, dreadfulness, elfdom, facies Hippocratica, faerie, fearfulness, fearsomeness, frighteningness, frightfulness, ghastliness, ghostlikeness, ghostliness, ghoulishness, grimness, grisliness, gruesomeness, haggardness, hideousness, horribleness, luridness, macabreness, mask of death, miraculousness, mysteriousness, mystery, numinousness, otherworldliness, paleness, pallor, preternaturalism, scariness, spookiness, startlingness, superhumanity, supernaturalism, supernaturality, supernaturalness, supernature, supernormalness, superphysicalness, supersensibleness, supranaturalism, supranature, terribleness, the occult, the supernatural, the supersensible, transcendentalism, uncanniness, unearthliness, unworldliness, wanness, weirdness, witchery

• efface, annul, black out, blot, blot out, cancel, cross out, dele, delete, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exclude, expunge, extirpate, obliterate, raze, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike out, wipe out

• effect, Z, abide by, accomplish, achieve, actualize, actually, adhere to, administer, affective meaning, aftereffect, aftermath, aim, ambition, amperage, angle, animus, apodosis, armipotence, artifact, ascendancy, aspect, aspiration, at bottom, attain, author, authority, basically, bear, bearing, beef, beget, black power, brainchild, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring off, bring on, bring to effect, bring to pass, brute force, call forth, capacity, carry out, carry through, catastrophe, cause, ceasing, cessation, charge, charisma, charm, child, clout, coda, cogence, cogency, coinage, coloring, commit, compass, complete, composition, compulsion, conceive, conclusion, concoction, configuration, connotation, consequence, constitute, consummate, consummation, contrive, control, corollary, counsel, crack of doom, create, creation, creature, credit, crowning achievement, culmination, curtain, curtains, deal with, death, decease, denotation, denouement, descendant, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, destination, destiny, determination, development, dint, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, distillation, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, dominance, domination, doom, draw down, draw on, drift, drive, duress, dynasty, effectively, effectiveness, effectuality, effectuate, efficacy, eidolon, elicit, eminence, enact, enchantment, end, end point, end product, ending, energy, enforce, engender, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, essence, essentially, establish, esteem, event, eventuality, evoke, execute, expiration, extension, extract, facet, fashion, fate, father, favor, feature, fetch, figure, fill out, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fixed purpose, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, form, found, fruit, fulfill, full blast, full force, function, generate, gestalt, gestate, get, gist, give birth to, give origin to, give rise to, go and do, goal, good feeling, grammatical meaning, guise, handiwork, heir, hold, honor, idea, image, imago, impact, implement, implication, import, importance, impression, in effect, in truth, inaugurate, incept, incidental power, induce, inflict, influence, influentiality, insinuation, inspire, install, instigate, institute, intendment, intension, intent, intention, invention, invoke, issue, izzard, knock off, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, lead, leadership, leverage, lexical meaning, light, likeness, line, lineage, lineaments, literal meaning, look, magnetism, main force, main strength, make, make out, mana, manage, manner, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mastery, materialize, meaning, might, might and main, mightiness, mind, mintage, moment, more or less, motivate, motive, moxie, muscle power, new mintage, nisus, object, objective, observe, obtain, occasion, offspring, omega, opera, opus, opuscule, organize, originate, origination, outcome, outgrowth, overtone, pay, payoff, perform, period, peroration, perpetrate, personality, persuasion, pertinence, phase, phasis, pith, pizzazz, plan, point, polish off, poop, posterity, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, practical consequence, precipitate, predominance, preponderance, prepotency, pressure, prestige, procure, produce, product, production, productiveness, productivity, project, promulgate, proposal, prosecute, prospectus, provoke, puissance, pull, pull off, punch, purchase, purport, purpose, pursuance, push, put away, put in force, put through, quietus, ramification, range of meaning, real meaning, realize, really, reference, referent, regard, reign, relation, relevance, render, repercussion, repute, resolution, resolve, respect, resting place, result, rule, sake, say, scope, secure, seeming, semantic cluster, semantic field, semblance, sensation, sense, sequel, sequence, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shape, side, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, simulacrum, sinew, sire, slant, so to speak, span of meaning, spirit, steam, stoppage, stopping place, strength, striving, strong arm, structural meaning, study, style, suasion, substance, subtle influence, succeed, successor, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, superinduce, superiority, superpower, supremacy, swan song, sway, symbolic meaning, take and do, take care of, take effect, tenor, term, terminal, termination, terminus, things, total effect, totality of associations, transact, transferred meaning, truly, turn out, turn the trick, twist, unadorned meaning, undertone, up and do, upper hand, upshot, validity, value, vehemence, view, viewpoint, vigor, vim, virility, virtually, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, whip hand, will, windup, wise, work, work out, wreak, yield

• effective, able, acid, active, actual, adequate, armipotent, authoritative, banausic, basic, biting, capable, charismatic, charming, cogent, compelling, competent, consequential, conspicuous, convincing, corrosive, cutting, direct, driving, dynamic, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enchanting, energetic, equal to, essential, estimable, feasible, forceful, forcible, functional, functioning, go, gutsy, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, imperative, important, impressive, in force, in operation, in power, incisive, influential, irresistible, magnetic, mighty, mighty in battle, momentous, mordant, moving, nervous, noticeable, operable, operational, operative, outstanding, penetrating, personable, persuasive, piercing, poignant, potent, powerful, practicable, practical, pragmatic, prepotent, prestigious, productive, proficient, puissant, punchy, real, realizable, remarkable, reputable, ruling, sensational, serviceable, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sound, striking, strong, suasive, substantial, telling, trenchant, true, up to, useful, valid, vigorous, virtuous, vital, weighty, winning, workable

• effectively, ably, adequately, advantageously, ardently, capably, cogently, competently, conveniently, dynamically, effectually, efficiently, eloquently, energetically, expressively, fervently, fluently, forcefully, forcibly, functionally, glibly, glowingly, graphically, handily, impressively, in glowing terms, meaningfully, mightily, passionately, potently, powerfully, practically, productively, profitably, serviceably, smoothly, spiritedly, strikingly, tellingly, to advantage, to good account, to good effect, to good purpose, to good use, to profit, usefully, vehemently, vigorously, vividly, warmly, well, with a vengeance, with telling effect

• effectiveness, acme, amperage, applicability, armipotence, authority, authorization, availability, be-all and end-all, beef, bite, bitingness, black power, blue ribbon, brute force, capability, championship, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, command, compulsion, control, cuttingness, dint, directorship, dominion, drive, duress, effect, effectuality, efficacy, efficiency, energy, first place, first prize, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, functionality, guts, headship, hegemony, height, helpfulness, highest, imperium, impressiveness, incisiveness, influence, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, lordship, main force, main strength, mana, management, mastership, mastery, maximum, might, might and main, mightiness, mordancy, most, moxie, muscle power, ne plus ultra, nervosity, nervousness, new high, operability, palms, paramountcy, performance, pizzazz, poignancy, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, practicability, practical utility, practicality, prepotency, presidency, primacy, productiveness, productivity, profitability, puissance, pull, punch, push, record, rule, say, serviceability, sinew, sinewiness, sovereignty, steam, strength, strong arm, strong language, superiority, superpower, supremacy, sway, top spot, trenchancy, usability, use, usefulness, utility, utilizability, validity, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigorousness, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, zenith

• effects, acquest, belongings, catalog goods, chattels, clobber, commodities, consumer goods, consumer items, crap, estate and effects, gear, goods, goods for sale, havings, hereditament, holdings, incorporeal hereditament, inventory, job lot, junk, line, line of goods, mail-order goods, merchandise, paraphernalia, personal property, possessions, properties, property, shit, sideline, staples, stock, stock-in-trade, stuff, things, vendibles, wares

• effectual, able, achieving, active, actual, adequate, ascertained, attested, authenticated, authoritative, banausic, behind the scenes, binding, capable, categorically true, causal, causative, certain, certified, charismatic, charming, competent, conclusive, confirmed, consequential, constitutive, corroborated, decisive, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documentary, effective, efficacious, efficient, enchanting, equal to, established, estimable, etiological, factual, feasible, forceful, forcible, formative, fulfilling, functional, go, historical, important, in force, influential, institutive, lawful, legal, magnetic, momentous, not in error, objectively true, occasional, operable, operational, operative, originative, personable, persuasive, pivotal, potent, powerful, practicable, practical, pragmatic, prestigious, productive, proficient, proved, real, realizable, reputable, sound, strong, suasive, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, telling, toothy, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, up to, useful, valid, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, weighty, winning, workable

• effectuate, abide by, accomplish, achieve, act, adhere to, administer, attain, author, be productive, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring off, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, carry, carry out, carry through, cause, commit, compass, complete, conceive, constitute, consummate, create, deal with, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, effect, enact, enforce, engender, engineer, establish, execute, father, fetch, fill out, form, found, fulfill, generate, gestate, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go and do, honor, implement, inaugurate, incept, industrialize, inflict, install, institute, knock off, make, make out, manage, mass-produce, materialize, observe, occasion, organize, originate, overproduce, pay, perform, perpetrate, polish off, produce, promulgate, prosecute, pull off, put away, put in force, put through, realize, render, set afloat, set on foot, set up, silken, sire, succeed, take and do, take care of, transact, turn the trick, up and do, volume-produce, work, work out, wreak

• effeminate, AC-DC, amphierotic, autoerotic, bent, bisexed, bisexual, breakable, brittle, butch, campy, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, deviant, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gay, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, homoerotic, homosexual, jerry, jerry-built, lesbian, light, lightweight, mannish, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery, pasteboardy, perverted, prissy, puny, queer, sapphic, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, transvestite, tribadistic, unmanly, unsubstantial, weak, wispy, womanish, womanly

• effeminize, castrate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, effeminate, effeminatize, emasculate, enervate, etiolate, exhaust, geld, sissify, soften, sterilize, unman, unnerve, womanize

• effervesce, assibilate, be enthusiastic, blubber, boil, boil over, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, burble, buzz, carry on over, enthuse, ferment, fizz, fizzle, go on over, guggle, gurgle, gush, gush over, hiss, hush, lisp, make much of, plop, rave, rave about, rhapsodize, seethe, shush, sibilate, simmer, siss, sizz, sizzle, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sparkle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, swish, take on over, wheeze, whish, whistle, whiz, whoosh, work, zip

• effervescence, ado, agitation, animation, assibilation, boiling, breeziness, briskness, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, buoyancy, bustle, buzz, carbonation, commotion, disturbance, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, eddy, effervescency, effervescing, embroilment, energy, exuberance, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fizz, fizzing, fizzle, fizzling, flurry, foaming, frication, frictional rustling, frothiness, frothing, fume, hiss, hissing, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, hush, hushing, life, lisp, liveliness, moxie, pell-mell, pep, peppiness, perturbation, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, rhonchus, ruffle, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spit, splutter, sprightliness, spumescence, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, stir, swirl, swirling, swish, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, verve, vim, vivaciousness, vivacity, vortex, wheeze, whirl, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, yeastiness, zip

• effervescent, active, activist, activistic, agog, airy, alive, animated, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, boiling, bouncing, bouncy, brash, breezy, brisk, bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burbling, burbly, bursting, carbonated, carried away, chiffon, chipper, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, expansive, exuberant, fired, fizzing, fizzling, fizzy, foaming, foamy, frisky, frothing, frothy, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gassy, gay, gleeful, high, high-spirited, hilarious, hissing, hopped up, hushing, impassioned, inflamed, irrepressible, jolly, keyed up, lathered up, live, lively, manic, mercurial, militant, mirthful, moved, peppy, perky, pert, puffed, quicksilver, ready to burst, resilient, roused, sibilant, sissing, sizzling, smacking, snappy, sniffing, sniffling, snoring, snuffling, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, volatile, wheezing, wheezy, whipped, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zingy

• effete, ablated, all in, anemic, arid, asthenic, ausgespielt, barren, blah, blank, bleary, bloodless, bootless, burned-out, burnt up, characterless, chicken, cold, colorless, coming apart, consumed, counterproductive, cowardly, cracking, crumbling, dead, debilitated, decadent, decayed, decaying, declining, degenerate, depleted, deteriorating, devitalized, disabled, disintegrating, dismal, dissipated, dissolute, done, done in, done up, draggy, drained, draining, drearisome, dreary, drooping, droopy, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, dwindling, eaten up, ebbing, elephantine, emptied, empty, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, etiolated, eviscerated, exhausted, fade, fading, failing, faint, faintish, falling, far-gone, fatigued, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, feeble, finished, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy, fragmenting, frazzled, fruitless, futile, going to pieces, gone, gutless, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, imbecile, immoral, impotent, impoverished, inadequate, inane, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inoperative, insipid, invalid, jaded, jejune, laid low, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limber, limp, listless, low-spirited, lustless, marcescent, marrowless, nerveless, nugacious, nugatory, of no force, out, overripe, pale, pallid, pedestrian, pining, pithless, played out, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, powerless, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, rubbery, run-down, sapless, sapped, shotten, shriveling, sinewless, sinking, slack, sliding, slipping, slow, slumping, soft, solemn, spent, spineless, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strengthless, stuffy, subsiding, superficial, tabetic, tasteless, tedious, tired, unavailing, unfruitful, unhardened, unlively, unnerved, unstrung, used up, useless, vain, vapid, waning, washed-out, wasted, wasting, weak, weakened, weakly, wilting, withering, wooden, worn, worn away, worn-out, worsening

• efficacious, able, active, adequate, authoritative, capable, charismatic, charming, competent, consequential, effective, effectual, efficient, enchanting, equal to, estimable, functional, go, important, influential, magnetic, momentous, operational, operative, personable, persuasive, potent, powerful, practical, prestigious, productive, proficient, puissant, reputable, serviceable, strong, suasive, substantial, successful, telling, up to, useful, virtuous, weighty, winning

• efficiency, ability, able, ableness, address, adept, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, airmanship, applicability, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, availability, bravura, brilliance, caliber, capability, capable, capableness, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, competent, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, effectiveness, effectual, efficacious, efficaciousness, efficacy, efficient, experience, expert, expertise, expertness, facility, faculty, finesse, fitness, fitted, flair, functionality, genius, grace, grip, handiness, helpfulness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, know-how, marksmanship, masterly, mastership, mastery, operability, performance, potency, practicability, practical ability, practical utility, practicality, productivity, proficiency, proficient, profitability, prowess, qualification, qualified, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, serviceability, skill, skilled, skillful, skillfulness, style, sufficiency, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the goods, the stuff, timing, usability, use, usefulness, utility, utilizability, virtuosity, virtuous, what it takes, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• efficient, able, active, adequate, au fait, banausic, capable, competent, economic, effective, effectual, efficacious, equal to, feasible, fit, fitted, fitted for, functional, go, journeyman, operable, operational, operative, practicable, practical, pragmatic, productive, proficient, qualified, realizable, suited, thrifty, unwasteful, up to, up to snuff, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, workable, worthy

• efficiently, ably, adeptly, adequately, adroitly, advantageously, agilely, aptly, artfully, artistically, brilliantly, capably, cleverly, competently, conveniently, cunningly, deftly, dexterously, dextrously, effectively, effectually, excellently, expertly, featly, functionally, handily, ingeniously, masterfully, neatly, nimbly, practically, proficiently, profitably, resourcefully, serviceably, skillfully, spryly, superbly, to advantage, to good effect, to good use, to profit, usefully, well, with consummate skill, with finesse, with genius, with skill

• effigy, companion, copy, dead ringer, double, duplicate, exact likeness, fellow, icon, idol, image, likeness, living image, living picture, match, mate, miniature, mirroring, model, photograph, picture, portrait, reflection, resemblance, rubbing, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, spit and image, spitting image, trace, tracing, twin, very image, very picture

• effluent, affluent, bayou, billabong, branch, confluent, confluent stream, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, dendritic drainage pattern, discharge, effused, effusive, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, excrement, excreta, excretes, extravasate, extravasated, extravasation, exudate, exudation, feeder, fork, outbound, outflowing, outgoing, outpouring, outward-bound, prong, transudate, transudation, tributary, waste, waste matter

• effluvium, afterdamp, aroma, aura, blackdamp, breath, chokedamp, cloud, coal gas, damp, definite odor, detectable odor, ectoplasm, ectoplasy, emanation, essence, exhalation, exhaust, exhaust gas, exteriorized protoplasm, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, flavor, fluid, fragrance, fume, malaria, mephitis, miasma, odor, puff of smoke, redolence, reek, savor, scent, smell, smoke, smudge, spoor, steam, stench, subtle odor, trace, trail, vapor, volatile, water vapor, whiff

• effort, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, ad hoc measure, adventure, affair, answer, application, approach, artifice, assay, attainment, attempt, bid, blow, business, chore, commitment, contract, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, crack, creation, deal, dealings, deed, demarche, determination, device, dodge, doing, doings, elbow grease, endeavor, energy, engagement, enterprise, essay, exertion, expedient, experiment, exploit, fait accompli, feat, fling, force, gambit, gest, gimmick, go, hand, handiwork, hard pull, improvisation, job, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, labor, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lick, long pull, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, might, might and main, move, muscle, nerve and sinew, obligation, offer, operation, overt act, pains, passage, performance, pis aller, plan, power, proceeding, production, program, project, proposition, puissance, res gestae, resolution, resort, resource, shake-up, shift, shot, solution, stab, step, stopgap, strain, stratagem, striving, stroke, stroke of policy, strong bid, struggle, stunt, tactic, task, temporary expedient, tentative, thing, thing done, toil, tour de force, transaction, travail, trial, trial and error, trick, trouble, trump, try, turn, undertaking, venture, whack, while, work, working hypothesis, working proposition, works

• effortless, Mickey Mouse, adept, casual, clear, cursive, cushy, easy, easy as pie, expert, facile, flowing, fluent, glib, light, masterly, nothing to it, painless, plain, proficient, ready, royal, running, simple, simple as ABC, skilled, skillful, smooth, soft, straightforward, unburdensome, uncomplicated, untroublesome

• effortlessly, adeptly, adroitly, easily, efficiently, expertly, facilely, freely, hands down, lightly, like clockwork, like nothing, no sweat, on easy terms, proficiently, readily, simply, skillfully, smoothly, swimmingly, well, without difficulty

• effrontery, arrogance, assurance, audacity, boldness, brashness, brass, brazenness, bumptiousness, cheek, confidence, contumely, crust, face, gall, hardihood, hubris, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, obtrusiveness, overweening, overweeningness, presumption, presumptuousness, procacity, pushiness, self-assurance, self-confidence, temerity, uppishness, uppityness

• effuse, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arise, bail out, bleed, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, break cover, break forth, burst forth, come, come forth, come out, copious, debouch, diffuse, discharge, disembogue, egest, eliminate, emanate, emerge, emit, epidemic, erupt, excrete, exfiltrate, exhaustless, extravagant, extravasate, extrude, exuberant, exudate, exude, fat, fertile, filter, filtrate, flush, full, galore, generous, give off, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, issue, issue forth, jump out, lavish, leach, liberal, lixiviate, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, numerous, ooze, opulent, overflowing, pass, percolate, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, protrude, rampant, reek, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, sally, sally forth, secrete, seep, strain, superabundant, surface, teeming, transpire, transude, wealthy, weep, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

• effusive, abundant, accessible, all jaw, approachable, candid, chatty, cloying, communicative, conversable, conversational, copious, demonstrative, diffuse, diffusive, ebullient, effluent, effused, emotional, expansive, extravagant, extravasated, extroverted, exuberant, fecund, flip, fluent, formless, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, fulsome, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushing, gushy, lavish, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, outbound, outflowing, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, outward-bound, overenthusiastic, overflowing, overtalkative, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, rhapsodic, self-revealing, self-revelatory, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, smooth, sociable, superabundant, talkative, talky, tautologous, teeming, unchecked, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, verbose, voluble, windy

• egest, barf, be seasick, be sick, bring up, chuck up, discharge, disgorge, effuse, eliminate, emit, excrete, extravasate, exudate, exude, feed the fish, gag, give off, heave, heave the gorge, keck, pass, puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, secrete, sick up, spew, throw up, transude, upchuck, vomit, weep

• egg on, agitate, arouse, cheer on, drive, drive on, excite, exhort, goad, goad on, hasten on, hie on, hound on, hurry on, instigate, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, rally, root on, sic, speed on, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge on, whip, whip on

• egg white, albumen, batter, bonnyclabber, butter, caviar, clabber, cornstarch, cream, curd, dough, egg, eggshell, fish eggs, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, jam, jell, jelly, loblolly, molasses, mucilage, mucus, ovule, pap, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, roe, semifluid, semiliquid, size, soup, spawn, starch, sticky mess, syrup, treacle, vitellus, white, yellow, yolk

• egg, Anlage, albumen, boiled eggs, bud, caviar, coddled eggs, deviled eggs, dropped eggs, egg cell, egg white, eggs, eggshell, embryo, female gamete, fish eggs, fried eggs, germ, germen, glair, loins, nucleus, omelet, ooecium, ovicell, ovule, ovum, poached eggs, roe, rudiment, scrambled eggs, seed, shirred eggs, souffle, spawn, spermatozoon, stirp, stuffed eggs, vitellus, white, yellow, yolk