Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/37

• guaranteed annual income, ADC, Medicaid, Medicare, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, bounty, cradle-to-grave security, depletion allowance, dole, fellowship, financial assistance, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed income, health insurance, help, old-age assistance, old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pension, price support, public assistance, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits, scholarship, sickness insurance, social insurance, social security, social welfare, socialized medicine, state medicine, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, tax benefit, unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, welfare, welfare aid, welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare state, welfare statism, welfarism, womb-to-tomb security

• guaranteed, affianced, ascertained, assured, attested, betrothed, bound, certain, certified, committed, compromised, contracted, covered, decided, dependable, determinate, determined, engaged, ensured, established, fail-safe, firm, fixed, harmless, in the bag, insured, intended, invulnerable, made sure, nailed down, obligated, on ice, open-and-shut, pledged, plighted, promised, proved, reliable, riskless, secure, secured, set, settled, sound, stable, stated, steady, sure, sworn, tested, tried, trustworthy, undangerous, underwritten, unhazardous, unperilous, unprecarious, unrisky, warranted, warranteed

• guarantor, angel, approver, backer, bailsman, bondsman, certifier, confirmer, cosignatory, cosigner, endorser, godfather, godparent, guarantee, guaranty, insurer, mainpernor, mortgagor, notary, notary public, party, patron, ratifier, signatory, sponsor, subscriber, surety, underwriter, upholder, warrantor

• guaranty, assurance, assure, attest, back, bail, bailsman, bargain, be sponsor for, bond, bondsman, certify, confirm, contract, countersecure, endorse, ensure, godfather, godparent, guarantee, guarantor, indemnity, insurance, insure, insurer, mainpernor, mortgagor, secure, security, sign, sign for, sponsor, stand behind, stand up for, stocks and bonds, subscribe to, surety, tie, undersign, underwrite, underwriter, warrant, warrantor, warranty

• guard against, advocate, champion, clear the decks, consider every angle, defend, flank, forearm, guard, hedge, leave out nothing, make sure, make sure against, overlook no possibility, play safe, prepare for, protect, provide a hedge, provide against, provide for, reef down, safeguard, screen, secure, shield, shorten sail, take measures, take precautions, take steps

• guard, Coldstream Guards, Foot Guards, Grenadier Guards, Life Guards, Scots Guards, accompany, advance guard, advocate, aegis, amateur athlete, apologist, archer, arm, arm guard, armament, armed guard, armor, arrest, athlete, attend, avoidance reaction, backstop, baggage man, bakehead, ballplayer, bank guard, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, beefeaters, bless, blocking back, bodyguard, bowman, brakeman, brakie, bridle, buffer, bull, bulwark, bumper, butcher, catcher, cavalier, center, champion, chaperon, check, cloak, coach, coast guard, commandant, companion, compass about, competitor, conduct, conductor, conserve, constrain, contain, contraceptive, control, convoy, cool, cool off, copyright, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cover, crash helmet, cricketer, curb, curtail, cushion, custodian, custodianship, custody, dashboard, decelerate, defence, defend, defender, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, defensive lineman, deterrent capacity, dispatcher, dodger, dompt, duenna, eagle eye, ego defenses, end, enjoin, ensure, escape mechanism, escort, esquire, eye, face mask, fellow traveler, fence, fend, fender, finger guard, fireman, flank, foot guard, footballer, footplate man, fuse, games-player, gamester, gaoler, garrison, gentleman-at-arms, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, goggles, govern, governor, guarantee, guard against, guardedness, guarder, guardian, guardianship, guardrail, guards, guardsman, guide, hand guard, handrail, harbor, hard hat, haven, helmet, hinder, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, household troops, infielder, inhibit, inlying picket, insulation, insure, interlock, invigilation, jailer, jock, jumper, keep, keep alive, keep back, keep from, keep from harm, keep in, keep in check, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep safe, keep under control, keep up, keep watch over, keeper, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, lay under restraint, lead, lee, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, lineman, look after, lookout, maintain, make safe, marshal, mask, mind, monitoring, mudguard, negative taxis, nestle, nose guard, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not use up, not waste, observance, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, outguard, outpost, pad, padding, paladin, palladium, patent, patrol, patrolman, peeled eye, picket, pilot, player, police, poloist, porter, praetorian guard, preservation, preserve, preventive, principal keeper, prison guard, proctoring, professional athlete, prohibit, prophylactic, protect, protection, protective clothing, protective custody, protective umbrella, protector, prudence, psychological defenses, pugilist, pull, pull in, quarterback, qui vive, racer, railroad man, railroader, rear guard, redcap, refuge, register, rein, rein in, resistance, restrain, retard, retrench, ride shotgun for, safe-conduct, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, save, screen, screw, seat belt, secure, security, security guard, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, sentinel, sentry, set back, shade, shadow, sharp eye, shelter, shepherd, shield, shin guard, shroud, skater, slow down, smoke agent, snub, spare, sport, sportsman, squire, stationmaster, stewardship, stoker, straiten, sun helmet, support, supporter, surveillance, sustain, swain, switchman, tackle, tailback, take out, tend, the defensive, toxophilite, train guard, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, turnkey, umbrella, underwrite, uphold, upholder, usher, van, vanguard, vigil, vigilance, vindicator, wait on, ward, warden, warder, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, watchman, weather eye, windscreen, windshield, wingback, withhold, wrestler, yardman, yardmaster, yeoman

• guarded, Argus-eyed, Olympian, all ears, all eyes, aloof, apprehensive, armed, arrested, aux aguets, backward, bashful, blank, bridled, buried, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chilled, chilly, circumspect, cloaked, cold, concealed, considerate, constrained, controlled, cool, copyrighted, covered, covert, curbed, custodial, defended, deliberate, detached, discreet, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distant, eagle-eyed, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, gingerly, hard of belief, hawk-eyed, heedful, hesitant, hidden, icy, impassive, impersonal, impervious to persuasion, in check, in leading strings, in remission, inaccessible, inconvincible, incredulous, inhibited, introverted, invulnerable, judicious, keen-eyed, leaving out nothing, leery, lidless, loath, mindful, modest, noncommittal, obscured, observant, offish, on guard, on leash, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eyed, overlooking no possibility, patented, pawky, pent-up, policed, politic, privy, protected, prudent, regardful, reluctant, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, retarded, reticent, retiring, safe, safeguarded, screened, sharp-eyed, sheltered, shielded, shrinking, shrouded, shy of belief, skeptical, sleepless, slow to act, slowed down, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, suspecting, suspicious, tentative, thorough, unadventurous, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial, unconvincible, uncredulous, undaring, undemonstrative, under control, under discipline, under restraint, unenterprising, unexpansive, ungenial, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprecipitate, unwilling to accept, vigilant, wary, watchful, with open eyes, withdrawn

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

• guardian angel, air warden, ancestral spirits, angel, attendant, attendant godling, caretaker, castellan, conservator, control, curator, custodian, daemon, demon, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, genius, genius domus, genius loci, good angel, good genius, governor, guardian, guardian spirit, guide, household gods, invisible helper, janitor, keeper, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, lifeguard, lifesaver, manes, ministering angel, next friend, numen, penates, prochein ami, ranger, shepherd, special providence, steward, totem, tutelar god, tutelary, warden, warder

• guardian, MC, air warden, ancestral spirits, angel, attendant, attendant godling, attorney, bailiff, bull, butler, caretaker, castellan, cerberus, champion, commandant, conservator, control, covering, croupier, curator, custodial, custodian, custos, daemon, defender, defensive, demon, emcee, factor, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, forest ranger, fostering, game warden, gamekeeper, gaoler, genius, genius domus, genius loci, good angel, good genius, governor, guard, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guarding, guide, household gods, housekeeper, immunizing, invisible helper, jailer, janitor, keeper, landreeve, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, librarian, lifeguard, lifesaver, majordomo, manes, master of ceremonies, ministering angel, next friend, numen, paladin, parental, penates, preserver, preventive, principal keeper, prison guard, prochein ami, proctor, procurator, prophylactic, protecting, protective, protector, ranger, safeguarding, screening, screw, seneschal, sheltering, shepherd, shielding, special providence, steward, totem, trustee, turnkey, tutelar god, tutelary, vigilant, warden, warder, watchdog, watchful

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

• guarding, care, charge, covering, custodial, custodianship, custody, defending, defensive, fostering, guardian, hold, immunizing, keep, keeping, parental, preventive, preventive custody, prophylactic, protecting, protection, protective, protective custody, safeguarding, safekeeping, screening, self-defensive, self-preservative, self-protective, sheltering, shielding, tutelary, vigilant, ward, watchful

• guardrail, aegis, arm guard, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, dodger, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, insulation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, sun helmet, umbrella, windscreen, windshield

• gubernatorial, absolute, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, governmental, heteronomous, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, republican, self-governing, theocratic, totalitarian

• gudgeon, arbor, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, babe, boob, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, distaff, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fish, fool, fulcrum, gimbal, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gull, hinge, hingle, hub, innocent, leadpipe cinch, mandrel, monkey, nave, oarlock, patsy, pigeon, pin, pintle, pivot, plaything, pole, prize sap, pushover, radiant, rowlock, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sitting duck, spindle, stooge, sucker, swivel, toy, trunnion, trusting soul, victim

• guerrilla, Charley, VC, Vietcong, bushfighter, bushwhacker, casual, guerilla, insurgent, irregular, maquis, maquisard, partisan, patriot, resistance, resistance fighter, saboteur, terrorist, underground, underground fighter

• guess, account as, answer, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, assumption, be afraid, believe, blind bargain, blind guess, bold conjecture, borderline case, bottom, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, chance, class, clear up, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, contingency, crack, daresay, debug, decipher, decode, deduce, deem, disentangle, divine, do, dope, dope out, double contingency, dowse for water, esteem, estimate, evaluate, expect, explain, fancy, fathom, feel, feeling, figure, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, form an estimate, fortune-tell, gamble, gauge, get, get right, give a guess, give an appreciation, guess right, guesstimate, guesswork, hariolate, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have it, have the idea, hazard a conjecture, hit it, hold, hold as, hunch, hypothesis, hypothesize, imagine, interpret, judge, judgement, look upon as, maintain, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make an estimation, make out, mark, measure, open question, open the lock, opine, perhaps, piece of guesswork, plumb, postulate, predict, prefigure, presage, presume, pretend, prize, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, psych out, puzzle out, question, rank, rate, ravel, ravel out, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reason, reckon, regard, resolve, riddle, risk assuming, rough guess, set down as, shot, sight-unseen transaction, solve, soothsay, sort out, speculate, speculation, stab, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, suspicion, take, take for, take it, tell fortunes, tell the future, tentatively suggest, theory, think, toss-up, touch and go, trow, undecided issue, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unverified supposition, unweave, valuate, value, vaticinate, venture a guess, view as, wager, ween, wild guess, work, work out

• guessing, abashed, abroad, adrift, astray, at sea, bewildered, bothered, clueless, confused, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distracted, distraught, disturbed, embarrassed, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, lost, mazed, off the track, perturbed, put-out, turned around, upset, without a clue

• guesswork, actuarial prediction, apocalypse, assumption, axiom, conjecture, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, hypothesis, improbability, inference, omen, postulate, postulation, postulatum, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premise, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, proposition, prospectus, set of postulates, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, thesis, vaticination, working hypothesis

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

• guff, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bavardage, bibble-babble, bilge, blab, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, crap, flapdoodle, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gossip, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, idle talk, jabber, lip, malarkey, mere talk, moonshine, mouth, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, piffle, poppycock, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, rot, sass, sauce, scat, shit, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, trash, tripe, twaddle, twattle, wind, yak, yakkety-yak

• guffaw, Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• guidance, abetment, administration, admonition, advice, advisement, advising, advocacy, aegis, auspices, authority, backing, briefing, care, catechization, caution, caveat, championship, charge, charity, coaching, command, conduct, consultation, control, council, counsel, countenance, cure, custodianship, custody, didactics, direction, edification, education, encouragement, enlightenment, exhortation, expostulation, favor, fosterage, goodwill, governance, government, guardianship, handling, hands, hortation, husbandry, idea, illumination, information, instruction, interest, jurisdiction, keeping, lead, leadership, leading, management, managery, managing, manipulation, ministry, monition, opinion, ordering, oversight, parley, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, pedagogics, pedagogy, pilotage, private teaching, programmed instruction, proposal, protectorship, recommendation, reeducation, regulation, remonstrance, rule, running, safe hands, schooling, seconding, self-instruction, self-teaching, sponsorship, spoon-feeding, steerage, steering, stewardship, suggestion, sympathy, teaching, the conn, the helm, the wheel, thought, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, ward, wardenship, wardship, warning, watch and ward, wing

• guide, Baedeker, Dutch uncle, Gyropilot, Masan, Polonius, abecedarian, accompany, admonisher, advise, adviser, advisor, advocate, air hole, allegorist, ancestor, ancestral spirits, angel, annotator, announcer, antecedent, apparition, appearance, armhole, arrow, astral, astral spirit, attend, attendant godling, automatic pilot, avant-garde, backseat driver, banshee, be the bellwether, beacon, bell cow, bellwether, blaze, blaze the trail, blowhole, boatheader, boatsteerer, break the trail, brief, broaden the mind, buccinator, bullet-hole, bunghole, bushwhacker, buttinsky, call the shots, catechize, certified teacher, chaperon, chart a course, chute, cicerone, civilize, clarifier, coach, commentator, compass needle, compendium, cond, conduct, conductor, confer, confidant, conn, consult with, consultant, contrive, control, convoy, counsel, counselor, courier, cowherd, coxswain, cringle, criterion, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, daemon, deadeye, dean, decide, decoder, definer, demon, demonstrate, demonstrator, demythologizer, departed spirit, determine, diaskeuast, direct, direction, direction post, director, disembodied spirit, dispose, docent, doctor, dominie, don, doyen, dragoman, drive, drover, duppy, dybbuk, eaves trough, edify, editor, educate, educationist, educator, eidolon, emendator, emender, enchiridion, engineer, enlighten, escort, esquire, euhemerist, example, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, exemplar, expert, explainer, explicator, explorer, exponent, expositor, expounder, eye, eyelet, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, fellow, finger post, fist, forebear, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, form, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, gasket, genius, genius domus, genius loci, get ahead of, get before, ghost, give instruction, give lessons in, go before, go-between, goatherd, good angel, good genius, govern, grateful dead, grommet, ground, groundbreaker, guard, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guideboard, guidebook, guidepost, guider, guiding light, guru, gutter, hand, handbook, handle, hant, harbinger, haunt, have the conn, have the start, head, head the line, helm, helmsman, herald, herd, herdsman, hermeneut, hold the reins, hour hand, household gods, ideal, idolum, illumine, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, index, index finger, influence, inform, innovator, inspiration, instruct, instructor, interpreter, introduce, invisible helper, keyhole, kibitz, kibitzer, knothole, landmark, lap, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, larva, lead, lead runner, lead the dance, lead the way, leader, lemures, lexicographer, light, light the way, lodestar, loop, loophole, lubber line, maestro, manage, manes, maneuver, manhole, manual, marker, marshal, master, materialization, meddle, meddler, melamed, mentor, mercury, messenger, metaphrast, milepost, ministering angel, minute hand, model, monitor, mousehole, mullah, navigate, navigator, needle, nestor, numen, oneirocritic, oni, open the eyes, operate, order, orienter, outstrip, oversee, pace, pandit, paraphrast, pathfinder, pedagogist, pedagogue, peephole, penates, penstock, pentrough, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pigeonhole, pilot, pinhole, pioneer, placket, placket hole, point, pointer, poltergeist, porthole, precede, precedent, preceptist, preceptor, precursor, predecessor, prescribe, presence, professor, propose, punch-hole, pundit, rabbi, recommend, reeducate, regulate, revenant, river pilot, route, rule, run, scholiast, school, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, scout, see, set right, set the pace, shade, shadow, shape, shape a course, sharpen the wits, shepherd, shoot, show, show how, show the way, shrouded spirit, sign, signal, signboard, signpost, spearhead, special providence, specter, spectral ghost, spiracle, spirit, spook, sprite, squire, stand first, standard, starets, steer, steerer, steersman, stormy petrel, submit, suggest, superintend, supervise, sway, take out, take the helm, take the lead, tap, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, teacher, textual critic, theophany, totem, tour director, tour guide, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train, translator, trough, tutelar god, tutelary, tutor, unsubstantiality, usher, usher in, vade mecum, vanguard, vaunt-courier, vent, venthole, vision, voortrekker, wait on, walking dead man, wandering soul, wear the pants, wraith, zombie

• guidebook, Baedeker, Yellow Pages, account, acquaintance, announcement, bibliography, blue book, briefing, bulletin, business directory, catalog, checklist, city directory, classified directory, communication, communique, compendium, cookbook, cookery book, data, datum, directory, dispatch, enchiridion, enlightenment, evidence, facts, factual information, familiarization, field guide, finding list, gen, general information, gradus, guide, handbook, handlist, handout, hard information, how-to book, incidental information, index, info, information, instruction, intelligence, itinerary, knowledge, light, manual, mention, message, nature book, notice, notification, phone book, presentation, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, reference book, release, report, road map, roadbook, sidelight, statement, telephone book, telephone directory, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, travel book, vade mecum, white book, white paper, word

• guideline, Procrustean law, approach, arrangement, attack, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, canon, charting, code, commandment, conception, contrivance, convention, criterion, design, device, dictum, disposition, enterprise, envisagement, figuring, foresight, forethought, form, formality, formula, formulary, game, general principle, golden rule, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guiding principle, idea, imperative, intention, law, law of nature, layout, lineup, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, maxim, method, methodology, mitzvah, moral, norm, norma, operations research, order of nature, ordinance, organization, plan, planning, planning function, prearrangement, prescribed form, prescription, principium, principle, procedure, program, program of action, rationalization, regulation, rubric, rule, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, set form, settled principle, setup, standard, standing order, strategic plan, strategy, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, tenet, the big picture, the picture, universal law, way, working plan, working principle, working rule

• guidepost, arrow, blaze, compass needle, direction, direction post, finger post, fist, guide, guideboard, hand, hour hand, index, index finger, lead, lubber line, milepost, minute hand, needle, pointer, signboard, signpost

• guiding light, ambition, aspiration, basis, calling, cause, consideration, goal, ground, guiding star, ideal, inspiration, intention, lodestar, mainspring, matter, motive, principle, reason, sake, score, source, spring, ulterior motive, vocation

• guiding principle, big idea, canon, code, commandment, convention, course, creed, dictum, form, formula, fundamental idea, general principle, golden rule, guideline, guiding principles, idee-maitresse, imperative, law, leading idea, line, main idea, maxim, mitzvah, moral, norm, ordinance, plan of action, platform, policy, polity, position paper, principal idea, principium, principle, principles, procedure, regulation, rubric, rule, settled principle, standard, tenet, working principle, working rule

• guiding star, North Star, Polaris, ambition, aspiration, basis, calling, cause, consideration, cynosure, goal, ground, guiding light, ideal, inspiration, intention, lodestar, mainspring, matter, motive, polar star, polestar, principle, reason, sake, score, source, spring, ulterior motive, vocation

• guile, Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity, falseheartedness, falseness, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, furtiveness, gamesmanship, hypocrisy, indirection, ingeniousness, insidiousness, inventiveness, one-upmanship, readiness, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, surreptitiousness, treacherousness, trickiness, underhandedness, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit

• guileful, Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, diplomatic, duplicitous, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, vulpine, wary, wily

• guilefully, artfully, astutely, cagily, cannily, cleverly, cunningly, deceitfully, foxily, fraudulently, furtively, indirectly, insidiously, knowingly, on the sly, shiftily, shrewdly, slick, slyly, smoothly, subtilely, subtlely, surreptitiously, treacherously, trickily, underhandedly, warily, wilily

• guileless, artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike, confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, frank, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, trustful, trusting, trusty, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbeguileful, unbeguiling, uncalculating, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulated, undissimulating, unfeigned, unfeigning, unflattering, unguarded, unpretended, unpretending, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untrimmed, untutored, unvarnished, unwary, without suspicion

• guillotine, ax, behead, beheading, block, bowstring, burn, burning, capital punishment, cloture, cloture by compartment, cross, crucifixion, crucify, death chair, death chamber, decapitate, decapitation, decollate, decollation, defenestrate, defenestration, drop, electric chair, electrocute, electrocution, execute, execution, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, halter, hanging, head, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, inflict capital punishment, judicial murder, kangaroo cloture, lapidate, lapidation, lethal chamber, maiden, necktie party, noose, poisoning, put to death, rope, scaffold, shoot, shooting, stake, stem, stone, stoning, strangle, strangling, strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, tree

• guilt, blame, blameworthiness, contriteness, contrition, crime, criminality, culpability, fault, feloniousness, guiltiness, misconduct, offense, onus, regret, remorse, repentance, responsibility, self-condemnation, self-reproach, shame, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, wrongdoing

• guiltless, angelic, blameless, chaste, childlike, clean, clear, dovelike, exemplary, faultless, immaculate, in the clear, incorrupt, inculpable, innocent, irreproachable, lamblike, not guilty, offenseless, prelapsarian, pristine, pure, reproachless, righteous, sans reproche, sinless, unblamable, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfallen, unlapsed, untouched by evil, virtuous, with clean hands, without reproach

• guilty, accountable, amiss, answerable, apologetic, arraignable, ashamed, at fault, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, conscience-stricken, contrite, criminal, culpable, delinquent, embarrassed, faulty, impeachable, impeached, implicated, incriminated, inculpated, indictable, indicted, involved, offending, peccant, penitent, red-faced, regretful, remorseful, repentant, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, responsible, rueful, sheepish, sinful, sorrowful, sorry, to blame, unholy, wrong

• guinea pig, Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, hedgehog, laboratory animal, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, patient, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, subject, testee, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

• guinea, bawbee, coin, crown, dollar, double eagle, doubloon, ducat, eagle, farthing, five-dollar gold piece, fiver, florin, fourpence, fourpenny, gold piece, groat, half crown, half dollar, half eagle, halfpenny, hard money, mag, meg, mite, moidore, monkey, napoleon, new pence, np, p, pence, penny, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, pony, pound, pound sovereign, quid, roll of coins, rouleau, shilling, sixpence, sovereign, specie, ten-dollar gold piece, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tuppence, twenty-dollar gold piece, twopence

• guise, MO, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, algorithm, alibi, angle, apology, apparel, appearance, approach, array, aspect, attack, attire, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, blanket, blind, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, cloak, clothes, clothing, coat, color, coloring, complexion, comportment, conduct, configuration, costume, countenance, course, cover, cover story, cover-up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, culture pattern, curtain, custom, demeanor, deportment, device, disguise, doing, doings, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, effect, eidolon, excuse, facade, face, facet, facial appearance, false front, fashion, fatigues, favor, feathers, feature, features, feint, fig, figure, folkway, form, front, garb, garments, gear, gestalt, gestures, getup, gloss, goings-on, habiliment, habit, handle, hanging, hood, housing, image, imago, impression, investiture, investment, lame excuse, light, likeness, line, line of action, lineaments, linen, lines, locus standi, look, looks, maintien, manner, manner of working, manners, mantle, mask, means, method, methodology, methods, mien, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, order, ostensible motive, outfit, pall, pattern, phase, phasis, physiognomy, poise, poor excuse, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, pretense, pretension, pretext, procedure, proceeding, process, protestation, public motive, put-off, rags, raiment, reference, refuge, regard, respect, rig, robes, routine, screen, seeming, semblance, setout, sham, shape, shelter, shield, show, showing, shroud, side, simulacrum, slant, smoke screen, social science, sportswear, stalking-horse, stance, stratagem, style, subterfuge, system, tack, tactics, technique, tenor, the drill, the how, the way of, threads, togs, toilette, tone, total effect, traits, trick, trim, turn, turnout, twist, varnish, veil, vestment, vesture, view, viewpoint, visage, way, way of life, ways, wear, wearing apparel, wise

• guitar, Dobro guitar, F-hole guitar, Spanish guitar, archlute, balalaika, banjo, banjo-uke, banjo-ukulele, banjo-zither, banjorine, banjuke, bass guitar, centerhole guitar, concert guitar, electric guitar, lute, mando-bass, mando-cello, mandola, mandolin, mandolute, mandore, oud, pandora, pandura, samisen, sitar, steel guitar, tamboura, theorbo, troubadour fiddle, uke, ukulele

• gulch, abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, box canyon, breach, break, canal, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, culvert, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulf, gully, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, race, ravine, rent, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, split, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, valley, void, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks

• gulf, Charybdis, Maelstrom, abysm, abyss, aperture, arm, armlet, arroyo, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, box canyon, breach, break, broaching, canyon, cave, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, cove, crack, cranny, crater, creek, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw, eddy, estuary, euripus, excavation, fault, fenestra, fiord, firth, fissure, fistula, fjord, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, frith, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gully, gurge, gut, harbor, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, inlet, interval, joint, kloof, kyle, lacuna, laying open, leak, loch, lough, maelstrom, mine, moat, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pit, pore, quarry, ravine, reach, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, rent, rift, rime, road, roads, roadstead, rupture, scissure, seam, separation, shaft, slit, slot, slough, sound, space, split, stoma, strait, straits, swirl, throwing open, trench, twirl, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, vortex, wadi, well, whirl, whirlpool, workings, yawn, yawning abyss

• gull, babe, bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bluff, boob, bunco, burn, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chicane, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, chump, cinch, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, conjure, cozen, credulous person, crib, cull, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do in, do out of, double-cross, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, euchre, fall guy, finagle, fish, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, forestall, fudge, gammon, get around, gobe-mouches, gouge, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gyp, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, infatuate, innocent, juggle, leadpipe cinch, let down, mock, monkey, mulct, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack the deal, patsy, pigeon, play one false, plaything, practice fraud upon, prize sap, pushover, put on, put something over, rook, sap, saphead, scam, schlemiel, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, sitting duck, snow, stack the cards, stick, sting, stooge, string along, stultify, sucker, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trick, trusting soul, two-time, victim, victimize

• gullet, abdomen, abomasum, bay window, beerbelly, belly, breadbasket, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, esophagus, fauces, first stomach, gizzard, goozle, gorge, gut, guzzle, hals, honeycomb stomach, kishkes, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum, paunch, pharynx, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, throat, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, weasand, wizen

• gullible, artless, befoolable, born yesterday, credulous, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dupable, easy, exploitable, foolable, green, hoaxable, hoodwinkable, humbugable, immature, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, naive, persuadable, seduceable, simple, soft, susceptible, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, victimizable, wide-eyed

• gully, abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, box canyon, breach, break, canal, canalize, canyon, carve, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, corridor, corrugate, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, crimp, culvert, cut, cwm, dado, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, engrave, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, goffer, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incise, incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pleat, plow, rabbet, race, ravine, rent, rifle, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, rut, scissure, score, scratch, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, split, streak, stream bed, streamway, striate, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, trough, valley, void, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wrinkle

• gulp, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, batten, beverage, blow, bolt, bolt down, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, bumper, chug-a-lug, cough, cram, devour, draft, dram, draught, drench, drink, drinking, eat, eating, engorge, engorgement, engulf, engulfment, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, gasp, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp down, gulping, guttle, guzzle, hack, hiccup, huff, imbibe, imbibition, ingest, ingestion, ingurgitate, ingurgitation, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, knock back, lap, libation, live to eat, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mouthful, nip, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, peg, portion, potation, puff, pull, quaff, raven, respiration, respire, scuba, sigh, sip, slop, slosh, slurp, smother, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, sternutation, stertor, stifle, strangle, stuff, suck, sup, suppress, suspiration, swallow, swallowing, swig, swill, swill down, throw down, toss off, tot, wheeze, wind, wolf, wolf down

• gum up, ball up, bitch, bitch up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead into it, bugger, bugger up, bungle, cook, crab, cramp, crimp, drop a brick, flub, foul up, goof, goof up, gum, hash up, louse up, mess up, muck up, mucker, play hell with, play hob with, queer, screw up, sink, snafu, snarl up

• gum, Lastex, acaroid resins, agglutinate, alveolar ridge, amber, baleen, battledore, bind, bite, bollix, braze, bridgework, bubble gum, cement, champ, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chewing gum, chicle, chicle gum, chomp, colophony, coumarone resins, crab, cramp, crimp, dental bridge, dentition, denture, elastic, elastomer, false teeth, fossil resins, foul up, fuse, glue, gnash, gnaw, grind, gum elastic, gum rosin, gum up, gums, handball, ivories, jumping jack, lac resins, louse up, masticate, mouth, mumble, munch, nibble, paste, periodontal tissue, pine resins, plastic, plate, queer, racket, resin, resina, resinate, resinoid, rosin, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band, ruminate, set of teeth, snafu, solder, spandex, spring, springboard, stick together, stretch fabric, synthetic resin, teeth, trampoline, uppers and lowers, vegetable resins, weld, whalebone

• gumbo, adhesive, adobe, albumen, amylaceous, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, burgoo, butter, chicken soup, chowder, clabber, clabbered, clam chowder, clammy, clay, clayey, clayish, clear soup, clotted, coagulated, consomme, cornstarch, cream, curd, curdled, dough, doughy, earthy, egg drop soup, egg white, fish soup, gaum, gaumy, gazpacho, gel, gelatin, gelatinous, glair, glairy, glop, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, goo, gooey, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel, grumous, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, inspissated, jam, jell, jelled, jellied, jelly, jellylike, julienne, loamy, loblolly, marly, matzo ball soup, minestrone, mire, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucilaginous, muck, mucus, mud, mulligatawny, ooze, oxtail soup, pap, paste, pasty, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, ropy, semifluid, semiliquid, size, slabby, slime, slimy, slip, slithery, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, soily, soup, squash, starch, starchy, sticky, sticky mess, stock, stodgy, stringy, swill, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick soup, thickened, thin soup, tomato soup, tough, treacle, tremelloid, tremellose, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, viscid, viscose, viscous, won ton soup

• gummed up, ass-backwards, balled up, bitched, bitched up, bollixed up, buggered, buggered up, cooked, fouled up, hashed up, loused up, messed up, mucked up, queered, screwed up, shot, snafued, snarled up, sunk

• gummy, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, clabbered, clammy, clingy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, mucilaginous, obstinate, pasty, persistent, pitchy, resinic, resinoid, resinous, resiny, ropy, self-adhesive, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, stickable, sticky, stodgy, stringy, stubborn, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous

• gumption, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, astuteness, audacity, backbone, balls, boldness, bottle, brains, cleverness, common sense, courage, daring, drive, dynamism, energy, enterprise, enterprisingness, force, forcefulness, gameness, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, good sense, grit, guts, horse sense, hustle, initiative, judgement, judgment, mettle, mother wit, moxie, nerve, nous, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, pluck, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, shrewdness, spirit, spunk, stamina, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, vigor, wisdom

• gumshoe, Dogberry, John Law, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, beagle, bluecoat, bobby, bull, cop, copper, couch, crawl, creep, dick, eye, flatfoot, flattie, fuzz, gendarme, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe man, hawkshaw, heat, inch, inch along, investigator, lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, nightwalk, officer, pad, peeler, pig, plainclothesman, police officer, private eye, prowl, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, shadow, shamus, shirk, sidle, skip tracer, skulk, sleuth, sleuthhound, slink, slip, snake, sneak, spotter, stalk, steal, steal along, tec, the cops, the fuzz, the law, tippytoe, tiptoe, worm, worm along

• gun down, blast, blot out, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, bump off, burn to death, croak, cut down, cut to pieces, deal a deathblow, disintegrate, do in, drop, erase, fell, fix, frag, get, give the business, give the quietus, hit, ice, incinerate, jugulate, lapidate, lay low, lay out, off, pistol, poleax, polish off, riddle, rub out, settle, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, stab to death, stone, stone to death, strike dead, take care of, vaporize, waste, wipe out, zap

• gun for, angle for, ask for, beat about for, charge, cock, delve for, detonate, dig for, discharge, drop, eject, fell, fire, fire off, fish for, follow, go gunning for, gun, hit, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, let fly, let off, load, look, look for, look up, pelt, pepper, pick off, pistol, plug, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, prowl after, pursue, quest, riddle, search for, see to, seek, seek for, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, snipe, still-hunt, strike, take a potshot, torpedo, try to find

• gun, AA gun, Armstrong, BAR, BB gun, Benet-Mercie, Beretta, Big Bertha, Bren, Bren gun, Browning, Cain, Colt, Garand, Garand rifle, Garling, Gatling, Gatling gun, Hotchkiss, Krupp, Lancaster, Lee-Enfield, Lee-Metford, Lewis, Lewis gun, Long Tom, Luger, Mannlicher, Marlin, Martini-Henry, Mauser, Maxim, Minie, Mossberg, Nimrod, Oerlikon, Paixhans, Parrott, Remington, Savage, Smith and Wesson, Snider, Spandau, Springfield, Stevens, Thompson submachine gun, Vickers, Vickers-Maxim, Webley-Scott, Winchester, Y-gun, adventurer, air gun, antiaircraft gun, antitank gun, antitank rifle, apache, archer, arquebus, arrest, artillerist, artilleryman, assassin, assassinator, atom gun, atomic cannon, atomic gun, automatic, automatic pistol, barrel, bazooka, beat, bell, bloodletter, bloodshedder, blowgun, blowpipe, blunderbuss, bolt, bolt-action rifle, bomb thrower, bombard, bombardier, bomber, bowman, bowshot, bravo, breech, breechloader, brown Bess, bruiser, bulldog, bullet, burker, burp gun, butcher, butt, button man, caliver, cane gun, cannibal, cannon, cannoneer, carabineer, carbine, carronade, chamber, charge, chase, chassepot, check, checkmate, cock, condottiere, course, crack shot, culverin, cutoff, cutthroat, cylinder, dart gun, dead shot, dead stop, deadeye, deadlock, desperado, detonate, detonation, discharge, dog, drive, drop, eject, ejection, end, endgame, ending, eradicator, escopeta, executioner, exterminator, falcon, falconet, fell, field gun, fieldpiece, final whistle, fire, fire off, firearm, firelock, flamethrower, flintlock, flush, follow the hounds, forty-five, forty-four, fowl, fowling piece, free lance, full stop, fusil, fusillade, garroter, gat, go hunting, good shot, goon, gorilla, grinding halt, gun carriage, gun for, gunfire, gunman, gunner, gunsel, gunshot, gunslinger, hackbut, halt, hammer, handgun, harpoon gun, harquebus, hatchet man, hawk, head-hunter, heater, hedgehog, hellion, hired gun, hired killer, hireling, hit, hit man, holy terror, homicidal maniac, homicide, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, horse pistol, hound, howitzer, hunt, hunt down, hunter, jack, jacklight, killer, let fly, let off, load, lock, lockout, machine gun, machine gunner, machine pistol, magazine, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, marksman, markswoman, massacrer, matador, matchlock, mercenary, mortar, mountain gun, mug, mugger, murderer, muscle man, musket, musketeer, musketoon, muzzle, muzzle-loader, needle gun, peashooter, pedrero, pelt, pepper, pesticide, petronel, pick off, piece, pistol, plug, plug-ugly, poison, poisoner, pom-pom, popgun, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, professional killer, prowl after, receiver, repeater, revolver, riddle, ride to hounds, rifle, rifleman, rod, rodman, roughneck, run, salvo, sawed-off shotgun, sear, semiautomatic, sharpshooter, shikar, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shooter, shooting iron, shot, shotgun, sight, sit-down strike, six-gun, six-shooter, skysweeper, slaughterer, slayer, snipe, sniper, soldier of fortune, sport, spray, stalemate, stalk, stand, standoff, standstill, start, stay, still-hunt, stock, stoneshot, stop, stoppage, strangler, strike, strong-arm man, submachine gun, swivel, take a potshot, targetshooter, tattoo, terror, thirty-thirty, thirty-two, thug, torpedo, tough, toxophilite, track, trail, trapshooter, trigger, trigger man, ugly customer, volley, walkout, wind-gun, work stoppage, zip gun

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

• gunfire, antiaircraft fire, bowshot, bullet, cannon, cross fire, curtain fire, detonation, direct fire, discharge, dry fire, ejection, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, fusillade, ground fire, gun, gunfight, gunplay, gunshot, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, percussion fire, pistol fire, potshot, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, salvo, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, shot, spray, stoneshot, tattoo, time fire, vertical fire, volley, zone fire

• gung ho, buggy, bugle call, bugs, call to arms, call-up, catchword, clarion, clarion call, conscription, enthused, enthusiastic, enthusiastic about, exhortation, full of enthusiasm, glowing, go for broke, gung-ho, infatuated with, keen, keen on, levy, mobilization, muster, nutty, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruitment, slogan, trumpet call, war cry, war whoop, warm, watchword, zealous

• gunk, adherent, adhesive, albumen, barnacle, batter, bonnyclabber, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, cab, cement, clabber, cornstarch, cream, curd, decal, decalcomania, dough, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, jam, jell, jelly, leech, limpet, loblolly, mire, molasses, mucilage, muck, mucus, ooze, pap, paste, plaster, porridge, prickle, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, remora, rob, scum, semifluid, semiliquid, size, slab, slime, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, soup, splosh, starch, sticker, sticky mess, syrup, thorn, treacle

• gunman, Cain, Nimrod, adventurer, apache, archer, artilleryman, assassin, assassinator, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bowman, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cannoneer, carabineer, condottiere, crack shot, cutthroat, dead shot, deadeye, desperado, devil, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, free lance, garroter, good shot, gorilla, gun, gunner, gunsel, gunslinger, hatchet man, head-hunter, hell-raiser, hellcat, hired gun, hired killer, hireling, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, hunter, killer, mad dog, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, marksman, markswoman, massacrer, matador, mercenary, murderer, musketeer, pesticide, poison, poisoner, professional killer, rifleman, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sharpshooter, shooter, shot, slaughterer, slayer, sniper, soldier of fortune, strangler, targetshooter, thug, torpedo, toxophilite, trapshooter, trigger man

• gunner, Nimrod, aerial photographer, aircrew, aircrewman, archer, artillerist, artilleryman, avigator, bakehead, belly gunner, black gang, boilerman, bomb thrower, bombardier, bomber, bowman, bungs, cabin boy, cannoneer, carabineer, chips, commissary steward, complement, crack shot, crew, crew chief, dead shot, deadeye, deckhand, deckie, fireman, flight attendant, flight crew, good shot, gun, gun loader, gunman, hand, hospital steward, hostess, hunter, landing signalman, machine gunner, mail orderly, marksman, markswoman, meteorologist, musketeer, navigator, oiler, purser, radio operator, rifleman, roustabout, sharpshooter, shooter, shot, snip, sniper, snips, sparks, steward, stewardess, stoker, targetshooter, torpedoman, toxophilite, trapshooter, watch, yeoman

• gunnery, archery, artillery, ballistics, casting, chucking, firing, flinging, heaving, hurling, jaculation, lobbing, missilery, musketry, pitching, projection, rocketry, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, throwing, trajection, trapshooting

• gunsel, Cain, Mafioso, Young Turk, apache, assassin, assassinator, auntie, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bi-guy, bisexual, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bomber, bravo, bruiser, brute, bull dyke, burker, butch, butcher, button man, cannibal, catamite, chicken, cutthroat, demon, desperado, devil, dragon, dyke, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, flit, fricatrice, fruit, fury, garroter, goon, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunslinger, hardnose, hatchet man, head-hunter, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hit man, holy terror, homicidal maniac, homicide, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, invert, killer, lesbian, mad dog, madcap, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, monster, mug, mugger, murderer, muscle man, nance, pansy, pathic, pesticide, plug-ugly, poison, poisoner, punk, queen, queer, rapist, revolutionary, rodman, roughneck, sapphist, savage, she-wolf, slaughterer, slayer, spitfire, strangler, strong-arm man, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress, torpedo, tough, tough guy, tribade, trigger man, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

• gunshot, ace, bang, bark, bit, blast, bowshot, brief span, bullet, burst, cannon, close quarters, close range, crack, detonation, discharge, earreach, earshot, ejection, explosion, fulmination, fusillade, gun, gunfire, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, inch, little, little ways, pistol shot, pop, potshot, salvo, short distance, short piece, short way, shot, span, spitting distance, spray, step, stoneshot, tattoo, volley

• gurge, Charybdis, Maelstrom, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, centrifugate, centrifuge, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, dizzy round, eddy, gulf, gyre, maelstrom, pirouette, purl, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, round, spin, surge, swirl, turn, twirl, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl

• gurgle, babble, babbling, blubber, boil, boil over, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubbling, burble, burbling, condense, distill, dribble, drip, dripple, drop, effervesce, ferment, filter, fizz, fizzle, guggle, gurgling, hiss, lap, leach, lixiviate, murmur, murmuring, percolate, plash, plashing, plop, purl, ripple, seep, seethe, simmer, slosh, sparkle, splash, splashing, spurtle, swash, sweat, swish, trickle, trill, wash, weep, work

• guru, Brahman, Ramwat, abecedarian, angel, authority, bairagi, bashara, bhikhari, bhikshu, boss, bwana, certified teacher, chef, chief, church dignitary, docent, doctor, dominie, don, ecclesiarch, educationist, educator, elder, elder statesman, employer, fellow, goodman, great soul, guide, holy man, husband, illuminate, instructor, intellect, intellectual, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, lover of wisdom, maestro, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, melamed, mentor, mullah, oracle, overlord, padrone, pandit, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, pedagogist, pedagogue, philosopher, preceptor, professor, pujari, pundit, purohit, rabbi, rishi, sage, sahib, saint, sannyasi, sapient, savant, scholar, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, seer, seigneur, seignior, starets, teacher, thinker, vairagi, wise man, wise old man, yogi, yogin

• gush, abound, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, anabasis, appreciation, ascension, ascent, augmentation, avalanche, babble, ballooning, be enthusiastic, be theatrical, belch, big mouth, blab, blabber, blather, blether, bloating, blow out, bob up, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness, bountiousness, break water, bristle with, broadening, bubble over, buildup, bumper crop, burst, candor, carry on over, cascade, chat, chatter, clack, clamber, clatter, climb, climbing, cloud of words, communicativeness, concourse, confluence, conflux, conversableness, copiousness, course, crawl with, creep with, crescendo, crosscurrent, current, debouchment, defluxion, development, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, discharge, dissiliency, dither, downflow, downpour, drain, drain out, drainage, drift, driftage, ebb, edema, effervesce, effluence, efflux, effluxion, effusion, effusiveness, elevation, emanate, emote, emotionalize, empty, enlargement, enthuse, eructation, eruption, escalade, exhalation, exhaust, expansion, extension, extravagance, exuberance, exuberate, fecundity, fertility, find vent, flare-up, flattering tongue, float up, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow of words, flow out, flowing, flowing tongue, flowoff, fluency, fluent tongue, flush, flux, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, fly up, foison, font, formlessness, fount, fountain, frankness, full measure, fullness, gab, gabble, gain, garrulity, garrulousness, gas, gassiness, generosity, generousness, geyser, gibber, gibble-gabble, gift of gab, glibness, go on, go on over, gossip, great abundance, great plenty, greatening, gregariousness, growth, gush out, gush over, gushiness, gushing, gyring up, ham it up, haver, hike, increase, increment, inflation, inflow, insincerity, issue, jabber, jaw, jet, jump, jump up, landslide, lavishness, leap, leap up, levitation, liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, lots, luxuriance, macrology, make, make a scene, make much of, maximum, mill run, millrace, more than enough, mount, mounting, much, multiplication, myriad, myriads, natter, numerousness, oiliness, onrush, onward course, openness, opulence, opulency, outbreak, outburst, outfall, outflow, outflowing, outpour, outpouring, overflow, palilogy, patter, play, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, pop up, pour, pour forth, pour out, prate, prattle, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, proliferate, proliferation, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, quantities, race, rain, raise, ramble on, rampancy, rankness, rapids, rattle, rattle on, rave, rave about, redundancy, reel off, regurgitate, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rhapsodize, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rise, rising, rocket, rocketing up, roll, run, run on, run out, run over, runoff, rush, saltation, scads, sentimentalize, set, shoot up, shooting up, shower, skyrocket, slobber, slobber over, slop over, sluice, sluice out, slush, smarm, snowballing, soaring, sociability, spate, spate of words, spew, spew out, spit, spout, spout off, spout out, spouter, spray, spread, spring, spring up, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, start up, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, surface, surge, surge back, swarm with, swelling, take on over, takeoff, taking off, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkativeness, tautology, teem, teem with, teemingness, that flattering unction, theatricalize, tide, tirade, tittle-tattle, torrent, trend, tumescence, twaddle, twattle, unction, unctuousness, undercurrent, undertow, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspear, upspring, upstart, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vault, vault up, verbosity, volcan, volubility, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, waffle, water flow, waxing, wealth, well, well out, widening, windiness, yak, yakkety-yak, zooming

• gushing, abundance, abundant, adulatory, affluent, amplitude, bathetic, beery, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, cloud of words, cloying, complimentary, confluent, copious, copiousness, coursing, courtierly, courtly, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, diffuse, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusive, diffusiveness, effusion, effusive, effusiveness, extravagance, extravagant, exuberance, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning, fecund, fecundity, fertility, fine-spoken, flattering, flowing, fluency, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, formless, formlessness, fulsome, gooey, gulfy, gush, gushy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, logorrhea, macrology, maudlin, mawkish, mazy, mealymouthed, meandering, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, outpour, overflow, overflowing, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, palilogy, pleonasm, pleonastic, pouring, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productivity, profluent, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, prolific, prolificacy, prolificity, racing, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, redundant, reiteration, reiterative, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitive, repetitiveness, romantic, running, rushing, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, serpentine, slimy, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, sluggish, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft, soft-soaping, sticky, streaming, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity, superflux, surging, surgy, sycophantic, talkativeness, tautologous, tautology, tear-jerking, teary, teeming, teemingness, tidal, tirade, unctuous, vortical, wheedling

• gussy up, adorn, array, beautify, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fancy up, fig out, fix up, furbish, garnish, get up, glamorize, grace, ornament, overdress, paint, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slick, slick up, smarten, smarten up, spiff, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim

• gust, access, affection, aftertaste, alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, aroma, attribute, avidity, avidness, badge, bitter, blast, blaze, blow, brand, breathless impatience, breeze, burst, cachet, cast, character, characteristic, cheerful readiness, configuration, convulsion, crush, cut, cyclone, differentia, differential, distinctive feature, eagerness, earmark, elan, eruption, explosion, feature, figure, fit, flare-up, flavor, flaw, flurry, fondness, forwardness, gale, gusto, hallmark, hurricane, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, impatience, impress, impression, increase, index, individualism, infatuation, irruption, keen desire, keenness, keynote, life, likes, liking, lineaments, liveliness, love, mannerism, mark, marking, mold, nature, odor, outbreak, outburst, palate, paroxysm, particularity, passion, peculiarity, promptness, property, puff, quality, quickness, quirk, readiness, relish, sally, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, scud, seal, seizure, shape, singularity, smack, sour, spasm, specialty, spirit, stamp, stomach, storm, surge, sweet, taint, tang, taste, tempest, token, tongue, tooth, tornado, trait, trick, upheaval, verve, vitality, vivacity, weakness, whirlwind, wind, wind gust, zest, zestfulness

• gusto, activity, affection, alacrity, amusement, animal pleasure, animal spirits, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, appreciation, ardency, ardor, avidity, avidness, bodily pleasure, breathless impatience, brio, briskness, capersomeness, carnal delight, cheerful readiness, coltishness, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, crush, delectation, delight, eagerness, ease, ecstasy, elan, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, enthusiasm, esprit, euphoria, excitement, exuberance, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, fondness, forepleasure, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, fruition, fun, furor, fury, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, glow, gratification, great satisfaction, gust, heart, heartiness, hearty enjoyment, heat, impassionedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, infatuation, intellectual pleasure, joie de vivre, keen desire, keen pleasure, keenness, kicks, life, likes, liking, liveliness, love, lustiness, luxury, mettle, palate, passion, passionateness, perkiness, pertness, physical pleasure, piss and vinegar, playfulness, pleasure, promptness, quickness, quiet pleasure, readiness, relish, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, satisfaction, savor, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, skittishness, soul, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, sweetness of life, taste, titillation, upclimb, vehemence, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, voluptuousness, warmth, warmth of feeling, weakness, well-being, zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness, zip

• gusty, aeolian, agreeable, airish, airy, ambrosial, appetizing, blasty, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, breezy, brisk, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, drafty, exquisite, favonian, flavorsome, flawy, fresh, good, good to eat, good-tasting, gustable, juicy, likable, luscious, lush, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, of gourmet quality, palatable, pleasing, puffy, relishing, sapid, savorous, savory, scrumptious, squally, succulent, tasty, toothsome, toothy, windy, yummy

• gut reaction, affect, affection, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, experience, feeling, feeling tone, foreboding, heartthrob, impression, passion, presentiment, profound sense, reaction, response, sensation, sense, sentiment, undercurrent

• gut, ab ovo, abdomen, abomasum, affectional, affective, arm, armlet, audacity, automatic, backbone, balls, basal, basic, bay, bay window, bayou, beerbelly, belly, belt, bight, boca, boldness, bottle, bowel, bowels, bravery, breadbasket, bring to ruin, casual, clean, clean out, condemn, confound, constituent, constitutive, consume, corporation, courage, cove, craw, creek, crop, damn, daring, dauntlessness, deal destruction, decimate, deep-seated, demonstrative, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, determination, devastate, devour, diaphragm, disembowel, dissolve, draw, dress, dynamism, elemental, elementary, embonpoint, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, empty, endurance, engorge, entrails, essential, estuary, euripus, eviscerate, feeling, first stomach, fjord, fleece, forage, foray, forcefulness, freeboot, frith, fundamental, gizzard, glandular, gobble, gobble up, grit, gulf, gullet, gumption, gut with fire, guts, gutsiness, harbor, havoc, heart, heartfelt, honeycomb stomach, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, inadvertent, incinerate, indeliberate, inlet, innards, insides, instinctive, instinctual, integrity, interior, internal, internals, intestinal fortitude, intestines, intimate, intuitive, involuntary, inwards, kishkes, kyle, lay in ruins, lay waste, loch, loot, manyplies, maraud, material, maw, mettle, midriff, mouth, moxie, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nerve, of soul, of the essence, offal, omasum, original, overdemonstrative, paunch, pillage, pluck, plunder, pot, potbelly, potgut, prey on, primal, primary, primitive, psalterium, pusgut, radical, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reach, reflex, reflexive, reive, rennet bag, resolution, reticulum, rifle, road, roads, roadstead, ruin, ruinate, rumen, sack, sand, second stomach, shipwreck, snap, soulful, sound, spare tire, spirit, spoil, spoliate, spontaneous, spunk, stamina, stomach, strait, straits, strip, stuffing, substantial, substantive, swagbelly, swallow up, sweep, third stomach, throw into disorder, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, underbelly, underlying, undesigned, unintended, unintentional, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unstudied, unwilled, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, venter, ventripotence, viscera, visceral, vitals, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• gutless, anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, coward, cowardly, craven, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gone, gritless, heartless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, lily-livered, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, pluckless, poltroonish, pooped, powerless, pusillanimous, rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, strengthless, uncourageous, undaring, ungallant, unhardened, unheroic, unintrepid, unmanly, unnerved, unsoldierlike, unsoldierly, unstrung, unvaliant, unvalorous, weak, weakly

• guts, abdomen, anus, appendix, backbone, being, bite, bitingness, blind gut, bones, bosom, bottom, bowels, brain, breast, briskness, cecum, census, chutzpah, colon, composition, constituents, content, contents, courage, cuttingness, decisiveness, divisions, drive, duodenum, effectiveness, elements, endocardium, endurance, energy, entrails, esprit, force, forcefulness, foregut, fortitude, gameness, giblets, ginger, gizzard, grit, gutsiness, guttiness, hardiness, heart, heart of hearts, heart of oak, heartiness, heartstrings, hindgut, hotness, impressiveness, incisiveness, index, ingredients, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner mechanism, innermost being, insides, internals, intestinal fortitude, intestine, inventory, inwards, items, jejunum, kick, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, list, liveliness, liver, liver and lights, lung, lustihood, lustiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, midgut, might, mightiness, mordancy, moxie, nerve, nervosity, nervousness, nip, nippiness, obstinacy, part, parts, pepperiness, perineum, pith, pluck, pluckiness, poignancy, potency, power, powerfulness, pump, punch, pylorus, raciness, rectum, relish, robustness, ruggedness, secret places, sinew, sinewiness, small intestine, snap, snappiness, soul, spice, spiciness, spirit, spleen, spunk, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, sticking power, stomach, stout heart, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strong language, sturdiness, tang, tanginess, ticker, toughness, trenchancy, tripes, true grit, vermiform appendix, vigor, vigorousness, viscera, vitality, vitals, whole, works, zest, zestfulness, zip

• gutsy, acid, beefy, biting, bold, bouncing, bulldoggish, corrosive, courageous, cutting, dauntless, doughty, driving, effective, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, game, gamy, gritty, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, imperative, impressive, incisive, intrepid, iron-hard, lusty, manful, manly, mettlesome, mighty, mordant, nervous, nervy, obstinate, penetrating, pertinacious, piercing, plucky, poignant, potent, powerful, puissant, punchy, red-blooded, resolute, robust, robustious, rugged, sensational, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, striking, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, telling, tenacious, tough, trenchant, unfearful, valiant, vigorous, vital

• gutter, aqueduct, beat, beneath one, bicker, broad, canal, canalization, channel, cheap, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, coarse, crimp, cut, dance, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, dike, disgraceful, ditch, drain, earthy, eaves trough, entrenchment, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flutter, fosse, frank, go pitapat, goffer, gross, guide, ha-ha, headchute, humiliating, humiliative, infra dig, infra indignitatem, kennel, low, moat, opprobrious, outrageous, palpitate, penstock, pentrough, piscina, pitiful, pitter-patter, pleat, pulse, rank, raw, sad, scandalous, scupper, sewer, shameful, shocking, shoot, sink, slat, sluice, sorry, sough, splutter, sputter, sump, sunk fence, throb, too bad, trench, trough, unbecoming, uncouth, unworthy of one, vulgar, wave, waver

• guttersnipe, Arab, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, boor, bounder, bourgeois, brat, bum, bummer, cad, churl, clown, dogie, epicier, gamin, gamine, groundling, hobo, homeless waif, hooligan, idler, ill-bred fellow, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, looby, losel, lout, low fellow, mucker, mudlark, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, piker, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ribald, rogue, rough, roughneck, rounder, rowdy, ruffian, ski bum, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, upstart, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vulgarian, vulgarist, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, yokel

• guttural, accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, choked, choking, close, coarse, consonant, consonantal, continuant, cracked, croaking, croaky, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, gruff, hard, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, heavy, high, hoarse, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, lisping, low, manner of articulation, metallic, mid, mispronounced, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, muzzy, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, quavering, ragged, raucid, raucous, retroflex, rough, rounded, roupy, rude, segmental phoneme, semivowel, shaking, shaky, snuffling, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stifled, stop, stopped, strangled, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tinny, tonal, tonic, transition sound, tremulous, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• guy, Adamite, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bastard, bearer, being, bird, bloke, body, boy, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buck, bugger, buttress, cane, caricature, carrier, cat, cervix, chap, character, corset, creature, crook, crutch, customer, duck, dude, earthling, feller, fellow, foundation garment, fulcrum, gazebo, gee, geezer, gent, gentleman, girdle, groundling, guywire, hand, he, head, homo, human, human being, individual, jasper, jock, jockstrap, joker, lad, lampoon, life, living soul, mainstay, maintainer, make fun of, man, mast, mock, mortal, neck, nose, one, party, person, personage, personality, poke fun at, prop, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rib, ridicule, rigging, satirize, send up, shoulder, shroud, single, somebody, someone, soul, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, stud, support, supporter, sustainer, take off, tellurian, terran, upholder, walking stick, worldling, youth

• guywire, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, corset, crook, crutch, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, prop, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder, walking stick

• guzzle, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, batten, bender, beverage, bib, binge, bolt, bolt down, booze, bout, bumper, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, cram, debauch, devour, draft, drain the cup, dram, drench, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, drinking bout, drop, drunk, drunken carousal, engorge, esophagus, fauces, follow strong drink, gargle, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goozle, gorge, gormandize, grog, gullet, gulp, gulp down, guttle, hals, imbibe, ingurgitate, jag, jigger, jolt, knock back, lap, lap up, libation, liquor up, live to eat, nip, orgy, peg, pharynx, pledge, portion, potation, potion, pub-crawl, pull, quaff, raven, round, round of drinks, shot, sip, slop, slosh, slurp, snifter, snort, soak, spot, spree, stuff, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swig, swill, symposium, tank up, tear, throat, tipple, toast, toot, tope, toss down, toss off, tot, wash down, wassail, weasand, wet, wizen, wolf, wolf down

• gym, agora, amphitheater, archery ground, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, badminton court, baseball field, basketball court, bear garden, billiard parlor, bowl, bowling alley, bowling green, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, court, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, diamond, fairway, field, floor, football field, forum, glaciarium, golf course, golf links, gridiron, ground, gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, ice rink, infield, links, lists, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, open forum, outfield, oval, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, playground, playing field, playroom, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, putting green, racecourse, racket court, range, ring, rink, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, site, skating rink, soccer field, sphere, squared circle, squash court, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stretch, tennis court, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, track, turf, walk, wrestling ring

• gymkhana, Highland games, Olympiad, Olympic games, Olympics, bout, carousel, concours, contest, derby, encounter, engagement, field day, fight, game, games, go, joust, match, matching, meet, meeting, rally, regatta, rencontre, test, the Olympics, tilt, tournament, tourney, track meet, trial

• gymnasium, agora, amphitheater, archery ground, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, badminton court, baseball field, basketball court, bear garden, billiard parlor, bowl, bowling alley, bowling green, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, court, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, diamond, fairway, family room, fencing school, field, floor, football field, forum, game room, glaciarium, golf course, golf links, gridiron, ground, gym, hall, hippodrome, ice rink, infield, links, lists, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, open forum, outfield, oval, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, playground, playing field, playroom, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, putting green, racecourse, racket court, range, rec room, recreation room, ring, rink, rumpus room, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, site, skating rink, soccer field, sphere, squared circle, squash court, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stretch, tennis court, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, track, turf, walk, wrestling ring, wrestling school

• gymnastics, Rugby, acrobatics, agonistics, association football, athletics, bathing, breather, calisthenics, constitutional, daily dozen, drill, eurythmics, exercise, exercising, gymnastic exercises, isometrics, natation, palaestra, physical culture, physical education, physical jerks, practice, rugger, setting-up exercises, soccer, sports, stretch, swimming, track, track and field, tumbling, workout, yoga

• gynecologist, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, chiropodist, dermatologist, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, geriatrician, gerontologist, immunologist, internist, neurologist, obstetrician, oculist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, otolaryngologist, otologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pediatrist, podiatrist, psychiatrist, radiologist, serologist, skin man, specialist

• gyp joint, ballot-box stuffing, bordello, brothel, bunco, cardsharping, cathouse, cheat, cheating, clip joint, cozenage, den, den of thieves, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dive, dodge, dump, fishy transaction, flam, fleshpots, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, hole, illicit business, imposition, imposture, joint, lair, racket, scam, sporting house, stews, swindle, whorehouse

• gyp, Partlet, Seeing Eye dog, ballot-box stuffing, bandog, beat, beguile of, biddy, bilk, bitch, bossy, bowwow, brood mare, bunco, burn, canine, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, con man, cow, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, defrauder, diddle, diddler, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, doe, dog, double-dealer, euchre, ewe, ewe lamb, fake, fancy dog, filly, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, flimflammer, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, guide dog, guinea hen, gull, gyp joint, have, heifer, hen, hind, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, illicit business, imposition, imposture, jenny, kennel, lap dog, lioness, mare, mountebank, mulct, nanny, nanny goat, overreach, pack of dogs, pack the deal, peahen, phony, pigeon, pooch, practice fraud upon, pup, puppy, racket, roe, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sharper, shave, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep dog, shortchange, show dog, sled dog, slut, sow, spoof, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, tigress, toy dog, trickster, victimize, vixen, watchdog, whelp, working dog

• gypper, blackleg, cheat, cheater, chiseler, con man, cozener, crook, defrauder, diddler, double-dealer, flimflam man, flimflammer, gyp artist, juggler, mountebank, sharper, swindler, trickster, two-timer

• gyrate, advance, ascend, back, back up, budge, change, change place, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, climb, crank, descend, ebb, flow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyre, mount, move, move over, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, purl, regress, retrogress, revolve, rise, roll, rotate, round, run, screw, shift, sink, soar, spin, stir, stream, subside, swing, swirl, swivel, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn round, twirl, twist, wamble, wane, wheel, whirl, whirligig, wind

• gyration, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, bowling, centrifugation, circuit, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, circumvolution, full circle, gyre, pivoting, reeling, revolution, roll, rolling, rotation, rotational motion, round, spin, spinning, swinging, swirling, swiveling, trolling, trundling, turbination, turn, turning, volutation, volution, wheel, wheeling, whir, whirl, whirling

• gyrational, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cyclonic, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gulfy, gyral, gyratory, gyrostatic, mounting, passing, plunging, progressive, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sideward, sinking, soaring, streaming, swirly, tornadic, trochilic, up-trending, upward, vertiginous, vortical, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy, whirly

• gyre, Baba Yaga, Charybdis, Lilith, afreet, barghest, cacodemon, circle, circling, circuit, circuiteer, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulate, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulate, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigrate, circummigration, circumnavigate, circumnavigation, circumrotate, circumvent, circumvolute, circumvolution, cirrus, close the circle, coil, come full circle, compass, corkscrew, crank, curl, curlicue, cycle, daeva, demon, describe a circle, deviance, deviancy, deviation, devil, deviousness, digression, dizzy round, dybbuk, eddy, encircle, encompass, evil genius, evil spirit, evolute, excursion, excursus, fiend, fiend from hell, flank, genie, genius, ghoul, girdle, girdle the globe, go about, go around, go round, go the round, gurge, gyrate, gyration, gyring, helix, hellion, incubus, indirection, involute, jinni, jinniyeh, kink, lamia, lap, maelstrom, make a circuit, meandering, orbit, orbiting, pirouette, pivot, purl, rakshasa, rat race, reel, revolve, ringlet, roll, rotate, rotation, round, roundaboutness, rounding, satan, screw, scroll, shedu, skirt, spin, spiral, spiraling, succubus, surge, surround, swing, swirl, swivel, tendril, the undead, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn round, turning, twirl, twist, vampire, volute, volution, vortex, wamble, wheel, wheeling, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl, wind, yogini

• gyrene, Marine Corps, Naval Reservist, Royal Marine, Royal Marines, Seabee, bluejacket, boot, cadet, devil dogs, frogman, gob, horse marine, jollies, jolly, leathernecks, marine, marines, midshipman, midshipmite, naval cadet, navy man, sea soldiers, swabbie

• gyroscope, balance, balance rudder, balance wheel, ballast, centrifuge, chuck, counterbalance, counterweight, drill, extractor, fan, fin, fixative, flywheel, governor, hairspring, impeller, jack, keel, mordant, pendulum, propeller, reel, roller, rolling pin, rotary drill, rotor, screw, shock absorber, spindle, spinner, spit, spool, springs, stabilizator, stiffening, tail plane, teetotum, top, treadmill, turbine, turntable, whorl, windmill

• H bomb, A-bomb, atomic bomb, atomic warhead, clean bomb, cobalt bomb, dirty bomb, fusion bomb, hell bomb, hydrogen bomb, limited nuclear weapons, nuclear artillery, nuclear explosive, nuclear warhead, plutonium bomb, superbomb, tactical nuclear weapons, thermonuclear bomb, thermonuclear warhead

• ha ha, Homeric laughter, aqueduct, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, canal, canalization, channel, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crimp, crow, cut, dike, ditch, entrenchment, fit of laughter, fosse, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, goffer, guffaw, gutter, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, kennel, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, moat, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, pleat, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, split, split with laughter, sunk fence, tee-hee, titter, trench, trough, yuck, yuk-yuk

• haberdasher, baker, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, chandler, clothier, clothing merchant, confectioner, costumer, costumier, draper, dry goods dealer, drysalter, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, glover, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, hardwareman, hosier, ironmonger, jeweler, liquor merchant, mercer, newsdealer, perfumer, poulterer, saddler, stationer, tobacconist, vintner, wine merchant

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

• habit, a habit, accouter, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, apparel, array, attire, attitude, automatism, bad habit, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, bedizenment, bent, bib and tucker, body-build, brand, caparison, cast, chain smoking, character, characteristic, characteristics, chronic alcoholism, clothes, clothing, cocainism, complexion, composition, compulsion, constituents, constitution, convention, costume, crash, crasis, craving, creature of habit, custom, dependence, dharma, diathesis, dipsomania, disguise, disposition, drapery, dress, dressing, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, duds, equip, ethos, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fiber, fig, fit, fit out, force of habit, frame, frame of mind, frock, garb, garments, gear, genius, grain, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habit pattern, habituation, habitude, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inclination, investiture, investment, kind, linen, livery, makeup, manner, mannerism, masquerade, minauderie, mode, mold, nature, nicotine addiction, outfit, pattern, peculiar trait, peculiarity, penchant, physical dependence, physique, policy, practice, praxis, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, property, psychological dependence, quality, quirk, rags, raiment, regalia, rig, rig out, rig up, robes, routine, rule, second nature, somatotype, sort, spirit, sportswear, stamp, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, streak, stripe, style, suchness, suit, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, threads, togs, toilette, tolerance, tone, trademark, trick, trick of behavior, trim, turn out, type, uniform, usage, use, vein, vestment, vestments, vesture, way, wear, wearing apparel, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms, wont

• habitat, abode, alentours, ambience, ambit, bailiwick, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, context, domain, element, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, gestalt, haunt, home, locale, locality, milieu, native environment, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, range, realm, site, situation, stamping ground, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, total environment, vicinage, vicinity

• habitation, abiding place, abode, address, apartment, cantonment, colonization, commorancy, crash pad, crib, digs, domicile, domiciliation, domus, dwelling, dwelling place, fireside, flat, haunt, haven, hearth, hearthstone, home, homestead, house, housing, inhabitancy, inhabitation, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, nest, nook, occupancy, occupation, pad, peopling, place, place to live, quarters, residence, residency, roof, rooftree, roost, seat, settlement, sojourning, tenement

• habitual, accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average, beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established, everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative, habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand, ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times, methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordered, orderly, ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled, standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic, thick-coming, traditional, trite, uniform, universal, usual, vernacular, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn, wonted

• habitually, again and again, as a rule, as per usual, as things go, as usual, chiefly, chronically, commonly, consistently, customarily, frequently, generally, in many instances, inveterately, mainly, many a time, many times, most often, mostly, naturally, normally, normatively, not infrequently, not seldom, oft, often, often enough, oftentimes, ofttimes, ordinarily, persistently, prescriptively, recurringly, regularly, repeatedly, repetitively, routinely, to be expected, unseldom, usually, whenever you wish, wontedly

• habituate, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, addict, adjust, bear, break, break in, case harden, condition, confirm, domesticate, domesticize, endure, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, harden, housebreak, inure, naturalize, orient, orientate, season, support, take to, tame, tolerate, train, use, wont

• habituation, a habit, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, adaption, addictedness, addiction, adjustment, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, breaking, breaking-in, case hardening, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, conditioning, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, domestication, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, familiarization, hardening, housebreaking, inurement, naturalization, nicotine addiction, orientation, physical dependence, psychological dependence, seasoning, taming, tolerance, training, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

• habitue, aficionado, attender, audience, buff, caller, company, customer, denizen, devotee, employer, fan, freeloader, frequenter, gate-crasher, guest, haunter, hound, lover, moocher, patron, regular, regular customer, sojourner, spectator, theatergoer, uninvited guest, user, visitant, visitor, votary

• hachure, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, aeronautical chart, arabesque, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, band, bar, basketry, basketwork, cancellation, cartographer, cartography, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, chorographer, chorography, climatic chart, conic projection, contour line, contour map, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cylindrical projection, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, filigree, fret, fretwork, general reference map, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, grate, grating, grid, grid line, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hairline, hatching, heliographic chart, hydrographic chart, index, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, isoline, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, latitude, lattice, latticework, layer tint, legend, line, lineation, longitude, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, meridian, mesh, meshes, meshwork, net, netting, network, parallel, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, plexure, plexus, political map, polyconic projection, projection, raddle, relief map, representative fraction, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, road map, scale, score, screen, screening, sieve, sinusoidal projection, slash, special map, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, terrain map, terrestrial globe, texture, thematic map, tissue, topographer, topographic chart, topography, tracery, transportation map, trellis, trelliswork, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, wattle, weather chart, weather map, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork

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

• hack it, answer, avail, be able, be equal to, be up to, bear, can, can do, clear, clear the hurdle, come along, come on, contrive, cut it, cut the mustard, do, do it, engineer, fill the bill, fulfill, get along, get by, get on, go around, go on, hold, hold up, just do, make it, make out, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, may, meet, meet requirements, muddle through, negotiate, pass, pass muster, possess authority, put over, put through, qualify, reach, satisfy, scrape along, serve, serve the purpose, stand, stand the test, stand up, stretch, succeed in, suffice, swing, swing the deal, take charge, take it, work, worry along

• hack, Aqua-Lung, Jehu, Sunday driver, amble, amputate, antiquated, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, autobus, ax, backseat driver, balker, balky horse, banal, bark, batter, beast of burden, bidet, birthmark, bisect, blaze, blemish, blotch, blow, brand, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, bullwhacker, bus, bus driver, busman, butcher, cab, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, cameleer, canter, caracole, carriage horse, cart horse, carter, cartman, carve, caste mark, cavalry horse, charioteer, chartered bus, chauffeur, check, checkmark, chop, cicatrix, cleave, cleft, cliche, cliched, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, common, commonplace, cough, crena, crock, crowbait, curvet, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, damage, dapple, declasse, deface, depression, destroy, dichotomize, diligence, discoloration, dissever, dog, dot, double-decker, draft horse, dray horse, drayman, driver, driving horse, drudge, dull, earmark, elephant driver, engraving, excise, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, fag, fell, fill horse, filler, fissure, fleck, flick, freckle, frisk, galley slave, gallop, garron, gash, gasp, gharry-wallah, gigster, go on horseback, goat, graving, greasy grind, grind, grub, grubber, gulp, hackdriver, hackle, hackman, hackney, hackneyed, hacky, haggle, halve, harness racer, hew, hiccup, hired car, hireling, hit-and-run driver, huff, humdrum, hunter, incise, incision, inconsequential, indentation, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, jade, jag, jigsaw, jitney, jitney driver, jog, joggle, jot, joyrider, jughead, jument, kerf, lacerate, lackey, lance, lead, leader, lentigo, literary hack, lope, low-grade, machine, macula, mahout, mail coach, mangle, mark, marking, mean, mediocre, menial, mercenary, mole, moth-eaten, motor coach, motorbus, motorist, mottle, mouldy, mount, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mule skinner, muleteer, mutilate, nag, nevus, nick, nock, notch, old, old hat, omnibus, ordinary, outmoded, outworn, overdone, overworked, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pace, pack horse, palfrey, pant, pare, party hack, patch, peanut politician, penny-a-liner, petty, piaffe, plodder, plow horse, plug, point, pole horse, political dabbler, politicaster, polka dot, polo pony, poor, post coach, post-horse, potboiler, prance, prick, prune, puff, puncture, reinsman, remount, rend, respiration, respire, ride bareback, ride hard, rider, riding horse, rive, road hog, road horse, roadster, roarer, rogue, rosinante, rouncy, routine, ruin, run-of-the-mill, saddle horse, saddler, saw, scalawag, scar, scarification, scissor, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, scribbler, scuba, second-class, second-rate, servant, sever, shaft horse, sigh, skinner, slash, slave, slavey, slice, slit, slogger, smash, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snip, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, speck, speckle, speeder, splash, split, splotch, spot, stage, stage coachman, stagecoach, stain, stale, stalking-horse, statemonger, stereotyped, sternutation, stertor, stiff, stigma, stock, strawberry mark, sumpter, sumpter horse, sunder, suspiration, swot, take horse, tattoo, tattoo mark, taxi, taxicab, taxidriver, teamster, tear, tedious, thill horse, thiller, tick, timeworn, tired, tittle, tittup, toiler, trite, trivial, trot, truck driver, trucker, truckman, unoriginal, usual, vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, watermark, well-worn, wheeler, wheelhorse, wheeze, whip, whistler, whittle, wind, workhorse

• hackle, card, comb, covert, crest, curry, feather, feathers, hack, haggle, hatchel, heckle, mail, panache, pinion, plumage, plume, plumule, quill, rake, scapular, slash, speculum, topknot, tuft

• hackneyed, antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, automatic, back-number, banal, bathetic, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common, commonly known, commonplace, constant, conventional, corny, current, cut-and-dried, everyday, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hack, hackney, household, moth-eaten, musty, notorious, obsolete, old hat, out-of-date, outmoded, overworked, persistent, platitudinous, proverbial, public, quotidian, recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, set, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn, worn thin, worn-out

• Hades, Abaddon, Acheron, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amenti, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Aralu, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Gehenna, Great Mother, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Naraka, Neptune, Niflheim, Niflhel, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris, Pandemonium, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Sheol, Tartarus, Tellus, Tophet, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, avichi, hell, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, pit of Acheron, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld

• hag, Jezebel, Weird Sisters, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, beldam, biddy, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, coven, crone, dame, dog, dowager, drab, enchantress, eyesore, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gammer, gargoyle, gorgon, grandam, grandmother, granny, grimalkin, harpy, harridan, hellcat, hellhag, hex, lamia, mess, monster, monstrosity, no beauty, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, scarecrow, shamaness, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, sight, siren, slattern, sorceress, teratism, termagant, tigress, trot, ugly duckling, virago, vixen, war-horse, wildcat, witch, witchwife, witchwoman

• haggard, abandoned, achromatic, achromic, amok, anemic, angular, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, bled white, bloodless, blue, cadaverous, careworn, carried away, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, delirious, demoniac, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, distracted, drawn, dull, ecstatic, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, enraptured, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, extreme, extremist, faded, fagged, faint, fallow, fanatic, fatigued, feral, ferocious, fierce, flat, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, gaunt, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome, hog-wild, hollow-eyed, howling, hueless, hypochromic, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, inordinate, intoxicated, irrational, jejune, lackluster, lank, leaden, lean, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mad, madding, maniac, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, perfervid, pinched, played out, poor, possessed, puny, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, ravaged, raving, ravished, roaring, run-down, running mad, sallow, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled, shrunken, sickly, skeletal, skinny, spare, spent, starved, starveling, storming, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, tired, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, toneless, transported, ultrazealous, uncanny, uncolored, uncontrollable, underfed, undernourished, unearthly, unreasonable, violent, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak, wearied, weary, weary-looking, weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, withered, wizened, worn, worn-down, wraithlike, zealotic

• haggle, bargain, bargaining, barter, beat down, bicker, bid, bid for, cavil, chaffer, chaffering, cheapen, collective bargaining, coming to terms, deal, dicker, dickering, dispute, drive a bargain, hack, hackle, haggling, higgle, higgling, horse-trade, huckster, jew down, negotiate, negotiation, outbid, package bargaining, palter, pattern bargaining, quibble, slash, squabble, stickle, trade, underbid, wrangle

• hagiography, Buddhology, Clio, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mercersburg theology, Muse of history, adventures, annals, apologetics, autobiography, biographical sketch, biography, canonics, case history, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, confessions, crisis theology, curriculum vitae, dialogical theology, diary, divinity, doctrinalism, doctrinism, dogmatics, eschatology, existential theology, experiences, fortunes, hagiology, hierology, historiography, history, journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, logos Christology, logos theology, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, natural theology, necrology, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, obituary, patristic theology, phenomenological theology, photobiography, physicotheology, profile, rationalism, record, religion, resume, scholastic theology, secularism, soteriology, story, systematics, theology, theory of history

• haiku, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

• Hail Mary, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, aid prayer, appeal, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, chaplet, collect, communion, contemplation, devotions, entreaty, grace, impetration, imploration, intercession, invocation, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving

• hail, a mass of, a world of, abide by, accede, accept, acclaim, accost, acknowledge, acquiesce, acquiesce in, address, agree, agree to, agree with, apostrophize, appeal to, applaud, approach, approve, army, assent, bark, barrage, bawl, beat the drum, bellow, bespeak, bevy, bid good day, bid good morning, bob, bombard, bombardment, bow, bow to, broadside, bunch, buttonhole, buy, call, call to, cannonade, caterwaul, cheer, cheer on, clap, clap the hands, cloud, clutter, compliment, comply, congratulate, consent, covey, cry, curtsy, dip, drumfire, embrace, encore, exchange colors, exchange greetings, felicitate, flag, flag down, flash, flight, flock, flocks, frost, fusillade, give a hand, give a signal, give the nod, glance, glorify, graupel, greet, greeting, hail and speak, hailstone, half-mast, halloo, hallow, hand-clasp, handshake, hear it for, hello, hive, hoist a banner, hold with, holler, hollo, honor, hoot, host, how-do-you-do, howl, hug, ice, ice over, ice up, in toto, invoke, jam, kick, kiss, kiss hands, large amount, laud, leer, legion, lift the hat, lots, make a sign, many, masses of, mob, muchness, multitude, nest, nod, nod assent, nod to, nudge, numbers, pack, pelt, plurality, poke, praise, pull the forelock, quantities, quite a few, raise a cry, receive, recommend, roar, root for, rout, ruck, salutation, salute, salvo, say hello, scores, scream, screech, shake, shake hands, shoal, shout, shower, shriek, sign, signal, signalize, sleet, smile, smile of recognition, snow, snow in, snow under, soft hail, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, speak, speak fair, speak to, squall, squawk, squeal, storm, subscribe to, swarm, take aside, take kindly to, talk to, throng, tidy sum, torrent, touch, touch the hat, uncover, unfurl a flag, volley, vote for, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, welcome, whoop, wink, worlds of, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yes, yield assent, yowl

• hair trigger, agile, breakneck, dashing, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, galloping, hasty, headlong, hustling, immediate, instant, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, nimble, nimble-footed, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, running, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift, winged

• hair, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, ace, animal fiber, artificial fiber, atom, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, bowshot, braids, brass farthing, brief span, bristle, button, cambric tea, capillament, cent, cilium, cirrus, close quarters, close range, closeness, coat, cobweb, confinement, crack, crowdedness, curio, dab, denier, dishwater, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earreach, earshot, farce, farthing, feather, fiber, fibrilla, fig, filament, filamentule, flagellum, fleabite, fleck, fleece, flyspeck, folderol, fraction, fragment, fribble, frippery, fur, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gobbet, gossamer, grain, granule, groat, gruel, gunshot, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, halfpenny, handful, hank, hill of beans, horsehair, house of cards, incapaciousness, inch, incommodiousness, iota, jest, joke, jot, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, limitation, little, little bit, little ways, locks, mane, matchwood, milk and water, minikin, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mockery, modicum, molecule, molehill, mote, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pelt, peppercorn, picayune, pile, pin, pinch, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pistol shot, pittance, point, pubescence, pubic hair, rap, red cent, reed, restrictedness, restriction, rope of sand, row of pins, rush, sand castle, scruple, setula, shag, shit, short distance, short piece, short way, skein, slenderness, smidgen, smitch, snap, sneeshing, sou, span, speck, spitting distance, spoonful, spot, step, straitness, strand, straw, strictness, suture, tendril, thimbleful, thread, threadlet, tight squeeze, tightness, tiny bit, tittle, toy, trace, tresses, trifle, trifling amount, trinket, trivia, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, water, web, whim-wham, whisker, whit, wool

• hairbreadth, ace, bit, bowshot, brief span, close quarters, close range, closeness, confinement, crack, crowdedness, earreach, earshot, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairsbreadth, incapaciousness, inch, incommodiousness, limitation, little, little ways, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, pistol shot, restrictedness, restriction, short distance, short piece, short way, slenderness, span, spitting distance, step, straitness, strictness, tight squeeze, tightness, whisker

• hairdo, Afro, French knot, bangs, bob, coif, coiffure, cold wave, conk, cut, haircut, hairstyle, headdress, home permanent, natural, permanent, permanent wave, pompadour, ponytail, process, roach, shag, shingle, shortcut, swirl, wave

• hairiness, abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, complexity, complication, difficultness, difficulty, hardness, intricacy, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness, toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness

• hairlike, bristlelike, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gossamery, hairy, ligamental, ropy, silky, stringy, taeniate, taeniform, threadlike, thready, wiry

• hairline, band, bar, cross-hatching, dash, delicacy, delicate, delicate distinction, delineation, diagonal, differentia, differential, distinction, dotted line, fine point, finespun, hachure, hairsplitting, hatching, line, lineation, margin, narrow margin, nice, nice distinction, nicety, nuance, particle of difference, point of difference, refined, refinement, score, shade of difference, slash, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, subtle, subtle distinction, subtlety, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, wide margin

• hairpin, aberrancy, aberration, bend, bendy, bias, branching off, chevron, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitousness, corner, crankiness, crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness, curve, curvy, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, indirection, obliquity, pererration, rambling, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, staggered, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switchback, tack, turn, turning, twist, twisty, variation, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways

• hairsplitting, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, contradistinction, critical, criticism, cynical, delicate, demarcation, differentiation, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, division, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, exception, faultfinding, fencing, finespun, flak, hairline, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, hypersensitive, hypersensitivity, imputation, knock, logic-chopping, microscopic distinction, morbid sensibility, morbidly sensitive, nagging, nice, nice distinction, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nuance, obloquy, overconscientious, overconscientiousness, overcritical, overcriticalness, overfastidious, overfastidiousness, overmeticulous, overmeticulousness, overnice, overniceness, overnicety, overparticular, overparticularity, overprecise, overrefined, overrefinement, overscrupulous, overscrupulousness, oversensitive, oversensitivity, oversqueamish, oversqueamishness, paltering, parrying, pestering, pettifoggery, pettifogging, petty, picayune, prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble, quibbling, rap, refined, reflection, reproachfulness, segregation, separation, shade of difference, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, slam, stricture, subterfuge, subtle, subtle distinction, swipe, taking exception, tergiversation, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, ultracritical

• hairy, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, asperous, barbellate, barfy, bearded, bewhiskered, bristled, bristling, bristly, brutal, bum, bushy, capillary, chancy, cheesy, cirrose, cirrous, comate, complex, complicated, confused, confusing, craggy, crappy, creepy, critical, crummy, dangerous, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, dirty, downy, exacting, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, formidable, frightening, fringy, funicular, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, godawful, goshawful, gossamery, grim, hairlike, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, hazardous, hirsute, hispid, icky, intricate, jagged, jawbreaking, jeopardous, knotted, knotty, laborious, lanate, ligamental, matted, mean, nappy, nerve-racking, no picnic, not easy, operose, perilous, pilose, precarious, problematic, pubescent, punk, putrid, rigorous, risky, ropy, rough, rugged, scabrous, scary, scraggy, set with thorns, setaceous, setose, setous, severe, shagged, shaggy, shitty, silky, spiny, steep, stinking, stinky, strenuous, strigal, strigate, strigose, stringy, stubbled, stubbly, studded, taeniate, taeniform, tangled, thorny, threadlike, thready, ticklish, toilsome, tough, treacherous, trichoid, tricky, tufted, uncertain, uneven, unhealthy, unshaven, unshorn, unsmooth, unsound, uphill, vomity, whiskered, wicked, wiry, woolly, worrying, yecchy

• halcyon, Saturnian, at peace, at rest, balmy, bloodless, blooming, blossoming, booming, bright, calm, clear, cloistered, concordant, cool, dwindling, ebbing, even-tenored, exuberant, fair, fat, flourishing, flowering, fruiting, going strong, hushed, idyllic, impassive, in full swing, in good case, isolated, mild, moldering, orderly, pacific, palmy, pastoral, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, piping, placid, prospering, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, rosy, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, sleek, smooth, soft, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, sunny, thriving, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, vigorous, waning

• hale, able-bodied, beefy, bouncing, bunkum, doughty, drag, draggle, draw, fit, flourishing, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, gutsy, gutty, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, haul, healthy, hearty, heave, hefty, husky, in the pink, iron-hard, lug, lusty, mighty, nervy, obstinate, potent, powerful, puissant, pull, red-blooded, right, robust, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, sane, snake, sound, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, take in tow, tow, trail, train, trawl, troll, tug, vigorous, vital, well, wholesome

• half assed, amateur, amateurish, artless, botched, bungling, clumsy, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, dilettantish, half-baked, half-cocked, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immature, inadept, inadequate, inapt, inattentive, incomplete, inefficient, inept, inexpert, insufficient, lacking, mediocre, messy, pedestrian, poor, promiscuous, sciolistic, shallow, skill-less, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, thoughtless, unapt, undeft, undexterous, undextrous, unfacile, unintelligent, unproficient, unskillful, untidy, wanting

• half baked, a bit previous, adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, arrested, at half cock, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, callow, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dabbling, dilettante, dilettantish, dithering, driveling, drooling, far ahead, fledgling, forward, green, half-assed, half-cocked, half-grown, half-witted, hasty, idiotic, ill-considered, ill-digested, imbecile, imbecilic, immature, impubic, impulsive, juvenile, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, not firm, overhasty, oversoon, precipitate, precocious, premature, previous, raw, retarded, rushed, sciolistic, shallow, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, smattering, sophomoric, subnormal, superficial, too early, too soon, uncrystallized, underripe, unfledged, ungrown, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unmellowed, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, unseasoned, untimely

• half breed, Cape Colored, Eurasian, bastard, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbred, crossbreed, crossed, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-caste, high yellow, hinny, hybrid, interbred, ladino, liger, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis, metisse, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mulatto, mule, mustee, octoroon, plumcot, quadroon, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, tigon, zebrass, zebrule

• half cocked, a bit previous, adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, at half cock, callow, dabbling, dilettante, dilettantish, far ahead, fledgling, forward, green, half-assed, half-baked, half-grown, hasty, ill-considered, ill-digested, immature, impubic, impulsive, juvenile, not firm, overhasty, oversoon, precipitate, precocious, premature, previous, raw, rushed, sciolistic, shallow, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, too early, too soon, uncrystallized, underripe, unfledged, ungrown, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unmellowed, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, unseasoned, untimely

• half life, activity, artificial radioactivity, contamination, curiage, decontamination, fallout, natural radioactivity, nuclear radiation, radiant energy, radiation, radioactive radiation, radioactivity, radiocarbon dating, radiolucency, radiopacity, radiosensibility, radiosensitivity, saturation point, specific activity

• half moon, artificial satellite, crescent, crescent moon, decrescent, decrescent moon, demilune, full moon, gibbous moon, harvest moon, horseshoe, increscent, increscent moon, lunula, lunule, meniscus, moon, new moon, orb of night, queen of heaven, queen of night, satellite, scythe, semicircle, sickle, silvery moon, the wandering Moon, waning crescent moon, waning moon, waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, wet moon

• half pint, cramped, dinky, exiguous, knee-high, limited, little, one-horse, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, short, slight, small, smallish, two-by-four

• half time, anchor watch, bit, break, coffee break, day shift, dogwatch, downtime, full time, graveyard shift, half-time intermission, holiday, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval, letup, lobster trick, lull, night shift, off-time, overtime, part time, pause, plateau, point of repose, quiet spell, recess, relay, relief, respite, resting point, shift, split schedule, split shift, stint, sunrise watch, swing shift, time, time off, time out, tour, tour of duty, trick, turn, turn of work, vacation, watch, work shift

• half truth, blague, cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, pious fiction, prevarication, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, yarn

• half, allotment, allowance, big end, bigger half, bisection, bit, bite, budget, chunk, commission, contingent, cut, deal, destiny, distributional, distributive, dividend, dole, end, equal, equal share, equidistance, even stephen, fate, fifty percent, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, halfway, halfway house, halver, halvers, helping, hemisphere, interest, lot, measure, mediety, meed, mess, mid-distance, midcourse, middle distance, midway, modicum, moiety, one-and-a-half, part, partial, particular, partly, per capita, per head, percentage, piece, portion, pro rata, proportion, proportional, proportionate, prorated, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration, respective, segment, semicircle, semisphere, several, share, slice, small share, stake, stock

• halfhearted, Laodicean, bland, changeable, cold, cool, fervorless, indecisive, indifferent, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, lukewarm, milk-and-water, milky, mushy, neuter, neutral, perfunctory, tasteless, tepid, unenthusiastic, vapid, watery, wishy-washy, zealless

• halftone engraving, albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, history of printing, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, relief printing, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

• halftone, Maxwell triangle, Munsell scale, chromatic circle, chromatic spectrum, chromaticity diagram, color circle, color cycle, color index, color mixture curve, color solid, color spectrum, color system, color triangle, complementary color, consecutive intervals, degree, demitint, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, fifth, fourth, full color, fundamental colors, half step, half tint, hue cycle, interval, less semitone, melodic interval, metamer, monochrome, note, octave, parallel octaves, primary, primary color, pure color, second, secondary, secondary color, semitone, seventh, sixth, solar spectrum, spectral color, spectrum, spectrum color, step, tertiary, tertiary color, third, tone, unison interval, whole step

• halfway house, almshouse, asylum, bisection, equidistance, foster home, half, home, hospice, hospitium, mediety, mid-distance, midcourse, middle distance, midway, moiety, nursing home, orphanage, poor farm, poorhouse, rest home, retreat, workhouse

• halfway, amidships, average, betwixt and between, center, centermost, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, half, half-and-half, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, medially, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly, mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear, one-and-a-half, part, partial, partly

• halfwit, ass, birdbrain, dolt, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, fool, idiot, imbecile, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nit, nitwit, numskull, simpleton, twit

• halitosis, BO, bad breath, bad smell, body odor, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, graveolence, malodor, mephitis, miasma, nidor, noxious stench, offensive odor, reek, reeking, rotten smell, stench, stench of decay, stink

• hall, Dymaxion house, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, White House, access, adit, adobe house, agora, air lock, amphitheater, approach, arcade, areaway, arena, arena theater, assembly hall, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, bowl, boxing ring, breezeway, building, bull ring, cabaret, campus, canvas, casa, chapel, circle theater, circus, classroom, classroom building, cliff dwelling, cloister, club, cockpit, coliseum, colonnade, colosseum, concert hall, consulate, convention hall, corridor, couloir, country house, country seat, course, dacha, dance hall, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, erection, exhibition hall, fabric, farm, farmhouse, field, floor, forum, foyer, gallery, gangplank, gangway, ground, gym, gymnasium, hallway, hippodrome, house, houseboat, in, ingress, inlet, intake, lake dwelling, lecture hall, lists, little red schoolhouse, little theater, living machine, lobby, locale, lodge, loggia, manor house, manse, marketplace, mat, means of access, meetinghouse, milieu, music hall, night spot, nightclub, open forum, opening, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, palaestra, parade ground, parsonage, passage, passageway, penthouse, pergola, peristyle, pit, place, platform, playhouse, precinct, prefabricated house, presidential palace, prize ring, public square, purlieu, ranch house, range, rectory, ring, roof, scene, scene of action, scenery, school building, schoolhouse, setting, showboat, site, skyscraper, sod house, sphere, split-level, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, structure, terrain, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatre, theatron, tilting ground, tiltyard, town house, vestibule, vicarage, walk, way, way in, wrestling ring

• hallelujah, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, applause, canticle, chant, cheer, chorale, chorus of cheers, cry, doxology, hooray, hosanna, hurrah, hurray, huzzah, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, laud, mantra, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, psalm, psalmody, rah, report, response, responsory, shout, versicle, yell, yippee

• hallmark, aroma, attribute, authentication, badge, banner, billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, cachet, cast, character, characteristic, check, colophon, configuration, counterfoil, countermark, cut, device, differentia, differential, distinctive feature, docket, earmark, feature, figure, flavor, government mark, government stamp, gust, identification, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, impress, impression, imprint, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, insignia, keynote, label, letterhead, lineaments, logo, logotype, mannerism, mark, marking, masthead, measure, mold, nature, note, odor, particularity, peculiarity, picture, plate, price tag, property, quality, quirk, registered trademark, representation, representative, running head, running title, savor, seal, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, signet, singularity, smack, specialty, stamp, sticker, stub, sure sign, symbol, symptom, tab, tag, taint, tally, tang, taste, telltale sign, ticket, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trait, trick, verification

• hallow, beat the drum, beatify, bless, blow the trumpet, canonize, celebrate, cleanse, commemorate, consecrate, dedicate, devote, dress ship, enshrine, exalt, fire a salute, glorify, hold jubilee, honor, jubilate, jubilize, keep, maffick, make merry, mark, memorialize, observe, purify, respect, revere, reverence, saint, sanctify, set apart, signalize, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, venerate, worship

• hallowed, acknowledged, admitted, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, beatified, blessed, boundless, canonized, changeless, consecrated, conventional, creating, creative, customary, dedicated, devoted, established, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, fixed, folk, glorious, good, handed down, heroic, highest, hoary, holy, immemorial, immortal, immutable, infinite, inveterate, just, legendary, limitless, long-established, long-standing, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, mythological, numinous, of long standing, of the folk, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, oral, permanent, perpetual, prescriptive, radiant, received, recognized, rooted, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctified, set apart, shaping, sovereign, supreme, time-honored, timeless, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, understood, unlimited, unwritten, venerable, worshipful

• hallucination, aberration, agnosia, apparition, bamboozlement, befooling, block, blocking, bluffing, brainchild, bubble, calculated deception, chimera, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delirium, delirium tremens, delusion, delusion of persecution, delusiveness, disorientation, dream, dupery, eidolon, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fata morgana, fiction, figment, flight of ideas, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, ghost, hallucinosis, hoodwinking, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, kidding, maggot, make-believe, mental block, mental confusion, mind-expansion, mirage, myth, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, outwitting, overreaching, paralogia, phantasm, phantom, psychological block, putting on, romance, self-deception, sick fancy, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, thick-coming fancies, trickiness, tricking, trip, tripping, vapor, victimization, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, willful misconception, wishful thinking, wraith

• hallucinatory, beguiling, catchy, consciousness-expanding, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dubious, fallacious, false, fishy, hallucinational, hallucinative, hallucinogenic, illusive, illusory, mind-blowing, mind-expanding, misleading, psychedelic, questionable, trickish, tricksy, tricky

• hallucinogen, DET, DMT, Indian hemp, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, antidepressant, ataractic, belladonna, bhang, cannabis, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, gage, ganja, grass, hallucinogens, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, henbane, hyoscyamus, jimsonweed, joint, kava, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, morning glory seeds, peyote, pot, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, reefer, roach, stick, stramonium, tea, tranquilizer, weed

• halo, O, annular muscle, annulation, annulus, anthelion, antisun, areola, aura, aureola, aureole, blaze of glory, brilliance, brilliancy, chaplet, charisma, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, corona, coronet, countersun, crown, cycle, diadem, disc, discus, disk, envelope, eternal return, fairy ring, garland, glamour, glory, illustriousness, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, lunar corona, lunar halo, luster, magic, magic circle, mock moon, mock sun, moon dog, mystique, nimbus, noose, numinousness, orbit, paraselene, parhelic circle, parhelion, radiance, radius, rainbow, resplendence, resplendency, ring, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, solar corona, solar halo, sphincter, splendor, sun dog, vesica, vicious circle, wheel, wreath

• halt, abandon, abort, afterthought, amble, arrest, arrestation, bad, barge, belay, bell, bind, blind alley, block, blockage, bowl along, box, brake, break, breath, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, bring to, bring up, bring up short, bundle, bureaucratic delay, calm, calm down, cancel, castrated, cease, cease fire, cessation, check, checkmate, cigarette break, close, clump, cocktail hour, coffee break, come up short, conclude, corner, cower, crippled, cul-de-sac, curb, cut it out, cut short, cutoff, dally, dam, dawdle, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street, deadlock, debarment, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, desist, detention, determent, deterrence, die down, dillydally, disabled, discontinue, discouragement, dodder, double take, downtime, drag, dragging, draw rein, draw up, drop it, dwindle, dying down, ebb, ebbing, emasculated, end, endgame, ending, enforced respite, estoppel, extremity, falter, fetch up, final whistle, flag, flounce, foot, footslog, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, freeze, full stop, game, give, give over, goof off, grinding halt, gun, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hang fire, hang-up, happy hour, haul up, have done with, haw, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hindrance, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hobbling, hold, holdup, hole, hop, hum, hum and haw, impasse, incapacitated, interim, interlude, intermission, jam, jog, jolt, jump, knock it off, lag, lagging, lame, lay off, leave off, letup, limp, limping, linger, lock, lockout, logjam, loiter, lollygag, lull, lumber, lunge, lurch, maimed, mammer, mince, molder, moratorium, obstruction, obviation, pace, pacify, paddle, paperasserie, pause, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, pull up, put paid to, quiesce, quiet, quieten, quit, quiver, rack, recess, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, refrain, relinquish, renounce, reprieve, respite, rest, retardance, retardation, roll, sashay, saunter, scrub, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shilly-shally, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, sit-down strike, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, soothe, spavined, spell, stagger, stalemate, stalk, stall, stammer, stamp, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stay of execution, stem, stem the tide, stick, stillstand, stomp, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stoppage, stopping, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, stutter, stymie, subside, subsidence, surcease, suspension, swagger, swing, tarry, tea break, teeter, terminate, termination, tie-up, time lag, time out, tittup, toddle, totter, trail, traipse, tranquilize, tremble, trip, trudge, waddle, wait, walkout, wamble, wane, waning, waste time, wiggle, wobble, work stoppage, wrap up

• halter, Oregon boat, ax, back band, backstrap, bearing rein, bellyband, bilbo, bit, blinders, blinds, block, bond, bonds, breeching, bridle, camisole, caparison, cavesson, chains, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, collar, cross, crownband, crupper, cuffs, curb, death chair, death chamber, drop, electric chair, fetter, gag, gag swivel, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet, girth, guillotine, gyves, hackamore, hames, hametugs, hamper, handcuffs, harness, headgear, headstall, hemp, hempen collar, hip straps, hitch up, hobbles, hook up, hopples, hot seat, irons, jaquima, jerk line, leading strings, leash, lethal chamber, lines, maiden, manacle, martingale, muzzle, noose, noseband, pillory, pole strap, reins, restraint, restraints, ribbons, rope, saddle, scaffold, shackle, shaft tug, side check, snaffle, stake, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, surcingle, tack, tackle, tether, the chair, trammel, trammels, trappings, tree, tug, winker braces, yoke

• halting, Latinate, ambidextrous, ambling, awkward, bad, balbutient, bombastic, broken, build up, bumbling, capricious, careening, castrated, catchy, cautious, choppy, circumspect, claudicant, clumsy, construct, cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crippled, cumbrous, deliberate, desultory, deviative, disabled, disconnected, discontinuous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, easy, eccentric, elephantine, emasculated, erect, erratic, establish, faltering, faulty, fitful, flagging, flickering, fluctuating, foot-dragging, forced, formal, game, gauche, gentle, gradual, guinde, guttering, halt, hamstrung, handicapped, heavy, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite, hobbled, hobbling, hypocritical, idle, immethodical, incapacitated, inconstant, indecisive, indolent, inept, inkhorn, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, jerky, labored, lame, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, left-handed, leisurely, limping, lumbering, lurching, maimed, maladroit, moderate, nonuniform, of two minds, patchy, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous, rambling, relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, sesquipedalian, set up, shifting, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, 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, snail-paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spavined, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stammering, stiff, stilted, strolling, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unhandy, unhappy, unhurried, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, unwieldy, vacillatory, variable, veering, waddling, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly, wooden

• haltingly, at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, cautiously, circumspectly, crawlingly, creepingly, deliberately, desultorily, dilatorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, easily, eccentrically, erratically, falteringly, fitfully, gently, idly, in low gear, in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, in snatches, in spots, inconstantly, indolently, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, languidly, languorously, leisurely, limpingly, lingeringly, loiteringly, lurchingly, moderately, nonuniformly, off and on, patchily, pokily, pokingly, relaxedly, reluctantly, roughly, slow, slowly, sluggishly, spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, tarryingly, tentatively, uncertainly, under easy sail, unevenly, unhurriedly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, variably, whimsically, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation, wobblingly

• halve, amputate, apportion, ax, be partners in, bifurcate, bisect, branch, butcher, by two, carve, chop, cleave, cooperate, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dichotomize, dimidiate, dissever, divide, divide with, divvy up with, excise, fission, fissure, fork, gash, go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go shares, hack, hew, in half, incise, jigsaw, lance, pare, prune, ramify, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, share, share in, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, split in two, split the difference, subdivide, sunder, tear, transect, whittle

• halving, Janus, ambiguity, ambivalence, bifidity, biformity, bifurcation, bipartition, bisection, branching, by two, conjugation, cutting in two, dichotomy, dimidiation, division, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality, forking, in half, irony, pairing, polarity, ramification, subdivision, twinning, two-facedness, twoness

• ham, ARRL, acting, actor-proof, all-star, amateur radio operator, ankle, bacon, ballet, balletic, bayonet legs, be theatrical, bowlegs, buffoonery, business, butt, calf, characterization, chitterlings, cinematic, cinematographic, cnemis, cochon de lait, control engineer, country town, cracklings, crossroads, declaim, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, drumstick, emote, emotionalize, fat back, film, filmic, flitch, foreleg, gag, gamb, gambrel, gammon, gigot, grimace, grimacer, gush, ham actor, ham it up, ham steak, hamlet, hammy, hammy acting, haslet, headcheese, hind leg, histrionic, hock, hoke, hokum, impersonation, jamb, jambon, jambonneau, knee, lard, leg, legitimate, limb, make a scene, melodramatic, milked, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mixer, monitor, monodramatic, movie, mug, mummery, operatic, out-herod Herod, overact, overacted, overacting, overdramatize, overplayed, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, playacting, playing, podite, popliteal space, pork, porkpie, portrayal, projection, radio electrician, radio engineer, radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher, radiotrician, rant, representation, roar, salt pork, scenic, scissor-legs, sentimentalize, shank, shin, side of bacon, slapstick, slobber over, slop over, small ham, sowbelly, spectacular, spout, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, stems, stumps, stunt, suckling pig, taking a role, tarsus, theaterlike, theatrical, theatricalize, thespian, thorp, throw away, thrown away, trotters, underact, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillian, village, wick

• hamburger, BLT, Dagwood sandwich, London broil, Salisbury steak, Sloppy Joe, Swiss cheese sandwich, T-bone steak, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, beef, beef extract, beef tea, beefsteak, bifteck, bouillon, bully, bully beef, canape, charqui, cheeseburger, chipped beef, chopped steak, club steak, corned beef sandwich, cubed steak, double-decker sandwich, dried beef, egg salad sandwich, fillet steak, flank steak, grilled cheese sandwich, grinder, ground beef, ground chuck, ground round, ham sandwich, hamburg, hamburg steak, hoagy, hot dog, jerky, pastrami, pastrami sandwich, poor boy, porterhouse steak, rib steak, roast beef, round steak, rump steak, salt beef, sandwich, shell steak, sirloin steak, steak, submarine sandwich, suet, tenderloin steak, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger

• hamlet, Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, canton, city, commune, congressional district, constablewick, country town, county, crossroads, departement, diocese, district, duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, ham, hundred, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan area, oblast, okrug, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, territory, thorp, town, township, village, wapentake, ward, wick

• hammer and sickle, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, baton, blazonry, brassard, button, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, class ring, cockade, collar, cross, decoration, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, fasces, figurehead, fleur-de-lis, heraldry, insignia, lapel pin, livery, mace, mantle, markings, medal, mortarboard, old school tie, pin, regalia, ring, rose, school ring, shamrock, sigillography, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, swastika, tartan, thistle, tie, uniform, verge, wand

• hammer and tongs, arduously, bec et ongles, committedly, decidedly, decisively, determinedly, devotedly, earnestly, effortfully, firmly, fixedly, hard, heart and soul, in all seriousness, in earnest, in good earnest, industriously, inflexibly, laboriously, like a bulldog, like a leech, manfully, obstinately, operosely, perseveringly, persistently, purposefully, relentlessly, resolutely, resolvedly, seriously, sincerely, singlemindedly, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, strenuously, tenaciously, the hard way, toilsomely, tooth and nail, unswervingly, unyieldingly, wholeheartedly, with a will, with constancy, with effort, with total dedication

• hammer away at, always trot out, apply the mind, belabor, dig, drudge, dwell on, dwell upon, fag, grind, grub, hammer, hammer at, hammer away, harp on, insist upon, keep doggedly at, labor, moil, peg, peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug at, plug away, pound away, puzzle, puzzle over, slog, slog away, stew over, think hard, thresh over, toil, travail, wade through, work away

• hammer, Eustachian tube, air hammer, anvil, assault, attack, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, ball peen hammer, bang, barbarize, basilar membrane, baste, batter, beat, beetle, belabor, bony labyrinth, brutalize, buffet, burn, butcher, carry on, cauliflower ear, chipping hammer, claw hammer, cochlea, conch, concha, destroy, dig, din, ding, drive, drop hammer, drub, drudge, drum, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, elaborate, electric hammer, endolymph, external ear, fag, fashion, flail, flap, form, go on, grave, grind, grub, hammer away, incus, inner ear, jackhammer, knock, lambaste, larrup, lay waste, lobe, lobule, loot, lug, mallet, malleus, mastoid process, maul, middle ear, moil, mug, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, paste, patter, peg, peg away, pelt, perilymph, pile hammer, pillage, pinna, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, pommel, pound, pound away, pulverize, pummel, rage, raising hammer, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, riot, riveting hammer, roar, round window, rubber mallet, ruin, sack, savage, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shape, shell, slaughter, sledge, sledgehammer, slog, sow chaos, spank, stamp, stapes, steam hammer, stirrup, stone hammer, storm, stutter, tack hammer, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, toil, travail, triphammer, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vandalize, vestibule, violate, wade through, wallop, whip, work away, wreck

• hammy, actor-proof, all-star, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, emotionalistic, emotive, film, filmic, ham, histrionic, hysteric, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted, overemotional, overplayed, scenic, sensational, sensationalistic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unreasoning, vaudevillian

• hamper, Oregon boat, anchor, bag, balk, bar, barrel, barricade, basket, bear hard upon, bilbo, bind, block, bond, bonds, bottle, box, box up, bridle, burden, burthen, camisole, can, capsule, cargo, carton, case, cask, chain, chains, charge, check, clog, collar, cramp, crate, creel, crimp, cripple, cross, cuffs, cumber, cumbrance, curb, curtail, deadweight, delay, difficulty, diminish, disadvantage, discomfit, embarrass, embarrassment, encase, enchain, encumber, encumbrance, encyst, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, fasten, fetter, foil, freight, frustrate, gag, gyve, gyves, halter, hamstring, handcuff, handcuffs, handicap, hinder, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hold up, hopple, hopples, hurdle, impede, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, inhibit, interfere with, involve, irons, jar, lade, lame, lash, leading strings, leash, lessen, lime, limit, load, lumber, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, net, obstruct, obstruction, onus, oppress, overburden, overload, overtax, overweight, pack, package, pannier, parcel, peg down, penalty, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, pot, press down, press hard upon, prevent, punnet, put in irons, reduce, reins, rest hard upon, restrain, restraint, restraints, restrict, retard, rope, rub, sack, saddle, saddle with, secure, shackle, slow, snag, snarl, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, strap, stumbling block, tangle, tank, tax, tether, thwart, tie, tie down, tie up, tight-fisted, tin, toil, trammel, trammels, trouble, weigh down, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, white elephant, yoke

• hampered, bound, burdened, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fettered, fraught, freighted, handcuffed, in bonds, in chains, in irons, ironbound, laden, loaded, manacled, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, saddled, shackled, strapped, taxed, tethered, tied, tied down, tied up, trammeled, weighted, weighted down

• hampering, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, blockage, blocking, burdensome, check, clogging, closing up, closure, constriction, cramp, cumbersome, cumbrous, delay, detainment, detention, encumbering, fixation, foot-dragging, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, impediment, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, inhibition, interference, interruption, let, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, onerous, opposition, oppressive, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, squeeze, stranglehold, stricture, suppression

• hamstring, bugger, burden, castrate, cramp, cripple, cumber, de-energize, debilitate, deflate, disable, disarm, disenable, drain, emasculate, embarrass, enchain, encumber, enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, fetter, gag, hamper, handcuff, handicap, hobble, hog-tie, hors de combat, impede, inactivate, incapacitate, involve, kibosh, knock out, lame, lime, lumber, maim, manacle, muzzle, net, paralyze, press down, prostrate, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, saddle with, shackle, silence, snarl, spike, strangle, tangle, throttle, toil, trammel, truss up, unfit, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck

• hand clasp, accost, address, bob, bow, curtsy, embrace, greeting, hail, handshake, hello, how-do-you-do, hug, kiss, nod, salutation, salute, smile, smile of recognition, wave

• hand down, abalienate, add a codicil, alien, alienate, amortize, assign, barter, bequeath, cede, confer, consign, convey, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, devise, devolve upon, enfeoff, entail, exchange, execute a will, give, give title to, hand, hand on, hand over, leave, make a bequest, make a will, make over, negotiate, pass, pass on, pass over, sell, settle, settle on, sign away, sign over, surrender, trade, transfer, transmit, turn over, will, will and bequeath, will to

• hand grenade, aerial bomb, antipersonnel bomb, bomb, bombshell, carcass, concussion grenade, depth bomb, depth charge, fire bomb, gas grenade, grenade, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine, petard, tear-gas grenade, time bomb, wall grenade

• hand in hand, affably, agreeably, amiably, amicably, ardently, arm in arm, as one, as one man, back to back, cheek by jowl, coactively, coefficiently, collectively, combinedly, communally, companionably, concertedly, concordantly, concurrently, congenially, conjointly, cooperatingly, cooperatively, cordially, familiarly, favorably, friendliwise, friendly, genially, gregariously, hand in glove, harmoniously, heartily, herewith, in chorus, in concert with, in harmony with, in unison, intimately, jointly, pleasantly, shoulder to shoulder, sociably, socially, therewith, therewithal, together, unanimously, warmly, with one accord, with one voice, with open arms

• hand in, circulate, come across with, deliver, deliver over, distribute, fork over, forward, give in, give out, give over, hand, hand out, hand over, pass, pass out, pass over, reach, refer, render, resign, summit, surrender, transfer, turn over

• hand on, abalienate, add a codicil, alien, alienate, amortize, assign, barter, bequeath, broadcast, carry over, cede, communicate, confer, consign, convey, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, deport, devise, devolve upon, diffuse, disseminate, enfeoff, entail, exchange, execute a will, expel, export, extradite, get across, get over, give, give title to, give word, hand, hand down, hand forward, hand over, impart, import, leave, leave word, make a bequest, make a will, make known, make over, metastasize, metathesize, negotiate, pass, pass along, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, relay, render, report, sell, send, send word, settle, settle on, share, share with, sign away, sign over, signal, spread, surrender, switch, tell, trade, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, turn over, will, will and bequeath, will to

• hand out, accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, award, bestow, bestow on, circulate, come across with, communicate, confer, deal, deal out, deliver, deliver over, devote, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole, dole out, donate, extend, fork out, fork over, forward, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give in, give out, give over, grant, hand, hand in, hand over, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, mete, mete out, offer, pass, pass out, pass over, pour, present, proffer, rain, reach, render, resign, serve, shell out, shower, slip, snow, surrender, tender, transfer, turn over, vouchsafe, yield

• hand over fist, amain, apace, at flank speed, at once, by forced marches, cursorily, double-quick, expeditiously, fast, feverishly, furiously, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in passing, in seven-league boots, instantly, lickety-cut, lickety-split, on the double, on the run, pell-mell, post, posthaste, promptly, quick, quickly, rapidly, slapdash, snappily, speedily, superficially, swiftly, trippingly, under forced draft, whip and spur, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with giant strides, with haste, with rapid strides, with speed

• hand over, abalienate, abandon, abdicate, abjure, acknowledge defeat, alien, alienate, amortize, ante, ante up, assign, barter, bequeath, carry over, cease, cede, circulate, come across with, commend, communicate, confer, confide, consign, convey, cry quits, deed, deed over, deliver, deliver over, demise, deport, desist from, devolve upon, diffuse, dispense, disseminate, distribute, drop, enfeoff, entrust, exchange, expel, export, extradite, feed, find, forgo, fork over, forswear, forward, give, give in, give out, give over, give title to, give up, hand, hand down, hand forward, hand in, hand on, hand out, have done with, impart, import, lay down, leave, leave off, make over, metastasize, metathesize, negotiate, pass, pass on, pass out, pass over, pass the buck, pay over, perfuse, provide, put down, put up, reach, relay, relegate, relinquish, render, renounce, resign, sell, settle, settle on, sign away, sign over, spread, supply, surrender, switch, throw up, trade, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, turn over, turn up, waive, yield

• hand, Adamite, John Hancock, X, abalienate, accessible, acclaim, acclamation, accomplished fact, accomplishment, ace, achievement, act, acta, action, administration, adventure, agency, aid, alien, alienate, amortize, angle, appendage, applause, approaching, arm, arrow, aspect, assign, assist, assistance, at hand, auspices, authority, autograph, autography, bakehead, bank, barter, beam, being, bequeath, best bower, big hand, black gang, blaze, blow, blue-collar worker, body, boilerman, boost, border, bough, bower, branch, breadwinner, broadside, buck, bungs, burst of applause, cabin boy, calligraphy, cards, care, casual, casual laborer, cat, cede, chap, character, charge, cheek, cheer, chips, chirography, chop, christcross, cipher, circulate, clap, clapping, clapping of hands, claws, close, close by, closely, clubs, clutches, coast, come across with, comfort, command, commissary steward, common laborer, compass needle, complement, confer, connivingly, consign, control, convenient, convey, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, coup, creature, cross, cure, custodianship, custody, customer, day laborer, deal out, dealings, deck, deckhand, deckie, deed, deed over, deliver, deliver over, demise, deuce, device, devolve upon, diamonds, digits, direction, direction post, disburse, dish out, dispense, disposal, disposition, disseminate, distribute, doing, doings, dole out, domination, dominion, duck, dummy, earthling, easily, eclat, effort, effortlessly, empery, empire, employee, encore, endeavor, endorsement, enfeoff, enterprise, exchange, exploit, face cards, facet, factory worker, fait accompli, fangs, feat, feed, fellow, find, finger post, fingernails, fingers, fireman, fist, flank, flush, fork over, forward, free lance, free-lancer, full house, full-time worker, gest, give, give in, give out, give over, give title to, give up, go, governance, government, graphanalysis, graphology, graphometry, grasp, grip, gripe, groundling, guardianship, guidance, guide, guideboard, guidepost, gun loader, gunner, guy, hand, hand down, hand in, hand in glove, hand in hand, hand on, hand out, hand over, handclap, handclapping, handedness, handiwork, hands, hands down, handwriting, handy, haunch, head, hearts, helm, help, helping hand, hip, hold, homo, hooks, hospital steward, hour hand, human, human being, imminent, imp, in cahoots, in collusion, in league, index, index finger, indicator, individual, industrial worker, influence, initials, intimately, involvement, iron hand, jack, jaws, job, jobber, jobholder, joint, jointly, joker, jowl, jurisdiction, keeping, king, knave, laborer, laboring man, landing signalman, laterality, lead, left bower, leg, leg up, life, lift, like mad, limb, link, living soul, lobe, lobule, lubber line, mail orderly, make over, man, management, mandibles, maneuver, manuscript, many-sidedness, mark, mark of signature, mastership, mastery, maxillae, measure, meathooks, member, menial, mete out, migrant, milepost, ministry, minute hand, mitts, moiler, monogram, mortal, move, multilaterality, nails, navigator, navvy, near, nearby, needle, negotiate, nippers, nose, offer, office temporary, offshoot, oiler, on hand, one, operation, operative, organ, ovation, oversight, overt act, pack, pair, paleography, palm, part, participation, party, pass, pass on, pass out, pass over, passage, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, paw, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, performance, person, personage, personality, picture cards, pincers, pinion, planking, plaudit, playing cards, pointer, popularity, possession, pounces, power, present, present to, proceeding, production, proffer, profile, proletarian, protectorship, provide, purser, quarter, queen, quickly, radio operator, raj, ramification, rapidly, reach, readily, regnancy, reign, reins of government, relief, render, res gestae, resign, round, round of applause, roustabout, royal flush, rubber, ruff, rule, runner, safe hands, salaried worker, scion, script, scription, scrive, seal, self-employed person, sell, servant, settle, settle on, share, shoot, shore, side, siding, sigil, sign away, sign manual, sign over, signature, signboard, signet, signpost, single, singleton, snip, snips, somebody, someone, soul, sovereignty, spades, sparks, speedily, spray, sprig, spur, steadily, step, steward, stewardess, stewardship, stiff, stoker, straight, stroke, stunt, stylography, submit, subscription, succor, supervision, supply, support, surrender, sway, swiftly, switch, tail, talons, teeth, tellurian, temple, temporary, tender, tendril, terran, thing, thing done, thunder of applause, to hand, together, toiler, torpedoman, touch, tour de force, trade, transaction, transfer, transmit, trey, trick, trump, turn, turn over, tutelage, twig, undertaking, unguals, ungulae, unilaterality, visa, vise, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch, watch and ward, will, wing, work, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, works, worldling, yeoman, yield

• hand-in-hand, allied, approaching, approximate, approximating, arm-in-arm, assembled, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, burning, cheek-by-jowl, close, collected, conjoined, connected, copulate, coupled, familiar, gathered, hand and glove, hand-in-glove, hot, incorporated, inseparable, integrated, intimate, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, matched, mated, merged, near, near the mark, nearing, nearish, nigh, nighish, paired, propinque, proximal, proximate, side-by-side, spliced, thick, thick as thieves, tied, undivided, united, unseparated, vicinal, warm, wedded, yoked

• handbook, Baedeker, Yellow Pages, ante, bet, bibliography, book, business directory, catalog, checklist, chunk, city directory, classified directory, compendium, cookbook, cookery book, directory, enchiridion, field guide, finding list, gradus, guide, guidebook, handlist, hazard, how-to book, index, itinerary, manual, nature book, parlay, phone book, play, reference book, road map, roadbook, shot, stake, telephone book, telephone directory, travel book, vade mecum, wager

• handcuff, Oregon boat, anchor, bilbo, bind, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chain, chains, collar, cuffs, deflate, disarm, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, gag, gyve, gyves, halter, hamper, hamstring, handcuffs, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hopple, hopples, irons, knock out, lash, leading strings, leash, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, paralyze, peg down, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, prostrate, put in irons, reins, restrain, restraint, restraints, rope, secure, shackle, silence, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, strangle, stranglehold, strap, tether, throttle, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, trammels, truss up, yoke

• handed down, acknowledged, admitted, conventional, customary, established, fixed, folk, hallowed, heroic, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk, oral, prescriptive, received, recognized, rooted, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, worshipful

• handful, Augean task, Herculean task, a few, ace, atom, backbreaker, ballbuster, bit, bitch, bother, chore, couple, dab, dead lift, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, few, fistful, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, hard job, hard pull, heavy sledding, iota, jot, large order, limited number, little, little bit, man-sized job, minim, minimum, minutiae, mischief-maker, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nuisance, nutshell, only a few, ounce, particle, pebble, piddling few, piddling number, pinch, pittance, point, rough go, scattering, scruple, small number, smatter, smattering, smidgen, smitch, spatter, spattering, speck, spoonful, spot, sprinkling, tall order, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, too few, tough job, tough proposition, trickle, trifling amount, trivia, troublemaker, uphill work, whit

• handicap, Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, allowance, atrophy, bacterial disease, bale, bar, barrier, bear hard upon, birth defect, blight, block, bulge, burden, burdening, burthen, cardiovascular disease, cargo, charge, charging, chase, check, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, constraint, cramp, cripple, cross, cumber, cumbrance, curb, damage, deadweight, deadwood, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, detriment, difficulty, disability, disable, disadvantage, disease, disorder, distemper, drag, drawback, edge, embarrass, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, epidemic disease, fetter, flat race, freight, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, hamper, hamstring, handicap race, harm, harness race, head start, hereditary disease, hinder, hindrance, hobble, horse race, hurdle race, hurt, iatrogenic disease, illness, impairment, impede, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, injury, involve, lade, lading, lame, liability, lime, limit, limitation, load, loading, loss, loss of ground, lumber, malady, malaise, millstone, mischief, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, net, neurological disease, nutritional disease, obstacle, occupational disease, odds, onus, oppress, oppression, organic disease, overburden, overhand, overload, overtax, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, penalize, penalty, plant disease, plate race, prejudice, press down, press hard upon, pressure, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, punish, purse race, quarter-horse race, respiratory disease, rest hard upon, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, rockiness, saddle, saddle with, saddling, secondary disease, seediness, shackle, sickishness, sickness, signs, snarl, stake, stake race, start, steeplechase, step backward, stumbling block, superincumbency, surcharge, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, tangle, tax, taxing, the pip, toil, trammel, trotting race, trouble, urogenital disease, vantage, virus disease, wasting disease, weigh down, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, white elephant, worm disease

• handicapped, amputee, bad, castrated, cripple, crippled, defective, deformity, disabled, emasculated, game, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped person, hobbling, idiot, imbecile, incapable, incapacitated, lame, limping, maimed, paralytic, paraplegic, quadriplegic, spavined, the crippled, the handicapped

• handicraft, architecture, art, artisan work, artisanship, assembly, building, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, casting, composition, construction, conversion, craft, crafting, craftsmanship, craftwork, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, game, growing, handiwork, harvesting, industrial art, industrial design, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, machining, making, manual art, manufacture, manufacturing, metalcraft, metier, milling, mining, mission, molding, mystery, number, occupation, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, profession, pursuit, racket, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, specialization, specialty, stonecraft, trade, vocation, walk, walk of life, woodcraft, work, workmanship

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

• handiwork, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, architecture, artifact, assembly, blow, brainchild, building, casting, child, coinage, composition, concoction, construction, conversion, coup, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, dealings, deed, devising, dirty work, distillation, doing, doings, donkeywork, drudgery, effect, effort, elaboration, employment, end product, endeavor, enterprise, erection, essence, exploit, extract, extraction, fabrication, fag, fait accompli, fashioning, fatigue, feat, formation, forming, formulation, framing, fruit, gest, go, grind, growing, hand, handicraft, handwork, harvesting, industry, invention, issue, job, labor, lick, lick of work, machining, making, maneuver, manual labor, manufacture, manufacturing, masterpiece, masterwork, measure, milling, mining, mintage, moil, molding, move, new mintage, offspring, opera, operation, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, overt act, passage, performance, prefabrication, preparation, proceeding, processing, producing, product, production, raising, rat race, refining, res gestae, result, scut work, shaping, slavery, smelting, spadework, step, stroke, stroke of work, stunt, sweat, task, thing, thing done, tiresome work, toil, tour de force, transaction, travail, treadmill, turn, undertaking, work, workmanship, works

• handle, accomplish, act toward, administer, aim, air, alibi, analyze, apology, appellation, appellative, apply, be in, be responsible for, bed, bed down, behave toward, bestow, bilge, binomen, binomial name, blain, bleb, blind, blister, blob, boss, bow, brandish, break, bridle, brush, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, buy and sell, byname, byword, cahot, call the signals, canvass, captain, care for, caress, carry, carry on, carry out, carry through, chart a course, chine, cloak, clump, cognomen, color, come in contact, command, comment upon, complete, cond, conduct, condyle, conn, consider, contend with, control, controvert, convex, cope with, cover, cover story, cover-up, coxswain, criticize, cryptonym, curry, currycomb, deal by, deal in, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, denomination, descant, designation, device, direct, discharge, discourse, discourse about, discuss, dispatch, dispense, dispose of, dissert, dissertate, do by, do with, dominate, dowel, drench, drive, ear, employ, empty title, enact, engineer, epithet, eponym, euonym, examine, exchange views, excuse, execute, exercise, exert, exploit, facade, feed, feel, feel of, feint, finger, flange, flap, flick, flourish, fodder, fondle, front, gall, gentle, gloss, gnarl, go into, govern, grasp, grip, groom, guide, guise, haft, harness, have the conn, head, head up, helm, helve, hill, hilt, hitch, hold, honor, honorific, hump, hunch, hyponym, inquire into, investigate, job, jog, joggle, knob, knock around, knot, knur, knurl, label, lame excuse, lay, lead, lead on, level, lip, litter, locus standi, loop, lump, make, make go, make the rules, make use of, manage, maneuver, manipulate, market, mask, mastermind, merchandise, milk, mole, moniker, mountain, name, namesake, navigate, nevus, nomen, nomen nudum, nub, nubbin, nubble, officer, operate, order, ostensible motive, oversee, palm, palpate, papilloma, pass under review, pat, paw, peg, perform, perform on, pilot, play, ply, point, poke at, poor excuse, practice, prescribe, pretense, pretension, pretext, prod, proper name, proper noun, protestation, public motive, pull the strings, put-off, quarterback, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, refuge, regulate, remark upon, respond to, retail, review, rib, ridge, ring, rub down, run, saddle, scientific name, screen, secret name, see to, sell, semblance, serve, shake, sham, shape a course, shoulder, show, sift, skipper, smoke screen, sobriquet, spine, stalking-horse, steer, steward, stratagem, stud, study, style, subterfuge, supervise, survey, swing, tab, tackle, tag, take, take care of, take command, take the lead, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tame, tap, tautonym, tend, test, thresh out, thumb, title, touch, touch upon, trade in, traffic in, train, transact, treat, treat of, trick, trinomen, trinomial name, try, tubercle, tubercule, twiddle, use, utilize, varnish, veil, ventilate, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, water, wave, welt, wholesale, wield, work, write up, yoke

• handler, agent, athletic coach, coach, conductor, driller, drillmaster, driver, engineer, functionary, groomer, manipulator, operant, operative, operator, pilot, runner, steersman, trainer

• handling, accomplishment, achievement, action, administration, agency, authority, care, caressing, charge, command, commission, completion, conduct, control, custodianship, direction, discharge, dispatch, driving, effectuation, employment, enactment, execution, exercise, exploitation, feeling, fingering, friction, frottage, functioning, governance, government, guidance, husbandry, implementation, intendance, lead, leading, management, managery, managing, manipulation, means of dealing, occupation, operancy, operation, ordering, oversight, palpation, performance, performing, perpetration, petting, pilotage, practice, pressure, regulation, responsibility, rubbing, running, steerage, steering, stewardship, stroking, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, transaction, treatment, usage, using, utilization, work, working, workings

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

• handmaid, Charlie McCarthy, abigail, agent, amah, ancilla, appliance, au pair girl, ayah, betweenmaid, biddy, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, contrivance, cook, creature, device, duenna, dummy, dupe, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, gentlewoman, girl, go-between, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, implement, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lever, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, minion, nursemaid, organ, parlormaid, pawn, plaything, puppet, scullery maid, servant, servant girl, servitress, slave, soubrette, stooge, tool, toy, tweeny, upstairs maid, vehicle, waiting maid, wench

• handout, account, acquaintance, alms, alms fee, announcement, blue book, briefing, bulletin, charity, collection, communication, communique, contribution, data, datum, directory, dispatch, dole, donation, donative, enlightenment, evidence, facts, factual information, familiarization, gen, general information, guidebook, hard information, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, light, mention, message, notice, notification, offering, offertory, pittance, presentation, press release, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, release, report, sidelight, statement, subscription, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, tithe, transmission, votive offering, white book, white paper, word

• handpicked, accepted, adopted, appointed, approved, best, carried, champion, choice, chosen, designated, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, elite, embraced, espoused, for the best, greatest, matchless, named, nominated, optimal, optimum, paramount, passed, peerless, picked, prime, prize, quintessential, ratified, select, selected, supreme, surpassing, unanimously elected, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, very best

• hands, administration, authority, claws, clutches, command, control, disposition, domination, dominion, empery, empire, fighting force, firepower, forces, governance, government, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, iron hand, jurisdiction, mastership, mastery, men, personnel, power, raj, regnancy, reign, reins of government, rule, sovereignty, sway, talons, the big battalions, troops, units, work force

• handshake, accost, act up to, address, agree to anything, bob, bow, brown-nose, court, curry favor, curtsy, dance attendance on, embrace, fall all over, fall over, fawn upon, greeting, hail, hand-clasp, hello, how-do-you-do, hug, kiss, make court to, make up to, nod, pay court to, play up to, polish the apple, run after, salutation, salute, shine up to, smile, smile of recognition, suck up to, wave

• handsome, abundant, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, ample, attractive, august, beauteous, beautiful, big, bighearted, bonny, bounteous, bountiful, chic, chivalrous, comely, considerable, dashing, elegant, elevated, endowed with beauty, exalted, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fashionable, fine, flowerlike, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, good, good-looking, goodly, graceful, gracile, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, heavy, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, idealistic, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lofty, lovely, magnanimous, majestic, modish, munificent, noble, noble-minded, open, openhanded, openhearted, pretty, princely, profuse, pulchritudinous, sizeable, smart, stately, stintless, stylish, sublime, substantial, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

• handsomely, attractively, beauteously, beautifully, becomingly, bigheartedly, bounteously, bountifully, chivalrously, comelily, elegantly, exquisitely, freehandedly, freeheartedly, freely, generously, graciously, greatheartedly, hospitably, knightly, largeheartedly, lavishly, liberally, magnanimously, nobly, openhandedly, openheartedly, prettily, profusely, ungrudgingly, unselfishly, unsparingly, unstintingly, with both hands, with open hands, without stint

• handwriting on the wall, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, book of fate, constellation, cup, danger sign, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, early symptom, end, falling barometer, fatality, fate, foredoom, forewarning, fortune, future, gathering clouds, high sign, ides of March, inevitability, kismet, lot, moira, omen, planets, portion, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, skull and crossbones, stars, storm petrel, stormy petrel, symptom, thundercloud, thunderhead, unlucky day, warning, warning sign, warning signal, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, yellow flag, yellow jack

• handwriting, autography, calligraphy, chirography, fist, graphanalysis, graphology, graphometry, hand, longhand, manuscript, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, script, scription, scrive, stylography

• handy man, Admirable Crichton, adept, artisan, artist, attache, authority, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, diplomat, diplomatist, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, graduate, journeyman, marksman, no slouch, politician, pro, professional, professor, proficient, savant, shark, sharp, statesman, technical adviser, technician

• handy, Daedalian, accessible, adaptable, adept, adjacent, adroit, agential, agentival, agentive, all-around, apt, artistic, assisting, at hand, authoritative, available, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, close by, close-by, compact, conducive, convenient, convenient to, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diminutive, diplomatic, ductile, duodecimo, easily reached, employable, excellent, expert, facilitating, fancy, favoring, feasible, flexible, foolproof, forwarding, good, goodish, graceful, helpful, ingenious, instrumental, intermediary, magisterial, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, masterful, masterly, mediating, mediatorial, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, ministerial, ministering, minuscule, nearby, neat, nimble, no mean, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, pliable, pliant, pocket, pocket-sized, politic, pony, practical, professional, proficient, promoting, propinquant, propinquous, quick, quite some, ready, ready at hand, resourceful, serviceable, skilled, skillful, slick, small-scale, some, statesmanlike, stylish, subminiature, subservient, tactful, the compleat, the complete, to hand, toy, tractable, twelvemo, untroublesome, usable, useful, versatile, vest-pocket, virtuoso, well-done, wieldable, wieldy, workmanlike, yielding

• hang about, around, clasp, cling to, dangle, follow, follow at heel, follow close upon, follow the crowd, go with, hover over, huddle, hug, hug the shore, keep close to, lie by, march with, stand by, stay inshore, stay near, tailgate

• hang around with, accompany, associate, associate with, assort with, attend, band together, chum, chum together, chum with, clique, clique with, club together, combine, companion, confederate, consociate, consort with, couple with, fellowship, flock together, fraternize, go along with, go with, hang out with, herd together, hobnob with, join, join in fellowship, keep company with, mingle with, mix with, pal, pal up with, pal with, run in couples, run with, sort with, take up with, tie up with, wait on

• hang around, abide, affect, await, bide, bide the issue, bum around, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, do nothing, frequent, goof off, hang about, hang out, hang out at, haunt, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, idle, laze, lazy, lie around, linger, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, mark time, mooch around, moon, moon around, resort, resort to, sit around, sit tight, sit up, slouch, slouch around, stand around, stay, stay up, stick around, take time, tarry, wait, wait a minute, wait and see

• hang back, avoid, back down, balance, be dilatory, blench, blink, boggle, cringe, dawdle, debate, deliberate, demur, dodge, drag, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, fall behind, falter, fear, fight shy of, filibuster, flinch, gain time, get behind, hang, hang fire, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, hover, hum and haw, jib, lag, linger, linger behind, loiter, make bones about, make time, pause, play for time, ponder, procrastinate, pull back, quail, recoil, reel back, retreat, scruple, sheer off, shilly-shally, shrink, shrink back, shy, shy at, sidestep, stall, stall for time, stall off, start aside, start back, stick at, stickle, stooge around, stop to consider, straddle the fence, straggle, strain, strain at, swerve, talk against time, temporize, think twice about, trail, trail behind, turn aside, waver, weasel, weasel out, wince, withdraw, yield

• hang fire, adjourn, be a sideliner, be dilatory, be still, be unproductive, bring up, bring up short, cease fire, coast, come to naught, come to nothing, come up short, continue, defer, delay, do nothing, drag out, draw up, drift, extend, fetch up, filibuster, fizzle out, fust, gain time, halt, hang, hang back, hang up, hesitate, hibernate, hold off, hold over, hold up, idle, lay aside, lay by, lay over, lie dormant, lie fallow, make time, not budge, not stir, peter out, pigeonhole, play for time, postpone, procrastinate, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, pull up, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, reserve, rest, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sit back, sit it out, sleep, sleep on, slumber, smolder, stagnate, stall, stall for time, stall off, stand over, stave off, stay, stick, stooge around, stop, stop dead, stop short, stretch out, suspend, table, take a recess, talk against time, temporize, vegetate, wait and see, waive, watch and wait

• hang in effigy, attaint, bespatter, blacken, blot, blow upon, brand, censure, defame, defile, disapprove, disparage, expose, expose to infamy, gibbet, pillory, reprimand, slur, smear, soil, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish, vilify

• hang in, abide, abide with, bear, bear up, bear with, bide, brave, brook, come up fighting, dig in, endure, get along, get on, go on, go on with, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, keep at it, keep up, live through it, live with it, lump, lump it, make out, manage, never say die, not flag, not give up, not weaken, persevere, persist, put up with, remain firm, see it out, see it through, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand for, stand no nonsense, stand the gaff, stand up, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick fast, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, suffer, support, survive, sustain, sweat it out, take it, take up with, take what comes, tolerate, tough it out

• hang off, blench, boggle, demur, falter, fight shy of, flinch, hang back, have qualms, hesitate, hold off, make bones about, pause, pull back, quail, recoil, scruple, shrink, shy, shy at, stick at, stickle, strain, waver, wince

• hang on, account for, accredit with, accrete to, accrue from, acknowledge, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, all depend, apply to, arise from, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attribute to, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be due to, be predicated on, be spared, bear up, bite, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, bud from, bunch, carry on, charge on, charge to, cheat death, clasp, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clip, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, come from, come out of, come up fighting, confess, congeal, conglomerate, connect with, credit with, depend, depend on, derive from, descend from, emanate from, embrace, emerge from, endure, ensue from, fasten upon, father upon, fix on, fix upon, flow from, follow from, freeze to, germinate from, go on, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow from, grow out of, grow together, hang, hang in, hang in suspense, hang in there, hang on to, hang together, hang tough, hinge, hinge on, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold out, hold tight, hold together, hold up, hug, impute to, issue from, keep alive, keep hold of, last, lay to, lie on, lie with, live through it, live with it, mass, never let go, never say die, nip, not give up, originate in, pend, persist, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point to, proceed from, refer to, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, saddle on, saddle with, set, set down to, settle upon, solidify, spring from, sprout from, stand on, stand up, stay, stay it out, stay put, stay the distance, stay with it, stem from, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to, stick to it, stick together, stick with it, support life, survive, take hold of, tough it out, turn on, turn upon

• hang out, abide, affect, aller sans dire, be conspicuous, be exposed, be found, be manifest, be no secret, beetle, berth, betray itself, bide, bunk, cohabit, come across, come along, come out, come to hand, come to light, crop out, dig, discover itself, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dwell, frequent, glare, go without saying, hang around, hang out at, hang over, haunt, have high visibility, impend, impend over, inhabit, jut, live, lodge, materialize, need no explanation, nest, occupy, overhang, perch, project, project over, remain, reside, resort, resort to, room, roost, sauter aux yeux, shout, show up, speak for itself, squat, stand out, stay, stick out, strike the eye, tenant, thrust over, turn up

• hang over, approach, arch over, await, be imminent, be in store, beetle, bestraddle, bestride, brew, bridge, come on, confront, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, extend over, face, forthcome, gather, hang out, hover, imbricate, impend, impend over, jut, lap, lap over, lie over, loom, lower, menace, near, overarch, overhang, overlap, overlie, override, project, project over, shingle, span, threaten, thrust over

• hang together, accord, act in concert, act together, adhere, affiliate, agglomerate, agree, ally, amalgamate, answer to, assent, associate, assort with, band, band together, be consistent, be in league, be of one, be uniform with, bunch, check, chime, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, club together, cluster, coact, coagulate, coalesce, cohere, coincide, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, communicate, concert, concord, concur, confederate, conform, conform with, congeal, conglomerate, connect, consist with, consolidate, conspire, converge, cooperate, correspond, do business with, dovetail, embrace, fall in together, federate, fit together, freeze to, fuse, get heads together, get together, go partners, go together, go with, grasp, grow together, hang on, harmonize, hit, hold, hold on, hold together, hook up, hug, intercommunicate, interlock, intersect, jibe, join, join in, join together, keep together, knit, league, league together, lock, make common cause, mass, match, meet, merge, overlap, parallel, partner, persist, play ball, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, register, register with, respond to, set, sing in chorus, solidify, sort with, square, square with, stand together, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, take hold of, tally, team up, throw in together, tie in, tie up, unite, unite efforts, work together

• hang up, adjourn, afterthought, bind, block, blockade, blockage, blow up, bog down, bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, buzz, call, call up, catch, come to nothing, complex, compulsion, continue, cordon, curtain, decelerate, defer, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detain, detention, determent, deterrent, dial, difficulty, double take, drag out, dragging, drawback, explode, extend, fail miserably, fascination, fasten up, fixation, fixed idea, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, get nowhere, give a ring, go phut, halt, hang, hang fire, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hold off, hold over, hold the phone, hold up, holdup, hurdle, hypercathexis, idee fixe, interim, irresistible impulse, jam, joker, lag, lagging, lay aside, lay by, lay over, listen in, logjam, make a call, mire, misfire, monomania, moratorium, morbid drive, objection, obsession, obsessive compulsion, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, paperasserie, pause, phone, pigeonhole, poop out, possession, postpone, preoccupation, prepossession, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, put up, recess, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reprieve, reserve, respite, retard, retardance, retardation, ring, ring off, ring up, rub, ruling passion, set aside, set back, set by, shelve, shift off, slacken, sleep on, sling, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snag, stand over, stave off, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, stretch out, stumbling block, stumbling stone, suspend, suspension, table, take a recess, telephone, tic, tie-up, time lag, wait, waive

• hang, act in concert, adhere, all depend, and quarter, art, aspire, associate with, attach, bag, be based on, be consistent, be contingent on, be dependent on, be dilatory, be logical, be poised, be predicated on, become airborne, beetle, carry on, cascade, claw skyward, cling, cling to, clutch, cohere, consort with, cooperate, correspond, craft, cut off, daggle, dally, dangle, decline, declivity, delay, depend, depend on, descent, dip, disconnect, downgate, downgrade, downhill, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, draw, droop, drop, endure, execute, fall, falling-off, falter, fasten up, feel, filibuster, fix, flap, float, flop, flow, fly, fly aloft, fraternize with, frequent, gain altitude, gain time, gibbet, go on, grab, grasp, grip, hang about, hang around, hang back, hang down, hang fire, hang in suspense, hang in there, hang on, hang on to, hang out, hang out with, hang over, hang together, hang up, hanging, haunt, hesitate, hinge, hinge on, hobnob with, hold off, hold on to, hold out, hold the phone, hold up, hook, hover, idle, join forces, jut, kill, kite, knack, lean over, leave the ground, lie on, lie with, linger, loiter, loll, lop, lynch, make sense, make time, mingle with, mix with, neck, nod, noose, overhang, pend, persevere, persist, pin, plane, play for time, poise, procrastinate, put up, rely on, remain, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, sag, scrag, shrink from, skill, sling, soar, spire, stall, stall for time, stall off, stand, stand on, stay, stick, stick together, stooge around, stop, stretch, string up, suspend, swag, swing, tack up, take off, talk against time, tarry, temporize, touch, trail, trick, turn, turn off, turn on, turn upon, unite, visit, wait, way, weep, zoom

• hangdog, abashed, abject, ashamed, backscratching, beggarly, blushing, bootlicking, chagrined, chapfallen, cowering, crawling, crestfallen, cringing, crouching, crushed, embarrassed, fawning, flattering, footlicking, groveling, humbled, humiliated, ingratiating, mealymouthed, mortified, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, out of countenance, parasitic, prostrate, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sniveling, sponging, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling

• hanger on, adherent, appendage, attendant, barnacle, bloodsucker, buff, bystander, cavaliere servente, courtier, creature, dangler, dependent, disciple, dummy, fan, feudatory, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, freeloader, gillie, goon, hatchet man, heeler, henchman, homager, homme de cour, inferior, jackal, lackey, leech, liege, liege man, lounge lizard, man, minion, myrmidon, parasite, partisan, peon, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, retainer, satellite, sectary, serf, servant, shadow, slave, spectator, spiv, sponge, sponger, stooge, subordinate, successor, sucker, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, thug, trainbearer, underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, ward heeler, yeoman

• hanger, afforestation, arboretum, banner, banner head, bar, belt, boom, boondocks, braces, bush, bushveld, button, caption, chase, climax forest, clotheshorse, clothespin, cloud forest, crane, dendrology, drape, drop head, dropline, ear lobe, epigraph, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest, gallery forest, gallows, galluses, garter, gibbet, greenwood, hake, hanging, head, heading, headline, hook, horse, index forest, jump head, jungle, jungles, knob, lappet, legend, lobation, lobe, lobule, motto, nail, national forest, overline, pair of suspenders, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, peg, pendant, pine barrens, pothook, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, ring, rubric, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shrubland, silviculture, spar, spread, spreadhead, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, streamer, stud, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superscription, supporter, suspender, suspenders, suspensory, timber, timberland, title, title page, tree veld, uvula, virgin forest, wildwood, wood, woodland, woods, yard, yardarm

• hanging, act drop, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, bagging, baggy, batten, beheading, blanket, border, burning, capital punishment, cascading, cloak, cloth, coat, coulisse, counterweight, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crucifixion, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, danglement, dangling, decapitation, decline, declivity, decollation, decor, defenestration, dependence, dependency, dependent, depending, descent, dip, downcast, downgate, downgrade, downhanging, downhill, downturned, drape, drapery, drooping, drop, drop curtain, ear lobe, easy, electrocution, execution, fall, falling, falling loosely, falling-off, fire curtain, flapping, flat, flipper, flowing, fusillade, garrote, gassing, guise, hang, hanger, hemlock, hood, housing, hung, judicial murder, lapidation, lappet, lax, lobation, lobe, lobule, loose, mantle, mask, necktie party, pall, pendant, pendency, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulosity, pendulous, pendulousness, pensile, pensileness, pensility, poisoning, rag, relaxed, rickety, scene, scenery, screen, shaky, shelter, shield, shooting, shroud, side scene, slack, sloppy, stage screw, stoning, strangling, strangulation, streaming, suspended, suspense, suspension, swinging, tab, tableau, teaser, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, uvula, veil, vestment, weeping, wing, wingcut, woodcut

• hangout, baths, casino, club, clubhouse, gambling house, gathering place, haunt, health resort, honky-tonk, joint, meeting place, purlieu, rallying point, rendezvous, resort, spa, springs, stamping ground, watering place

• hangover, Dutch courage, a high, afterlife, befuddlement, besottedness, drunkenness, following, fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement, future time, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, katzenjammer, lateness, morning after, next life, postdate, postdating, posteriority, pot-valiance, pot-valor, provenience, remainder, sequence, sottedness, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, tipsiness

• hank, animal fiber, artificial fiber, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, gossamer, hair, skein, strand, suture, tendril, thread, threadlet, web

• hanker, ache, covet, crave, desire, fancy, hunger, hunger after, hunger for, itch for, long for, lust, lust after, lust for, pine, pine for, sigh, thirst, thirst after, thirst for, want, wish, yearn, yearn for, yen

• hankering, Heimweh, aching, desiderium, homesick, homesickness, honing, languishing, languishment, longing, mal du pays, maladie du pays, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pining, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning, yen

• hanky panky, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amour, conjuration, cuckoldry, entanglement, escamotage, eternal triangle, flirtation, forbidden love, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, illicit love, infidelity, intrigue, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, juggling, legerdemain, liaison, love affair, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, prestidigitation, romance, romantic tie, sleight of hand, triangle, trickery, unfaithfulness

• hap, accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, adventure, be found, be met with, be realized, bechance, befall, betide, break, bundle up, casualness, casualty, chance, chance hit, circumstance, come, come about, come along, come down, come off, come to pass, come true, contingency, contingent, destiny, develop, episode, event, eventuate, experience, fact, fall, fate, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, freak accident, gamble, go, go off, good fortune, good luck, happen, happen along, happen by chance, happening, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, heedless hap, how they fall, incident, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, long odds, long shot, lot, luck, lucky shot, matter of fact, moira, muffle, occasion, occur, occurrence, opportunity, particular, pass, pass off, phenomenon, pop up, portion, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, reality, risk, run of luck, serendipity, statistical probability, take place, the breaks, theory of probability, transpire, turn of events, turn up, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes, wrap up

• haphazard, accidental, accidentally, ad-lib, aimless, aimlessly, amorphous, any which way, anyhow, anywise, around, at random, botched, bungling, capricious, careless, carelessly, casual, casually, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, causeless, chance-medley, clumsy, deficient, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, erratic, extemporaneous, extemporized, fitful, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, half-assed, haphazardly, hasty, helter-skelter, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impromptu, improvised, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, inexplicable, irregular, makeshift, meaningless, messy, mindless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, potluck, precipitate, promiscuous, promiscuously, purposeless, random, random shot, randomly, rough-and-ready, senseless, shapeless, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, snap, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, systemless, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, tripped up, unaccountable, unarranged, unbegun, unclassified, unconcocted, unconsidered, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, undirected, ungraded, unhatched, unjoined, unmade, unmanufactured, unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unsorted, unstudied, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, vague, wandering

• haphazardly, about, aimlessly, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, at haphazard, at hazard, at intervals, at random, brokenly, bunglingly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by skips, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, disregardfully, dysteleologically, erratically, fitfully, forgetfully, heedlessly, helter-skelter, here and there, hit and miss, hit or miss, in snatches, in spots, inattentively, inconsiderately, indiscriminately, inexplicably, infrequently, intermittently, irregularly, messily, occasionally, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, per saltum, perfunctorily, promiscuously, purposelessly, randomly, recklessly, regardlessly, skippingly, slapdash, sloppily, spasmodically, sporadically, stochastically, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unaccountably, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmethodically, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unsystematically, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily, willy-nilly

• hapless, badly off, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, evil-starred, fatal, fortuneless, funest, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infelicitous, luckless, miserable, ominous, out of luck, planet-struck, sad, short of luck, star-crossed, unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, woeful, wretched

• happen upon, alight upon, blunder upon, bump into, chance upon, come across, come on, come up against, come upon, discover serendipitously, encounter, fall in with, hit upon, light upon, meet up with, meet with, run across, run into, run up against, stumble on, stumble upon, tumble on

• happen, be found, be met with, be realized, bechance, become of, befall, betide, break, bump, chance, come, come about, come along, come down, come off, come to pass, come true, come upon, cook, develop, do, encounter, eventuate, fall, fall out, find, give, go, go off, go on, hap, happen along, happen by chance, hazard, hit, light, luck, materialize, meet, meet with, occur, pass, pass off, pop up, prove, rise, stumble, stumble on, stumble upon, take place, transpire, tumble, turn out, turn up

• happening, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, accident, accidental, accompanying, ado, adventure, afloat, afoot, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, casualty, chance, chance hit, charade, circumstance, circumstantial, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, contingency, contingent, critical success, current, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, doing, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, episode, event, eventuating, experience, experimental theater, extravaganza, fact, failure, flop, fluke, fortuity, freak accident, gasser, giveaway, go, going on, hap, happenstance, hazard, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, in hand, in the wind, incident, incidental, legitimate drama, long odds, long shot, lucky shot, masque, matter of fact, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, occasion, occasional, occurrence, occurring, on, on foot, ongoing, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, particular, passing, pastoral, pastoral drama, phenomenon, piece, play, playlet, prevailing, prevalent, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, reality, resultant, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, taking place, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, thing, total theater, turn of events, under way, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• happenstance, accessory, accident, accidental, accidentality, actuarial calculation, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventitiousness, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, auxiliary, break, casualness, casualty, chance, chance hit, circumstance, collateral, contingency, contingent, destiny, episode, event, experience, extra, fact, fate, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, freak accident, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happening, happy chance, hazard, heedless hap, how they fall, incident, incidental, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, inessential, law of averages, long odds, long shot, lot, luck, lucky shot, matter of fact, mere chance, moira, nonessential, not-self, occasion, occurrence, opportunity, other, particular, phenomenon, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, reality, risk, run of luck, secondary, serendipity, statistical probability, subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, the breaks, theory of probability, turn of events, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unessential, whatever comes

• happily, agreeably, airily, blessedly, blissfully, blithely, cheerfully, cheerily, delightedly, ecstatically, elatedly, enthusiastically, exultantly, favorably, fortunately, gaily, genially, gladly, gleefully, heartily, hopefully, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, jubilantly, lightly, luckily, merrily, opportunely, optimistically, peaceably, pleasantly, propitiously, prosperously, providentially, rapturously, rhapsodically, satisfyingly, smilingly, successfully, swimmingly, willingly, with good cheer, with pleasure

• happiness, Easy Street, acceptance, affluence, appropriateness, beatification, beatitude, becomingness, bed of roses, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, blithesomeness, brightness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, civility, cloud nine, clover, comfort, composure, content, contentedness, contentment, decency, decorousness, decorum, delectation, delight, ease, easy circumstances, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, entire satisfaction, eupeptic mien, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fitness, fittingness, fleshpots, fulfillment, gaiety, geniality, genteelness, gentility, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, good cheer, gracious life, gracious living, heaven, high spirits, hopefulness, intoxication, jollity, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, meetness, optimism, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, peace of mind, pleasantness, pleasure, properness, propriety, prosperity, prosperousness, radiance, rapture, ravishment, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, rightness, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness, satisfaction, security, seemliness, seventh heaven, success, suitability, sunniness, sunshine, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, transport, unalloyed happiness, upward mobility, urbanity, velvet, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, winsomeness

• happy hour, break, breath, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, cigarette break, cocktail hour, coffee break, downtime, enforced respite, halt, interlude, intermission, letup, lull, pause, recess, respite, rest, spell, stay, surcease, suspension, tea break, time out

• happy medium, abnegation, abstinence, average, balance, calm, calmness, center, compromise, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, evenness, fence, generality, gentleness, golden mean, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, mean, meden agan, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutral ground, neutrality, nonviolence, norm, normal, nothing in excess, pacifism, par, prudence, repose, restraint, rule, run, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, via media

• happy, a propos, accepting, accidental, ad rem, adapted, addled, advantageous, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, at ease, auspicious, beaming, beatific, beatified, becoming, beery, befitting, bemused, beneficial, benign, benignant, besotted, blessed, blind drunk, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, capering, casual, cheerful, cheery, chirping, civil, cock-a-hoop, cogent, comely, comfortable, composed, congruous, content, contented, convenient, convincing, correct, crapulent, crapulous, dancing, decent, decorous, delighted, desirable, dizzy, dovetailing, drenched, drunk, drunken, easy, easygoing, ecstatic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, expedient, exuberant, exultant, fair, far-gone, favorable, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, flushed, flushed with joy, flustered, fortuitous, fortunate, fou, fructuous, full, full of promise, gay, geared, genial, genteel, giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glorious, glowing, golden, good, gratified, high, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, in liquor, in seventh heaven, incidental, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inspired, intoxicated, irrepressible, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, just, just right, laughing, leaping, light-hearted, lighthearted, likely, lucky, maudlin, meet, mellow, merry, meshing, muddled, nappy, nice, of good cheer, of good comfort, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, on cloud nine, on the button, opportune, optimistic, overjoyed, pat, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, politic, profitable, promising, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, purring, qualified, radiant, recommendable, reconciled, reeling, relevant, resigned, riant, right, ripe, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, sans souci, satisfied, seasonable, seemly, shikker, singing, smiling, smirking, sodden, sortable, sotted, sparkling, starry-eyed, suitable, suited, suiting, sunny, tailored, telling, thrice happy, thrilled, tickled pink, tiddly, timely, tipsy, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, uncomplaining, under the influence, unrepining, urbane, useful, well, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, winsome, wise, without care, worthwhile

• harangue, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk, debate, declaim, declamation, demagogue, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, elocute, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, explain, exposit, exposition, expound, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, hold forth, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, moralize, mouth, object lesson, orate, oration, out-herod Herod, pep talk, perorate, peroration, philippic, pitch, point a moral, pontificate, preach, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, rabble-rouse, rant, rant and rave, rave, read, read a lesson, reading, recital, recitation, recite, rodomontade, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, sermonize, set speech, set task, skull session, soapbox, speech, speechification, speeching, spiel, spout, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, tirade, tub-thump, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vituperate, vituperation

• harass, abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, ail, annoy, badger, bait, be at, be the matter, beat, bedevil, befoul, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bewitch, blight, blockade, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, bother, bristle, browbeat, brown off, bug, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, burn out, burn up, chevy, chivy, complicate matters, concern, condemn, corrupt, cow, crucify, curse, damage, debilitate, defile, demoralize, deprave, despoil, destroy, devil, disadvantage, discommode, discompose, disserve, distemper, distress, disturb, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do in, do up, do wrong, do wrong by, dog, doom, dragoon, encircle, encompass, enervate, envelop, envenom, exasperate, exercise, exhaust, fag, fag out, fash, fatigue, flag, foray, frazzle, fret, get, get into trouble, gnaw, gripe, harm, harry, haunt, heckle, hector, hex, hound, huff, hunt, hurt, impair, inconvenience, infect, injure, intimidate, invest, irk, irritate, jade, jinx, knock out, knock up, lay siege to, maltreat, maraud, menace, miff, mistreat, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outrage, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pain, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick at, pick on, pique, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, pluck the beard, poison, pollute, poop, poop out, pother, prejudice, prostrate, provoke, pursue, put out, put to it, puzzle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, savage, scathe, soften up, strain, stress, surround, systematically terrorize, taint, tease, terrorize, threaten, tire, tire out, tire to death, torment, torture, trouble, try, try the patience, tucker, tweak the nose, use up, vex, victimize, violate, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, wilt, wind, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

• harassed, annoyed, anxious, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bothered, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, distracted, distrait, distressed, dogged, embarrassed, fretted, harried, haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, inconvenienced, irked, needled, nipped at, persecuted, perturbed, pestered, picked on, plagued, put to it, puzzled, ragged, sore beset, teased, tormented, troubled, vexed, worried, worried sick, worried stiff

• harassing, aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, chafing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying

• harassment, McCarthyism, aggravation, annoyance, annoyingness, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation, fretting, harrying, headache, hounding, irking, irksomeness, irritation, molestation, nuisance, oppression, persecution, perturbation, peskiness, pest, pestiferousness, plaguesomeness, problem, provocation, provoking, provokingness, red-baiting, tiresomeness, torment, tormenting, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, vexation, vexatiousness, vexing, victimization, wearisomeness, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrisomeness, worry, worrying

• harbinger, Gabriel, ancestor, announce, announcer, antecedent, augury, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, buccinator novi temporis, bushwhacker, evangel, evangelist, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, foreshadower, foreshow, foretoken, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, give notice, groundbreaker, guide, herald, herald angel, innovator, lead runner, leader, messenger, notify, omen, outrider, pathfinder, pioneer, point, portent, preannounce, precedent, precursor, predecessor, preindicate, premonitor, presage, presager, proclaim, run before, scout, sign, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker

• harbor, accommodate, anchorage, anchorage ground, arm, armlet, armor, asylum, basin, bay, bayou, bear, bed, belt, berth, bestow, bight, billet, board, boca, bosom, bourn, breakwater, bulkhead, bunk, cabin, camp, chamber, champion, cherish, chuck, cling to, clip, cloak, compass about, conceal, copyright, cove, cover, covert, creek, cushion, defend, destination, dock, dockage, dockyard, domicile, domiciliate, dry dock, embankment, embosom, embrace, encamp, ensure, entertain, estuary, euripus, fence, fend, fjord, fondle, forest preserve, foster, frith, game preserve, game sanctuary, goal, groin, guarantee, guard, gulf, gut, harbor of refuge, harborage, have, have and hold, haven, hide, hold, hold on to, house, hug, hut, inlet, insure, jetty, jutty, keep, keep from harm, keep safe, kyle, landing, landing place, landing stage, last stop, loch, lodge, lough, maintain, make safe, marina, mole, mooring, moorings, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nestle, nurse, nurture, patent, pier, police, port, preserve, protect, protected anchorage, put up, quarter, quay, reach, refuge, register, retain, retreat, ride shotgun for, riding, road, roads, roadstead, roof, room, roost, safe haven, safeguard, safehold, sanctuary, screen, seaport, seawall, secrete, secure, shelter, shield, shipyard, shroud, slip, snug harbor, sound, stable, stop, stopping place, strait, straits, stronghold, terminal, terminal point, terminus, treasure, treasure up, underwrite, wharf

• hard and fast, absolute, aground, authoritative, binding, canonical, compulsory, conclusive, decisive, decretory, dictated, didactic, entailed, final, formulary, hard-and-fast, imperative, imposed, instructive, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, obligatory, official, on the rocks, peremptory, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, regulation, required, rubric, standard, statutory, ultimate, without appeal

• hard core, adamant, adamantine, ardent, cast-iron, dour, fanatic, fiery, firm, flaming, flinty, grim, hard, heated, hot, hotheaded, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inelastic, inexorable, inflamed, inflexible, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, madcap, passionate, red-hot, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, scorching, steely, stern, stiff, totally committed, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unyielding, white-hot, zealous

• hard earned, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful, exacting, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, intricate, jawbreaking, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strained, strenuous, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, wearisome, wicked

• hard feelings, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, animosity, animus, asperity, bad blood, bad feeling, bile, bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, choler, disaffinity, feud, gall, gnashing of teeth, hardheartedness, heartburning, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, immediate dislike, personality conflict, rancor, rankling, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spleen, vendetta, venom, virulence, vitriol

• hard fought, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful, exacting, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard-earned, heavy, hefty, intricate, jawbreaking, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strained, strenuous, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, wearisome, wicked

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

• hard hat, Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, aegis, arm guard, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper, chauvin, chauvinist, conservatist, conservative, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, diehard, dodger, extreme right-winger, face mask, fender, finger guard, flag waver, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, helmet, hundred-percent American, hundred-percenter, imperialist, insulation, interlock, jingo, jingoist, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, monarchist, mudguard, nationalist, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, patent, patriot, patrioteer, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, sun helmet, superpatriot, ultraconservative, ultranationalist, umbrella, windscreen, windshield

• hard job, Augean task, Herculean task, arduousness, backbreaker, backbreaking work, ballbuster, bitch, burdensomeness, chore, dead lift, effortfulness, handful, hard labor, hard pull, hard work, heavy sledding, laboriousness, large order, man-sized job, onerousness, oppressiveness, rough go, strenuousness, tall order, toilsomeness, tough job, tough proposition, troublesomeness, uphill work, warm work

• hard labor, arduousness, backbreaking work, burdensomeness, confinement, dismemberment, effortfulness, estrapade, galleys, hard job, hard work, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, laboriousness, martyrdom, onerousness, oppressiveness, penal servitude, picketing, railriding, rock pile, strappado, strenuousness, tar-and-feathering, the gantlet, toilsomeness, torment, torture, troublesomeness, uphill work, warm work

• hard life, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, blight, bummer, care, cross, curse, difficulties, difficulty, downer, hard knocks, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, irritation, plight, predicament, pressure, rigor, sea of troubles, stress, stress of life, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, vicissitude

• hard pressed, at the double, crowded, desperate, double-quick, double-time, hard up, hard-pressed, hard-pushed, hard-run, hurried, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, on the double, pinched, pressed, pressed for time, pushed, rushed, sorely pressed, straitened, up against it

• hard rock, acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, bebop, boogie-woogie, bop, country rock, dance music, dances, folk rock, hot jazz, jazz, jive, mainstream jazz, musical suite, rag, ragtime, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, suite, suite of dances, swing, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music

• hard stuff, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, addictive drug, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, candy, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, dangerous drug, depressant, depressor, dolly, dope, downer, drug, goofball, hard drug, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, stuff, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• hard up, badly off, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard pressed, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, land-poor, narrow, on the edge, out of pocket, pinched, poor, poorly off, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, sorely pressed, squeezed, straitened, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous, up against it

• hard, Herculean, Philistine, about, absolute, abstruse, accented, acerb, acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, actively, acute, adamant, adamantine, addictive, adverse, afflictive, agonizing, agonizingly, alcoholic, all but, almost, along toward, alveolar, amaroidal, anesthetic, angry, antagonistic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approximately, ardent, ardently, arduous, arduously, around, articulated, assiduous, assiduously, assimilated, astringent, at close quarters, at hand, atrocious, austere, avid, back, backbreaking, bad, badly, baffling, bankrupt, bare, barytone, bec et ongles, beefy, beyond one, bilabial, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, bleak, bloodless, blunt, bony, bothersome, bouncing, bowelless, brazen, broad, broke, brutal, brutish, bulky, burdensome, businesslike, busted, cacuminal, calamitous, calculating, callous, calloused, carefully, cartilaginous, case-hardened, cast-iron, caustic, cement, cemental, central, cerebral, checked, chewy, clear, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, coarse, cohesive, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, compact, compacted, complex, complicated, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, conditioning, conflicting, congested, conscienceless, conscientious, conscientiously, consolidated, consonant, consonantal, continuant, contrary, cool, coriaceous, corneous, counter, counteractive, crabbed, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramping, critical, crowded, cruel, dark, deep, deeply, definite, delicate, demanding, dense, dental, despotic, determinedly, detrimental, devastating, devoted, devotedly, dictatorial, difficile, difficult, diligent, diligently, disastrous, dispassionate, dissimilated, distinct, distressing, distressingly, dog-eat-dog, dogged, doggedly, dorsal, doughty, dour, down-to-earth, dull, durable, dure, dynamically, eager, eagerly, earnestly, effortful, effortfully, enduring, energetic, energetically, enigmatic, exacting, excruciating, exhausting, factual, fast by, fatiguing, fervent, fibrous, firm, flat, flinthearted, flintlike, flinty, forceful, forcefully, forcible, forcibly, forcy, formidable, front, full-blooded, full-strength, fundamentalist, garbled, genuine, glide, glossal, glottal, gluey, gnawing, granitelike, granitic, grave, grievous, grim, grinding, griping, gristly, gutsy, guttural, gutty, habit-forming, habituating, hairy, hale, hammer and tongs, hard as nails, hard by, hard of heart, hard to understand, hard up, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-core, hard-earned, hard-fought, hard-nosed, hard-set, hardened, hardheaded, hardhearted, hardworking, hardy, harmful, harrowing, harsh, harshly, heart and soul, heartily, heartless, hearty, heavy, hefty, hereabout, hereabouts, hidebound, high, horny, hostile, hurtful, hurting, husky, ill, immovable, immutable, impassible, impecunious, impenetrable, impenitent, impermeable, impervious, implacable, impliable, impoverished, impregnable, in opposition, in spitting distance, in the red, inclement, incomprehensible, incontestable, incontrovertible, indefatigable, indefatigably, indigent, indisputable, indurate, indurated, industrious, industriously, inelastic, ineluctable, inescapable, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, inimical, inscrutable, insensate, insensitive, insolent, insoluble, intemperate, intense, intensely, intent, intently, intonated, intractable, intransigent, intricate, inured, involved, irksome, iron, iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, irreconcilable, jam-packed, jammed, jawbreaking, jumbled, keen, knotted, knotty, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, labored, laborious, laboriously, lapideous, lasting, lateral, lax, leatherlike, leathery, light, lingual, liquid, lithoid, lithoidal, lost to shame, low, lusty, magisterial, manfully, marble, marblelike, massive, matter-of-fact, mean, merciless, methodical, mid, mightily, mighty, miserable, monophthongal, most, much, muscle-bound, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, near, near at hand, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nervy, never idle, nigh, nigh about, no picnic, nonporous, not easy, not far, obdurate, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obstinate, occlusive, onerous, only a step, open, operose, operosely, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive, orthodox, osseous, overtechnical, oxytone, pachydermatous, packed, painful, painfully, palatal, palatalized, paroxysmal, penetrating, penniless, perplexed, perplexing, perseveringly, persistent, persistently, petrified, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, physiologically addictive, piercing, pitch, pitched, pitiless, plain, poignant, poor, positive, posttonic, potent, poverty-stricken, powerful, practical, practically, pragmatic, procrustean, profound, proof against, psychologically addictive, puissant, pungent, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puzzling, racking, real, realistic, red-blooded, relentless, relentlessly, remorseless, resistant, resistive, retroflex, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, robust, robustious, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, ropy, rough, rounded, rugged, ruthless, savage, scabrous, scrambled, searching, seared, sedulous, sedulously, semivowel, serious, serried, set, set with thorns, severe, severely, shameless, sharp, shooting, sinewy, sinister, slavish, sleepless, sober, soft, solid, solidified, sonant, sound, sour, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spiny, spiritedly, spirituous, stabbing, stable, stalwart, stark, steadfastly, steady, steeled against, steellike, steely, steep, stern, sticky, stiff, stinging, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted, stopped, stout, straight, straightforward, straightlaced, straining, straitlaced, strapping, strenuous, strenuously, stressed, stressful, strict, stringent, stringy, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stubborn, studiously, sturdy, substantial, surd, sure-enough, syllabic, systematic, tangled, tart, tenacious, tense, terrible, the hard way, thereabout, thereabouts, thick, thick-growing, thick-skinned, thickset, thorny, throaty, ticklish, tireless, tiring, toilsome, toilsomely, tonal, tonic, tooth and nail, tormenting, torturous, tough, tough as leather, tricky, troublesome, troublous, trying, twangy, tyrannical, unabject, unaccented, unaffected, unalterable, unavoidable, unbending, unblushing, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompromising, uncontrite, undeniable, unemotional, unfalteringly, unfavorable, unfeeling, unflagging, unforgiving, unfriendly, ungentle, ungiving, unidealistic, unkind, unmelted, unmerciful, unmoved, unnatural, unpitiful, unpitying, unpleasant, unquestionable, unrelenting, unremitting, unremorseful, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unrounded, unsentimental, unsleeping, unsoftened, unsolvable, unsparing, unstressed, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untiring, untiringly, untouched, untoward, unvarnished, unwearied, unyielding, uphill, urgently, vehement, velar, verifiable, vigorous, vigorously, vinous, violently, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wearing, wearisome, wearying, well-built, well-constructed, well-defined, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, well-nigh, wicked, wide, winy, wiry, with a kick, with a will, with effort, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach, without mercy, wretched, zealous, zealously

• hardcase, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, almsman, almswoman, annoyance, bankrupt, beggar, blight, bummer, care, casual, charity case, cross, curse, difficulties, difficulty, down-and-out, down-and-outer, downer, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hard-luck guy, hardship, indigent, irritation, loser, pauper, penniless man, plight, poor devil, poor man, poor unfortunate, poorling, predicament, pressure, rigor, sad sack, schlemiel, schlimazel, sea of troubles, starveling, stress, stress of life, sure loser, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, unfortunate, vale of tears, vicissitude, victim, welfare client

• harden, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, anneal, be tough, beef up, brace, brace up, break, break in, brutalize, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, case harden, caseharden, compact, concrete, condition, confirm, conform, congeal, consolidate, cornify, crystallize, densify, domesticate, domesticize, dry, endure, establish, familiarize, firm, fix, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gentle, gird, habituate, hang tough, housebreak, indurate, intensify, inure, invigorate, lapidify, lithify, naturalize, nerve, orient, orientate, ossify, petrify, prop, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, season, set, shore up, solidify, steel, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tame, temper, toughen, train, turn to stone, undergird, vitrify, wont

• hardened, Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, conditioned, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious, incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured, lapidified, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated, oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set, shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned, toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted

• hardening of the arteries, angina, angina pectoris, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, auricular fibrillation, beriberi heart, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, congenital heart disease, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, diastolic hypertension, encased heart, endocarditis, extrasystole, fatty heart, fibroid heart, flask-shaped heart, frosted heart, hairy heart, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, high blood pressure, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, ischemic heart disease, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myovascular insufficiency, ox heart, palpitation, paralytic stroke, paroxysmal tachycardia, pericarditis, pile, premature beat, pseudoaortic insufficiency, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, rheumatic heart disease, round heart, sclerosis, stony heart, stroke, tachycardia, thrombosis, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, turtle heart, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation

• hardening, abidingness, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, agglutination, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, breaking, breaking-in, calcification, callusing, case hardening, changelessness, clumping, clustering, compression, concentration, concretion, condensation, conditioning, consolidation, constancy, cornification, crystallization, densification, domestication, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, familiarization, firming, firmness, fixedness, fortification, fossilization, frozenness, granulation, habituation, hornification, housebreaking, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, induration, indurative, inurement, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, invigoration, lapidification, lastingness, lithification, long standing, naturalization, orientation, ossification, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, petrifaction, petrifactive, petrification, petrifying, quiescence, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restrengthening, revivification, rigidity, sclerosis, seasoning, setting, solidification, solidity, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, steeling, stiffening, strengthening, taming, tempering, torpor, toughening, training, unchangeability, unchangingness, vitrifaction, vitrification

• hardheaded, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, dogged, dogmatic, down-to-earth, earthy, fanatic, hard, hard-boiled, headstrong, hoaxproof, intolerant, matter-of-fact, mulish, not born yesterday, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, restive, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, self-willed, sensible, set, sober, sober-minded, sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, stiff-necked, straight-thinking, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, tough-minded, uncooperative, uncullible, undeceivable, undeludable, undupable, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unideal, unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unseduceable, unsentimental, willful, wise, worldly

• hardhearted, Philistine, brazen, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, conscienceless, flinthearted, flinty, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hardened, heartless, impervious, indurated, insensitive, inured, lost to shame, obdurate, pachydermatous, proof against, seared, shameless, steeled against, steely, stony, stonyhearted, thick-skinned, unblushing, uncompassionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unmerciful, unnatural, unresponsive, unsympathetic

• hardihood, assurance, audacity, birr, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cockiness, disrespect, fortitude, go, grit, guts, hardiness, impertinence, impudence, intrepidity, moxie, nerve, pep, pluck, potency, sand, tuck, vigor

• hardiness, assurance, audacity, brashness, bulldog courage, cohesiveness, decisiveness, durability, endurance, energy, force, fortitude, gameness, gaminess, grittiness, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardihood, hardness, heartiness, infrangibility, intestinal fortitude, lastingness, leatherlikeness, longevity, lustihood, lustiness, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, nerve, nerviness, obstinacy, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pluckiness, potency, power, powerfulness, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, sticking power, stiffness, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, toughness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, vitality

• hardly, a bit, a little, abnormally, arduously, at infrequent intervals, badly, barely, bitterly, burdensomely, by a hair, by an ace, by no means, closely, difficultly, energetically, ever so little, exiguously, faintly, feebly, fiercely, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, frenziedly, furiously, hardly ever, harshly, imperfectly, impliably, inappreciably, inconsequentially, incredibly, inexorably, inflexibly, infrequently, insignificantly, ironhandedly, just, just a bit, keenly, laboriously, lightly, little, madly, meagerly, might and main, mightily, minimally, minutely, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not often, not quite, obdurately, onerously, only, only just, painfully, powerfully, rancorously, rarely, relentlessly, rigidly, rigorously, roughly, scantily, scarce, scarcely, scarcely ever, seldom, seldom if ever, severely, slightly, solid, solidly, sorely, sparsely, stiffly, stormily, strenuously, strongly, tant soit peu, the hard way, toilsomely, triflingly, turbulently, unbendingly, uncommonly, uncompromisingly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unrelentingly, unusually, unyieldingly, very seldom, vigorously, violently, weakly, wildly, with difficulty, with much ado

• hardness, Philistinism, abstruseness, arduousness, armor, asperity, astringency, austerity, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, callosity, callousness, callus, closeness, cohesiveness, coldbloodedness, coldheartedness, coldness, compactness, complexity, complication, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, crabbedness, crampedness, crowdedness, cruelty, deepness, denseness, density, difficultness, difficulty, durability, esoterica, firmness, flintiness, formidable defenses, fundamentalism, gluiness, grimness, hairiness, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardiness, hardness of heart, hardship, harshness, heart of stone, heartlessness, impenetrability, impenitence, impenitentness, impermeability, imperviousness, impliability, imporosity, inclemency, incompressibility, induration, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, infrangibility, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insolence, intricacy, inuredness, irrepentance, jammedness, knottiness, laboriousness, lastingness, leatherlikeness, mercilessness, nonrepentance, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, orthodoxy, pitilessness, precisianism, profoundness, profundity, purism, puritanism, reconditeness, relative density, relentlessness, remorselessness, resistance, rhinoceros hide, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, ropiness, roughness, ruggedness, ruthlessness, seared conscience, severity, short shrift, solidity, solidness, soundness, specific gravity, spissitude, stability, stamina, staunchness, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, stoutness, strength, strenuousness, stringency, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, temper, tenacity, tender mercies, thick skin, thickness, toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness, unabjectness, unbendingness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, uncompassionateness, uncompromisingness, uncontriteness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unforgivingness, ungentleness, unmercifulness, unnaturalness, unrelentingness, unremorsefulness, unresponsiveness, unsympatheticness, unyieldingness, vicissitude, vigor, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, vitality

• hardnose, Mafioso, Young Turk, ass, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bigot, bitter-ender, bomber, brute, bullethead, demon, devil, diehard, dogmatist, donkey, dragon, fanatic, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, intransigeant, intransigent, killer, last-ditcher, mad dog, madcap, maverick, monster, mugger, mule, perverse fool, pighead, positivist, purist, rapist, revolutionary, savage, she-wolf, spitfire, standpat, standpatter, stickler, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

• hardship, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, asperity, austerity, bad luck, blight, broken fortune, bummer, care, cross, curse, danger, deprivation, difficulties, difficulty, discomfort, distress, downer, drudgery, embarrassment, genteel poverty, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hard pinch, hardcase, hardness, hazard, ill fortune, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, insolvency, irritation, light purse, mischance, misery, misfortune, narrow means, peril, plight, poorness, poverty, predicament, pressure, privation, rigor, sea of troubles, slender means, straitened circumstances, straits, stress, stress of life, suffering, tight squeeze, toil, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, unhappiness, unprosperousness, vale of tears, vicissitude, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty, want

• hardware, appliances, armaments, arms, brassware, chinaware, clayware, components, computer, computer hardware, computer unit, copperware, devices, dinnerware, durable goods, durables, earthenware, electronic brain, electronic computer, enamelware, fixtures, flatware, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, information machine, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, machinery, materiel, metalware, munitions, ovenware, silverware, sporting goods, stoneware, tableware, thinking machine, tinware, tools, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware

• hardworking, ardent, assiduous, diligent, drudging, energetic, fervent, grinding, grubbing, hard, indefatigable, industrious, laboring, laborious, never idle, pegging, plodding, plugging, relentless, sedulous, slaving, sleepless, slogging, straining, strenuous, striving, struggling, sweating, tireless, toiling, unflagging, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unwearied, vehement, working, zealous

• hardy, abiding, able-bodied, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, beefy, bold, bold-spirited, bouncing, brave, cartilaginous, chewy, chivalric, chivalrous, chronic, cohesive, constant, continuing, coriaceous, courageous, daring, deciduous, diuturnal, doughty, durable, enduring, ephemeral, evergreen, fearless, fibrous, fit, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, gallant, greathearted, gristly, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, half-hardy, hard, hard as nails, healthy, hearty, hefty, heroic, herolike, husky, immutable, intransient, intrepid, inveterate, iron-hard, ironhearted, knightlike, knightly, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, lionhearted, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, lusty, macrobiotic, manful, manly, mighty, nervy, obstinate, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, plucky, potent, powerful, puissant, red-blooded, remaining, resistant, robust, robustious, robustuous, ropy, rude, rugged, sempervirent, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, sound, stable, stalwart, staying, steadfast, steely, stiff, stout, stouthearted, strapping, stringy, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stubborn, sturdy, tenacious, tough, tough as leather, unfading, untiring, valiant, valorous, vigorous, viscid, vital, wiry

• hare, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Indian buffalo, Kodiak bear, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, armadillo, arrow, ass, aurochs, badger, bandicoot, bassarisk, bat, bear, beaver, bettong, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blue darter, blue fox, blue streak, bobcat, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buck, buffalo, buffalo wolf, bunny, burro, burro deer, cachalot, camel, camelopard, cannonball, capybara, carabao, caribou, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, cheetah, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, cinnamon bear, coon, coon cat, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cottontail, cougar, courser, cow, coyote, coypu, dart, deer, deer tiger, dingo, doe, dog, donkey, dormouse, dromedary, eagle, echidna, eland, electricity, elephant, elk, ermine, express train, eyra, fallow deer, ferret, field mouse, fisher, fitch, flash, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, giraffe, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, gopher, greased lightning, greyhound, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, hamster, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, hippopotamus, hog, horse, hyena, hyrax, ibex, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, jet plane, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, leporide, leveret, light, lightning, lion, llama, lynx, mammoth, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, meerkat, mercury, mink, mole, mongoose, moose, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, otter, ounce, ox, pack rat, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, peccary, peludo, phalanger, pig, pine mouse, platypus, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, pronghorn, puma, quicksilver, rabbit, raccoon, rat, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, rhinoceros, rocket, roe, roe deer, roebuck, sable, scared rabbit, serval, sheep, shot, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, skunk, sloth, snowshoe rabbit, springbok, squirrel, stoat, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, suslik, swallow, swamp rabbit, swine, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, thought, thunderbolt, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, torrent, tree shrew, urus, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, whistler, white fox, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wind, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, yak, zebra, zebu, zoril

• hare-brained, airy, asinine, brainless, crackpot, fanciful, flighty, foolhardy, foolish, frivolous, giddy, heedless, improvident, inane, madcap, mindless, rash, reckless, scatterbrained, silly, visionary, wild, witless

• harebrain, birdbrain, crackbrain, crank, cuckoo, ding-a-ling, featherbrain, featherhead, flibbertigibbet, giddybrain, giddyhead, kook, lunatic, nut, rattlebrain, rattlehead, rattlepate, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, screwball, shallowbrain, shallowpate, shatterbrain

• harebrained, absurd, adventurous, arbitrary, audacious, balmy, bold, brainless, capricious, cranky, crazy, crotchety, daredevil, daring, death-defying, dizzy, empty-headed, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, featherbrained, featherheaded, fire-eating, flaky, flighty, fluttery, foolhardy, forward, freakish, frivolous, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, harebrain, humorsome, insane, kinky, loony, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, maggoty, moody, motiveless, notional, petulant, potty, preposterous, presumptuous, quirky, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shatterbrained, silly, skittish, temperamental, thoughtless, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild, wild-ass, witless

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

• hark back, break back, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, change back, conjure up, cry back, cry back to, do a flip-flop, do an about-face, evoke, flip-flop, go back, go back over, go back to, look back, mind, recall, recall to mind, recapture, recollect, recur to, reevoke, reflect, remember, retrace, retrospect, return to, revert to, review, review in retrospect, revive, see in retrospect, summon up, think back, think of, turn, turn about, turn around, turn back, use hindsight

• hark, NB, attend, attend to, auscultate, be all ears, bend an ear, bug, cock the ears, eavesdrop, examine by ear, give attention, give audience to, give ear, give ear to, hear, hear out, hearken, hearken to, heed, intercept, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen in, listen to, mark, mind, note, notice, remark, sit in on, tap, wiretap

• harlequin, Columbine, Dalmatian, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, antigorite, bicolor, bicolored, buffo, buffoon, butterfly, candy cane, chameleon, check, checker, checkerboard, checkerwork, cheetah, chessboard, chrysotile, clown, colorful, colors in patches, colory, confetti, crazy, crazy quilt, crazy-work, daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, firedog, fool, iris, jack-pudding, jaguar, jester, kaleidoscopic, leopard, mackerel, mackerel sky, many-colored, marble, marbled paper, marquetry, medley, merry-andrew, moire, mosaic, mother-of-pearl, motley, motley fool, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, nacre, ocelot, opal, ophite, parquet, parquetry, parti-color, parti-colored, patchwork, patchwork quilt, peacock, pickle-herring, plaid, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, rainbow, serpentine, serpentine marble, shot, shot silk, shot through, spectral, spectrum, tartan, tessellation, tesserae, thunder and lightning, tortoise shell, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, variegated pattern, versicolor, versicolored, zany, zebra

• harlot, B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, bawd, call girl, courtesan, daughter of joy, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, drab, erring sister, fallen, fallen woman, fancy woman, fille de joie, hetaera, hooker, hustler, hustling, kept woman, meretricious, meretrix, on the, on the town, painted woman, paphian, pave, poule, prostitute, prostituted, scarlet, scarlet woman, stew, streetwalker, streetwalking, unfortunate woman, white slave, whore, whorish

• harm, abomination, abuse, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggrieve, atrocity, bad, badness, bane, banefulness, bankruptcy, befoul, befoulment, bewitch, blemish, blight, bother, breakage, breakdown, bugbear, burden, calamity, collapse, condemn, corrupt, corruption, crack-up, crippling, crucify, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defile, defilement, deleteriousness, deprave, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, deteriorate, detriment, dilapidate, dilapidation, disablement, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discommode, disease, disoblige, disrepair, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, embitter, encroachment, endamage, envenom, evil, exacerbate, get into trouble, grievance, handicap, harass, havoc, hex, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, impair, impairment, impose upon, incapacitation, incommode, inconvenience, infect, infection, infliction, infringement, iniquity, injure, injury, inroad, irritate, jinx, liability, loss, loss of ground, maiming, make worse, maltreat, mar, mayhem, menace, mischance, mischief, misfortune, mistreat, misuse, molest, mutilation, nemesis, noxiousness, open wound, outrage, perniciousness, persecute, pest, pestilence, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, prejudice, put back, put out, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, ruination, ruinousness, rum, running sore, sabotage, savage, scathe, scourge, sickening, spoil, spoiling, step backward, taint, tarnish, the worst, thorn, threaten, torment, torture, toxin, trouble, venom, vexation, violate, visitation, vitiate, weaken, weakening, wickedness, woe, worsen, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong, wrongdoing

• harmed, aggravated, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deteriorated, embittered, exacerbated, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, injured, irritated, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, rent, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• harmful, adverse, antagonistic, bad, bad for, baleful, baneful, bitchy, conflicting, contaminated, contrary, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, cussed, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, evil, foul, hard, hateful, hazardous, hostile, hurtful, ill, in opposition, inimical, iniquitous, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, invidious, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, miserable, morbific, nasty, noisome, not easy, noxious, ominous, opposed, opposing, opposite, ornery, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, rigorous, risky, scatheful, septic, sinister, stressful, tainted, toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unprofitable, unrewarding, unsafe, unsanitary, untoward, unwholesome, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked, worthless, wretched

• harmfully, balefully, banefully, corrodingly, corrosively, counterproductively, damagingly, deleteriously, detrimentally, disadvantageously, disserviceably, hatefully, hurtfully, in spite, iniquitously, injuriously, invidiously, malefically, maleficently, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly, malignly, meanly, mischievously, nastily, noisomely, noxiously, ornerily, poisonously, prejudicially, spitefully, toxically, venomously, viciously, virulently, wickedly, with bad intent, with malice aforethought, with malice prepense

• harmfulness, air, badness, balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, contamination, cussedness, deadliness, detrimentalness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, hatefulness, health hazard, hurtfulness, iniquitousness, injuriousness, insalubriousness, insalubrity, invidiousness, lethality, maleficence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, menace to health, mischievousness, nastiness, noise pollution, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, orneriness, pathenogenicity, perniciousness, poisonousness, pollution, toxicity, unhealthfulness, unhealthiness, unsalutariness, unwholesomeness, venomousness, viciousness, virulence, water, wickedness

• harmless, benign, bright, dependable, fail-safe, firm, fresh, gentle, guaranteed, guiltless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, inviolate, invulnerable, mild, mint, nonmalignant, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, nonvirulent, painless, pristine, reliable, riskless, safe, scatheless, sound, stable, steady, trustworthy, unbroken, unbruised, undamaged, undamaging, undangerous, undefaced, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, unfaded, unharmed, unhazardous, unhurt, unhurtful, unimpaired, uninjured, uninjurious, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unobnoxious, unoffending, unperilous, unprecarious, unrisky, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unspoiled, untorn, untouched, unwithered, unworn, virgin, warranteed

• harmlessness, assurance, benignancy, benignity, clear sailing, hurtlessness, immunity, innocence, innocuousness, inoffensiveness, invulnerability, protection, risklessness, safeguard, safeness, safety, security, surety, uninjuriousness, unobnoxiousness

• harmonic, AF, accordant, according, assonant, assonantal, attuned, audio frequency, blended, blending, chiming, concordant, consonant, flageolet tone, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, harmonic tone, harmonious, harmonizing, homophonic, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in sync, in tune, in unison, intonation, libratory, monodic, monophonic, monotone, monotony, musical, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, overtone, partial, partial tone, pendular, pendulous, periodic, pitch, resonant, symphonic, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, tone, tonelessness, tuned, unisonant, unisonous, vacillating, vacillatory, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering