Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/47

• kingdom come, Agapemone, Arcadia, Beulah, Beulah Land, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Heaven, Land of Beulah, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Paradise, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, a better place, better world, bliss, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, eternal home, eternity, faerie, fairyland, glory, happy hunting ground, heaven, heaven above, heavenly kingdom, high heaven, kakotopia, kingdom of God, kingdom of glory, kingdom of heaven, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, otherworld, paradise, presence of God, promised land, realm of light, the Promised Land, the happy land, the world above, utopia, wonderland

• kingdom, ally, animal kingdom, antonomasia, archduchy, archdukedom, area, bailiwick, binomial nomenclature, biological classification, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, body politic, branch, buffer state, captive nation, chain of being, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, class, class structure, classification, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, country, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, establishment, family, field, free city, genotype, genus, glossology, grand duchy, hierarchy, land, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, mineral kingdom, monarchy, nation, nationality, natural hierarchy, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, pecking order, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polis, polity, polyonymy, possession, power, power structure, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, pyramid, realm, republic, satellite, section, seneschalty, series, settlement, sovereign nation, sovereignty, species, sphere of influence, state, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, sultanate, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superpower, superspecies, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, territory, toparchia, toparchy, toponymy, tribe, trinomialism, turf, variety, vegetable kingdom

• kingly, aristocratic, august, chivalrous, courtly, dignified, ducal, dynastic, exalted, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, grand, grave, high, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, imperious, imposing, kinglike, knightly, ladylike, lordly, magisterial, majestic, masterful, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monarchical, noble, of gentle blood, of rank, patrician, powerful, princelike, princely, puissant, purple, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, regal, royal, sedate, sober, solemn, sovereign, stately, statuesque, titled, venerable, worthy

• kingmaker, Machiavellian, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, behind-the-scenes operator, big wheel, court, eminence grise, finagler, five-percenter, friend at court, gamesman, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, lobby, lobbyist, logroller, lords of creation, machinator, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, operator, pork-barrel politician, powers that be, pressure group, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, strategist, the Establishment, very important person, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

• kingship, acme, authority, authorization, baronetcy, barony, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, caliphate, championship, command, control, czardom, directorship, dominion, dukedom, earldom, effectiveness, emperorship, empery, empire, first place, first prize, headship, hegemony, height, highest, imperialism, imperium, influence, jurisdiction, kaiserdom, kaisership, kinghood, knight-errantship, knighthood, ladyship, leadership, lordship, majesty, management, marquisate, mastership, mastery, maximum, most, ne plus ultra, new high, palms, paramountcy, pashadom, power, presidency, primacy, princedom, princeship, queenhood, queenship, rajaship, record, regnancy, royalty, rule, say, seignioralty, seigniory, sovereignty, sultanate, sultanship, supremacy, sway, the crown, the throne, top spot, viscountcy, viscountship, viscounty, zenith

• kink, acute pain, birthmark, bite, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boring pain, boutade, brainstorm, bug, bulla, capriccio, caprice, catch, charley horse, check, cicatrix, cicatrize, cirrus, coil, comedo, complication, conceit, corkscrew, crack, cramp, cramps, crank, crater, craze, crazy idea, crick, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crotchet, curl, curlicue, darting pain, deface, defacement, defect, defection, deficiency, deform, deformation, deformity, difficulty, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, drawback, eccentricity, evolute, fad, failing, failure, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, fault, faute, flaw, flimflam, foible, fool notion, frailty, freak, freakish inspiration, freckle, fulgurant pain, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, gyre, harebrained idea, helix, hemangioma, hickey, hitch, hole, humor, idiosyncrasy, imperfection, inadequacy, infirmity, involute, jumping pain, keloid, knot, lancinating pain, lentigo, little problem, maggot, mar, megrim, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, nip, notion, pang, paroxysm, passing fancy, pimple, pinch, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, problem, pustule, quirk, rift, ringlet, roll, scab, scar, scarify, scratch, screw, scroll, sebaceous cyst, seizure, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shortcoming, snag, something missing, spasm, spiral, split, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, strawberry mark, sty, swirl, taint, tangle, tendril, thrill, throes, tormen, toy, track, tweak, twinge, twirl, twist, twitch, vagary, verruca, vesicle, volute, volution, vortex, vulnerable place, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whirl, whitehead, whorl, wrench, wrinkle

• kinked, blemished, checked, cicatrized, cracked, crazed, crisp, crisped, crispy, curled, curly, defaced, defective, deformed, disfigured, distorted, faulty, flawed, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy, keloidal, kinky, marred, pimpled, pimply, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, split, twisted, warped

• kinky, Bohemian, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, beat, bizarre, breakaway, capricious, crank, crankish, cranky, crimped, crisp, crisped, crispy, crotchety, curled, curly, degenerate, depraved, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far out, fey, flaky, freakish, free and easy, fringy, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy, funny, harebrained, heretical, heterodox, hippie, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, informal, irregular, kinked, knotted, kooky, maggoty, maverick, moody, motiveless, not cricket, not done, not kosher, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, offbeat, original, outlandish, outre, peculiar, perverted, petulant, queer, quirky, screwball, screwy, singular, strange, tangled, temperamental, twisted, ultra, unconventional, unfashionable, unique, unnatural, unorthodox, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, warped, way out, wayward, weird, whimsical, wiry

• kinship, accord, accordance, affiliation, affinity, agape, agnation, agreement, alliance, amity, ancestry, association, blood, blood relationship, bonds of harmony, brotherhood, brotherly love, brothership, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, common source, common stock, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeneracy, congeniality, connateness, connaturality, connaturalness, connature, connection, consanguinity, correspondence, cousinhood, cousinship, empathy, enation, esprit, esprit de corps, family favor, family likeness, family relationship, fatherhood, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, flesh and blood, fraternity, frictionlessness, generic resemblance, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, kindred, like-mindedness, lineage, love, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutuality, oneness, parallelism, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, peace, propinquity, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relation, relationship, sharing, sibship, similarity, sisterhood, sistership, solidarity, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, ties of blood, understanding, union, unison, unity

• kinsmen, agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinswoman, kith and kin, near relation, next of kin, people, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

• kiosk, Nissen hut, Quonset hut, alcove, arbor, booth, bower, conservatory, crib, gatehouse, gazebo, glasshouse, greenhouse, hut, hutch, lathhouse, lean-to, news kiosk, newsstand, outbuilding, outhouse, pavilion, pergola, retreat, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, stall, stand, summerhouse, tollbooth, tollhouse

• kipper, Loch Ness monster, alevin, anguille, anhydrate, benthon, benthos, blast-freeze, brine, caviar, cetacean, corn, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dolphin, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, eel, embalm, evaporate, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, freeze, freeze-dry, fry, fume, game fish, grilse, irradiate, jerk, kippered salmon, man-eater, man-eating shark, marinade, marinate, marine animal, minnow, minny, mummify, nekton, panfish, pickle, plankton, poisson, porpoise, preservatize, quick-freeze, red herring, refrigerate, roe, salmon, salt, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seafood, season, shark, smoke, smoke-cure, smoked herring, smolt, sponge, stuff, tropical fish, whale

• kishkes, abdomen, abomasum, anus, appendix, bay window, beerbelly, belly, blind gut, bowels, brain, breadbasket, cecum, colon, craw, crop, diaphragm, duodenum, embonpoint, endocardium, entrails, first stomach, foregut, giblets, gizzard, gullet, gut, guts, heart, hindgut, honeycomb stomach, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, manyplies, maw, midgut, midriff, omasum, paunch, perineum, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, pylorus, rectum, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, small intestine, spare tire, spleen, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, ticker, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

• kismet, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, book of fate, circumstance, constellation, cup, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, end, fatality, fate, foredoom, fortune, future, ides of March, inevitability, lot, moira, planets, portion, stars, unlucky day, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven

• kiss good bye, abandon, abjure, be bereaved of, cede, default, disgorge, dispense with, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, forfeit, forgo, forswear, get along without, get rid of, give away, give up, go astray from, have done with, incur loss, let slip, lose, lose out, make a sacrifice, mislay, misplace, miss, part with, quitclaim, recant, relinquish, render up, renounce, resign, retract, sacrifice, spare, suffer loss, surrender, swear off, throw up, undergo privation, vacate, waive, wander from, yield

• kiss, abandon, accost, address, attouchement, bid good day, bid good morning, blow a kiss, bob, bow, bow to, breath, brush, brush by, buss, caress, come in contact, contact, contingence, curtsy, cutaneous sense, desert, dismiss, disregard, embrace, exchange greetings, feel, feeling, fingertip caress, flick, forsake, give up, glance, graze, greet, greeting, hail, hand-clasp, hand-mindedness, handshake, hello, hit, how-do-you-do, hug, ignore, impinge, impingement, impingence, kiss hands, lambency, lap, lick, lift the hat, light touch, lip, neck, nod, nod to, nudge, osculate, osculation, peck, pull the forelock, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, rub, salutation, salute, say hello, scrape, sense of touch, shake, shake hands, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, smack, smacker, smile, smile of recognition, smooch, spoon, squeak by, stroke, sweep, tactile sense, taction, tangency, tap, tentative contact, tentative poke, touch, touch lightly, touch the hat, touch upon, touching, uncover, wave, whisper

• kisser, bazoo, chaps, chops, countenance, dial, embouchure, face, facies, favor, features, gab, gob, jaw, jaws, jowls, lineaments, lips, mandibles, map, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, pan, phiz, physiognomy, premaxilla, puss, trap, visage, yap

• kit, A string, Amati, Cheshire cat, Chinchilla cat, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Maltese cat, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, accouterments, alley cat, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, bass, bass viol, battery, birdling, block, blue cat, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, calf, calico cat, cat, catling, cello, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, contrabass, conveniences, crowd, cub, dogie, double bass, duckling, duffel, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fawn, feline, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, fittings, fixtures, fledgling, foal, fryer, furnishings, furniture, gear, gib, gib-cat, gosling, grimalkin, house cat, impedimenta, implements, installations, instruments, kid, kit fiddle, kit violin, kitling, kitten, kitty, kitty-cat, lamb, lambkin, litter, machinery, materiel, mouser, munition, munitions, nest, nestling, outfit, pack, paraphernalia, piglet, pigling, plant, plumbing, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, puss, pussy, pussycat, rig, rigging, scroll, series, set, shoat, silver cat, soundboard, stock-in-trade, string, suit, suite, supplies, tabby, tabby cat, tackle, tadpole, tenor violin, things, tiger cat, tom, tomcat, tools, tortoise-shell cat, trappings, tuning peg, utensils, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, weaner, whelp, yeanling

• kitchen cabinet, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, advisory council, assembly, association, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, chamber, city council, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, junta, legislature, ministry, parish council, privy council, shadow cabinet, soviet, staff, syndicate, synod, tribunal

• kitchen police, KP, army, army group, battalion, battery, battle group, brigade, cadre, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, corps, detachment, detail, division, field army, field train, file, flying column, garrison, legion, maniple, organization, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, rank, regiment, section, squad, squadron, tactical unit, task force, train, troop, unit, wing

• kitchen, automat, bakehouse, bakery, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, caboose, cafe, cafeteria, camboose, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookery, cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, cookshack, cookshop, cuisine, culinary, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, galley, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchenette, larder, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, pantry, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, scullery, smoking room, smorgasbord, snack bar, storeroom, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

• kite, Eddy kite, aeroplane, aircraft, airplane, aspire, avion, bad check, bad money, base coin, become airborne, begone, bogus money, box kite, claw skyward, clear out, counterfeit, counterfeit money, decamp, false money, float, fly, fly aloft, flying machine, forgery, gain altitude, green goods, hang, heavier-than-air craft, hightail, hover, leave the ground, plane, poise, queer, rubber check, scram, ship, skedaddle, soar, spire, take off, vamoose, zoom

• kith and kin, agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, near relation, next of kin, people, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

• kitsch, Babbittry, French literature, Renaissance literature, ancient literature, art object, bad taste, belles lettres, bourgeois taste, brainchild, bric-a-brac, camp, campiness, classic, classics, composition, contemporary literature, creation, design, erotic literature, erotica, folk literature, grotesque, high camp, humane letters, impropriety, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, letters, literature, low camp, master, masterpiece, masterwork, medieval literature, mobile, museum piece, national literature, nude, obscene literature, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, philistinism, piece, piece of virtu, polite literature, poor taste, pop, pop culture, pop literature, popular literature, pornographic literature, pornography, pseudonymous literature, republic of letters, scatological literature, serious literature, stabile, statue, still life, study, tastelessness, travel literature, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, underground literature, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, virtu, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wisdom literature, work, work of art

• kitten, Cheshire cat, Chinchilla cat, Maltese cat, alley cat, bairn, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birdling, blue cat, calf, calico cat, calve, cast, cat, catling, cherub, chick, chickling, chicky, child, chit, colt, cub, darling, dogie, drop, duckling, farrow, fawn, feline, fledgling, foal, fryer, gib, gib-cat, give birth, gosling, grimalkin, have, have a baby, have young, house cat, innocent, kid, kit, kitling, kitty, kitty-cat, labor, lamb, lambkin, lie in, litter, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, mite, mouser, nest, nestling, nipper, offspring, peewee, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, puss, pussy, pussycat, shaver, shoat, silver cat, tabby, tabby cat, tad, tadpole, throw, tiger cat, tom, tomcat, tortoise-shell cat, tot, travail, weaner, wee tot, whelp, yean, yeanling

• kittenish, babish, baby, babyish, catlike, cattish, catty, coltish, coquettish, coy, distaff, doll-like, dollish, elvish, felid, feline, female, feminine, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, impish, in arms, in diapers, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, infant, infantile, infantine, ladylike, larkish, leonine, lionlike, little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, mischievous, muliebral, neonatal, newborn, petticoat, playful, prankish, roguish, seductive, sportive, tigerish, womanish, womanlike, womanly

• kitty, Cheshire cat, Chinchilla cat, Maltese cat, Swiss bank account, alley cat, assets, balance, bank, bank account, blue cat, bottom dollar, budget, calico cat, cash reserves, cat, checking account, collection, command of money, exchequer, feline, finances, fund, funds, gib, gib-cat, grimalkin, house cat, jackpot, kit, kitling, kitten, kitty-cat, life savings, means, moneys, mouser, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pocket, pool, pot, purse, puss, pussy, pussycat, reserves, resources, savings, savings account, silver cat, stakes, substance, tabby, tabby cat, tiger, tiger cat, tom, tomcat, tortoise-shell cat, treasure, unregistered bank account, wherewithal

• kittycorner, across, athwart, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, catercornerways, cornerways, cornerwise, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, diagonally, diagonalwise, on the bias, slant, thwart, transverse

• Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, beacon, blinking light, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, burglar alarm, buzzer, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket, crostarie, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, firecracker, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, gale warning, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, lighthouse, noisemaker, note of alarm, occulting light, police whistle, rattle, rattlebox, signal of distress, siren, small-craft warning, snapper, steam whistle, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, ticktack, tocsin, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

• klutz, asshole, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boob, booby, boor, botcher, bumbler, bungler, chump, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dolt, fumbler, galoot, gawk, goof, gowk, jerk, jerk-off, lobster, looby, lout, lubber, lug, lummox, lump, mutt, oaf, ox, palooka, prize sap, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, slouch, slubberer, yokel

• klutzy, Boeotian, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, chumpish, cloddish, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, gross, ineducable, lumpish, oafish, opaque, sottish, stupid, thick, unteachable, wrongheaded

• knack, ability, adroitness, aptitude, aptness, art, bauble, bent, bibelot, bric-a-brac, capacity, command, dexterity, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, feel, flair, fribble, gaud, genius, gewgaw, gift, gimcrack, hang, head, intuition, kickshaw, knickknack, know-how, mastership, mastery, nose, proficiency, quickness, readiness, set, skill, swing, talent, touch, toy, trick, trinket, turn, way, whim-wham

• knave, ace, bad boy, bastard, best bower, blackguard, booger, bower, buffoon, bugger, cards, clubs, cutup, deck, deuce, devil, diamonds, dummy, elf, enfant terrible, face cards, flush, full house, funmaker, hand, hearts, heel, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, jack, joker, jokester, king, left bower, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lowlife, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, pack, pair, picture cards, pixie, playing cards, practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, queen, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, round, rowdy, royal flush, rubber, ruff, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shyster, singleton, sneak, spades, spalpeen, straight, trey, trick, trump, villain, wag

• knavery, abomination, art, artful dodge, artifice, atrocity, bad, baseness, blind, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, degradation, design, device, disgrace, dodge, error, evil, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, infamy, iniquity, intrigue, jugglery, knavishness, little game, maneuver, moral turpitude, move, obliquity, peccancy, plot, ploy, racket, rascality, rascalry, red herring, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, ruse, scampishness, scandal, scheme, scoundrelism, shame, shift, sin, sleight, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic, trick, trickery, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wile, wily device, wrong

• knavish, abominable, arch, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, criminal, damnable, dark, deceitful, degraded, devilish, disgraceful, elfish, elvish, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foolish, foul, full of mischief, heinous, high-spirited, impish, improper, infamous, iniquitous, low, lying, mendacious, mischief-loving, mischievous, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, notorious, peccant, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, rank, rascally, recreant, reprehensible, reprobate, roguish, scampish, scandalous, scapegrace, scoundrelly, shameful, shifty, sinful, sportive, trickish, tricksy, unforgivable, unpardonable, unspeakable, untruthful, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, waggish, wicked, wrong

• knead, admix, alloy, amalgamate, bemingle, blend, block out, caress, carve, cast, chisel, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, create, cushion, cut, ease, efform, emulsify, fashion, feel up, figure, fix, fluff, fondle, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, frictionize, fuse, gentle, hash, hew, homogenize, immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, jumble, knock out, laxate, lay out, lick into shape, limber, limber up, loosen, mash, massage, mellow, merge, milden, mingle, mingle-mangle, mint, mix, mix up, model, mold, mollify, nose, nuzzle, pet, plump, pulp, relax, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rub, rub against, rub down, rub noses, scramble, sculpt, sculpture, set, shake up, shape, shuffle, smash, soften, soften up, squash, stamp, stir up, stroke, subdue, supple, syncretize, tailor, tenderize, thermoform, throw together, tone down, toss together, tune down, work

• knee deep, ankle-deep, cursory, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deepish, deepsome, depthless, epidermal, jejune, light, not deep, on the surface, profound, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, skin-deep, slight, superficial, surface, thin, trivial, unprofound

• knee high, couchant, cramped, crouched, debased, depressed, dinky, exiguous, flat, half-pint, knocked flat, laid low, limited, little, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, neap, one-horse, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, prone, puny, recumbent, runty, short, slight, small, smallish, squat, squatty, stooped, stumpy, supine, two-by-four, unelevated

• knee, L, angle, ankle, apex, articulation, bayonet legs, bend, bifurcation, bight, boot, boundary, bowlegs, butt, calf, cant, cervix, chevron, clinch, closure, cnemis, coin, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, corner, coupling, crank, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, dovetail, drumstick, elbow, ell, embrace, foreleg, fork, furcation, gamb, gambrel, gigot, gliding joint, ham, hind leg, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hock, hook, inflection, interface, jamb, join, joining, joint, juncture, kick, knuckle, leg, limb, link, miter, mortise, neck, nook, pivot, pivot joint, podite, point, popliteal space, punt, quoin, rabbet, scarf, scissor-legs, seam, shank, shin, shoulder, stems, stitch, stumps, suture, swerve, symphysis, tarsus, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trotters, union, veer, vertex, weld, wrist, zag, zig, zigzag

• kneel to, adjure, appeal, appeal to, beg, bend, bend the neck, bend to, beseech, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, call for help, call on, call upon, clamor for, conjure, crave, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, cry for, cry on, cry to, curtsy, do homage, do obeisance, entreat, genuflect, grovel, impetrate, implore, imprecate, invoke, knuckle to, kowtow, obtest, plead, plead for, pray, run to, stoop, supplicate, truckle to

• kneel, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curtsy, duck, fall down before, fawn, flatter, genuflect, grovel, kowtow, lick the dust, lickspittle, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, nod, salaam, scrape, stoop, toadeat, toady, truckle

• knell, annihilation, bane, bell, bemoan, bewail, biological death, bong, cessation of life, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clinical death, clink, coronach, crossing the bar, curtains, dead march, death, death bell, death knell, death song, debt of nature, decease, demise, departure, deplore, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dirge, dissolution, dong, donging, doom, dying, ebb of life, elegize, elegy, end, end of life, ending, epicedium, eternal rest, eulogy, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, final summons, finger of death, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral ring, funeral song, give sorrow words, going, going off, gong, grave, graveside oration, grieve, hand of death, jangle, jaws of death, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, keen, knelling, lament, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, moan, monody, mourn, passing, passing away, passing bell, passing over, peal, peal ringing, pealing, perishing, quietus, release, repine, requiem, rest, reward, ring, ring changes, ringing, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sigh, sing the blues, sleep, somatic death, sorrow, sound, sound a knell, summons of death, threnode, threnody, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, weep over

• knickknack, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cosmetics, cricket bat, cue, curio, dido, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, giftware, gimcrack, golf club, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknackery, knickknacks, marble, marionette, mig, miniature, minikin, mockery, molehill, notion, notions, novelties, novelty, odds and ends, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, pretty-pretty, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, souvenir, sport, steelie, straw, sundries, taw, teetotum, toilet goods, toiletries, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, two cents, twopence, virtu, whatnot, whim-wham

• knife, ax, barong, bayonet, blade, bolo, bowie, bowie knife, cold steel, cut, cutlery, cutter, dagger, dining utensils, dirk, edge tool, edge tools, flat silver, flatware, forks, gravity knife, hollow ware, impale, knives, lance, machete, naked steel, parang, pierce, pigsticker, play dirty pool, play one false, plunge in, point, poniard, prove false, puncturer, run through, saber, sharpener, silver, silver plate, silverware, slash, spear, spike, spit, spoons, stab, stainless-steel ware, steel, stick, stiletto, switchblade, switchblade knife, sword, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, toad sticker, transfix, transpierce, whittle, wound

• knight errantry, bigheartedness, bigness, chivalrousness, chivalry, elevation, errantry, exaltation, generosity, generousness, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, heroism, high-mindedness, idealism, knightliness, largeheartedness, liberality, liberalness, loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, openhandedness, princeliness, sublimity

• knight, Bayard, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, advance, aggrandize, bachelor, banneret, baronet, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bishop, blade, bravo, brawler, broncobuster, buckaroo, bully, bullyboy, caballero, castle, cavalier, cavalryman, chessman, chevalier, circus rider, combatant, companion, competitor, contender, contestant, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, disputant, duelist, elevate, enforcer, ennoble, equestrian, equestrienne, exalt, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gallant, gamecock, gaucho, gladiator, goon, gorilla, graduate, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, jockey, jouster, kick upstairs, king, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, man, militant, mounted policeman, pass, pawn, piece, plug-ugly, postboy, postilion, prefer, promote, puncher, quarreler, queen, raise, rider, rioter, rival, rook, rough, roughrider, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, steeplechaser, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, trick rider, tussler, up, upgrade, vaquero, wrangler

• knighthood, arms, art of war, baronetcy, barony, chivalry, dukedom, earldom, generalship, kingship, knight-errantship, ladyship, lordship, marquisate, pashadom, princedom, princeship, queenship, seignioralty, seigniory, viscountcy, viscountship, viscounty, war

• knightly, aristocratic, big, bighearted, bold, bold-spirited, brave, ceremonious, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, courtly, doughty, ducal, elevated, exalted, formal, gallant, generous, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hardy, heroic, herolike, high, high-minded, idealistic, intrepid, ironhearted, kinglike, kingly, knightlike, ladylike, largehearted, liberal, lionhearted, lofty, magnanimous, manful, manly, noble, noble-minded, of gentle blood, of rank, old-fashioned, old-world, openhanded, patrician, princelike, princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, sublime, titled, valiant, valorous

• knit, abbreviate, adhere, affix, anchor, annex, attach, belay, bind, braid, cement, cicatrize, cinch, circumscribe, clamp, clinch, close up, coarct, cocker, cockle, cohere, combine, come together, communicate, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, connect, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, converge, corrugate, cramp, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, curtail, decrease, draw, draw in, draw together, embrace, engraft, enlace, entwine, fasten, fix, furrow, graft, granulate, grapple, grow together, hang together, heal, heal over, hold together, intercommunicate, interconnect, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, join, knot, lace, link, loom, loop, make fast, mat, meet, mend, merge, moor, narrow, net, noose, plait, pleach, pucker, pucker up, purse, put to, raddle, reduce, ridge, right itself, rimple, ripple, ruck, ruckle, rumple, scab over, screw up, secure, set, set to, shirr, shorten, solidify, splice, strangle, strangulate, tie up, tighten, tissue, trice up, trim, twill, twine, twist, unite, wattle, weave, web, wimple, wreathe, wrinkle

• knitted, clamped, cockled, cockly, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corrugate, corrugated, cramped, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled, furrowed, knotted, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, ridged, rimpled, rippled, rucked, rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated, wasp-waisted, wrinkled, wrinkly

• knitting, abbreviation, applique, astriction, astringency, basting, binding, bottleneck, braiding, buttonholing, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crochet, curtailment, decrease, diminuendo, embroidery, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, fabric, hourglass, hourglass figure, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, isthmus, lacing, macrame, narrow place, narrowing, neck, needlepoint, netting, petit point, plaiting, puckering, pursing, quilting, reduction, ribbing, shortening, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, tatting, texture, tissue, twining, twisting, warp and woof, warpage, wasp waist, weave, weaving, web, weftage, wreathing, wrinkling

• knob, anthill, ball, balloon, barrow, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, coarsen, condyle, convex, dowel, down, drumlin, dune, ear, ellipsoid, fell, flange, flap, foothills, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, granulate, handle, hill, hillock, horripilate, hummock, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, pimple, projection, prolate spheroid, protrusion, protuberance, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, rough, rough up, roughen, sand dune, shoulder, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, swell, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

• knobbed, burled, gnarled, gnarly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, nappy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, pily, pitted, shaggy, studded, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous

• knobby, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, burled, gnarled, gnarly, hilly, knobbed, knobbly, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, lumpy, monticuline, mountained, mountainous, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, rolling, studded, subalpine, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous

• knock about, abuse, bat around, batter, bruise, buffet, bum, count ties, divagate, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, drift, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, jaunt, knock around, maltreat, manhandle, maul, meander, mishandle, mistreat, molest, mooch, nomadize, outrage, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rough, rough up, roughhouse, rove, run about, saunter, savage, straggle, stray, stroll, traipse, tramp, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

• knock around, air, analyze, bat around, bum, canvass, comment upon, consider, controvert, count ties, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, discourse about, discuss, divagate, drift, examine, exchange views, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go into, go the rounds, handle, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, investigate, jaunt, knock about, meander, mooch, nomadize, pass under review, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, review, roam, rove, run about, saunter, sift, straggle, stray, stroll, study, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thresh out, traipse, tramp, treat, vagabond, vagabondize, ventilate, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

• knock dead, amuse, beam, becharm, beggar description, beguile, bewitch, bloom, captivate, carry away, charm, convulse, delectate, delight, divert, enchant, enliven, enrapture, enravish, entertain, enthrall, entrance, exhilarate, fascinate, fracture one, freak out, glow, imparadise, kill, knock out, loosen up, raise a laugh, raise a smile, ravish, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, send, shine, slay, solace, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, transport, wow

• knock down, auction, auction off, auctioneer, bang, bash, bat, beat down, belittle, belt, biff, blow down, blow over, bonk, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, crush, cry down, cut, cut down, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, dash down, deal, deal a blow, debase, deck, decry, degrade, deject, demoralize, depreciate, depress, derogate from, detract from, disapprove of, discourage, discredit, disgrace, dishearten, disparage, dispirit, down, drop, fell, fetch, fetch a blow, fetch down, flatten, floor, ground, hew down, hit, hit a clip, hold in contempt, jab, knock, knock cold, knock out, knock over, lay, lay level, lay low, lay out, let have it, level, lower, lower the spirits, make little of, minimize, mow down, oppress, overcome, paste, plunk, poke, precipitate, press down, prostrate, psych out, pull down, punch, put down, rase, raze, reflect discredit upon, run down, sadden, sell by auction, send headlong, shake, sink, slam, slight, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, speak ill of, spread-eagle, steamroller, strike, strike at, submit to indignity, supinate, swat, swipe, take down, tear down, throw, throw down, thump, thwack, topple, trip, tumble, unbrace, undo, unman, unnerve, unstring, upset, wallop, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, whack, whack down, wham, whop, win, yerk

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

• knock kneed, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, club-footed, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, flatfooted, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated

• knock off, abscind, accomplish, achieve, ad-lib, amputate, annihilate, assassinate, attain, author, ban, bar, bat out, bob, botch, break, breathe, bump off, bungle, buy it, call a strike, call it quits, cash in, cease, check in, check out, clip, close down, close shop, coauthor, collaborate, compass, compose, consummate, cook up, cool, croak, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, dash off, deal with, desist, discharge, discontinue, discount, dispatch, dispose of, do, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do in, do offhand, do the job, do the trick, dock, draw back, drop off, dust off, editorialize, effect, effectuate, eliminate, enact, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, execute, extemporize, extinguish, extirpate, fake, fake up, fetch, finish, formulate, free-lance, fudge up, fulfill, ghost, ghostwrite, give over, go on strike, go west, halt, have it, improvisate, improvise, indite, isolate, jury-rig, kick in, kick off, kick the bucket, knock out, knock over, knock together, lash up, lay off, leave off, liquidate, loot, lop, make, make up, manage, mutilate, nip, novelize, pamphleteer, pare, pass out, patch, patch together, patch up, pause, peel, peg out, perform, pick out, pipe off, play by ear, plunder, polish off, pop off, pound out, prepare, produce, prune, put away, quit, ransack, realize, recess, relieve, rifle, rob, root out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rule out, scenarize, scrap the plan, secure, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shove off, shut down, shut up shop, slap up, stamp out, step off, stick up, stop for breath, strike, strike off, strip, strip off, subtract, succeed, surcease, take, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take away, take care of, take five, take off, take out, take ten, take time out, throw off, throw on paper, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, truncate, turn the trick, vamp, walk out, whip up, whomp up, wing it, wipe out, work, work out, write

• knock out, KO, anesthetize, author, bang, bash, bat, bat out, beat, becharm, bedaze, belt, benumb, besot, bewitch, biff, block out, blunt, bonk, botch, bugger, bungle, burn out, call off, cancel, captivate, carry away, carve, cast, charm, chisel, chloroform, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coauthor, coldcock, collaborate, complete, compose, cook, crack, create, cut, dash, dash off, deaden, deal, deal a blow, debilitate, deck, defeat, deflate, delectate, delete, delight, desensitize, disarm, dish, dispose of, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do for, do in, do offhand, do up, dope, drop the curtain, drug, dull, editorialize, efform, enchain, enchant, end off, enervate, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, etherize, exhaust, expunge, extinguish, fag, fag out, fake up, fascinate, fashion, fatigue, fetch, fetch a blow, figure, finalize, finish, fix, flag, fold up, forge, form, formalize, formulate, found, frame, frazzle, freak out, free-lance, freeze, fudge up, gag, get it over, get over with, get through with, ghost, ghostwrite, give the quietus, hamstring, handcuff, harass, hew, hit, hit a clip, hobble, hog-tie, imparadise, indite, jab, jade, jury-rig, kayo, kibosh, kill, knead, knock, knock cold, knock dead, knock down, knock off, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock together, knock unconscious, knock up, lash up, lay out, let have it, lick into shape, manacle, mint, model, mold, muzzle, narcotize, novelize, numb, obtund, outwear, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, palsy, pamphleteer, paralyze, paste, patch, patch together, patch up, perfect, plunk, poke, polish off, poop, poop out, pound out, prepare, produce, prostrate, punch, put paid to, put to sleep, ravish, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scenarize, scrag, sculpt, sculpture, scuttle, send, set, settle, shape, shoot down, silence, sink, slam, slap up, slay, slog, slug, smack, smite, snap, soak, sock, stamp, strangle, strike, strike at, stun, stupefy, swat, swipe, tailor, thermoform, thrill, throttle, throw off, throw on paper, throw together, thump, thwack, tickle, tickle pink, tire, tire out, tire to death, titillate, torpedo, toss off, toss out, toss together, transport, trifle with, truss up, tucker, undo, use up, wallop, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, whack, wham, whomp up, whop, wilt, wind, wipe out, work, wow, write, yerk, zap

• knock over, beat down, blow down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, commit robbery, cut down, down, drop, fell, flatten, floor, ground, heist, hijack, hold up, knock, knock down, level, mow down, mug, prostrate, pull down, rase, raze, rip off, rob, smash, steamroller, stick up, take down, tear down, throw down

• knock, KO, abuse, adverse criticism, animadversion, arouse, aspersion, associate with, astonish, astound, awaken, bad notices, bad press, bang, bang into, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, beat up, beating, belt, bewilder, biff, blame, blow, bob, bonk, bop, bowl over, buffet, bump, bump into, burst, bust, cannon, captiousness, carom, carom into, carp at, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clock out, close down, clout, clump, coldcock, collide, come into collision, complete, concuss, condemn, condemnation, confront each other, conk, consort with, copy, crack, crack up, crash, crash into, criticism, criticize, crump, crunch, cuff, cut, cut down, dash, dash into, daze, deal, deal a blow, debate, deck, demolish, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, destroy, dig, dint, discuss, disparage, drub, drubbing, drumming, encounter, exception, fall foul of, faultfinding, fell, fetch, fetch a blow, finish, flail, flak, flap, flatten, floor, flop, foul, fusillade, gad about, get with child, go home, hairsplitting, hammer, hammering, hit, hit a clip, hit against, home thrust, hostile criticism, hurt, hurtle, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imitate, impinge, impregnate, improvise, imputation, insult, jab, kayo, kill, knock about, knock against, knock around, knock cold, knock down, knock off, knock out, knock over, knock together, knock unconscious, knock up, lambaste, larrup, lay in ruins, left, let have it, level, lick, lift, lock up, maltreat, manhandle, maul, meet, mistreat, nagging, nick, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcome, overcriticalness, overwhelm, pan, paste, patter, pelt, percuss, pestering, pettifogging, pilfer, pinch, plunk, poke, polish off, pommel, pound, pounding, priggishness, prostrate, pull down, pulverize, pummel, punch, put down, put together, quibble, quibbling, quit, ramble, rap, raze, reflection, report, reprehend, reproachfulness, reprobate, right, roam, rob, rove, run down, run into, sideswipe, skin, slam, slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, slur, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, snipe at, soak, sock, spank, splat, stagger, steal, stricture, strike, strike against, strike at, stroke, stun, swap, swat, swing, swipe, taking exception, talk over, tap, tattoo, terminate, thieve, thrash, thresh, throw down, thump, thwack, travel, trichoschistism, trounce, tunk, wake up, wallop, wander, whack, wham, whap, whip, whomp, whop, wipe, wreck, yerk

• knock-down-and-drag-out, affray, altercation, barney, bickering, boisterous, brawl, broil, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, fight, fracas, fray, free-for-all, harum-scarum, hassle, knockabout, melee, rambunctious, rampageous, rhubarb, riot, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, row, rowdy, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run-in, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shindy, wild

• knocker, Thersites, backbiter, bag, belittler, boobs, bosom, breast, breasts, brisket, bust, calumniator, carper, caustic critic, caviler, chest, criticizer, crop, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, dug, faultfinder, hatchet man, knockers, libeler, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, momus, muckraker, mudslinger, nenes, nipple, pap, papilla, pigeon breast, railer, slanderer, smellfungus, social critic, teat, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, traducer, udder

• knockout drops, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, aperitif, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chaser, chloral hydrate, cocktail, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, doch-an-dorrach, dolly, dope, downer, drink, drug, eye-opener, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, highball, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drop, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, mixed drink, morphia, morphine, narcotic, nightcap, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, pain-killer, paregoric, parting cup, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, pousse-cafe, punch, 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, stirrup cup, sundowner, tar, tranquilizer, turps, wee doch-an-dorrach, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• knockout, Cadmean victory, KO, Miss America, Pyrrhic victory, ace, ascendancy, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, blackout, bunny, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, championship, charmer, clincher, coma, conquest, corker, coup de grace, cover girl, crackerjack, crusher, daisy, dandy, darb, dazzler, death stroke, deathblow, dilly, dream, easy victory, enchantress, end-all, ender, eyeful, faint, final stroke, finisher, finishing stroke, grand slam, grayout, great beauty, hit, honey, humdinger, kayo, kayo punch, killer-diller, knockout blow, lady fair, landslide, landslide victory, last dab, lipothymia, lipothymy, lollapaloosa, looker, lovely, lulu, mastery, model, moral victory, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness, paragon, peach, picnic, pinup, pinup girl, pip, pippin, pushover, pussycat, quietus, raving beauty, reigning beauty, runaway victory, semiconsciousness, sensation, senselessness, settler, sex kitten, sleep, slick chick, smash, smash hit, sockdolager, stopper, stunner, stupor, subdual, subduing, success, sweetheart, swoon, syncope, the nuts, total victory, triumph, unconsciousness, victory, walkaway, walkover, whiz, win, winner, winning, winning streak

• knockwurst, Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna, braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese, hot dog, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse, sausage, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie

• knoll, anthill, barrow, brae, butte, crest, down, drumlin, dune, elevation, fell, foothills, hill, hillock, hilltop, hummock, knob, lofty peak, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mountaintop, peak, pic, pico, pike, pinnacle, point, precipice, rise, sand dune, spur, summit, swell, tor

• knot, Blackwall hitch, Chinese puzzle, Flemish knot, French shroud knot, German knot, Gordian knot, Matthew Walker knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, Windsor knot, accouple, accumulate, adhesive, affix, affixation, agglutinate, aggregation, air speed, amass, amount to, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anchor knot, annexation, articulate, assemblage, assemble, associate, asymmetry, attach, attachment, baffling problem, balance, ball, ball up, balloon, band, batch, becket knot, bend, bilge, bind, binding, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, block, body, boll, bolus, bond, boss, bow, bowknot, bowline, bracket, braid, brain twister, break even, bridge, bridge over, bubble, buckle, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bun, bunch, burl, button, cahot, cake, can of worms, celerity, cement, chain, chignon, chine, clabber, clap together, clasping, clinch, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, cocker, cockle, coil, collect, collection, combine, come to, come up to, company, complex, complicate, comprise, concatenate, concrete, concretion, condyle, confound, confuse, congeal, conglobulate, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, conjoin, conjugate, connect, contort, contortion, convex, copse, copulate, correspond, corrugate, couple, cover, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crook, crookedness, crop, crossword puzzle, crowd, crumple, crux, cue, curd, curdle, detorsion, deviation, diamond knot, dilemma, dispatch, disproportion, distort, distortion, ditto, double hitch, dowel, draw, ear, ellipsoid, embrace, embrangle, encompass, enigma, enigmatic question, entangle, even, even off, expedition, fasten, fastener, fastening, fastness, fix, flange, flap, flat knot, flight, flit, floorer, flurry, foul up, furrow, gall, gang, gather, gathering, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, geoid, girding, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, glue, gnarl, gob, gobbet, granny knot, ground speed, group, grouping, groupment, grove, half crown, half hitch, handle, hassock, haste, hawser bend, hawser fastening, heaving-line bend, hill, hooking, hump, hunch, hurry, imbalance, implicate, include, incrassate, inside clinch, inspissate, instantaneousness, involve, irregularity, jell, jellify, jelly, jigsaw puzzle, jog, joggle, join, jungle, keep pace with, knit, knob, knots, knotty point, knur, knurl, labyrinth, lanyard knot, lash, lashing, lay together, league, ligament, ligation, ligature, lightning speed, link, lip, loop, lopper, lopsidedness, lot, louse up, lump, lump together, manrope knot, marling hitch, marry, marshal, mass, match, match up with, maze, meander, measure up to, merge, mesh, mesh knot, mess, mess up, miles per hour, mind-boggler, mix up, mobilize, mole, morass, mountain, muck up, muddle, mystery, netting knot, nevus, nexus, node, nodus, nonplus, nub, nubbin, nubble, nut to crack, oblate spheroid, open hand knot, orb, orbit, orblet, outside clinch, oxymoron, pair, papilloma, paradox, parallel, peg, pellet, perplex, perplexed question, perplexity, piece together, pigtail, plait, pons asinorum, poser, precipitation, problem, prolate spheroid, prolonge knot, promptitude, promptness, pucker, purse, put together, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quandary, question, question mark, queue, quickness, quirk, ramify, rapidity, rattail, ravel, reach, reef knot, reeving-line bend, rib, ridge, rimple, ring, ripple, rival, roll into one, rolling hitches, rondure, rope-yarn knot, round pace, round seizing, rpm, ruck, ruckle, rumple, run abreast, run to, running knot, rush, screw, screw up, secure, set, sheepshank, shirr, shock, shock wave, shoulder, shroud knot, single knot, sixty-four dollar question, skein, slew, slide knot, slipknot, snafu, snake pit, snappiness, snarl, snarl up, solder, solid, solid body, sonic barrier, sonic boom, sound barrier, span, speed, speed of sound, speediness, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, splice, spring, square knot, stack up with, stick together, sticker, sticking, stook, stud, stumper, style, swift rate, swiftness, tab, tail, take in, tangle, tangled skein, tape, teaser, tether, thick, thicken, thicket, throng, tie, tieing, timber knot, topknot, torsion, tortuosity, touch, tough proposition, tubercle, tubercule, tuft, turn, turn awry, tussock, twist, unify, unite, unsymmetry, velocity, verruca, vesicle, vexed question, vinculum, wale, wall knot, warp, wart, web, webwork, weld, welt, wheels within wheels, why, wilderness, wimple, wisp, wrench, wrest, wring, wrinkle, writhe, yoke, zipping

• knothole, air hole, armhole, blowhole, bullet-hole, bunghole, cringle, deadeye, eye, eyelet, gasket, grommet, guide, keyhole, loop, loophole, manhole, mousehole, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, porthole, punch-hole, spiracle, tap, vent, venthole

• knotted, Byzantine, Herculean, abstruse, accumulated, affiliate, affiliated, agglomerate, aggregate, alike, allied, amassed, arduous, assembled, associate, associated, at par, au pair, balled up, banded together, bound, bracketed, brutal, bunched, bundled, burled, clumped, clustered, cockled, cockly, collateral, collected, combined, commensurate, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, conjugate, connected, convoluted, copulate, correlated, corrugate, corrugated, coupled, crabbed, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, critical, crumpled, cumulate, daedal, delicate, demanding, devious, difficile, difficult, drawn, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, equal, equalized, even, even stephen, exacting, fascicled, fasciculated, fifty-fifty, formidable, fouled up, furrowed, gathered, glomerate, gnarled, gnarly, hairy, half-and-half, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, heaped, implicated, in session, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, intricate, involuted, involved, jawbreaking, joined, joint, knitted, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotty, knurled, knurly, laborious, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, leagued, level, like, linked, loused up, lumped, lumpy, many-faceted, massed, matched, mated, matted, mazy, mean, meandering, meeting, merged, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, nip and tuck, no picnic, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, not easy, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, of that ilk, of that kind, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, operose, packaged, paired, par, parallel, perplexed, piled, proportionate, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, quits, ramified, related, ridged, rigorous, rimpled, rippled, rough, roundabout, rucked, rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, screwed up, set with thorns, severe, snarled, spiny, spliced, square, stacked, stalemated, steep, strenuous, studded, subtle, tangled, tangly, thorny, ticklish, tied, toilsome, torose, tough, tricky, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, twinned, twisted, undivided, united, unseparated, uphill, wed, wedded, wicked, wrapped up, wrinkled, wrinkly, yoked

• knotty, Byzantine, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, beyond one, brutal, burled, complex, complicated, crabbed, cramp, critical, daedal, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful, elaborate, exacting, formidable, garbled, gnarled, gnarly, gordian, hairy, hard, hard to understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, intricate, involved, jawbreaking, jumbled, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knurled, knurly, laborious, labyrinthine, lumpy, mean, no picnic, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, not easy, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, operose, overtechnical, perplexed, rigorous, rough, rugged, scrambled, set with thorns, severe, sophisticated, spiny, steep, sticky, strenuous, studded, terrible, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, torose, tough, tricky, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, uphill, wicked

• know all the answers, be expert in, be learned in, be master of, be up on, be well-informed, command, get around, have been around, have down pat, have it taped, have savvy, know backwards, know by heart, know damn well, know inside out, know the ropes, know the score, know well

• know backwards and forwards, be expert in, be learned in, be master of, be up on, be well-informed, command, get around, have been around, have down pat, have it taped, have savvy, know backwards, know by heart, know damn well, know inside out, know the ropes, know the score, know well

• know how, ability, acquaintance, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, art, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, control, coordination, corpus, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, data, datum, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, experience, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, facts, factual base, familiarity, finesse, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, information, ingeniousness, ingenuity, intelligence, intimacy, ken, knack, knowing, knowledge, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, practical ability, practical knowledge, private knowledge, privity, proficiency, prowess, quickness, ratio cognoscendi, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, self-knowledge, skill, skillfulness, style, tact, tactfulness, technic, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technics, technique, timing, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• know no bounds, advance upon, break bounds, carry too far, encroach, exaggerate, exhaust, fill, flood, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, infringe, intrude, invade, irrupt, luxuriate, make an inroad, overabound, overact, overbrim, overcarry, overdevelop, overdo, overdrive, overelaborate, overemphasize, overexercise, overexert, overexpend, overflow, overgrow, overindulge, overlabor, overplay, overreact, overrun, overspend, overspill, overspread, overstep, overstep the bounds, overstrain, overstress, overstudy, overswarm, overtask, overtax, overtrain, overuse, overwork, pass all bounds, protest too much, pullulate, run riot, spill over, superabound, swarm, teem, transgress, trespass, usurp

• know nothing, antiblack, awkward, be green, be ignorant, benighted, biased, blankminded, callow, chauvinistic, colored, dabbler, dilettante, dimwit, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dolt, dope, dumb, dummy, dunce, empty, empty-headed, fool, gauche, green, greenhorn, greeny, groping, headed, idiot, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, illiterati, inane, inexperienced, influenced, innocent, interested, jaundiced, know from nothing, lackwit, lowbrow, middlebrow, naive, nescient, no scholar, nonobjective, not know beans, one-sided, opinionated, partial, partisan, pinhead, prejudiced, prepossessed, puddinghead, racist, raw, rude, sexist, simple, strange to, superpatriotic, swayed, tenderfoot, tentative, twisted, ultranationalist, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant, undetached, undispassionate, uneducated, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintelligent, unintelligentsia, unknowing, unlettered, unposted, unripe, unsure, untaught, untutored, unversed, vacuous, wallow in ignorance, warped, xenophobic

• know well, attain mastery of, be expert in, be informed, be learned in, be master of, be told, be up on, be well-informed, become adept in, command, get down cold, get down pat, get taped, get up on, get wind of, have down pat, have it taped, have the facts, hear, hear tell of, hearsay, know, know backwards, know by heart, know damn well, know inside out, know the ropes, know the score, learn the ropes, master, overhear

• know, absorb, account, acquaintance, aller sans dire, announcement, appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, associate with, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be axiomatic, be certain, be cognizant of, be confident, be conscious of, be conversant with, be exposed to, be friends, be informed, be inseparable, be subjected to, be told, be with one, bet on, blue book, briefing, bulletin, catch, catch on, cognize, communication, communique, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, cotton to, data, datum, difference, differentiate, dig, digest, directory, discern, discriminate, dispatch, distinguish, doubt not, encounter, endure, enlightenment, evidence, experience, extricate, facts, factual information, familiarization, fathom, feel, feel sure, follow, fraternize with, gamble on, gen, general information, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, get wind of, go through, go without saying, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, have, have information about, have it taped, have knowledge of, have no doubt, have the facts, hear, hear tell of, hearsay, hit it off, hobnob with, identify, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, just know, ken, know again, know for certain, know well, knowledge, labor under, learn, light, make out, master, meet, meet up with, meet with, mention, message, nail, notice, notification, overhear, pass through, pay, peg, perceive, place, possess, prehend, presentation, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, read, realize, recall, recall knowledge of, recognize, recollect, reidentify, release, remember, report, rest assured, run up against, savor, savvy, see, see through, seize, seize the meaning, sense, separate, sever, severalize, sidelight, spend, spot, stand under, statement, suffer, sustain, take, take in, taste, tell, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, undergo, understand, white book, white paper, word, wot, wot of

• know-it-all, Narcissus, aggressively self-confident, biggety, braggart, bumptious, chesty, cocky, conceited, egocentric, egoist, egotist, immodest, individualist, narcissist, narcist, no modest violet, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, puffed up, self-conceited, self-opinionated, smart aleck, smart-alecky, smarty, smarty-pants, stuck-up, swelled-headed, swellhead, wise guy, wiseacre, wisecracker, wisehead, wisenheimer

• knowing, Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, advised, aimed, aimed at, alive, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, arch, artful, astute, awake, aware, blase, brainy, bright, brilliant, broad-minded, cagey, calculated, calculating, canny, clever, cognizant, comprehending, conceptive, conceptual, conscious, considered, conspiratorial, conspiratory, contemplated, conversant, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deliberate, deliberated, designed, designing, devious, diplomatic, discerning, discursive, disenchanted, disillusioned, eloquent, envisaged, envisioned, experienced, expert, expressive, feline, foxy, gnostic, guileful, hep, ideational, ingenious, insidious, insightful, intellectual, intelligent, intended, intentional, inventive, knowledgable, knowledgeable, learned, mature, matured, meaningful, meant, meditated, mindful, mondaine, nimble-witted, noetic, not born yesterday, not so dumb, observant, of design, old, omniscient, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, planned, politic, practiced, prehensile, private, profound, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, qualified, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, ripe, ripened, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scheming, seasoned, secret, sensible, sentient, serpentine, sharp, sharp-witted, shifty, shrewd, significant, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophic, sophistical, sophisticate, sophisticated, stealthy, strategic, strong-minded, studied, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, teleological, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tried, tried and true, understanding, veteran, vigilant, voluntary, vulpine, wary, watchful, well-informed, willful, wily, wise, wise as Solomon, witting, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• knowingly, advisedly, artfully, astutely, by design, cagily, calculatedly, cannily, circumspectly, cleverly, consciously, considerately, contemplatedly, cunningly, deliberately, designedly, discerningly, discreetly, eruditely, foxily, guilefully, in cold blood, insidiously, intelligently, intentionally, judiciously, learnedly, meditatedly, on purpose, on the sly, pointedly, premeditatedly, providently, prudently, purposefully, purposely, purposively, rationally, reasonably, sagaciously, sensibly, shiftily, shrewdly, slick, slyly, smartly, smoothly, studiously, subtilely, subtlely, thoughtfully, trickily, understandingly, voluntarily, warily, wilily, willfully, wisely, with forethought, with full intent, with intent, with malice aforethought, with purpose, wittingly

• knowledge, IQ, account, acquaintance, adeptness, advice, announcement, appreciation, apprehension, awareness, blue book, briefing, broadening the mind, bulletin, caliber, capacity, cognition, communication, communique, comprehension, conception, consciousness, data, datum, deductive power, directory, discernment, dispatch, education, enlightenment, erudition, esemplastic power, evidence, experience, expertise, facts, factual information, familiarity, familiarization, gen, general information, grasp, guidebook, handout, hard information, ideation, incidental information, info, information, insight, instruction, integrative power, intellect, intellectual acquirement, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, knowing, learning, light, lore, mastery of skills, memorization, mental age, mental capacity, mental cultivation, mental culture, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, mention, message, mother wit, native wit, news, notice, notification, power of mind, presentation, proficiency, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, rationality, reasoning power, release, report, sanity, scholarship, schooling, science, scope of mind, self-instruction, sense, sidelight, statement, storing the mind, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thinking power, transmission, understanding, white book, white paper, wisdom, wit, word

• knowledgeable, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, au courant, au fait, authoritative, aware, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cognizant, comprehending, confined, conscious, cultured, discerning, enlightened, erudite, expert, familiar, feature, featured, gnostic, in the know, insightful, intelligent, knowing, knowledgable, learned, limited, mindful, omniscient, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, prehensile, quick-witted, ready, restricted, sagacious, sage, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sophic, sophisticated, specialist, specialistic, specialized, technical, understanding, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, wise, worldly

• knub, feel, finish, grain, granular texture, indentation, nap, nub, pile, pit, pock, protuberance, shag, structure, surface, surface texture, texture, wale, weave, woof

• knuckle down, accede, accept, acquiesce, assent, be agreeable, buckle down, comply, consent, endeavor, face the music, go all out, go along with, hump, hump it, knock under, knuckle under, lay to, live with it, not resist, obey, ply the oar, relent, resign, spare no effort, submit, succumb, swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it

• knuckle under, accede, accept, acquiesce, assent, be agreeable, bow, capitulate, cave, comply, consent, defer, face the music, go along with, knock under, knuckle, knuckle down, live with it, not resist, obey, relent, resign, submit, succumb, swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it

• knuckle, Chateaubriand, ankle, articulation, blade roast, boundary, bow, breast, brisket, butt, capitulate, cave, cervix, chuck, chuck roast, clinch, clod, closure, cold cuts, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, defer, dovetail, elbow, embrace, filet mignon, flank, gliding joint, hinge, hinged joint, hip, interface, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle under, link, loin, miter, mortise, neck, pivot, pivot joint, plate, plate piece, pot roast, rabbet, rack, rib roast, ribs, roast, rolled roast, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, scarf, seam, shank, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, sirloin, stitch, submit, succumb, suture, symphysis, tenderloin, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union, weld, wrist

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

• knuckleheaded, beetleheaded, blockheaded, blunderheaded, boneheaded, cabbageheaded, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, dumbheaded, dunderheaded, fatheaded, jolterheaded, joltheaded, lunkheaded, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numskulled, pumpkin-headed, sapheaded, stupidheaded, woodenheaded

• knurl, Vandyke, bilge, blain, blaze, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, chop, clump, condyle, convex, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, dowel, ear, flange, flap, gall, gash, gnarl, handle, hill, hump, hunch, incise, indent, jag, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, lip, loop, lump, machicolate, mill, mole, mountain, nevus, nick, notch, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, picot, pink, rib, ridge, ring, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, serrate, shoulder, slash, spine, stud, style, tab, tooth, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

• knurled, burled, gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurly, lumpy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, studded, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous

• KO, Cadmean victory, Pyrrhic victory, anesthetize, ascendancy, bedaze, benumb, besot, blackout, blunt, call off, cancel, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, championship, chloroform, clincher, coldcock, coma, complete, conquest, cook, crusher, deaden, death stroke, deathblow, defeat, delete, desensitize, dish, dispose of, do for, do in, dope, drop the curtain, drug, dull, easy victory, end off, end-all, ender, etherize, expunge, extinguish, faint, final stroke, finalize, finish, finisher, finishing stroke, fix, fold up, freeze, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, grand slam, grayout, kayo, kayo punch, kibosh, kill, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, knockout, knockout blow, landslide, landslide victory, last dab, lay out, lipothymia, lipothymy, mastery, moral victory, narcotize, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, numb, oblivion, obliviousness, obtund, palsy, paralyze, perfect, picnic, polish off, pushover, put paid to, put to sleep, quietus, runaway victory, scrag, scuttle, semiconsciousness, senselessness, settle, settler, shoot down, sink, sleep, sockdolager, stopper, stun, stupefy, stupor, subdual, subduing, success, swoon, syncope, torpedo, total victory, triumph, unconsciousness, undo, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, winning, winning streak, wipe out, zap

• kook, alien, aliene, bedlamite, borderline case, case, character, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, cuckoo, dement, demoniac, ding-a-ling, eccentric, energumen, erratic, fanatic, flake, fou, freak, harebrain, hermit, hobo, idiot, lone wolf, loner, loon, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, maverick, meshuggenah, natural, noncompos, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, pariah, phrenetic, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, raving lunatic, recluse, screwball, solitary, strange duck, tramp, type, weirdo, zealot

• kooky, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, credulous, crotchety, cuckoo, curious, daffy, daft, dazed, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked out, freaked-out, freakish, freaky, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, loony, loopy, mad, maggoty, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quirky, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid, thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural, wacky, weird, wet, whimsical, witless, wondrous strange

• Kore, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysos, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Eros, Flora, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Pomona, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Tellus, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit

• kosher, accordant, according to Hoyle, actionable, anal, applicable, appropriate, authorized, bleached, bourgeois, bright, clean, cleanly, comestible, competent, compulsive, concordant, condign, conformist, constitutional, conventional, correct, corresponding, dainty, decent, decorous, delicious, dirt-free, due, eatable, edible, esculent, fair, fastidious, fit, fitting, formalistic, fresh, good, gustable, harmonious, immaculate, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, licit, nice, nonpolluted, normal, normative, of cleanly habits, orthodox, palatable, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, proper, pure, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, ritually pure, sanctioned, savory, seemly, shiny, smut-free, smutless, spotless, square, stainless, statutory, straight, stuffy, succulent, suitable, sweet, tahar, traditionalist, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, uptight, valid, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, within the law

• kowtow, apple-polish, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bending the knee, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bow to, bowing and scraping, brown-nose, butter up, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, curtsy, dance attendance on, dipping the colors, do homage, do obeisance, duck, fall down before, fawn, flatter, genuflect, genuflection, grovel, homage, inclination, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knuckle to, lick the dust, lickspittle, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, making a leg, nod, obeisance, obsequiousness, pander to, pay court to, play up to, presenting arms, prostration, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, servility, shine up to, squat, standing at attention, stoop, submission, submissiveness, suck up to, supination, toadeat, toady, truckle, truckle to

• Kraut, Anzac, Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, Fritz, GI, Guinea, Heinie, Hun, Hunk, Hunkie, Irish potato, Jerry, Johnny, Krauthead, Mick, Mickey, Paddy, Tommy, Tommy Atkins, Yank, askari, aubergine, beans, cabbage, dago, digger, doughboy, eggplant, frog, greaseball, greaser, greens, jock, legumes, limey, love apple, mad apple, pieplant, poilu, potato, potherbs, produce, redcoat, rhubarb, sepoy, spud, swaddy, tater, tomato, vegetables, wetback, white potato

• kudos, acclaim, acclamation, accolade, adulation, apotheosis, applause, award, badge, bays, bepraisement, celebrity, character, citation, congratulation, decoration, deification, dignity, distinction, eclat, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, face, fame, famousness, figure, flattery, glorification, glory, hero worship, high place, homage, hommage, honor, honorable mention, idolatry, idolizing, illustriousness, laud, laudation, laurels, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, mention, name, notoriety, notoriousness, overpraise, paean, panegyric, plaudits, popularity, position, praise, preeminence, prestige, prominence, publicity, rank, reclame, recognition, renown, report, reputation, repute, standing, station, stature, status, the bubble reputation, tribute, vogue

• kvetch, bellyacher, complainant, complainer, crab, crank, croaker, faultfinder, frondeur, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, kicker, malcontent, murmurer, mutterer, querulous person, reactionary, reactionist, rebel, sorehead, whiner

• Kyrie Eleison, Agnus Dei, Alleluia, Anamnesis, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Blessing, Canon, Collect, Communion, Consecration, Credo, Dismissal, Epistle, Fraction, Gloria, Gospel, Gradual, Hail Mary, Introit, Kyrie, Last Gospel, Lavabo, Offertory, Paternoster, Pax, Post-Communion, Preface, Sanctus, Secreta, Tersanctus, Tract, 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

• L, R, Sexagesima, acting area, addition, angle, annex, apex, apron, apron stage, backstage, band shell, bandstand, bend, bifurcation, bight, board, boxcar, boxcars, branch, bridge, cable railway, cant, chevron, cog railway, coin, corner, coulisse, crank, crook, crotchet, deflection, dock, dogleg, dozen, dressing room, duodecimo, eighty, el, elbow, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, eleven, ell, embankment, extension, feeder, feeder line, fifteen, fifty, five and twenty, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, fork, fortnight, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten, fourteen, furcation, gravity-operated railway, greenroom, grid, gridiron, half a hundred, hook, horse railway, inflection, junction, knee, light railroad, lightboard, line, long dozen, main line, metro, monorail, ninety, nonagenarian, nook, octogenarian, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, point, proscenium, proscenium stage, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, quoin, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, roadbed, roadway, score, septuagenarian, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary, sexagesimo-quarto, shell, sidetrack, siding, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo, stage, stage left, stage right, street railway, streetcar line, subway, swerve, switchback, switchboard, teens, terminal, terminus, the boards, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and ten, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, twelve, twelvemo, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore, underground, veer, vertex, wing, wings, zag, zig, zigzag

• label, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, appellation, appellative, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, baptize, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, billhead, binomen, binomial name, blazon, blazonry, blood, book stamp, bookplate, bordure, bracket, branch, brand, breed, broad arrow, byword, cachet, cadency mark, call, canton, cast, caste, categorize, category, chaplet, character, characterization, characterize, charge, check, chevron, chief, christen, clan, class, classification, classify, coat of arms, cockatrice, cognomen, colophon, color, coronet, counterfoil, countermark, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cryptonym, define, denominate, denomination, describe, description, designate, designation, device, difference, differencing, division, docket, dub, eagle, earmark, empty title, entitle, epithet, eponym, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, estate, euonym, falcon, feather, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, form, fret, fur, fusil, garland, genre, genus, government mark, government stamp, grade, grain, griffin, group, grouping, gules, gyron, hallmark, handle, hatchment, head, heading, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, honorific, hyponym, identification, identifier, identify, ilk, impalement, impaling, imprint, inescutcheon, kidney, kin, kind, letterhead, level, line, lion, logo, logotype, lot, lozenge, make, manner, mantling, mark, marker, marshaling, martlet, mascle, masthead, metal, mold, moniker, motto, mullet, name, namesake, nature, nickname, nombril point, nomen, nomen nudum, nominate, number, octofoil, or, order, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, peg, persuasion, pheon, phylum, pigeonhole, plate, portray, position, predicament, price tag, proper name, proper noun, purpure, quarter, quartering, race, rank, rating, registered trademark, rose, rubric, running head, running title, sable, saltire, scientific name, scutcheon, seal, secret name, section, sept, set, shape, shield, sigil, signet, sobriquet, sort, species, specify, spread eagle, stamp, station, status, sticker, strain, stratum, stripe, stub, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subordinary, tab, tag, tally, tautonym, tenne, term, the like of, the likes of, ticket, tincture, title, title page, token, torse, trade name, trademark, trademark name, tressure, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, unicorn, vair, variety, vert, wreath, yale

• labial, accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labialization, labiate, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, lipped, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, 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, retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• labor camp, 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, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, 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

• labor in vain, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, beat the air, bootless errand, come to grief, fail, fail of success, flunk, flunk out, go bankrupt, labor of Sisyphus, lash the waves, lose, lost, milk the ram, not come off, not pass, not work, snipe hunt, sow the sand, tilt at windmills, waste of breath, waste of labor, waste of time, wild-goose chase, work of Penelope

• labor of love, act of grace, act of kindness, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, complimentariness, costlessness, courtesy, expenselessness, favor, free ride, freebie, freeness, gift, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, gratuitousness, gratuity, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, mercy, mitzvah, no charge, obligation, office, service, turn

• labor saving, Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, conserving, economic, economizing, forehanded, frugal, money-saving, parsimonious, penny-wise, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, thrifty, time-saving, unwasteful

• labor under, ail, be affected with, be exposed to, be subjected to, complain of, encounter, endure, experience, feel, feel ill, go through, have, know, meet, meet up with, meet with, pass through, pay, run up against, spend, stand under, suffer, sustain, taste, undergo

• labor, accouchement, activities, activity, affair, affairs, aim, always trot out, amplify, assignment, bag, be busy, be confined, be determined, be employed, bear, bear a child, bear young, belabor, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blunder, business, busywork, calve, careen, career, carry on business, cast, char, chare, charge, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, chore, commerce, commission, complete, concern, concernment, confinement, cultivate, delivery, detail, dirty work, do business, do chars, do the chores, donkeywork, dress, drive, drop, drudge, drudgery, duty, dwell on, dwell upon, effort, elaborate, employ, employees, employment, endeavor, endure, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, enterprise, errand, exercise, exertion, expand, fag, falter, farrow, fatigue, fawn, fish to fry, flounce, flounder, foal, follow a trade, function, genesis, give birth, giving birth, go into, grind, hammer away at, handiwork, handwork, hard work, harp on, hatching, have, have a baby, have a job, have young, having a baby, homework, industry, insist upon, interest, job, job of work, keep up, kitten, labor under, laborers, laboriousness, lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, lookout, lurch, make-work, manual labor, matter, matters in hand, mission, moil, moonlight, multiparity, nascency, nativity, occupation, odd job, overdo, overemphasize, overstress, pains, parturition, piece of work, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, practice a profession, project, pup, rat race, reel, resolve, rock, roll, scut work, seek, seethe, service, set up shop, slave, slavery, slogging, spadework, spell out, stagger, stay employed, stint, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, study, stumble, suffer, sway, sweat, sweat blood, swing, swot, task, tend, the Nativity, the stork, thing, things to do, thrash about, thresh over, throw, tiresome work, toil, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, transact business, travail, treadmill, tug, tumble, turn a hand, undertaking, wallop, wallow, welter, whelp, work, work at, work for, work out, workers, yean

• laboratory, X ray, blood bank, charity ward, clinic, consultation room, delivery room, dispensary, emergency, examining room, fever ward, hospital room, intensive care, isolation, lab, labor room, maternity ward, nursery, operating room, pharmacy, prison ward, private room, proving ground, recovery room, research establishment, research installation, research laboratory, semi-private room, surgery, therapy, think tank, treatment room, ward

• labored, Herculean, Latinate, affected, alliterating, alliterative, arabesque, arduous, artificial, assonant, awkward, backbreaking, baroque, belabored, bombastic, burdensome, busy, chanting, chichi, chiming, cliche-ridden, clumsy, contrived, cramped, crushing, cumbrous, difficult, dingdong, effortful, elaborate, elegant, elephantine, excessive, fancy, farfetched, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, forced, formal, frilly, fussy, grueling, guinde, halting, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harping, heavy, hefty, high-wrought, humdrum, inept, inkhorn, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, killing, laborious, leaden, lumbering, luxuriant, luxurious, maladroit, monotone, monotonous, moresque, onerous, operose, oppressive, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, painful, picturesque, pompous, ponderous, pretty-pretty, punishing, rhymed, rhyming, rich, rococo, sesquipedalian, singsong, stiff, stilted, strained, strenuous, tedious, toilsome, tough, troublesome, turgid, unnatural, unwieldy, uphill, wearisome, weighty

• laborer, blue-collar worker, bourgeoisie, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, day laborer, drudge, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborers, laboring man, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, menial, middle class, middle orders, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, operative, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletarian, proletariat, rank and file, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, stiff, temporary, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toiler, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working class, working girl, working people, workingman, workingwoman, workman

• laborious, Herculean, abstruse, ardent, arduous, assiduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, careful, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, detailed, determined, difficile, difficult, diligent, dogged, effortful, energetic, exacting, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, fervent, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hard-working, hardworking, heavy, hefty, indefatigable, industrious, intricate, jawbreaking, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, mean, never idle, no picnic, not easy, obdurate, obstinate, onerous, operose, oppressive, overworked, painful, painstaking, persevering, persistent, ponderous, punishing, relentless, rigorous, rough, rugged, scrupulous, sedulous, set with thorns, severe, sleepless, spiny, steadfast, steady, steep, stiff, strained, strenuous, stubborn, taxing, thorny, thorough, ticklish, tireless, tiring, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, unflagging, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, uphill, vehement, wearisome, wearying, wicked, zealous

• laboriously, ardently, arduously, assiduously, bec et ongles, burdensomely, difficultly, diligently, effortfully, energetically, fervently, hammer and tongs, hard, hardly, heart and soul, indefatigably, industriously, manfully, onerously, operosely, painfully, relentlessly, sedulously, strenuously, the hard way, tirelessly, toilsomely, tooth and nail, unsparingly, vehemently, with a will, with difficulty, with effort, with much ado, zealously

• labyrinth, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, can of worms, complex, jungle, knot, maze, meander, mesh, mess, morass, perplex, ravel, skein, snafu, snake pit, snarl, tangle, tangled skein, web, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness

• labyrinthine, Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, aberrant, aberrative, affected, ambagious, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, balled up, bedizened, bent, big-sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed, circuitous, circumlocutory, cockeyed, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, contorted, convoluted, convolutional, crabbed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, daedal, declamatory, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, distorted, elaborate, elevated, embrangled, entangled, errant, erratic, euphuistic, excursive, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flexuose, flexuous, fouled up, fulsome, garish, gaudy, geosynclinal, gordian, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, implicated, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indirect, inkhorn, intricate, involute, involuted, involutional, involved, irregular, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, lexiphanic, lofty, lopsided, loused up, lurid, magniloquent, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meandrous, meretricious, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, nonsymmetric, one-sided, orotund, ostentatious, out-of-the-way, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, perplexed, planetary, pompous, pretentious, rambling, ramified, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rhetorical, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, screwed up, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, serpentine, shifting, showy, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, sonorous, sophisticated, sprung, stilted, stray, subtle, swerving, tall, tangled, tangly, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulant, unsymmetric, vagrant, veering, wandering, warped, wavy, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

• lace, Brussels point, Roman lace, Shetland lace, Venetian point, adulterate, arabesque, assail, assault, attack, band, bandage, basketry, basketwork, bastardize, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, bend, berate, bind, bind up, birch, brace, braid, buffet, bundle, cancellation, cane, castigate, chain, cinch, cloth, club, contaminate, cord, corrupt, cowhide, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cudgel, cut, debase, denaturalize, denature, dilute, do up, doctor, doctor up, drapery, drub, enlace, entwine, etoffe, fabric, fall on, fall upon, felt, filet lace, filigree, fillet, flagellate, flail, flog, fortify, fret, fretwork, fustigate, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a whipping, give the stick, goods, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, horsewhip, interknit, interlace, interlacement, intertexture, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwist, interweave, intort, knit, knout, lacery, lacework, lacing, lash, lattice, latticework, lay into, lay on, leash, light into, loom, loop, mat, material, mesh, meshes, meshwork, napery, needlepoint, net, netting, network, noose, openwork, pistol-whip, plait, pleach, plexure, plexus, point, pollute, pommel, pounce on, pounce upon, pummel, raddle, rag, rawhide, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, revile, riddle, rope, scold, scourge, screen, screening, set upon, shoelace, shoestring, sieve, silk, smite, spank, spike, splice, strap, strengthen, string, stripe, stuff, swaddle, swathe, swinge, switch, tamper with, tatting, textile, textile fabric, texture, thong, thrash, thread, thump, tie, tie up, tissu, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, trounce, truncheon, truss, twill, twine, twist, upbraid, wallop, water, water down, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, whale, whip, whop, wicker, wickerwork, wire, woof, wool, wrap, wrap up, wreathe

• laced, barred, braided, cancellated, crossbarred, enlaced, entwined, filigreed, fretted, grated, gridded, handwoven, interknit, interlaced, interthreaded, intertied, intertissued, intertwined, interwoven, knit, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, loomed, meshed, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, plaited, platted, pleached, plexiform, raddled, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaked, striped, textile, twined, woven, wreathed

• lacerate, abrade, afflict, agonize, ail, bark, bite, blemish, bloody, break, burn, chafe, check, chip, claw, convulse, crack, craze, crucify, cut, defoliate, denude, dismember, distress, draw and quarter, excruciate, fester, flay, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, give pain, gnaw, grate, grind, gripe, harrow, hurt, impale, incise, inflame, inflict pain, injure, irritate, kill by inches, lancinate, macerate, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, martyr, martyrize, maul, mutilate, nip, pain, peel, pick to pieces, pierce, pinch, prick, prolong the agony, pull apart, puncture, punish, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rend, rip, rub, run, rupture, savage, scald, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, shred, skin, slash, slit, sprain, stab, stick, sting, strain, strip, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, torment, torture, traumatize, tweak, twist, wound, wrench, wring

• lacerated, afflicted, aggravated, agonized, battlemented, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, chopped, clawed, cleft, cloven, convulsed, cracked, crazed, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crucified, cut, damaged, dentate, dentated, deteriorated, distressed, embittered, embrasured, erose, exacerbated, gashed, harmed, harrowed, hurt, hurting, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in distress, in pain, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lancinated, mangled, martyred, martyrized, mutilated, nicked, notched, on the rack, pained, quartered, racked, ragged, rent, ripped, riven, ruptured, savaged, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalded, scalloped, scorched, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, severed, shattered, shredded, slashed, slit, smashed, splintered, split, sprung, suffering, tattered, the worse for, toothed, tormented, torn, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened, wounded, wrung

• laceration, abrasion, abscission, amputation, blemish, break, burn, butchering, chafe, check, chip, chopping, clawing, cleavage, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, cruciation, crucifixion, cut, cutting, dichotomy, enucleation, excision, fission, flash burn, fracture, fray, frazzle, gall, gash, hell, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, hurt, incision, injury, lancination, lesion, martyrdom, mortal wound, mutilation, nightmare, passion, persecution, puncture, purgatory, rack, rending, rent, resection, rip, ripping, run, rupture, scald, scission, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, section, severance, slash, slashing, slicing, sore, splitting, stab, stab wound, surgery, tear, tearing, third-degree burn, torment, torture, trauma, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

• lachrymal, bloody, blubbering, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, crying, dissolved in tears, excretory, humoral, ichorous, in tears, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy, purulent, pussy, ready to cry, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, sniveling, sobbing, spermatic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearful, tearlike, teary, watering, watery, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused

• lachrymose, blubbering, crying, dissolved in tears, excretory, in tears, lachrymal, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, ready to cry, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, sniveling, sobbing, spermatic, tearful, teary, watering, watery, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused

• lacing, adulteration, anchor, arabesque, band, bandage, bar, barrette, basketry, basketwork, bastardizing, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, bellyband, belt, belting, bind, binding, binding stone, binding twine, bobby pin, bollard, bolt, bonder, bondstone, box hook, brace, braces, brad, braid, braiding, buckle, buffeting, button, cable, cancellation, caning, carpet tack, catch, catgut, chain, cinch, cincture, clamp, clasp, cleat, click, clinch, clip, clothespin, clubbing, contamination, corking pin, corporal punishment, corruption, cotter, cowhiding, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cudgeling, cutting, debasement, dilution, doctoring, dowel, drubbing, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, fabric, fast, fibula, filigree, fillet, fishhook, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fortifying, fret, fretwork, funiculus, fustigation, garter, girdle, girth, grab, grapnel, grappler, grappling iron, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, gut, guy, hachure, hairpin, hamstring, hank, hasp, hatching, hawser, haywire, hitch, hitching post, holdfast, hook, hook and eye, horsewhipping, inkle, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, interlocker, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, kevel, kingpin, knitting, lace, lacery, lacework, lariat, lashing, lasso, latch, latchet, lattice, latticework, lead, leader, ligament, line, lock, loop, mesh, meshes, meshwork, monofilament, moorings, nail, net, netting, network, noose, nut, padlock, paper clip, pawl, peg, pin, pintle, pistol-whipping, plaiting, plexure, plexus, pollution, raddle, rawhiding, rein, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, ring, rivet, roller, rope, safety pin, scourging, screen, screening, screw, seal, sennit, setscrew, shoestring, sieve, sinew, skewer, slide fastener, snap, snubbing post, spanking, spike, spiking, splice, staple, strap, strapping, string, stripes, strop, stub tenon, suspenders, swingeing, switching, tack, tag, tendon, terret, texture, thew, thole, tholepin, thong, thrashing, thumbtack, tie, tie beam, tissue, toggle, tracery, treenail, trellis, trelliswork, trouncing, truncheoning, tug, twine, twining, twisting, vise, warp and woof, warpage, watering, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, weftage, whang, whipcord, whipping, wicker, wickerwork, wire, wreathing, zipper

• lack, absence, adulteration, arrearage, awayness, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, be found wanting, be in want, be insufficient, be pinched, be poor, beggarliness, beggary, blank, break, collapse, come short, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, empty purse, erroneousness, fail, fail of, fall away, fall short, fall shy, fallibility, famine, faultiness, gap, go on welfare, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, hiatus, homelessness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, indigence, inexactitude, inexactness, insufficiency, interval, kick the beam, lacuna, lag, lose ground, mediocrity, mendicancy, miss, missing link, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, neverness, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not qualify, not stretch, not suffice, nowhereness, omission, outage, patchiness, paucity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, require, run short, run short of, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, starve, stop short, subtraction, ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want, wantage

• lackadaisical, Micawberish, apathetic, ataractic, backward, benumbed, blase, bored, careless, casual, cold, cool, dallying, dead, debilitated, degage, delaying, devil-may-care, dilatory, dillydallying, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, easygoing, emasculated, enervated, exanimate, faineant, foot-dragging, free and easy, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, idle, inactive, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, jaded, laggard, lagging, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lingering, listless, loitering, lukewarm, lumpish, mindless, moribund, negligent, nonchalant, numb, offhand, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, pooped, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, remiss, romantic, sated, sentimental, shuffling, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tepid, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited, unimpressed, uninspired, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary

• lackey, adherent, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dependent, disciple, dummy, dupe, fawner, feudatory, figurehead, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, footman, gillie, goon, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, homager, inferior, instrument, jackal, kowtower, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, liveried servant, man, mealymouth, minion, myrmidon, peon, puppet, retainer, satellite, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, subordinate, suck, sycophant, thug, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, yeoman, yes-man

• lacking, absconded, absent, adulterated, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bereft of, blemished, callow, cut off, damaged, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded, denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, disappeared, divested, embryonic, empty of, erroneous, existless, failing, fallible, faulty, for want of, forlorn of, found wanting, gone, half-assed, hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, inexact, infant, inferior, insufficient, makeshift, mediocre, minus, missing, mixed, needing, negative, no longer present, nonattendant, nonexistent, not enough, not found, not perfect, not present, null, off, omitted, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, parted from, partial, patchy, robbed of, sans, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, shorn of, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, stripped of, subtracted, taken away, too little, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unexisting, unfinished, unperfected, unpossessed of, unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without being

• lackluster, absence of color, achromatic, achromaticity, achromatism, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, betwixt and between, bled white, blind, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, colorlessness, dead, deadened, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, drab, dull, dullness, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fairishness, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, huelessness, hypochromic, indifference, indifferent, insipid, leaden, lifeless, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, mediocre, mediocreness, mediocrity, medium, middling, middlingness, moderate, moderateness, modest, modestness, modesty, muddy, muted, namby-pamby, neutral, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, passable, passableness, pasty, prosaic, prosy, respectability, respectable, rusty, sallow, sickly, so-so, somber, tallow-faced, tarnished, tedious, tediousness, tolerable, tolerableness, toneless, tonelessness, uncolored, vapid, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, wishy-washy

• lacklustre, blah, bland, boring, colorless, dense, dingy, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, flat, insipid, prosaic, slow, tedious, thick, tiresome, two-dimensional, unexciting, unimaginative, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, wishy-washy

• laconic, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, brief, brusque, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, docked, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, indisposed to talk, mum, mute, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, snug, sparing of words, speechless, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, truncated, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless

• lacquer, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, brush on paint, butter, calcimine, coat, coating, color, complexion, cover, dab, daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, face, facing, fast-dye, film, fresco, fur, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lay on, lay on color, paint, parget, pellicle, pigment, prime, revetment, scale, scum, shade, shadow, shellac, skin, slap on, slather, slop on paint, smear, smear on, spread on, spread with, stain, stipple, tar, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undercoat, varnish, veneer, wash, whitewash

• lacquered, buffed, burnished, finished, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, polished, rubbed, satiny, shellacked, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, varnished, velvety

• lactate, aliment, breast-feed, dry-nurse, excrete, fatten, fatten up, force-feed, foster, give out, nourish, nurse, nurture, nutrify, produce, secern, secrete, stuff, suckle, tear, water, weep, wet-nurse

• lactation, chyle, chylifaction, chylification, colostrum, discharge, excretion, external secretion, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gleet, humor, ichor, internal secretion, juiciness, lachryma, lacrimation, lactescence, leukorrhea, liquefaction, liquidness, lymph, matter, milk, milkiness, moisture, mucor, mucus, peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, pus, rheum, rheuminess, saliva, sanies, sappiness, secernment, secreta, secretion, serosity, serous fluid, serum, snot, succulence, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urine, wateriness, weeping

• lacteal, excretory, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, milch, milk, milky, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic, watering, watery

• lacuna, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture, armpit, arrearage, basin, bowl, breach, break, broaching, caesura, cavity, cessation, chasm, check, clearance, clearing, cleft, concave, concavity, crack, crater, crypt, cup, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, depression, dip, disclosure, discontinuity, distance between, double space, em space, en space, fenestra, fissure, fistula, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, freeboard, funnel chest, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hair space, half space, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollow shell, inlet, interim, intermediate space, intermission, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lack, laying open, leak, leap, leeway, letup, lull, margin, missing link, need, omission, opening, opening up, orifice, outage, outlet, passageway, pause, pit, pocket, pore, punch bowl, room, scoop, shell, shortage, single space, sink, sinus, slot, socket, space, space between, split, stoma, suspension, throwing open, time interval, trough, ullage, uncorking, unstopping, vug, want, wantage, yawn

• lacy, airy, attenuate, attenuated, barred, boyish, cancellated, crossbarred, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, filigreed, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, grated, gridded, insubstantial, laced, lacelike, latticelike, light, meshed, meshy, misty, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, papery, plexiform, rare, rarefied, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, streaked, striped, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

• lad, bastard, bird, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, bugger, cat, chap, character, colt, cub, duck, feller, fellow, fledgling, guy, hobbledehoy, jasper, joker, laddie, manchild, master, muchacho, pup, puppy, schoolboy, son, sonny, sonny boy, stripling, stud, tad, whelp, young man, youth

• lade, bag, bail, barrel, bear hard upon, bottle, box, brim, burden, burthen, can, charge, chock, clog, congest, cram, crate, crowd, cumber, dip, encumber, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, hamper, handicap, heap, heap up, jam, jam-pack, ladle, load, mass, oppress, overburden, overfill, overload, overtax, overweight, pack, pack away, pad, pile, pocket, press hard upon, ram in, rest hard upon, sack, saddle, satiate, saturate, scoop, ship, stack, store, stow, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, tax, top off, wad, weigh, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight

• laden, burdened, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, loaded, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, saddled, supercharged, taxed, weighted, weighted down

• lading, allocation, assignment, baggage, bale, bellyful, bumper, burden, burdening, burthen, capacity, cargo, carload, cartload, charge, charging, collocation, complement, consignment, cram, crush, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, drag, emplacement, encumbrance, fill, freight, freightage, full house, full measure, goods, handicap, haul, impedimenta, incubus, incumbency, jam up, load, loading, localization, locating, location, luggage, millstone, mouthful, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, packing, payload, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, pressure, putting, reposition, saddling, shipload, shipment, situation, skinful, snootful, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, superincumbency, surcharge, taxing, trailerload, trainload, truckload, vanload

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

• ladle, bail, bucket, calabash, cup, decant, dip, dipper, dish, dish out, dish up, fork, gourd, labis, lade, pour, scoop, shovel, soupspoon, spade, spatula, spoon, tablespoon, teaspoon, trowel

• lady bountiful, Maecenas, Santa Claus, almoner, almsgiver, angel, assignor, awarder, backer, bestower, cheerful giver, conferrer, consignor, contributor, donator, donor, fairy godmother, feoffor, financer, funder, giver, grantor, imparter, patron, patroness, philanthropist, presenter, settler, subscriber, sugar daddy, supporter, testate, testator, testatrix, vouchsafer

• lady killer, Beau Brummel, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, amoroso, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, clotheshorse, coxcomb, dandy, debauchee, dude, esquire, exquisite, fashion plate, fellow, fine gentleman, flame, fop, fribble, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, gigolo, heartbreaker, inamorato, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lecher, libertine, love-maker, lover-boy, macaroni, man, man-about-town, masher, necker, old man, petter, philander, philanderer, profligate, puppy, rake, rakehell, rip, roue, rounder, seducer, sheik, skirt chaser, spark, sport, squire, sugar daddy, swain, swell, swinger, walking phallus, wanton, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer, young man

• lady, Dulcinea, Eve, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, acceptable person, archduchess, baroness, best girl, better half, capital fellow, common-law wife, concubine, countess, dame, daughter of Eve, diamond, distaff, domina, dona, donna, dowager, dream girl, duchess, faithful, feme, feme covert, femme, frow, galantuomo, gem, gentilhomme, gentleman, gentlewoman, gill, girl, girl friend, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, goodwife, goody, grand duchess, helpmate, helpmeet, honest man, honest woman, inamorata, jewel, jill, jo, khanum, lady love, lass, lassie, madam, madame, mademoiselle, man of honor, marchioness, margravine, married woman, matron, mem-sahib, mensch, mesdames, milady, mistress, noblewoman, old lady, old woman, pearl, peeress, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, persona grata, prince, real lady, real man, rib, right sort, rough diamond, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, squaw, straight shooter, true blue, truepenny, trusty, viscountess, vrouw, wahine, weaker vessel, wedded wife, wife, woman, woman of honor, worthy

• Lady, Eminence, Grace, Her Excellency, Her Highness, Her Ladyship, Her Majesty, Highness, His Lordship, His Majesty, Honor, Imperial Highness, Imperial Majesty, Ladyship, Lord, Lordship, Majesty, My Lady, My Lord, Reverence, Royal Highness, Royal Majesty, Serene Highness, Worship, Your Lordship, milady, milord

• ladylike, aristocratic, chivalrous, correct, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, decorous, dignified, distaff, ducal, elegant, exalted, female, feminine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gracious, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, high, highbred, kinglike, kingly, kittenish, knightly, little-girlish, maidenly, mannerly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, noble, of gentle blood, of rank, patrician, petticoat, polished, polite, princelike, princely, proper, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, refined, respectable, titled, well-bred, well-brought-up, womanish, womanlike, womanly

• lag behind, back, back up, come after, come last, dawdle, drag, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, follow, get behind, go back, go backwards, hang back, lag, linger, linger behind, loiter, regress, retrogress, revert, straggle, trail, trail behind

• lag, afterthought, antedate, arrest, be found wanting, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, cast out, check, closing, collapse, come short, con, concluding, confine, dalliance, dally, dallying, dawdle, dawdling, dead time, deceleration, decline, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, deport, detain, detention, diddle, dilatoriness, dillydally, dillydallying, displace, doodle, double take, drag, dragging, ease-off, ease-up, eventual, exile, expatriate, expel, fail, fall away, fall behind, fall short, falter, final, flag, flagging, foredate, gain, get behind, goof off, halt, hang back, hang-up, hinder, hindmost, hindrance, hold back, hold up, holdup, hysteresis, impede, interim, jailbird, jam, keep back, lack, lagging, latest, latter, letdown, letup, linger, linger behind, lingering, logjam, loiter, loitering, lollygag, lollygagging, lose ground, loser, make late, minus acceleration, misdate, mistime, moratorium, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not stretch, not suffice, obstruct, obstruction, output lag, paperasserie, pause, piddle, poke, postdate, process lag, procrastinate, procrastination, put off, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, relegate, reprieve, respite, retard, retardance, retardation, retardment, run short, setback, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, slack-up, slacken, slackening, slow, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, slump, stay, stay of execution, stop, stop short, stoppage, straggle, suspension, tarry, tarrying, terminal, throughput, tie-up, time constants, time lag, time lead, trail, trail behind, transport, ultimate, wait, want, waste time

• laggard, Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, clock watcher, comatose, dallier, dallying, dawdle, dawdler, delaying, deliberate, diddler, dilatory, dillydallier, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dolittle, doodler, drone, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragger, foot-dragging, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-nothing, goof-off, grudging, idler, impassive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lagging, lax, lazy, lazybones, leisurely, lethargic, lie-abed, lingerer, lingering, loafer, loath, loiterer, loitering, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, nonaggressive, parasitic, perfunctory, phlegmatic, plodder, potterer, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinator, procrastinatory, putterer, reluctant, remiss, renitent, restive, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, sleepyhead, slothful, slouch, sloucher, slow, slow goer, slow to, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, sluggish, snail, sponging, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, unhasty, unhurried, unzealous, waiter on Providence, work-shy

• lagging, Micawberish, afterthought, backward, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, delaying, detention, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, double take, dragging, easygoing, foot-dragging, halt, hang-up, hindrance, holdup, interim, jam, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lax, lazy, lingering, logjam, loitering, lollygagging, moratorium, obstruction, paperasserie, pause, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, remiss, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, sluggish, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, suspension, tarrying, tie-up, time lag, wait

• lagniappe, Trinkgeld, balance, bonus, bonus system, bounty, bribe, consideration, decoration, dividend, donative, double time, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, fee, filigree, filling, fillip, flourish, frill, fringe benefit, gratuity, gravy, grease, honorarium, incentive pay, inducement, largess, leftover, liberality, margin, ornament, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, overtime pay, padding, palm, palm oil, perks, perquisite, perquisites, plus, pourboire, premium, remainder, salve, solatium, something extra, spare, sportula, stuffing, superaddition, surplus, surplusage, sweetener, tip, trimming, twist, wrinkle

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

• laid low, ailing, ausgespielt, bad, below par, couchant, critically ill, crouched, debased, depressed, done, done up, down, effete, emptied, exhausted, faint, faintish, far-gone, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, flat, frazzled, ill, in danger, indisposed, jaded, knee-high, knocked flat, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, mortally ill, neap, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts, played out, pooped, prone, recumbent, rocky, run-down, runty, seedy, short, shotten, sick, sick unto death, sickish, spent, squat, squatty, stooped, stumpy, supine, taken ill, tired, under the weather, unelevated, unwell, used up, worn-out

• laid up, accumulated, amassed, backlogged, bedfast, bedridden, collected, confined, down, garnered, gathered, hoarded, hospitalized, in childbed, in hospital, invalided, prostrate, sick abed, stockpiled, stored, treasured

• lair, abri, adytum, antre, ashram, asylum, bolt-hole, bordello, brothel, bunker, burrow, cache, cathouse, cave, cavern, cell, clip joint, cloister, concealment, corner, couch, cove, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, den of thieves, dive, dugout, dump, earth, fleshpots, form, foxhole, funk hole, grot, grotto, gyp joint, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, hollow, holy of holies, ivory tower, joint, lodge, mew, nest, niche, nook, privacy, recess, refuge, retreat, run, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, sewer, sporting house, stash, stews, subterrane, subway, tunnel, undercovert, warren, whorehouse

• laird, Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, beneficiary, blue blood, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, count, daimio, deedholder, duke, earl, esquire, feoffee, feudatory, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, householder, lace-curtain, landgrave, landlady, landlord, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, noble, nobleman, optimate, owner, palsgrave, patrician, peer, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, titleholder, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

• laissez faire, a wise passiveness, autarky, bimetallism, capitalism, capitalistic system, contemplation, contemplative, contemplative life, culpa, culpable negligence, culpably negligent, default, derelict, dereliction, disregard, do-nothing, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, dormant, economic self-sufficiency, failure, finance capitalism, free competition, free economy, free enterprise, free trade, free-enterprise economy, free-enterprise system, governmentalism, idle, idleness, immobile, immobility, inaction, inactive, inactivity, inadvertence, inadvertency, inadvertent, inattention, inattentive, individualism, indolence, inert, inertia, inertness, isolationism, laches, laissez-aller, laissez-faireism, lapse, lax, laxity, laxness, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberalism, line, localism, loose, looseness, managed currency, meditation, meditative, motionless, neglect, neglectful, neglectfulness, neglecting, negligence, negligent, neuter, neutral, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonfeasance, noninterference, noninterfering, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonperformance, nonresistance, nonrestriction, nonrestrictive, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, nullification, off-guard, omission, overlooking, overly permissive, oversight, pacifism, paralysis, paralytic, paralyzed, party line, party principle, passive, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permissive, permissiveness, planned economy, policy, polity, poor stewardship, position, price supports, private enterprise, private ownership, private sector, procrastinating, procrastination, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, quiescence, quiescent, quietism, quietist, quietistic, relaxed, remiss, remissness, rugged individualism, scamping, sectionalism, self-regulating market, skimping, slack, slackness, slight, slighting, slurring, stagnancy, stagnant, stagnating, stagnation, standpat, standpattism, stasis, state capitalism, static, stationary, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unrigorousness, unwary, unwatchful, vegetable, vegetation, vegetative, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

• lallygag, bill and coo, bum, copulate, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, doodle, drag, falter, flag, goldbrick, goof off, halt, lag, laze, linger, loaf, loiter, loll, lollygag, lounge, make love, make out, neck, pet, piddle, poke, shilly-shally, smooch, spoon, sweet-talk, tarry, toy, trail, trifle, wanton, waste time, whisper sweet nothings

• lam, absquatulate, batter, beat, beat it, blow, breakout, decamp, dog it, drub, duck and run, duck out, flight, getaway, hammer, make off, paste, pelt, pound, powder, pummel, scape, scram, skedaddle, skin out, skip, skip out, slip, split, take a powder, take off, thrash, vamoose, wallop

• lamb, agneau, angel, babe, baby, baby-doll, bairn, bellwether, birdling, breast of lamb, buttercup, calf, catling, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chickling, chicky, child, child of nature, chit, colt, cub, darling, dear, deary, dogie, doll, dove, duck, duckling, dupe, ewe, ewe lamb, fawn, fledgling, foal, fryer, gigot, gosling, hick, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, infant, ingenue, innocent, jambe de mouton, jumbuck, kid, kit, kitten, lambkin, leg of lamb, leg of mutton, litter, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, lout, love, lover, mere child, mite, mouton, mutton, nest, nestling, newborn babe, nipper, noble savage, oaf, offspring, peewee, pet, petkins, piglet, pigling, polliwog, precious, precious heart, pullet, pup, puppy, ram, rube, saddle of mutton, shaver, sheep, shoat, simple soul, snookums, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, tad, tadpole, teg, tot, tup, unsophisticate, weaner, wee tot, wether, whelp, yeanling, yokel

• lambaste, admonish, attack, bang, baste, batter, bawl out, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, berate, best, birch, blister, bludgeon, buffet, call down, cane, castigate, censure, chew, chew ass, chew out, chide, clobber, crawl, cudgel, cuss out, defeat, destroy, do in, dress down, drub, excoriate, fix, flail, flap, flay, flog, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, hammer, hide, hors de combat, horsewhip, jack up, knock, larrup, lash, lather, lick, maul, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, paste, patter, pelt, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, put, rap, ream, ream ass, ream out, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, revile, ruin, scold, scourge, settle, shellac, sit on, skin, skin alive, sledgehammer, smear, smother, spank, thrash, thresh, thump, trim, triumph over, trounce, undo, upbraid, wallop, whip, worst

• lambent, aflicker, barely touching, beaming, bickering, blinking, brilliant, dancing, effulgent, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttery, incandescent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, playing, playing lightly over, quivering, quivery, radiant, refulgent, stroboscopic, wavering, wavery

• lame duck, adventurer, also-ran, aspirant, baby kisser, bankrupt, big operator, candidate, dark horse, defeated candidate, dud, failure, favorite son, gunslinger, holdover, hopeful, incumbent, ins, insolvent, insolvent debtor, jack-in-office, margin purchaser, new broom, office seeker, office-bearer, officeholder, operator, plunger, political hopeful, president-elect, presidential timber, public official, public servant, running mate, scalper, smart operator, speculator, stag, stalking-horse

• lame, abortive, awkward, bad, bootless, bugger, burden, castrate, castrated, clumsy, cramp, cripple, crippled, cumber, de-energize, debilitate, disable, disabled, disenable, drain, emasculate, emasculated, embarrass, encumber, enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, failed, failing, feeble, fetter, flimsy, fruitless, futile, game, half-baked, halt, halting, hamper, hamstring, hamstrung, handicap, handicapped, hobble, hobbled, hobbling, hors de combat, impaired, impede, inactivate, incapacitate, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, involve, kibosh, lime, limping, lumber, maim, maimed, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, net, of no effect, poor, press down, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, saddle with, shackle, snarl, spavined, spike, stickit, stillborn, successless, tangle, thin, toil, trammel, unconvincing, unfit, unfortunate, unsuccessful, useless, weak, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck

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

• lamebrained, Boeotian, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, chumpish, cloddish, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, gross, ineducable, klutzy, lumpish, oafish, opaque, sottish, stupid, thick, unteachable, wrongheaded

• lamellate, filmy, foliaceous, foliated, in layers, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, membranous, scummy, spathic, spathose, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, two-ply

• lament, bawl, bemoan, bewail, coronach, cry, deplore, dirge, discomfort, dismay, distress, dolorous tirade, elegize, elegy, epicedium, give sorrow words, grieve, grieve for, grieve over, groan, howl, jeremiad, keen, knell, lamentation, moan, moaning, monody, mourn, mourning, murmur, mutter, outcry, pain, plaint, planctus, repine, scream, sigh, sing the blues, sob, sorrow, threnody, tirade, ululation, wail, wail of woe, weep, weep over, whimper, whine, yawp, yowl

• lamentable, abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despicable, detestable, dire, discomforting, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreadful, dreary, dumb with grief, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, gross, hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, horrible, horrid, in grief, infamous, intolerable, joyless, loathsome, lousy, lugubrious, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, squalid, tearful, terrible, too bad, touching, unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

• lamentation, agony, anguish, bitterness, bleakness, care, carking care, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, crying, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, grief, grieving, grievousness, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, joylessness, lamentability, lamenting, languishment, misery, moaning, mournfulness, mourning, pain, painfulness, pathos, pining, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, prostration, regrettableness, sadness, sharpness, sobbing, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness

• laminate, adhesive, arrange in layers, cast plastic, cellulose plastic, delaminate, desquamate, exfoliate, extruded plastic, flake, lay down, lay up, layer, molded plastic, molding compounds, plastic, polymer, protein plastic, resin plastic, scale, stratify, synthetic, synthetic fabric, synthetic rubber, thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic

• laminated, filmy, foliaceous, foliated, in layers, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminous, leaflike, leafy, membranous, scummy, spathic, spathose, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, two-ply

• lamp, Chinese lantern, Finsen light, Moore light, arc light, battery lamp, broadside, candle, candlelight, cresset, dark lantern, electric candle, electric lamp, electric light bulb, electric torch, electric-arc lamp, electric-discharge lamp, eye, filament lamp, fire, flame, flame lamp, flash lamp, flashbulb, flasher, flashgun, flashlight, flood lamp, floodlight, floor lamp, focus lamp, gas lamp, gaslight, glim, head lamp, headlight, high-intensity lamp, illuminant, illuminator, incandescent body, infrared lamp, klieg light, lampion, lamplet, lantern, light, light bulb, light source, limelight, luminant, luminary, magic lantern, magnetite arc lamp, match, mercury lamp, mercury-arc lamp, moderator lamp, moon, navigation light, neon light, neon tube, night light, ocular, oculus, oil lamp, osmium lamp, peeper, photoflash lamp, pilot light, rushlight, safety lamp, searchlight, sidelight, source of light, spot, spotlight, stars, stop light, strobe, strobotron, sun, sun lamp, sun spot, table lamp, taper, torch, winker

• lampoon, Atticism, agile wit, black humor, burlesque, caricature, comedy, dry wit, esprit, farce, hatchet job, hit off on, humor, imitation, irony, malicious parody, mock, mockery, nimble wit, parody, pasquil, pasquin, pasquinade, pastiche, pleasantry, poison pen, pretty wit, put down, quick wit, ready wit, ridicule, run down, salt, sarcasm, satire, satirize, savor of wit, send up, skewer, slapstick, slapstick humor, squib, subtle wit, take off, take off on, take-off, takeoff, travesty, visual humor, wicked imitation, wit

• lampooner, banana, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, epigrammatist, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, humorist, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lampoonist, madcap, parodist, pasquinader, poison-pen writer, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany

• lance, amputate, assegai, auger, ax, bayonet, bisect, bite, bore, bowl, broach, butcher, carve, cast, catapult, chop, chuck, chunk, cleave, countersink, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dagger, dart, dash, dichotomize, dirk, dissever, drill, empierce, excise, fire, fissure, fix, fling, flip, fork, gash, gore, gouge, gouge out, hack, halve, heave, hew, hole, honeycomb, hurl, hurtle, impale, incise, javelin, jerk, jigsaw, knife, lancet, launch, let fly, lob, needle, open, pare, pass, peg, pelt, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pike, pink, pitch, pitchfork, plunge in, poniard, prick, prune, punch, puncture, put, put the shot, ream, ream out, rend, riddle, rive, run through, saber, saw, scissor, serve, sever, shy, skewer, slash, slice, sling, slit, snap, snip, spear, spike, spit, split, stab, stick, stiletto, sunder, sword, tap, tear, throw, tilt, toss, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, whittle

• Lancelot, Bayard, Don Quixote, Gawain, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, bachelor, banneret, baronet, caballero, cavalier, chevalier, companion, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant

• lancinate, agonize, bloody, claw, convulse, crucify, excruciate, harrow, impale, kill by inches, lacerate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, punish, rack, rip, savage, scarify, torment, torture, wring

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

• land, acquire, acreage, acres, airspace, alight, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arrive, bag, belt, berth, body politic, buffer state, captive nation, capture, catch, chattels real, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, climb down, colony, come down, come in, come to land, commonweal, commonwealth, confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, crash-land, debark, debus, demesne, department, deplane, descend, detrain, dirt, disembark, disemplane, dismount, district, ditch, division, dock, domain, dominion, downwind, drop anchor, dry land, duchy, dukedom, earldom, earth, empery, empire, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, environs, estate, fatherland, foul, free city, get, get down, get off, go ashore, grand duchy, ground, grounds, harpoon, heartland, hinterland, homeland, honor, hook, kingdom, landed property, lands, lasso, level off, light, loam, lot, lots, make a landfall, make land, make port, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, manor, mesh, messuage, milieu, moor, motherland, mould, nail, nation, nationality, native land, neighborhood, net, noose, obtain, offshore rights, overshoot, pancake, parcel, part, parts, perch, place, plat, plot, polis, polity, possession, power, praedium, precincts, premises, principality, principate, property, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, purlieus, put in, put into port, quadrat, quarter, reach land, real estate, real property, realm, realty, region, republic, roost, rope, sack, salient, satellite, section, secure, seneschalty, set down, settle, settle down, settle on, settle upon, settlement, sit, snag, snare, sniggle, sod, soil, solid ground, sovereign nation, space, spear, state, sultanate, superpower, take, take captive, talk down, tangle, tangle up with, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, tie up, toft, toparchia, toparchy, touch down, trap, turf, twelve-mile limit, unboat, unhorse, upwind, vicinage, vicinity, win, zone

• landed, blessed with, enfeoffed, having, having and holding, holding, in possession of, landholding, landowning, master of, occupying, owning, possessed of, possessing, propertied, property-owning, proprietary, seized of, tenured, worth

• landholding, acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, blessed with, clay, clod, crust, dirt, dominion, dominium, dry land, dust, earth, enfeoffed, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, having, having and holding, holding, in possession of, land, land tenure, landed, landholdings, landownership, landowning, lithosphere, lordship, marginal land, marl, master of, mold, occupying, overlordship, ownership, owning, possessed of, possessing, possessorship, propertied, property-owning, proprietary, proprietorship, real estate, real property, region, regolith, seigniory, seized of, sod, soil, sovereignty, subaerial deposit, subsoil, tenured, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, woodland, worth

• landing, aerodrome, air base, airdrome, airfield, airport, anchorage, anchorage ground, approach, arrival, back stairs, balcony, basin, berth, blind landing, breakwater, bulkhead, catafalque, coming in, companion, companionway, dais, debarkation, deplaning, disembarkation, disembarkment, dock, dockage, docking, dockyard, dropping anchor, dry dock, embankment, emplacement, escalier, estrade, field, fire escape, flight of steps, floor, gallery, going ashore, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, heliport, hustings, incline, island, jetty, jutty, landfall, landing field, landing pad, landing place, landing stage, launching pad, marina, mole, mooring, moorings, perron, pier, platform, podium, port, protected anchorage, pulpit, quay, ramp, road, roads, roadstead, rostrum, seaport, seawall, shipyard, slip, soapbox, spiral staircase, splashdown, stack up, stage, staircase, stairs, stairway, step terrace, stepping-stones, steps, stile, stump, terrace, touchdown, treads and risers, tribunal, tribune, tying up, wharf

• landlady, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, hostess, householder, laird, landlord, lord, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, owner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, squire, titleholder

• landloper, Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, dogie, gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, idler, lazzarone, loafer, losel, mudlark, piker, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, ski bum, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel

• landloping, circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomad, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagrant, wandering

• landlord, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, freeholder, host, hostess, householder, innkeeper, laird, landlady, landowner, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mine host, mistress, owner, property owner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, receptionist, rentier, squire, titleholder

• landmark, bench mark, bookmark, cairn, cardinal point, catstone, chief thing, climax, core, cornerstone, crisis, critical, critical point, crucial, crux, essence, essential, essential matter, feature, fundamental, gist, gravamen, great point, guide, guidepost, heart, high point, historic, identification, important, important thing, issue, kernel, keystone, lighthouse, lightship, main point, main thing, major, mark, marker, material point, meat, menhir, milepost, milestone, momentous, monument, notable, noteworthy, nub, pharos, pith, pivot, pivotal, platform, real issue, salient point, seamark, significant, sine qua non, substance, substantive point, the bottom line, the point, tower, turning point, watchtower, watershed

• landmass, Africa, America, Antarctica, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Australia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, North America, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, South America, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, main, mainland, peninsula, subcontinent, the old country

• landscape, airscape, aspect, cityscape, cloudscape, countryside, diorama, exterior, farmscape, interior, lookout, outlook, panorama, pastoral, perspective, prospect, riverscape, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, seapiece, seascape, sight, skyscape, snowscape, sweep, townscape, view, vista, waterscape

• landslide, Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, ascendancy, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, championship, coast, conquest, copiousness, count, deluge, easy victory, election returns, embarras de richesses, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glide, glissade, glissando, grand slam, great abundance, great plenty, gush, inundation, knockout, landslide victory, landslip, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, mastery, maximum, money to burn, moral victory, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, official count, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, picnic, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, poll, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, pushover, quantities, recount, redundancy, repleteness, repletion, returns, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, runaway victory, scads, shower, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slippage, slither, snowslide, snowslip, spate, stream, subdual, subduing, subsidence, substantiality, substantialness, success, superabundance, superflux, teemingness, tidal wave, total victory, triumph, victory, walkaway, walkover, wealth, win, winning, winning streak

• lane, Autobahn, US highway, access, air lane, air line, air route, airway, aisle, alley, alleyway, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, channel, chaussee, circumferential, cloister, close, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corduroy road, corridor, county road, court, covered way, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, defile, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, exit, expressway, ferry, ford, freeway, gallery, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, inlet, interchange, intersection, interstate highway, junction, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, opening, outlet, overpass, parkway, pass, passage, passageway, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, portico, primary highway, private road, railroad tunnel, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnpike, underpass, wynd

• lang syne, auld lang syne, days beyond recall, days of old, days of yore, early times, eld, foretime, good old times, long ago, old days, old story, old times, olden times, same old story, the olden time, times of old, times of yore, way back, yesterday, yesteryear, yore, yoretime

• language, Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro-Asiatic, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Anatolic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak, Arawakan, Armenian, Arulo, Aryan, Assamese, Athapaskan, Austral, Austronesian, Avestan, Aymara, Aztec, Balinese, Baluchi, Bashkir, Basque, Batak, Bellacoola, Bengali, Berber, Bhili, Bihari, Bikol, Bini, Blackfoot, Blaia Zimondal, Brahui, Brythonic, Buginese, Burmese, Burushaski, Buryat, Bushman, Byelorussian, Cantonese, Carolinian, Caspian, Castilian, Catalan, Caucasian, Chad, Cham, Cheremis, Cherokee, Chibcha, Chibchan, Chin, Chinese, Chinookan, Chuvash, Coptic, Cornish, Cuman, Czech, Dafla, Dalmatian, Danish, Dinka, Dravidian, Dutch, Dyak, Edo, Efatese, Egyptian, Elamitic, English, Eskimo, Eskimo-Aleut, Esperantido, Esperanto, Estonian, Ethiopic, Europan, Euskarian, Ewe, Faeroese, Faliscan, Fijian, Finnic, Finnish, Flemish, Fox, French, Frisian, Fula, Fulani, Gadaba, Gaelic, Galcha, Galla, Garo, Gaulish, Geez, Georgian, German, Germanic, Gold, Goldi, Gondi, Gothic, Greek, Guanche, Guarani, Gur, Gypsy, Haida, Haitian Creole, Hamito-Semitic, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hellenic, Hindustani, Hittite, Ho, Hokaltecan, Hokan-Siouan, Hopi, Hottentot, Iban, Ibanag, Ibo, Icelandic, Idiom Neutral, Igorot, Illyrian, Indic, Indo-Aryan, Indo-Chinese, Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Interlingua, Irish, Iroquoian, Italian, Italic, Ivatan, Kachin, Kafiri, Kalmuck, Kamasin, Kamchadal, Kanarese, Kara-Kalpak, Karamojong, Karankawa, Karelian, Kashmiri, Kashubian, Kechumaran, Keres, Ket, Khamti, Kharia, Khasi, Khmer, Khoisan, Khondi, Khosa, Khowar, Kickapoo, Kiowa Apache, Kirghiz, Kiriwina, Kitunahan, Kodagu, Kohistani, Koiari, Kolami, Koluschan, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Korwa, Koryak, Kui, Kuki, Kuki-Chin, Kumyk, Kunama, Kurdish, Kurukh, Kutchin, Kutenai, Kwa, Ladino, Lahnda, Lampong, Lamut, Lao, Lapp, Latin, Latinesce, Latvian, Lettish, Libyan, Ligurian, Limbu, Lingualumina, Lingvo Kosmopolita, Lithuanian, Livonian, Low German, Luorawetlan, Lusatian, Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Macedonian, Madurese, Magyar, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Malayo-Polynesian, Maltese, Manchu, Mandarin, Mande, Mandingo, Mangarevan, Manobo, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Maya, Mayan, Meithei, Mende, Messapian, Micronesian, Middle English, Middle Greek, Middle High German, Middle Persian, Mishmi, Mishongnovi, Misima, Miskito, Mon, Monario, Mongolian, Mongolic, Mordvin, Mordvinian, Moro, Mru, Munda, Muong, Mura, Muran, Murmi, Muskogean, Muskogee, Na-dene, Naga, Nahuatlan, Nepali, Newari, Ngala, Ngbaka, Niasese, Nicobarese, Niuean, Nogai, Nootka, Norwegian, Nov-Esperanto, Nov-Latin, Novial, Occidental, Optez, Oraon, Oriya, Oscan, Osco-Umbrian, Osmanli, Ossetic, Ostyak, Otomanguean, Pahlavi, Palaic, Palau, Palaung, Paleo-Asiatic, Pali, Pampango, Pangasinan, Papuan, Pashto, Pasigraphy, Paya, Penutian, Permian, Persian, Phrygian, Piman, Plattdeutsch, Polabian, Polish, Polynesian, Portuguese, Prakrit, Punic, Punjabi, Quechua, Quechuan, Ritwan, Ro, Romaic, Romanal, Romance, Romanic, Romansh, Romany, Russian, Ruthenian, Sabellian, Saharan, Sakai, Salish, Samoan, Samoyed, Samoyedic, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Sasak, Scandinavian, Selung, Semitic, Serbo-Croatian, Shan, Shilha, Shluh, Shoshonean, Siamese, Sinhalese, Sino-Tibetan, Siouan, Skittagetan, Slavic, Slavonic, Slovak, Slovene, Slovenian, Sogdian, Sorbian, Soyot, Spanish, Sudanic, Sumerian, Susian, Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Syryenian, Tagalog, Tagula, Tahitian, Takelma, Takilman, Tamashek, Tamaulipec, Tanoan, Taracahitian, Tarascan, Tavgi, Taw-Sug, Thraco-Phrygian, Tibeto-Burman, Tigre, Tipura, Tocharian, Toda, Tsimshian, Tuareg, Tulu, Tungus, Tungusic, Tupi-Guaranian, Turanian, Turkic, Turkish, Turko-Tartar, Turkoman, Ugric, Uighur, Umbrian, Ural-Altaic, Uralian, Urdu, Uto-Aztecan, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Visayan, Vote, Votyak, Wa, Welsh, White Russian, Xhosa, Yakut, Yeniseian, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yukaghir, Yukian, Yurak, Zenaga, Zulu, agglutinative, analytic, argot, cant, choice of words, communication, composition, dialect, diction, dictionary, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, incorporative, inflectional, interaction, intercourse, isolating, jargon, language, lexicon, lingo, locution, monosyllabic, palaver, parlance, patois, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, polysynthetic, polytonic, rhetoric, slang, speech, style, synthetic, talk, terminology, tongue, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, vernacular, vocabulary, wordage, wording, words

• languid, Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, anesthetized, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, desensitized, detached, disinterested, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, easy, effete, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exanimate, fagged, faint, fainting, faintish, faltering, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, footsore, foul, frazzled, gentle, gone, good and tired, gradual, groggy, gutless, half asleep, halting, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle, imbecile, impassive, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languishing, languorous, latent, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, lumbering, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nerveless, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed, oscitant, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, powerless, ready to drop, relaxed, reluctant, resigned, rubbery, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapless, sated, sauntering, sedated, sedentary, seedy, shuffling, sinewless, slack, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, 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, slumbering, slumberous, slumbery, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, snoozy, soft, somnolent, soporific, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stoic, strengthless, stretchy, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stuporose, stuporous, supine, suspended, tame, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhardened, unhurried, uninterested, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withdrawn, world-weary, worn, worn-down, yawning, yawny

• languish, abate, ablate, bate, be eaten away, become suicidal, break, cave in, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, deliquesce, desiccate, despair, despond, deteriorate, die away, diminish, disintegrate, dive, droop, drop, drop off, dry up, dwindle, ebb, erode, fade, fade away, fail, faint, fall, fall away, fall off, fizzle out, flag, give out, give way, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, lessen, let up, lose heart, lose strength, melt away, peak, peg out, peter out, pine, plumb the depths, plummet, plunge, poop out, reach the depths, run down, run low, sag, sear, shrink, shrivel, sink, subside, tail off, touch bottom, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, wear thin, wilt, wither, wither away, wizen, yield

• languishing, Heimweh, aching, adoring, affectionate, bowed-down, cachectic, cachexia, cachexy, cast down, chronic ill health, coming apart, conjugal, contractive, cracking, crumbling, dashed, debilitated, debilitation, debility, decadent, declining, decreasing, decrepitude, decrescendo, decrescent, degenerate, dejected, delicacy, delicate health, deliquescent, demonstrative, depressed, desiderium, despairing, despondent, desponding, deteriorating, devoted, diminishing, diminuendo, discouraged, disheartened, disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draining, drawn-out, drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, enervated, enervation, enfeebled, exhausted, exhaustion, extended, fading, failing, faineant, faithful, falling, feeble, feebleness, feeling low, filial, flagging, fond, fragility, fragmenting, frail, frailty, going to pieces, hankering, healthless, healthlessness, heartless, homesick, homesickness, honing, husbandly, hypochondria, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, hypochondriasis, ill health, in low spirits, in poor health, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, indolent, infirm, infirmity, interminable, invalid, invalidism, invalidity, lackadaisical, languishment, languorous, lasting, lengthened, lessening, limp, lingering, listless, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, longing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, low, low-spirited, mal du pays, maladie du pays, marathon, marcescent, maternal, melting, morbidity, morbidness, moribund, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, on the wane, overlong, pale, parental, paternal, peaked, peakedness, peaky, pessimistic, pining, poor health, prolonged, protracted, reduced, reduced in health, reductive, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, romantic, run-down, sentimental, shriveling, sickliness, sickly, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, soft, spiritless, spun-out, stretched-out, subdued, subsiding, suicidal, tabetic, tender, unhealthiness, unhealthy, unsound, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, uxorious, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, valetudinary, waning, wasting, weakened, weakliness, weakly, weary of life, wifely, wilting, wishful, wistful, with low resistance, withering, woebegone, world-weary, worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen

• languor, abeyance, acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, blues, boredom, brain fag, cachexia, cachexy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, coma, cowardice, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, debilitation, debility, deliberateness, deliberation, depression, doldrums, dormancy, doziness, drawl, drowsiness, dullness, dumps, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, entropy, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, foot-dragging, goneness, heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, idleness, impotence, inanimation, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languorousness, lassitude, latency, laziness, leisureliness, lenitude, lentitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, lotus-eating, mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, oscitation, overstrain, overtiredness, pandiculation, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, pokiness, prostration, reluctance, satedness, slackness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, slumber, softness, somnolence, somnolency, stagnancy, stagnation, stance fatigue, stasis, strain, strengthlessness, stretching, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, suspense, tedium, tentativeness, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, vegetation, vis inertiae, weakliness, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, world-weariness, yawning

• languorous, abeyant, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase, bloodless, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chicken, circumspect, claudicant, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dead, debilitated, deliberate, dilatory, dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, effete, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faineant, faint, faintish, faltering, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gone, gradual, groggy, gutless, halting, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, idle, imbecile, impotent, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indolent, indulged, inert, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languishing, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, limping, listless, logy, loose, lumbering, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moderate, moribund, nerveless, numb, pampered, passive, phlegmatic, pithless, poking, poky, pooped, powerless, relaxed, reluctant, rubbery, sapless, sated, sauntering, sedentary, shuffling, sinewless, slack, sleeping, sleepy, 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, slumbering, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, soft, somnolent, spineless, spiritless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, strengthless, strolling, stultified, supine, suspended, tame, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unhardened, unhurried, unnerved, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, weak, weakly, weary, world-weary

• lanky, angular, bony, colossal, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, giant, gigantic, lank, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, leggy, lengthy, long, long-legged, meager, rangy, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, statuesque, tall, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undersized, underweight

• lanolin, balm, balsam, brilliantine, chrism, cold cream, collyrium, cream, demulcent, embrocation, emollient, eye-lotion, eyewash, face cream, hand lotion, inunction, inunctum, lenitive, lotion, nard, ointment, pomade, pomatum, salve, soothing syrup, spikenard, unction, unguent, unguentum

• lantern jaws, boniness, fleshlessness, frailness, gauntness, gawkiness, haggardness, hatchet face, lankiness, lankness, leanness, meagerness, paperiness, peakedness, poorness, puniness, scrawniness, skin and bones, skinniness, slightness, spareness, twigginess, underweight

• lantern, antenna tower, barbican, bay, bay window, belfry, bell tower, bow window, campanile, candle, casement, casement window, ceiling, colossus, column, cupola, derrick, dome, eaves, electric light bulb, fan window, fanlight, fire, fire tower, flame, glim, grille, housetop, illuminant, illuminator, incandescent body, lamp, lancet window, lattice, light, light bulb, light source, lighthouse, louver window, luminant, luminary, martello, martello tower, mast, match, minaret, monument, moon, obelisk, observation tower, oriel, overhead, pagoda, pane, penthouse, picture window, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, plafond, pole, port, porthole, pylon, pyramid, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, rose window, shaft, shingles, skylight, skyscraper, slates, source of light, spire, standpipe, stars, steeple, stupa, sun, taper, television mast, tiles, top, tope, torch, tour, tower, transom, turret, water tower, wicket, windmill tower, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane

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

• lap up, and sinker, be a sucker, be taken in, bib, bite, devour, drain the cup, dram, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink off, drink up, eat up, fall for, follow strong drink, gargle, go for, gobble up, grog, gulp down, guzzle, imbibe, knock back, lap, lick, line, nibble, nip, quaff, sip, slurp, soak, soak up, sponge up, sup, swallow, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow whole, swing at, take the bait, tipple, tope, toss down, toss off, tumble for

• lap, Le Mans, adjoin, air race, ambit, anteriority, apparel, applique, arch over, array, attire, automobile race, babble, be the bellwether, beacon, beat, bedeck, bedrape, befringe, bestraddle, bestride, beverage, bib, bicycle race, bind, boat race, bold front, border, bound, box, brave face, brave front, breath, bridge, brush, bubble, bumper, bundle, bundle up, burble, caress, case, catch up with, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumvent, close, close the circle, clothe, coat, coating, collop, come full circle, come up to, come up with, compass, compass about, contact, contest of speed, covering, cuddle, cut, cutaneous sense, cycle, dash, deal, deck, derby, describe a circle, dight, disk, display, dog race, draft, drag race, drain the cup, dram, drape, drench, dress, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink off, drink up, dud, edge, embay, embosom, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, encircle, enclasp, enclose, enclothe, encompass, endue, endurance race, enfold, enframe, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, environ, enwrap, extend over, facade, face, facet, facia, feel, feeling, feuille, film, fingertip caress, flank, flap, flick, fly, foil, fold, follow strong drink, footrace, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, frame, fringe, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, full circle, gain on, gain upon, garb, gargle, garment, get ahead of, get before, girdle, girdle the globe, glance, go about, go around, go before, go round, go the round, graze, grog, guggle, guide, gulp, gurgle, guzzle, gyre, habilitate, hand-mindedness, hang over, have the start, head, head the line, heading, heat, hem, hurdle race, imbibe, imbricate, imbrication, invest, involve, jut, kiss, knock back, lambency, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap over, lap up, lapping, lave, lead, lead the dance, lead the way, leaf, leave behind, leave standing, libation, lick, lie over, light the way, light touch, line, lip, list, loop, make a circuit, marathon, marathon race, march, marge, margin, marginate, match race, membrane, motorcycle race, mouth, muffle up, nestle, nip, nuzzle, obstacle race, obverse, orbit, outpace, outrun, outsail, outstrip, overarch, overhang, overhaul, overlap, overlapping, overlay, overlayer, overlie, override, overtake, pace, pack, package, pane, panel, pass, patina, peel, peg, pellicle, plait, plank, plash, plate, plating, ply, plywood, portion, potation, potato race, precede, preface, prefix, priority, proscenium, pull, purfle, purl, quaff, race, rag out, raiment, rasher, regatta, relay, relay race, revolution, revolve, ride, rim, ripple, road race, robe, round, round trip, rounds, rub, run, sack race, safety glass, scum, sense of touch, set off, set the pace, sheathe, sheet, shingle, shroud, side, sip, skin, skirt, slab, slat, slice, slosh, slurp, smother, snort, snuggle, soak, soak up, span, spearhead, speedway race, spiral, splash, sponge up, sprint, sprint race, stand first, stock-car race, stroke, suck, sup, surround, swaddle, swash, swathe, swig, swill, swish, table, tablet, tactile sense, taction, take the lead, tap, tentative poke, three-legged race, tipple, tire, tongue, tope, torch race, toss down, toss off, tot, touch, tour, track race, trill, trim, turn, veneer, verge, wafer, walk, wash, washing, wheel, whisper, window dressing, wrap, wrap about, wrap up, yacht race

• lapidary, aquatint, aquatinta, autolithographic, burinist, carver, cerographer, chalcographer, engraver, etcher, gem engraver, glyptic, glyptographic, graphic artist, graver, inscriber, line engraver, lithographer, lithographic, mezzotint, printmaker, pyrographer, serigrapher, silk-screen artist, wood engraver, wood-block, xylographic, xylopyrographer

• lappet, crease, creasing, crimp, dog-ear, double, doubling, drape, duplicature, ear lobe, flection, flexure, flounce, fold, frill, gather, hanger, hanging, lapel, lobation, lobe, lobule, pendant, plica, plication, plicature, ply, ruche, ruching, ruffle, tuck, uvula

• lapping, babbling, bridging, bubbling, burbling, compotation, drinking, drunkenness, guggling, gulping, gurgling, guzzling, imbibing, imbibition, imbricate, incumbent, lap, nipping, overarched, overlapping, overlying, plash, plashing, potation, pulling, quaffing, rippling, shingled, slipping, slosh, sloshing, spanning, splash, splashing, superincumbent, swash, swigging, swilling, swishing, symposium, tasting, trilling, wash, washing

• lapse, abeyance, about-face, advance, alchemy, apostasy, apostatize, assimilation, assumption, atavism, atheism, atrocity, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, backward step, balk, be all over, be caught napping, be gone, be neglectful, be negligent, be no more, be past, become extinct, become void, becoming, bevue, blooper, blow over, blunder, boner, breach, break, bull, bungle, cadence, caesura, catabasis, catenary, cave, cave in, cease, cease-fire, cessation, change, change-over, close, closing, cock, collapse, comedown, continue, conversion, crash, crime, crime against humanity, culpa, culpable negligence, day off, deadly sin, debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, decrescendo, decurrence, default, deformation, degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delinquency, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, dereliction, derogation, descend, descent, desertion, deteriorate, deterioration, deviate, devolution, die, die away, diminish, diminuendo, diminution, disappear, disenchantment, disregard, dive, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, droop, drop, dwindling, dying, ebb, effeteness, elapse, end, endure, enormity, err, error, evil, expire, fade, fading, fail, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall away, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, fall into error, fall off, falling back, falling-off, false move, false step, fault, felony, flip-flop, flit, flop, flop down, flow, flow on, fluff, flump, flump down, fly, foible, founder, frailty, gap, genocide, get behind, give way, glide, gloss over, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go backwards, go behind, go by, go down, go downhill, go off, go on, go out, go wrong, goof, growth, guilty act, have a relapse, have it, have its time, have run out, heavy sin, hesitation, hiatus, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, hold-up, holiday, homestretch, ignore, impiety, impiousness, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, involution, irreligion, irreverence, jerk back, laches, lacuna, laissez-faire, lapse back, lapse from grace, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, last, last lap, last round, last stage, laxity, laxness, layoff, let go, let ride, let slide, let slip, letup, loose thread, looseness, lose ground, lose sight of, lose track of, loss of tone, lower, lowering, lull, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, miscalculate, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misstep, mistake, mortal sin, naturalization, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nod, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonperformance, nonrestriction, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, offense, omission, outrage, overlook, overlooking, oversight, pass, pass away, pass by, pass over, passage, pause, peccadillo, peccancy, permissiveness, plop, plop down, plump, plunge, poor stewardship, press on, proceed, procrastination, progress, pull back, re-formation, reach the depths, reaction, recede, recess, recession, recidivate, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, recreancy, recrudescence, recur to, recurrence, reduction, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, remission, remissness, renewal, resolution, respite, rest, restitution, restoration, retreat, retroaction, retrocede, retrocession, retroflex, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogress, retrogression, retroversion, retrovert, retrusion, return, return to, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, revert, revert to, reverting, revulsion, roll on, rollback, run, run down, run its course, run on, run out, sag, set, setback, settle, settle down, shift, shortcoming, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sink, sink back, sink down, sinkage, slackness, sleep, slide, slide back, slight, slip, slip away, slip back, slip up, slippage, slipping back, slipup, slouch, slowdown, slump, slump down, stand-down, stay, sternway, stop, stray, stumble, submerge, submergence, subside, subsidence, suspension, swag, switch, switch-over, take for granted, terminate, throwback, tort, touch bottom, transformation, transgression, transit, transition, trespass, trip, truce, turn, turnabout, turning into, undutifulness, unrigorousness, unutterable sin, vacation, venial sin, vice, violation, volte-face, wander, wane, wear away, wear off, wrong, wrong step, yield again to

• lapsed, Adamic, Circean, ago, animal, animalistic, antiquated, antique, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, beastlike, beastly, bestial, blasphemous, blown over, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, by, bygone, bypast, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, earthy, elapsed, erring, expired, extinct, fallen, fallen from grace, finished, fleshly, forgotten, frail, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, gross, has-been, impious, impure, infirm, irrecoverable, irreligious, irreverent, material, materialistic, no more, nonspiritual, obsolete, of easy virtue, orgiastic, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, prodigal, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, run out, sacrilegious, swinish, unangelic, unchaste, unclean, undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unspiritual, unvirtuous, vanished, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, wound up

• lard, Haliver Oil, acculturate, adipose tissue, advance, ameliorate, amend, animal oils, anoint, bacon, beef tallow, beeswax, better, blubber, bone oil, boost, bottlenose oil, bring forward, butt, butter, butterfat, chitterlings, civilize, cochon de lait, cod-liver oil, cracklings, daub, doegling oil, dress, dripping, drippings, edify, educate, elevate, embrocate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fat, fat back, fatten, favor, fish oil, flitch, forward, foster, gammon, ghee, glycerolate, go straight, goose grease, grease, grease the wheels, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, improve, improve upon, jambon, jambonneau, lanolin, lard oil, lift, lipid, lipoma, lubricate, make an improvement, margarine, meliorate, mend, mutton tallow, nurture, oil, oleo, oleomargarine, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pomade, pork, porkpie, porpoise oil, promote, raise, refine upon, reform, salt pork, salve, seal oil, shortening, side of bacon, slick, slick on, small ham, smear, smooth the way, soap the ways, socialize, sowbelly, straighten out, suckling pig, suet, tallow, transfigure, transform, trotters, unguent, upgrade, uplift, wax, whale oil, wool fat

• larder, abundance, accumulation, amassment, backlog, budget, buttery, canned foods, collection, commissariat, commissary, cornucopia, cumulation, dairy, dairy house, dehydrated foods, dump, food supply, fresh foods, frozen foods, groceries, grocery, heap, hoard, inventory, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, pantry, pile, plenitude, plenty, provender, provisionment, provisions, rations, repertoire, repertory, rick, root cellar, spence, stack, stillroom, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasury

• lares and penates, Hestia, Vesta, ancestral spirits, angel, attendant godling, belongings, chattels, control, daemon, demon, effects, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, genius, genius domus, genius loci, good angel, good genius, goods, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guide, household gods, invisible helper, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, manes, ministering angel, movables, numen, penates, special providence, things, totem, tutelar god, tutelary

• large scale, big, broad, bumper, considerable, diffuse, extensive, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, goodly, grand, great, healthy, hefty, indiscriminate, large, liberal, major, man-sized, numerous, sizable, substantial, sweeping, tall, tidy, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread

• large, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan, adipose, altogether, ample, amplitudinous, as a whole, astronomical, at large, at liberty, awesome, beamy, beneficent, big, bighearted, boundless, bounteous, bountiful, brawny, broad, bulky, bull, bumper, burly, capacious, charitable, chiefly, chunky, colossal, considerable, corpulent, cosmic, eleemosynary, elephantine, eminently, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, free, freehanded, freehearted, galactic, gargantuan, generally, generous, gigantic, giving, good, goodly, gracious, grand, great, greathearted, handsome, healthy, heavy, hefty, hospitable, huge, humongous, husky, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, imposingly, in a body, in general, in the main, infinite, inordinate, jumbo, kind, king-size, large-scale, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, mainly, major, mammoth, man-sized, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, munificent, muscular, numerous, obese, on the loose, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, outsize, overgrown, overweight, philanthropic, portly, princely, prodigious, profuse, prominently, rotund, sizable, sizeable, solid, spacious, staggering, stintless, stocky, stout, strapping, stupendous, sturdy, substantial, tall, thickset, tidy, titanic, tremendous, unconfined, unfettered, ungrudging, unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, vast, voluminous, weighty, wide

• largehearted, almsgiving, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, chivalrous, eleemosynary, elevated, exalted, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, humanitarian, idealistic, knightly, large, lavish, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, munificent, noble, noble-minded, open, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic, princely, profuse, stintless, sublime, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist

• largely, a deal, a great deal, a lot, abundantly, altogether, as a rule, as all creation, as all get-out, at bottom, basically, beaucoup, by and large, chiefly, completely, comprehensively, considerable, considerably, entirely, essentially, ever so, ever so much, exhaustively, fully, fundamentally, galore, generally, globally, greatly, highly, hundred per cent, in full, in full measure, in general, in great measure, in the main, inclusively, inside out, integrally, mainly, mostly, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, on the whole, one and all, outright, overall, plenty, predominantly, pretty much, primarily, principally, roundly, so, so very much, thoroughly, to the hilt, to the skies, totally, tout a fait, unconditionally, unreservedly, very much, wholly

• largeness, ampleness, amplitude, area, bigheartedness, bigness, body, boundlessness, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, breadth, broadness, bulk, caliber, capaciousness, comprehensiveness, copiousness, coverage, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, easy purse strings, enormity, enormousness, expanse, expansion, expansiveness, extension, extensiveness, extent, formidableness, free hand, freedom, freehandedness, freeheartedness, freeness, fullness, gauge, generosity, generousness, gigantism, girth, givingness, graciousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, great heart, great scope, greatheartedness, greatness, height, hospitality, hugeness, immensity, infinity, intensity, largeheartedness, largess, length, liberality, liberalness, magnanimity, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, might, mightiness, muchness, munificence, open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, profundity, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, spaciousness, spread, strength, stupendousness, tallness, tremendousness, unselfishness, vastness, volume, welcome, wideness, width

• largess, Trinkgeld, benevolence, bigheartedness, bonus, boon, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, bribe, compliment, consideration, donative, double time, easy purse strings, favor, fee, free hand, freedom, freehandedness, freeheartedness, freeness, generosity, generousness, gift, givingness, graciousness, gratuity, gravy, grease, great heart, greatheartedness, honorarium, hospitality, lagniappe, largeheartedness, largeness, liberality, liberalness, magnanimity, munificence, open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, palm oil, perks, perquisite, pourboire, premium, present, salve, something extra, sportula, sweetener, tip, unselfishness, welcome

• largesse, aid, alms, bonuses, bounty, charity, donations, endowments, generosity, gifts, grants, largess, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, presents, subsidy, subvention, support

• largo, a poco, adagietto, adagio, allargando, allegretto, allegro, andante, andante tempo, andantino, beat, calando, compound time, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, duple time, forte, fortissimo, larghetto, larghissimo, legato, lento, marcando, march tempo, mixed times, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rag, ragtime, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, sextuple time, simple time, spiccato, staccato, stretto, syncopation, syncope, tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern, timing, triple time, triplet, two-four time, waltz time

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

• lark, Philomel, adventure, antic, bat, bender, binge, bout, bulbul, bust, canary, caper, carousal, carouse, cavort, celebrate, celebration, cuckoo, cut loose, debauch, drinking bout, eagle, escapade, feathered songster, fling, frolic, gambol, game, hell around, horseplay, jape, jollify, jolly, let go, let loose, let off steam, make merry, make whoopee, mavis, mischief, mockingbird, monkeyshine, nightingale, orgy, oriole, play, ploy, practical joke, prank, raise hell, randan, randy, revel, ringdove, rocket, roister, rollick, romp, see life, shenanigan, shenanigans, shines, singing bird, skylark, skyrocket, song sparrow, songbird, songster, sport, spree, step out, tear, thrush, tomfoolery, toot, trick, wanton, warbler, whoop it up, wingding

• larrup, bang, baste, batter, beat, buffet, clobber, dress down, drub, dust, flagellate, flail, flap, flax, flog, give a dressing-down, hammer, hide, knock, lambaste, lash, lather, leather, lick, maul, mop up, overwhelm, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, scourge, shellac, sledgehammer, spank, stripe, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, trim, wallop, welt, whale, whip

• larva, Anlage, Masan, apparition, appearance, arachnid, arthropod, astral, astral spirit, aurelia, banshee, beetle, blastula, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, chrysalis, cocoon, control, daddy longlegs, departed spirit, diplopod, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, embryo, fetus, fly, form, germ, germen, ghost, grateful dead, grub, guide, hant, harvestman, haunt, hexapod, idolum, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, insect, lemures, maggot, manes, materialization, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, nympha, oni, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist, presence, pupa, revenant, rudiment, scorpion, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spider, spirit, spook, sprite, tarantula, theophany, tick, unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wiggler, wraith, wriggler, zombie, zygote

• laryngitis, Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, adrenitis, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, asbestosis, asthma, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, atypical pneumonia, bituminosis, black lung, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain fever, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, bunion, bursitis, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chalicosis, chronic bronchitis, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, cold, colitis, collagen disease, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, conjunctivitis, coryza, croup, croupous pneumonia, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, emphysema, empyema, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, epidemic pleurodynia, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, fibrinous pneumonia, fibroid inflammation, flu, focal inflammation, gastritis, gingivitis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, grippe, hay fever, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, influenza, irritable bowel syndrome, la grippe, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, lung cancer, lung fever, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, paradental pyorrhea, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, podagra, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, quinsy, reactive inflammation, rheum, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sclerosing inflammation, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, siderosis, silicosis, simple inflammation, sinusitis, sore throat, spastic colon, specific inflammation, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, swine flu, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, the sniffles, the snuffles, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, virus pneumonia, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, wet pleurisy, whooping cough, wryneck

• larynx, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, back, blade, dorsum, hard palate, lips, nasal cavity, oral cavity, palate, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, soft palate, speech organ, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, tip, tongue, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box

• lascivious, Cyprian, Fescennine, amative, amatory, amorous, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, ardent, bawdy, blue, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, debauched, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, filthy, fleshly, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, hircine, hoping, hormic, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, impassioned, incontinent, indecent, itching, ithyphallic, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinal, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loverlike, loverly, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, optative, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, ribald, ruttish, salacious, satyric, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy, tempted, unsatisfied, vile, wanting, wanton, wishing

• lash, anchor, assail, attack, band, bandage, baste, bastinado, bawl out, beat, belabor, belt, bend, berate, bind, bind up, birch, blacksnake, blister, blow, boil, bolt, box, brace, bridle, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, bundle, cage, cane, cast anchor, castigate, cat, chain, charge, chase, chew out, cilia, cinch, club, come to anchor, corral, cowhide, criticize, crop, cudgel, cuff, cut, dash, disembark, do up, dock, drench, drive, drop the hook, drove, drub, enchain, entrammel, excoriate, fasten, fetter, fix, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flap, flay, fling, flog, fustigate, gad, gadfly, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, gyve, hamper, handcuff, herd, hide, hobble, hog-tie, hopple, horsewhip, jaw, kedge, kedge off, knout, kurbash, lace, lambaste, lash and tie, lather, lay anchor, lay on, leash, make fast, manacle, moor, needle, nudge, oxgoad, peg down, picket, pin down, pinion, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, pummel, punch cattle, punish, put in irons, quirt, race, rawhide, razor strap, restrain, ride herd on, roast, rope, round up, rowel, scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge, secure, shackle, shepherd, shoot, sjambok, skin alive, slap, slash, smack, smite, spank, splice, spur, sting, straitjacket, strap, strike, stripe, stroke, swaddle, swathe, swinge, switch, tear, teem, tether, thong, thrash, thump, thwack, tie, tie down, tie up, tongue-lash, trammel, trounce, truncheon, truss, upbraid, vituperate, wag, waggle, wallop, wave, wear out, whack, whale, whip, whiplash, whop, wire, wrangle, wrap, wrap up

• lashing, adhesive, affixation, annexation, attachment, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, binding, bond, buffeting, caning, clasping, clubbing, corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, fastener, fastening, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, girding, hooking, horsewhipping, knot, lacing, ligation, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, splice, sticking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, tieing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping, zipping

• lass, Dulcinea, Eve, Frau, babe, baby, best girl, broad, chick, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, daughter of Eve, demoiselle, distaff, doll, domina, donna, dowager, dream girl, femme, filly, frail, frow, gal, gentlewoman, gill, girl, girl friend, girlie, heifer, hoyden, inamorata, jeune fille, jill, jo, junior miss, lady, lady friend, lady love, lassie, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, matron, milady, miss, missy, mistress, mouse, nymphet, old lady, piece, quail, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, squaw, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, vrouw, wahine, weaker vessel, wench, woman, young creature, young thing

• lassitude, acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, blues, boredom, brain fag, cachexia, cachexy, cowardice, debilitation, debility, depression, disinterest, disregard, doldrums, drowsiness, dullness, dumps, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, goneness, heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, impotence, inanimation, indifference, insouciance, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, overstrain, overtiredness, passivity, phlegm, powerlessness, prostration, satedness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, softness, somnolence, stance fatigue, strain, strengthlessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, tedium, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unconcern, unmindfulness, weakliness, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, world-weariness

• lasso, O, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, bag, bait, birdlime, bola, catch, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, cobweb, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, discus, disk, dragnet, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, eternal return, fairy ring, fishhook, fly, foul, garland, gill net, glory, ground bait, halo, harpoon, hook, jig, land, lariat, lime, logical circle, loop, looplet, lure, magic circle, mesh, meshes, nail, net, noose, orbit, plug, pound net, purse seine, radius, ring, rondelle, rope, round, roundel, sack, saucer, seine, snag, snare, sniggle, spear, sphincter, spinner, springe, squid, take, tangle, tangle up with, toils, trap, trawl, vicious circle, wheel, wobbler, wreath

• last minute, belatedness, cursory, deathbed, eleventh hour, eleventh-hour, expeditious, festinate, feverish, flying, furious, hasty, high time, hurried, immediate, instant, late hour, lateness, later, on the spot, passing, prompt, quick, slap-bang, slapdash, small hours, snap, speedy, superficial, swift, tardiness, unpreparedness, unpunctuality, unreadiness, untimeliness, urgent

• last resort, action, ad hoc measure, answer, artifice, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, demarche, dernier ressort, device, dodge, effort, expedient, gimmick, hope, improvisation, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last shift, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, move, pis aller, recourse, resort, resource, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, tactic, temporary expedient, trick, trump, working hypothesis, working proposition

• last rites, burial service, chrism, chrismal, chrismation, chrismatory, chrisom, deathwatch, dirge, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, funeral oration, funeral rites, last duty, last honors, last offices, obsequies, ointment, requiem, requiem mass, sacramental anointment, sacred unction, unction, viaticum, wake

• last straw, causa causans, causa finalis, causal sequence, causing cause, efficient cause, final cause, first cause, formal cause, immanent cause, immediate cause, occasional cause, provocation, proximate cause, remote cause, stand, the last straw, the limit, transient cause, ultimate cause

• Last Supper, Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Host, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, bread, bread and wine, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, elements, impanation, intinction, loaf, real presence, subpanation, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, wafer

• last word, PS, Parthian shot, Z, acme, acme of perfection, addendum, advance guard, afterthought, apodosis, appendix, avant-garde, back matter, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, chorus, climax, coda, codicil, colophon, conclusion, consequence, consummation, continuance, continuation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, double take, dying words, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, epitome, eschatology, expiration, fate, final offer, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, firm price, follow-through, follow-up, goal, height, highest pitch, innovation, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, latter end, ne plus ultra, new look, newfangled device, novelty, omega, parting shot, payoff, peak, perfection, period, peroration, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, quietus, quintessence, refrain, resolution, resting place, second thought, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, stoppage, stopping place, subscript, suffix, summit, supplement, swan song, tag, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, the latest wrinkle, the rage, the thing, top, ultimate, ultimatum, vanguard, windup

• last, Z, abide, advance, aforegoing, after, aftermost, apodosis, at last, at length, at long last, at the end, at the last, be spared, behind, bide, bottommost, boundary, carry on, carry through, cast, catastrophe, caudal, ceasing, cessation, cheat death, closing, coda, collateral, coming, completing, completive, completory, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, conclusively, consummation, consummative, contingent, continue, continue to be, continue to exist, crack of doom, crowning, culminating, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, decisive, defeat time, definitive, defy time, denouement, departing, destination, destiny, determinative, die, doom, dwell, effect, elapse, end, end point, ending, endmost, endure, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eventual, eventually, exist, expiration, expire, extend, extreme, farewell, farthest, farthest out, fate, final, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finalizing, finally, finis, finish, finishing, flit, flow, flow on, fly, foregoing, form, fulfilling, furthest, glide, go by, go on, goal, hang on, hindmost, hold, hold on, hold out, in conclusion, in fine, in the rear, indirect, intaglio, izzard, keep, keep alive, keep at, keep at it, keep driving, keep going, keep on, keep trying, keep up, lag, lapse, last breath, last gasp, last long, last out, last things, last trumpet, last words, lastly, latest, latter, latter end, leaving, limiting, live, live on, live through, maintain, matrix, mint, model, mold, most recent, mould, negative, newest, not accept compromise, omega, once for all, outermost, outward-bound, parting, pass, pass by, pattern, payoff, perdure, perennate, period, peroration, persevere, persist, polar, preceding, press on, prevail, proceed, punch, quietus, rearmost, remain, remotest, resolution, resting place, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, seal, secondary, shoe last, slide, slip, stamp, stand, stand up, stay, stay on, stoppage, stopping place, subsist, support life, survive, sustain, swan song, tail, tarry, template, term, terminal, terminating, termination, terminative, terminus, tide over, ultimate, ultimately, utmost, uttermost, valedictory, wear, wear well, windup

• lasting, abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, alive, ancient, antique, assiduous, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic, chronological, cohesive, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, coriaceous, dense, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, drawn-out, durable, durational, durative, eidetic, endless, enduring, eternal, evergreen, everlasting, extended, faithful, fibrous, firm, fixed, fresh, frozen, green, gristly, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immutable, inalterable, incessant, incommutable, inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indelible, indissoluble, indomitable, industrious, inert, insistent, insusceptible of change, intact, interminable, intransient, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, kept in remembrance, languishing, leatherlike, leathery, lengthened, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-lasting, long-lived, long-pending, long-standing, long-term, long-winded, longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, marathon, massive, never-tiring, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, obstinate, of long duration, of long standing, old, overlong, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, prolonged, protracted, quiescent, rapt, recalled, recollected, relentless, remaining, remembered, resistant, resolute, retained, reverseless, rigid, ropy, rugged, sedulous, sempervirent, sempiternal, sinewy, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, solid, sound, spun-out, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout, stretched-out, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sustained, temporal, tenacious, tireless, torpid, tough, tough as leather, unabating, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unforgotten, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unshifting, unsleeping, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vigorous, viscid, vital, vivid, weariless, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiry

• latch, articulate, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bolt, buckle, butt, button, button up, choke, choke off, clap, clasp, cleat, clip, close, close up, constrict, contain, contract, cover, dovetail, fasten, fold, fold up, hasp, hinge, hitch, hook, jam, joint, key, lock, lock out, lock up, miter, mortise, nail, occlude, padlock, peg, pin, plumb, rabbet, rivet, scarf, screw, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, sew, shut, shut the door, shut up, skewer, slam, snap, squeeze shut, staple, stick, stitch, strangle, tack, toggle, wedge, zip up, zipper

• late lamented, ashes, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, body, bones, breathless, cadaver, called home, carcass, carrion, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, croaked, crowbait, dead, dead and gone, dead body, dead man, dead person, death-struck, deceased, decedent, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, exanimate, fallen, finished, food for worms, gone, gone to glory, gone west, inanimate, late, launched into eternity, lifeless, martyred, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, no more, organic remains, passed on, pushing up daisies, released, relics, reliquiae, remains, reposing, resting easy, sainted, skeleton, sleeping, smitten with death, stiff, still, stillborn, taken away, taken off, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions

• late, after time, ahead of time, anachronistic, ancient, antedated, arrested, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, back, backward, beforehand, behind, behind time, behindhand, belated, belatedly, bereft of life, blocked, breathless, bygone, called home, carrion, checked, cold, croaked, current, dated, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, deep into, defunct, delayed, delayed-action, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, detained, dilatory, done for, early, erstwhile, exanimate, extinct, fallen, far on, finished, food for worms, fore, foredated, former, formerly, fresh, gone, gone to glory, gone west, held up, heretofore, hung up, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-timed, immemorial, impeded, improper, in a bind, in abeyance, inanimate, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, jammed, last, late lamented, lately, later, latish, latter, latterly, launched into eternity, lifeless, mal a propos, malapropos, martyred, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, moratory, never on time, new, newly come, no more, none too soon, obstructed, of late, of yesterday, off base, old, olden, once, onetime, out of date, out of line, out of phase, out of season, out of time, overdue, parachronistic, passed on, past, past due, postdated, preceding, prehistoric, premature, previous, previously, primeval, primitive, prior, prochronistic, pushing up daisies, quondam, recent, recently, released, reposing, resting easy, retarded, sainted, set back, sleeping, slow, slowed down, smitten with death, sometime, still, stillborn, stopped, taken away, taken off, tardily, tardy, then, too late, too soon, unbefitting, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unpropitious, unpunctual, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, whilom, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wrong

• latency, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cold storage, deadliness, deathliness, delitescence, doldrums, dormancy, entropy, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, intermission, interruption, languor, latent content, latent meaningfulness, latentness, lotus-eating, passiveness, passivity, possibility, potentiality, quiescence, quiescency, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis, suspense, suspension, torpor, vegetation, virtuality, vis inertiae

• lateness, afterlife, anachronism, antedating, anticipation, brand-newness, callowness, dewiness, earliness, following, freshness, future time, gloss of novelty, greenness, hangover, historical error, immaturity, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, inconvenience, inexpedience, infelicity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intactness, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, maidenhood, metachronism, mint condition, misdate, misdating, mistiming, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, next life, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, parachronism, postdate, postdating, posteriority, prematurity, presentness, pristineness, prochronism, prolepsis, provenience, rawness, recency, recentness, remainder, sequence, strangeness, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, tardiness, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unpunctuality, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unusualness, virginity, wrongness

• latent, abeyant, abstruse, apathetic, arcane, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, between the lines, blind, buried, cabalistic, camouflaged, cataleptic, catatonic, censored, classified, close, closed, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, dead, delitescent, disguised, dopey, dormant, dull, eclipsed, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, hermetic, hibernating, hid, hidden, hush-hush, idle, immature, imperceptible, in a cloud, in a fog, in abeyance, in eclipse, in purdah, in suspense, in the wings, inactive, incommunicado, indiscernible, inert, insensible, invisible, languid, languorous, leaden, lifeless, logy, lurking, muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out of sight, passive, phlegmatic, possible, potential, quiescent, recondite, restricted, secluded, secluse, secret, sedentary, sequestered, sightless, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, smothered, stagnant, standing, static, stifled, submerged, suppressed, suspended, tame, top secret, torpid, ulterior, unapparent, unaroused, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unbreatheable, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, undiscernible, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unknown, unmanifested, unmatured, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unrevealable, unrevealed, unripe, unseeable, unseen, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unviewed, unwhisperable, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless, virtual, wrapped in clouds

• later, after, after a time, after a while, after all, after that, afterward, afterwards, anon, approaching, attendant, before long, behind, by, by and by, by destiny, cadet, coming, consecutive, deathbed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, eleventh-hour, emergent, ensuing, eventual, ex post facto, extrapolated, fatal, fatally, fated, fatidic, following, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, hopefully, imminent, imminently, in aftertime, in the aftermath, in the future, in the sequel, junior, last-minute, late, latter, lineal, nearing, newly come, next, of yesterday, planned, plotted, posterior, predictably, predicted, probable, probably, projected, prophesied, prospective, proximo, puisne, recent, sequent, since, soon, subsequent, subsequently, succeeding, successive, then, thereafter, thereon, thereupon, therewith, to come, to-be, tomorrow, ultimate, younger

• lateral, accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bifacial, bilabial, bilateral, bowl, broad, cacuminal, cast, central, cerebral, change of pace, change-up, check, checked, chuck, chunk, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, curve, dental, dihedral, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, downcurve, edge, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fastball, flanked, flanking, flat, fling, flip, forward pass, front, glancing, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, go crabwise, go sideways, guttural, handed, hard, heave, heavy, high, hurl, incurve, intonated, knuckleball, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral pass, lateralize, lax, lee, leeward, light, lingual, liquid, lob, low, make leeway, manner of articulation, many-sided, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, multilateral, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, next-beside, occlusive, one-sided, open, outcurve, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, pass, peak, peg, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, polyhedral, posttonic, prothetic vowel, put, quadrilateral, retroflex, rounded, screwball, segmental phoneme, semivowel, serve, service, shot-put, shy, side, sided, sideling, sidelong, sideslip, sidestep, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidle, sinker, skew, skid, skirting, slider, sling, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spitball, spitter, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, tetrahedral, thick, three-sided, throaty, throw, tonal, tonic, toss, transition sound, trihedral, trilateral, triphthong, triquetrous, twangy, two-sided, unaccented, unilateral, unrounded, unstressed, upcurve, veer, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, weather, wide, windward

• latest, actual, as is, being, closing, concluding, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, eventual, existent, existing, extant, farthest out, fashionable, final, fresh, hindmost, immanent, immediate, in, instant, lag, last, latter, modern, most recent, new, newest, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, rearmost, running, terminal, that be, that is, topical, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute

• lath, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, adhesive tape, band, bandage, batten, beam, belt, billet, board, boarding, brick, cellophane tape, clapboard, cloth tape, cord, cordwood, deal, driftwood, face, fascia, fillet, firewood, friction tape, girdle, glass, glaze, gruel, hardwood, lathing, lathwork, ligula, ligule, list, log, lumber, masking tape, mere shadow, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, paper, plank, planking, plastic tape, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, rail, rake, revet, ribband, ribbon, shadow, shake, shaving, sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shred, sideboard, siding, skeleton, slab, slat, slate, slip, softwood, soup, spill, splat, spline, splinter, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, strake, strap, streak, strip, strop, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, thatch, three-by-four, ticker tape, tile, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, vein, veneer, wafer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard, wood

• lathe, T square, alembic, anvil, awl, bale breaker, bar, battering ram, bevel, bevel square, bodkin, bradawl, buffer, caldron, calipers, cant hook, caulking iron, center punch, crowbar, crucible, dibble, dividers, edger, electric sander, electric soldering iron, engine, file, flail, forceps, fork, grapnel, grappling iron, grease gun, grindstone, hawk, hook, jack, jackscrew, jointer, level, machine, melting pot, miter box, mortar, motor, nail file, nail puller, palette knife, peavey, pincers, pinch bar, pitchfork, planer, pliers, puller, punch, punch pliers, puncheon, putty knife, ram, rammer, ramrod, retort, ripping bar, screwdriver, shaper, soldering iron, spatula, square, stapler, tackle, tamp, tamper, tamping pick, tap, test tube, tire iron, tire tool, tongs, transducer, transformer, tweezers, vise, wrecking bar

• lather, BO, aerate, anxiety, baptize, bath, bathe, beaded brow, beads of sweat, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, best, body odor, bother, breakers, breathless impatience, buffet, bustle, chafing, clamor, cold sweat, collar, cream, defeat, destroy, diaphoresis, disquietude, dither, do in, douche, dress down, drub, eagerness, excitement, exudate, exudation, fix, flagellate, flail, flap, flax, flog, flush, flush out, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, foam, foofaraw, fret, fretfulness, fretting, froth, fuss, gargle, give a dressing-down, hassle, haste, head, hide, holystone, honest sweat, hors de combat, hubbub, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, irrigate, lambaste, larrup, lash, launder, lave, leather, lick, mantle, maul, meringue, mop, mop up, mousse, offscum, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, paddle, perspiration, perspiration odor, pother, pucker, puff, pummel, put, restiveness, restlessness, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, ruin, scour, scrub, scrub up, scud, scum, sea foam, settle, shampoo, shower, skin, skin alive, sluice, sluice out, soap, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, sponge, spoondrift, spray, spume, state, stew, stinging, streams of sweat, sud, sudor, sudoresis, suds, surf, swab, sweat, swelter, swivet, syringe, tan, tense readiness, thrash, tizzy, toivel, trim, triumph over, trounce, tub, turmoil, twitter, twitteration, undo, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, wallop, wash, wash out, wash up, water, welt, whack, whale, whip, whisk, white water, worst, yeast

• latitude, Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Cartesian coordinates, Frigid Zones, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, abscissa, aeronautical chart, air space, altitude, ample scope, amplitude, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuth, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, beam, blank check, breadth, broad gauge, broad-mindedness, broadness, carte blanche, cartographer, cartography, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, chorographer, chorography, clearance, climate, climatic chart, clime, conic projection, contour line, contour map, cylindrical coordinates, cylindrical projection, declination, distance across, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenicity, ecumenism, elbowroom, equator, equator coordinates, expanse, extent, field, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, full scope, full swing, fullness, general reference map, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, grid line, hachure, headroom, heliographic chart, horse latitudes, hydrographic chart, index, isoline, large-mindedness, layer tint, leeway, legend, long rope, longitude, longitude in arc, maneuvering space, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, margin, meridian, no holds barred, noninsularity, open space, ordinate, parallel, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, play, polar coordinates, political map, polyconic projection, prime meridian, projection, range, relief map, representative fraction, right ascension, road map, roaring forties, room, room to spare, rope, scale, scope, sea room, sinusoidal projection, space, spacious mind, span, spare room, special map, spread, subtropics, swing, terrain map, terrestrial globe, the line, thematic map, tolerance, topographer, topographic chart, topography, transportation map, tropic, tropics, unbigotedness, unhideboundness, unparochialism, unprovincialism, way, weather chart, weather map, wide berth, wide-mindedness, wideness, width, zone

• latitudinarian, big person, broad-gauge person, broad-minded, ecumenicist, esprit fort, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freethinker, freethinking, humanist, independent, individualist, isolationist, liberal, liberalist, liberalistic, libertarian, libertine, mugwump, neutral, nonpartisan, open-minded, rugged individualist, secular humanist, third force, third world, tolerant, unbigoted

• latrine, WC, backhouse, basement, bathroom, bedpan, can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical closet, chemical toilet, closet, comfort station, commode, convenience, crapper, earth closet, head, jerry, john, johnny, johnny house, jordan, lavatory, loo, necessary, outhouse, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, powder room, privy, rest room, stool, throne, thunder mug, toilet, toilet room, urinal, washroom, water closet

• lattice, Kekule formula, arabesque, atomic cluster, atomic pile, basketry, basketwork, bay, bay window, benzene ring, bow window, branched chain, breeder reactor, bricks, cadre, cancellation, case, casement, casement window, casing, chain, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, chassis, closed chain, compound radical, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cycle, doorframe, fabric, fan window, fanlight, fast pile, filigree, frame, framework, framing, fret, fretwork, furnace, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, heterocycle, heterogeneous reactor, homocycle, homogeneous reactor, interlacement, intermediate pile, intertexture, intertwinement, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lancet window, lantern, latticework, light, louver window, mesh, meshes, meshwork, molecule, net, netting, network, neutron factory, nuclear furnace, oriel, pane, picture frame, picture window, pile, plexure, plexus, plutonium reactor, port, porthole, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, raddle, radical, radioactive waste, reactor, reactor pile, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, ring, rods, rose window, sash, screen, screening, shell, side chain, sieve, simple radical, skeleton, skylight, slow pile, space-lattice, stellarator, straight chain, texture, tissue, tracery, transom, trellis, trelliswork, uranium reactor, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork, wicket, window, window bay, window case, window frame, window glass, windowpane

• laud, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, acclaim, accolade, admire, adore, adulate, adulation, advance, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, apotheosis, apotheosize, belaud, bepraise, bepraisement, bless, bless the Lord, blow up, boast of, brag about, canticle, celebrate, chant, chorale, commend, congratulation, cry up, deification, deify, doxologize, doxology, eloge, emblazon, encomium, eulogium, eulogize, eulogy, exalt, exaltation, excessive praise, extol, flatter, flattery, glorification, glorify, glorify the Lord, glory, hallelujah, hero worship, hero-worship, homage, hommage, honor, hosanna, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, idolatry, idolize, idolizing, kudos, laudation, lionize, lionizing, magnification, magnify, make much of, mantra, meed of praise, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, overpraise, paean, panegyric, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, praise God, promote, psalm, psalmody, puff, puff up, recommend, report, response, responsory, revere, reverence, salute, sing praises, tribute, trumpet, venerate, versicle, worship

• laudable, admirable, advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, beyond all praise, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, creditable, deserving, elegant, estimable, excellent, exemplary, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, good, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, kind, meritorious, model, nice, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, pleasant, praiseworthy, profitable, regal, royal, skillful, sound, splendid, unexceptionable, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-deserving, worthy

• laudanum, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, 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, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• lauded, august, distinguished, elevated, eminent, exalted, famous, glorious, godlike, heroic, high, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, noble, prominent, renowned, soaring, sublime, superb, towering

• laugh at, deride, despise, disdain, disregard, flout, grin at, hold in derision, laugh to scorn, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, pan, pillory, point at, poke fun at, put one on, rag, razz, ride, ridicule, roast, scoff at, scorn, scout, set at defiance, slight, slight over, smile at, snicker at, snigger at, treat with contempt

• laugh it up, be in stitches, beguile the time, break up, burst into laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crow, drown care, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, have a ball, have fun, hee-haw, hee-hee, ho-ho, horselaugh, kill time, laugh, laugh outright, live it up, loosen up, nearly die laughing, relax, roar, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuk-yuk

• laugh, Homeric laughter, be in heaven, be in stitches, be pleased, beam, belittle, belly laugh, blue story, boff, boffola, break up, brush aside, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, caper, caracole, chirp, chirrup, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crack up, crow, dance, delight, deny, deride, die with delight, dirty joke, dirty story, dismiss, disregard, double entendre, ethnic joke, feel happy, fit of laughter, frolic, fun, funny story, gag, gales of laughter, gambol, giggle, glow, go into convulsions, go into hysterics, go into raptures, good one, good story, grin, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, hoot, horselaugh, howler, ignore, jape, jeer at, jest, jestbook, joke, joy, lampoon, laugh at, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, lilt, minimize, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, panic, parody, pasquil, pasquinade, peal of laughter, play, point, poke fun at, pooh-pooh, purr, radiate cheer, reject, rib tickler, ridicule, riot, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, roast, romp, satirize, scoff at, scorn, scream, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, shrug off, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, simper, sing, skip, smile, smirk, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, sparkle, split, split with laughter, sport, spurn, story, take great satisfaction, taunt, tease, tee-hee, titter, tread on air, visual joke, wheeze, whistle, whoop, wide berth, wow, yarn, yuck, yuk-yuk

• laughable, absurd, amusing, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, droll, eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, foolish, funny, grotesque, high-flown, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, incredible, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, outrageous, outre, poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, quaint, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, screaming, weird, whimsical, wild, witty

• laughing, Homeric laughter, beaming, beatific, beatified, belly laugh, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, boff, boffola, bright, bright and sunny, burst of laughter, cachinnation, cackle, capering, cheerful, cheery, chirping, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, dancing, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, fit of laughter, flushed, flushed with joy, gales of laughter, gay, genial, giggle, glad, gladsome, glowing, guffaw, ha-ha, happy, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, high, hilarity, ho-ho, hopeful, horselaugh, in good spirits, in high spirits, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, laugh, laughter, leaping, of good cheer, optimistic, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, pleasant, purring, radiant, riant, risibility, roar of laughter, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, singing, smiling, smirking, snicker, snigger, snort, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, tee-hee, thrice happy, titter, winsome, yuck, yuk-yuk

• laughingstock, butt, byword, byword of reproach, derision, dupe, fair game, figure of fun, fool, game, gazingstock, goat, jest, jestingstock, joke, mockery, monkey, stock, target, toy, victim

• laughter, Homeric laughter, amusement, belly laugh, boff, boffola, burst of laughter, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chortling, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, frivolity, fun, gales of laughter, giggle, glee, gleefulness, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, laugh, laughing, levity, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar of laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snickering, snigger, sniggering, snort, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• launch into, accept, assume, attack, attempt, buckle to, dive into, embark in, embark upon, endeavor, engage in, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get busy, get cracking, get going, get under way, get with it, go about, go at, go in for, go into, go to it, go upon, have at, hop to it, jump to it, launch forth, lay about, light into, move into, pitch in, pitch into, plunge into, proceed to, sail into, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set to, set to work, start in, tackle, take on, take up, turn to, undertake, venture upon, wade into

• launch, advance, altitude peak, automatic control, begin, blast off, blast-off, boat, bowl, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, bundle, bundle off, bung, burn, burnout, cabin cruiser, cast, catapult, ceiling, christen, chuck, chunk, commence, commend to attention, cruiser, dart, dash, descent, dinghy, discharge, dispatch, embark, embark on, embark upon, end of burning, establish, fire, flight, fling, flip, float, fork, found, get, get going, gig, give a start, heave, hurl, hurtle, ignition, impact, inaugurate, inauguration, induct, initiate, initiation, install, institute, introduce, jerk, kick off, lance, lay before, let fly, lift up, lift-off, lob, make a motion, moot, motor launch, motorboat, move, offer a resolution, open, open up, opening, organize, originate, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, pose, postulate, power cruiser, powerboat, prefer, project, propose, proposition, propound, put, put forth, put forward, put in motion, put it to, put the shot, raise, recommend, ring in, rocket launching, runabout, sedan cruiser, send, send forth, send off, serve, set afloat, set agoing, set before, set forth, set going, set in motion, set on foot, set up, shoot, shot, shy, skiff, sling, snap, speedboat, start, start going, start off, start up, steam launch, submit, suggest, tender, throw, tilt, toss, trajectory, turn on, usher in, velocity peak

• launching pad, Mark, balcony, bazooka, calliope, catafalque, dais, emplacement, estrade, floor, gallery, hedgehog, heliport, hustings, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launch pad, launching platform, launching tube, mousetrap, platform, podium, projector, pulpit, rostrum, silo, soapbox, stage, step terrace, stump, terrace, tribunal, tribune

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

• launder, baptize, bath, bathe, clean, cleanse, douche, flush, flush out, gargle, holystone, irrigate, lather, lave, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, mop, mop up, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shower, sluice, sluice out, soap, sponge, swab, syringe, toivel, tub, wash, wash out, wash up

• laureate, A per se, Meistersinger, Olympic medal winner, Parnassian, ace, arch-poet, award winner, ballad maker, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, boss, bucoliast, champ, champion, chief, commander, crowned with laurel, dean, distinguished, elegist, epic poet, fili, fugleman, genius, head, higher-up, honored, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, leader, librettist, major poet, maker, master, medalist, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, nonpareil, occasional poet, odist, paragon, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, principal, prizeman, prizetaker, prizewinner, prodigy, rhapsode, rhapsodist, ruler, satirist, scop, senior, skald, sonneteer, star, superior, superman, superstar, symbolist, the greatest, the most, top dog, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, virtuoso, world champion, world-record holder

• laurels, Old Mug, acclaim, acclamation, accolade, accomplishments, award, awards, badge, bays, celebrity, chaplet, civic crown, crown, cup, decoration, distinction, fame, garland, glory, honors, kudos, laurel, loving cup, palm, palms, popularity, pot, renown, reputation, successes, tributes, trophy, wreath

• lava, aa, abyssal rock, ash, ashes, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brand, brash, breccia, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, conglomerate, coom, crag, dross, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, fume, gneiss, granite, igneous rock, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, reek, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, stone, sullage, talus, tufa, tuff

• lavatory, WC, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, backhouse, bagnio, balneae, balneum, basement, basin, bath, bathhouse, bathroom, baths, bathtub, bidet, bog, caldarium, can, closet, comfort station, convenience, crapper, dishpan, dishwasher, earth closet, equipment, ewer, finger bowl, head, john, johnny, johnny house, kitchen sink, latrine, lavabo, loo, mikvah, necessary, outhouse, piscina, powder room, privy, public baths, rest room, sauna, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, spa, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, toilet, toilet room, tub, urinal, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washroom, washstand, washtub, water closet, watering place

• lave, baptize, bath, bathe, brew, douche, drench, drouk, flush, flush out, gargle, holystone, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, irrigate, lap, lather, launder, leach, lip, lixiviate, macerate, mop, mop up, percolate, permeate, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, saturate, scour, scrub, scrub up, seethe, shampoo, shower, sluice, sluice out, soak, soap, sodden, sop, souse, sponge, steep, swab, syringe, toivel, tub, wash, wash out, wash up, waterlog

• lavender, amethystine, lilac, livid, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, pansy-purple, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous, raisin-colored, violaceous, violet

• lavish, abounding, abundant, accord, administer, affluent, afford, alive with, all-sufficing, allot, allow, ample, aplenty, award, bestow, bestow on, bighearted, blow, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, communicate, confer, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, deal, deal out, diffuse, dish out, dispense, dissipate, dissipative, dole, dole out, donate, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, expend, extend, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, fork out, free, freehanded, freehearted, full, galore, gamble away, generous, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, giving, go through, gorgeous, gracious, grant, greathearted, hand out, handsome, hang the expense, heap, help to, hospitable, immoderate, impart, impressive, improvident, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, inexhaustible, intemperate, issue, jam-packed, jammed, large, largehearted, let have, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magnanimous, many, maximal, mete, mete out, much, munificent, numerous, offer, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, packed, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethoric, populous, pound-foolish, pour, present, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, proffer, profligate, profuse, profusive, proliferating, prolific, pullulating, rain, rampant, render, replete, rich, rife, riotous, run through, running over, scatter, seize the day, serve, shell out, shower, sink, slather, slip, snow, sow broadcast, spend, spendthrift, splendid, squander, stintless, studded, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, tender, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, throw away, throw money around, thrust, uncurbed, ungrudging, unreasonable, unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, vouchsafe, waste, wasteful, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, yield

• lavishly, abundantly, affluently, aplenty, beyond measure, bigheartedly, bottomlessly, bounteously, bountifully, copiously, diffusely, effusely, extravagantly, exuberantly, freehandedly, freeheartedly, freely, fully, generously, graciously, greatheartedly, handsomely, hospitably, in abundance, in full measure, in good supply, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustibly, largeheartedly, liberally, maximally, more than enough, no end, openhandedly, openheartedly, opulently, out of measure, overabundantly, overflowingly, plenteously, plentifully, prodigally, profusely, richly, riotously, superabundantly, to the full, ungrudgingly, unselfishly, unsparingly, unstintingly, with both hands, with open hands, without measure, without stint

• lavishness, Babylonian splendor, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brilliance, bumper crop, carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, copiousness, deluge, dissipation, elaborateness, elegance, embarras de richesses, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glory, gorgeousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, great abundance, great plenty, gush, imposingness, impressiveness, incontinence, intemperance, inundation, landslide, leaking purse, liberality, liberalness, loose purse strings, lots, luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, magnificence, majesty, maximum, money to burn, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, nobility, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdoing, overdose, overflow, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overlavishness, overliberality, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plushness, poshness, pound-foolishness, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, proudness, quantities, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, redundancy, repleteness, repletion, resplendence, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, ritziness, scads, shower, spate, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, squander, squandering, squandermania, state, stateliness, stream, substantiality, substantialness, sumptuousness, superabundance, superflux, teemingness, waste, wastefulness, wealth

• law abiding, Christian, acquiescent, blameless, clean, compliant, complying, conforming, creditable, decent, devoted, duteous, dutiful, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, faithful, full of integrity, good, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-loving, law-revering, loyal, manly, moral, noble, obedient, principled, pure, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, spotless, stainless, sterling, submissive, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, willing, worthy, yeomanly

• law enforcement agency, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county police, highway patrol, military police, police, police force, political police, posse, provincial police, riot police, secret police, security force, shore patrol, special police, state police, tactical police, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes

• law of averages, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, break, casualness, chance, destiny, fate, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, lot, luck, moira, opportunity, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, risk, run of luck, serendipity, statistical probability, the breaks, theory of probability, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes

• law, Dogberry, Eighteenth Amendment, John Law, Procrustean law, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, a priori truth, act, appointment, assize, axiom, ban, bill, bluecoat, bobby, brevet, bring action against, bring into court, bring suit, bring to justice, bring to trial, brocard, bull, bylaw, canon, code, command, commandment, contraband, convention, cop, copper, criminology, criterion, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, denial, dick, dictate, dictation, dictum, diktat, disallowance, drag into court, edict, edictum, embargo, enactment, exclusion, exigency, fiat, flatfoot, flattie, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, forensic psychiatry, form, formality, formula, formulary, fundamental, gendarme, general principle, go into litigation, go to law, golden rule, guideline, guiding principle, gumshoe, imperative, implead, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, institute, institution, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, ipse dixit, jurisprudence, jus, law of nature, legal chemistry, legal medicine, legal science, legislation, lex, litigate, mandate, maxim, measure, medical jurisprudence, medico-legal medicine, mitzvah, moral, necessity, no-no, nomography, norm, norma, order of nature, ordinance, ordonnance, peeler, pig, postulate, precept, preclusion, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, prevention, principium, principle, proclamation, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proposition, proscription, prosecute, prosecute at law, put in suit, put on trial, refusal, regulation, rejection, repression, rescript, restrictive covenants, rubric, rule, ruling, ruling out, seek in law, seek justice, self-evident truth, senatus consult, senatus consultum, set form, settled principle, shamus, standard, standing order, statute, sue, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, take to court, tenet, the cops, the fuzz, the law, theorem, truism, truth, ukase, universal law, universal truth, working principle, working rule, zoning, zoning laws

• lawbreaker, Judas, bad person, betrayer, convict, criminal, crook, deceiver, delinquent, desperado, desperate criminal, double-dealer, evildoer, felon, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, jailbird, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misfeasor, mobster, offender, outlaw, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, scofflaw, sinner, swindler, thief, thug, traitor, transgressor, two-timer, villain, worker of ill, wrongdoer

• lawbreaking, breach of law, civil disobedience, contravention, crime, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, disobedience, evil courses, evildoing, feloniousness, frowardness, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, lawlessness, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision, misprision of treason, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, passive resistance, positive misprision, recusancy, sin, thou scarlet sin, transgression, trespass, trespassing, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unsubmissiveness, vice, viciousness, violation, violation of law, waywardness, willful disobedience, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

• lawful, actionable, admissible, allowable, allowed, applicable, authentic, authoritative, authorized, balanced, binding, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, cogent, competent, consistent, constitutional, de jure, defensible, deserved, dinkum, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, legitimized, level, licit, lifelike, literal, logical, meet, meet and right, merited, natural, naturalistic, original, permissible, permitted, proper, pure, real, realistic, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctionable, sanctioned, self-consistent, simon-pure, simple, sincere, solid, sound, square, statutory, sterling, substantial, sufficient, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warrantable, warranted, weighty, well-founded, well-grounded, within the law, word-for-word

• lawfulness, actionability, admissibility, admissibleness, allowableness, applicability, constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality, defensibility, drumhead justice, due process, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, give-and-take, jurisdiction, justice, justiciability, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, legal form, legal process, legalism, legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, licitness, measure for measure, meetness, nemesis, permissibility, permissibleness, poetic justice, properness, propriety, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, sanctionableness, scales of justice, scope, summary justice, validity, warrantability, warrantableness, warrantedness, what is right

• lawgiver, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, assemblyman, chosen freeholder, city father, congressman, congresswoman, councilman, floor leader, lawmaker, legislator, majority leader, minority leader, party whip, representative, senator, solon, state senator, whip

• lawless, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, anomic, black-market, bootleg, chaotic, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, corrupt, criminal, crooked, dishonest, disobedient, felonious, flagitious, flawed, froward, headstrong, heady, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, indisciplined, iniquitous, insubordinate, irregular, irresponsible, justiciable, larcenous, licentious, mutinous, naughty, nefarious, nonconforming, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, obstinate, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, rampant, recusant, reinless, self-willed, sinful, transgressive, treacherous, triable, unaccountable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplying, unconstitutional, uncontrolled, uncurbed, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungoverned, unlawful, unofficial, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, venal, villainous, violative, wayward, wicked, wildcat, willful, wrongful

• lawlessness, anarchy, anomie, assumption, chaos, civil disobedience, conflict, contention, criminalism, criminality, difference, discord, disobedience, dissension, familiarity, frowardness, hubris, illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility, imposition, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, legal flaw, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, mobocracy, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, ochlocracy, outlawry, passive resistance, presumption, presumptuousness, recusancy, strife, technical flaw, transgression, uncooperativeness, undue liberty, unduteousness, undutifulness, unlawfulness, unsubmissiveness, variance, violation, waywardness, willful disobedience, wrongfulness

• lawmaker, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, assemblyman, chosen freeholder, city father, congressman, congresswoman, councilman, floor leader, lawgiver, legislator, majority leader, minority leader, party whip, representative, senator, solon, state senator, whip

• lawmaking, act, bicameral, concurrent resolution, congressional, constitution, deliberative, enaction, enactment, joint resolution, legislation, legislative, legislatorial, legislature, parliamentary, passage, passing, resolution, senatorial, unicameral

• lawn, Astroturf, artificial turf, bowling green, common, fairway, golf course, golf links, grassplot, green, greensward, greenyard, grounds, park, putting green, sod, sward, turf, village green

• lawsuit, accusal, accusation, accusing, action, allegation, allegement, arraignment, bill of particulars, blame, bringing of charges, bringing to book, case, cause, charge, complaint, count, delation, denouncement, denunciation, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, laying of charges, plaint, prosecution, reproach, suit, taxing, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation

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