Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/31

• fingerprint, boss, bump, colophon, concavity, convexity, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, dint, embossment, excrescence, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil footprint, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, lump, pad, paw print, pawmark, pimple, print, pug, pugmark, seal, sigil, signet, stamp, step, stud, thumbmark, thumbprint, vestige

• fini, SOL, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, at an end, canceled, complete, concluded, dead, decided, defunct, deleted, done, done for, done with, ended, expunged, extinct, finished, kaput, over, perfected, set at rest, settled, shot, terminated, through, through with, washed up, wiped out, wound up, zapped

• finicky, accurate, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aware, careful, choosy, close, concentrated, conscientious, conscious, correct, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, detailed, difficult, diligent, earnest, elaborate, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finikin, full, fuss-budgety, fussy, hard to please, heedful, intense, intent, intentive, meticulous, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, nit-picking, observant, observing, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, particular, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, picayune, picky, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, punctilious, punctual, queasy, refined, regardful, religious, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, special, specific, squeamish, strict, subtle, watchful

• finis, Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finish, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, omega, payoff, period, peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, windup

• finish, Atticism, KO, Z, ablate, abort, absoluteness, absorb, accomplish, accomplishment, achieve, achievement, acquirement, acquisition, annihilate, annihilation, answer, answer conclusively, apodosis, appropriateness, argue down, assassinate, assimilate, attainment, balance, beat, beautify, bereave of life, best, bilateral symmetry, bleed white, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, bring down, buff, bump off, burn up, burnish, button up, call off, cancel, cap, carry away, carry off, carry out, carry to completion, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, ceiling, cessation, chasteness, chastity, chloroform, circumscription, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clean up, clearness, climax, clinch, close, close out, close up, closing, coda, comeliness, compass, complete, completing, completion, conclude, conclusion, confine, conformity, confound, confute, congruity, conquer, consistency, consume, consummate, consummation, contradict, controvert, cool, correctness, correspondence, crack of doom, crown, crush, culminate, culmination, cultivate, cultivation, curtain, curtains, cut down, cut off, cut short, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, death, decease, defeat, defectlessness, delete, delimitation, demolish, denouement, deny, deplete, deprive of life, desistance, destination, destiny, destroy, destruction, determinant, determine, develop, devour, digest, dignity, directness, discrimination, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, distinction, division line, do away with, do for, do in, do to death, doom, down, downfall, drain, drain of resources, drink up, drop the curtain, dust off, dynamic symmetry, ease, eat, eat up, effect, elaborate, elegance, elegancy, embellish, end, end off, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, equality, equilibrium, erode, eschatology, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, evolve, execute, exhaust, expend, expiration, expunge, exterminate, extermination, extinguish, extremity, fate, faultlessness, feel, felicitousness, felicity, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finalize, finis, finish off, finish up, finishing, fittingness, flawlessness, floor, flow, flowing periods, fluency, fold up, frontier, fulfill, full development, furbish, get done, get it over, get over with, get rid of, get through, get through with, give the quietus, glance, glaze, gloss, go, goal, gobble, gobble up, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, grain, granular texture, halt, harmony, have done with, hedge, high-water mark, ice, immaculateness, immolate, impeccability, impoverish, indentation, infallibility, ingest, interface, izzard, kayo, keeping, kibosh, kill, killing, knock off, knock out, knub, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, launch into eternity, let go, let loose, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, limpidity, line, line of demarcation, liquidate, low-water mark, lower limit, lucidity, luster, lynch, make away with, march, mark, martyr, martyrize, maturation, mature, maturity, mete, mop up, multilateral symmetry, murder, nap, naturalness, neatness, nip, nonplus, nub, omega, overcome, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parallelism, parry, patina, payoff, pellucidity, perfect, perfection, period, perorate, peroration, perspicuity, pile, pit, plainness, pock, poison, polarity, polish, polish off, proportion, proportionality, propriety, protuberance, purge, purity, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to silence, put to sleep, quietus, rebut, reduce to silence, refine, refinement, refute, regularity, release, remove from life, resolution, resolve, resting place, restraint, ripen, ripeness, round out, rounding off, rounding out, rub, rub out, run through, sacrifice, scour, scrag, scrap, scratch, season, seemliness, set free, settle, shag, shapeliness, shine, shoot down, shut up, silence, simplicity, sinlessness, slaughter, slay, sleek, slick, slick down, smash all opposition, smoothness, spend, spotlessness, squander, squash, squelch, stainlessness, start, starting line, starting point, starve, stop, stoppage, stopping place, straightforwardness, structure, subvert, suck dry, surface, surface texture, swallow, swallow up, swan song, symmetricalness, symmetry, taintlessness, take life, take off, target date, taste, tastefulness, term, terminal, terminal date, terminate, termination, terminus, terseness, texture, threshold, time allotment, to, top off, top out, topping off, trilateral symmetry, ultimate, unaffectedness, undermine, uniformity, upper limit, upset, use up, varnish, wale, wash up, waste, waste away, wax, wear away, weave, wind up, windup, wipe out, woof, worst, wrap up, zap

• finished, Attic, Ciceronian, SOL, ablated, accomplished, ago, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, antiquated, antique, archetypical, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at an end, at concert pitch, at rest, ausgespielt, balanced, bankrupt, bereft of life, blasted, blighted, blown over, breathless, broken, buffed, burnished, burnt up, by, bygone, bypast, called home, canceled, career, carrion, chaste, classic, cleaned up, clear, coached, coequal, complete, completed, concluded, consumed, consummate, conversant, coordinate, croaked, cultivated, cultured, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, decided, defunct, deleted, demised, departed, departed this life, depleted, desolated, destitute of life, destroyed, devastated, developed, direct, dissipated, done, done for, done in, done with, down, down-and-out, drained, easy, eaten up, effete, elapsed, elegant, ended, equal, equilateral, eroded, eurythmic, even, exanimate, exemplary, exhausted, expert, expired, expunged, extinct, fallen, fini, finished up, food for worms, forgotten, fully developed, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gone, gone glimmering, gone to glory, gone to pot, gone west, gone-by, graceful, gracile, harmonious, has-been, impoverished, in ruins, inanimate, initiate, initiated, irrecoverable, irremediable, kaput, lacquered, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, limpid, lucid, martyred, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural, neat, no more, obsolete, over, overthrown, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, pellucid, perfected, perfective, perspicuous, plain, polished, practiced, prepared, primed, professional, proficient, proportioned, pure, pushing up daisies, quintessential, ravaged, refined, regular, released, reposing, resting easy, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, ruined, ruinous, run out, sainted, satiny, set at rest, settled, shellacked, shiny, shot, silken, silky, simple, skilled, sleek, sleeping, slick, smitten with death, smooth, spent, spoiled, still, stillborn, straightforward, suave, symmetric, taken away, taken off, tasteful, technical, terminated, terse, through, through with, trained, trim, unaffected, undone, uniform, unlabored, urbane, used up, vanished, varnished, velvety, versatile, virtuosic, washed up, washed-up, wasted, well-balanced, well-set, well-set-up, wiped out, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, worn away, worn-out, wound up, wrapped up, wrecked, zapped

• finisher, KO, capstone, climax, clincher, conclusive argument, copestone, crown, crusher, cutter, death stroke, deathblow, end-all, ender, final stroke, final touch, finishing stroke, floorer, garmentmaker, garmentworker, kayo, kayo punch, knockdown argument, knockout, knockout blow, last dab, last stroke, last touch, needleworker, quietus, settler, sockdolager, stitcher, stopper

• finishing, ablation, absorption, assimilation, attrition, burning up, capping, close, closing, completing, completion, completive, completory, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, consummative, consummatory, consumption, crowning, culminating, culmination, culminative, depletion, digestion, drain, eating up, end, ending, erosion, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, final, finalizing, finish, fulfilling, full development, impoverishment, ingestion, last, maturation, maturity, perfecting, perfection, perfective, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, spending, squandering, terminal, terminating, termination, terminative, terminus, topping off, ultimate, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down, windup

• finite, Adamite, Adamitic, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, anthropocentric, anthropological, bound, bounded, cardinal, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, countable, cramped, decimal, definable, defined, definite, delimited, determinate, differential, digital, disciplined, earthy, even, exact, exponential, figural, figurate, figurative, fixed, fleshly, fractional, frail, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, limited, logarithmic, logometric, man-centered, moderated, mortal, narrow, negative, numerable, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, only human, ordinal, pair, patented, positive, possible, precise, prescribed, prime, proscribed, qualified, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, restricted, specific, strait, straitened, submultiple, surd, tellurian, terminable, transcendental, unangelic, weak

• finitude, caducity, changeableness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, fleetingness, fugacity, impermanence, impermanency, instability, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, volatility

• fink, bear witness against, betray, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blackleg, blow the whistle, canary, delator, inform against, inform on, informer, narc, nark, peach, peacher, rat, scab, sell out, snitch, snitch on, snitcher, spy, squeal, squealer, stool, stool pigeon, stoolie, strikebreaker, talebearer, tattle, tattler, tattletale, tell on, telltale, testify against, tipster, turn informer, whistle-blower

• fiord, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, cove, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits

• fire bell, Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, beacon, bell, blinking light, burglar alarm, buzzer, chimes, church bell, clapper, cowbell, crostarie, dinner bell, dinner gong, doorbell, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire flag, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, gale warning, gong, gong bell, hand bell, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, jingle bell, lighthouse, note of alarm, occulting light, passing bell, police whistle, sacring bell, sheepbell, signal of distress, siren, sleigh bell, small-craft warning, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, telephone bell, tintinnabulum, tocsin, tongue, triangle, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, whistle

• fire eater, Mafioso, Tartar, Young Turk, adventurer, adventuress, bear, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, brazenface, brute, crank, crosspatch, daredevil, demon, devil, dragon, feist, fiend, fire brigade, fire department, fire fighter, fire warden, fire-chaser, firebrand, fireman, forest fire fighter, fury, goon, gorilla, grizzly bear, grouch, gunsel, hardnose, harum-scarum, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, mad dog, madbrain, madcap, monster, mugger, rantipole, rapist, revolutionary, savage, she-wolf, smokechaser, smokejumper, sorehead, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, vamp, violent, virago, vixen, volunteer fireman, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf

• fire escape, back stairs, bolt-hole, companion, companionway, ejection seat, emergency exit, escalier, escape hatch, flight of steps, incline, inflatable slide, landing, landing stage, life buoy, life net, life raft, lifeboat, lifeline, perron, ramp, sally port, slide, spiral staircase, staircase, stairs, stairway, stepping-stones, steps, stile, treads and risers

• fire extinguisher, Foamite, acid, automatic sprinkler, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, deck gun, deluge set, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, foam, foam extinguisher, hook-and-ladder, ladder pipe, pumper, snorkel, soda, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, super-pumper, water, water cannon, wet blanket

• fire hydrant, Foamite, acid, automatic sprinkler, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, deck gun, deluge set, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fireplug, foam, foam extinguisher, hook-and-ladder, hydrant, ladder pipe, plug, pumper, snorkel, soda, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, super-pumper, water, water cannon, water plug, wet blanket

• fire tactics, aerial tactics, airborne tactics, applied tactics, armored tactics, barrier tactics, cavalry tactics, defensive strategy, diversion, encirclement, feint, infantry tactics, infiltration, investment, mob tactics, mobile tactics, pincers movement, shock tactics, strategy, tactics

• fire worship, Druidism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Zoroastrianism, animal worship, arson, demonism, demonolatry, devil worship, fetishism, fire-raising, heathenism, hero worship, iconoduly, iconolatry, idol worship, idolatrousness, idolatry, idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, incendiarism, paganism, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, pyromania, pyrophilia, snake worship, star worship, sun worship, tree worship

• fire, abandon, afflatus, afire, aflame, aggressiveness, agitate, aim at, air, air-dry, alight, anhydrate, animate, animating spirit, animation, animus, annoy, antiaircraft fire, ardency, ardent, ardor, arouse, aroused, atom, atomic particles, awake, awaken, ax, axe, backfire, bake, balefire, bang, bank, barbecue, barrage, baste, beacon, beacon fire, begin, blanch, blast, blast away, blast off, blaze, blaze up, blazing, blitz, blot, blow out, blow the coals, blow up, boil, bombard, bombardment, bonfire, boot, boot out, bounce, bowl, braise, break, brew, broadside, broil, brown, brush, brute matter, building block, bump, burn, burning, burning ghat, burning pain, burst, bust, calenture, call forth, call up, campfire, can, candle, cannon, cannonade, cashier, cast, cast at, catapult, chafe, charge, charring, cheerful fire, chemical element, childbed fever, chuck, chuck at, chunk, cock, coddle, combustion, commence, commence firing, commitment, committedness, component, conflagrate, conflagration, constituent, continued fever, cook, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, cross fire, cure, curry, curtain fire, dart, dash, death fire, dedication, defrock, degrade, dehumidify, dehydrate, delay, delirium, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, desiccate, detonate, devil, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, direct fire, disbar, discharge, disemploy, dismiss, displace, displume, dive in, divine afflatus, do, do to perfection, drain, drive, drop, drum out, dry, dry fire, dynamize, eager, eagerness, earnestness, earth, eclat, ecstasy, eject, elan, electric light bulb, electric-heat, electrify, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, embue, energize, energy, enfilade, enkindle, enliven, enlivenment, enrage, enterprise, enthuse, enthusiasm, enthusiastic, eruptive fever, evaporate, exalt, excite, excited, excitement, exhilarate, exhilaration, expel, explode, exsiccate, faith, faithfulness, fall to, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, febricity, febrility, feed, feed the fire, feeling, fell, fen fire, ferment, fervency, fervent, fervid, fervidness, fervor, fever, fever heat, fever of excitement, feverishness, fidelity, fieriness, file fire, fire a volley, fire at, fire of demolition, fire off, fire up, fire upon, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, flame, flame up, flaming, flare, flare up, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fling, fling at, flip, flush, foment, forest fire, fork, fox fire, frenzy, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fulminate, fundamental particle, funeral pyre, furlough, furor, fury, fusillade, galvanize, gas-heat, genius, get to, get-up-and-go, ginger, give the ax, give the gate, glare, glaze, glim, glow, go ahead, go off, griddle, grill, ground fire, gun, gun for, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, gusto, hang fire, head into, heart, hearten, heartiness, heat, heat up, heatedness, heave, heave at, hectic, hectic fever, hectic flush, heighten, high-angle fire, hit, holocaust, horizontal fire, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-blooded, hot-water-heat, hurl, hurl against, hurl at, hurrah, hurtle, hyle, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia, hypostasis, ignis fatuus, ignite, ignition, illuminant, illuminator, imbue, impassion, impassionedness, incandescent body, incense, incite, infect, infection, inferno, inflame, inform, infuriate, infuse, infusion, ingle, initiative, inject, inoculate, insolate, inspiration, inspire, inspired, inspirit, instigate, intense, intensify, intensity, intentness, interdiction fire, intermittent fever, invigorate, jazz up, jerk, jump off, key up, kick, kick off, kick out, kick upstairs, kiln, kindle, lambent flame, lamp, lance, lantern, lather up, launch, lay off, let fly, let fly at, let go, let off, let out, light, light bulb, light source, light the fuse, light up, liveliness, liven, load, lob, loyalty, luminant, luminary, machine-gun fire, madden, make redundant, marshfire, match, material, material world, materiality, matter, mold, molecule, monad, moon, mortar, mortar fire, motivate, move, moving spirit, mull, mummify, musketry, natural world, nature, nettle, on fire, open fire, open up on, oust, oven-bake, overexcite, overheat, pan, pan-broil, parboil, parch, pass, passion, passionate, passionateness, peg, pelt, pension off, pep, pep up, pepper, percussion fire, perk up, physical world, pick off, pique, piss and vinegar, pistol, pistol fire, pitch, pitch in, pitchfork, pizzazz, play with fire, plenum, plug, plunge into, poach, poop, pop at, pot, potshoot, potshot, prairie fire, preheat, prepare, prepare food, prime, project, propel, protein fever, provoke, puerperal fever, punch, push, put, put the shot, put up to, pyre, pyrexia, quicken, raging fire, rake, raking fire, rally, rapid fire, read out of, recook, reheat, rekindle, relapsing fever, release, relight, relish, relume, remittent, remittent fever, replace, resolution, retire, ricochet fire, riddle, rifle fire, roast, rouse, rub, rut, sack, salvo, saute, savor, scallop, scorch, scorching, sea of flames, sear, searing, send off, separate forcibly, seriousness, serve, set about, set astir, set fire to, set in, set off, set on, set on fire, set out, set sail, set to, sexual excitement, shape, sheet of fire, shell, shellfire, shirr, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shoot-out, shooting, shrivel, shy, shy at, sic on, signal beacon, simmer, sincerity, sling, sling at, smart, smarting, smoke, smudge fire, snap, snap up, snipe, snipe at, soak up, soul, source of light, spark, sparkle, spirit, spirit up, sponge, spunk, spunk up, starch, stars, start, start in, start off, start out, steam, steam up, stew, stimulate, stimulated, sting, stinging, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir the fire, stir up, stir-fry, stirred, stoke, stoke the fire, stoke up, strafe, strike, strike a light, strip, stuff, substance, substratum, summon up, sun, sun-dry, superannuate, superheat, surplus, suspend, swab, take a potshot, take aim at, take fire, take off, taper, tepefy, terminate, the four elements, three-alarm fire, thrill, throw, throw at, thrust, tickle, tilt, time fire, tingle, tingling, toast, torch, torpedo, torrefy, toss, toss at, touch off, towel, trigger, turn a pot, turn off, turn on, turn out, turn to, two-alarm fire, unfrock, unit of being, urethral fever, urtication, vaccinal fever, vehemence, vertical fire, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vitalize, vivacity, vivify, volley, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm over, warm the blood, warm up, warmth, warmth of feeling, watch fire, water, water fever, weazen, whet, whip up, wildfire, wipe, witch fire, wither, wizen, work into, work up, wound fever, zeal, zero in on, zest, zing, zip, zip up, zone fire

• firearm, automatic, blowgun, blowpipe, flamethrower, gat, gun, handgun, heater, musket, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter

• fireball, Jupiter Fulgur, Thor, aerolite, alcohol, ball lightning, benzine, bolide, bolt, bolt of lightning, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, chain lightning, charcoal, chondrite, coal, coke, combustible, cosmic dust, dark lightning, dope, ethane, ethanol, firebolt, firing, flammable, flammable material, flying flame, forked lightning, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, fulguration, fulmination, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, levin bolt, lightning, meteor, meteor crater, meteor dust, meteor shower, meteor swarm, meteor trail, meteor train, meteoric shower, meteorite, meteoroid, meteorolite, methane, methanol, micrometeorite, micrometeoroid, natural gas, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, propane, propellant, radiant, radiant point, rocket fuel, sheet lightning, shooting star, siderite, siderolite, stroke of lightning, tektite, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderstroke, turf

• firebrand, Mafioso, Young Turk, agent provocateur, agitator, agitprop, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, brand, brute, burning ember, butane lighter, catalyst, cigarette lighter, cinder, coal, demagogue, demon, devil, dragon, ember, exciter, fiend, fire-eater, flambeau, flint, flint and steel, fomenter, fury, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, igniter, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, instigator, killer, light, lighter, live coal, mad dog, madcap, mischief-maker, monster, mugger, portfire, provocateur, provoker, rabble-rouser, rapist, revolutionary, ringleader, rouser, savage, seditionary, seditionist, she-wolf, sparker, spill, spitfire, taper, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, torch, tough, tough guy, troublemaker, ugly customer, urger, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

• firebrick, adobe, ashlar, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, bricks and mortar, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clinker, concrete, covering materials, crock, crockery, enamelware, ferroconcrete, flag, flagstone, flooring, glass, jug, lath and plaster, masonry, mortar, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, refractory, roofage, roofing, siding, stone, tile, tiling, urn, vase, walling

• firecracker, Klaxon, Roman candle, boiler factory, boiler room, bomb, bull-roarer, cap, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket, flare, flowerpot, girandole, horn, ladyfinger, noisemaker, pinwheel, rattle, rattlebox, rocket, serpent, siren, skyrocket, snake, snapper, sparkler, squib, steam whistle, ticktack, torpedo, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

• fired, afire, agog, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, baked, boiled, braised, broiled, browned, bursting, carried away, coddled, cooked, curried, deviled, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fricasseed, fried, grilled, heated, high, hopped up, impassioned, inflamed, inspired, keyed up, lathered up, manic, moved, on fire, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, poached, ready to burst, roast, roasted, roused, sauteed, scalloped, seared, shirred, steamed, steamed up, stewed, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, toasted, turned-on, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty

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

• firefly, blink, blinking, candle fly, coruscation, fire beetle, fireworm, glimmer, glimmering, glisten, glister, glitter, glittering, glowworm, lampyrid, lantern fly, lightning bug, luciferase, luciferin, luminophor, phosphor, scintilla, scintillation, shimmer, shimmering, spangle, spark, sparkle, stroboscopic light, tinsel, twinkle, twinkling

• fireguard, Argus, Charley, airplane spotter, chimney, chimney corner, fender, fire patrolman, fire screen, fire warden, fireboard, fireplace, fireside, flue, forward observer, hearth, hearthstone, hob, hub, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, lookout, lookout man, night watchman, patrol, patroller, patrolman, picket, roundsman, scout, sentinel, sentry, smokehole, spotter, vedette, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman

• fireman, baggage man, bakehead, black gang, boilerman, brakeman, brakie, bungs, butcher, cabin boy, chips, commissary steward, complement, conductor, deckhand, deckie, dispatcher, fire brigade, fire department, fire fighter, fire warden, fire-chaser, fire-eater, footplate man, forest fire fighter, guard, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, landing signalman, lineman, mail orderly, navigator, oiler, porter, purser, radio operator, railroad man, railroader, redcap, roustabout, smoke agent, smokechaser, smokejumper, snip, snips, sparks, stationmaster, steward, stewardess, stoker, switchman, torpedoman, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, vamp, volunteer fireman, watch, yardman, yardmaster, yeoman

• fireplace, ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireside, flue, foyer, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homestead, household, hub, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, menage, paternal roof, roof, rooftree, smokehole, toft

• fireplug, Foamite, acid, automatic sprinkler, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, deck gun, deluge set, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, foam, foam extinguisher, hook-and-ladder, hydrant, ladder pipe, plug, pumper, snorkel, soda, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, super-pumper, water, water cannon, water plug, wet blanket

• firepower, antiaircraft fire, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, dry fire, fighting force, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, forces, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, hands, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, men, mortar fire, musketry, percussion fire, personnel, pistol fire, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, the big battalions, time fire, troops, units, vertical fire, work force, zone fire

• fireproof, airtight, ballproof, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, corrosionproof, dampproof, fire-resistant, fire-resisting, fire-retardant, fire-retarded, fireproofed, flameproof, foolproof, hermetic, holeproof, impervious to, insulate, leakproof, noiseproof, proof, proof against, punctureproof, resistant, rustproof, shatterproof, shellproof, soundproof, tight, waterproof, watertight, weatherproof

• fireside, ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, flue, foyer, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homestead, household, hub, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, menage, paternal roof, roof, rooftree, smokehole, toft

• firewood, backlog, bavin, beam, billet, board, boarding, brush, brushwood, clapboard, cord, cordwood, deal, driftwood, fagot, hardwood, kindling, kindlings, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, softwood, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, weatherboard, wood, yule clog, yule log

• fireworks, Roman candle, antiaircraft fire, bomb, cap, cherry bomb, cracker, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, dry fire, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firecracker, firepower, firework, firing, flack, flak, flare, flowerpot, girandole, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interdiction fire, ladyfinger, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, percussion fire, pinwheel, pistol fire, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, rocket, serpent, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, skyrocket, snake, sparkler, squib, time fire, torpedo, vertical fire, zone fire

• firing line, DMZ, aceldama, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, combat area, combat zone, enemy line, field, field of battle, field of blood, front line, killing ground, landing beach, line, line of battle, seat of war, shambles, the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, zone of communications

• firing, afflatus, agitation, alcohol, animating spirit, animation, animus, antiaircraft fire, archery, arousal, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, cashiering, casting, charcoal, chucking, coal, coke, combustible, conge, cross fire, curtain fire, deconsecration, defrocking, deposal, deposition, deprivation, dethronement, direct fire, disbarment, disbarring, discharge, discrownment, disemployment, disenthronement, dismissal, displacement, displacing, divine afflatus, dope, drumming out, dry fire, enlivenment, ethane, ethanol, exasperation, excitation, excitement, excommunication, exhilaration, expulsion, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, fireball, firepower, fireworks, flack, flak, flammable, flammable material, flammation, flinging, fomentation, forced resignation, forced separation, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, furloughing, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, genius, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunnery, gunplay, heaving, heptane, hexane, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, hurling, ignition, impeachment, incitation, incitement, infection, inflammable, inflammable material, inflammation, infusion, inspiration, instigation, interdiction fire, irritation, isooctane, jaculation, jet fuel, kerosene, kicking upstairs, kindling, layoff, lighting, lighting up, liquidation, lobbing, machine-gun fire, methane, methanol, mortar fire, moving spirit, musketry, natural gas, octane, oil, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, paraffin, peat, pensioning off, pentane, pep rally, pep talk, percussion fire, pink slip, pistol fire, pitching, projection, propane, propellant, provocation, purge, rabble-rousing, raking fire, rapid fire, removal, retirement, ricochet fire, rifle fire, rocket fuel, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, stimulation, stirring, stirring-up, superannuation, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, throwing, ticket, time fire, trajection, trapshooting, turf, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, vertical fire, walking papers, zone fire

• firm, Aktiengesellschaft, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Christian, abiding, accepted, adamant, adamantine, agency, airtight, aktiebolag, anchored, anneal, approved, at a standstill, atelier, authentic, authoritative, balance, balanced, ballast, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, body corporate, bonded, bristling, bulky, business, business establishment, butcher shop, calcify, calculable, callous, canonical, cartel, case harden, cast-iron, cemented, certain, chamber of commerce, changeless, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, combine, commercial enterprise, compact, compacted, compagnie, company, compressed, concentrated, concern, concrete, condensed, congested, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consistent, consolidate, consolidated, consolidating company, consortium, constant, continuing, conventional, cool, copartnership, cornify, corporate body, corporation, correct, counterbalance, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, customary, decided, decisive, definite, dense, dependable, desk, determine, determined, devoted, diversified corporation, dogged, dour, durable, dustproof, dusttight, enduring, enterprise, establish, established, establishment, evangelical, exact, explicit, facility, fail-safe, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fastened, fiducial, firm as Gibraltar, firm up, firmly, fixed, fixedly, flat, flinty, fossilize, freeze, frozen, full, fundamentalist, gasproof, gastight, glued, gluey, going, grim, guaranteed, hard, hard-core, harden, harmless, heavy, hermetic, hermetically sealed, hidebound, hold, holding company, house, immobile, immobilize, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, impenetrable, impermeable, imperturbable, implacable, impliable, in equilibrium, indurate, industry, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, infrangible, installation, institution, intact, intransigent, invincible, inviolate, invulnerable, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, irremovable, jam-packed, jammed, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, keep, lapidify, lasting, lightproof, lighttight, literal, lithify, loft, loyal, made of iron, marble-constant, massive, moored, muscle-bound, nail down, never-failing, nonporous, obdurate, obstinate, of the faith, oilproof, oiltight, operating company, organization, orthodox, orthodoxical, ossify, outfit, packed, parlor, partnership, pat, permanent, perpetual, persistent, petrify, pin down, plunderbund, pokerlike, pool, populous, positive, predictable, prevailing, procrustean, proper, proprietorship, public utility, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, quiescent, rainproof, raintight, ramrodlike, received, relentless, reliable, remaining, renitent, resolute, resolve, resolved, retain, right, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, riskless, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rodlike, rugged, scriptural, sealed, secure, serried, set, set on, set up, set upon, settle down, settled, shop, shut fast, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, solid, solidify, solidly, sot, sound, specific, stabilitate, stabilize, stable, standard, standpat, starched, starchy, stated, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steadfastly, steady, steel, steely, stern, stick, stiff, stiff as buckram, stipulated, stock company, stormproof, stormtight, stout, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, strong, stubborn, stuck, studio, sturdy, substantial, sure, surefire, sustained, swarming, sweatshop, syndicate, taped, taut, teeming, temper, tenacious, tense, textual, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, tightly, torpid, tough, toughen, trade association, traditional, traditionalistic, transfix, true, true-blue, trust, trustworthy, trusty, unaffected, unalterable, unaltered, unbending, unbreakable, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncompromising, undangerous, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflappable, unflinching, ungiving, unhazardous, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unperilous, unprecarious, unqualified, unrelaxed, unrelenting, unrisky, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaken, unshifting, unswerving, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unyielding, utility, virgate, viscid, viscose, viscous, vitrify, warranteed, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, wedged, well-balanced, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, windproof, windtight, without nerves, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

• firmament, Caelus, air, azure, blue sky, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, cope, empyrean, ether, heaven, heavens, hyaline, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, vault, vault of heaven, welkin

• firmly, adamantly, bec et ongles, bona fide, close, closely, committedly, compactly, consistently, constantly, deafeningly, decidedly, decisively, densely, determinedly, devotedly, dourly, earnestly, faithfully, fast, firm, fixedly, forcefully, forcibly, grimly, hammer and tongs, hardly, heart and soul, heartily, heavily, immovably, immutably, imperviously, implacably, impliably, impregnably, in all seriousness, in earnest, in good earnest, in good faith, inexorably, inflexibly, inseparably, intensely, intransigently, invincibly, invulnerably, ironhandedly, irreconcilably, irresistibly, like a bulldog, like a leech, loudly, loyally, lustily, mightily, obdurately, obstinately, perseveringly, persistently, powerfully, pungently, purposefully, relentlessly, resistantly, resolutely, resolvedly, responsibly, rigidly, rigorously, robustly, ruggedly, securely, seriously, sincerely, singlemindedly, solid, solidly, soundly, stalwartly, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, sternly, stiffly, stoutly, strongly, sturdily, tenaciously, thick, thickly, tight, tightly, tooth and nail, unalterably, unbendingly, unchangeably, uncompromisingly, unregenerately, unrelentingly, unswervingly, unwaveringly, unyieldingly, vigorously, wholeheartedly, with a will, with constancy, with good faith, with total dedication

• first class, best, first-chop, first-rate, greatest, highest, maximal, maximum, most, superlative, supreme, tip-top, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, topflight, topmost, topping, tops, uppermost, utmost

• first draft, acid test, article, assay, autograph, blank determination, brainchild, brouillon, composition, computer printout, copy, criterion, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy, document, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy, feeling out, fiction, final draft, finished version, flimsy, holograph, kiteflying, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, nonfiction, opus, ordeal, original, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, probation, production, proof, reading matter, recension, rough draft, rough sketch, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sounding out, standard, test, test case, the written word, touchstone, transcript, transcription, trial, try, typescript, verification, version, work, writing

• first impression, alpha, breaking-in, first, first blush, first glance, first inning, first lap, first move, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, gambit, initial, initiative, le premier pas, opening move, prime, primitiveness, primitivity, warming-up

• first move, alpha, breaking-in, first, first blush, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, gambit, initial, initiative, le premier pas, opening move, prime, primitiveness, primitivity, warming-up

• first place, acme, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, championship, command, control, directorship, dominion, effectiveness, first prize, headship, hegemony, height, highest, imperium, influence, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, lordship, management, mastership, mastery, maximum, most, ne plus ultra, new high, palms, paramountcy, power, presidency, primacy, record, rule, say, sovereignty, supremacy, sway, top spot, zenith

• first prize, Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Oscar, acme, authority, authorization, award, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, booby prize, championship, command, consolation prize, control, directorship, dominion, effectiveness, first place, headship, hegemony, height, highest, imperium, influence, jackpot, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, lordship, management, mastership, mastery, maximum, most, ne plus ultra, new high, palms, paramountcy, power, presidency, primacy, prize, record, reward, rule, say, second prize, sovereignty, supremacy, sway, sweepstakes, top spot, zenith

• first rate, best, capital, dandy, fine, first-chop, first-class, greatest, highest, maximal, maximum, most, prime, superior, superlative, supreme, tip-top, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, topflight, topmost, topping, tops, uppermost, utmost

• first step, alpha, breaking-in, first, first blush, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first move, first round, first sight, first stage, gambit, initial, initiative, le premier pas, opening move, prime, primitiveness, primitivity, warming-up

• first string, capital, cast, class, company, complement, crew, eight, eleven, famous, first, first team, first-rate, five, nine, platoon, prime, reserves, rowing crew, second string, second team, squad, string, superior, team, third string, top, varsity

• first thing, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, at first, at the start, before everything, chiefly, first, first and foremost, firstly, from the beginning, in the beginning, initially, mainly, originally, primarily, primo, principally

• first, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, ahead, alpha, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, arch, at first, at the start, banner, basic, before, before everything, beforehand, beginning, blue ribbon, breaking-in, by choice, by election, by vote, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, chiefly, ci-devant, commencement, crowning, dominant, earlier, earliest, early, elder, elementary, eminent, essential, exordial, first and foremost, first blush, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first move, first place, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, first thing, firstly, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, former, forward, from the beginning, front, frontal, fundamental, gambit, great, head, heading, headmost, hegemonic, highest, in advance, in front, in preference, in the beginning, in the forefront, in the foreground, in the front, in the lead, inaugural, inception, initial, initially, initiative, initiatory, key, le premier pas, leading, least, magisterial, maiden, main, mainly, master, measly, older, oldest, opening, opening move, original, originally, outset, outstanding, overruling, paramount, pioneer, precedent, preceding, precessional, precurrent, precursory, predominant, preeminent, preexistent, prefatory, preferably, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, premier, preparatory, preponderant, prevailing, prevenient, previous, primal, primarily, primary, prime, primitiveness, primitivity, primo, primogenial, primordial, principal, principally, prior, pristine, proemial, propaedeutic, ranking, rather, rather than, ruling, senior, slight, slightest, slim, smallest, sooner, sooner than, sovereign, star, start, stellar, supereminent, supreme, to the fore, to the front, topflight, trifling, triumph, trivial, up ahead, victory, warming-up, win

• first-rate, ace, admirable, crack, excellent, exceptional, extraordinary, fine, first-class, great, high-grade, matchless, outstanding, prime, remarkable, superb, superior, top, top-notch, unparalleled, unsurpassed, wizard

• firsthand, absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic, avant-garde, based on, callow, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, convincing, creative, cumulative, damning, decisive, determinative, dewy, documentary, documented, ever-new, evergreen, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, fledgling, founded on, fresh, green, grounded on, hearsay, imaginative, immature, immediate, implicit, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, intact, irrefutable, irresistible, maiden, maidenly, material, neoteric, nestling, new, novel, nuncupative, original, overwhelming, presumptive, primary, pristine, probative, raw, reliable, revolutionary, sempervirent, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, unbeaten, underived, undeveloped, unfledged, unhandled, unique, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, valid, vernal, virgin, virginal, weighty, young

• firth, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, cove, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits

• fish for, address, angle for, ask for, beat about for, bid for, canvass, court, delve for, dig for, follow, go gunning for, gun for, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, look, look for, look up, pop the question, prowl after, pursue, quest, search for, see to, seek, seek for, solicit, still-hunt, sue, sue for, try to find, woo

• fish fry, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, cookout, diner, dinner, elevenses, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

• fish out of water, Bohemian, anomaly, beatnik, crosspatch, deviant, dissenter, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, individualist, inner-directed person, maverick, misfit, naysayer, nonconformist, nonjuror, oddball, original, sectarian, sectary, sport, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie

• fish story, big talk, blague, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fancy talk, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fine talk, flam, flimflam, gas, ghost story, half-truth, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, pious fiction, prevarication, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, tall talk, taradiddle, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, yarn

• fish, C, C-note, Chinook salmon, G, G-note, Loch Ness monster, Sunapee trout, aerial torpedo, albacore, alevin, alewife, alligator gar, amber jack, anchovy, angel fish, angle, anguille, archerfish, argusfish, babe, bait the hook, bangalore torpedo, barbel, barn door skate, barracuda, basking shark, bass, benthon, benthos, bill, black bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bleak, blind fish, blue fish, blue shark, bluegill, bob, bone, bonito, boob, bowfin, bream, brook trout, brown trout, buck, buffalo fish, bullhead, burbot, butt, butterfish, candlefish, capelin, carp, cartwheel, catfish, caviar, cent, century, cetacean, channel bass, char, chimaera, chub, chump, cichlid, cinch, cisco, clam, cobia, cod, codfish, coelacanth, conger, conger eel, copper, crappie, credulous person, croaker, cull, cutlass fish, cutthroat trout, dace, dap, darter, devilfish, dib, dibble, dime, doctor fish, dogfish, dollar, dollar bill, dolphin, dorado, dragon fish, drive, drum, drumfish, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, eel, eelpout, electric ray, fall guy, fifty cents, filefish, fin, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flame tetra, flounder, fluke, fly-fish, fool, four bits, frogskin, fry, game fish, gar, gig, globefish, go fishing, goatfish, gobe-mouches, goby, goldfish, grand, greener, greenhorn, greeny, grig, grilse, grouper, grunt, guddle, gudgeon, gull, gunnel, haddock, hake, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, halibut, herring, hippocampus, hogfish, homing torpedo, horse mackerel, hundred-dollar bill, innocent, iron man, jack, jacklight, jewfish, jig, kingfish, kipper, kippered salmon, lake trout, lamprey, lantern fish, leadpipe cinch, ling, loach, lung fish, mackerel, mako shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, manta, marine animal, marlin, menhaden, mill, minnow, minny, monkey, moray eel, mudfish, muskellunge, nekton, net, nickel, oquassa, paddlefish, panfish, papagallo, patsy, penny, perch, permit, pickerel, pigeon, pike, pike perch, pilchard, pilot fish, piranha, plaice, plankton, plaything, poisson, pollack, pompano, porbeagle, porgy, porpoise, prize sap, puffer, pushover, quarter, rainbow trout, ray, red cent, red herring, redfin, redfish, roach, rocket torpedo, roe, roosterfish, salmon, salmon trout, sap, saphead, sardine, sawbuck, sawfish, schlemiel, scup, sea bass, sea horse, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seafood, seine, sergeant fish, shark, shiner, shrimp, silver dollar, sitting duck, skate, skin, smacker, smelt, smoked herring, smolt, snapper, snook, sole, spar torpedo, speckled trout, spin, sponge, sprat, steelhead, stickleback, still-fish, stooge, striped bass, sturgeon, submarine torpedo, sucker, sunfish, swordfish, tarpon, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thornback ray, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, thresher, toadfish, tope, torch, torpedo fish, toy, trawl, triggerfish, troll, tropical fish, trout, trusting soul, tuna, tunny, turbot, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, veiltail, victim, wahoo, walleye, walleyed pike, weakfish, whale, whitefish, whiting, yard, yellowtail

• fisherman, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, angler, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, dibber, dibbler, drift netter, drifter, fair-weather sailor, fisher, guddler, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacker, jacky, jigger, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, pirate, piscator, piscatorialist, piscatorian, privateer, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, tar, the compleat angler, trawler, troller, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• fishhook, bait, birdlime, bola, cobweb, dragnet, fly, gill net, ground bait, hook, jig, lariat, lasso, lime, lure, meshes, net, noose, plug, pound net, purse seine, seine, snare, sniggle, spinner, springe, squid, toils, trawl, wobbler

• fishing, angling, casting, cynegetic, delving, digging, fishery, fly fishing, following, guddling, halieutic, harpooning, hunting, in full cry, in hot pursuit, in pursuit, in search of, jigging, loaded for bear, looking for, nosy, out for, out for bear, piscation, piscatorial, piscatory, poking, probing, prying, pursuant, pursuing, questing, rod and reel, searching, seeking, still-fishing, trawling, trolling, whaling

• fishmonger, baker, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, chandler, clothing merchant, confectioner, draper, drysalter, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, ironmonger, jeweler, liquor merchant, newsdealer, perfumer, poulterer, saddler, stationer, tobacconist, vintner, wine merchant

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

• fishwife, Xanthippe, amazon, baker, battle-ax, beldam, bitch, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, cat, chandler, clothing merchant, common scold, confectioner, draper, drysalter, fishmonger, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, fury, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, harpy, ironmonger, jeweler, liquor merchant, newsdealer, ogress, perfumer, poulterer, saddler, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, spitfire, stationer, termagant, tigress, tobacconist, vintner, virago, vixen, wine merchant, witch

• fishy, ambiguous, amoral, beguiling, blank, catchy, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, deadpan, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eellike, empty, equivocal, evasive, expressionless, fallacious, false, felonious, fraudulent, funny, glassy, hallucinatory, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, impassive, implausible, improbable, indirect, inexpressive, insidious, misleading, not kosher, odd, peculiar, piscatorial, piscatory, pisciform, piscine, poker-faced, problematic, queer, questionable, rotten, selachian, shady, shameless, sharkish, shifty, sinister, slippery, strange, suspect, suspicious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unexpressive, unlikely, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vacant, without remorse, without shame, wooden

• fissile, alienable, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, dissoluble, dissolvable, divisible, fissionable, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, lacerable, scissile, separable, severable, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, vulnerable

• fission, ablate, abscission, accelerate, activate, alpha decay, amputation, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, atomize, beta decay, bifurcate, bisect, bombard, bombardment, branch, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, breeding, bullet, butchering, by two, catalysis, catalyst, chain reaction, chopping, cleavage, cleave, come apart, consume, corrode, crack up, crash, cross-bombard, crumble, crumble into dust, crunch, crush, cut in two, cut to pieces, cutting, decay, decompose, demolish, dialysis, dichotomize, dichotomy, diffuse, dimidiate, disintegrate, disintegration series, disjoin, disorganize, disperse, disrupt, dissociation, dissolve, divide, enucleation, erode, exchange reaction, excision, fall to pieces, fission reaction, fork, fragment, gamma decay, grind, halve, hydrolysis, hydrolyst, in half, ionization, laceration, make mincemeat of, mince, molder, mutilation, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, nucleize, photodisintegration, photolysis, proton gun, proton reaction, pulverize, ramify, rending, resection, reversible reaction, ripping, scatter, scission, section, severance, shatter, shiver, slashing, slicing, smash, smash the atom, smash up, splinter, split, split in two, splitting, splitting the atom, squash, squish, stimulation, subdivide, surgery, target, tearing, thermolysis, thermonuclear reaction, transect, waste away, wear away

• fissure, abysm, abyss, amputate, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, arroyo, ax, between brain, bisect, box canyon, brain stem, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, broach, burst, bust, butcher, caesura, canyon, carve, cavity, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, chop, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come apart, come unstuck, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, cwm, defile, dell, dichotomize, diencephalon, dike, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, dura mater, endbrain, excavation, excise, exfoliate, fall to pieces, fault, flaw, flume, fly open, folia, forebrain, fornix, fracture, frontal lobe, furrow, gap, gape, gash, give away, give way, glial cells, globus pallidus, gorge, gray matter, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gyrus, hack, halve, hew, hiatus, hindbrain, hippocampus, hole, hypothalamus, incise, incision, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, jigsaw, joint, kloof, lacuna, lance, lay open, leak, lenticular nucleus, letup, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, lull, mantle, medulla oblongata, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, moat, myelencephalon, neopallium, notch, nullah, occipital lobe, ope, open, open up, opening, optic chiasm, pallium, pare, parietal lobe, part, pass, passage, pause, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, pons, prune, ravine, rend, rent, reticular system, rhombencephalon, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, saw, scale, schism, scissor, scissure, seam, separate, sever, slash, slice, slit, slot, snap, snip, splinter, split, spread, spread out, spring a leak, spring open, start, subthalamus, sunder, suspension, swing open, tap, tear, tear open, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, throw open, trench, valley, ventricle, vermis, void, wadi, white matter, whittle

• fist, arrow, autography, blaze, calligraphy, chirography, compass needle, direction, direction post, finger post, graphanalysis, graphology, graphometry, guide, guideboard, guidepost, hand, handwriting, hour hand, index, index finger, lead, lubber line, manuscript, milepost, minute hand, needle, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, pointer, script, scription, scrive, signboard, signpost, stylography

• fit in, accord, be there, belong, conform, correspond, dovetail, fall in with, fall into line, fit, follow the crowd, follow the fashion, follow the rule, get in line, go, go through channels, harmonize, have its place, have place, implant, infix, inlay, jibe, keep in step, pass muster, play the game, square, stay in line, tally, tessellate, toe the mark

• fit to be tied, enraged, fierce, fighting mad, fuming, furious, hopping mad, in a rage, infuriate, infuriated, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, roaring mad, savage, storming, wild

• fit, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, a propos, abdominal epilepsy, able, acceptable, access, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, according to Hoyle, accouter, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, ad rem, adapt, adapt to, adaptation, adapted, adequate, adjust, adjust to, adjusted, adjustment, admissible, ado, advance, advantage, advantageous, advisable, affect epilepsy, agitation, agree with, akinetic epilepsy, alive and kicking, alter, ameliorate, amok, ample, answer, apoplexy, applicable, appoint, apposite, apprentice, appropriate, apropos, apt, arm, arrest, assimilate, assimilate to, attack, attune, au fait, auspicious, autonomic epilepsy, balance, balanced, barely sufficient, be OK, be guided by, be right, be there, become, becoming, befit, befitting, belong, bend, benefit, better, blaze, blockage, bother, botheration, break, break in, break up, breakup, breed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bring up, bunkum, burst, bustle, cancel, capable, capacitate, caparison, cardiac epilepsy, cat fit, cataclysm, change, checked out, chime in with, chipper, climax, clonic spasm, clonus, comely, commensurate, commotion, compensate, competent, comply, comply with, compose, condign, condition, conditioning, conform, congruous, conniption, conniption fit, consonant, convenient, convert, convulsion, coordinate, correct, correspond, corresponding, cortical epilepsy, costume, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, cramp, cultivate, cursive epilepsy, cut to, cyclone, decent, decorous, defensible, deform, denature, deserved, desirable, develop, diastrophism, disaster, discipline, disguise, diurnal epilepsy, diversify, do, do the job, do the trick, dovetailing, dress, drill, duck fit, due, eclampsia, efficient, eligible, enable, enablement, enfranchised, enjoying health, enough, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, equal to, equalize, equate, equip, equipment, equitable, eruption, eupeptic, even, even up, evenhanded, exercise, expedient, explosion, fair, fair and square, fall in with, falling sickness, favorable, feasible, feery-fary, felicitous, ferment, fetch up, fever, fidgetiness, fill the bill, fine, fit and fine, fit in, fit of anger, fit of temper, fit out, fit up, fitted, fitted for, fitten, fitting, fix, flap, flare-up, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, focal epilepsy, follow, form, fortunate, forward, foster, frenzy, fructuous, full of beans, furnish, furnishing, furor, fury, fuss, fussiness, gale, gear, gear to, geared, get, go, go by, go together, good, good enough, grand mal, grip, groom, gust, habit, hale, happy, harmonize, haute mal, have its place, have place, healthful, healthy, heel, homologate, homologize, house-train, housebreak, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurricane, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, improve, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, inspired, integrate, irruption, journeyman, just, just right, justifiable, justified, key to, kosher, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lawful, legal, level, lick into shape, likely, lockjaw, lucky, maelstrom, make conform, make plumb, make uniform, make up, man, masquerade, matutinal epilepsy, measure, meet, meet and right, meliorate, menstrual epilepsy, merited, meshing, minimal, minimum, mitigate, modify, modulate, mold, munition, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, mutate, myoclonous epilepsy, nice, nocturnal epilepsy, normal, normative, not come amiss, nurse, nurture, observe, occlusion, on the button, opportune, orgasm, outbreak, outburst, outfit, overthrow, paroxysm, pat, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, plenty, plenty good enough, poise, politic, pother, practice, prepare, proficient, profit, profitable, promote, proper, propitious, proportion, proportionate, providential, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, put in trim, put in tune, put to school, quadrate, quake, qualification, qualified, qualify, rage, raise, re-create, ready, realign, rear, rebuild, recommendable, reconcile, reconstruct, rectify, redesign, refit, reflex epilepsy, reform, regulate, rehearse, relate, relevant, remake, renew, reshape, restlessness, restructure, revamp, revive, rig, rig out, rig up, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, ring the changes, ripe, rotatoria, rub off corners, sane, satisfactory, scramble, seasonable, seemly, seizure, send to school, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, serve, set, set right, settle, sexual climax, shape, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, similarize, sortable, sound, spasm, spell, spurt, square, staff, stew, stir, stoppage, storm, straighten, stretch, strike a balance, stroke, substantial, subvert, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suit, suit the occasion, suitable, suited, suiting, sweat, swirl, sync, synchronize, tailor, tailored, take in hand, tally with, tantrum, tardy epilepsy, temblor, temper tantrum, tempest, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tidal wave, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, to-do, tolerable, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, tornado, torsion spasm, train, traumatic epilepsy, trim to, trismus, true, true up, tsunami, tumult, tune, tuning, turn, turn out, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, ucinate epilepsy, uniform, unquiet, up to, up to snuff, upheaval, useful, vary, visitation, vortex, warrantable, warranted, well, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-fitted, well-put, well-qualified, well-suited, well-timed, whirl, whirlwind, wholesome, wise, with voice, with vote, work, work a change, worsen, worthwhile, worthy, yield

• fitful, adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, broken, broken off, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, chopped-off, choppy, convulsive, correctly, decently, decorously, decousu, desultory, deviable, deviative, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disjunctive, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, dizzy, eccentric, eclamptic, episodic, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fidgety, fitly, fittingly, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, formless, freakish, frivolous, giddy, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indiscriminate, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerking, jerky, jiggety, jumpy, justly, lurching, mazy, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, moody, nicely, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, occasional, on-again-off-again, orderless, orgasmic, parenthetic, patchy, periodic, planless, promiscuous, properly, rambling, random, recurrent, restless, rightly, rough, roving, saltatory, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly, suspended, systemless, twitchety, twitching, twitchy, unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unconnected, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unfixed, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, varying, veering, vellicative, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

• fitfully, at haphazard, at intervals, at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by skips, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, flutteringly, haltingly, haphazardly, here and there, hit or miss, in snatches, in spots, inconstantly, indiscriminately, infrequently, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly, occasionally, off and on, patchily, per saltum, promiscuously, quakingly, quaveringly, quiveringly, randomly, roughly, saltatorily, shakily, shudderingly, skippingly, sloppily, spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, tremblingly, tremulously, uncertainly, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, variably, waveringly, whimsically, willy-nilly, wobblingly

• fitness, Hygeia, ability, ableness, acceptability, account, adequacy, admissibility, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, auspiciousness, becomingness, beneficialness, bloom, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, chargedness, civility, competence, competency, condition, convenience, correctitude, correctness, criticality, crucialness, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, desirability, efficacy, efficiency, eligibility, eligible, emotional health, expedience, expediency, facility, faculty, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, felicity, fettle, fine fettle, fittedness, fittingness, flair, flush, fruitfulness, genius, genteelness, gentility, glow, good shape, goodness, happiness, harmony, health, healthiness, kilter, loadedness, mastery, maturity, meetness, mental health, niceness, normality, normativeness, opportuneness, order, percentage, pertinence, physical condition, physical fitness, politicness, pregnancy, preparedness, proficiency, profit, profitability, properness, propitiousness, proprieties, propriety, prudence, qualification, readiness, relevance, repair, righteousness, rightness, ripeness, rosiness, salubriousness, salubrity, seasonableness, seasoning, seemliness, service, serviceability, shape, sufficiency, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, susceptibility, talent, tempering, the goods, the stuff, timeliness, tone, trim, urbanity, use, usefulness, utility, vigor, well-being, what it takes, wholesomeness, wisdom, worthiness, worthwhileness

• fits and starts, ague, arrhythmia, brokenness, bumpiness, capriciousness, chattering, choppiness, chorea, cold shivers, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, eccentricity, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fluctuation, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, nonuniformity, palsy, patchiness, quaking, quavering, quivering, roughness, shakes, shaking, shivering, shivers, shuddering, spasms, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, succussion, trembling, tremulousness, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variability, vibration, whimsicality, wobble

• fitted, a propos, able, acceptable, accoutered, ad rem, adapted, adjusted, admissible, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, armed, au fait, becoming, befitting, bespoke, capable, catered, checked out, competent, conformable, custom-made, desirable, dovetailing, efficient, eligible, endowed, enfranchised, equal to, equipped, felicitous, fit, fitted for, fitted out, fitting, furnished, geared, happy, heeled, invested, journeyman, just right, likely, matched, meshing, on the button, opportune, outfitted, pat, prepared, proficient, provided, purveyed, qualified, relevant, rigged, right, seasonable, sortable, suitable, suited, suiting, supplied, tailor-made, tailored, to the point, to the purpose, up to, up to snuff, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, with voice, with vote, worthy

• fitting, a propos, about-face, accessories, accommodation, accordant, according to Hoyle, accouterments, ad rem, adaptation, adapted, adjustment, advantageous, advisable, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, apparatus, appliances, applicable, appointments, apposite, appropriate, appurtenances, apropos, apt, armament, attachments, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, civil, comely, comme il faut, commodious, concordant, condign, conditioning, congruous, constructive change, continuity, conveniences, convenient, conversion, correct, decent, decorous, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, desirable, desired, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, dovetailing, due, duffel, elements, employable, enablement, equipage, equipment, expedient, facilities, facility, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fittings, fixtures, flip-flop, fortunate, fructuous, functional, furnishing, furnishings, furniture, gear, geared, genteel, germane, good, good for, gradual change, happy, harmonious, helpful, impedimenta, improvement, inspired, installations, just, just right, kit, kosher, likely, lucky, machinery, materiel, meet, melioration, meshing, mitigation, modification, modulation, munition, munitions, nice, normal, normative, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, on the button, opportune, outfit, overthrow, paraphernalia, parts, pat, pertinent, pieces, plant, plumbing, politic, practical, pragmatical, profitable, proper, propitious, providential, qualification, qualified, radical change, recommendable, redesign, reform, reformation, relevant, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rig, rigging, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, ripe, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, shift, sortable, stock-in-trade, sudden change, suitable, suited, suiting, switch, tackle, tailored, things, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, total change, transition, trappings, tuning, turn, turnabout, units, upheaval, urbane, useful, utensils, utilitarian, variation, variety, violent change, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, wise, worsening, worthwhile

• five percenter, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, big wheel, court, eminence grise, fixer, four-percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, kingmaker, lobby, lobbyist, logroller, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, power broker, powers that be, pressure group, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, the Establishment, very important person, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

• five, cast, company, complement, crew, eight, eleven, first string, first team, nine, platoon, reserves, rowing crew, second string, second team, squad, string, team, third string, varsity

• five-and-ten, boutique, chain store, cheap as dirt, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, dime-store, dirt cheap, discount house, discount store, dog-cheap, emporium, establishment, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, sixpenny, store, supermarket, trading post, two-for-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

• fix on, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, aim, aim at, apply to, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attend to business, attribute to, be alert, be obsessed with, bend, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, charge on, charge to, concentrate on, confess, connect with, credit with, decide upon, determine, determine upon, direct, directionize, fasten upon, father upon, fix, fix upon, focus on, give heed, hang on, hold on, impute to, lay to, level at, look lively, look out, look sharp, make a decision, miss nothing, pay attention, pay heed, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point, point at, point to, present, refer to, saddle on, saddle with, scrutinize, set, set down to, settle upon, sight on, study, take a decision, take care, take heed, train, train upon, turn, turn upon, watch out

• fix up, accommodate, adjust, adorn, arrange, arrange matters, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, brew, bring to terms, bring together, clean up, clear for action, clear the decks, clear up, cobble, color, commission, compose, compound, compromise, concoct, condition, cure, dandify, darn, deck, deck out, decoct, decorate, deploy, dizen, do up, doctor, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fig out, fix, furbish, garnish, get ready, get up, grace, groom, gussy up, harmonize, heal the breach, make, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, make up, marshal, mediate, mend, mix, mobilize, neaten, ornament, overhaul, paint, patch, patch things up, patch up, plan, police, police up, prank, prank up, prearrange, preen, prep, prepare, pretreat, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, process, provide, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put in trim, put in tune, put together, ready, ready up, recap, reconcile, recondition, redecorate, redo, refurbish, repair, resolve, restore harmony, retread, reunite, service, set off, set out, set to rights, settle, settle differences, settle preliminaries, sew up, slick, smarten, smarten up, smooth it over, spiff, spruce, spruce up, straighten up, tan, tidy, tidy up, tinker, tinker up, titivate, treat, trick out, trick up, trig up, trim, trim up, try out, weave peace between

• fix, KO, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accord, accustom, adapt, adjust, adjust to, affix, afford proof of, aim, aim at, align, allocate, allot, alter, amend, anchor, annex, antitoxin, apportion, approach, arrange, array, ascertain, aspect, assign, assimilate, assure, astronavigation, attach, attend to, attitude, attune, auger, azimuth, baffle, bafflement, bag, bang, base, be quits, bearing, bearings, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, bed, belay, bend, best, bewilderment, bite, blast, block out, blot out, booster, booster dose, booster shot, bore, bother, bound, box, break, break in, bribe, brighten up, bring home to, broach, brush up, build, build in, bump off, buy, buy off, carve, case, case harden, cast, castrate, catch, celestial navigation, cement, certify, change, chart, chisel, chronometer, cinch, circle in, circumscribe, circumstance, clamp, clear for action, clear the decks, clear up, clinch, close, close with, coastwise navigation, cobble, codify, collocate, come down on, commission, compose, concenter, concentrate, conclude, condition, confirm, confoundment, confusion, consolan, cook, cook up, coordinate, corner, corrupt, count, countersink, cramp, create, croak, cure, cut, cut to, darn, dead reckoning, deal, deal out, decide, deck, decrease, deep-dye, defeat, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, demonstrate, denominate, deploy, desexualize, designate, destroy, determine, dilemma, direct, directionize, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, dish, dismiss all doubt, dispose, distribute, disturbance, divide, do for, do in, do up, doctor, domesticate, domesticize, dose, draft, dress, drill, dropping, drub, drug packet, efform, emasculate, embarrassment, embed, emend, empierce, emplace, enclose, engraft, engrave, enigma, ensure, entrench, equalize, erase, establish, estate, etch, eunuchize, even the score, exposure, familiarize, fashion, fasten, figure, find, find out, fit, fix on, fix up, fixate, focus, follow, follow from, footing, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, frame up, freshen, frontage, furbish, furbish up, gear to, geld, gentle, get, get a fix, get at, get even with, get ready, get to, give it to, give the business, gore, gouge, gouge out, graft, grapple, grease, grease the palm, ground, gun down, habituate, harden, harmonize, have, have a case, hew, hide, hit, hold good, hold on, hold water, hole, home in on, homologate, homologize, honeycomb, hors de combat, housebreak, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, ice, impact, impale, implant, impress, imprint, increase, inculcate, indicate, infix, ingrain, injection, inoculation, inscribe, install, instill, insure, inure, invest, jam, jet injection, key to, knead, knit, knock out, lambaste, lance, lather, lay, lay off, lay out, lay the foundation, level at, lick, lick into shape, lie, line, line of position, line up, localize, locate, location, lodge, loran, lot, lubricate, mainlining, make, make a decision, make arrangements, make certain, make fast, make good, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make plumb, make preparations, make quits, make ready, make sure, make sure of, make uniform, make up, mark, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, marshal, measure, mend, mention, methodize, mint, mobilize, modality, mode, model, mold, moor, mutilate, mystery, nail down, name, narcotic injection, narcotic shot, naturalize, navigate, needle, neuter, nonplus, normalize, number, off, organize, orient, orientate, orientation, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overdose, overhaul, pack, pack the deal, parcel, parcel out, pass, patch, patch up, pay, pay off, pay out, penetrate, perforate, perplexity, perturbation, pick out, pickle, pierce, pilotage, pin down, pink, pinpoint, pitch, place, plan, plane sailing, plant, plight, plot, point, point at, point out, point to, point-to-point navigation, polish, polish off, polish up, popping, portion, position, position line, posture, pother, potion, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive, predesign, predicament, premeditate, preorder, prep, prepare, present, pretreat, prick, print, problem, process, proportion, prove, prove to be, prove true, provide, punch, puncture, punish, purchase, purpose, put, put in, put in commission, put in order, put in place, put in repair, put in shape, put in tune, put to, put up, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, quantify, quantize, radar, radio beacon, radio bearing, radio navigation, rally, range, rank, rate, rationalize, reach, ready, ready up, ream, ream out, reassure, rebuild, recap, reconcile, recondition, reconstruct, rectify, reduce, regiment, regularize, regulate, remove all doubt, renovate, repair, resolve, retouch, retread, revamp, revise, revive, riddle, rig, right, rivet, root, rope off, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, routinize, rub out, rub up, ruin, rule, run through, scheme, scrape, screw up, sculpt, sculpture, scuttle, seal, season, seat, secure, see that, see to it, select, serve one out, service, set, set at rest, set in, set out, set right, set the limit, set to, set to rights, set up, settle, settle preliminaries, settle the matter, settle the score, settle with, sew up, sextant, shape, shine, shoot down, shooting up, shoran, shot, show, sight on, signify, similarize, sink, situate, situation, skewer, skin, skin alive, skin-popping, sofar, sonar, sop, sort out, space, spay, spear, specialize, specify, spike, spit, spot, spruce, spruce up, square, square accounts, stab, stabilize, stack the cards, stake out, stamp, standardize, standing, state, station, status, steady, stereotype, stew, stick, stipulate, straighten out, suborn, surround, sync, synchronize, systematize, tables, tailor, take a resolution, take care of, take revenge, tame, tamper with, tan, tap, thermoform, thrash, tickle the palm, tighten, tinker, tinker up, tone up, torpedo, touch up, train, train upon, transfix, transpierce, treat, trepan, trephine, triangulate, trice up, trim, trim to, triumph over, trounce, true, true up, try out, tune, tune up, turn, turn upon, unassuredness, undo, unsex, upset, vaccination, vaccine, vamp, vamp up, vest, waste, wedge, whip, will, wipe out, wont, work, work out, worst, zap, zero in on

• fixable, ameliorable, amendable, approachable, bribable, buyable, correctable, corrigible, corrupt, corruptible, curable, emendable, improvable, medicable, mendable, on the pad, on the take, purchasable, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible, venal

• fixation, Freudian fixation, anchorage, arrest, arrestation, arrested development, arrestment, blockage, blocking, check, clogging, closing up, closure, colonization, complex, compulsion, confirmation, constriction, cramp, craze, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, delay, detainment, detention, embedment, entrenchment, establishment, fascination, father fixation, fetish, fixed idea, fixedness, fixity, fixture, foot-dragging, foundation, hampering, hang-up, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, hypercathexis, idee fixe, immobility, impediment, implantation, inaction, inactivity, inauguration, infantile fixation, infatuation, infixion, inhibition, initiation, installation, installment, interference, interruption, investiture, inveteracy, irresistible impulse, kick, let, libido fixation, lodgment, mania, monomania, mooring, morbid drive, mother fixation, motionlessness, negativism, nuisance value, obsession, obsessive compulsion, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, parent fixation, peopling, plantation, population, possession, pregenital fixation, preoccupation, prepossession, regression, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, retreat to immaturity, ruling passion, setback, settlement, settling, squeeze, stabilization, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, thing, tic

• fixative, air brush, ambergris, ambrosia, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, art paper, attar, attar of roses, balance, balance rudder, balance wheel, ballast, balm, balm of Gilead, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, chalk, champaca oil, charcoal, civet, counterbalance, counterweight, crayon, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, easel, essence, essential oil, extract, fin, flywheel, governor, ground, gyroscope, hairspring, heliotrope, jasmine oil, keel, lavender oil, lay figure, maulstick, medium, mordant, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, parfum, pastel, pencil, pendulum, perfume, perfumery, pigments, rose oil, scent, scratchboard, shock absorber, siccative, sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, springs, stabilizator, stiffening, stump, tail plane, varnish, volatile oil

• fixed, abiding, absolute, acknowledged, admitted, admitting no exception, agreed, aground, aligned, all up with, all-out, anchored, arranged, arrayed, arrested, ascertained, assigned, assorted, assured, at a standstill, at anchor, attached, attested, authenticated, beat, beaten, bent, bested, bonded, borne out, categorical, categorized, caught, cemented, certain, certified, chained, changeless, charmed, chronic, circumscribed, circumscript, circumstantiated, classified, clear, close, complete, composed, concentrated, conclusive, concrete, conditional, confirmed, confounded, constant, constituted, continuing, conventional, cooked-up, corroborated, crooked, customary, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, dead-still, decided, decisive, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, defeated, defined, definite, definitive, delimited, demarcated, demonstrated, deployed, detailed, determinate, determined, different, discomfited, dishonest, disposed, distinct, distinguished, done for, done in, down, downright, durable, dyed-in-the-wool, embosomed, emplaced, enchanted, encircled, enduring, ensconced, enthralled, entire, esoteric, especial, established, exceptional, exclusive, explicit, express, extraordinary, fallen, fascinated, fast, fastened, final, firm, flat, flat-out, flinty, floored, folk, framed, frozen, given, global, glued, graded, gripped, grouped, guaranteed, habitual, hallowed, handed down, harmonized, hedged about, held, heroic, high and dry, hoary, hors de combat, hypnotized, idle, immemorial, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, impacted, implanted, implicit, in apple-pie order, in commission, in condition, in fine fettle, in good condition, in good form, in good shape, in good trim, in kilter, in order, in repair, in shape, in the bag, in the pink, in trim, in working order, inalterable, inappealable, incorrigible, inculcated, indisputable, individual, inextricable, infixed, inflexible, ingrained, inner, installed, instilled, intact, intent, intimate, invariable, inveterate, inviolate, irremovable, irreversible, jammed, lambasted, lasting, lathered, legendary, licked, limited, located, long-established, long-standing, loyal, made sure, marshaled, mesmerized, methodized, minute, moored, motionless, moveless, mythological, nailed down, narrow, never-failing, normalized, noteworthy, obstinate, of long standing, of the folk, on ice, on the skids, open-and-shut, oral, ordered, orderly, organized, out of commission, out-and-out, outdone, outright, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, packed, panicked, particular, peremptory, perfect, permanent, perpetual, persistent, personal, placed, planned, planted, plotted, positioned, positive, posted, prearranged, precise, preconcerted, precontrived, premeditated, preordered, prescriptive, private, proved, proven, provisional, provisory, put to rout, put-up, quiescent, ranged, ranked, rapt, received, recognized, regular, regularized, regulated, remaining, resolute, resolved, respective, restricted, riding at anchor, rigged, rigid, riveted, rooted, round, routed, routinized, ruined, scattered, schemed, seated, secure, secured, set, set-up, settled, settled in habit, several, shown, silenced, singular, situate, situated, skinned, skinned alive, solid, solipsistic, sorted, sot, special, specific, specificative, specified, spellbound, spotted, stable, stacked, stampeded, standardized, staple, stated, static, stationary, stationed, statuelike, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, steely, still, stipulated, stipulatory, stock-still, straight, straight-out, stranded, stubborn, stuck, stuck fast, substantiated, surrounded, sustained, synchronized, systematized, taped, tenacious, tested, tethered, thorough, tied, tight, time-honored, to rights, torpid, total, traditional, transfixed, tried, tried and true, trimmed, trounced, true, true-blue, unalterable, unaltered, unbending, unblinking, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, undeflectable, understood, undestroyed, undeviating, undistracted, undivided, undone, undoubting, unemployed, unequivocal, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, unhampered, unhesitating, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmodifiable, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unshaken, unshifting, unswerving, unvaried, unvarying, unwaivable, unwavering, unwritten, unyielding, up to scratch, up to snuff, upset, utter, validated, venerable, verified, warranted, wedged, whelmed, whipped, whole, without exception, without reserve, worshipful, worsted

• fixer, cobbler, developer, doctor, five-percenter, fixing bath, four-percenter, hypo, influence peddler, little Miss Fixit, logroller, maintenance man, mechanic, mechanician, mender, power broker, processing solution, renovator, repairer, repairman, restorer, serviceman, short-stop, short-stop bath, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, soup, stop bath, tinker, trouble man, troubleshooter, wire-puller

• fixings, adjunct, appurtenance, aspect, circumstance, component, constituent, contents, detail, element, factor, feature, ingredient, integrant, item, makings, part, part and parcel, specialty

• fixture, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accouterments, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, annex, annexation, appanage, apparatus, appendage, appendant, appliance, appliances, appointments, appurtenance, appurtenances, appurtenant, armament, attachment, augment, augmentation, brassware, chinaware, clayware, coda, complement, concomitant, confirmation, continuation, contrivance, convenience, conveniences, copperware, corollary, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, device, dinnerware, drive, duffel, durable goods, durables, earthenware, embedment, enamelware, engine, enginery, entrenchment, equipage, equipment, establishment, event, extension, extrapolation, facilities, facility, fitting, fittings, fixation, fixedness, fixity, fixtures, flatware, furnishings, furniture, gadget, gear, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, impedimenta, implantation, increase, increment, infixion, installations, institution, instrument, inveteracy, ironmongery, ironware, kit, kitchenware, machine, machinery, match, materiel, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, meet, meeting, metalware, motive power, motor, munition, munitions, occasion, occurrence, offshoot, outfit, ovenware, paraphernalia, pendant, plant, plumbing, power plant, power source, reinforcement, rig, rigging, side effect, side issue, silverware, sporting goods, stabilization, stock-in-trade, stoneware, supplement, tableware, tackle, tailpiece, things, tinware, tool, tools and machinery, undergirding, utensils, utility, white goods, woodenware

• fizz, assibilate, assibilation, blubber, boil, boil over, boiling, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubbliness, bubbling, burble, buzz, carbonation, champagne, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effervesce, effervescence, effervescency, effervescing, ferment, fermentation, fizzle, fizzling, foaming, frication, frictional rustling, froth, frothiness, frothing, guggle, gurgle, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, lisp, plain, plop, rhonchus, seethe, seltzer, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmer, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, soda, soda water, soft drink, sparkle, spit, splutter, spumescence, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, tonic, wheeze, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, work, zip

• fizzle out, be disappointing, be unproductive, blow up, break, break down, burn out, cave in, collapse, come apart, come short, come to naught, come to nothing, come unstuck, conk out, crumble, decline, die, die away, die out, disintegrate, droop, drop, explode, fade, fail, fail miserably, faint, fall down, fall flat, fall short, fall through, fizz out, fizzle, flag, flame out, get bogged down, get hung up, get mired, get nowhere, give out, give way, go downhill, go out, go phut, go soft, go to pieces, go wrong, hang fire, hang up, hit the skids, languish, lie fallow, misfire, not hack it, not make it, peg out, peter out, pine, poop out, sink, turn sour, weaken, wear away, wear thin, wilt, yield

• fizzle, abort, assibilate, assibilation, bafflement, balk, be disappointing, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, blow up, blubber, boil, boil over, boiling, bomb, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubbliness, bubbling, buffet, burble, burn out, bust, buzz, carbonation, cave in, collapse, come short, come to grief, come to naught, come to nothing, comedown, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, defeat, die, die away, die out, disappointment, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, dull thud, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effervesce, effervescence, effervescency, effervescing, expire, explode, fail, fail miserably, failure, fall short, fall through, fallen countenance, ferment, fermentation, fiasco, fizz, fizz out, fizzle out, fizzling, flame out, flat failure, flop, floperoo, foaming, foiling, forlorn hope, frication, frictional rustling, frost, frothiness, frothing, frustration, get nowhere, go out, go phut, go wrong, guggle, gurgle, hang up, hiss, hissing, hope deferred, hush, hushing, lemon, letdown, lisp, mirage, miscarry, misfire, not hack it, not make it, peter out, plop, poop out, rhonchus, seethe, setback, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmer, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sore disappointment, sparkle, spit, splutter, spumescence, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, tantalization, tease, total loss, turkey, turn sour, washout, wheeze, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, work, zip

• fizzy, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon, ebullient, effervescent, puffed, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, whipped

• fjord, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, cove, creek, estuary, euripus, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits

• flabbergast, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, confound, daze, dazzle, dumbfound, dumbfounder, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, shock, stagger, startle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise

• flabbergasted, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering

• flabby, anemic, asthenic, baccate, baggy, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, doughy, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, enervated, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flaccid, fleshy, flimsy, floppy, forceless, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, macerated, marrowless, masticated, mushy, nerveless, pasty, pendulous, pithless, pithy, pooped, powerless, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, relaxed, rubbery, sagging, sapless, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft, spineless, spiritless, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, strengthless, succulent, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly, yielding, ], ]

• flaccid, anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, emasculated, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flimsy, floppy, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rubbery, sapless, sapped, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft, spineless, strengthless, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakened, weakly

• flack, advocacy, advocating, antiaircraft fire, bruiting, buildup, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, drumbeating, dry fire, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flak, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, percussion fire, pistol fire, promoting, promotion, publicization, publicizing, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, time fire, vertical fire, zone fire

• flag, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Tarmac, Tarvia, Union Flag, Union Jack, abate, adobe, and blue, ashlar, asphalt, banderole, banner, banneret, bead, beat, beat the drum, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, bitumen, bituminous macadam, black flag, blacktop, blade, blow, blue ensign, bract, bracteole, bractlet, break, break down, brick, bricks and mortar, bunting, burgee, burn out, carpet, causeway, cave in, cement, check off, clinker, coachwhip, cobble, cobblestone, collapse, color, colors, come apart, come unstuck, concrete, conk out, cotyledon, covering materials, crack up, crumble, curb, curbing, curbstone, dally, dangle, dawdle, debilitate, decline, decrease, degenerate, delay, desiccate, deteriorate, diamond, die, dillydally, diminish, dip, disintegrate, do in, do up, drag, droop, drop, dry up, dwindle, ease up, ebb, edgestone, enervate, engrave, ensign, exchange colors, exhaust, fade, fade away, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fall off, falter, fatigue, feather, ferroconcrete, festoon, figure, filigree, firebrick, fizzle out, flag down, flagging, flagstone, flash, floor, flooring, floral leaf, flounce, flower, foliole, frazzle, frond, garland, gasp, gem, gesture, get tired, give a signal, give out, give the nod, give way, glance, glume, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, gonfalon, gonfanon, goof off, gravel, grow weary, guidon, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, halt, hang down, harass, hit the skids, hoist a banner, house flag, identify, illuminate, inform, involucre, involucrum, jack, jade, jewel, kerb, kerbstone, kick, knock out, knock up, label, lag, lamina, languish, lath and plaster, leaf, leaflet, leer, lemma, lessen, let up, ligule, linger, loiter, lollygag, long pennant, lose strength, macadam, make a sign, mark, masonry, merchant flag, metal, mortar, motion, national flag, needle, nod, nudge, oriflamme, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, paint, pant, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, peak, pebble, peg out, pendant, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, petal, peter out, pile, pine, pine needle, plasters, play out, plume, poke, poop, poop out, prestressed concrete, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, raise a cry, red, red ensign, ribbon, road metal, roofage, roofing, royal standard, run down, run out, sag, salute, sear, seed leaf, sepal, shilly-shally, shrink, shrivel, siding, sign, signal, signal flag, signalize, sink, slump, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spangle, spathe, speak, spear, spire, standard, stipula, stipule, stone, stop, streamer, subside, succumb, swag, swallowtail, tab, tag, taper off, tar, tarmacadam, tarry, tick off, tile, tiling, tinsel, tire, tire out, tire to death, touch, trail, tricolor, tucker, unfurl a flag, use up, vexillum, walling, wane, warn, washboard, waste, waste away, waste time, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear thin, weary, wheeze, white, wilt, wind, wink, wither, wither away, wizen, wreathe, yield

• flagellate, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, rawhide, scourge, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

• flagellation, Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires, corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, eremitism, fasting, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hair shirt, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pistol-whipping, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, rawhiding, repentance, rigor, sackcloth and ashes, scourging, self-denial, self-mortification, spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, trouncing, truncheoning, voluntary poverty, whipping

• flagellum, Golgi apparatus, animal fiber, artificial fiber, aster, basal body, belt, bine, blacksnake, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, bullwhack, bullwhip, burgeon, capillament, cat, cell membrane, central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm, centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, cowhide, crop, cytocentrum, deadwood, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagella, fork, frond, gossamer, hair, hank, horsewhip, kinoplasm, knout, kurbash, lash, limb, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, offshoot, pili, plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, quirt, ramage, ramification, rawhide, razor strap, ribosome, runner, sarment, scion, scourge, shoot, sjambok, skein, slip, spear, spherosome, spindle fibers, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stolon, strand, strap, sucker, suture, switch, tendril, thallus, thong, thread, threadlet, twig, vacuole, web, whip, whiplash

• flagging, ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, coming apart, cracking, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crumbling, debilitated, decadent, declining, degenerate, deliberate, deteriorating, disintegrating, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, easy, ebbing, effete, enervated, enfeebled, fading, fagged, failing, faint, fainting, falling, faltering, fatigued, feeling faint, foot-dragging, footsore, fragmenting, frazzled, gentle, going to pieces, good and tired, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indolent, jaded, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marcescent, moderate, pining, poking, poky, ready to drop, regressive, relaxed, reluctant, retrograde, retrogressive, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sauntering, seedy, shriveling, shuffling, sinking, slack, sliding, slipping, 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, slumping, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, subsiding, tabetic, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, unrefreshed, unrestored, waddling, waning, wasting, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withering, worn, worn-down, worsening

• flagitious, corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, disgraceful, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, miscreant, nefarious, perverse, rotten, scandalous, shameful, sinful, vicious, villainous, wicked

• flagrant, abject, ablaze, abominable, absolute, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, arrant, atrocious, audacious, awful, bad, barefaced, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, blatant, blazing, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, brutal, burning, candent, candescent, capital, cheesy, classical, colorful, comburent, complete, conflagrant, conspicuous, consummate, contemptible, contemptuous, crass, criminal, crude, cruel, crummy, damnable, dark, debased, decided, defiant, definitive, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, downright, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, exhibitionistic, extravagant, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flaming, flaring, flaunting, flickering, forward, foul, fulsome, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, grave, grievous, gross, guttering, hanging out, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignescent, ignited, immodest, improper, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, in relief, in the foreground, incandescent, inconsiderate, infamous, inflamed, iniquitous, intolerable, kindled, knavish, lamentable, little, live, living, loathsome, loud, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notable, noticeable, notorious, obnoxious, obtrusive, obvious, odious, offensive, on fire, open, ostensible, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, outstanding, paltry, peccant, perfect, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, positive, precious, profound, prominent, pronounced, proper, rank, reeking, regrettable, regular, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, sad, salient, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scintillant, scintillating, scornful, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensational, shabby, shameful, shameless, shattering, shocking, shoddy, sinful, small, smoking, smoldering, sordid, sparking, spectacular, squalid, staring, stark, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, superlative, surpassing, tawdry, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too bad, total, treacherous, unabashed, unashamed, unbearable, unblushing, unclean, unconscionable, undeniable, unembarrassed, unequivocal, unextinguished, unforgivable, unmentionable, unmitigated, unmodest, unpardonable, unqualified, unquenched, unrelieved, unspeakable, unspoiled, unworthy, utter, vicious, vile, villainous, vulgar, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong

• flagrantly, abjectly, abominably, agonizingly, arrantly, atrociously, awfully, baldly, balefully, basely, bestially, bitterly, blatantly, boldly, brashly, brazenfacedly, brazenly, brutally, colorfully, confoundedly, conspicuously, contemptibly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, despicably, detestably, deucedly, disgustingly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadful, dreadfully, egregiously, evilly, excessively, excruciatingly, execrably, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagitiously, flaringly, foully, frightfully, fulsomely, garishly, gaudily, glaringly, gorgeously, grievously, grossly, heinously, hellishly, horribly, horridly, improperly, inexcusably, infamously, infernally, iniquitously, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, loathsomely, luridly, markedly, meanly, miserably, monstrously, nakedly, nastily, nauseatingly, nefariously, notably, noticeably, notoriously, obnoxiously, obtrusively, odiously, offensively, openly, ostensibly, outrageously, outstandingly, painfully, peccantly, pettily, piteously, poorly, prominently, pronouncedly, rankly, sadly, saliently, savagely, scandalously, scurvily, sensationally, shabbily, shamefully, shamelessly, shatteringly, shockingly, shoddily, sinfully, something awful, something fierce, sordidly, sorely, staggeringly, staringly, strikingly, tawdrily, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, viciously, vilely, wickedly, woefully, wretchedly

• flagstone, Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, brick, bricks and mortar, cement, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, covering materials, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flooring, gravel, kerb, kerbstone, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mortar, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plasters, prestressed concrete, road metal, roofage, roofing, siding, stone, tarmacadam, tile, tiling, walling, washboard

• flail, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, cut and thrust, drub, feint, flagellate, flail at, flail away at, flap, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hit at, horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lash out at, lay on, let drive at, let fly at, lunge at, maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, poke at, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, strap, strike at, strike out at, stripe, swing at, swing on, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thrust at, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

• flair, ability, ableness, acuity, acumen, acuteness, adequacy, adroitness, an ear for, an eye for, aptitude, aptness, art, artistic skill, artistry, arty-craftiness, bent, blazon, braininess, bravura, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, bump, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, capacity for, chic, clear thinking, cleverness, competence, critical discernment, daring, dash, demonstration, dexterity, discernment, display, dower, dowry, dramatics, eclat, efficacy, efficiency, elan, elegance, endowment, equipment, esprit, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, facility, faculty, false front, fanfaronade, feel, felicity, figure, fitness, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, forte, genius, genius for, gift, gift for, giftedness, gifts, glamor, head, histrionics, inclination, innate aptitude, insight, instinct, judgment, keen-wittedness, keenness, knack, leaning, long suit, makings, manifestation, mental alertness, mercurial mind, metier, mind, native cleverness, natural endowment, natural gift, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, oomph, pageant, pageantry, panache, parade, parts, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, perspicacity, pizzazz, potential, power, powers, proclivity, proficiency, propensity, qualification, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, ready wit, savvy, sham, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, show, showing-off, skill, smartness, smarts, sparkle, speciality, spectacle, splash, splurge, sprightly wit, staginess, strong flair, strong point, style, stylishness, sufficiency, susceptibility, talent, talents, taste, tendency, the goods, the stuff, theatrics, turn, turn for, vaunt, verve, virtu, vitality, what it takes

• flak, abuse, adverse criticism, aggressiveness, animadversion, antiaircraft fire, artillery, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, battery, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, blame, cannon, cannonry, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, coast artillery, combativeness, complaints, condemnation, contentiousness, criticism, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, disapprobation, disapproval, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dry fire, exception, faction, factiousness, faultfinding, field artillery, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, hairsplitting, heavy field artillery, high-angle fire, hit, home thrust, horizontal fire, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, infighting, interdiction fire, irascibility, irritability, knock, litigiousness, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, ordnance, overcriticalness, partisan spirit, partisanship, percussion fire, pestering, pettifogging, pistol fire, priggishness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, quibble, quibbling, raking fire, rap, rapid fire, reflection, reproachfulness, ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, shrewishness, siege artillery, siege engine, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, time fire, trench artillery, trichoschistism, vertical fire, zone fire

• flake off, be off, beat it, begone, clear out, desquamate, exfoliate, flake, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, hit the road, make yourself scarce, peel, scale, scale off, scram, shove off, vamoose

• flake, aliene, arrange in layers, avalanche, band, bar, bedlamite, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bit, blizzard, blotch, borderline case, character, check, checker, chip, collapse, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, crystal, dandruff, dapple, delaminate, dement, demoniac, desquamate, dot, driven snow, eccentric, energumen, erratic, exfoliate, fanatic, flake off, fleck, floccule, flocculus, flock, flurry, fou, fragment, freak, freckle, granular snow, harlequin, idiot, igloo, iris, keel over, kook, lamina, laminate, lay down, lay up, layer, loon, loony, lunatic, maculate, madman, maniac, mantle of snow, marble, marbleize, meshuggenah, mogul, motley, mottle, noncompos, nonconformist, nut, oddball, paring, particle, pass out, pepper, phrenetic, piece, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, raving lunatic, recluse, scale, scale off, scrap, screwball, scurf, shaving, sliver, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, strange duck, stratify, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tuft, variegate, vein, wafer, weirdo, wet snow

• flaky, abnormal, anomalous, apish, arbitrary, asinine, asperous, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, branny, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, capricious, chalklike, chalky, cockeyed, comminute, comminuted, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, credulous, crotchety, crushed, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, detrital, detrited, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, disintegrated, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, dusty, eccentric, efflorescent, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, farinaceous, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, fine, flipped, flocculent, floury, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, furfuraceous, futile, gaga, gone to dust, goofy, grated, ground, gulled, harebrained, haywire, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, impalpable, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, lentiginous, lepidote, levigated, loony, loopy, mad, maggoty, maudlin, mealy, milled, moody, moronic, motiveless, notional, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, peculiar, pestled, petulant, potty, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, queer, quirky, reduced to powder, round the bend, sappy, scabby, scabious, scabrous, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, screwball, screwballs, screwy, scurfy, senseless, sentimental, sharded, shredded, silly, singular, slaphappy, squamous, strange, stupid, temperamental, thoughtless, triturated, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, wayward, wet, whimsical, witless

• flam, ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, beat, beguile of, bilk, blague, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crap, crib, deception, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash, fairy tale, fake, fakement, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction, fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imposition, imposture, jiggery-pokery, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, moonshine, mulct, pack the deal, phony, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication, put-on, racket, rip-off, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, spoof, stack the cards, stick, sting, story, swindle, take a dive, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight, trumped-up story, untruth, victimize, white lie, yarn

• flambeau, brand, butane lighter, cigarette lighter, cresset, firebrand, flaming torch, flare, flint, flint and steel, fusee, igniter, light, lighter, link, portfire, signal flare, sparker, spill, taper, torch

• flamboyance, arabesque, baroque, baroqueness, blare, blatancy, blaze, blazing light, blinding light, brazenness, bright light, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light, burst of light, chinoiserie, colorfulness, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzling light, dazzlingness, effulgence, elaborateness, elegance, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, fanciness, fineness, flagrancy, flashiness, flood of light, floridity, floridness, floweriness, fulgor, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, glare, glaring light, glitter, glory, gorgeousness, jauntiness, jazziness, loudness, luridness, luxuriance, luxuriousness, meretriciousness, moresque, obtrusiveness, ostentation, overelaborateness, overelegance, overornamentation, panache, radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, refulgence, refulgency, resplendence, resplendency, richness, rococo, sensationalism, shamelessness, showiness, splendor, sportiness, streaming light, tawdriness, vividness, vulgarness

• flamboyant, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted, swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide

• flame up, bake, be angry, be excitable, be in heat, bellow, blaze, blaze up, bloom, blow a gasket, blow up, boil, broil, burn, catch fire, catch the infection, choke, combust, come apart, cook, excite easily, explode, fire up, flame, flare, flare up, flash up, flicker, flip, flush, fry, gasp, get excited, glow, go into hysterics, have a tantrum, hit the ceiling, ignite, incandesce, kindle, pant, parch, radiate heat, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, roast, run a temperature, scald, scorch, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, smolder, smother, spark, spunk up, steam, stew, stifle, storm, suffocate, sweat, swelter, take fire, toast, turn a hair

• flame, Amor, Casanova, Christian love, Don Juan, Eros, Lothario, Platonic love, Romeo, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, amoroso, ardency, ardor, attachment, baby, backfire, bake, balefire, be bright, be in heat, beacon, beacon fire, beam, beau, bedazzle, beloved, blare, blaze, blaze of light, blaze up, blind, blister, bloom, blush, bodily love, boil, bonfire, boyfriend, brand, broil, brotherly love, burn, burn in, burn off, burning ghat, burst into flame, caballero, campfire, candle, caritas, cast, catch, catch fire, catch on fire, cauterize, cavalier, cavaliere servente, char, charity, cheerful fire, choke, coal, color, color up, combust, combustion, conflagration, conjugal love, cook, corposant, coruscate, cozy fire, crack, crackling fire, crematory, crimson, cupel, darling, daze, dazzle, dear, death fire, desire, devotion, diffuse light, eagerness, electric light bulb, enthusiasm, esquire, facula, faithful love, fancy, fellow, fen fire, fervor, feverishness, fire, flame up, flare, flare up, flash, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, flush, fondness, forest fire, found, fox fire, free love, free-lovism, fry, fulgurate, funeral pyre, gallant, gasp, gigolo, give light, glance, glare, gleam, gleam of light, glim, glint, glow, grow red, heart, heartthrob, hero worship, honey, idolatry, idolism, idolization, ignis fatuus, ignite, ignition, illuminant, illuminator, inamorata, inamorato, incandesce, incandescent body, ingle, intensity, kindle, lady-killer, ladylove, lambent flame, lamp, lantern, lasciviousness, libido, light, light bulb, light source, like, liking, love, love-maker, lovemaking, lover, luminant, luminary, luster, man, mantle, married love, marshfire, match, moon, necker, old man, open fire, oxidate, oxidize, pant, parch, passion, petter, philanderer, physical love, popular regard, popularity, prairie fire, pyre, pyrolyze, radiate, radiate heat, raging fire, redden, regard, roast, scald, scorch, sea of flames, sear, seducer, seethe, send out rays, sentiment, sex, sexual love, sheet of fire, sheik, shimmer with heat, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, signal beacon, simmer, singe, smolder, smother, smudge fire, solar flare, solar prominence, solder, source of light, spark, spiritual love, squire, stars, steady, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, sugar daddy, sun, swain, sweat, sweetheart, sweetie, swelter, swinge, take, taper, tender feeling, tender passion, three-alarm fire, toast, torch, torrefy, truelove, turn red, turtledove, two-alarm fire, uxoriousness, vesicate, vulcanize, warmth, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire, worship, yearning, young man, zeal

• flameproof, airtight, ballproof, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, corrosionproof, dampproof, fire-resistant, fire-resisting, fire-retardant, fire-retarded, fireproof, fireproofed, foolproof, hermetic, holeproof, impervious to, leakproof, noiseproof, proof, proof against, punctureproof, resistant, rustproof, shatterproof, shellproof, soundproof, tight, watertight, weatherproof

• flamethrower, automatic, blowgun, blowpipe, firearm, gat, gun, handgun, heater, musket, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter

• flaming, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, affected, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blasted, blatant, blazing, bleeding, blinding, bloody, blooming, boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, burning, burning with excitement, candent, candescent, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, comburent, committed, conflagrant, conspicuous, convoluted, cordial, crimson, damask, damned, dazzling, declamatory, dedicated, delirious, devoted, devout, drunk, earnest, effulgent, egregious, elevated, enthusiastic, euphuistic, excited, extravagant, exuberant, faithful, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, fire-red, flagrant, flamboyant, flame-colored, flame-red, flaring, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flickering, flushed, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurating, fulsome, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glowing, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gules, guttering, hard-core, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, hot, hot-blooded, hotheaded, ignescent, ignited, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, in rut, incandescent, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, inkhorn, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, iron-red, keen, kindled, labyrinthine, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lexiphanic, live, lively, living, lobster-red, lofty, loyal, lurid, madcap, magniloquent, maroon, meretricious, meteoric, obvious, on fire, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, passionate, pedantic, perfervid, pompous, port-wine, pretentious, puce, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, reeking, refulgent, resolute, resplendent, rhetorical, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet, scintillant, scintillating, scorching, seething, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, serious, sexually excited, showy, sincere, smoking, smoldering, sonorous, sparking, spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stammel, steaming, steamy, stilted, tall, tile-red, tortuous, totally committed, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, vehement, vermilion, vigorous, vinaceous, vivid, warm, white-hot, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, zealous

• flange, bank, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, board, border, bordure, boss, bow, brim, brink, brow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, coast, condyle, convex, dowel, ear, edge, featheredge, flap, frame, fringe, gall, gnarl, handle, hem, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, limb, limbus, lip, list, loop, lump, marge, margin, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, ragged edge, rib, ridge, rim, ring, selvage, shore, shoulder, side, sideline, skirt, spine, stud, style, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verge, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

• flank, Chateaubriand, advance against, advance upon, advocate, bank, beam, bear down upon, blade roast, border, breast, brisket, broadside, champion, cheek, chop, chuck, chuck roast, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumvent, clod, close the circle, coast, cold cuts, come full circle, compass, counterattack, cycle, defend, describe a circle, drive, edge, encircle, encompass, filet mignon, gas, girdle, girdle the globe, go about, go around, go round, go the round, guard, guard against, gyre, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, infiltrate, jowl, knuckle, lap, laterality, launch an attack, line, loin, make a circuit, many-sidedness, march against, march upon, mount an attack, multilaterality, open an offensive, orbit, outflank, planking, plate, plate piece, pot roast, profile, protect, push, quarter, rack, revolve, rib roast, ribs, roast, rolled roast, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, safeguard, screen, secure, shank, shield, shore, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, side, siding, sirloin, skirt, spiral, strike, surround, temple, tenderloin, thrust, unilaterality, wheel

• flannel, ballocks, blarney, bull, bullshit, bushwa, cock, crap, eyewash, flatter, flattery, hedge, hogwash, humbug, mislead, nonsense, prevarication, rubbish, shit, soft soap, soft-soap, sweet talk, sweet-talk, waffle, weasel words

• flap, Bedlam let loose, ado, agitation, applique, argument, bag, bang, baste, batter, beat, beating, bedlam, bicker, bilge, blain, blast, bleb, blister, blob, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boss, bother, botheration, bow, box, brandish, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bubble, buffet, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, burst, bust, bustle, button, cacophony, cahot, cascade, chaos, charivari, chine, chirm, churn, clamor, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, clump, coat, coating, collop, commotion, condyle, confusion, conturbation, convex, covering, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, daggle, dance, dangle, deal, depend, din, discomposure, discord, disk, disorder, dispute, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, donnybrook, dowel, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drub, drunken brawl, dustup, ear, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, fall, fanaticism, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, feuille, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, film, fit, flail, flange, flapping, flaunt, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, float, flop, flourish, flow, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fly, foil, fold, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, fussiness, gall, gnarl, go pitapat, gutter, hammer, handle, hang, hang down, hell broke loose, hill, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hump, hunch, hurly-burly, imbrication, inquietude, jangle, jitters, jog, joggle, jumpiness, knob, knock, knot, knur, knurl, lambaste, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lappet, larrup, lash, lather, leaf, lip, loop, lop, loud noise, lump, maelstrom, malaise, maul, membrane, moil, mole, mountain, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nevus, nod, noise, noise and shouting, nub, nubbin, nubble, oscillate, oscillation, outcry, overlap, overlapping, overlay, overlayer, palpitate, palpitation, pandemonium, pane, panel, panic, papilloma, passion, paste, patina, patter, peel, peg, pellicle, pelt, pend, perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pommel, pother, pound, pucker, pulse, pulverize, pummel, quarrel, quiver, racket, rage, rap, rasher, rattle, report, restlessness, rhubarb, rib, ridge, ring, roar, roil, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, safety glass, sag, scramble, scum, seethe, seething, shake, sheet, shindy, shivaree, shoulder, skin, slab, slam, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slice, smack, spank, spasm, spine, splat, splutter, spurt, sputter, state, stew, stir, storminess, stripe, stud, style, swag, swap, sweat, swing, swirl, swivet, tab, table, tablet, tail, tap, tempestuousness, thrash, thresh, throb, thump, thunder, thunderclap, thwack, tintamarre, tizzy, to-do, trail, trepidation, trepidity, tubercle, tubercule, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, twitteration, undulate, unease, unquiet, unrest, uproar, upset, veneer, verruca, vesicle, vibrate, vortex, wafer, wag, waggle, wale, wallop, wart, wave, waver, weep, welt, whack, wham, whap, whip, whirl, whomp, whop, wield, wigwag, wildness, zeal, zealousness

• flapper, Australian crawl, aide-memoire, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, cue, diving, dog paddle, fin, fishtail, flipper, floating, hint, jogger, memorandum, natation, prompt, prompter, prompting, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, sidestroke, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, tickler, treading water, wading, waterskiing

• flare up, access, bake, be angry, be excitable, be in heat, belch, bellow, blaze, blaze of temper, blaze up, bloom, blow a gasket, blow up, blowup, bob up, boil, boil over, break forth, bristle, broil, burn, burst, burst forth, cascade, catch fire, catch the infection, choke, combust, come apart, convulsion, cook, cyclone, debouch, debouchment, deflagration, dissiliency, eructation, erupt, eruption, excite easily, explode, explosion, fire up, fit, flame, flame up, flare, flash, flash fire, flash up, flicker, flip, flush, fry, fume, gale, gasp, get excited, gleam, glow, go into hysterics, gush, gust, have a tantrum, high words, hit the ceiling, hurricane, ignite, incandesce, irrupt, irruption, jet, kindle, outbreak, outburst, pant, parch, paroxysm, pop up, radiate heat, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rapids, rave, roast, run a temperature, rush, sally, scald, scene, scorch, seethe, seizure, shimmer with heat, simmer, smolder, smother, spark, spasm, spate, spew, spring up, spunk up, spurt, start up, steam, stew, stifle, storm, suffocate, sweat, swelter, take fire, tempest, toast, tornado, torrent, turn a hair, upheaval, volcan, whirlwind

• flare, Roman candle, addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, ampliation, amplification, anger, augmentation, backfire, bake, balefire, bang, be bright, be in heat, beacon, beacon fire, beam, bedazzle, bell, bell buoy, black spot, blare, blast, blaze, blaze of light, blaze up, blind, blinker, bloom, blooping, blow up, blowout, blowup, blue peter, boil, boom, branch, branch out, break out, brilliance, broaden, broadening, broil, bulge, buoy, burn, burst, burst forth, caution light, chafe, choke, combust, cook, crescendo, cresset, dart, daze, dazzle, definition, deflagration, deploy, deployment, detonation, diffuse light, discharge, disperse, dispersion, enlarge, enlargement, erupt, eruption, expand, expansion, explode, explosion, extend, extension, facula, fan, fan out, fanning out, flambeau, flame, flame up, flaming torch, flare up, flare-up, flash, flash fire, flicker, flush, flutter, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, fringe area, fry, fulgurate, fulguration, fulmination, fume, fusee, gasp, ghost, give light, glance, glare, gleam, gleam of light, glimmer, glint, glow, go light, gong buoy, granulation, green light, grid, hard shadow, heliograph, high sign, hiking, image, incandesce, incandescence, increase, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, light, link, luminosity, luster, magnification, marker beacon, multiple image, nod, noise, nudge, open, open up, outburst, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, pant, parachute flare, parch, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radiate, radiate heat, radio beacon, rage, rain, raising, ramify, red flag, red light, report, roast, rocket, rolling, sailing aid, scald, scanning pattern, scintillation, scorch, see red, seethe, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, send out rays, shading, shimmer, shimmer with heat, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal flare, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, simmer, smolder, smother, snow, snowstorm, solar flare, solar prominence, spar buoy, spark, splay, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, spreading, steam, stew, stifle, stop light, suffocate, sweat, swell, swelling, swelter, the nod, the wink, toast, torch, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, unfold, upping, watch fire, white flag, widen, widening, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

• flaring, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant, blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent, candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid, extravagant, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, fiery, flabelliform, flagrant, flaming, flared, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled, live, living, loud, lurid, meretricious, meteoric, obtrusive, on fire, open, outspread, outstretched, overbright, patulous, raw, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spectacular, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, tawdry, unextinguished, unfolded, unquenched, vulgar, wide-open, widespread

• flash in the pan, abortion, abortive attempt, also-ran, bankrupt, best seller, big hit, blank cartridge, bogy, brilliant success, bubble, bugaboo, bugbear, castrato, cipher, cry of wolf, dud, dummy, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides, ephemeris, eunuch, fad, failure, false alarm, flop, gas, gasser, gelding, great success, hit, hollow man, impotent, incompetent, invalid, jackstraw, killing, lay figure, loser, man of straw, mayfly, merry chase, meteoric success, miscarriage, miscarrying, misfire, momentary success, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, puppet, pushover, resounding triumph, riot, roaring success, sensation, smash, smash hit, smoke, snows of yesteryear, thing of naught, trifle, triumph, vain attempt, washout, weakling, wet squib, wild-goose chase, wow, zero

• flash, Teletype, advertise, air, antelope, arrow, automatic response, backfire, bang, be bright, beacon, beam, beat the drum, bedazzle, blare, blast, blaze, blaze of light, blazon forth, blind, blind impulse, blink, blowout, blowup, blue darter, blue streak, bob up, bolt, boom, brain wave, brainstorm, brandish, break forth, breath, breathing, bulletin, burn, burst, burst forth, burst out, cable, cannonball, cast, chic, classy, coruscate, coruscation, coup, courser, crack, dangle, dart, dash, daze, dazzle, dazzling, debouch, deflagration, demonstrate, detonation, diffuse light, dip, discharge, display, disport, drive, eagle, electricity, emblazon, erupt, exchange colors, exhibit, exhibition, explosion, expose, express train, facula, fancy, flag, flag down, flame, flare, flare up, flare-up, flash fire, flashy, flaunt, fleeting impulse, flick, flicker, flickering, flourish, fly, fulgurate, fulguration, fulmination, gazelle, give a signal, give light, give the nod, glance, glare, gleam, gleam of light, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, greased lightning, greyhound, gut response, hail, hail and speak, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, half an eye, half-mast, hare, hasten, hint, hoist a banner, hold up, hurry, iffy, impulse, incandesce, indication, inspiration, instant, instinct, involuntary impulse, irrupt, jet plane, jiff, jiffy, kick, leer, light, lightning, luster, make a sign, manifest, manifestation, mercury, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, natural impulse, news report, nod, notion, nudge, ostentatious, outbreak, outburst, parade, peek, peep, poke, pop up, put forth, put forward, quick hunch, quick sight, quicksilver, quiver, race, radiate, radio, raise a cry, rapid glance, ray, reflex, report, ritzy, rocket, run, rush, salute, scamper, scared rabbit, scintilla, scintillate, scintillation, scoot, scuttle, sec, second, send a wire, send out rays, shaft, shake, shimmer, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, shot, show, show off, showy, sign, sign off, sign on, signal, signalize, skedaddle, slant, smart, snazzy, solar flare, solar prominence, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spangle, spark, sparkle, speak, speed, split second, sport, spring up, sprint, squiz, start up, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, stroke, sudden thought, suggestion, swallow, swish, take off, tear, telegram, telegraph, telex, thought, thunderbolt, tick, torrent, touch, trice, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, unfurl a flag, urge, vaunt, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, whistle, whiz, wind, wink, wire, zoom

• flashback, commitment to memory, exercise of memory, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, rote, rote memory, study

• flashing, ablaze, aflame, aflicker, bickering, blazing, blinking, brave, bravura, braw, brief, brisk, burning, chichi, cometary, dancing, daring, dashing, dressy, exhibitionistic, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fleet, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttery, frilly, frothy, fulgurant, fulgurating, gallant, gay, glittering, jaunty, jazzy, lambent, meteoric, playing, quick, quivering, quivery, rakish, short, short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, showy, snazzy, speedy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stroboscopic, swift, wavering, wavery

• flashy, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, ablaze, affected, aflame, bedizened, big-sounding, blatant, blazing, blinding, brave, bravura, braw, brazen, burning, cheap, chichi, chintzy, convoluted, cosmetic, crude, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic, facile, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flash, flashing, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulgurant, fulgurating, fulsome, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glib, glittering, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, insubstantial, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, meteoric, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, raw, rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shallow, showy, shrieking, skin-deep, slick, snazzy, sonorous, sparkling, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted, superficial, surface, tacky, tall, tasteless, tawdry, thin, tinsel, tortuous, vulgar

• flask, calabash, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, ewer, fifth, flacon, flagon, flasket, gourd, hipflask, hot-water bottle, jar, jeroboam, jug, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, phial, stoup, vacuum bottle, vial

• flat out, a outrance, a toute outrance, absolute, absolutely, admitting no exception, all hollow, all out, all the way, all-out, apace, at full blast, at full drive, at full speed, at full throttle, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, blasted, categorical, clear, complete, completely, conclusive, damned, dead, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, downright, entire, essentially, expeditiously, explicit, express, extremely, final, fixed, flat, flat-out, full speed ahead, fundamentally, global, hastily, immeasurably, implicit, in excess, in full sail, in the extreme, inappealable, incalculably, indefinitely, indisputable, infinitely, lickety-split, most, out-and-out, outright, peremptory, perfect, perfectly, positive, posthaste, purely, quickly, radically, rank, rapidly, round, speedily, straight, straight-out, swiftly, to a fare-you-well, to a fault, to excess, to extremes, to the backbone, to the extreme, to the full, to the limit, to the marrow, to the skies, to the sky, to the utmost, too far, total, totally, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditionally, unconditioned, under full steam, undoubting, unequivocal, unequivocally, unhampered, unhesitating, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, utterly, whole, wide open, with a vengeance, with all speed, without exception, without reserve

• flat, 3-D, Pullman, Pullman car, abeyant, absolute, absolutely, absonant, accented, accidental, accommodation, accordant, accumbent, achromatic, achromic, act drop, admitting no exception, alabaster, alike, alkali flat, all-out, alluvial plain, alveolar, anemic, apace, apartment, apathetic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arid, arrowlike, articulated, asbestos, asbestos board, ashen, ashy, assimilated, at full length, at full speed, at once, atonal, automatic, back, backdrop, baggage car, balanced, baldly, bank, bar, barren, barytone, basin, bated, batten, beat, betting house, betting parlor, bilabial, billiard table, blah, bland, blank, bled white, bloodless, bog, bony, border, boring, bottomland, bowling alley, bowling green, boxcar, brashly, brazenly, breve, broad, broke, bushveld, busted, caboose, cacophonous, cacuminal, cadaverous, campestral, campestrian, campo, car, carriage, casino, cataleptic, catatonic, categorical, categorically, central, cerebral, certain, chair car, chambers, champaign, champaign country, characterless, checked, chloranemic, clear, clerestory, close, cloth, coach, coal car, coastal plain, cold, cold-water flat, collapsed, colorless, common, commonplace, complete, completely, conclusive, consistent, consonant, consonantal, constant, continuant, continuous, coral reef, couchant, couche, coulisse, counterweight, covered waggon, cracked, crawling, creamy, crib, crotchet, crouched, cubic, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, damped, dampened, day coach, dead, dead flat, dead level, dead straight, deadened, deadly pale, deathly pale, debased, decided, decisive, decor, decumbent, definite, definitely, definitive, deflated, delicate, delta, demisemiquaver, dental, depressed, desert, determinate, diaphonic, digs, dilute, diluted, dim, dimensional, dimmed, diner, dinghy, dingy, dining car, direct, directly, discolored, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dismal, dissimilated, dissonant, dominant, dominant note, dopey, dormant, dorsal, double whole note, down, downright, downs, downy, drab, draggy, draped, drawing room, drearisome, dreary, drop, drop curtain, dry, dryasdust, dull, dulled, duplex, duplex apartment, dusty, earth, effete, eggshell, eighth note, elephantine, empty, enharmonic, enharmonic note, entire, entresol, equable, equal, esplanade, etiolated, even, evenly, exact, exactly, explicit, express, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, featureless, fell, fen, final, fire curtain, firm, first floor, fixed, flat, flat broke, flat country, flat out, flat-chested, flat-out, flatcar, flatland, flatly, flats, flattened, flatways, flatwise, flavorless, fleshless, flipper, floor, flush, ford, forthwith, foul, fourth-dimensional, front, gambling den, gambling hall, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, gangling, gangly, garden apartment, gaunt, gawky, ghastly, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, glide, global, gloss, glossal, glottal, gondola, grass veld, grassland, grating, gray, groggy, ground, ground floor, groveling, gruelly, guttural, haggard, half note, hanging, hard, harsh, heath, heavy, hell, hell for leather, hemidemisemiquaver, high, ho-hum, hollow, homaloid, homaloidal, homogeneous, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, horizontally, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, ice, immediately, immelodious, immutable, implicit, in a line, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inappealable, indifferent, indisputable, indubitable, inert, inexcitable, inharmonic, inharmonious, insipid, intonated, invariable, iridescent, irrevocable, irrevocably, ivory, jejune, joint, knee-high, knocked flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, laid low, lande, languid, languorous, lank, lanky, latent, lateral, lax, leaden, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, ledge, leiotrichous, lengthways, lengthwise, level, level line, level plane, lifeless, light, like a shot, like greased lightning, lineal, linear, lingual, liquid, livid, living quarters, llano, local, lodgings, logy, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowland, lowlands, luggage van, lunar mare, lurid, lusterless, lying, lying down, mahogany, mail car, mail van, marble, mare, marsh, mat, matte, matter-of-fact, meager, mealy, mean sea level, measured, mechanical, mellow, mesa, mesilla, methodic, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, mid, mild, milk-and-water, minim, monolithic, monophthongal, monotonous, moor, moorland, mother-of-pearl, muddy, muffled, mundane, musical note, musicless, muted, nacreous, narrow, nasal, nasalized, natural, neap, neutral, nonmelodious, note, occlusive, of a piece, off, off-key, off-tone, on a level, on the run, oofless, opalescent, open, open country, openly, ordered, orderly, ordinary, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, out-and-out, outright, outspread, outstretched, overthrown, oxytone, palace car, palatal, palatalized, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pampa, pampas, pappy, parlor car, parterre, passenger car, passive, pastel, pasty, patent note, patinaed, pearly, pedestrian, peneplain, penthouse, peremptory, perfect, persistent, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phlegmatic, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plain, plainly, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, plodding, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, poolroom, positive, positively, posttonic, prairie, prairies, precise, precisely, procumbent, prone, proportional, prosaic, prosing, prostrate, prosy, pulpy, punctured, quarter note, quaver, quickly, quiet, rag, railroad flat, railway car, rapidly, raucous, rawboned, reclining, rectilineal, rectilinear, recumbent, reef, reefer, refrigerator car, regular, rental, report, reposing, responding note, resupine, retroflex, rez-de-chaussee, right, robotlike, rolled, roomette, rooms, round, rounded, ruler-straight, runty, ruptured, sad, sallow, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sandals, sandbank, sandbar, sapless, satin, savanna, savorless, scene, scenery, scraggy, scrawny, screen, sea level, sea of grass, sebkha, sedentary, semibreve, semigloss, semiquaver, semivowel, set of rooms, shallow, shallows, shaped note, sharp, shelf, shoal, shoal water, short, shrill, sickly, side scene, silk, simple, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, skeletal, skinny, slack, sleeper, sleeping, slide, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoker, smoking car, smoldering, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothened, smothered, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solemn, somber, sonant, sordo, sour, space, space-time, spare, spatial, spatiotemporal, speedily, spherical, spiccato, spiceless, spidery, spindling, spindly, spiritless, sporting house, sprawled, sprawling, spread, spread out, squashed, squashed flat, squat, squatty, stable, staccato, stage screw, stagnant, stale, standard, standing, static, steadfast, steady, steppe, steppes, stereoscopic, sterile, stiff, stifled, stockcar, stodgy, stone-broke, stony, stooped, stopped, story, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-out, straight-side, strand, strapped, streamlined, street floor, stressed, stretched out, strident, strong, studio, stuffy, stumpy, suave, subdued, subtle, suite, superficial, supine, surd, sure, surface, sustained note, swamp, sweet, swiftly, syllabic, systematic, tab, table, tableau, tableland, tabloid, tabular, tallow-faced, tame, tank, tasteless, teaser, tedious, tender, tenement, tennis court, tense, tercet, terrace, thick, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, thirty-second note, three-dimensional, throaty, tidal flats, tired, tiresome, tonal, tone, toneless, tonic, tormentor, torpid, total, transformation, transformation scene, tree veld, triplet, triplex, trodden, trodden flat, truck, true, tundra, tuneless, twangy, twiggy, two-dimensional, unaccented, unambiguous, unaroused, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncircumscribed, uncolored, uncompromisingly, unconditional, unconditioned, uncurved, undeflected, undersized, underweight, undeviating, undifferentiated, undistorted, undiversified, undoubting, unelevated, unembellished, unequivocal, unexciting, unflavored, unhampered, unharmonious, unhesitating, unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, uninterrupted, unlimited, unlively, unmelodious, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmodifiable, unmodified, unmusical, unpalatable, unpoetic, unpolished, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioning, unrealistic, unreserved, unrestricted, unromantic, unrough, unroughened, unrounded, unruffled, unsavory, unshiny, unstressed, unswerving, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, unwaivable, upland, upright, utter, utterly, van, vapid, vega, velar, veld, velvet, vertical, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, volumetric, vowel, vowellike, waggon, wan, washed-out, washy, water level, watered, watered-down, watery, waxen, weak, weald, wetlands, whey-faced, white, whole, whole note, wholly, wide, wide-open spaces, wing, wingcut, wishy-washy, without delay, without exception, without reserve, wold, woodcut, wooden

• flatfoot, Dogberry, John Law, beagle, bluecoat, bobby, bowlegs, bull, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot, cop, copper, crookback, defacement, deformation, deformity, dick, disfigurement, eye, flattie, freakishness, gendarme, gumshoe, gumshoe man, harelip, hawkshaw, humpback, hunchback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, mutilation, peeler, pig, private eye, shamus, skip tracer, sleuthhound, splayfoot, spotter, swayback, talipes, tec, teratology, the cops, the fuzz, the law, torticollis, truncation, valgus, wryneck

• flatland, alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, billiard table, bottomland, bowling green, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, dead flat, dead level, delta, desert, down, downs, earth, esplanade, fell, flat, flat country, flats, floor, grass veld, grassland, ground, heath, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, lande, ledge, level, level line, level plane, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mean sea level, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, parterre, peneplain, plain, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, prairie, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sea level, sea of grass, sebkha, steppe, table, tableland, terrace, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, water level, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

• flats, alkali flat, alluvial plain, apartment house, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, condominium, cooperative apartment house, delta, desert, down, downs, duplex, duplex house, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, grass veld, grassland, heath, high-rise apartment building, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, table, tableland, tenement, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

• flatten, align, assimilate to, balance, beat down, bend, blow down, break, break down, bring down, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, conquer, crush, cut down, dab, damp, demolish, disentangle, down, drag, dress, dub, equalize, equilibrize, even, extend, fell, floor, flush, grade, grease, ground, harmonize, harrow, homogenize, humble, knock, knock down, knock out, knock over, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, lubricate, make uniform, master, mow, mow down, normalize, oil, override, plane, planish, plaster, press out, prostrate, pull down, put down, put straight, quell, rase, raze, rectify, reduce, regularize, regulate, ride down, roll, roll flat, set straight, shave, sit up, smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smoothen, stabilize, stand up, standardize, steamroll, steamroller, stereotype, straighten, straighten out, straighten up, subdue, subjugate, suppress, symmetrize, take down, tear down, throw down, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, unbend, uncurl, uniformize, unkink, unsnarl, vanquish

• flatter, adorn, adulate, apotheosize, beautify, become, beguile, belaud, bend the knee, bepraise, beslobber, beslubber, blandish, bless, blow up, boast of, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brag about, brown-nose, butter up, cajole, celebrate, coax, complement, compliment, conceit, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, cry up, decorate, deify, embellish, emblazon, enhance, eulogize, exalt, extol, fawn, fawn upon, finish, flannel, glorify, grovel, hero-worship, idolize, inveigle, kneel, kowtow, laud, lick the dust, lickspittle, lionize, magnify, make fair weather, make much of, oil, oil the tongue, ornament, overpraise, palaver, panegyrize, pay tribute, perfect, play up to, porter aux nues, praise, puff, puff up, salute, shine up to, slobber over, soft-soap, stoop, suck up to, suit, sweet-talk, toadeat, toady, toady to, truckle, truckle to, trumpet, wheedle

• flatterer, adulator, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, blarneyer, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, cajoler, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, leech, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, parasite, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, sponge, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wheedler, yes-man

• flattering, abject, acclamatory, admiring, adulatory, appreciative, approbatory, backscratching, becoming, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, commendatory, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, encomiastic, enhancing, eulogistic, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, footlicking, fulsome, gratifying, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, kind, laudatory, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, panegyric, parasitic, prostrate, regardful, respectful, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, sugary, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling

• flattery, accolade, adulation, apotheosis, ass-kissing, beguilement, bepraisement, blandishment, blarney, brown-nosing, cajolery, congratulation, deification, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, glorification, glory, hero worship, homage, hommage, honeyed words, honor, idolatry, idolizing, incense, kudos, laud, laudation, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, oil, overpraise, paean, panegyric, praise, soft, soft soap, sweet talk, tribute, truckling, wheedling

• flatulence, Barnumism, aeriness, affectation, bedizenment, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, convolution, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, ethereality, fart, flashiness, flatulency, flatuosity, flatus, fluidity, fulsomeness, garishness, gas, gaseity, gaseous state, gaseousness, gassiness, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, high-flown diction, inflatedness, inflation, intumescence, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meteorism, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prose run mad, puff, puffiness, puffing, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, sensationalism, sententiousness, showiness, stiltedness, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, vapor pressure, vaporiness, vaporousness, wind, windiness

• flatulent, bloated, blown up, bombastic, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, ejaculative, ejective, empty, enchymatous, eructative, expulsive, extrusive, fat, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, hollow, incrassate, inflated, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, shallow, solemn, stilted, stuffy, superficial, swelled, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, vain, ventose, vomitive, vomitory, windy

• flatware, appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, cutlery, dining utensils, dinnerware, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flat silver, forks, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, knives, metalware, ovenware, silver, silver plate, silverware, spoons, sporting goods, stainless-steel ware, stoneware, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware

• flaunt, advertise, affect, air, betoken, blazon forth, boast, brag, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, broadcast, dangle, declare, demonstrate, develop, disclose, discover, display, disport, divulge, dramatize, emblazon, embody, enact, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, expose to view, express, flap, flash, float, flourish, flutter, fly, gasconade, give sign, give token, highlight, hold up, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, parade, perform, present, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put forward, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, shake, show, show forth, show off, sport, spotlight, swing, token, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, undulate, unfold, vaunt, wag, wave, wield, wigwag

• flaunting, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, big-sounding, blatant, blazon, blinding, brandish, brandishing, brave, bravura, braw, brazen, brazenfaced, brilliancy, chichi, colorful, convoluted, crude, daring, dash, dashing, declamatory, demonstration, display, dramatics, dressy, eclat, elevated, etalage, euphuistic, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic, extravagant, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flagrant, flair, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flaunt, flourish, flourishing, frilly, frothy, fulsome, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glittering, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, histrionics, inkhorn, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, manifestation, meretricious, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pageant, pageantry, parade, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, raw, rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shaking, sham, shameless, show, showing-off, showy, shrieking, snazzy, sonorous, spectacle, spectacular, splash, splashy, splurge, splurgy, sporty, staginess, stilted, tall, tawdry, theatrics, tortuous, undulation, vaunt, vulgar, wave, wave motion, waving

• flavor, aftertaste, air, ambiance, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, attribute, badge, besprinkle, bitter, brand, breath, breathe, brew, cachet, cast, character, characteristic, color, condiment, condiments, configuration, cut, decoct, definite odor, detectable odor, differentia, differential, distinctive feature, dredge, dye, earmark, effluvium, emanation, entincture, essence, exhalation, extract, feature, feel, feeling, figure, flavorer, flavoring, fragrance, fume, gust, hallmark, hint, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, impress, impression, index, individualism, infiltrate, infuse, instill, keynote, leaven, lineaments, mannerism, mark, marking, mold, nature, odor, palate, particularity, peculiarity, penetrate, pepper, permeate, pervade, piquancy, property, quality, quirk, redolence, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, saturate, sauce, savor, savoriness, scent, seal, season, seasoner, seasoning, sense, shape, singularity, smack, smell, soupcon, sour, specialty, spice, spirit, spoor, stamp, steep, stench, stomach, style, subtle odor, suffuse, suggestion, sweet, taint, tang, taste, tastiness, temper, tincture, tinge, token, tongue, tooth, touch, trace, trail, trait, transfuse, trick, whiff, zest

• flavorless, dead, dilute, diluted, distasteful, fade, flat, gruelly, ill-flavored, inane, indifferent, insipid, jejune, mild, milk-and-water, pappy, pulpy, sapless, savorless, spiceless, stale, tasteless, thin, unappetizing, unflavored, unsavory, vapid, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wishy-washy

• flavorsome, appetizing, delectable, delicious, flavorful, flavorous, flavory, fruity, full-bodied, full-flavored, good-tasting, juicy, luscious, mouth-watering, nutty, relishing, rich, rich-flavored, sapid, savory, succulent, tasty, toothsome

• flaw, aberrancy, aberration, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bad habit, besetting sin, birthmark, black mark, blackhead, blast, bleb, blemish, blister, blot, blow, box canyon, breach, break, bug, bulla, canyon, catch, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, comedo, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, damage, deface, defacement, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, defile, deform, deformation, deformity, dell, delusion, deviancy, dike, discredit, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, ditch, donga, draw, drawback, errancy, erroneousness, error, excavation, failing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, faute, fissure, flawedness, flume, flurry, foible, fracture, frailty, freckle, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gust, hamartia, harm, hemangioma, heresy, heterodoxy, hickey, hole, hurt, illusion, imperfection, inadequacy, incision, infirmity, joint, keloid, kink, kloof, leak, lentigo, little problem, loophole, mar, mark, milium, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, moat, mole, moral flaw, needle scar, nevus, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, peccancy, perforation, perversion, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, problem, puncture, pustule, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rip, ruin, rupture, scab, scar, scarify, scissure, scratch, scud, seam, sebaceous cyst, self-contradiction, shortcoming, sin, sinfulness, slit, slot, snag, something missing, split, spoil, stain, stigmatize, strawberry mark, sty, taint, tear, track, trench, twist, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, valley, verruca, vesicle, vice, void, vulnerable place, wadi, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weak side, weaken, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wind gust, wrong, wrongness

• flawed, aberrant, abroad, absonant, actionable, adrift, against the law, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, black-market, blemished, bootleg, chargeable, checked, cicatrized, contraband, contradictory, contrary to law, contrary to reason, corrupt, cracked, crazed, criminal, damaged, deceptive, defaced, defective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, disfigured, distorted, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, felonious, harmed, heretical, heterodox, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, illogical, illusory, impaired, imperfect, impermissible, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, invalid, irrational, irregular, justiciable, keloidal, kinked, lawless, loose, marred, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonscientific, not following, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, outlaw, outlawed, paralogical, peccant, perverse, perverted, pimpled, pimply, punishable, reasonless, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, sick, split, spoiled, stained, straying, tainted, tarnished, triable, twisted, unallowed, unauthentic, unauthorized, unconnected, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unfactual, unlawful, unofficial, unorthodox, unphilosophical, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unstatutory, untrue, unwarrantable, unwarranted, warped, weakened, wide, without reason, wrong, wrongful

• flawless, OK, absolute, accurate, all right, beyond all praise, chaste, clean, correct, dead right, defectless, demonstrable, entire, errorless, exquisite, faultless, foolproof, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, indefective, infallible, intact, irrefutable, irreproachable, just, just right, letter-perfect, meticulous, model, okay, peerless, perfect, pristine, proper, pure, right, sinless, sound, spotless, stainless, straight, straight-up-and-down, taintless, unadulterated, unassailable, unblemished, unbroken, uncontaminated, uncorrupted, undamaged, undeniable, unfaultable, unflawed, unimpaired, unimpeachable, unmarred, unmixed, unquestionable, unsoiled, unspotted, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, virgin, whole

• flay, assail, attack, bark, berate, bleed, bleed white, blister, castigate, decorticate, defoliate, denude, deplume, despoil, dismember, displume, divest, drain, draw and quarter, dry, excoriate, exhaust, fleece, fustigate, impoverish, lacerate, lash, maim, mangle, milk, mutilate, pare, peel, pick clean, pick to pieces, pluck, pull apart, roast, scalp, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, shear, shred, skin, skin alive, slash, strip, strip bare, suck dry, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tongue-lash, trounce

• flea bitten, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, dotted, dotty, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckled, freckly, macular, maculate, maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded

• flea market, auto show, bazaar, boat show, closing-out sale, commercial complex, distress sale, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, garage sale, going-out-of-business sale, inventory-clearance sale, market, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, plaza, rialto, rummage sale, sale, shopping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, staple, street market, tax sale, trade fair, white elephant sale

• flea, broad jumper, bucking bronco, buckjumper, cat flea, chigoe, cockroach, crab, dog flea, frog, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, grayback, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, jackrabbit, jigger, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, leaper, louse, mite, nit, parasite, pole vaulter, red bug, roach, salmon, sand flea, stag, sunfisher, timber topper, vaulter, vermin, weevil

• fleabag, boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, doss house, flophouse, guest house, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodging house, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse, rooming house, tavern

• flection, S-curve, angle, angularity, angularness, bend, bending, bow, bowing, conflexure, crease, creasing, crimp, crookedness, deflection, deflexure, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion, distortion, dog-ear, double, doubling, duplicature, flex, flexure, flounce, fold, frill, gather, geanticline, geosyncline, hairpin turn, hookedness, inflection, lapel, lappet, meander, orthogonality, oxbow, plica, plication, plicature, ply, rectangularity, reflection, refraction, right-angledness, right-angularity, ruche, ruching, ruffle, scatter, skewness, sweep, torsion, tuck, turn, turning

• fledge, attain majority, bloom, come of age, come to maturity, develop, feather, flower, grow, grow up, leave the nest, mature, mellow, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ripen, season, settle down, temper, toga virilis

• fledgling, Young Turk, abecedarian, adolescent, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, at half cock, avifauna, baby, baby bird, beginner, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdling, birdy, boot, boy, bright young man, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, cage bird, calf, callow, catechumen, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, comer, cub, cygnet, deb, debutant, dewy, diving bird, dogie, dove, duckling, eagle, eaglet, entrant, ever-new, evergreen, fawn, fellow, firsthand, fish-eating bird, flightless bird, foal, fowl, fresh, freshman, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fulmar, game bird, gosling, green, greenhorn, greeny, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hobbledehoy, hopeful, ignoramus, ill-digested, immature, impubic, inductee, infant, initiate, insect-eating bird, intact, junior, juvenal, juvenile, kid, kit, kitten, lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, learner, litter, maiden, maidenly, manchild, master, migrant, migratory bird, minor, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, muchacho, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neophyte, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, nest, nestling, new, new boy, new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novice, novitiate, novus homo, original, oscine bird, owl, parvenu, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, piglet, pigling, polliwog, postulant, pristine, probationer, probationist, pubescent, pullet, pup, puppy, ratite, raw, raw recruit, recruit, rising generation, rookie, sapling, schoolboy, sea bird, seed-eating bird, sempervirent, shoat, shore bird, slip, songbird, sonny, sonny boy, sprig, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, stripling, swan, tadpole, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, unbeaten, underripe, undeveloped, unfledged, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, upstart, vernal, virgin, virginal, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, weaner, whelp, wildfowl, yeanling, young, young hopeful, young man, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

• flee, abscond, absquatulate, avoid, bail out, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, beat a retreat, beat it, blow, bolt, break, break away, break jail, break loose, bunk, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, clear out, cut and run, cut loose, cut out, decamp, dematerialize, depart, desert, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, elope, elude, erode, escape, escape prison, eschew, evade, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fly, fly the coop, fugitate, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, go, go AWOL, go away, hide, hightail, jump, jump bail, leave no trace, leave the scene, levant, make a getaway, make an exit, make off, make tracks, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, quit, retire from sight, run, run along, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, scamper, scape, scoot, scram, screw, show the heels, shun, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable, slip the collar, split, suffer an eclipse, take French leave, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, turn tail, vamoose, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away

• fleece, Leatherette, Leatheroid, alabaster, bare, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, blubber, breeze, bristle, bunco, burn, butter, capillament, chalk, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cilium, clay, clip, coat, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, crop, cushion, cuticle, defraud, denudate, denude, deplume, depredate, dermis, despoil, diddle, displume, divest, do, do in, do out of, dough, down, drain, driven snow, dry, eiderdown, euchre, exhaust, exploit, expose, feather bed, feathers, fell, finagle, flam, flay, flesh, flimflam, floss, flour, flue, fluff, foam, fob, forage, foray, freeboot, fudge, fur, furring, gouge, gull, gut, gyp, hair, have, head, head of hair, hide, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up, horsehair, hustle, imitation fur, imitation leather, impoverish, integument, ivory, jacket, kapok, lay bare, lay open, leather, leather paper, lily, locks, loot, maggot, mane, maraud, mat, milk, mop, mulct, outer layer, outer skin, overcharge, overprice, overtax, pack the deal, paper, pearl, pelt, peltry, pick clean, pigeon, pile, pillage, pillow, pluck, plunder, plush, practice fraud upon, prey on, profiteer, pubescence, pubic hair, pudding, puff, putty, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, rawhide, reive, remove, rifle, rind, rip off, rob, rook, rope in, rubber, sack, satin, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, setula, shag, shave, shear, sheath, sheet, shock, shortchange, silk, silver, skin, skins, snow, soak, spoil, spoliate, stack the cards, stick, sting, strip, strip bare, suck dry, surcharge, swan, swansdown, sweat, sweep, swindle, take, take a dive, tegument, thatch, thimblerig, thistledown, throw a fight, tresses, uncloak, uncover, unsheathe, unveil, vair, velvet, victimize, wax, wool, zephyr

• fleeced, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, deprived, disadvantaged, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, necessitous, needy, on relief, out at elbows, pauperized, poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged

• fleecy, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pilose, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, whiskered, woolly

• fleer, Parthian shot, affront, back answer, barrack, be merry with, call names, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, crack, crack a joke, crack wise, cut, cut at, cutting remark, dig, dig at, dishonor, disoblige, dump, dump on, fleer at, flout, foolery, fun, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, gird, give offense to, grin, humiliate, hurl a brickbat, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, jeer at, jest, jibe at, joke, josh, kid, kid around, leer, leg-pull, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, mock, offend, outrage, parting shot, play on words, poke fun at, pooh, pooh-pooh, pun, put down, put-down, put-on, quip, rail at, rally, rank out, revile, ridicule, rude reproach, sardonic grin, scintillate, scoff, scoff at, scornful laugh, scout, scurrility, short answer, slam, slap, slap at, smile, smirk, sneer, sneer at, snicker, snigger, snort, sparkle, swipe, taunt, treat with indignity, twit, utter a mot, verbal thrust, wisecrack

• fleet, Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, age group, agile, alert, animated, argosy, armada, ball the jack, band, barrel, battalion, beguile, bevy, body, boom, bottoms, bowl along, breakneck, breeze, breeze along, brief, brigade, brisk, brush, bunch, cabal, cast, clip, clique, coast guard, cohort, cometary, company, complement, contingent, convoy, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, cut along, dally, dashing, detachment, detail, disappear, division, double-quick, eagle-winged, escadrille, evanesce, evaporate, expeditious, express, faction, fade, fast, featly, flashing, flickering, flit, flotilla, fly, fly low, flying, foot, fritter, galloping, gang, go fast, graceful, group, grouping, groupment, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, highball, hustling, idle, in-group, junta, light, light of heel, light-footed, line, lively, make good, make knots, marine, melt, melt like snow, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mercurial, meteoric, mob, mosquito fleet, movement, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, nip, nit, out-group, outfit, outstrip the wind, pack, party, pass, pass away, peart, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, potter, pour it on, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, regiment, rip, running, sail, salon, scorch, set, shipping, ships, short, short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, sink, sizzle, skim, snappy, spanking, speed, speedy, spirited, sprightly, spry, squad, squadron, squander, stable, storm along, string, sure-footed, sweep, swift, task force, task group, tatter, team, tear, tear along, thunder along, tonnage, tribe, troop, troupe, vanish, vivacious, waste, whaling fleet, whisk, whiz, wile, wing, winged, zing, zip, zoom

• fleeting, abrupt, blunt, brief, brittle, brusque, capricious, changeable, compendious, corruptible, crusty, curt, deciduous, disappearing, dissolving, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, evaporating, fading, fickle, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gruff, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, laconic, melting, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short, short and sweet, short-lived, snippety, snippy, succinct, temporal, temporary, terse, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vanishing, volatile

• flesh and blood, agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodiliness, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, concreteness, connections, consanguinean, corporality, corporeality, corporealness, corporeity, distaff side, distant relation, embodiment, enate, family, flesh, folks, german, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, materiality, materialness, near relation, next of kin, people, physicality, physicalness, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, substantiality, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

• flesh eater, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, trencherman, vegetarian

• flesh eating, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, feeding, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian

• flesh, Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Leatherette, Leatheroid, agnate, alive, all that lives, anatomy, ancestry, animalism, animality, aspic, barbecue, beastliness, bestiality, biosphere, biota, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodiliness, bodily, body, boiled meat, bones, bouilli, brawn, brutality, brutishness, carcass, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, civet, clansman, clay, clod, coarseness, coat, cognate, coldness, collateral, collateral relative, color, concreteness, connections, consanguinean, corporality, corporeal, corporeality, corporealness, corporeity, corpus, cuticle, dermis, distaff side, distant relation, earthiness, ecosphere, embodiment, embody, enate, fallen humanity, fallen nature, fallen state, family, fell, fiber, figure, fill in, fill out, fleece, flesh and blood, fleshliness, flora and fauna, folks, forcemeat, form, frame, frigidity, fur, furring, game, generation of man, genus Homo, german, grossness, hachis, hash, hide, hominid, homo, hulk, human, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, imitation fur, imitation leather, impotence, in person, in the flesh, incorporate, integument, jacket, jerky, joint, jugged hare, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, lapsed state, le genre humain, leather, leather paper, libido, living, living matter, living nature, love, lovemaking, man, mankind, marriage, material body, materialism, materiality, materialness, meat, menue viande, mince, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, muscle, natural, near relation, next of kin, nonspirituality, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pemmican, people, person, personally, physical, physical body, physicality, physicalness, physique, plasm, posterity, postlapsarian state, pot roast, potency, race of man, rawhide, real, really, relations, relatives, rind, roast, sausage meat, scrapple, sensuality, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sheath, sib, sibling, skin, skins, soma, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, substantiality, substantiate, swinishness, sword side, tegument, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, tissue, torso, tribesman, trunk, unspirituality, uterine kin, vair, venison, viande, voluptuousness

• fleshly, Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, amorous, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, corporal, corporeal, dirty, earthly, earthy, epicurean, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal, erring, fallen, finite, frail, gamic, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, hominal, homocentric, horny, hot, human, humanistic, hylic, hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm, ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious, lay, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, luxurious, man-centered, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, of easy virtue, only human, orgiastic, oversexed, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal, profane, prurient, randy, recidivist, recidivistic, reprobate, salacious, satyric, secular, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight, substantial, swinish, sybaritic, tellurian, temporal, unangelic, unblessed, unchaste, unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified, unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, wanton, wayward, weak, worldly

• fleshpots, Babylon, Easy Street, Gomorrah, Sodom, affluence, bed of roses, bordello, brothel, cathouse, clip joint, clover, comfort, den, den of iniquity, den of thieves, dive, dump, ease, easy circumstances, felicity, gracious life, gracious living, gyp joint, happiness, hellhole, hole, joint, lair, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, prosperity, prosperousness, security, sink, sink of corruption, sporting house, stews, success, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvet, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, whorehouse

• fleshy, adipose, baccate, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, doughy, dumpy, fat, fattish, flabby, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, macerated, masticated, meaty, mushy, obese, overweight, pasty, paunchy, pithy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, soft, spongy, square, squashy, squat, squatty, squelchy, squishy, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, succulent, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, weighty, well-fed

• fleur-de-lis, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, badge, badge of office, badges, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, brassard, broad arrow, button, cadency mark, canton, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, class ring, coat of arms, cockade, cockatrice, collar, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, decoration, device, difference, differencing, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fasces, fess, fess point, field, figurehead, file, flanch, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hammer and sickle, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heraldry, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, insignia, label, lapel pin, lion, livery, lozenge, mace, mantle, mantling, markings, marshaling, martlet, mascle, medal, metal, mortarboard, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, old school tie, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pin, purpure, quarter, quartering, regalia, ring, rose, sable, saltire, school ring, scutcheon, shamrock, shield, sigillography, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, spread eagle, staff, subordinary, swastika, tartan, tenne, thistle, tie, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, uniform, vair, verge, vert, wand, wreath, yale

• flex, S-curve, arch, bend, bend back, bending, bow, bowing, cable, conflexure, contract, cord, crook, curl, curve, decurve, deflect, deflection, dome, embow, exercise, extension, flection, flexure, geanticline, geosyncline, give, hairpin turn, hook, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, inflect, inflection, lead, loop, meander, oxbow, recurve, reflect, reflection, reflex, retroflex, round, sag, stretch, swag, sweep, tense, tighten, turn, turning, vault, wind, wire

• flexibility, Renaissance man, Renaissance versatility, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption, adjustability, adjustment, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, all-roundedness, alterability, ambidexterity, amenability, bendability, biddability, bounce, bounciness, buoyance, buoyancy, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, compliableness, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, convenience, conventionality, correspondence, docility, ductibility, ductility, elasticity, extendibility, extensibility, facility, feasibility, fictility, flexility, flexuousness, fluidity, formativeness, give, handiness, harmony, impermanence, impressionability, keeping, limberness, line, litheness, liveliness, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, many-sidedness, mobility, modifiability, moldability, movability, mutability, nonstrictness, nonuniformity, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, permutability, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, practicality, rebound, receptiveness, reconcilement, reconciliation, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, rubberiness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, snap, spring, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strictness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, tensileness, tensility, tone, tonicity, tonus, tractability, tractility, traditionalism, transience, transitoriness, unaustereness, undemandingness, unharshness, uniformity, unsevereness, unsternness, unstrictness, untroublesomeness, versatility, wieldableness, wieldiness, willowiness, yieldingness

• flexible, able to adapt, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amenable, amphibious, bendable, bending, biddable, bouncy, buoyant, changeable, checkered, complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, cooperative, creased, crimped, docile, dog-eared, doubled, ductile, easy, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexile, flexuous, flounced, fluid, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof, formable, formative, gathered, generally capable, giving, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable, mutable, nonuniform, obedient, other-directed, permutable, persuadable, persuasible, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliable, pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, protean, proteiform, quilled, receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery, ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tensile, tractable, tractile, transient, transitory, tucked, twilled, two-handed, unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome, variable, versatile, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, yielding

• flexuous, adaptable, ambagious, anfractuous, bendable, bending, bendy, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, compliant, convoluted, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuose, formable, formative, giving, hairpin, impressible, impressionable, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, mazy, meandering, meandrous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, serpentine, shapable, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, springy, staggered, submissive, supple, susceptible, torsional, tortile, tortuous, tractable, tractile, turning, twisting, twisty, whippy, whorled, willowy, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, yielding, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways

• flexure, S-curve, angle, angularity, angularness, bend, bending, bow, bowing, conflexure, crease, creasing, crimp, crookedness, deflection, deflexure, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion, distortion, dog-ear, double, doubling, duplicature, flection, flex, flounce, fold, frill, gather, geanticline, geosyncline, hairpin turn, hookedness, inflection, lapel, lappet, meander, orthogonality, oxbow, plica, plication, plicature, ply, rectangularity, reflection, refraction, right-angledness, right-angularity, ruche, ruching, ruffle, scatter, skewness, sweep, torsion, tuck, turn, turning

• flick, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, beak, beat, bicker, birthmark, black-and-white film, blaze, blemish, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, bob, brand, breath, brush, bump, bunt, caress, cartoon, caste mark, check, checkmark, chiller, chink, chuck, cicatrix, cine, cinema, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, color film, come in contact, contact, creepie, crump, cut, cutaneous sense, dab, dance, dapple, daub, discoloration, documentary, documentary film, dot, dull thud, earmark, educational film, engraving, eyesore, feature, feel, feel of, feeling, fillip, film, finger, fingertip caress, flap, fleck, flicker, flip, flirt, flit, flitter, flop, flounce, flump, flutter, flyspeck, freckle, gash, glance, go pitapat, graving, graze, gutter, hack, hand-mindedness, handle, hitch, horror picture, horse opera, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jot, kiss, lambency, lap, lentigo, lick, light touch, macula, maculation, macule, manipulate, mark, marking, mole, motion picture, motion-picture show, mottle, movie, moving picture, nevus, newsreel, nick, notch, nudie, pad, palm, palpate, palpitate, pat, patch, patter, paw, peck, photodrama, photoplay, pick, picture, picture show, pitapat, pitter-patter, pluck, plump, plunk, ply, point, poke at, polka dot, pop, pornographic film, preview, prick, prod, pulse, puncture, rap, rub, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sense of touch, short, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, slat, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snake, snap, snatch, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, splutter, spot, sputter, stain, start, stigma, strawberry mark, stroke, sudden pull, tactile sense, taction, taint, talkie, talking picture, tap, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tentative poke, thriller, throb, thud, thumb, thump, tick, tickle, tinkle, tip, tittle, touch, trailer, tunk, tweak, twiddle, twitch, underground film, watermark, wave, waver, whisk, whisper, wield, wrench, yank, yerk

• flicker, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, backfire, bake, balefire, be in heat, beacon, beacon fire, beat, beating, bicker, black-and-white film, blaze, blink, bloom, boil, bonfire, broil, burn, burning ghat, campfire, cartoon, cheerful fire, chiller, choke, cinema, color film, combust, combustion, conflagration, cook, corposant, coruscate, cozy fire, crackling fire, creepie, crematory, dance, dancing, death fire, dint, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, fen fire, film, fire, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flash, flashing point, flick, flickering, flickering flame, flickering light, flip, flit, flitter, flop, fluctuate, flush, flutter, fluttering, forest fire, fox fire, fry, funeral pyre, gasp, glance, glancing light, glare, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glint, glitter, glow, go pitapat, gutter, hint, horror picture, horse opera, hover, ignis fatuus, ignition, incandesce, ingle, lambency, lambent flame, light show, marshfire, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, open fire, oscillate, palpitate, palpitation, pant, parch, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, pornographic film, prairie fire, preview, pulse, pyre, quaver, quiver, quivering, radiate heat, raging fire, roast, scald, scintilla, scorch, sea of flames, seethe, shake, sheet of fire, shimmer, shimmer with heat, short, signal beacon, silent, silent film, simmer, skin flick, slat, smolder, smother, smudge fire, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, spark, sparkle, splutter, sputter, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, suggestion, sweat, swelter, swing, talkie, talking picture, three-alarm fire, thriller, throb, toast, trace, trailer, tremble, twinkle, twinkling, twitter, two-alarm fire, underground film, vestige, vibrate, watch fire, wave, waver, wildfire, witch fire

• flickering, ablaze, adrift, afire, aflame, aflicker, afloat, aglow, alight, alternating, amorphous, ardent, bickering, blazing, blinking, brief, brisk, broken, burning, candent, candescent, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy, comburent, cometary, conflagrant, dancing, desultory, deviable, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, fleet, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, fuming, giddy, glowing, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, ignescent, ignited, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, inflamed, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jerky, kindled, lambent, live, living, lurching, mazy, mercurial, meteoric, moody, nonuniform, on fire, patchy, playing, quick, quivering, quivery, rambling, reeking, restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scintillant, scintillating, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short, short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, shuffling, smoking, smoldering, snatchy, sparking, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, speedy, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, stroboscopic, swift, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unextinguished, unfixed, unmethodical, unmetrical, unpredictable, unquenched, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, vacillating, vagrant, variable, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

• flier, Amtrak, Jehu, acrobat, aerialist, aeronaut, aeroplaner, aeroplanist, agiotage, air pilot, airman, airplanist, arbitrage, astronaut, aviator, baggage train, bareback rider, barnstormer, birdman, buying in, cable railroad, calculated risk, captain, chance, choo-choo, circus artist, cloud seeder, clown, cog railroad, cog railway, commercial pilot, copilot, crop-duster, el, electric, electric train, elevated, equestrian director, equilibrist, equity capital, express, express train, flutter, fortune, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, gamble, goer, goods train, hazard, hell-driver, high-wire artist, horse racer, hummer, hustler, instructor, interurban, jet jockey, jockey, juggler, licensed pilot, lightning express, limited, lion tamer, liquidation, local, luck, metro, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, pilot, play, plunge, profit taking, racer, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rainmaker, rattler, ringmaster, risk, rolling stock, round trade, runner, scalping, scorcher, shuttle, shuttle train, sizzler, slack-rope artist, snake charmer, special, speculation, speed demon, speeder, spot sale, stepper, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, streamliner, stunt flier, stunt man, subway, sword swallower, test pilot, tightrope walker, train, trapeze artist, tube, tumbler, turfman, turn, uncertainty, underground, venture, venture capital, way train, wingman

• flight of fancy, autism, autistic thinking, conceit, dereism, dereistic thinking, dreamery, fancy, fantasticism, fantasy, fumes of fancy, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, imagination, imaginative exercise, imaginativeness, imagining, impracticality, play of fancy, quixotism, quixotry, romance, romanticism, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, utopianism, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking

• flight path, air lane, amplitude, beat, camber, circuit, course, itinerary, line, orbit, path, primrose path, road, round, route, run, sea lane, shortcut, skin effect, skin friction, slip, stagger, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, walk

• flight, AWOL, Brownian movement, French leave, a mass of, a world of, abandonment, abscond, absence without leave, absquatulation, acciaccatura, advance, aeronautics, aeroplane, air arm, air corps, air force, air service, air speed, aircraft, airlift, airline, airliner, alienation, altitude peak, angular motion, appoggiatura, arabesque, army, arrow, arrowhead, ascending, ascent, astronautics, autism, autistic thinking, automatic control, aviation, avoidance mechanism, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, ballooning, barb, beat a retreat, bevy, blame-shifting, blast-off, blind flying, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bolting, break, breakout, bunch, burn, burnout, cadence, cadenza, career, ceiling, celerity, charm, chested arrow, climbing, cloth yard shaft, cloud, cloud-seeding, clutter, coloratura, commercial aviation, compensation, contact flying, course, covey, cruising, current, dart, decamp, decampment, decompensation, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, depart, departure, dereism, dereistic thinking, descending, descent, desert, desertion, disappearance, disappearing act, dismiss, dispatch, disperse, displacement, dissociation, division, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, egress, elopement, embellishment, emergence, emigration, emotional insulation, end of burning, escadrille, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, evacuation, evasion, excursion, exit, exodus, expatriation, expedition, extrication, fantasizing, fantasy, fastness, feather, fioritura, flee, fleeing, flit, flock, flocks, flourish, flow, flurry, flux, flying, forward motion, freeing, fugitation, gaggle, general aviation, getaway, gliding, going, grace, grace note, ground speed, hail, haste, hasty retreat, hegira, hive, hop, host, hurry, ignition, immigration, impact, in-migration, incidental, incidental note, instantaneousness, intermigration, isolation, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jam, jump, knots, lam, large amount, launch, leak, leakage, leaving, legion, liberation, lift-off, light out, lightning speed, long mordent, lots, many, masses of, migration, miles per hour, mob, mordent, mounting, muchness, multitude, murmuration, negativism, nest, numbers, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, ornament, out-migration, outlet, overcompensation, pack, parting, passage, passing, pilotage, plague, plane, plunging, plurality, pralltriller, precipitation, prisonbreak, progress, projection, promptitude, promptness, psychotaxis, put to flight, quantities, quarrel, quick exit, quickness, quite a few, radial motion, random motion, rapidity, rationalization, reed, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, release, remigration, removal, rescue, resistance, retirement, retreat, retrogression, riddance, rising, rocket launching, roulade, round pace, rout, rpm, ruck, run, running away, rush, sailing, sailplaning, scape, scores, scramming, send away, send off, send packing, set, setting-free, shaft, shoal, shoot, shot, shove off, sideward motion, single mordent, sinking, skedaddle, skedaddling, skein, slip, snappiness, soaring, sociological adjustive reactions, solo, speed, speediness, split, spring, squadron, stampede, sternway, strategic air force, stream, sublimation, subsiding, substitution, swarm, swarming, swift rate, swiftness, tactical air force, take flight, test flight, throng, tidy sum, traject, trajectory, trajet, transmigration, trek, trend, trip, turn, upward motion, velocity, velocity peak, vent, volley, walkout, watch, wing, winging, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdraw, withdrawal, worlds of

• flighty, abnormal, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, bereft of reason, birdbrained, birdwitted, brainsick, buoyant, capricious, changeable, changeful, coquettish, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, desultory, deviable, dippy, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, dotty, eccentric, effervescent, empty-headed, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fast and loose, featherbrained, fickle, fitful, flickering, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fluffy, freakish, frivolous, frothy, gay, giddy, hallucinated, harebrained, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insane, irrational, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, light, light-headed, lively, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mazy, mental, mentally deficient, mercurial, meshuggah, moody, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, quicksilver, rambling, rattlebrained, reasonless, reckless, restless, roving, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sick, silly, skittish, spasmodic, spineless, sprightly, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, superficial, tetched, thoughtless, touched, toying, unaccountable, unbalanced, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unhinged, unpredictable, unprofound, unreliable, unrestrained, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wild, wishy-washy, witless

• flimflam, balderdash, ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, bamboozle, bamboozlement, beat, befool, befooling, beguile of, bilk, blague, bluffing, bosh, boutade, brainstorm, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, calculated deception, capriccio, caprice, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvention, claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, conceit, conning, cozen, cozenage, crank, crap, craze, crazy idea, crib, crotchet, deceit, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defraud, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double-talk, drivel, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash, fad, fairy tale, fake, fallaciousness, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflammery, fob, fond illusion, fool, fool notion, fooling, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, freak, freakish inspiration, fudge, gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, hallucination, harebrained idea, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hoodwink, hoodwinking, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, humor, illicit business, illusion, imposition, imposture, jazz, jiggery-pokery, kidding, kink, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, maggot, megrim, mendacity, mirage, moonshine, mulct, notion, outwitting, overreach, overreaching, pack the deal, passing fancy, phantasm, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication, putting on, quirk, racket, rook, scam, screw, self-deception, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, stack the cards, stick, sting, story, subterfuge, swindle, swindling, take a dive, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trickiness, tricking, trumped-up story, untruth, vagary, victimization, victimize, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, white lie, willful misconception, wishful thinking, yarn

• flimsy, adulterated, airy, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, catchpenny, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, cut, dainty, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous, dilapidated, dilute, diluted, effeminate, empty, ethereal, fatuous, feeble, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, fissile, flabby, flaccid, floppy, foolish, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, idle, implausible, improbable, inadequate, inane, inconceivable, inconclusive, incredible, infirm, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, lacy, lax, light, lightweight, limp, loose, makeshift, misty, namby-pamby, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, paltry, papery, pasteboardy, poor, puny, ramshackle, rare, rarefied, relaxed, rickety, rubbery, scissile, shaky, shallow, shatterable, shattery, sheer, shivery, silly, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, splintery, subtile, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, transparent, trifling, trite, trivial, unbelievable, uncompact, uncompressed, unconvincing, unproved, unrigorous, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsubstantial, unsustained, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, vaporous, vulnerable, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakly, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish

• flinch, avoid, avoidance, be startled, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, cower, cringe, demur, dodge, draw back, draw in, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, evasion, fade, fall back, fallback, falter, fight shy of, funk, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hesitate, hold off, jib, jump, jump a mile, make bones about, pause, pull back, pull in, pull out, pullback, pullout, quail, recede, recoil, reel back, retire, retract, retreat, scruple, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shrink from, shun, shy, shy at, sidestep, sidestepping, squinch, start, start aside, start back, startle, stick at, stickle, strain, swerve, turn aside, waver, weasel, weasel out, wince, withdraw

• fling off, articulate, breathe, cast off, chime, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, deliver, disclose, dispel, do away with, eliminate, emit, enunciate, express, exterminate, fling out, flounce out, formulate, get rid of, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, impart, let out, lip, liquidate, out with, phonate, phrase, pour forth, present, pronounce, purge, put forth, put in words, raise, say, set forth, shake off, shoo, sound, tell, throw away, throw off, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, word

• fling, approach, assay, attempt, bash, bat, bender, bid, binge, boil, bolt, bout, bowl, bung, bust, career, carousal, carouse, cast, cast at, catapult, celebration, change of pace, change-up, charge, chase, chuck, chuck at, chunk, clap, crack, curve, dart, dash, debauch, downcurve, drinking bout, effort, endeavor, escapade, essay, experiment, fastball, fire, fire at, fling at, flip, fork, forward pass, gambit, gamble, go, haste, hasten, heave, heave at, hie, hump, hump it, hurl, hurl against, hurl at, hurry, hurtle, incurve, indulgence, jerk, knuckleball, lance, lark, lash, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, let fly at, lick, lob, make haste, move, offer, orgy, outcurve, party, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, plank, plop, ploy, plump, plunk, pop, post, propel, put, put the shot, race, rampage, randan, randy, revel, risk, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, screwball, scud, scurry, scuttle, send, serve, service, shoot, shot, shot-put, shy, shy at, sinker, skedaddle, slap, slider, sling, sling at, snap, spitball, spitter, splurge, spree, stab, stagger, step, step on it, stroke, strong bid, tear, tentative, throw, throw at, thrust, tilt, toot, toss, toss at, trial, trial and error, try, undertaking, upcurve, venture, whack, whirl, wingding

• flint, adamant, bone, brand, brick, butane lighter, cement, cigarette lighter, concrete, diamond, firebrand, flambeau, flint and steel, granite, heart of oak, igniter, iron, light, lighter, marble, nails, oak, portfire, rock, sparker, spill, steel, stone, taper, torch

• flinthearted, callous, calloused, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, insensitive, obdurate, stonyhearted, unfeeling, unmerciful, unnatural, unresponsive

• flinty, Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bony, bowelless, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cast-iron, cement, cemental, concrete, constant, corneous, cruel, dense, diamondlike, dog-eat-dog, dour, dure, firm, fixed, flintlike, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard as nails, hard-core, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, horny, immovable, immutable, impervious, implacable, impliable, inclement, indurated, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, insensitive, intransigent, inured, iron, iron-hard, ironlike, irreconcilable, lapideous, lithic, lithoid, lithoidal, loyal, marble, marblelike, merciless, obdurate, osseous, pachydermatous, petrified, petrogenic, pitiless, proof against, relentless, remorseless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorous, rock, rock-ribbed, rocklike, rocky, ruthless, set, settled, slaty, solid, sot, staunch, steadfast, steady, steeled against, steellike, steely, stern, stiff, stone, stonelike, stony, thick-skinned, tough, true, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompromising, undeflectable, unfeeling, unflappable, unforgiving, ungiving, unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying, unrelenting, unremorseful, unshaken, unswerving, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, without mercy

• flip flop, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, afterthoughts, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, backing, backsliding, becoming, better thoughts, betterment, break, break back, change, change back, change of heart, change of mind, change-over, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, cry back, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disenchantment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, do a flip-flop, do an about-face, fitting, flip, go back, gradual change, growth, hark back, improvement, lapse, mature judgment, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, naturalization, overthrow, passage, progress, qualification, radical change, re-creation, re-formation, realignment, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restitution, restoration, restructuring, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revival, revivification, revolution, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, second thoughts, shift, slipping back, sudden change, switch, switch-over, tergiversating, tergiversation, total change, transformation, transit, transition, turn, turn about, turn around, turn back, turnabout, turnaround, turning into, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, volte-face, worsening

• flip of a coin, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, blind bargain, break, casualness, chance, chance at odds, destiny, fate, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, gambling chance, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, lot, luck, matter of chance, moira, opportunity, potluck, potshot, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, random shot, risk, run of luck, serendipity, sporting chance, statistical probability, the breaks, theory of probability, toss, toss-up, touch and go, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes

• flip out, anger, boil over, bridle, bridle up, bristle, bristle up, fidget, flutter, freak out on, get high on, get mad, get sore, glow, go pitapat, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, jerk, palpitate, pant, quake, quaver, quiver, reach boiling point, see red, shake, shiver, squirm, swell, swell with emotion, thrill, thrill to, throb, tingle, tingle with excitement, toss, toss and turn, tremble, tumble, turn on to, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, wiggle, wriggle, writhe

• flip side, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, contra, converse, counter, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpole, counterterm, foil, inverse, obverse, offset, opposite, opposite number, reverse, setoff, the contrary, the other side, vis-a-vis

• flip, about-face, afterthoughts, all jaw, anger, be angry, be excitable, beak, beat, bellow, better thoughts, bicker, biggety, blow a gasket, blow up, bluff, bob, bowl, brash, brush, bunt, candid, cast, catapult, catch fire, catch the infection, change of mind, change of pace, change-up, chatty, cheeky, chuck, chunk, chutzpadik, cocky, come apart, come unstuck, communicative, contemptuous, conversational, crack, crack up, crusty, curve, dab, dance, dart, dash, derisive, disrespectful, downcurve, effusive, excite easily, expansive, explode, facy, fastball, fillip, fire, fire up, flame up, flap, flare up, flash up, flick, flicker, fling, flip out, flip-flop, flippant, flirt, flit, flitter, flop, flounce, fluent, flutter, fork, forward pass, frank, freak, freak out, fresh, gabby, gally, garrulous, gassy, get excited, glib, go berserk, go crazy, go haywire, go into hysterics, go mad, go pitapat, go to pieces, gossipy, gratuitous, graze, gregarious, gushy, gutter, have a tantrum, heave, hit the ceiling, hitch, hurl, hurtle, impertinent, impudent, incurve, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, knuckleball, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, lob, long-winded, loquacious, lose courage, lose self-control, malapert, mature judgment, multiloquent, multiloquious, nervy, newsy, outcurve, overtalkative, palpitate, pass, pat, peck, peg, pelt, pert, pick, pitch, pitchfork, pitter-patter, pluck, prolix, pulse, put, put the shot, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rap, rave, reversal, reverse, right-about, right-about-face, rude, run a temperature, sassy, saucy, screwball, second thoughts, seethe, serve, service, shot-put, shy, sinker, slat, slider, sling, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smolder, smooth, snake, snap, snatch, sociable, spin, spitball, spitter, splutter, sputter, start, storm, sudden pull, take fire, talkative, talky, tap, tergiversating, tergiversation, throb, throw, tickle, tilt, tip, toss, touch, turn, turn a hair, turnabout, turnaround, tweak, twist, twitch, uncalled-for, upcurve, verbose, volte-face, voluble, wave, waver, whisk, windy, wise-ass, wrench, yank, yerk

• flippancy, absentmindedness, banter, booing, brashness, brassiness, brazenfacedness, brazenness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, contempt, derision, discourtesy, disregard, disregardfulness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, distraction, face of brass, facetiousness, fleering, flightiness, fooling, freshness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, grinning, heedlessness, hissing, hooting, impertinence, impishness, impudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, insolence, irreverence, jeering, jocularity, joshing, leering, levity, lightmindedness, lip, merriment, mischievousness, mockery, mouth, negligence, nonobservance, obliviousness, offhandedness, panning, pertness, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, ragging, raillery, rallying, razzing, regardlessness, ridicule, roasting, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness, scoffing, shallowness, side, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sportiveness, superficiality, taunting, thoughtlessness, trickery, trickiness, twitting, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unwariness, unwatchfulness, volatility, waggery, waggishness

• flippant, airy, bantering, belittling, biggety, bluff, booing, brash, brazen, careless, casual, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, cursory, degage, derisive, derisory, discourteous, dismissive, disregardant, disregardful, disrespectful, easygoing, facetious, facy, fleering, flip, fooling, forgetful, free and easy, fresh, frivolous, gally, gratuitous, grinning, heedless, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, inconsiderate, indifferent, insolent, insouciant, irreverent, jeering, jocular, joshing, kidding, lazy, leering, light-hearted, malapert, mocking, nervy, oblivious, offhand, offhanded, panning, perfunctory, pert, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, reckless, regardless, respectless, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scoffing, scornful, shallow, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercilious, superficial, tactless, taunting, teasing, thoughtless, twitting, uncalled-for, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unserious, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, wise-ass

• flipped, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, flaky, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, haywire, just plain nuts, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, wacky

• flipper, Australian crawl, act drop, aquaplaning, aquatics, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, batten, border, breaststroke, butterfly, cloth, coulisse, counterweight, crawl, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, decor, diving, dog paddle, drop, drop curtain, fin, fire curtain, fishtail, flapper, flat, floating, hanging, natation, rag, scene, scenery, screen, side scene, sidestroke, stage screw, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, tab, tableau, teaser, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, treading water, wading, waterskiing, wing, wingcut, woodcut

• flirt, Circe, Don Juan, Lorelei, Parthenope, Siren, Sunday painter, allure, amateur, bait, bait the hook, beak, blandish, bob, brush, bunt, cajole, captive, cast coquettish glances, catch, charmer, chuck, coax, conquest, consider, contemplate, coquet, coquette, dab, dabble, dabbler, dallier, dally, date, decoy, dilettante, draw, draw in, draw on, enchanter, enchantress, ensnare, entertain, entice, enticer, eye, femme fatale, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, fillip, finger with, flick, flip, flirt with, flounce, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, frivol, gallivant, give the come-on, gold digger, gold-dig, graze, hitch, honey, horse around, hussy, idle, inveigle, inveigler, jerk, jerk off, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, kid around, lady-killer, lead on, loiter, look sweet upon, lounge lizard, lure, make eyes at, masher, mess around, minx, monkey, monkey around, offer bait to, ogle, pat, peck, pet, philander, philanderer, pick, piddle, piddler, play, play around, play with, playboy, pluck, potter, potterer, putter, putterer, rap, rope in, run around, seduce, seducer, seductress, sheik, siren, smatter, smatterer, snake, snap, snatch, start, steady, string, strumpet, suck in, sudden pull, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, tantalize, tap, tease, teaser, tempter, temptress, think about, think of, tickle, tinker, tip, touch, toy, toy with, trifle, trifle with, trifler, tweak, twiddle, twitch, vamp, vampire, whisk, whore, wolf, woo, wrench, yank, yerk

• flirtation, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, agacerie, allure, allurement, amorous looks, amour, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, come-hither look, coquetry, coquettish glances, coquettishness, coyness, cuckoldry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, enchantment, entanglement, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, eternal triangle, fascination, fiddling, flirtatiousness, fooling, fooling around, forbidden fruit, forbidden love, glamour, goo-goo eyes, hanky-panky, idling, illicit love, inducement, infidelity, interest, intrigue, inveiglement, invitation, jerking off, kidding around, liaison, loitering, love affair, magnetism, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, ogle, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puttering, romance, romantic tie, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, smattering, snaring, tantalization, temptation, tinkering, toying, triangle, trifling, unfaithfulness, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing

• flirtatious, alluring, amative, amatory, amorous, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, caressive, catching, changeable, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, coy, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, faddish, fascinating, fetching, fickle, flighty, flirty, glamorous, hypnotic, inconstant, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, light, mercurial, mesmeric, mouth-watering, philandering, piquant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, quicksilver, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sexual, siren, sirenic, skittish, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, toying, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, versatile, volatile, winning, winsome, witching

• flit, advance, aeroplane, air speed, airlift, airplane, auntie, ball the jack, balloon, barrel, bat around, be airborne, beat, beating, bi-guy, bicker, bisexual, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, bull dyke, bum, butch, catamite, celerity, chicken, clip, coast, commute, continue, count ties, course, cover ground, cruise, cut along, dance, dart, disappear, dispatch, divagate, drift, dyke, elapse, emigrate, endure, evanesce, evaporate, expatriate, expedition, expire, fade, fag, faggot, fairy, fare, fare forth, fastness, femme, ferry, fetch, flap, flash, flee, fleet, flick, flicker, flight, flip, flitter, float, flop, flow, flow on, flurry, flutter, fly, fly low, foot, fricatrice, fruit, gad, gad about, gallivant, gang, glide, glissade, go, go about, go along, go by, go fast, go on, go pitapat, go the rounds, ground speed, gunsel, gutter, haste, hasten, hie, highball, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hop, hover, hurry, hydroplane, ice-skate, immigrate, in-migrate, instantaneousness, intermigrate, invert, jaunt, jet, knock about, knock around, knots, lapse, last, lesbian, lightning speed, make knots, meander, melt, melt like snow, migrate, miles per hour, mooch, move, move along, move on, nance, navigate, nip, nomadize, out-migrate, outstrip the wind, palpitate, palpitation, pansy, pass, pass away, pass by, pathic, peregrinate, pererrate, pitapat, pitter-patter, pour it on, precipitation, press on, proceed, progress, promptitude, promptness, prowl, pulse, punk, queen, queer, quickness, quiver, ramble, range, rapidity, remigrate, rip, roam, roll, roll on, roller-skate, round pace, rove, rpm, run, run about, run its course, run on, run out, rush, sail, sailplane, sapphist, sashay, saunter, scorch, scud, seaplane, shake, sideslip, sink, sizzle, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, skip, slat, sled, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, snappiness, soar, speed, speediness, splutter, sputter, storm along, straggle, stray, stream, stroll, swarm, sweep, swift rate, swiftness, take the air, take wing, tatter, tear, tear along, throb, thunder along, toboggan, traipse, tramp, transmigrate, travel, trek, tribade, vagabond, vagabondize, vanish, velocity, volplane, walk the tracks, wander, wave, waver, wayfare, wend, whisk, whiz, wing, zing, zip, zoom

• flitter, beat, beating, bicker, dance, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flop, flutter, go pitapat, gutter, hover, palpitate, palpitation, pitapat, pitter-patter, pulse, quaver, quiver, shake, slat, splutter, sputter, teeter, throb, wave, waver

• flitting, adrift, afloat, airborne, alternating, amorphous, brittle, capricious, changeable, changeful, circumforaneous, corruptible, deciduous, desultory, deviable, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, drifting, dying, eccentric, ephemeral, errant, erratic, evanescent, fading, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, floating, fluctuating, fluttering, fly-by-night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, gadding, giddy, gliding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hovering, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jet-propelled, landloping, mazy, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, momentary, moody, mortal, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rocket-propelled, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, straggling, straying, strolling, temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive, transitory, transmigratory, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volant, volatile, volitant, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, winging, wishy-washy

• float, Carling float, arrange, ascend, aspire, balsa, balsa raft, barge, bathe, bear up, become airborne, boat, bob, boom, brandish, bring off, bring up, broach, bundle, bundle off, buoy, buoy up, bus, carry off, cart, christen, claw skyward, coach, consummate, cork, dart, deluge, dip, dive, dray, drift, drown, duck, dunk, effect, establish, ferry, flap, flaunt, float high, flood, flourish, flow on, flutter, fly, fly aloft, foot, found, gain altitude, get, get going, get moving, ghost, give a start, glide, go in swimming, go in wading, go public, hang, haul, hold up, hover, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, inundate, issue, issue stock, kick off, kite, launch, leave the ground, levitate, life buoy, life preserver, life raft, lift up, lighter, negotiate, organize, plane, platform, plow the deep, poise, pontoon, pour on, pull off, put in motion, raft, rain, raise, ride, ride high, ride the sea, ring in, rise, run, sail, scud, send, send forth, send off, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set on foot, set up, shake, ship, shoot, skim, skinny-dip, sled, sledge, slip, sluice, soar, spire, start, start going, start off, start up, submerge, surfboard, sustain, swamp, swim, swing, take off, transact, tread water, truck, turn on, undulate, upbear, uphold, uplift, upraise, usher in, van, wade, waft, wag, wagon, walk the waters, wash, wave, wheelbarrow, whelm, wield, wigwag, zoom

• floater, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, ballot-box stuffer, balloter, bird of passage, bum, derelict, drifter, elector, fraudulent voter, gad, gadabout, go-about, hobo, itinerant, mover, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, proxy, rambler, registered voter, repeater, roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, straggler, street arab, stroller, strolling player, tramp, troubadour, vag, vagrant, visitant, voter, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar

• floating, Australian crawl, Hare system, PR, absentee voting, adrift, afloat, aquaplaning, aquatics, awash, backstroke, ballot-box stuffing, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, buoyant, butterfly, card voting, circumforaneous, clear, colonization, coming out, crawl, cumulative system, cumulative voting, curtain raiser, debut, discursive, divagatory, diving, dog paddle, drifting, election fraud, embarkation, embarkment, errant, fin, first appearance, fishtail, flapper, flipper, flitting, floatable, floaty, flotation, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment, introduction, landloping, launching, list system, loose, maiden speech, meandering, migrational, migratory, natation, nomad, nomadic, opener, plural system, preferential system, preferential voting, preliminary, proportional representation, proxy voting, rambling, ranging, repeating, rickety, roaming, roving, shaky, shifting, sidestroke, single system, single transferrable vote, single-member district, straggling, straying, strolling, supernatant, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, treading water, unanchored, unbound, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unstuck, untied, unveiling, vagabond, vagrant, vote, voting, voting machine, wading, wandering, water-borne, waterskiing

• flocculent, asperous, bristly, bushy, cirrose, flaky, fleecy, furfuraceous, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, lentiginous, lepidote, matted, pilose, pubescent, scabby, scabious, scabrous, scaly, scurfy, shagged, shaggy, squamous, unshorn, woolly

• flock to, act with, align with, get together with, go along with, go in with, join, join hands with, join up with, join with, line up with, rally round, range with, side with, stand in with, strike in with, string along with, swing in with, take part with, take sides with, team up with, throw in with, unite with

• flock together, accompany, assemble, associate, associate with, assort with, attend, band together, bunch, bunch up, chum, chum together, chum with, clique, clique with, clot, club together, cluster, collect, combine, come together, companion, confederate, congregate, consociate, consort with, converge, copulate, couple, couple with, crowd, date, fellowship, flow together, forgather, fraternize, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, go along with, go with, hang around with, hang out with, herd together, hive, hobnob with, horde, huddle, join, join in fellowship, keep company with, league, link, mass, meet, merge, mill, mingle with, mix with, muster, pal, pal up with, pal with, rally, rally around, rendezvous, run in couples, run with, seethe, sort with, stream, surge, swarm, take up with, throng, tie up with, unite, wait on

• flock, a mass of, a world of, army, assemble, assembly, band, band together, bang, bangs, bevy, body, brethren, bunch, charm, chip, churchgoers, class, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, collect, collection, colony, come together, company, congregate, congregation, convoy, covey, crowd, crush, dandruff, deluge, drift, drive, drove, fetlock, flake, fleck, fleet, flight, floccule, flocculus, flocks, flood, fold, forelock, fringe, gaggle, galaxy, gam, gang, gather, gathering, go, go together, group, hail, heap, herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, jam, kennel, laity, large amount, laymen, legion, litter, lots, many, mass, masses of, meet, minyan, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, nonclerics, nonordained persons, number, numbers, pack, panoply, paring, parish, parishioners, people, plague, plurality, pod, pour, press, pride, quantities, quantity, quiff, quite a few, rabble, rout, ruck, scale, school, scores, scurf, seculars, set, shaving, sheep, shoal, skein, skulk, sloth, society, spate, spring, swarm, throng, tidy sum, trip, troop, troupe, tuft, watch, worlds of

• floe, Dry Ice, berg, calf, cryosphere, firn, frazil, frozen water, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, granular snow, ground ice, growler, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jokul, lolly, neve, nieve penitente, pack ice, serac, shelf ice, sleet, slob, sludge, snow ice, snowberg

• flog, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle, nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize, pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

• flood the market, be prodigal with, close out, convert into cash, cut under, deluge, dump, effect a sale, engulf, flood, inundate, job, make a sale, market, merchandise, move, overdose, overequip, overfurnish, overlavish, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, oversell, overstock, oversupply, overwhelm, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, swamp, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, whelm, wholesale

• flood tide, amplitude, congestion, direct tide, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flow, flux, flux and reflux, full, full tide, fullness, high tide, high water, impletion, low tide, low water, lunar tide, neap, neap tide, opposite tide, overfullness, plenitude, plethora, refluence, reflux, repletion, rip, riptide, satiety, saturation, saturation point, solar tide, spring tide, surfeit, 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

• flood, Niagara, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acres, addition, advance, affluence, aggrandizement, alluvion, alluvium, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, arc, arc light, army, ascent, augmentation, avalanche, bags, ballooning, barrels, be prodigal with, bloating, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness, bountiousness, brash, broadening, buildup, bumper crop, burst of rain, bushel, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, choke, cloudburst, cluster, cohue, color filter, copiousness, countlessness, course, cover, crescendo, crowd, crush, current, debacle, deluge, development, dimmer, dip, direct tide, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drift, drown, duck, dunk, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, edema, elevation, embarras de richesses, engulf, engulfment, enlargement, enough, excess, expansion, extension, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, fill, float, floats, flock, flood the market, flood tide, flooding, floodlight, flow, flow back, flow in, flow on, flow out, flush, flux, flux and reflux, foison, footlights, foots, fresh, freshet, full measure, full tide, fullness, gain, galaxy, gelatin, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, greatening, growth, gush, gushing rain, heap, heavy rain, high tide, high water, hike, horde, host, immerse, increase, increment, inflation, inundate, inundation, issue, jam, jump, klieg light, know no bounds, landslide, lavishness, leap, legion, liberality, liberalness, light plot, lights, limelight, load, lots, low tide, low water, lunar tide, luxuriance, luxuriate, make, marquee, mass, maximum, medium, mob, money to burn, more than enough, mountain, mounting, much, multiplication, multitude, myriad, myriads, neap, neap tide, nimiety, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opposite tide, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabound, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overbrim, overcopiousness, overdose, overequip, overflow, overflowing, overfurnish, overgrow, overlavish, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, overrunning, oversell, overspill, overspread, overstock, oversufficiency, oversupply, overswarm, overwhelm, panoply, peck, permeate, plash, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, pour, pour on, pour out, pour over, press, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, proliferation, pullulate, quantities, quantity, rabble, rain, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, raise, redundancy, refluence, reflux, regurgitate, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rip, riptide, rise, river, rout, ruck, run, run over, run riot, rush, satiety, saturate, scads, scud, sea, set, shower, slop, slosh, sluice, snowballing, soaker, soaking rain, solar tide, spate, spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, spot, spotlight, spout, spread, spring tide, stream, submerge, submersion, substantiality, substantialness, superabound, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, surfeit, surge, surge back, surplus, swamp, swarm, sweep, swelling, teem, teemingness, thalassometer, the Deluge, the Flood, throng, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tidal wave, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, tons, torrent, torrent of rain, trend, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, volume, washout, waterflood, waterspout, waxing, wealth, whelm, whelming, widening, world, worlds

• flooded, afloat, at flood, awash, bathed, buried, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunken, swamped, swept, undersea, underwater, washed, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet

• floodgate, aboideau, air lock, avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, dock gate, door, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, flood-hatch, flume, gate, head gate, lock, lock gate, loophole, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, penstock, pore, port, sally port, sluice, sluice gate, spiracle, spout, tap, tide gate, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, water gate, way out, weir

• floodlight, arc, arc light, beacon, brighten, brighten up, color filter, dimmer, enlighten, floats, flood, flood with light, footlights, foots, gelatin, highlight, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, klieg light, light, light plot, light up, lighten, lights, limelight, luminate, marquee, medium, overshine, relume, relumine, shed light upon, shine upon, spot, spotlight, throw light upon

• floor, addle, agora, amaze, amphitheater, answer, answer conclusively, arena, argue down, asphalt, astonish, astound, athletic field, auditorium, background, baffle, balcony, bamboozle, band, base, basement, basin, basis, bear garden, bearing wall, beat, bed, bedding, bedrock, belt, best, bewilder, billiard table, blacktop, blow down, blow over, boarding, boggle, border line, bottom, bottom price, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, bowl, bowl down, bowl over, bowling green, boxing ring, break boundary, breakoff point, bring down, buffalo, bull ring, bulldog, business index, campus, canvas, carpet, cast down, catafalque, causeway, ceiling, ceiling price, cement, channel, chop down, circumscription, circus, clerestory, cobblestone, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, compass, concrete, confine, confound, confuse, confute, conquer, consumer price index, contradict, controvert, cost-of-living index, couche, coulee, course, cover, crush, cut down, cutoff, cutoff point, dais, dash down, daze, dead flat, dead level, deadline, deck, defeat, delimitation, demand curve, demolish, deny, destroy, determinant, disconcert, dismiss, dispose of, division line, down, drop, drub, dumbfound, earth, emplacement, end, entresol, esplanade, estrade, extremity, fell, fetch down, field, finish, first floor, flag, flat, flatland, flatten, floor covering, floor price, flooring, fond, footing, forum, foundation, frontier, fuddle, fundament, fundamental, gallery, get, ground, ground floor, grounds, groundwork, gym, gymnasium, hall, hardpan, hedge, heliport, hew down, high-water mark, hippodrome, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, hustings, inflation, inflationary spiral, interface, keep in suspense, knock down, knock over, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launching pad, lay level, lay low, lay out, layer, ledge, level, level line, level plane, lick, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, lists, locale, low-water mark, lower limit, lowest level, march, mark, marketplace, mat, maze, mean sea level, measures, metal, mete, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, milieu, minimum, mow down, muddle, mystify, nonplus, ocean bottom, open forum, overcome, overlayer, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, overset, overstory, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, palaestra, parade ground, parquet, parry, parterre, pave, pavement, paving, pebble, perplex, pit, place, plain, plane, planking, platform, podium, prairie, precinct, precipitate, price ceiling, price index, price level, principle, prize ring, prostrate, public square, pull down, pulpit, purlieu, put to silence, puzzle, radical, range, rase, raze, rebut, reduce to silence, refute, rez-de-chaussee, ring, riprap, rising prices, rock bottom, rostrum, rout, rudiment, scene, scene of action, scenery, sea level, sea of grass, seam, seat, send flying, send headlong, setting, settle, shelf, shock, shut up, silence, sill, site, smash all opposition, soapbox, solid ground, solid rock, sphere, spread-eagle, squared circle, squash, squelch, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, start, starting line, starting point, step, step terrace, steppe, stereobate, stick, story, stratum, street floor, stump, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, subvert, superstratum, supinate, surfacing, surmount, surprise, table, take down, tar, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, terra firma, terrace, terrain, theater, thickness, thrash, threshold, throw, throw down, tier, tilting ground, tiltyard, time allotment, top price, topple, topsoil, tribunal, tribune, trip, trip up, trounce, tumble, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer, undermine, underpinning, understory, understratum, understruction, understructure, upper limit, upset, walk, water level, whack down, whip, worst, wrestling ring, zone

• floored, addled, all up with, armored, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beaten, bested, buffaloed, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, confounded, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, dazed, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, fallen, filmed, fixed, fuddled, hooded, hors de combat, housed, in a dilemma, in suspense, lambasted, lathered, licked, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muddled, muffled, mystified, nonplussed, obscured, occulted, on tenterhooks, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, packaged, panicked, paved, perplexed, put to rout, puzzled, roofed-in, routed, ruined, scattered, screened, scummed, settled, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, stampeded, stuck, stumped, swathed, tented, thrown, trimmed, trounced, under cover, undone, upset, veiled, walled, walled-in, whelmed, whipped, worsted, wrapped

• floorer, Chinese puzzle, baffling problem, brain twister, clincher, conclusive argument, crossword puzzle, crusher, crux, enigma, enigmatic question, finisher, jigsaw puzzle, knockdown argument, knot, knotty point, mind-boggler, mystery, nut to crack, perplexed question, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, question, question mark, settler, sixty-four dollar question, sockdolager, sticker, stumper, tough proposition, vexed question, why

• flooring, adobe, ashlar, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement, clinker, concrete, cover, covering materials, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards, earth, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, lath and plaster, masonry, mat, mortar, parquet, pave, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat, siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, walling, welcome mat

• floorwalker, Big Brother, agent, auditor, boatswain, boss, chief, clerk, comptroller, controller, floor manager, floorman, foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, monitor, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, proctor, sales agent, sales engineer, sales force, sales manager, sales personnel, salesclerk, salesgirl, saleslady, salesman, salespeople, salesperson, saleswoman, scalper, seller, selling agent, shop assistant, shop clerk, sirdar, slave driver, store clerk, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, ticket scalper, visitor

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

• flop, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, also-ran, alter, ameliorate, antimasque, audience success, bag, ballet, bang, bankrupt, be a gas, be a hit, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, beat, beating, bed, bicker, bill, bomb, bottom out, break, broadcast drama, bump, burlesque show, burst, bust, cascade, cave, cave in, change, charade, checker, chop, chop and change, clanger, clap, clash, cliff hanger, closet drama, collapse, come about, come around, come round, come to naught, come to nothing, comedy drama, crack, crap out, crash, crawl in, critical success, cropper, crump, culbute, daggle, dance, dangle, daytime serial, debacle, decline, degenerate, depend, deteriorate, deviate, dialogue, disaster, dive, diverge, diversify, documentary drama, doss down, drabble, drag, draggle, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, dramatize, drape, draw a blank, droop, drop a bomb, drop down, drop the ball, dud, dull thud, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, fail, failure, fall, fall down, fall flat, false alarm, fan, feature, fiasco, fizzle, flap, flat failure, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop down, floperoo, flow, flummox, flump, flump down, flutter, fold, fold up, forced landing, founder, frost, gasser, get left, give way, giveaway, go down, go pitapat, gutter, hang, hang down, happening, haul around, header, headline, hit, hit show, hit the hay, hit the sack, improve, improvisational drama, jibe, kip down, knock, lapse, lay an egg, legitimate drama, lemon, lop, lose out, loser, lower, make a hit, masque, meliorate, melodrama, melodramatize, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, mitigate, modulate, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, mount, music drama, musical revue, mutate, mystery, mystery play, nod, not hack it, not make it, open, open a show, opera, pageant, palpitate, palpitation, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, pend, piece, pile in, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, playlet, plop, plop down, plump, plunge, pratfall, premiere, present, preview, problem play, produce, psychodrama, pulse, put on, quiver, quiz show, radio drama, rap, report, review, revive, revue, roll in, sack out, sack up, sag, scenarize, sensational play, serial, set, set the stage, settle, settle down, shake, shift, show, sink, sink down, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, slam, slap, slat, slouch, slump, slump down, smack, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, spill, splat, splutter, sprawl, sputter, stage, stage play, stage show, star, straight drama, strike out, stumble, submerge, subside, succeed, success, suspense drama, swag, swap, swerve, swing, tableau, tableau vivant, tack, take a turn, take the count, talk show, tap, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, theatricalize, throb, thwack, topple, total loss, total theater, trail, trip, try out, tumble, turkey, turn, turn aside, turn in, turn into, turn the corner, undergo a change, variety show, vary, vaudeville, vaudeville show, veer, vehicle, warp, wash out, washout, wave, waver, weep, whack, wham, whap, whiff, whomp, whop, word-of-mouth success, work, worsen

• flophouse, boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fleabag, guest house, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodging house, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse, rooming house, tavern

• floppy, anemic, asthenic, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, nodding, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rubbery, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sapless, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft, spineless, strengthless, swag, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly

• Flora, Ceres, Cora, Demeter, Dionysos, Dionysus, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Kore, Persephassa, Persephone, Pomona, Proserpina, Proserpine, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit

• floral, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, efflorescent, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered, flowering, flowery, garden, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, multiflorous, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, uniflorous

• florescence, anthesis, bloom, blooming, blossom, blossoming, blow, blowing, budtime, early years, efflorescence, flowerage, flowering, flowering time, full bloom, jeunesse, juvenescence, juvenility, my burning youth, my green age, prime of life, salad days, seedtime of life, springtime of life, tender age, tenderness, unfolding, unfoldment, young blood, youngness, youth, youthfulness, youthhead, youthhood, youthiness

• florescent, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, budding, burgeoning, crescent, developed, efflorescent, floral, floreate, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flourishing, flowered, flowering, flowery, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, garden, growing, grown, grown-up, horticultural, hortulan, hypertrophied, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, mature, multiflorous, overdeveloped, overgrown, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, sprouting, thriving, uniflorous, young, youngling, youthful, youthlike, youthy

• floriculture, bloom, blossom, blow, citriculture, floret, floscule, flower, flower gardening, flower-growing, floweret, fruit-growing, gardening, groundskeeping, horticulture, hortorium, landscape architecture, landscape gardening, market gardening, olericulture, orcharding, pomiculture, posy, truck gardening, viniculture, wildflower

• florid, Gothic, adorned, arabesque, aureate, baroque, befrilled, bizarre, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, blowzed, blowzy, bombastic, brain-born, burnt, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory, decorated, dream-built, efflorescent, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, euphuistic, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, flowered, flowering, flowery, flush, flushed, frilly, full-blooded, fussy, garden, glowing, grandiloquent, grotesque, hectic, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, labored, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, maggoty, magniloquent, moresque, multiflorous, notional, ornate, ostentatious, outlandish, overblown, overcharged, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked, overwrought, picturesque, preposterous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, purple, radiciflorous, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, showy, sonorous, sunburned, uniflorous, whimsical, wild

• florist, antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, baker, bookdealer, bookseller, bookstore, bootery, butcher, candy store, chandler, chemist, cigar store, clothiers, clothing merchant, clothing store, confectioner, confectionery, draper, dress shop, drugstore, dry goods store, drysalter, fishmonger, fishwife, floriculturist, florists, footwear merchant, fruit-grower, fruiterer, fur salon, furnisher, furniture store, furrier, gardener, gift shop, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, haberdashery, hardware store, hardwareman, hat shop, hobby shop, horticulturist, ironmonger, ironmongery, jeweler, jewelers, jewelry store, landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscapist, leather goods store, liquor merchant, liquor store, luggage shop, market gardener, milliners, newsdealer, novelty shop, nurseryman, olericulturist, orchardist, orchardman, package store, perfumer, pharmacy, poulterer, saddler, saddlery, schlock house, schlock shop, secondhand shop, secondhand store, shoe store, smoke shop, specialty shop, sporting goods store, stationer, stationers, stationery store, sweater shop, sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacco store, tobacconist, tobacconists, toy shop, trimming store, truck gardener, used-car lot, vigneron, vinegrower, viniculturist, vintager, vintner, viticulturist, wine merchant

• floss, blubber, breeze, butter, clay, cushion, dough, down, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, flue, fluff, foam, fur, fuzz, kapok, lint, pile, pillow, plush, pudding, puff, putty, rubber, satin, silk, swansdown, thistledown, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr

• flossy, ambitious, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, classy, downy, fancy, feathery, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, fleecy, fluffy, funicular, furry, fuzzy, gossamery, hairlike, hairy, high-flown, high-flying, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, hirsute, lanate, ligamental, lofty, nappy, ostentatious, peachy, pinnate, pretentious, pubescent, ropy, silky, stringy, taeniate, taeniform, threadlike, thready, tony, vaunting, velvety, wiry, woolly

• flotation, coming out, curtain raiser, debut, embarkation, embarkment, first appearance, floating, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment, introduction, issuance, issue, launching, maiden speech, opener, preliminary, stock issue, unveiling

• flotilla, Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, argosy, armada, bottoms, coast guard, division, escadrille, fleet, line, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mosquito fleet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, shipping, ships, squadron, task force, task group, tonnage, whaling fleet

• flotsam and jetsam, castaway, castoff, derelict, discard, dogie, flotsam, foundling, jetsam, junk, lagan, orphan, refuse, reject, rubbish, trash, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel

• flounce, amble, antic, barge, bead, beading, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, binding, blunder, bob, bordering, bordure, bounce, bowl along, bundle, caper, capriole, caracole, careen, career, carry on, cavort, clump, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance, diamond, disport, dog-ear, double, double over, doubling, drag, droop, duplicature, edging, enfold, engrave, falter, feather, figure, filigree, fimbria, fimbriation, flag, flection, flexure, flick, fling, fling off, fling out, flip, flirt, flounce out, flounder, flower, flute, fold, fold over, fool around, foot, footslog, frill, frilling, fringe, frisk, frolic, furbelow, gait, galloon, gallop, gambado, gambol, garland, gather, gem, halt, hem, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, horse around, illuminate, infold, interfold, jerk, jewel, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jump, jump about, labor, lap over, lapel, lappet, limp, list, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, march, mince, mincing steps, motif, ornament, pace, paddle, paint, parade, peg, peplum, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, pitch and plunge, plait, plat, play, pleat, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, plod, pluck, plume, plunge, ply, prance, prink, quill, rack, ramp, reel, ribbon, rock, roll, rollick, romp, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seethe, selvage, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, skirting, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, snake, snatch, spangle, sport, stagger, stalk, stamp, start, step, stomp, storm, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, struggle, strut, stumble, stump, sudden pull, swagger, sway, swing, thrash about, tinsel, tittup, toddle, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, traipse, tread, trimming, trip, trot, trudge, tuck, tumble, turn over, tweak, twill, twist, twitch, valance, velocity, volutation, waddle, walk, wallop, wallow, wamble, welt, welter, wiggle, wobble, wreathe, wrench, yank, yerk

• flounder, agonize over, alternate, back and fill, be all thumbs, be at sea, be hard put, be uncertain, beat about, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, capsize, careen, career, come a cropper, commit a gaffe, doubt, ebb and flow, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, faux pas, feel unsure, flounce, fluctuate, fumble, get a cropper, go through phases, grope, grovel, have trouble, heave, hobbyhorse, labor, labor under difficulties, list, lumber, lurch, make heavy weather, mar, miscue, muddle, muff, murder, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, play havoc with, plunge, pound, puzzle over, question, rear, reel, ring the changes, rock, roll, scend, seesaw, seethe, shift, shuffle, slip, spoil, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, strive, struggle, stumble, sway, swing, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, teeter, teeter-totter, thrash about, tilt, toil, topple, topple down, topple over, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, travail, trip, tumble, turn, turn turtle, vacillate, vary, volutation, walk on eggshells, wallop, wallow, waver, wax and wane, welter, wobble, wonder, wonder whether, yaw

• flour, abrade, air pollution, alabaster, atomize, attritus, beat, besprinkle, bran, bray, bread, brecciate, chalk, comminute, contriturate, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, crush, disintegrate, dot, dredge, driven snow, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, fallout, farina, filings, fleece, foam, fragment, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, grits, groats, ivory, kittens, levigate, lily, lint, maggot, mash, meal, milk, mill, paper, pearl, pepper, pestle, pound, powder, pulverize, pussies, raspings, reduce to powder, sawdust, scrunch, shard, sheet, shred, silver, smash, smut, snow, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splatter, spot, sprinkle, squash, stud, swan, triturate

• flourish, acciaccatura, adjunct, adorn, adornment, advertise, affect, air, amplify, appoggiatura, arabesque, arrangement, arrive, asiaticism, augment, batten, be energetic, be somebody, be something, be vigorous, bear fruit, beauties, betoken, blazon, blazon forth, bloom, blossom, blow, bluster, boast, bonus, boom, brag, brandish, brandishing, bravura, breathe, brew, brilliancy, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to maturity, bring to notice, bud, burgeon, burst forth, burst with energy, burst with health, cadence, cadenza, color, color patterns, coloratura, colors, colors of rhetoric, come to fruition, convolute, curlicue, cut a dash, cut a figure, dangle, daring, dash, decor, decorate, decoration, demonstrate, demonstration, develop, device, disclose, display, division, divulge, do well, dramatics, dramatize, draw the longbow, eclat, elaborate, elaboration, elegant variation, embellish, embellishment, emblazon, emblazonment, emblazonry, embody, embroider, embroidery, enact, enjoy good health, enrich, etalage, euphuism, evidence, evince, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, expand, expose to view, express, extempore, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, false front, fanfare, fanfaronade, fare well, fatten, feel fine, feel good, festoon, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, filigree, filling, fillip, fine writing, fioritura, flair, flap, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flight, float, floridity, floridness, flourishing, flower, flower arrangement, floweriness, flowers of speech, flowery style, flutter, fly, frill, fructify, furbelow, furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture, gasconade, gather, gemmate, germinate, gesturing, get ahead, gild, give sign, give token, gleam, glitter, glow, go, go great guns, grace, grace note, grow, grow fat, grow rank, grow up, have energy, highlight, histrionics, hold up, hot lick, hypertrophy, illuminate, illumination, image, imagery, impromptu, improvisation, in full swing, incarnate, incidental, incidental note, increase, indicate, interpolation, involve, keep fit, lagniappe, leaf, leaf out, leave, lick, live, load with ornament, long mordent, lushness, luxuriance, luxuriate, make a figure, make a splash, make clear, make good, make out, make plain, manifest, manifestation, manner of speaking, materialize, maturate, mature, mean, mellow, mordent, multiply, mushroom, never feel better, nonliterality, nonliteralness, ornament, ornamentation, outgrow, overcharge, overdevelop, overflow with energy, overgrow, overlay, overload, overrun, overtop, padding, pageant, pageantry, parade, passage, perform, pralltriller, premium, present, procreate, produce, prosper, puff, pullulate, purple passage, purple patches, put forth, put forth leaves, put forward, put out buds, reach its season, reach maturity, represent, reproduce, reveal, riff, riot, ripe, ripen, roll out, root, roulade, run, score, set forth, shake, shaking, sham, shine, shoot, shoot up, show, show forth, showiness, showing-off, single mordent, something extra, speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, spotlight, spring up, sprout, sprout up, staginess, stay in shape, stay young, strike root, stuffing, succeed, superaddition, swagger, swing, swish, take root, theatrics, thrive, token, tower, trick out, trim, trimming, trope, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, turn, turn of expression, twirl, twist, undulate, undulation, unfold, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vamp, vapor, varnish, vaunt, vegetate, wag, wave, wave motion, waving, wax, way of speaking, wear well, wield, wigwag, window dressing, wrinkle

• flourishing, abundant, balmy, blooming, blossoming, booming, bountiful, brandish, brandishing, budding, burgeoning, bursting, bursting out, clear, copious, creative, crescent, dense, developed, exuberant, fair, fat, fecund, fertile, flaunt, flaunting, florescent, flourish, flowering, fructiferous, fruitful, fruiting, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, generous, going strong, gross, growing, grown, grown-up, halcyon, heavy, hypertrophied, impenetrable, in full swing, in good case, increasing, jungled, jungly, lush, luxuriant, mature, overdeveloped, overgrown, overrun, palmy, piping, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, productive, proliferous, prolific, prospering, prosperous, rank, rich, riotous, rosy, seminal, shaking, sleek, sprouting, successful, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, undulation, unweeded, vigorous, wave, wave motion, waving, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy

• flout, Parthian shot, abase, affront, aspersion, atrocity, back answer, barrack, belittle, blaspheme, break, break the law, brickbat, call names, care naught for, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, contemn, contempt, contravene, contumely, crack, cut, cut at, cutting remark, decry, defy, degrade, denigrate, denounce, deprecate, depreciate, deride, despise, despite, dig, dig at, disdain, dishonor, disobey, disoblige, disparage, disregard, do violence to, dump, dump on, enormity, fleer, fleer at, flouting, foolery, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, gird, give offense to, go counter to, guy, hold in derision, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, ignore, indignity, infringe, injury, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jest, jibe at, knock, laugh at, laugh to scorn, leg-pull, minimize, misprize, mock, mockery, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not observe, offend, offense, outrage, parting shot, pooh, pooh-pooh, put down, put-down, put-on, quip, rag, rail at, rally, rank out, refuse to cooperate, repudiate, revile, ridicule, rude reproach, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scout, scurrility, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, short answer, slam, slap, slap at, slight, slight over, sneer, sneer at, spurn, swipe, taunt, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, transgress, treat with contempt, treat with indignity, trespass, twit, uncomplimentary remark, verbal thrust, violate

• flow on, advance, continue, deluge, dip, drift along, drown, duck, dunk, elapse, endure, expire, flit, float, flood, flow, fly, glide, go by, go on, inundate, jog on, lapse, last, march on, pass, pass by, pour on, press on, proceed, rain, roll on, rub on, run, run its course, run on, run out, slide, slip, sluice, submerge, swamp, whelm

• flow, Atticism, Brownian movement, abound, abundance, accrue from, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air flow, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appropriateness, arise, arise from, ascend, ascending, ascent, avalanche, axial motion, back, back up, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bag, be contingent on, be due to, be effortless, be painless, begin, blow out, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brim, bristle with, bubble, bud from, budge, bumper crop, burble, career, cascade, change, change place, chasteness, chastity, chylifaction, chylification, circle, circulate, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, climb, climbing, coast, coasting, come, come from, come out of, comeliness, commute, concourse, confluence, conflux, continuance, continuation, continue, continuity, copiousness, correctness, course, cover, cover ground, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crosscurrent, current, daggle, dangle, defluxion, deluge, depend, depend on, derive from, descend, descend from, descending, descent, dignity, direct tide, directness, discharge, discrimination, disembogue, distinction, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drabble, drag, draggle, drain, drain out, drape, drift, driftage, droop, ease, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, ebbing, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, elapse, elegance, elegancy, elimination, emanate, emanate from, emerge from, emission, emit, empty, endure, ensue from, excess, excretion, exhaust, expire, extravagance, extravasation, extrusion, exuberance, exuberate, exudation, facility, fall, fare, fare forth, felicitousness, felicity, fertility, fetch, find vent, finish, fittingness, flap, flight, flit, flood, flood tide, flop, flow back, flow from, flow in, flow on, flow out, flowing, flowing periods, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flush, flux, flux and reflux, fluxility, fluxion, fly, foison, follow from, forward motion, full measure, full tide, fullness, gang, generosity, generousness, germinate from, get over, give no trouble, give off, glide, gliding, glissade, go, go along, go around, go by, go easily, go like clockwork, go on, go round, go sideways, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, great abundance, great plenty, grow from, grow out of, gurgle, gush, gush out, gyrate, hang, hang down, hang on, head, hie, high tide, high water, hinge on, ice-skate, inflood, inflow, inpour, inrush, issue, issue from, jet, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, landslide, lapse, last, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, limpidity, liquefaction, liquidness, lop, lots, low tide, low water, lucidity, lunar tide, luxuriance, make, maximum, milkiness, mill run, millrace, moisture, more than enough, mount, mounting, move, move along, move on, move over, movement, much, myriad, myriads, naturalness, neap, neap tide, neatness, nod, numerousness, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, onward course, opposite tide, opulence, opulency, originate, originate in, outflow, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overflowing, overspread, pass, pass by, passage, pellucidity, pend, perspicuity, plainness, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plunge, plunging, poetry, polish, pour, pour in, pour out, present no difficulties, press on, prevalence, proceed, proceed from, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, progress, progression, proliferate, propriety, pullulate, purity, purl, quantities, race, radial motion, rain, random motion, refinement, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, regurgitate, repleteness, repletion, restraint, retrogress, retrogression, rheuminess, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rip, ripple, riptide, rise, rising, roll, roll on, roller-skate, rotate, run, run its course, run on, run out, run over, run smoothly, rush, sag, sail, sailing, sappiness, sashay, scads, secretion, seemliness, sequence, series, serosity, set, shift, shower, sideslip, sideward motion, simplicity, sink, sinking, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, sled, sledding, sleigh, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, slither, slithering, sluice, sluice out, smoothness, soar, soaring, solar tide, spate, spew, spew out, spill, spin, spout, spout out, spread, spring, spring from, spring tide, sprout from, spurt, squirt, stem, stem from, sternway, stir, straightforwardness, stream, subside, subsiding, substantiality, substantialness, succession, succulence, superabundance, supply, suppuration, surge, surge back, swag, swarm, swarm with, sweep, sweeping, swing, swirl, taste, tastefulness, teem, teem with, teemingness, terseness, 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, tobogganing, trail, traject, trajet, transudation, travel, trend, trickle, turbulence, turn on, unaffectedness, undercurrent, undertow, upward motion, vomit forth, wane, water flow, wateriness, wayfare, wealth, weep, well, well out, wend, whirl, work well

• flower bed, Japanese garden, alpine garden, arboretum, bed, bog garden, border, botanical garden, dry garden, flower garden, garden, garden spot, grape ranch, grapery, herbarium, hortus siccus, jardin, kitchen garden, market garden, ornamental garden, paradise, pinetum, rock garden, roof garden, shrubbery, sunken garden, tea garden, truck garden, vegetable garden, victory garden, vinery, vineyard

• flower child, Bohemian, beatnik, deviant, dissenter, dropout, freak, heretic, hippie, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie

• flower power, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, agape, altruism, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bigheartedness, black power, brotherly love, brute force, caritas, charge, charisma, charitableness, charity, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, do-goodism, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, generosity, giving, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, humanitarianism, influence, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, philanthropism, philanthropy, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, utilitarianism, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, welfarism, well-disposedness

• flower, Chinese lantern, Christmas rose, Eglantine, acacia, advance, androecium, anther, arrowhead, asiaticism, aster, attain majority, axiom, azalea, batten, bead, bear fruit, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, best, bleeding heart, bloom, blossom, blow, bluebell, boom, broom, bud, budding, burgeon, burgeoning, buttercup, cactus, calendula, calyx, camellia, carnation, carpel, center, champion, choice, chosen, chrysanthemum, cineraria, clematis, clethra, cockscomb, columbine, come of age, come out, come to maturity, core, cornel, cornflower, corolla, corolla tube, corona, cosmos, cowslip, cream, crocus, cyclamen, daffodil, dahlia, daisy, dandelion, delphinium, develop, device, diamond, dogwood, duckweed, edelweiss, effloresce, efflorescence, elect, elite, elixir, engrave, epicalyx, essence, essential, euphuism, evolute, evolve, fat, fatten, feather, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, filigree, finest, flag, flax, fledge, fleur-de-lis, floret, floriculture, floridity, floscule, flounce, flourish, floweret, flowery style, focus, forget-me-not, forsythia, foxglove, foxtail, fuchsia, fundamental, gardenia, gardening, garland, gem, gentility, gentry, geranium, germination, gist, gravamen, groundsel, grow, grow fat, grow up, growth, gynoecium, hawthorn, heart, heather, hibiscus, honeysuckle, horehound, horticulture, hortorium, hyacinth, hydrangea, hypostasis, illuminate, image, imagery, impatience, indigo, inner essence, iris, jasmine, jewel, jonquil, kernel, lavender, leave the nest, lilac, lily, lobelia, lotus, lupine, luxuriation, magnolia, mallow, manner of speaking, marigold, marrow, marsh marigold, marshmallow, maturate, mature, mayflower, meat, megasporophyll, mellow, microsporophyll, mignonette, moccasin flower, mock orange, monkshood, motherwort, myrtle, narcissus, nonesuch, nonliterality, nonliteralness, nonpareil, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, oleander, open, optimum, orchid, ornament, oxalis, paint, pansy, paragon, peony, perianth, periwinkle, petal, phlox, pick, pink, pistil, pith, plume, poppy, postulate, posy, pride, prime, primrose, principle, prize, progress, pullulation, purple passage, quality, queen, quid, quiddity, quintessence, ranunculus, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, receptacle, resurrection plant, rhododendron, ribbon, ripen, rose, sap, season, select, settle down, shoot, shooting star, snapdragon, snowball, snowberry, snowdrop, society, soul, spangle, spiraea, spirit, spray, sprouting, stamen, stigma, stock, strawflower, stuff, style, substance, sunflower, superlative, sweet William, sweet alyssum, sweet pea, temper, the best, the best ever, the nitty-gritty, the tops, the very best, thrive, tinsel, toga virilis, top, torus, trillium, trope, tulip, turn of expression, umbrella plant, unfold, upper class, upper crust, vegetation, verbena, vetch, viola, violet, wallflower, water lily, wax, way of speaking, wildflower, wisteria, wolfbane, wreathe, yarrow, yucca, zinnia

• flowered, adorned, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, decked out, decorated, efflorescent, embellished, feathered, festooned, figured, floral, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowering, flowery, garden, garnished, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, jeweled, multiflorous, ornamented, plumed, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, spangled, spangly, studded, tricked out, trimmed, uniflorous, wreathed

• flowering, accomplishment, advance, advancement, amplification, anthesis, balmy, bloom, blooming, bloomy, blossom, blossoming, blow, blowing, booming, budding, burgeoning, clear, crescent, developed, development, developmental change, efflorescence, efflorescent, elaboration, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, expansion, explication, exuberant, fair, fat, floral, floreate, florescence, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flourishing, flowerage, flowered, flowery, fruiting, full bloom, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, furtherance, garden, going strong, gradual change, growing, grown, grown-up, growth, halcyon, horticultural, hortulan, hypertrophied, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, in full swing, in good case, inflorescent, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, maturation, mature, multiflorous, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, overdeveloped, overgrown, palmy, piping, progress, progression, prospering, radiciflorous, rhizanthous, ripening, rise, rosy, sleek, sprouting, thriving, unfolding, unfoldment, uniflorous, upgrowth, vigorous, young, youngling, youthful, youthlike, youthy

• flowers, Festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, beauties, canon, catamenia, catamenial discharge, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected works, collection, compilation, complete works, courses, cuttings, delectus, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, fragments, garden, garland, gleanings, menses, menstrual discharge, menstruation, miscellanea, miscellany, monthlies, omnibus, period, periods, photograph album, quotation book, scrapbook, symposium, that time, the curse

• flowery, Gongoristic, adorned, affected, allusive, ambrosial, arabesque, aromatic, artificial, aureate, balmy, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, bombastic, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory, decorated, diffuse, efflorescent, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, embellished, embroidered, essenced, euphuistic, fancy, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered, flowering, fragrant, frilly, fruity, fussy, garden, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, incense-breathing, inflated, inflorescent, labored, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, mannered, metaphorical, moresque, multiflorous, musky, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overcharged, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked, overwrought, perfumed, perfumy, picturesque, pompous, pretty-pretty, prolix, purple, radiciflorous, redolent, redundant, referential, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, savory, scented, showy, sonorous, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, swollen, thuriferous, trolatitious, tropological, uniflorous, verbose, wordy

• flowing, affluent, ascending, autograph, autographic, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, balanced, calligraphic, cascading, chirographic, concinnate, concinnous, confluent, coursing, cursive, dangling, decurrent, defluent, dependent, depending, descending, diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, easy, effortless, elegant, engrossed, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, facile, falling, falling loosely, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, going, graceful, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging, harmonious, holograph, holographic, hung, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, juicy, liquid, liquidy, longhand, manuscript, mazy, meandering, measured, mounting, on paper, ordered, orderly, passing, penciled, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, penned, pensile, pleasing, plunging, pouring, printed, profluent, progressive, racing, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing, sappy, scriptorial, scriptural, serpentine, shorthand, sideward, sinking, sluggish, smooth, smooth-sounding, soaring, streaming, stylographic, succulent, surging, surgy, suspended, sweet, swinging, symmetrical, tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward, vortical, watery, weeping, written

• flu, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Asiatic flu, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, Hong Kong flu, acute articular rheumatism, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, ague, alkali disease, aluminosis, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, amygdalitis, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, anthrax, asbestosis, asthma, atypical pneumonia, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, bituminosis, black death, black fever, black lung, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, catarrh, cerebral rheumatism, chalicosis, chicken pox, cholera, chronic bronchitis, cold, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, coryza, cowpox, croup, croupous pneumonia, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, emphysema, empyema, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, epidemic pleurodynia, erysipelas, famine fever, fibrinous pneumonia, five-day fever, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hay fever, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, la grippe, laryngitis, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, lipoid pneumonia, loa loa, loaiasis, lobar pneumonia, lockjaw, lung cancer, lung fever, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, quinsy, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheum, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, siderosis, silicosis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sore throat, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, swine flu, tetanus, the sniffles, the snuffles, thrush, tinea, tonsilitis, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, virus pneumonia, wet pleurisy, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

• flub, bad job, bevue, bitch, bitch up, blow, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead into it, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bugger, bugger up, bungle, clumsy performance, drop a brick, error, etourderie, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, gaucherie, goof, goof up, gum up, hash, hash up, louse up, mess, mess up, miscue, mistake, muff, off day, sad work, screw up, slip, stumble, trip

• fluctuate, alternate, back and fill, bob, bobble, careen, change, chop and change, coggle, dangle, dither, ebb and flow, equivocate, flounder, flutter, go through phases, intermit, lack regularity, librate, lurch, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, recur, reel, resonate, return, reverse, ring the changes, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, stagger, swag, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, toss, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, vibrate, wag, waggle, wave, waver, wax and wane, wobble

• fluctuating, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy, desultory, deviable, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuational, freakish, giddy, guttering, halting, harmonic, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jerky, libratory, lurching, mazy, mercurial, moody, nonuniform, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, patchy, pendular, pendulating, pendulous, periodic, rambling, resonant, restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unmethodical, unmetrical, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, vacillating, vacillatory, vagrant, variable, veering, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

• fluctuation, alternation, arrhythmia, asking price, bearish prices, bid price, book value, brokenness, bullish prices, call price, capriciousness, choppiness, closing price, decline, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, eccentricity, equivocation, erraticness, face value, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fixed price, flash price, flurry, flutter, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, harmonic motion, high, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, issue par, issue price, jerkiness, libration, low, market price, market value, nominal value, nonuniformity, nutation, offering price, opening price, oscillation, par, par value, parity, patchiness, pendulation, periodicity, price, put price, quotation, quoted price, rally, resonance, resonance frequency, roughness, seesawing, settling price, shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stated value, swings, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacillation, variability, variation, vibrancy, vibratility, vibration, vicissitude, wavering, whimsicality, wobble, wobbling

• flue, air, blubber, breeze, bubble, butter, chaff, chimney, chimney corner, chip, clay, cobweb, cork, cushion, dough, down, dust, eiderdown, ether, fairy, feather, feather bed, feathers, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, fleece, floss, flue pipe, fluff, foam, froth, fumarole, funnel, fur, fuzz, gossamer, hearth, hearthstone, hob, hub, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, kapok, lint, mote, pile, pillow, plush, pudding, puff, putty, rubber, satin, silk, smokehole, smokeshaft, smokestack, sponge, spume, stack, stovepipe, straw, swansdown, thistledown, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr

• fluency, Atticism, abundance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, amplitude, appropriateness, articulateness, big mouth, candor, chasteness, chastity, chylifaction, chylification, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, cloud of words, comeliness, command, communicativeness, concourse, confluence, conflux, control, conversableness, copiousness, correctness, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, ease, effortlessness, effusion, effusiveness, elegance, elegancy, eloquence, extravagance, exuberance, facility, fecundity, felicitousness, felicity, fertility, finish, fittingness, flow, flow of words, flowing, flowing periods, flowing tongue, fluent tongue, fluidity, fluidness, flux, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, fluxility, fluxion, formlessness, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, gushing, inflow, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, limpidity, liquefaction, liquidness, logorrhea, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, lucidity, macrology, milkiness, mill run, millrace, moisture, naturalness, neatness, onrush, onward course, openness, outflow, outpour, overflow, palilogy, pellucidity, perspicuity, plainness, pleonasm, poetry, polish, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, propriety, purity, race, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, refinement, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, restraint, rheuminess, run, rush, sappiness, seemliness, serosity, set, simplicity, slickness, slush, smoothness, sociability, spate, spate of words, straightforwardness, stream, succulence, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, suppuration, surge, talkativeness, taste, tastefulness, tautology, teemingness, terseness, tide, tirade, trend, unaffectedness, undercurrent, undertow, verbosity, volubility, water flow, wateriness, windiness

• fluent, affluent, all jaw, apt, articulate, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, balanced, candid, chatty, communicative, concinnate, concinnous, confluent, conversational, coursing, cursive, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, easy, effortless, effusive, elegant, eloquent, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, expansive, expressive, facile, felicitous, flip, flowing, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, going, gossipy, graceful, gregarious, gulfy, gushing, gushy, gyrational, gyratory, harmonious, juicy, liquid, liquidy, long-winded, loquacious, mazy, meandering, measured, mounting, multiloquent, multiloquious, natural, newsy, ordered, orderly, overtalkative, passing, pleasing, plunging, polished, pouring, profluent, progressive, prolix, prompt, quick, racing, ready, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing, sappy, serpentine, sideward, sinking, slick, sluggish, smooth, smooth-sounding, smooth-spoken, soaring, sociable, streaming, succulent, surging, surgy, sweet, symmetrical, talkative, talky, tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward, verbose, vocal, voluble, vortical, watery, well-spoken, windy

• fluently, ardently, effectively, effusively, eloquently, expressively, fervently, forcefully, glibly, glowingly, graphically, gushingly, impressively, in glowing terms, loquaciously, meaningfully, passionately, powerfully, smoothly, spiritedly, strikingly, talkatively, tellingly, vehemently, vigorously, vividly, volubly, warmly

• fluff, Irish bull, aerate, air, anacoluthon, bad job, ball up, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blow, blubber, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boot, botch, breeze, bubble, bull, bungle, butter, catachresis, chaff, chip, clay, clumsy performance, cobweb, cock up, cork, cushion, daintiness, delicacy, dough, down, downiness, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dust, ease, eiderdown, error, ether, etourderie, fairy, feather, feather bed, feathers, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, fleece, floss, flub, flue, fluffiness, foam, folk etymology, foozle, foul up, froth, fuck up, fumble, fur, fuzz, fuzziness, gaucherie, gentle, girl friend, goof, goof up, gossamer, gossameriness, grammatical error, hash, howler, hypercorrection, hyperform, kapok, knead, lapse, laxate, limber, limber up, lint, loosen, louse up, malaprop, malapropism, marrowsky, mash, massage, mellow, mess, mess up, milden, miscue, mispronunciation, missaying, mistake, mistress, misusage, mollify, mote, muck up, muddle, muff, off day, peach fuzz, pile, pillow, plump, plush, pubescence, pudding, puff, puff up, pull a boner, pulp, putty, refinement, relax, rubber, ruin, sad work, satin, satininess, screw up, shake up, silk, silkiness, slip, smash, smoothness, snafu, soften, soften up, softness, solecism, spoil, sponge, spoonerism, spume, squash, straw, stumble, subdue, supple, swansdown, tenderize, thistledown, tone down, trip, tune down, velvet, velvetiness, wax, wool, zephyr

• fluffy, airy, attenuate, attenuated, birdbrained, birdwitted, bubbly, dainty, delicate, downy, ethereal, featherbrained, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, fleecy, flighty, flossy, foamy, frivolous, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, hirsute, imponderous, insubstantial, lanate, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lightweight, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, pubescent, puffy, refined, satin, satiny, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, silky, smooth, soft, souffle, superficial, thin, thin-spun, trivial, unheavy, unimportant, unprofound, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, whipped up, wiredrawn, wispy, woolly, yeasty

• fluid, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, aerodynamics, afterdamp, air, alterable, alterative, aqueous, atmosphere, beverage, blackdamp, blood, breath, changeable, changeful, checkered, chokedamp, cloud, damp, drink, effluvium, ever-changing, exhalation, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, flexible, flowing, fluent, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, formless, fume, gas, halogen gas, hydraulics, hydrogeology, ichor, impermanent, indefinite, inert gas, juice, juicy, kaleidoscopic, latex, liquid, liquid extract, liquidy, liquor, malaria, malleable, many-sided, mephitis, mercurial, metamorphic, miasma, milk, mobile, modifiable, movable, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, pliant, pneumatics, protean, proteiform, puff of smoke, reek, resilient, rubbery, running, runny, sap, sappy, semiliquid, shifting, smoke, smudge, solution, steam, succulent, supple, transient, transitory, uncertain, unfixed, unformed, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vapor, variable, volatile, water, water vapor, watery, whey

• fluidity, adaptability, adjustability, aeriness, alterability, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, chylifaction, chylification, ethereality, flatulence, flatuosity, flexibility, flow, fluency, fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gaseity, gaseous state, gaseousness, gassiness, impermanence, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, malleability, milkiness, mobility, modifiability, moisture, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rheuminess, rubberiness, sappiness, serosity, succulence, suppleness, suppuration, transience, transitoriness, vapor pressure, vaporiness, vaporousness, wateriness, windiness

• fluidize, aerate, aerify, atomize, carbonate, chlorinate, colliquate, cut, decoagulate, decoct, deliquesce, dissolve, distill, emit, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, fluidify, flux, fractionate, fume, fumigate, fuse, gasify, give off, hold in solution, hydrogenate, infuse, leach, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, melt, melt down, oxygenate, percolate, perfume, reek, run, send out, smoke, solubilize, solve, spray, steam, sublimate, sublime, thaw, thin, unclot, vaporize, volatilize

• fluke, Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, accident, adventure, blessing, break, casualty, chance hit, contingency, contingent, fortuity, freak accident, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, long odds, long shot, lucky break, lucky shot, lucky strike, run of luck, serendipity, streak of luck, stroke of luck, windfall

• fluky, accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, contingent, destinal, dicey, fatal, fatidic, fortuitous, iffy, incidental, indeterminate, odd, risky, uncaused, undetermined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable

• flume, abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, bed, blowhole, box canyon, breach, break, canal, canyon, cavity, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chute, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, culvert, cut, cwm, debouch, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, door, draw, dry bed, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, excavation, exhaust, exit, fault, fissure, flaw, floodgate, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, loophole, moat, notch, nullah, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pass, passage, pore, port, race, ravine, rent, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, sally port, scissure, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, spiracle, split, spout, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tap, trench, valley, vent, ventage, venthole, void, vomitory, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, way out, weir

• flummery, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling

• flummox, abash, addle, addle the wits, baffle, balk, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, blast, bomb, bother, brave, bug, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, cloud, confound, confront, confuse, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crap out, cross, dash, daze, dazzle, deceive, defeat, defy, destroy, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dismay, disorganize, disorient, disrupt, disturb, draw a blank, drop a bomb, drop the ball, elude, embarrass, entangle, fan, flop, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foil, fold, fold up, fox, frustrate, fuddle, fuss, get left, hoodwink, knock the chocks, lay an egg, lose out, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, mystify, nonplus, not hack it, not make it, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, ruin, sabotage, scotch, spike, spoil, stonewall, strike out, stump, stymie, take the count, throw into confusion, thwart, unsettle, upset, wash out, whiff

• flump, bump, cave, cave in, chink, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crump, decline, droop, dull thud, flick, flop, flop down, flump down, founder, give way, go down, lapse, lower, pad, pat, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, plop, plop down, plump, plunk, pop, rap, sag, set, settle, settle down, sink, sink down, slouch, slump, slump down, submerge, subside, swag, tap, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tunk

• flunk, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bollix, botch, bungle, bust, come to grief, fail, fail of success, fiasco, flunk out, foozle, go bankrupt, hash, labor in vain, lose, mess, muddle, not come off, not pass, not work, wash out, washout

• flunkey, apple-polisher, doormat, footman, gofer, hanger-on, hireling, inferior, jackal, lackey, lickspittle, menial, minion, retainer, servant, slave, stooge, subordinate, sycophant, toady, underling, yes-man

• flunky, adherent, appendage, apple-polisher, ass-licker, attendant, backscratcher, backslapper, blue-collar worker, bootlick, bootlicker, breadwinner, brown-nose, brownie, buff, casual, casual laborer, cavaliere servente, clawback, cog, common laborer, commonality, commonalty, courtier, creature, cringer, dangler, day laborer, dependent, disciple, dummy, dupe, employee, factory worker, fan, fawner, feudatory, figurehead, flatterer, follower, following, footlicker, footman, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, gillie, goon, groveler, hand, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, hoi polloi, homager, homme de cour, industrial worker, inferior, instrument, jackal, jobber, jobholder, junior, kowtower, laborer, laboring man, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, lightweight, liveried servant, lower class, lower orders, man, masses, mealymouth, menial, migrant, minion, moiler, myrmidon, navvy, office temporary, parasite, partisan, pawn, peon, proletarian, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, retainer, roustabout, salaried worker, satellite, second fiddle, secondary, sectary, self-employed person, serf, servant, shadow, slave, spaniel, stiff, stooge, subaltern, subordinate, successor, suck, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, temporary, third stringer, thug, timeserver, toad, toady, toiler, tool, trainbearer, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, ward heeler, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yeoman, yes-man

• fluorescence, autoluminescence, bioluminescence, cathode luminescence, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, corposant, crystalloluminescence, double corposant, electroluminescence, fata morgana, fox fire, ignis fatuus, luciferase, luciferin, luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, noctiluscence, phosphor, phosphorescence, photoluminescence, radioluminescence, thermoluminescence, tribofluorescence, triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, wisp, witch fire

• fluoroscopy, X-ray photometry, X-ray spectrometry, atom-tagging, curiescopy, orthodiagraphy, photofluorography, radiation physics, radiobiology, radiochemistry, radiography, radiological physics, radiology, radiometallography, radiometry, radiopathology, radioscopy, radiotechnology, radiotherapy, roentgenography, roentgenology, roentgenoscopy, spectroradiometry, tracer investigation

• flurry, Scotch mist, activity, addle, addle the wits, ado, agitate, agitation, air speed, asking price, avalanche, ball up, bearish prices, beat, beat up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilder, bewilderment, bid price, blast, blizzard, blood rain, blow, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bobbery, boil, boiling, book value, bother, botheration, bravado, brouhaha, bug, bullish prices, bullying, burst, bustle, call price, celerity, chaos, churn, churn up, closing price, cloud, commotion, confuse, confusion, conturbation, convulse, crystal, dash, daze, dazzle, decline, disarrange, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, dispatch, disquiet, disquietude, distract, disturb, disturbance, drive, driven snow, drizzle, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, electrify, embarrassment, embroilment, entangle, evening mist, excite, excitement, expedition, face value, fall, fanfaronade, fastness, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, fixed price, flake, flap, flash price, flaw, flight, flit, flummox, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fog, foment, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, galvanize, gout of rain, granular snow, ground speed, gust, haste, haze, hectoring, helter-skelter, high, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, hustle, igloo, inquietude, instantaneousness, intimidation, issue par, issue price, jar, jitters, jolt, jumble, jumpiness, knots, lightning speed, low, maelstrom, malaise, mantle of snow, market price, market value, maze, mess, miles per hour, mist, misty rain, mix up, mizzle, mogul, moider, moil, moisture, muddle, muddlement, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nominal value, offering price, opening price, outburst, paddle, par, par value, parity, patter, pell-mell, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pitter-patter, pother, precipitation, price, promptitude, promptness, provoke, pucker, put out, put price, quicken, quickness, quotation, quoted price, race, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, raise hell, rally, rant, rapidity, rattle, restlessness, rile, ripple, rock, rodomontade, roil, roughen, round pace, rout, row, rpm, ruffle, rumple, rush, scamper, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, seethe, seething, settling price, shake, shake up, sheet of rain, shock, shower, shuffle, side, slosh, slush, snappiness, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, spasm, speed, speediness, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, spurt, sputter, stagger, stated value, stew, stimulate, stir, stir up, swagger, swashbucklery, sweat, swift rate, swiftness, swings, swirl, swirling, swivet, throw into confusion, tizzy, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unfrozen hydrometeor, unhinge, unquiet, unrest, unsettle, unsettlement, uproar, upset, velocity, vortex, wet, wet snow, whip, whip up, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whisk, wind gust, work up, yeastiness

• flush, Hygeia, SRO, ablution, abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, ace, adjacent, affluent, afterglow, air glow, align, all-sufficing, ample, animate, animation, aplenty, arousal, arouse, at full length, bake, bang, baptize, bath, bathe, be in heat, beat, best bower, big-rich, blanch, blaze, blood, bloom, blooming, blossom, blowzed, blowzy, blush, blushing, boil, boot, bottomless, bouncing, bounteous, bountiful, bower, brew, brimful, brimming, broil, bulging, burn, burnt, bursting, calenture, candescence, capacity, cards, change color, charge, chase, cheer, childbed fever, chock-full, choke, chuck-full, clean out, cleaning out, cleanse, clubs, color, color up, coloring, combust, comfortable, congested, continued fever, continuous, cook, copious, course, cram-full, crammed, crimson, crimsoning, darken, deck, delight, delirium, deluge, deuce, diamonds, diffuse, directly, discharge, disgustingly rich, do proud, dog, douche, douching, douse, drench, drenching, drive, drouk, dummy, ebb, effuse, elate, elation, elevate, elution, elutriation, emotional health, empty, encourage, encouragement, enema, epidemic, equalize, eruptive fever, euphoria, even, evenly, exactly, exalt, excite, excitement, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, face cards, falcon, farci, fascinate, fat, febricity, febrility, fell, fertile, fever, fever heat, feverishness, fieriness, filled, fire, fitness, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flat, flatly, flatten, flattened, flatways, flatwise, flicker, flood, florid, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flush out, flushed, flushing, flushing out, follow the hounds, font, fount, fountain, fowl, fresh, fresh as April, frightfully rich, frown, fry, full, full house, full to bursting, full-blooded, galore, gargle, gasp, generous, geyser, give a thrill, gladden, glare, gleam, glint, gloss, glow, glower, glowing, gnarl, go hunting, grade, gratify, green, grow red, growl, gun, gush, hale, hale and hearty, hand, hardy, hawk, health, healthy glow, hearts, hearty, heat, hectic, hectic fever, hectic flush, holystone, homaloidal, horizontal, horizontally, hose down, hound, hunt, hunt down, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia, imbrue, imbue, impassion, impregnate, in funds, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, incandesce, incandescence, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inexhaustible, infiltrate, inflame, infuse, inject, intermittent fever, intoxicate, inundation, irrigate, irrigation, issue, jack, jacklight, jam-packed, jet, joker, jollies, kerplunk, kick, king, knave, lather, lathering, launder, lavabo, lavage, lavation, lave, laving, lavish, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, leach, left bower, lengthways, lengthwise, level, liberal, lift, lixiviate, loaded, look black, look daggers, lower, luster, lusty, luxuriant, luxurious, macerate, made of money, make, make proud, mantle, mantling, many, maximal, mental health, moneyed, mop, mop up, mopping, mopping up, much, next to, numerous, on Easy Street, on a level, oofy, opulent, overflow, overflowing, overfull, overstuffed, pack, packed, packed like sardines, pair, pale, pant, parch, passion, percolate, permeate, physical condition, physical fitness, picture cards, pink, plain, plane, playing cards, plenary, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, pour, precisely, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prosperous, protein fever, provided for, prowl after, pudency, pudicity, puerperal fever, purge, pyrexia, queen, quicken, quickening, quiver, radiance, radiate heat, rampant, rase, raze, ready to burst, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, redden, reddening, redness, regurgitate, relapsing fever, remittent, remittent fever, replete, rich, rich as Croesus, ride to hounds, rife, right, rinse, rinse out, rinsing, riotous, ritually immerse, roast, robust, robustious, robustuous, roll, roll flat, rolled, rolling in money, rose, rosiness, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rouge, round, royal flush, rubber, rubefacient, rubescence, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, rude, rufescence, ruff, rugged, run, running over, rush, rush of emotion, sanguine, satiated, saturate, saturated, scald, scorch, scour, scouring, scowl, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, seethe, sensation, set, shampoo, sheen, shikar, shimmer with heat, shine, shininess, shining light, shiver, shoot, shower, shudder, simmer, singleton, skylight, sluice, sluice out, smack, smack-dab, smolder, smooth, smooth out, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, smother, snap, snarl, soak, soaked, soaking, soap, soaping, sodden, solvent, sop, souse, spades, spang, spark, spew, spit, sponge, sponging, sport, spout, spouter, spray, spritz, spurt, spurtle, square, squarely, squashed, squashed flat, squirm with self-consciousness, squirt, stalk, stalwart, stammer, standing room only, start, steam, steamroll, steamroller, steep, stew, stifle, still-hunt, stir, stirring, stout, straight, stream, strong, stuffed, sturdy, suffocate, suffusion, sunburned, sunset glow, superabundant, surfeited, surge, surge back, surge of emotion, swab, swabbing, sweat, swelter, swollen, syringe, tabloid, tabular, teeming, thrill, tickle, tingle, tingling, titillate, titillation, toast, toivel, topful, track, trail, tremor, tremor of excitement, trend, trey, trick, trodden, trodden flat, true, trump, tub, turn color, turn pale, turn red, uplift, urethral fever, vaccinal fever, vigorous, vital, wallowing in wealth, warm, warm color, warmth, warmth of color, wash, wash out, wash up, washing, washing up, washout, washup, water fever, waterlog, wealthy, well provided for, well-being, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, whiten, whiteness, wholesale, wiping up, wound fever, youthful

• flushed, ablaze, afire, ardent, baking, beaming, blistering, blithe, blithesome, bloated, bloated with pride, blooming, blowzed, blowzy, blushful, blushing, boiling, boiling over, breathless, bright, bright and sunny, broiling, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement, burnt, bursting with happiness, canicular, carried away, cheerful, cheery, cock-a-hoop, cordial, crowing, delighting, delirious, drunk, ebullient, ecstatic, elate, elated, embarrassed, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthusiastic, entranced, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, exulting, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, florid, flush, flushed with pride, freaked out, fresh, fresh as April, full-blooded, genial, glad, gladsome, gloating, glowing, green, grilling, happy, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high, hopeful, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, imparadised, impassioned, in a fever, in ecstasies, in good spirits, in heaven, in high feather, in high spirits, in paradise, in raptures, in rut, in seventh heaven, inflamed, intense, intoxicated, irrepressible, jubilant, keen, laughing, like a furnace, like an oven, lively, of good cheer, on cloud nine, on fire, optimistic, overheated, overjoyed, overjoyful, overwarm, parching, passionate, pink, piping hot, pleasant, possessed, puffed up, pyretic, radiant, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, red, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, red-hot, rejoicing, rhapsodic, riant, roasting, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, sanguineous, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, sent, sexually excited, sheepish, simmering, sizzling hot, smiling, smoking hot, sparkling, steaming, steamy, sudorific, sunburned, sunny, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, swollen, toasting, torrid, transported, triumphant, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, white-hot, winsome, youthful, zealous

• fluster, addle, addle the wits, ado, agitate, agitation, baffle, bafflement, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilder, bewilderment, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, bravado, brouhaha, bug, bullying, burst, bustle, chaos, churn, cloud, commotion, confound, confuse, confusion, conturbation, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discomfort, discommode, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distract, distraction, disturb, disturbance, dither, dizzy, ebullition, electrify, embarrass, embarrassment, embroilment, entangle, excitement, fanfaronade, faze, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flummox, flurry, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fog, foment, foofaraw, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, fussiness, hassle, haze, hectoring, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, inquietude, intimidation, jar, jitters, jolt, jumble, jumpiness, lather, maelstrom, malaise, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, moil, muddle, muddlement, mystify, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nonplus, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pother, pucker, put off, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rant, rattle, restlessness, rock, rodomontade, roil, rout, row, ruffle, scramble, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, shock, shuffle, side, spasm, splutter, spurt, sputter, stagger, stew, stir, stir up, swagger, swashbucklery, sweat, swirl, swivet, throw, throw into confusion, throw off, tizzy, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, twitteration, unease, unhinge, unquiet, unrest, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, vortex, whirl

• flustered, addled, agitated, balled-up, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, bothered, chaotic, confused, crapulent, crapulous, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disquieted, disturbed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, embarrassed, excited, far-gone, feverish, fidgety, flurried, fluttered, fou, full, fussed, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jittery, jolly, jumbled, jumpy, maudlin, mellow, merry, mixed-up, muddled, nappy, nervous, nervy, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, rattled, reeling, restless, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, shikker, shook, shuffled, sodden, sotted, stirred up, tiddly, tipsy, troubled, troublous, turbulent, under the influence, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset

• flute, English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, bagpipe, bark, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bawl, bellow, bezel, blare, blat, blow, blow a horn, blubber, bombard, boom, bray, breathe, bugle, buzz, cackle, canal, canalize, carillon, carve, chamfer, channel, chant, chase, chink, chirp, chisel, clarinet, clarion, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, coo, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cranny, crease, crimp, crisp, cromorne, crow, cut, dado, dike, ditch, dog-ear, doodle, double, double bassoon, double over, double reed, double-tongue, drawl, enfold, engrave, engraving, exclaim, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flounce, fluting, fold, fold over, frill, furrow, gash, gasp, gather, goffer, gouge, groove, growl, grunt, gully, hautboy, heckelphone, hiss, hornpipe, incise, incision, infold, interfold, keen, lap over, licorice stick, lilt, lip, microgroove, mumble, murmur, musette, mutter, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, panpipe, pant, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, plait, plat, pleat, plicate, plow, ply, pommer, quill, rabbet, recorder, reed, reed instrument, rifle, rifling, roar, ruck, ruff, ruffle, rumble, rut, sax, saxophone, score, scratch, scream, screech, shawm, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, single reed, single-reed instrument, slit, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sonorophone, sound, squall, squawk, squeal, streak, stria, striate, striation, sulcation, sulcus, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, thunder, tin-whistle, tongue, toot, tootle, trench, triple-tongue, trough, trumpet, tuck, turn over, twang, tweedle, twill, wail, warble, well-worn groove, whine, whisper, whistle, wind, wind the horn, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument, wrinkle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp

• fluted, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, creased, crimped, cut, dadoed, dog-eared, doubled, engraved, flexible, flounced, foldable, folded, folding, furrowed, gashed, gathered, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, plaited, pleated, pliable, plicate, plicated, plicatile, quilled, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scored, scratched, slit, striated, sulcate, sulcated, troughed, tucked, twilled, wrinkled

• flutter, Bebung, addle, addle the wits, ado, agiotage, agitate, agitation, arbitrage, arrhythmia, asking price, ball up, barrage, bearish prices, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beating, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilder, bewilderment, bicker, bid price, birdies, blooping, blurping, bob, bobble, book value, bother, botheration, brandish, bug, bullish prices, burst, bustle, buying in, buzz about, call price, careen, chaos, closing price, cloud, coggle, commotion, confuse, confusion, dance, dancing, dangle, dash, daze, dazzle, decline, didder, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distortion, disturb, disturbance, dither, dithers, drive, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, electrify, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle, equity capital, face value, falter, feedback, feery-fary, ferment, fidget, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, fixed price, flap, flapping, flash price, flaunt, flick, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flier, flip, flip out, flit, flitter, float, flop, flourish, fluctuate, fluctuating, fluctuation, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutteriness, fluttering, fly, fog, foofaraw, freak out on, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fussiness, get high on, glancing light, glow, go pitapat, gutter, haste, have the fidgets, have the shakes, haze, heartbeat, heartthrob, heave, heaving, helter-skelter, high, hissing, hover, howling, hubbub, hullabaloo, hum, hurry, hurry about, hurry-scurry, hustle, inquietude, issue par, issue price, jar, jerk, jolt, jumble, jump, lambency, lather, librate, light show, liquidation, low, lurch, maelstrom, make a fuss, market price, market value, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, motorboating, muddle, muddlement, nominal value, nutate, offering price, opening price, oscillate, oscillating, oscillation, palpitate, palpitation, pant, panting, par, par value, paradiddle, parity, patter, pendulate, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pitapat, pitch, pitter-patter, play, play of light, plunge, pother, pound, pounding, price, profit taking, pucker, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, put out, put price, quake, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, quotation, quoted price, race, raise hell, rally, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rattle, reel, resonate, restlessness, rhythm, rock, roll, round trade, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, rumble, rush, rush about, rush around, scalping, scamper, scramble, scratching, scurry, scuttle, settling price, shake, shake up, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shock, shredding, shudder, shuffle, slat, sound a tattoo, spasm, spatter, speculation, splatter, splutter, spot sale, spurt, sputter, squeals, squirm, staccato, stagger, stated value, static, stew, stir, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, swag, sway, sweat, swell, swell with emotion, swing, swings, swirl, swivet, tat-tat, tattoo, tear around, tempo, thrill, thrill to, throb, throbbing, throw into confusion, thrum, thump, thumping, tingle, tingle with excitement, tizzy, to-do, tom-tom, toss, toss and turn, tremble, trembling, tremolando, tremolant, tremolo, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trill, trillet, trilleto, trillo, trouble, tumble, tumult, turn, turn on to, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, twitteration, undulate, unquiet, unrest, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, venture, venture capital, vibrate, vibrato, vortex, wag, waggle, wave, waver, waving, whirl, whistles, whiz about, wield, wiggle, wigwag, wobble, woomping, wow, wowwows, wriggle, writhe

• fluttering, aflicker, agitated, airborne, beating, bickering, birdies, blinking, blooping, blurping, bustling, clicking, dance, dancing, desultory, distortion, drumming, feedback, fidgety, flashing, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flickery, flicky, flitting, flutter, fluttery, flying, fretful, fussing, fussy, glancing light, gliding, guttering, hissing, hovering, howling, hum, jet-propelled, jumpy, lambency, lambent, light show, motorboating, palpitant, play, play of light, playing, pounding, quiver, quivering, quivery, restless, rocket-propelled, rumble, scratching, shredding, spattering, spluttering, sputtering, sputtery, squeals, staccato, static, stroboscopic, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, ticking, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, unsteady, volant, volitant, wavering, wavery, whistles, winging, woomping, wow, wowwows

• fluttery, aflicker, agitated, all shook up, all-overish, bickering, blinking, brainless, bustling, dancing, desultory, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, featherheaded, fidgeting, fidgety, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fretful, frivolous, fussing, fussy, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, guttering, harebrain, harebrained, in a quiver, jittery, jumpy, lambent, playing, quivering, quivery, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, restive, restless, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shaking, shaky, shatterbrained, shivering, shivery, shook up, skittery, spluttering, sputtering, sputtery, stroboscopic, tense, thoughtless, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, turbulent, twitchy, twittery, uneasy, unquiet, unrestful, unsettled, unsteady, wavering, wavery, witless

• flux and reflux, Lissajous figure, alternation, back-and-forth, coming and going, direct tide, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flow, flux, full tide, high tide, high water, low tide, low water, lunar tide, neap, neap tide, opposite tide, reciprocation, refluence, reflux, rhythmic play, rip, riptide, seesaw, seesawing, sine wave, solar tide, spring tide, 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, tottering, ups and downs, wigwag