Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/48

• lay before, advance, affront, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, challenge, commend to attention, confront, confront with, dare, defy, encounter, envisage, face, face with, front, introduce, launch, make a motion, meet, meet squarely, moot, move, offer a resolution, open up, place before, pose, postulate, prefer, present to, propose, proposition, propound, put forth, put forward, put it to, recommend, set before, set forth, start, stem, submit, suggest

• lay by, abandon, adjourn, aestivate, arrange for, assign, cede, conserve, continue, decree, defer, define, delay, drag out, extend, forearm, give up, hand over, hang fire, hang up, have nothing on, head to wind, hibernate, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, husband, impose, keep, keep back, keep by one, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep on hand, lay aside, lay away, lay in, lay off, lay over, lay to, lay up, leave, lie ahull, lie by, lie dormant, lie fallow, lie idle, lie off, lie to, lie up, look out for, make provision for, make sure against, ordain, pigeonhole, postpone, prepare for, prescribe, preserve, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, provide against, provide for, push aside, put apart, put aside, put away, put by, put in mothballs, put off, put on ice, recess, reserve, resign, retain, ride at anchor, salt away, save, save up, set, set apart, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sideline, sleep on, spare, stand over, stave off, stay, store, stow, stretch out, surrender, suspend, table, table the motion, take a recess, waive, withhold, yield

• lay down the law, be responsible for, bestride, call the signals, captain, carry on, command, conduct, control, dictate, direct, dogmatize, dominate, engineer, govern, handle, have the ascendancy, head, head up, lead, lead on, make the rules, manage, maneuver, manipulate, master, mastermind, officer, oracle, oraculate, order, play first fiddle, pontificate, predominate, preponderate, prescribe, prevail, proclaim, pull the strings, quarterback, regulate, rule the roost, run, skipper, take command, take the lead, twist, wear the pants

• lay down, abdicate, abjure, acknowledge defeat, advance, affirm, align, allege, announce, annunciate, ante, ante up, appoint, argue, arrange in layers, assert, assever, asseverate, authorize, aver, avouch, avow, back, bank, bet, bet on, bundle away, cache, call, cant, careen, cease, cede, coffer, contend, cover, cry quits, declare, delaminate, demand, deposit, desist from, desquamate, dictate, drop, enunciate, equalize, even, exfoliate, express, fade, fell, file, flake, flatten, flush, forgo, forswear, gamble, give over, give up, grade, hand over, have, have done with, hazard, heel, hold, hutch, impose, insist, issue a manifesto, laminate, lay, lay a wager, lay away, lay flat, lay in, lay in store, lay level, lay low, lay out, lay up, layer, leave off, level, lie along, list, lodge, maintain, make a bet, make obligatory, manifesto, meet a bet, pack away, parlay, pass, pay over, play against, plunge, pose, posit, postulate, predicate, prescribe, proclaim, profess, pronounce, propose, propound, protest, punt, put, put away, put down, put it, put up, rase, raze, relinquish, renounce, repose, reposit, require, reservoir, resign, rest, roll, roll flat, salt away, salt down, say, scale, see, set, set down, set forth, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, speak, speak out, speak up, stake, stand for, stand on, stand pat, stash, state, steamroll, steamroller, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, stratify, submit, surrender, throw up, tip, wager, waive, warehouse, yield

• lay figure, Charlie McCarthy, air brush, art paper, brush, bust, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, carving, chalk, charcoal, cipher, clay model, crayon, creature, doll, dolly, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, dud, dummy, easel, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, fixative, front, front man, gingerbread man, ground, hollow man, jackstraw, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, maulstick, medium, mock-up, model, monument, nebbish, nobody, nominal head, nonentity, nothing, nullity, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, pastel, pencil, pigments, pilot model, portrait bust, puppet, pushover, scarecrow, scratchboard, sculpture, siccative, sketchbook, sketchpad, snowman, spatula, spray gun, statuary, statue, statuette, stooge, stump, thing of naught, trifle, varnish, wax figure, waxwork, wood carving, wood model, zero

• lay hands on, abduct, administer the Eucharist, ambush, annex, anoint, assail, assault, attack, bless, blitz, bushwhack, carry off, chrism, come at, come down on, confirm, crack down on, cross, descend on, descend upon, do duty, fall on, fall upon, gang up on, get at, get hold of, give benediction, glom on to, go at, go for, grab, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, impose, invoke benefits upon, jump, kidnap, land on, lay at, lay into, light into, minister, mug, officiate, perform a rite, perform service, pitch into, pounce upon, pound, sail into, set on, set upon, shanghai, strike, surprise, swoop down on, take over, take possession, take the offensive, take up, throttle, wade into

• lay in, approach anchorage, bank, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up for, bear up to, bundle away, cache, close with, coffer, deposit, fetch, file, go aboard, go alongside, hutch, lay aboard, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay down, lay for, lay in store, lay up, lie in, lodge, make, make at, make for, pack away, put away, put away for, put by, put in, put into port, reach, reposit, reservoir, run for, sail for, salt away, salt down, spare, stand for, stash, steer toward, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, warehouse

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

• lay it on thick, Barnumize, act a part, affect, aggrandize, amplify, assume, ballyhoo, bedaub, besmear, blarney, blow, blow off, blowhard, bombast, build up, burlesque, butter, butter up, caricature, carry too far, coat, counterfeit, dab, daub, do a bit, dramatize, draw the longbow, enamel, exaggerate, fake, feign, get around, gild, gloss, go to extremes, histrionize, honey, hyperbolize, inflate, jolly, kid along, lacquer, lay it on, lay on, magnify, make much of, make out like, oil, overact, overcharge, overdo, overdo it, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, pile it on, play, play a part, play a scene, play up to, playact, pontificate, pretend, prime, puff, put on, put on airs, sham, shoot the shit, simulate, slap on, slather, smear, smear on, soap, soft-soap, soften up, spread on, spread with, stretch, stretch the truth, string along, stroke, talk big, talk highfalutin, talk in superlatives, tar, tout, travesty, tug the heartstrings, undercoat, vapor, wear

• lay low, abate, align, attenuate, blow down, blow over, blow to pieces, blow up, blunt, bowl down, bowl over, brain, bring down, bulldog, burn to death, cast down, chop down, cramp, cripple, cut down, cut to pieces, damp, dampen, dash down, deaden, deal a deathblow, debilitate, deck, devitalize, disintegrate, down, drop, dull, enervate, enfeeble, equalize, even, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fell, fetch down, flatten, floor, flush, frag, give the quietus, grade, ground, gruel, gun down, hew down, incinerate, jugulate, knock down, knock over, lapidate, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay out, level, mitigate, mow, mow down, pistol, poleax, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, rase, rattle, raze, reduce, riddle, roll, roll flat, sap, send headlong, shake, shake up, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, soften up, spread-eagle, stab to death, steamroll, steamroller, stone, stone to death, strike dead, supinate, take down, take off, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, vaporize, weaken, whack down

• lay off, abandon, abort, aestivate, belay, blueprint, boot, bounce, bound, break, breathe, bump, bust, call a strike, call it quits, can, cancel, cashier, cease, chart, circle in, circumscribe, close down, close shop, cut it out, define, defrock, degrade, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, desist, determine, diagram, disbar, discharge, discontinue, disemploy, dismiss, displace, displume, drop it, drum out, enclose, end, expel, fire, fix, furlough, give over, give the ax, give the gate, go on strike, graph, halt, have done with, have nothing on, hibernate, hold, kick, kick upstairs, knock it off, knock off, lay by, lay out, lay to, leave off, let go, let out, lie by, lie dormant, lie fallow, lie idle, lie off, lie to, lie up, make redundant, map, map out, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, measure off, measure out, pace off, pause, pension off, plot, plot out, quit, read out of, recess, refrain, release, relinquish, remove, renounce, replace, retire, ride at anchor, rope off, rule off, sack, scrub, secure, separate forcibly, set off, set out, set the limit, shut down, shut up shop, sketch, sketch out, specify, spell, stake out, stay, step off, stop, stop for breath, strike, strip, superannuate, surplus, surround, suspend, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take five, take ten, take time out, terminate, turn off, turn out, unfrock, walk out

• lay on, administer, apply, apply to, attack, baste, bastinado, beat, bedaub, belabor, belt, besmear, bestow, birch, blanket, block, buffet, burden with, butter, cane, canopy, charge, cloak, clothe, cloud, club, coat, cope, cover, cover up, cowhide, cowl, cudgel, curtain, cut, dab, daub, demand, dose, dose with, draw first blood, drub, eclipse, enamel, enforce upon, enjoin, exact, fasten upon, film, flagellate, flail, flog, force, force upon, freight with, fustigate, gild, give, give a whipping, give the stick, gloss, have at, hood, horsewhip, impose, impose on, impose upon, inflict on, inflict upon, jump, knout, lace, lacquer, lash, lay, lay about one, lay into, lay over, levy, light into, make war on, mantle, mask, mete out to, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay, overspread, pistol-whip, pitch into, place, pommel, prescribe for, prime, pummel, put, put down, put on, put upon, rawhide, saddle with, sail into, scourge, screen, scum, set, shield, slap on, slather, smear, smear on, smite, spank, spread on, spread over, spread with, square up, strap, stripe, subject to, superimpose, superpose, swinge, switch, tar, task, tax, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, undercoat, veil, wallop, weight down with, whale, whip, whop, yoke with

• lay out, KO, align, anesthetize, arrange, array, bedaze, benumb, besot, blast, block out, blot out, blow down, blow over, blueprint, blunt, bowl down, bowl over, bring down, budget, bulldog, bump off, carve, cast, cast down, chart, chisel, chloroform, chop down, coldcock, cool off, cost, cost out, create, croak, cut, cut down, dash down, deaden, deck, deploy, desensitize, diagram, disburse, dispose, do in, dope, down, drop, drug, dull, efform, embalm, equalize, erase, etherize, even, expend, fashion, fell, fetch down, figure, fix, flatten, floor, flush, forge, fork out, form, formalize, found, frame, freeze, get, give the business, go through, grade, graph, ground, gun down, harmonize, hew, hew down, hierarchize, hit, ice, incur costs, invest, kayo, knead, knock down, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay off, level, lick into shape, lie in state, line up, map, map out, mark off, mark out, marshal, measure off, measure out, methodize, mint, model, mold, mow down, mummify, narcotize, normalize, numb, obtund, off, open the purse, order, organize, outlay, pace off, pacify, palsy, paralyze, pay, pay out, plan, plot, plot out, polish off, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, put out, put to sleep, quiet, rank, rase, raze, regularize, regulate, roll, roll flat, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, routinize, rub out, rule off, run through, schedule, sculpt, sculpture, send headlong, set, set off, set out, set up, settle, shape, shell out, sink money in, sketch, sketch out, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, spend, splurge, spread-eagle, squander, stamp, standardize, steamroll, steamroller, step off, structure, stun, stupefy, supinate, systematize, tailor, take care of, take down, thermoform, throw, throw down, throw money around, topple, tranquilize, trip, tumble, waste, whack down, wipe out, work, zap

• lay over, adjourn, apply to, blanket, block, canopy, cloak, clothe, cloud, continue, cope, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, defer, delay, drag out, eclipse, extend, film, hang fire, hang up, hold off, hold over, hold up, hood, lay aside, lay by, lay on, mantle, mask, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay, overspread, pigeonhole, postpone, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, put aside, put off, put on, put on ice, recess, reserve, screen, scum, set aside, set by, shelve, shield, shift off, sleep on, sojourn, spread over, stand over, stave off, stay, stay over, stop, stop over, stretch out, superimpose, superpose, suspend, table, take a recess, veil, waive

• lay the foundation, base, blaze the trail, break the ice, build, build in, clear the way, cultivate the soil, establish, fix, found, go in advance, ground, install, invest, lay the groundwork, open the way, pave the way, pitch, plant, prepare the way, put in, put up, seat, set, set up, sow the seed, vest

• lay to, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, aestivate, apply to, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attribute to, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, buckle down, charge on, charge to, confess, connect with, credit with, endeavor, fasten upon, father upon, fix on, fix upon, go all out, hang on, have nothing on, head to wind, hibernate, hump, hump it, impute to, knuckle down, lay by, lay off, lay up, lie ahull, lie by, lie dormant, lie fallow, lie idle, lie off, lie to, lie up, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, ply the oar, point to, refer to, ride at anchor, saddle on, saddle with, set down to, settle upon, spare no effort

• lay waste, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry on, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, go on, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, hammer, havoc, incinerate, lay in ruins, loot, maul, mug, pillage, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, riot, roar, ruin, ruinate, sack, savage, shipwreck, slaughter, sow chaos, storm, swallow up, tear, tear around, terrorize, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, violate, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• lay, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, abate, accredit, address, advance, aim, air, alba, align, allay, allege, alleviate, anesthetize, ante, ante up, anthem, appease, aria, art song, aspect, assign, assuage, attemper, attitude, attribute, aubade, azimuth, back, ball, ballad, ballade, ballata, bank the fire, barcarole, be intimate, bearing, bearings, bent, benumb, bet, bet on, blues, blues song, blunt, board, boat song, boom, bridal hymn, brindisi, burden with, call, calm, calypso, canso, canticle, canto, cantus, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cast, cast loose, cast out devils, cavatina, celestial navigation, chanson, chant, chantey, charge, chasten, cite, civil, clap on ratlines, clear hawse, cohabit, come together, commit adultery, conciliate, congregational, constrain, control, cool, copulate, couple, course, cover, crawl, credit, croon, croon song, current, cushion, cut loose, dab, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, dead reckoning, deaden, deaden the pain, defuse, demand, deposit, descant, diapason, diddle, diminish, direction, direction line, dirge, ditty, downplay, drag, dress, drift, drinking song, drop, dub, dulcify, dull, ease, ease matters, enjoin, epithalamium, equalize, establish, even, exact, exorcise, exposure, extenuate, fade, fasten upon, fell, fix, flatten, flush, folk song, foment, fornicate, freight with, frig, frontage, gamble, game, give relief, grade, grease, grovel, harrow, haul, haul down, have sex, have sexual relations, hazard, heading, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, helmsmanship, hymeneal, hymn, impose, impose on, impose upon, impute, inclination, incline, inflict on, inflict upon, kedge, keep within bounds, laic, laical, lay a wager, lay aloft, lay down, lay flat, lay ghosts, lay level, lay low, lay on, lay out, lay the dust, lenify, lessen, level, levy, lie, lie down, lie flat, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie with, lied, lighten, lilt, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, lodge, log, loll, lounge, love song, love-lilt, lubricate, lull, make a bet, make it with, make love, make out, mate, matin, measure, meet a bet, melodia, melodic line, melody, minstrel song, minstrelsy, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, mount, mow, national anthem, navigation, nonclerical, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonordained, nonpastoral, nonreligious, note, numb, obtund, offer, oil, orientation, pacify, pad, palliate, park, parlay, pass, pilotage, piloting, placate, place, plane, planish, plaster, play, play against, play down, plunge, point, pose, posit, position, position line, post, poultice, pour balm into, pour balm on, pour oil on, present, propitiate, prothalamium, punt, put, put down, put on, put upon, quarter, radio bearing, range, rase, ratline down, raze, recline, reduce, reduce the temperature, refer, refrain, relieve, repose, reposit, rest, restrain, roll, roll flat, run, saddle with, salve, screw, seat, secular, secularist, secularistic, see, serena, serenade, serenata, serve, service, set, set down, settle, shave, slacken, slake, sleep with, slow down, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, smoothen, smother, sober, sober down, soften, solo, solo part, song, soothe, soprano part, spar down, spawn, sprawl, spread, stake, stand pat, station, steamroll, steamroller, steerage, steering, stick, stifle, strain, stream the log, stupe, subdue, subject to, submit, suppress, tame, task, tax, temper, temporal, tendency, tenor, theme song, tone down, torch song, track, train, tranquilize, traverse a yard, treble, trend, tune, tune down, turn, underplay, unlash, unsacred, unspell, wager, war song, warble, warp, way, weaken, wedding song, weight down with, yoke with

• layer, Appleton layer, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt, arrange in layers, belt, bookie, chemosphere, delaminate, desquamate, exfoliate, flake, ionosphere, isothermal region, laminate, lay down, lay up, lower atmosphere, outer atmosphere, photosphere, scale, stratify, stratosphere, stratum, substratosphere, tropopause, troposphere, upper atmosphere

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

• laying on of hands, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, benedicite, benediction, benison, blessing, celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation, high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, pax, processional, reciting the rosary, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary

• layoff, abeyance, break, caesura, cashiering, cease-fire, conge, cyclical unemployment, day off, deposal, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, drop, drumming out, firing, forced separation, furlough, furloughing, hesitation, holiday, inoccupation, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, lapse, letup, lull, normal unemployment, pause, pink slip, recess, remission, removal, respite, rest, retirement, seasonal unemployment, stand-down, stay, surplusing, suspension, technological unemployment, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, ticket, truce, unemployment, unemployment insurance, vacation, walking papers

• layout, Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, Platonic form, Platonic idea, aesthetic form, approach, archetype, arrangement, array, art form, attack, blueprint, blueprinting, build, calculation, cast, charting, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, conception, concord, configuration, conformation, contrivance, cut, deployment, design, device, disposal, disposition, dummy, enterprise, envisagement, fashion, figuration, figure, figuring, foresight, forethought, form, format, formation, frame, furniture, galley chase, game, genre, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmony, hot-metal typesetting, idea, imposition, impression, inner form, intention, justification, line of type, lineup, long-range plan, make, makeup, mapping, marshaling, master plan, matrix, method, methodology, modality, mode, model, mold, operations research, order, organization, pattern, peace, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plan, planning, planning function, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, proportion, prototype, quiet, quietude, quoin, rationalization, regularity, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, set, setting, setup, shape, significant form, slug, stamp, strategic plan, strategy, structure, style, symmetry, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, tranquillity, turn, type, typesetting, typesetting machine, uniformity, way, working plan

• laze, amble, bum, bum around, claudicate, crawl, creep, do nothing, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, go dead slow, go slow, goldbrick, goof off, hang around, hobble, idle, idleness, inch, inch along, indolence, jog-trot, laziness, lazy, lie around, limp, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, mosey, poke, poke along, saunter, shuffle along, sit around, slothfulness, slouch, slouch around, sluggishness, stagger along, stand around, stroll, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, waddle, walk, worm, worm along

• laziness, abandon, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, circumspection, creeping, cursoriness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, disregardfulness, do-nothingness, drawl, easiness, ergophobia, faineancy, faineantise, foot-dragging, forgetfulness, hastiness, heedlessness, hoboism, idleness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, inexertion, insouciance, lack of foresight, laggardness, languor, laze, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lotus-eating, oblivion, offhandedness, perfunctoriness, pokiness, recklessness, regardlessness, reluctance, remissness, shiftlessness, slackness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, sprezzatura, spring fever, tactlessness, tentativeness, thoughtlessness, unheedfulness, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unthinkingness, vagrancy

• lazy, Micawberish, airy, ambling, backward, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, careless, casual, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cursory, dallying, degage, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, dillydallying, disregardant, disregardful, do nothing, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, flippant, foot-dragging, forgetful, free and easy, gentle, goldbrick, good-for-nothing, goof off, gradual, halting, hang around, heedless, hobbled, hobbling, idle, inactive, inconsiderate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, lax, laze, leisurely, lethargic, lie around, limping, lingering, listless, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loitering, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, lumbering, moderate, mooch around, moon, moon around, neglectful, negligent, nonaggressive, oblivious, offhand, otiose, parasitic, passive, perfunctory, poking, poky, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, respectless, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, sit around, slack, slothful, slouch, slouch around, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, stand around, strolling, supine, tactless, tentative, thoughtless, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trifling, trudging, turtlelike, undiplomatic, unenterprising, unheedful, unheeding, unhurried, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, waddling, work-shy

• lea, campo, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, llano, mead, meadow, meadow land, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, prairie, range, savanna, steppe, steppeland, swale, vega, veld

• leach, abate, abrade, abstract, bate, bathe, bleed, bolt, brew, chemical solution, clarify, clear, colliquate, condense, curtail, cut, decoagulate, decoct, decoction, decrassify, decrease, deduct, deliquesce, depreciate, depurate, derogate, detract, diminish, discharge, disparage, dissolve, distill, douche, drain, drench, dribble, drip, dripple, drop, drouk, eat away, edulcorate, effuse, elute, emit, erode, essentialize, excrete, exfiltrate, extract, extravasate, exudate, exude, file away, filter, filtrate, fluidify, fluidize, flush, flux, fuse, give off, gurgle, hold in solution, imbrue, imbue, impair, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, infusion, inject, lave, leachate, lessen, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, lixivium, macerate, melt, melt down, mixture, ooze, percolate, permeate, purify, rectify, reduce, reek, refine, remove, retrench, rinse, rub away, run, saturate, screen, seep, seethe, separate, shorten, sieve, sift, soak, sodden, solubilize, solution, solve, sop, souse, spiritualize, spurtle, steep, strain, subduct, sublimate, sublime, subtract, sweat, take away, take from, thaw, thin, thin out, transpire, transude, trickle, try, unclot, wash, waterlog, wear away, weed, weep, winnow, withdraw

• leached, acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

• lead by the nose, affect, bend, bestride, bias, color, dictate, dispose, dominate, have subject, have the ascendancy, hypnotize, incline, induce, influence, lead, make putty of, master, mesmerize, move, persuade, play first fiddle, predispose, predominate, preponderate, prevail, prompt, rule the roost, soften up, sway, take the lead, tinge, tone, twist, wear down, wear the pants, weigh with, work

• lead item, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, commodity, drug, feature, item, leader, leading card, loss leader, main feature, product, seconds, special, standard article, staple, staple item, vendible, ware

• lead off, antecede, break ground, break the ice, come before, come first, commence, create, embark, enter, front, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, have priority, head, head the table, head up, inaugurate, initiate, invent, kick off, launch, lead, lead the way, open, originate, outrank, pioneer, precede, rank, rate, set to, stand first, start, take precedence, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, usher in

• lead on, act on, allure, approach, bait, bait the hook, be responsible for, bear upon, blandish, cajole, call the signals, captain, carry on, coax, command, conduct, control, coquet, dally, decoy, direct, draw, draw in, draw on, engineer, ensnare, entice, entrap, exert influence, flirt, flirt with, fool, get cozy with, give the come-on, govern, handle, head, head up, inveigle, lead, lobby, lobby through, lure, magnetize, make advances, make overtures, make the rules, make up to, manage, maneuver, manipulate, mastermind, offer bait to, officer, order, prescribe, pull strings, pull the strings, quarterback, regulate, rope in, run, seduce, skipper, string along, suck in, take command, take the lead, tempt, toll, toy, wanton, wire-pull, woo, work on

• lead the way, be the bellwether, beacon, break ground, break the ice, create, epitomize, exemplify, fit the pattern, get ahead of, get before, go before, guide, have the start, head, head the line, head up, initiate, invent, lap, lead, lead off, lead the dance, light the way, originate, outstrip, pace, pioneer, precede, set an example, set the pace, spearhead, stand first, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge

• lead to, advance, affect, assume, bring, call for, carry to, come to, comprise, conduce to, conduct to, contain, contribute to, decide, determine, direct to, entail, extend to, forward, get to, go to, implicate, imply, influence, involve, point out to, point the way, presume, presuppose, put right, reach to, redound to, require, run to, set right, set straight, show, show the way, steer, stretch away to, stretch to, subserve, subsume, take, take in, turn the scale

• lead, T square, accent, accent mark, accomplishment, actor, administer, administrate, advance, advantage, affect, aim, aluminum, americium, antagonist, antecede, antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, antetype, antihero, antitype, approach, archetype, arrow, ascendancy, attend, aureate, authority, ballast, bamboozle, bar, barium, be in front, be master, be responsible for, be the bellwether, be the front-runner, beacon, bear, begin, beguile, bell cow, bellwether, bend, bend to, beryllium, bias, bidet, biotype, bismuth, bit, bit part, blaze, blaze the trail, bob, brass, brassy, brazen, break ground, break the ice, break the trail, bring, bring about, bring on, bring up, broach, bronze, bronzy, cable, cadmium, calcium, call forth, call the signals, cancel, captain, carriage horse, carry, carry on, cart horse, cast, catchword, cause, cavalry horse, cerium, cesium, chain, chair, chaperon, character, chief, chrome, chromium, classic example, clue, cobalt, color, come before, come first, command, commence, compass needle, conduce, conduct, contribute, contribute to, contrive, control, convince, convoy, copper, coppery, cord, create, criterion, cue, cue word, cupreous, cuprous, custos, danseur noble, dean, deanship, deceive, decide, decoy, descend, determine, direct, direction, direction post, discipline, dispose, distance, diva, dominion, dot, doyen, draft horse, draw down, draw on, dray horse, driving horse, drop, dysprosium, edge, effect, electronics king, elicit, engage, engender, engineer, enlist, entice, epitome, erbium, escort, esquire, europium, evidence, evoke, example, exceed, excel, excellence, exemplar, experience, expression mark, fat part, favor, feature attraction, feeder, fermata, ferrous, ferruginous, fill horse, filler, finger post, first, first tragedian, fist, flex, fool, foregoing, foremost, forerun, forge ahead, front, front position, fugleman, fugler, gadolinium, gallium, genotype, germanium, get, get ahead of, get before, get going, get moving, get to do, get under way, gigster, gilt, go, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, govern, governance, government, gravitate, greatness, guard, guidance, guide, guideboard, guidepost, hack, hackney, hand, handle, handling, have a tendency, have priority, have the start, head, head the line, head the table, head up, heading, headliner, heavy, heavy lead, herald, hero, heroine, hint, hold, hold a heading, holmium, honcho, hoodwink, hot lead, hour hand, hunter, husbandry, imitatee, inaugurate, incline, incomparability, index, index finger, indium, induce, influence, ingenue, inimitability, initiate, inspire, instigate, interest in, intimation, introduce, inveigle, invent, iridium, iron, ironlike, jeune premier, jument, key, key signature, key word, kick off, king, lanthanum, lap, le pas, lead astray, lead off, lead on, lead role, lead the dance, lead the way, leaden, leader, leadership, leading, leading lady, leading light, leading man, leading woman, lean, leash, ligature, light the way, lines, lithium, live, look to, lubber line, luminary, lure, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, main, majority, make the rules, manage, management, managery, managing, maneuver, manganese, manipulate, manipulation, margin, mark, marshal, master spirit, mastermind, measure, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, metronomic mark, milepost, minute hand, mirror, misdirect, misguide, mislead, model, molybdenum, motivate, mount, move, needle, neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, notation, obtain, officer, one-upmanship, order, ordering, original, originate, osmium, outdo, outrank, outrun, outstrip, pace, pack horse, palfrey, palladium, paradigm, paramount, part, pass, pattern, pause, person, personage, persuade, pewter, pewtery, phosphorus, piece, pilot, pilotage, pioneer, platinum, play first fiddle, plow horse, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line, plumb rule, plummet, plunge, point, point to, pointer, pole horse, polo pony, polonium, possibility, post-horse, potassium, potential, praseodymium, precede, precedence, precedency, precedent, preceding, precession, precipitate, precursor, predispose, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preface, preference, prefixation, prelude, premier, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, presa, prescribe, present, preside over, prestige, prevail, prima ballerina, prima donna, primacy, principal, priority, privilege, procure, produce, promethium, prompt, prospect, protactinium, protagonist, prothesis, prototype, provoke, pull the strings, quarterback, quicksilver, radium, rank, rank first, rank out, rate, recedence, redound to, regulate, regulation, remount, representative, restraint, rhenium, rider, riding horse, right-of-way, road horse, roadster, role, rouncy, route, rubidium, rule, run, running, ruthenium, saddle horse, saddler, samarium, sandbag, scandium, scent, seduce, see, segno, seniority, serve, set, set square, set the pace, set toward, settle, shaft horse, shepherd, show, show a tendency, show the way, side, sign, signature, signboard, signpost, silver, silver-plated, silvery, singer, sink, sinker, skill, skipper, slur, sodium, soften up, soubrette, spearhead, spend, spoor, square, squire, stalking-horse, stand first, stand in front, stand over, standard, star, steel, steely, steer, steerage, steering, straight part, strontium, subside, success, suggestion, sumpter, sumpter horse, superinduce, superintend, superiority, superstar, supervise, supporting character, supporting role, supremacy, surpass, sway, swell, symbol, take command, take out, take precedence, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, tantalum, technetium, telltale, tempo mark, tempt, tend, tend to go, terbium, tether, thallium, the conn, the helm, the lead, the wheel, thill horse, thiller, thulium, tie, time signature, tin, tinge, tinny, tip, tip-off, titanium, title role, tone, top dog, top priority, trace, transcendence, transcendency, trend, try square, tungsten, turn, type, type species, type specimen, uranium, urgency, urtext, usher, usher in, van, vanadium, vanguard, verge, vestige, villain, vinculum, virtuosity, wait on, walk-on, walking part, warp, wear down, weigh down, weigh with, weight, weight down, wheeler, wheelhorse, whiff, while away, wield authority, wield the baton, wire, wolfram, work, work toward, workhorse, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

• leaden, Latinate, Quaker-colored, abeyant, achromatic, achromic, acier, anemic, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, aureate, awkward, barren, benumbed, blah, bled white, bloodless, bombastic, bored, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, burdensome, cadaverous, canescent, cataleptic, catatonic, characterless, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, copper, coppery, cramped, cumbrous, cupreous, cuprous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, dense, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, dopey, dormant, dove-colored, dove-gray, draggy, drearisome, dreary, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, fat, ferrous, ferruginous, flat, forced, formal, foul, ghastly, gilt, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, glowering, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, guinde, haggard, halting, heavy, heavyweight, hebetudinous, hefty, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hypochromic, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inanimate, inert, inexcitable, inkhorn, insipid, iron, iron-gray, ironlike, jaded, jejune, labored, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lead, lead-gray, lethargic, lifeless, listless, livid, logy, low-spirited, lowering, lumbering, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, massive, massy, mat, mealy, mercurial, mercurous, moribund, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, neutral, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, numb, numbing, onerous, oppressive, overweight, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, passive, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pewter, pewtery, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous, pooped, quicksilver, sad, sallow, sated, sedentary, sesquipedalian, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silver-plated, silvered, silvery, slack, slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering, sober, solemn, somber, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, steel, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, stultified, sullen, superficial, supine, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tasteless, taupe, tedious, tin, tinny, toneless, torpid, turgid, unaroused, uncolored, unlively, unwieldy, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, weary, weighty, whey-faced, white, wooden, world-weary

• leader, A per se, AG, DA, KC, Kapellmeister, Mahdi, QC, SSC, US attorney, ace, analysis, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, attorney general, avant-garde, band leader, band major, bandmaster, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, bidet, big cheese, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, bone of contention, born leader, boss, buccinator, bushwhacker, captain, carriage horse, cart horse, catechism, cavalry horse, chairman, champion, charismatic leader, chief, chieftain, choirmaster, choragus, civilian, cock, commandant, commander, comment, commentary, commentation, commodity, conductor, corporation lawyer, coryphaeus, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, critical review, criticism, critique, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, dean, debating point, defense counsel, demand, dignitary, director, district attorney, doyen, doyenne, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, drug, drum major, duce, editorial, eminence, explorer, feature, feeler, file leader, fill horse, filler, forebear, foregoer, foreman, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, gaffer, general, genius, gigster, gloss, groundbreaker, guide, hack, hackney, harbinger, head, headman, herald, hierarch, high priest, higher-up, honcho, hunter, important person, innovator, inquiry, inspired leader, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, issue, item, jument, junior counsel, kingfish, kingpin, laureate, law agent, lead, lead item, lead runner, leader of men, leading article, leading card, leading question, lion, loss leader, luminary, main feature, manager, master, messenger, messiah, moot point, mount, mouthpiece, nonpareil, notability, notice, number one, orchestra leader, pacemaker, pacesetter, pack horse, palfrey, paragon, pathfinder, personage, pilot, pioneer, plow horse, point, point at issue, point in question, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, precedent, precentor, precursor, predecessor, principal, private attorney, problem, prodigy, product, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, public prosecutor, publicist, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, rector, remark, remount, report, review, rider, riding horse, ringleader, road horse, roadster, rouncy, ruler, running commentary, saddle horse, saddler, scout, seconds, senior, shaft horse, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special, special pleader, stalking-horse, standard article, standard-bearer, staple, staple item, star, stormy petrel, straw boss, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, sumpter, sumpter horse, superintendent, superior, superman, superstar, symphonic conductor, the greatest, the most, thill horse, thiller, top dog, topic, torchbearer, trailblazer, trailbreaker, trial balloon, vanguard, vaunt-courier, vendible, vexed question, virtuoso, voortrekker, ware, wheeler, wheelhorse, workhorse, write-up

• leadership, acme, administration, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, ascendancy, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, bishopric, blue ribbon, captainship, chairmanship, championship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, charisma, charm, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, clout, command, consequence, consulate, consulship, control, convenership, credit, custody, deanery, dictatorship, dictature, direction, directorate, directorship, dominance, domination, dominion, effect, effectiveness, eminence, emirate, enchantment, episcopacy, esteem, favor, first place, first prize, force, foremanship, generalship, good feeling, governorship, guardianship, guidance, headship, hegemony, height, hierarchy, highest, hold, imperium, importance, incidental power, influence, influentiality, initiative, insinuation, intendancy, jurisdiction, kingship, leverage, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, magnetism, management, managership, masterdom, mastership, mastery, maximum, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, moment, most, ne plus ultra, new high, nobility, operation, overseership, palms, papacy, paramountcy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, personality, persuasion, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, potency, power, predominance, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, preponderance, presidency, presidentship, pressure, prestige, primacy, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, purchase, record, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, regulation, reign, repute, rule, ruling class, running, say, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, sovereignty, stewardship, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, supervisorship, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, top spot, tribunate, upper hand, vizierate, viziership, weight, whip hand, zenith

• leading lady, actor, antagonist, antihero, bit, bit part, cast, character, cue, danseur noble, diva, fat part, feature attraction, feeder, first tragedian, headliner, heavy, heavy lead, hero, heroine, ingenue, jeune premier, lead, lead role, leading man, leading woman, lines, part, person, personage, piece, prima ballerina, prima donna, principal, protagonist, role, side, singer, soubrette, star, straight part, superstar, supporting character, supporting role, title role, villain, walk-on, walking part

• leading light, chief, electronics king, first-rater, genius, honcho, king, lead, luminary, master spirit, paramount, prima donna, principal, prodigy, star, superstar, top dog, topnotcher, virtuoso, wonder

• leading, absolute, all-absorbing, antecedent, anterior, arch, ascendant, at the head, authoritarian, authoritative, authority, authorized, autocratic, banner, best, boss, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, clothed with authority, command, commanding, competent, conduct, consequential, considerable, control, controlling, crowning, directing, direction, directive, directorial, directory, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, ex officio, exordial, first, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, forward, front, frontal, general, governance, governing, government, great, greatest, guidance, guiding, handling, head, heading, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, husbandry, imperative, important, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, inaugural, influential, initial, initiatory, lead, magisterial, maiden, main, management, managerial, managery, managing, manipulation, master, matchless, mighty, momentous, monocratic, noted, notorious, official, ordering, outstanding, overriding, overruling, paramount, peerless, pilotage, popular, potent, powerful, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, predominant, predominate, preeminent, prefatory, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, premier, preparatory, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prestigious, prevailing, prevalent, prevenient, primal, primary, prime, principal, prior, proemial, prominent, propaedeutic, puissant, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulation, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ruling, running, senior, sovereign, star, steerage, steering, stellar, substantial, supereminent, superior, supreme, the conn, the helm, the wheel, topflight, topmost, totalitarian, unsurpassed, uppermost, weighty

• leaf, Burley, Cuban, Havana, Havana seed, Latakia, Maryland, Russian, Turkish, Virginia, acknowledgments, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, blade, bract, bracteole, bractlet, bright, bud, burgeon, burst forth, canaster, cardboard, catch line, catchword, coat, coating, collop, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, cotyledon, covering, cut, deal, dedication, disk, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, feuille, film, flag, flap, floral leaf, flourish, flue-cured, flyleaf, foil, fold, folio, foliole, fore edge, foreword, frond, front matter, gemmate, germinate, glume, grow, grow rank, half-title page, head, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, involucre, involucrum, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf out, leaflet, leave, lemma, ligule, lugs, luxuriate, makeup, membrane, needle, overgrow, overrun, page, pane, panel, paper, patina, peel, pellicle, petal, pile, pine needle, plait, plank, plate, plating, plug tobacco, ply, plywood, preface, preliminaries, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, quire, rasher, ream, recto, reverso, riot, root, running title, safety glass, scum, seconds, seed leaf, sepal, shag, sheet, shoot, shoot up, signature, skin, slab, slat, slice, spathe, spear, spire, sprout, sprout up, stationery, stipula, stipule, strike root, subtitle, table, table of contents, tablet, tail, take root, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, upspear, upsprout, vegetate, veneer, verso, wafer

• leaflet, advert, advertisement, bill, blade, booklet, bract, bracteole, bractlet, brochure, chapbook, circular, comic book, cotyledon, flag, flier, floral leaf, flyer, folder, foliole, frond, glume, handbill, involucre, involucrum, lamina, leaf, lemma, ligule, needle, pamphlet, petal, pile, pine needle, seed leaf, sepal, spathe, spear, spire, stipula, stipule, tract

• leafy, aestival, arborescent, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, bosky, bowery, branched, branching, branchy, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, filmy, foliaceous, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, in layers, ivy, ivy-green, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leaved, leavy, membranous, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, ramate, ramified, ramose, ramous, scummy, shaded, shady, smaragdine, spathic, spathose, springlike, stratified, stratiform, summerlike, summery, three-ply, twiggy, two-ply, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, woody, yellowish-green

• league, Anschluss, Bund, NATO, Rochdale cooperative, SEATO, accouple, accumulate, act in concert, act together, addition, affiliate, affiliate with, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutinate, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, ally, amalgamate, amalgamation, amass, anschluss, articulate, assemblage, assemble, assimilation, associate, association, axis, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, blend, blending, bloc, body, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, brotherhood, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cahoots, capitulation, cartel, category, cement, cement a union, centralization, centralize, chain, circuit, clap together, clot, club, club together, cluster, coact, coadunation, coalesce, coalescence, coalition, collaborate, colleagueship, collect, college, collegialism, collegiality, collude, combination, combine, combo, come into, come together, common market, composition, comprise, comradeship, concatenate, concert, concord, concordat, concur, confederacy, confederate, confederation, conference, confraternity, congeries, conglobulate, conglomeration, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, conjugation, conjunction, connect, consociate, consolidate, consolidation, conspiracy, conspire, consumer cooperative, convention, converge, cooperate, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, copulate, corps, council, couple, cover, credit union, creep in, crowd, customs union, date, division, do business with, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, embrace, encompass, encompassment, enlist, enosis, enroll, entente, entente cordiale, enter, federalization, federalize, federate, federation, fellowship, flock together, flow together, forgather, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fuse, fusion, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, get heads together, get into, get together, glue, go in partners, go in partnership, go into, go partners, grade, group, grouping, guild, hang together, harmonize, herd together, hive, hold together, hook up, hook up with, hookup, horde, huddle, include, inclusion, incorporation, integration, international agreement, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up, join up with, join with, junction, junta, keep together, knot, lay together, league together, league with, link, loop, lump together, machine, make common cause, marriage, marry, marshal, mass, meet, meld, melding, merge, merger, mill, mob, mobilize, muster, mutual-defense treaty, nonaggression pact, order, organize, package, package deal, paction, pair, pair off, partner, partnership, piece together, pigeonhole, play ball, political machine, pull together, put heads together, put together, rally, rally around, reciprocate, rendezvous, ring, seethe, sign on, sign up, sneak in, society, sodality, solder, solidification, sorority, span, splice, stand together, stand up with, stick together, stream, surge, swarm, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, take in, take out membership, take up membership, tape, team up, team up with, team with, throng, throw in together, throw in with, tie, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, tie-in, tie-up, tier, treaty, unification, unify, union, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wed, wedding, weld, wheel, work together, yoke

• leagued, accumulated, affiliate, affiliated, agglomerate, aggregate, allied, amassed, assembled, associate, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, bunched, bundled, cabalistic, clumped, clustered, collected, combined, confederate, confederated, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, connected, conspiratorial, copulate, corporate, coupled, cumulate, enleagued, fascicled, fasciculated, federate, federated, gathered, glomerate, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, heaped, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in session, in with, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined, joint, knotted, linked, lumped, married, massed, matched, mated, meeting, merged, packaged, paired, partners with, piled, spliced, stacked, teamed, tied, undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wedded, wrapped up, yoked

• leak out, appear, be revealed, become known, break forth, break out, break through, come forth, come out, come to light, debouch, distill, dribble, drip, drop, emerge, erupt, exit, find vent, get out, issue, issue forth, leak, manifest itself, ooze out, out, run out, show its colors, show its face, stand revealed, transpire, trickle, trill, weep

• leak, abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, babble, babbling, be indiscreet, be revealed, be unguarded, become known, betray, betray a confidence, betrayal, blab, blabber, blabbering, blabbing, blurt, blurt out, box canyon, breach, break, breakout, broaching, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come out, come to naught, come to nothing, communication leak, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dead giveaway, defile, deliverance, delivery, dell, dike, discharge, disclose, disclosure, dissipate, distill, distillation, ditch, divulgation, divulge, divulgement, divulgence, divulging, donga, draw, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, drop, emergence, escape, escapism, evasion, evulgation, excavation, extravasate, extrication, exudation, exude, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flight, flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, freeing, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, getaway, give away, giveaway, go to pot, go to seed, go to waste, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, indiscretion, inform, inform on, inlet, interval, issuance, issue, jailbreak, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak away, leak out, leakage, leaking, let drop, let fall, let slip, letting out, liberation, make known, make public, moat, notch, nullah, obvious clue, ooze, oozing, opening, opening up, orifice, out, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, peach, pore, prisonbreak, puncture, rat, ravine, release, rent, rescue, reveal a secret, revelation, riddance, rift, rime, run to seed, run to waste, rupture, scissure, seam, seep, seepage, seeping, setting-free, sing, slit, slot, space, spill, spill the beans, split, squeal, stoma, stool, talk, tattle, tattle on, tear, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, telltale, telltale sign, throwing open, transpire, trench, trickle, trill, uncorking, unstopping, unwitting disclosure, valley, vent, void, wadi, weep, yawn

• leakage, ablation, access, admission, break, breakout, consumption, decrease, decrement, deliverance, delivery, depletion, depreciation, dissipation, distillation, drain, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, drop, emergence, entrance, entree, entry, erosion, escape, escapism, evaporation, evasion, exhaustion, expenditure, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, import, importation, importing, impoverishment, income, incoming, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leaking, liberation, outlet, penetration, percolation, prisonbreak, reception, release, rescue, riddance, seepage, setting-free, shrinkage, trickle, using, using up, vent, wastage, waste, wearing, wearing away

• leakproof, airtight, ballproof, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, corrosionproof, dampproof, dripproof, fire-resisting, fireproof, flameproof, floodproof, foolproof, hermetic, holeproof, impervious to, moistureproof, noiseproof, proof, proof against, punctureproof, rainproof, raintight, resistant, rustproof, seepproof, shatterproof, shellproof, soundproof, stormproof, stormtight, tight, waterproof, watertight, weatherproof

• lean on, abut on, bank on, be based on, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear on, bestraddle, bestride, bet on, calculate on, count on, depend on, gamble on, high-pressure, lie on, perch, place reliance on, press, pressure, put pressure on, reckon on, rely on, rely upon, repose on, rest on, ride, sit on, squeeze, stand on, straddle, stride, swear by, trust to

• lean to, Nissen hut, Quonset hut, booth, crib, gatehouse, hut, hutch, kiosk, outbuilding, outhouse, pavilion, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, stall, tollbooth, tollhouse

• lean toward, be disposed to, choose rather, favor, feel about it, have a bias, have preference, have rather, honor before, incline toward, lean towards, like better, look at it, please, prefer, prefer to, rather, see fit, set before, tend toward, think best, think fit, think proper, view

• lean, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, acquiesce, agree, angular, angularity, arid, ascend, ascetic, austere, bad, bald, bank, bare, barren, be agreeable to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to, be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, believe in, bend, bend to, bias, bony, candid, cant, careen, climb, collaborate, common, commonplace, conduce, consent, contribute, cooperate, count on, cow, curve, decline, deflect, depend on, descend, destitute, difficult, dip, direct, dispose, divert, drop, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated, endanger, exiguous, fall, fall away, fall off, favor, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frank, frighten, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, go, go along with, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, haggard, hard, have a tendency, head, heel, homely, homespun, imperil, impoverished, inclination, incline, indigent, infertile, intimidate, jejune, keel, lank, lanky, lead, lean on, lean towards, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, leaning, leaning tower, limited, list, look, look kindly upon, look to, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, menace, miserly, narrow, natural, neat, necessitous, needy, niggardly, not hesitate to, open, paltry, parsimonious, penurious, pinched, pitch, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plunge, plunge into, point, point to, poor, poverty-stricken, precipitate, prefer, pressure, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puny, pure, rake, rangy, rawboned, recline, redound to, rely on, retreat, rightful, rise, rustic, scant, scanty, scare, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, serve, set, set toward, settle, severe, sheer, shelve, show a tendency, shrunken, sidle, simple, simple-speaking, sink, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slant, slender, slight, slim, slope, small, sober, spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, starvation, stingy, stinted, straightforward, straitened, stunted, subside, subsistence, swag, sway, tend, tend to go, terrify, terrorize, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, threaten, tilt, tip, tower of Pisa, trend, trust in, turn, twiggy, unadorned, unaffected, undersized, underweight, unfruitful, unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpoetical, unproductive, unvarnished, uprise, verge, warn, warp, wasted, watered, watery, wiry, work toward, would as leave, would as lief

• leaning, a thing for, affinity, an ear for, an eye for, angularity, animus, aptitude, aptness, aslant, aslope, atilt, bag, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, cant, canted, canting, capacity for, careening, cast, character, chosen kind, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, cup of tea, delight, diathesis, discrimination, disposition, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, felicity, flair, forejudgment, genius for, gift for, grain, heeling, idiosyncrasy, ill-balanced, inclination, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, individualism, inequality, innate aptitude, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, lean, leaning tower, liability, liking, list, listing, lopsided, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, nepotism, off-balance, one-sidedness, out of plumb, out of square, overbalanced, parti pris, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanism, partisanship, penchant, personal choice, pitch, pitched, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, rake, raking, readiness, recumbent, sensitivity to, set, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slope, sloped, sloping, soft spot, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, swag, sway, sympathy, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, tendent, tendential, tendentious, tending, thing, tilt, tilted, tilting, tip, tipped, tipping, tipsy, top-heavy, tower of Pisa, tropism, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, type, unbalanced, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, unstable, unsteady, warp, weakness, willingness

• leap year, abundant year, academic year, anniversary, annual holiday, annum, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, birthday, bissextile day, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, centenary, centennial, century, commemoration, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennial, decennium, defective year, diamond jubilee, fiscal year, fortnight, golden wedding anniversary, holy days, hour, immovable feast, jubilee, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, name day, natal day, octennial, quadrennial, quarter, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, septennial, sesquicentennial, session, sextennial, sidereal year, silver wedding anniversary, solar year, sun, tercentenary, tercentennial, term, tricennial, triennial, trimester, twelvemonth, wedding anniversary, week, weekday, year

• leap, accept, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amount, amplification, anabasis, appreciation, ascension, ascent, augmentation, avant-propos, ballooning, bloating, boom, boost, bounce, bound, breakthrough, broadening, buck, buckjump, buildup, bundle, bustle, caesura, caliber, canter, caper, capriole, cavort, chase, clamber, clear, clearance, climb, climbing, coinage, compass, crescendo, crowd, curvet, cut, dance, dash, dash off, dash on, degree, development, discontinuity, discovery, distance between, double space, double-time, edema, elevation, em space, en space, enlargement, escalade, escalation, exordium, expansion, extension, extent, festinate, flood, foreword, fountain, fox-trot, freeboard, frisk, frolic, front matter, frontispiece, gain, gallop, gambol, get, get going, get moving, git, grade, greatening, growth, gush, gyring up, hair space, half space, hasten, height, hiatus, hightail, hike, hippety-hop, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hurdle, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, increase, increment, inflation, innovation, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, introduction, invention, jet, jump, jump at, jump over, lacuna, leap over, leapfrog, leeway, level, levitation, lope, lose no time, make haste, make tracks, margin, mark, measure, mount, mounting, move quickly, multiplication, negotiate, neologism, new phase, notch, novelty, nuance, overjump, overleap, overskip, overture, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, plunge, point, post, postulate, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prance, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, press on, presupposition, productiveness, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, proliferation, prologue, proportion, protasis, push on, quickly, race, raise, range, rapidly, ratio, reach, remove, rise, rising, rocketing up, romp, room, round, run, rung, rush, rush through, saltation, scale, scamper, scope, scramble, scurry, scuttle, shade, shadow, shooting up, single space, ski jump, skip, skip over, snowballing, soaring, space, space between, speedily, spout, spread, spring, sprint, spurt, stair, standard, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, step, step along, step lively, stint, surge, swelling, swiftly, take, takeoff, taking off, tear, time interval, tread, trip, trot, tumescence, up, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspring, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vault, verse, voluntary, waxing, widening, zooming

• leapfrog, bounce, bound, buck, buckjump, capriole, clear, curvet, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, jump, jump over, leap, leap over, negotiate, overjump, overleap, overskip, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, ski jump, skip, spring, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, updive, upleap, upspring, vault

• leaping, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, bouncing, bounding, capering, cheerful, chirping, climbing, dancing, flushed with joy, gay, glad, glowing, happy, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, in the ascendant, joyful, joyous, jumping, laughing, mounting, pole vaulting, prancing, purring, radiant, rampant, rearing, rising, saltant, saltation, saltatorial, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, singing, skipping, skyrocketing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, spiraling, springing, starry-eyed, steeplechase, the hurdles, thrice happy, timber topping, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward, uprising, upsloping, upward, upwith, vaulting

• learn, absorb, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, assimilate, attend classes, attend school, awaken to, be informed, be with one, become acquainted with, become alive to, become aware of, become conscious of, broaden the mind, catch, catch on, chance upon, come to know, commit to memory, comprehend, conceive, cram the mind, determine, dig, digest, discover, fathom, find, find out, find out about, follow, gain knowledge, gather, get, get hep to, get hold of, get it, get next to, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, get wise to, go into training, go to school, grasp, have, have it reported, have it taped, hear of, hit upon, ken, know, learn about, learn by heart, load the mind, master, memorize, pick up information, read, read with, realize, receive instruction, savvy, see the light, seize, seize the meaning, sense, serve an apprenticeship, take, take in, take lessons, train, twig, uncover, undergo schooling, understand

• learned man, academician, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, genius, giant of learning, humanist, learned clerk, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia

• learned, abstruse, academic, accomplished, au fait, autodidactic, bookish, broad-minded, civilized, college-bred, collegiate, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, erudite, experienced, expert, graduate, highbrow, intellectual, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, postgraduate, profound, sage, sapient, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, self-instructed, skilled, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise, wise as Solomon

• learner, abecedarian, apprentice, auditor, autodidact, baby, beginner, catechumen, deb, debutant, educatee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, infant, initiate, inquirer, monitor, neophyte, nestling, newcomer, novice, novitiate, praepostor, prefect, probationer, pupil, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, scholar, self-taught person, student, studier, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro

• learning, accomplishments, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, attainments, culture, edification, education, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, information, instruction, knowledge, liberal education, lore, scholarship, sophistication, store of knowledge, wisdom

• lease lend, accommodate with, advance, charter, farm, farm out, float a loan, hire, hire out, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, loan, loan-shark, negotiate a loan, rent, rent out, sublease, sublet, underlet

• lease, adverse possession, alodium, bareboat charter, burgage, charter, claim, colony, copyhold, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, farm, farm out, fee, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, hire, hire out, hiring, hold, holding, job, knight service, lay fee, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, leasehold, legal claim, legal estate, legal possession, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, paramount estate, particular estate, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, remainder, rent, rent out, rental, reversion, seisin, socage, squatting, sublease, sublet, subrent, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, underlet, undertenancy, usucapion, vested estate, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage

• leasehold, adverse possession, alodial, alodium, burgage, claim, colony, copyhold, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, fee, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, hold, holding, knight service, lay fee, lease, legal claim, legal estate, legal possession, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, paramount estate, particular estate, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, remainder, reversion, seisin, socage, squatting, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vested estate, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage

• leaseholder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent, lessee, lodger, occupant, occupier, paying guest, renter, resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, underlessee

• leash, Oregon boat, anchor, band, bandage, belt, bend, bilbo, bind, bind up, bond, bonds, brace, bridle, bundle, camisole, chain, chains, cinch, clover, collar, cuffs, deuce-ace, do up, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, gag, gird, girdle, girt, girth, gyve, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuff, handcuffs, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hopple, hopples, irons, lace, lash, leading strings, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, peg down, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, put in irons, reins, restrain, restraint, restraints, rope, secure, set of three, shackle, shamrock, splice, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, strap, swaddle, swathe, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, tether, three, threesome, tie, tie down, tie up, tierce, trammel, trammels, trefoil, trey, triad, trialogue, triangle, tricorn, trident, triennium, trihedron, trilogy, trimester, trine, trinity, trinomial, trio, triphthong, triple crown, triple threat, triplet, triplopy, tripod, triptych, trireme, triseme, triskelion, trisul, triumvirate, triunity, trivet, troika, truss, wire, wrap, wrap up, yoke

• least, at a disadvantage, at the nadir, below, below the mark, few, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, in the gutter, inglorious, innocuous, least of all, less, littlest, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, mean, minim, minimum, minority, minority group, modest, plain, poor, short of, shortest, simple, slightest, small, smallest, teachable, the few, the minority, under, under par, undistinguished, unimportant, unpretentious, we happy few

• leather, Leatherette, Leatheroid, Morocco, buff, cartilage, chamois, coat, cordovan, cuticle, dermis, dress down, fell, flax, fleece, flesh, fur, furring, give a dressing-down, gristle, hide, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, kid, larrup, lather, leather paper, leathern, leathery, lick, mocha, outer layer, outer skin, paddle, patent leather, pelt, peltry, rawhide, rind, sheath, sheepskin, skin, skins, suede, tan, tegument, trim, vair, wallop, welt, whale

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

• leathery, buff, cartilaginous, chewy, cohesive, coriaceous, durable, fibrous, gristly, hard, hardy, lasting, leather, leatherlike, leathern, resistant, ropy, sinewy, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, tenacious, tough, tough as leather, untiring, vigorous, viscid, wiry

• leave alone, be conservative, butt out, do nothing, give carte blanche, give full power, hold aloof, keep hands off, leave, leave be, let alone, let be, not butt in, not get involved, not interfere, not make waves, not meddle, not tamper, open the floodgates, oppose change, permit all, remove all restrictions, stand aloof, stand pat, stand still

• leave behind, abandon, back out, beg off, bereave, catch up with, come up to, come up with, cry off, depart from, discard, distance, drop out, evacuate, forsake, gain on, gain upon, get ahead of, go back on, hold the field, jettison, jilt, lap, leave, leave flat, leave over, leave standing, maroon, orphan, outdistance, outpace, outrun, outsail, outstrip, overhaul, overpass, overtake, pass, pull out, quit, quit cold, renege, say goodbye to, shoot ahead of, stand down, steal a march, surpass, take leave of, throw over, vacate, widow, withdraw

• leave no stone unturned, carry through, clear the decks, comb, consider every angle, exhaust every move, follow out, follow through, follow up, forearm, go all lengths, go all out, go for broke, go the limit, guard against, hedge, leave nothing undone, leave out nothing, look all over, look everywhere, make every effort, make sure, make sure against, not relax, not rest, overlook no possibility, overlook nothing, play safe, prepare for, provide a hedge, provide against, provide for, rake, ransack, reef down, rifle, rummage, scour, search high heaven, see it through, see out, shake, shake down, shorten sail, spare no effort, spare no pains, take measures, take precautions, take steps, toss, turn inside out, turn upside down

• leave of absence, AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, cut, day off, default, departure, disappearance, escape, excused absence, fleeing, furlough, holiday, hooky, leave, leaving, liberty, nonappearance, nonattendance, paid holiday, paid vacation, running away, sabbatical, sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, shore leave, sick leave, time off, truancy, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation, weekend

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

• leave out, ban, bar, bar out, blockade, count out, cut off, debar, embargo, exclude, freeze out, ignore, keep out, lock out, omit, ostracize, pass over, preclude, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, send to Coventry, shut out, taboo

• leave well enough alone, abstain, abstain from, avoid, be blind to, be caught out, be conservative, be content, be inattentive, be pleased, be reconciled to, be unwary, blink at, butt out, connive at, disregard, do nothing, do without, eschew, fight shy of, forbear, forgo, give no heed, give place to, hear nothing, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, ignore, keep aloof, keep away from, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep remote from, leave, leave alone, leave be, let alone, let be, let go by, let pass, make light of, make way for, miss, never touch, not attend, not butt in, not get involved, not heed, not interfere, not listen, not make waves, not meddle, not meddle with, not notice, not tamper, not touch, oppose change, overlook, pass by, pass over, pass up, pay no attention, pay no mind, refrain, refrain from, rest easy, rest satisfied, see nothing, settle for, shun, slight, spare, stand aloof, stand aloof from, stand pat, stand still, stay detached from, steer clear of, think little of, turn away from, wink at, withhold

• leave word, acquaint, advertise, advertise of, advise, apprise, brief, bring word, broadcast, communicate, convey, disclose, disseminate, enlighten, familiarize, get across, get over, give, give notice, give the facts, give word, hand on, impart, inform, instruct, let know, make known, mention to, notify, pass, pass along, pass on, render, report, send, send word, serve notice, share, share with, signal, speak, tell, transfer, transmit, verse

• leave, AWOL, French leave, Godspeed, OK, abandon, abdicate, abrupt, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, abstain from, accord, add a codicil, adieu, admission, admit, alienate, allow, allowance, aloha, assign, authorization, back out, bar, be getting along, be gone, be off, be pensioned, be superannuated, beat it, beg off, bequeath, bereave, bud, burgeon, burst forth, buzz off, cast off, cast out, cease, cede, charter, check out, come away, commit, conge, consent, consign, count out, cry off, cut, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, day off, decamp, default, delete, demise, demit, depart, depart from, departure, desert, desist, deviate from, devise, disappear, disappearance, disarticulate, discard, disconnect, discontinue, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dispensation, dispense, disregard, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, doch-an-dorrach, drop out, eject, eliminate, entail, entrust, escape, estrange, evacuate, except, exclude, excused absence, execute a will, exit, expel, farewell, fleeing, flit, flourish, fly, forbear, forget, forsake, freedom, furlough, gang along, gemmate, germinate, get along, get away, get off, get on, get under way, give, give leave, give over, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, give up, go, go along, go away, go back on, go off, go on, goldbrick, good-bye, goof off, grant, grow, grow rank, hand down, hand on, holiday, hooky, ignore, isolate, jettison, jilt, jump, leaf, leaf out, leave behind, leave flat, leave loose ends, leave of absence, leave off, leave out, leave over, leave undone, leave-taking, leaving, let, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, liberty, license, lose, luxuriate, make, make a bequest, make a will, make an exit, make possible, malinger, march off, maroon, mislay, miss, mosey, move away, move off, move out, neglect, nonappearance, nonattendance, okay, omit, orphan, overgrow, overrun, paid holiday, paid vacation, part, parting, parting words, pass on, pass over, pass up, patent, pension off, permission, permission to enter, permit, pretermit, procrastinate, pull away, pull back, pull out, pull up stakes, pullulate, push off, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, quit, quit cold, recess, refrain from, reject, release, relinquish, render, renege, renounce, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, retreat, riot, root, run, run off, running away, sabbatical, sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, sanction, sashay, sashay off, say goodbye to, say the word, scram, segregate, send-off, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, set off, shirk, shoot, shoot up, shore leave, shove off, shut off, sick leave, skedaddle, skip, slack, special permission, split, sprout, sprout up, stagger along, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, stand down, step aside, stirrup cup, stop, strike root, subtract, superannuate, take flight, take leave of, take off, take root, take wing, throw off, throw out, throw over, ticket, ticket of admission, time off, toddle along, transfer, transmit, trifle, truancy, truantism, uncouple, unexcused absence, unyoke, up and go, up-anchor, upspear, upsprout, vacate, vacation, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory, valedictory address, vamoose, vegetate, viaticum, vouchsafe, vouchsafement, waiver, weekend, widow, will, will and bequeath, will to, wing it, withdraw, withdraw from, yield

• leaved, aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, bowery, branched, branching, branchy, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leavy, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, ramate, ramified, ramose, ramous, smaragdine, springlike, summerlike, summery, twiggy, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green

• leaven, abate, adjust to, agent, alter, alterant, alterative, alterer, assuage, bespread, besprinkle, box in, breathe, brew, catalyst, catalytic agent, circumscribe, color, condition, crawl with, creep with, decoct, diffuse, diminish, dredge, dye, entincture, extend throughout, ferment, fermentation, fill, flavor, hedge, hedge about, honeycomb, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, innovationist, innovator, instill, introducer, leave no void, leavening, limit, mitigate, moderate, modificator, modifier, modify, modulate, narrow, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, palliate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, precursor, qualify, raise, reduce, regulate by, restrain, restrict, run through, saturate, season, set conditions, set limits, soften, steep, suffuse, swarm with, teem with, temper, tincture, tinge, transformer, transfuse, transmogrifier, yeast

• leaving out, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, discounting, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception taken of, excluding, exclusive of, from, less, let alone, minus, not counting, off, omitting, outside of, precluding, save, save and except, saving, than, unless, without

• leaving, AWOL, French leave, abandonment, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, casting away, cessation, cut, day off, decampment, default, departure, desuetude, disappearance, disuse, egress, escape, evacuation, excused absence, exit, exodus, fleeing, flight, forsaking, furlough, getaway, going, hegira, holiday, hooky, jettison, jettisoning, leave, leave of absence, nonappearance, nonattendance, parting, passing, pulling out, removal, retirement, retreat, running away, sabbatical leave, sick leave, throwing overboard, truancy, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation, walkout, withdrawal

• leavings, afterglow, afterimage, balance, bones, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, draff, dregs, dust, end, fag end, filings, fossil, garbage, gash, hogwash, holdover, husks, lees, leftovers, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shadow, shards, shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tares, trace, vestige, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds

• lecher, Priapus, aphrodisiomaniac, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, degenerate, dirty old man, eroticomaniac, erotomaniac, fallen angel, goat, gynecomaniac, heartbreaker, lady-killer, libertine, lost sheep, lost soul, masher, miscreant, old goat, pervert, philander, philanderer, pimp, profligate, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, satyr, scapegrace, seducer, skirt chaser, sorry lot, trollop, whore, whoremaster, whoremonger, wolf, woman chaser

• lecherous, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, decadent, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dirty-minded, dissolute, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fleshly, goatish, gynecomaniacal, hircine, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, ithyphallic, lascivious, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous, lustful, nymphomaniacal, obscene, priapic, profligate, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric, sensual, sexual, sexy, wanton

• lechery, animality, bawdiness, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, dirtiness, eroticism, eroticomania, erotomania, fleshliness, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hysteromania, lady-killing, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lickerishness, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, nymphomania, obscenity, philander, philandering, prurience, pruriency, randiness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, sensuality, sexiness, sexuality, unchastity, uteromania

• lector, Bible clerk, Bible reader, acolyte, acolytus, almoner, anagnost, beadle, bedral, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deacon, deaconess, diaconus, doorkeeper, elder, elderman, exorcist, exorcista, holy orders, homilist, lay elder, lay reader, lecturer, major orders, minor orders, ostiarius, parish clerk, praelector, preacher, precentor, presbyter, priest, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sexton, shames, sidesman, subdeacon, subdiaconus, succentor, suisse, teaching elder, thurifer, verger, vergeress

• lecture, address, admonish, admonishment, admonition, assignment, berate, berating, bring to book, call to account, castigation, censure, chalk talk, chastise, chastisement, chew out, chide, chiding, correct, correction, criticism, declaim, declamation, deliver a lecture, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, dress down, dressing-down, exercise, explain, exposit, exposition, expound, fulminate against, harangue, have words with, hold forth, homework, homily, instruction, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, moralize, object lesson, objurgate, objurgation, orate, paper, philippic, point a moral, pontificate, preach, preachification, preachify, preaching, preachment, prelect, prelection, rail at, rate, rating, read a lesson, read a sermon, rebuke, recital, recitation, religious discourse, remonstration, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, reprove, scold, scolding, screed, sermon, sermonette, sermonize, set down, set straight, set task, skull session, spank, spanking, speech, straighten out, take down, take to task, talk, task, teaching, tell off, tongue-lash, tongue-lashing, travelogue, treatise, upbraid, upbraiding, warn, wig

• lecturer, Bible clerk, Bible reader, Boanerges, acolyte, almoner, anagnost, assistant, assistant professor, associate, associate professor, beadle, bedral, capitular, capitulary, chalk talker, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deacon, deaconess, discourser, elder, elderman, emeritus, expositor, expounder, homilist, instructor, lay elder, lay reader, lector, parish clerk, praelector, preacher, precentor, professor, professor emeritus, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, reader, retired professor, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sermoner, sermonist, sermonizer, sexton, shames, sidesman, succentor, suisse, teaching elder, thurifer, tutor, verger, vergeress, visiting professor

• lecturing, autodidactic, coeducational, cultural, debating, declamation, demagogism, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, elocution, eloquence, enlightening, exhortatory, forensics, homiletic, homiletics, hortatory, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, oratory, platform oratory, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, public speaking, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rhetoric, self-teaching, speaking, speechcraft, speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stump speaking, teaching, tuitionary, wordcraft

• ledge, band, bank, beam-end, bed, bedding, belt, billiard table, board, border, bordure, bowling green, brim, brink, brow, coast, coral heads, corbel, couche, course, dead flat, dead level, deck, earth, edge, esplanade, featheredge, flange, flat, flatland, floor, frame, fringe, gallery, gradin, gradino, ground, hem, hob, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, ironbound coast, labellum, labium, labrum, layer, ledges, lee shore, level, level line, level plane, limb, limbus, lip, list, mantel, mantelshelf, mantle, marge, margin, mean sea level, measures, overhang, overlayer, overstory, parterre, pitfall, plain, plane, platform, prairie, predella, projection, quicksands, ragged edge, retable, rim, rockbound coast, rocks, sandbank, sandbar, sands, sea level, sea of grass, seam, selvage, shallows, shelf, shoals, shore, shoulder, side, sideline, sill, skirt, stage, step, steppe, story, stratum, substratum, superaltar, superstratum, table, terrace, thickness, tier, topsoil, undercurrent, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertow, verge, water level, zone

• ledger, Domesday Book, account, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, address book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, bill, bill of fare, bill of lading, blankbook, blotter, books, calendar, card ledger, carte, cashbook, catalog, classified catalog, commonplace book, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, court calendar, daybook, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, factory ledger, inventory, invoice, journal, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, manifest, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, menu, notebook, pad, passbook, petty cashbook, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, purchase ledger, record book, register, registry, sales journal, sales ledger, scrapbook, scratch pad, spiral notebook, statement, stock ledger, stores ledger, suspense ledger, table, tablet, triptych, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

• lee, cover, defense, eye, flanking, glancing, guard, lateral, lee sheet, lee shore, lee side, lee tack, leeward, next-beside, preservation, protection, protective custody, refuge, safekeeping, safety, shade, shadow, shelter, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, watchful eye, weather, windward

• leech, Chilopoda, Chordata, Doctor of Medicine, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, GP, MD, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, adherent, adhesive, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, barnacle, beat, bedbug, blackmailer, bleed, bloodsucker, boltrope, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, canvas, cement, clew, cloth, coroner, country doctor, cringle, croaker, crowd of sail, cup, deadbeat, decal, decalcomania, doc, doctor, earing, extortionist, family doctor, foot, fore-and-aft sail, freeloader, general practitioner, give a transfusion, glue, gunk, harpy, head, house physician, intern, let blood, limpet, luff, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, medico, molasses, mosquito, mucilage, muslin, parasite, paste, perfuse, phlebotomize, physician, physician in ordinary, plain sail, plaster, predator, press of sail, prickle, profiteer, racketeer, rag, raptor, reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, remora, resident, resident physician, sail, sawbones, shakedown artist, shark, smell-feast, sponge, sponger, square sail, sticker, syrup, thorn, tick, transfuse, vampire, vulture, wood tick

• leer, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, beat the drum, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, caution light, contemplate, dekko, dip, examine, exchange colors, eye, eyeful, flag, flag down, flare, flash, fleer, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, give a signal, give the eye, give the nod, give the once-over, glad eye, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hard look, heliograph, high sign, hoist a banner, inspect, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer at, leering look, look, look over, look-in, lustful leer, make a sign, marker beacon, nod, nudge, ogle, ogle at, parachute flare, peruse, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, pore, pore over, preview, prospect, quarantine flag, radio beacon, raise a cry, red flag, red light, regard, rocket, sailing aid, salute, sardonic grin, scene, scornful laugh, scrutinize, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sidelong look, sight, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, size up, sly look, smirk, sneer, snicker, snigger, snort, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spar buoy, speak, stop light, survey, take a long, take stock of, the eye, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, unfurl a flag, vet, view, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

• leering, banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, levity, mockery, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting

• leery, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, from Missouri, guarded, hard of belief, impervious to persuasion, in doubt, inconvincible, incredulous, mistrustful, mistrusting, questioning, sceptical, scrupulous, shy, shy of belief, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, uncertain, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, untrusting, unwilling to accept, wary

• lees, alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, chaff, cinder, clinker, culm, deadwood, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs, dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds, hogwash, husks, leavings, loess, moraine, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, rags, raspings, refuse, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack, slag, slop, slops, smut, soot, stubble, sublimate, sweepings, swill, tares, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds

• leeward, alee, anticlockwise, aweather, clockwise, counterclockwise, downwind, earthward, flanking, glancing, heavenward, homeward, landward, lateral, lee, lee sheet, lee shore, lee side, lee tack, leftward, next-beside, rightward, seaward, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, to leeward, to windward, upwind, weather, weatherward, widdershins, windward

• leeway, aesthetic distance, air space, ample scope, blank check, caesura, carte blanche, clearance, compass, deep space, depths of space, discontinuity, distance, distance between, divergence, double space, drift, driftway, elbowroom, em space, en space, extent, farness, field, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freeboard, freedom, full scope, full swing, hair space, half space, headroom, headway, hiatus, infinity, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lacuna, latitude, leap, length, light-years, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, mileage, no holds barred, open space, parsecs, perspective, piece, play, progress, range, reach, remoteness, room, room to spare, rope, scope, sea room, separation, single space, slack, space, space between, span, spare room, steerageway, sternway, stretch, stride, swing, time interval, tolerance, way, ways, wide berth

• left handed, abusive, all thumbs, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, calumnious, careless, circuitous, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contumelious, cumbersome, deflectional, degrading, deviant, deviative, devious, digressive, divagational, divergent, excursive, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, humiliating, indirect, inelegant, insolent, insulting, left-hand, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, oblique, offensive, outrageous, ponderous, scurrile, scurrilous, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinistromanual, sloppy, southpaw, stiff, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unspeakable, unwieldy

• left wing, Gospel side, cantorial side, counterclockwise, larboard, left, left hand, left of center, left-hand, left-hand side, left-winger, left-wingish, leftism, leftist, levorotatory, liberal, liberalism, liberalist, liberalistic, near, near side, nigh, on the left, port, port tack, portside, progressive, progressivism, progressivistic, radical, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, verso, wrong side

• left winger, Gospel side, cantorial side, larboard, left, left hand, left wing, left-hand side, leftist, liberal, liberalist, near side, port, port tack, portside, progressive, progressivist, radical, verso, welfare stater, wrong side

• left, Gospel side, abandoned, aport, cantorial side, castaway, communistic, counterclockwise, departed, derelict, deserted, discarded, disused, forsaken, gone, gone away, gone off, jettisoned, larboard, left hand, left wing, left-hand, left-hand side, left-wing, left-winger, left-wingish, leftism, leftist, leftover, leftward, leftwardly, leftwards, levorotatory, liberal, liberalism, liberalist, marooned, near, near side, net, nigh, odd, on the left, outstanding, over, pink, port, port tack, portside, progressive, progressivism, progressivist, radical, red, remaining, remanent, sinister, sinistrad, sinistral, sinistrally, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, socialistic, spare, superfluous, surplus, surviving, to spare, to the left, unconsumed, unused, verso, welfare stater, wrong side

• leftover, afterglow, afterimage, as a bonus, balance, bonus, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, debris, detritus, dividend, end, excess, extra, fag end, filings, for lagniappe, fossil, gratuity, holdover, husks, lagniappe, leavings, left, leftovers, margin, net, odd, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, outstanding, over, over and above, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, parings, plus, pourboire, rags, refuse, relics, remainder, remaining, remains, remanent, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, rubble, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, something extra, spare, straw, stubble, stump, superfluity, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, surplusage, survival, surviving, sweepings, tip, to spare, trace, unconsumed, uneaten, unused, vestige, waste

• leftward, anticlockwise, aport, clockwise, counterclockwise, earthward, heavenward, homeward, landward, larboard, leeward, left, leftwardly, leftwards, on the left, port, rightward, seaward, sinister, sinistrad, sinistrally, to the left, widdershins, windward

• leg man, city editor, columnist, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, managing editor, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, pressman, publicist, reader, reporter, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, sports editor, subeditor, war correspondent

• leg, ambulate, ankle, appendage, arm, assist, bayonet legs, boost, bough, bowlegs, branch, break, breast, broken circuit, calf, chicken foot, circuit, circuital field, circumambulate, closed circuit, cnemis, complete circuit, course, crossing, cruise, dark meat, dead circuit, drumstick, foot, foot it, foreleg, galvanic circuit, gamb, gambrel, giblets, gigot, ham, hand, helping hand, hind leg, hock, hoof it, hot circuit, imp, jamb, jaywalk, jog on, joint, knee, lateral circuit, leg it, leg up, lift, limb, link, live circuit, lobe, lobule, loop, magnetic circuit, member, microcircuit, multiple circuit, multiple series, neck, ocean trip, offshoot, organ, oyster, pace, pad, pale, palisade, passage, path, pedestrianize, peg, perambulate, peripateticate, picket, pile, pinion, podite, popliteal space, printed circuit, ramification, run, runner, sail, scion, scissor-legs, sea trip, series multiple, shakedown cruise, shank, shin, short, short circuit, shuffle along, spile, spray, sprig, spur, stake, stems, step, stride, stump it, stumps, switch, tail, tarsus, tendril, thigh, traipse, tread, trotters, turkey foot, twig, vector field, voyage, walk, white meat, wing, wishbone

• legacy, attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, by-product, codicil, coheirship, consequence, consequent, coparcenary, corollary, derivation, derivative, development, devise, distillate, effect, entail, event, eventuality, eventuation, fruit, gavelkind, harvest, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, issue, law of succession, line of succession, logical outcome, mode of succession, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, patrimony, postremogeniture, precipitate, primogeniture, probate, product, result, resultant, reversion, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, upshot, will

• legal age, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, driving age, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, grown-upness, legalis homo, majority, manhood, manlihood, mature age, maturity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, riper years, toga virilis, virility, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion

• legal counselor, advocate, agent, amicus curiae, attorney, attorney-at-law, barrister, barrister-at-law, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, deputy, friend at court, intercessor, lawyer, legal adviser, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, mouthpiece, pleader, proctor, procurator, sea lawyer, self-styled lawyer, solicitor

• legal tender, and pence, cash, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, dollars, emergency money, filthy lucre, fractional currency, gold, hard cash, hard currency, lucre, mammon, managed currency, medium of exchange, mintage, money, necessity money, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, sterling, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal

• legal, acceptable, actionable, admissible, allowable, applicable, authoritative, authorized, balanced, binding, booked, cogent, competent, consistent, constitutional, defensible, deserved, documented, down, due, enrolled, entered, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, filed, fit, forensic, good, indexed, inscribed, judicial, judiciary, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legislative, legit, legitimate, legitimized, level, licit, logged, logical, meet, meet and right, merited, minuted, of record, official, on file, on record, on the books, permissible, permitted, posted, proper, recorded, registered, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctionable, sanctioned, self-consistent, solid, sound, square, statutory, substantial, sufficient, valid, warrantable, warranted, weighty, well-founded, well-grounded, within the law, written down

• legalistic, cavilling, contentious, conventionalized, disputatious, extrinsic, fine, forensic, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, hair-splitting, impersonal, jurisprudent, jurisprudential, literal, litigious, narrow-minded, nice, niggling, nit-picking, nominal, outward, pedantic, pettifogging, quibbling, strict, stylized, subtle, superficial, surface

• legality, admissibility, admissibleness, allowableness, defensibility, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, give-and-take, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legitimacy, licitness, measure for measure, meetness, nemesis, permissibility, permissibleness, poetic justice, properness, propriety, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, sanctionableness, scales of justice, summary justice, validity, warrantability, warrantableness, warrantedness, what is right

• legalize, authorize, certificate, certify, charter, constitute, declare lawful, decree, empower, enable, enact, enfranchise, entitle, establish, formulate, franchise, give official sanction, give power, legislate, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, license, make a regulation, make legal, ordain, patent, prescribe, privilege, put in force, ratify, regulate, sanction, validate, warrant

• legate, ambassador, ambassadress, apostolic delegate, attache, career diplomat, chancellor, charge, commercial attache, commissar, commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, consul, consul general, consular agent, delegate, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, foreign service officer, herald, internuncio, messenger, military attache, minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, nuncio, plenipotentiary, resident, secretary, secretary of legation, vice-consul, vice-legate

• legation, agency, agentship, assignment, authority, authorization, booking office, box office, branch, branch office, brevet, cabinet, care, chambers, chancellery, chancery, charge, closet, commission, commissioning, commitment, consignment, consular service, consulate, corporate headquarters, corps diplomatique, cure, delegated authority, delegation, den, deputation, devolution, devolvement, diplomatic mission, diplomatic service, diplomatic staff, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, executive office, executorship, exequatur, factorship, foreign office, foreign service, full power, headquarters, home office, jurisdiction, license, lieutenancy, main office, mandate, mission, office, plenipotentiary power, power of attorney, power to act, procuration, proxy, purview, regency, regentship, responsibility, shop, study, task, ticket office, trust, trusteeship, vicarious authority, warrant

• legato, a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, brillante, cantando, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, decrescendo, demilegato, diminuendo, dolce, execution, expression, fingering, forte, fortissimo, glissando, intonation, lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, leggiero, marcando, mezzo staccato, morendo, music-making, parlando, performance, pianism, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, rendering, rendition, repercussion, ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, slur, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, touch, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando

• legend, Clio, Lambert conformal projection, Marchen, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Mishnah, Muse of history, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, adventures, aeronautical chart, allegory, ancient wisdom, annals, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, astronomical chart, atlas, autobiography, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, banner, banner head, bedtime story, biographical sketch, biography, caption, cartographer, cartography, case history, celebrity, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, chorographer, chorography, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, climatic chart, code, common law, confessions, conic projection, contour line, contour map, curriculum vitae, custom, cylindrical projection, detective story, diary, drop head, dropline, epic, epigraph, experiences, fable, fabliau, fairy lore, fairy tale, fairyism, fantasy, fiction, folk motif, folk story, folklore, folktale, fortunes, general reference map, gest, ghost story, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, grid line, hachure, hagiography, hagiology, hanger, head, heading, headline, heliographic chart, heroic legend, historiography, history, horse opera, hydrographic chart, immemorial usage, immortal name, immortality, index, inscription, isoline, journal, jump head, key, latitude, layer tint, life, life and letters, life story, longitude, lore, love story, luminary, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, memory, meridian, motto, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythical lore, mythicism, mythology, mythos, narrative, necrology, nursery tale, obituary, overline, parable, parallel, personage, phenomenon, photobiography, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, political map, polyconic projection, profile, projection, racial memory, record, relief map, remembrance, representative fraction, resume, road map, romance, rubric, running head, running title, saga, scale, scarehead, science fiction, screamer, shocker, sinusoidal projection, slogan, somebody, space fiction, space opera, special map, spread, spreadhead, story, streamer, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superscription, suspense story, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, theory of history, thriller, title, title page, topographer, topographic chart, topography, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, transportation map, undying fame, weather chart, weather map, whodunit, wonder, work of fiction

• legendary, acclaimed, acknowledged, admitted, allegoric, autobiographical, biographical, celebrated, chronologic, concocted, conventional, cooked-up, customary, distinguished, eminent, epic, established, exceptional, extraordinary, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, famed, famous, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far-famed, far-heard, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, fixed, folk, forged, great, hagiographic, hallowed, handed down, hatched, heroic, historic, historied, historiographic, hoary, honored, illustrious, imaginary, immemorial, immortal, indescribable, ineffable, invented, inveterate, long-established, long-standing, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, marked, martyrologic, marvelous, much acclaimed, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, notable, noted, noteworthy, notorious, of long standing, of mark, of note, of the folk, oral, parabolic, phenomenal, popular, portentous, prescriptive, prodigious, prominent, put-up, received, recognized, remarkable, renowned, romantic, romanticized, rooted, storied, stupefying, stupendous, talked-about, talked-of, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, trumped-up, understood, unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unwritten, venerable, well-known, wonderful, worshipful

• legion, KP, a mass of, a world of, armed force, armed service, army, army group, array, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, brigade, bunch, cadre, career soldiers, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohort, cohue, column, combat command, combat team, company, corps, covey, crowd, crush, deluge, detachment, detail, division, field army, field train, fighting machine, file, flight, flock, flocks, flood, flying column, forces, galaxy, garrison, ground forces, ground troops, hail, heap, hive, horde, host, jam, kitchen police, large amount, legions, lots, maniple, many, mass, masses of, military establishment, mob, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, occupation force, organization, outfit, pack, panoply, paratroops, phalanx, platoon, plurality, posse, press, quantities, quite a few, rabble, rank, rank and file, ranks, regiment, regular army, regulars, rout, ruck, scores, section, shoal, ski troops, soldiery, spate, squad, squadron, standing army, storm troops, swarm, tactical unit, task force, the line, the military, throng, tidy sum, train, troop, troops, unit, wing, worlds of

• legionary, Amazon, air serviceman, brave, cannon fodder, fighting man, food for powder, halberdier, hoplite, man-at-arms, military man, navy man, pikeman, rifle, rifleman, serviceman, soldier, spearman, warrior, warrioress

• legislate, authorize, constitute, declare lawful, decree, enact, enact laws, establish, filibuster, formulate, get the floor, have the floor, kill, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lobby through, logroll, make a regulation, make legal, ordain, pass, pigeonhole, pocket, prescribe, put in force, put through, railroad through, regulate, roll logs, sanction, table, take the floor, validate, veto, yield the floor

• legislation, act, authorization, bill, bylaw, canon, concurrent resolution, constitution, decree, dictate, dictation, edict, enaction, enactment, form, formality, formula, formulary, institution, joint resolution, jus, law, lawmaking, legalization, legislature, legitimatization, lex, measure, ordinance, ordonnance, passage, passing, prescript, prescription, regulation, resolution, rubric, rule, ruling, sanction, standing order, statute, validation

• legislative, actionable, applicable, authorized, bicameral, competent, congressional, constitutional, deliberative, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislatorial, legit, legitimate, licit, parliamentary, rightful, sanctioned, senatorial, statutory, unicameral, valid, within the law

• legislator, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, archon, assemblyman, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, chosen freeholder, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, congressman, congresswoman, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, floor leader, headman, induna, lawgiver, lawmaker, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, majority leader, mayor, minister, minister of state, minority leader, party whip, portreeve, reeve, representative, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, senator, solon, state senator, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden, whip

• legislature, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, act, advisory body, assembly, association, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, chamber, city council, common council, concurrent resolution, conference, congress, constitution, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, enaction, enactment, joint resolution, junta, kitchen cabinet, lawmaking, legislation, parish council, passage, passing, privy council, resolution, soviet, staff, syndicate, synod, tribunal

• legit, Broadway, actionable, applicable, authorized, burlesque, carnival, circus, competent, constitutional, drama, entertainment industry, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legitimate, legitimate stage, licit, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, playland, repertory drama, rightful, sanctioned, show biz, show business, stage world, stagedom, stageland, statutory, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, valid, variety, vaudeville, within the law

• legitimacy, absolute power, absolute realism, absolutism, actionability, admissibility, admissibleness, allowableness, applicability, artlessness, authenticity, authority, bona fideness, competence, competency, constituted authority, constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality, defensibility, delegated authority, divine right, due process, excusability, explainability, explicability, faculty, forgivableness, genuineness, honesty, inartificiality, indirect authority, inherent authority, jurisdiction, jus divinum, justice, justiciability, justifiability, justifiableness, lawful authority, lawfulness, legal authority, legal form, legal process, legalism, legality, legitimateness, licitness, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, naturalism, naturalness, pardonableness, permissibility, permissibleness, photographic realism, power, prerogative, realism, realness, reasonability, reasonableness, regality, remissibility, right, rightful authority, rightfulness, royal prerogative, sanctionableness, scope, sincerity, the say, the say-so, true-to-lifeness, truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unspeciousness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, validity, veniality, verisimilitude, vested authority, vicarious authority, vindicability, warrantableness

• legitimate, acceptable, actionable, actor-proof, admissible, all-star, allowable, applicable, authentic, authoritative, authorize, authorized, ballet, balletic, binding, bona fide, by law, candid, card-carrying, certify, cinematic, cinematographic, cogent, competent, condonable, consistent, constitutional, correct, credible, de jure, defensible, dinkum, dispensable, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, film, filmic, following the letter, forgivable, genuine, good, ham, hammy, histrionic, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, inoffensive, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legalize, legislative, legit, legitimatize, legitimize, legitimized, licit, lifelike, literal, logical, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, natural, naturalistic, operatic, original, overacted, overplayed, pardonable, permissible, plausible, proper, pure, rational, real, realistic, reasonable, remissible, right, rightful, sanction, sanctionable, sanctioned, sane, scenic, self-consistent, sensible, simon-pure, simple, sincere, solid, sound, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, statutory, stellar, sterling, substantial, sufficient, sure-enough, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, underacted, underplayed, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unobjectionable, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, validate, vaudevillian, venial, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vindicable, warrant, warrantable, weighty, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, within the law, word-for-word

• legume, algae, autophyte, bean, boll, bracken, brown algae, burr, capsule, climber, cod, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, follicle, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, hull, husk, ivy, kelp, legumen, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, pease cod, pericarp, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, pod, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack

• legwork, amassing evidence, ambling, ambulation, backpacking, close inquiry, department of investigation, detection, detective work, exhaustive study, footing, footing it, footwork, going on foot, hearing, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hoofing, indagation, investigation, investigative bureau, legislative investigation, lumbering, marching, pedestrianism, perambulation, perscrutation, probe, research, sauntering, sifting, sleuthing, staggering, strolling, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, waddling, walking, witch-hunt

• leisure class, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, idle rich, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, rentiers, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed

• leisure, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, ease, fallow, free, free time, freedom, holiday, idle, inactive, jobless, leisured, liberty, lumpen, off, off duty, off work, open, opportunity, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, quiet, recreation, recreational, relaxation, relief, repose, respite, rest, resting, retired, semiretired, spare, spare time, time off, tranquillity, unemployable, unemployed, unencumbered, unhurriedly, unoccupied, vacation

• leisured, affluent, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, fallow, free, idle, jobless, leisure, leisured, lumpen, moneyed, monied, off, off duty, off work, open, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, prosperous, retired, rich, semiretired, spare, unemployable, unemployed, unoccupied, wealthy, well-to-do

• leisurely, ambling, cautious, cautiously, circumspect, circumspectly, claudicant, comfortable, crawling, crawlingly, creeping, creeping like snail, creepingly, delayed, deliberate, deliberately, dilatorily, dilatory, easily, easy, faltering, falteringly, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gently, gradual, halting, haltingly, hasteless, hobbled, hobbling, idle, idly, in low gear, in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, inactive, indolent, indolently, lackadaisically, laggard, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, lax, lazy, limping, limpingly, lingeringly, loiteringly, lumbering, moderate, moderately, pokily, poking, pokingly, poky, relaxed, relaxedly, reluctant, reluctantly, restful, retarded, sauntering, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slowly, sluggish, sluggishly, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tardily, tarryingly, tentative, tentatively, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, under easy sail, unhasty, unhurried, unhurriedly, waddling, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation

• lemon, acid, acidulant, aureate, auric, beige, bomb, bread-and-butter pickle, buff, buff-yellow, bust, canary, canary-yellow, chokecherry, citron, citron-yellow, crab apple, cream, creamy, dill pickle, dud, dull thud, ecru, fallow, fizzle, flat failure, flaxen, flop, floperoo, frost, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, green apple, lemon-yellow, lime, loser, luteolous, lutescent, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pickle, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, straw, straw-colored, total loss, turkey, verjuice, vinegar, washout, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish, yogurt

• lend a hand, abet, aid, assist, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, comfort, do good, doctor, ease, favor, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, help, lend one aid, proffer aid, protect, rally, reclaim, redeem, relieve, remedy, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, save, set up, succor, take in tow

• lend lease, accommodate with, advance, advancement, advancing, bareboat charter, charter, farm, farm out, float a loan, hire, hire out, hiring, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend, lending, lending at interest, let, let off, let out, loan, loan-shark, loan-sharking, loaning, moneylending, negotiate a loan, rent, rent out, rental, shylocking, sublease, sublet, subrent, underlet, usury

• lend, accommodate, accommodate with, add, advance, allow, bestow, borrow, confer, contribute, discount, discount notes, fit, float a loan, furnish, give, impart, lease-lend, lend-lease, loan, loan-shark, negotiate a loan, oblige, shave, suit

• length, aesthetic distance, amplitude, area, at full length, at length, at long last, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, caliber, clearance, compass, completely, coverage, deep space, depth, depths of space, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, divergence, duration, eventually, exhaustively, expanse, expansion, extension, extensively, extent, farness, finally, fully, gauge, girth, greatness, height, in detail, infinity, interminably, largeness, leeway, light-years, magnitude, margin, mass, measure, measurement, mileage, orbit, panorama, parsecs, period, perspective, piece, proportion, proportions, purview, radius, range, reach, realm, remoteness, scale, scope, separation, size, space, span, spread, stretch, stride, term, thoroughly, ultimately, volume, way, ways, width

• lengthen, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, continue, dawdle, drag out, draw, draw out, dwell on, elongate, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, hike, hike up, hold, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, keep, keep alive, keep going, keep up, lengthen out, let out, linger on, maintain, maximize, parlay, perpetuate, preserve, procrastinate, produce, prolong, prolongate, protract, pull, put up, pyramid, raise, retain, spin out, strain, stretch, stretch out, string out, sustain, tauten, temporize, tense, thicken, tighten, up

• lengthened, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elongated, extended, interminable, languishing, lasting, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, marathon, overlong, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, spun out, spun-out, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched-out, strung out, taut, tense, tight

• lengthening, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, crescendoing, crescent, elongation, endurance, expanding, extension, growing, increasing, incremental, intensifying, lingering, maintenance, multiplying, on the increase, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, procrastination, production, progress, progression, proliferating, prolongation, protraction, pursuance, repetition, run, snowballing, spreading, staying power, straight course, strain, stretch, stretching, stringing out, sustained action, sustenance, swelling, tension, tightening, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, waxing, way

• lengthwise, along, at full length, at length, endlong, endways, endwise, evenly, flat, flatly, flatways, flatwise, flush, horizontally, in length, lengthways, level, longitudinally, longways, longwise, on a level

• lengthy, a mile long, boring, colossal, de longue haleine, dragging, drawn-out, dull, elongate, elongated, endless, extended, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing, filled out, gangling, gangly, garrulous, giant, gigantic, interminable, lank, lanky, leggy, long, long-drawn-out, long-legged, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, longish, longsome, loquacious, no end of, overlong, padded, prolix, prolonged, protracted, rangy, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, spun-out, statuesque, talkative, tall, tedious, unrelenting, verbose, windy, without end, wordy

• leniency, abatement, acceptance, accommodatingness, agreeableness, allayment, alleviation, assuagement, attentiveness, benevolence, blunting, calming, carelessness, charitableness, charity, clemency, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, concern, condolence, condonation, considerateness, consideration, damping, deadening, delicacy, demulsion, diminution, downiness, dulcification, dulling, easiness, easing, easygoingness, endurance, falling-off, favor, featheriness, feeling, flossiness, fluffiness, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, fortitude, generousness, gentleness, grace, heedfulness, helpfulness, humanity, hushing, impotence, imprecision, indifference, indulgence, insolidity, kindness, laxity, laxness, lenience, lenity, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, looseness, loosening, lulling, magnanimity, mellowness, mercifulness, mercy, mindfulness, mitigation, modulation, mollification, morbidezza, negligence, nonresistiveness, nonrigidity, obligingness, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pacification, palliation, pardon, pathos, patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, pity, plushiness, pulpiness, quarter, quietening, quieting, reduction, regard, regardfulness, relaxation, relaxedness, relief, remission, remissness, reprieve, ruth, satininess, self-control, self-pity, silkiness, slackening, slackness, sloppiness, softening, softness, solicitousness, solicitude, soothing, sponginess, stoicism, subduement, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tempering, tenderness, thought, thoughtfulness, tolerance, toleration, tranquilization, unrestraint, unsolidity, velvetiness, waiting game, waiting it out, weakness

• lenient, Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive, agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive, balmy, bland, bleeding, careless, charitable, clement, commiserative, compassionate, complaisant, condolent, consenting, considerate, delicate, disciplined, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, faint, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, heedful, helpful, human, humane, impotent, imprecise, indifferent, indulgent, kind, kindly, lax, long-suffering, longanimous, loose, magnanimous, melting, merciful, mild, mindful, mindful of others, moderate, negligent, nonprohibitive, obliging, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting, persevering, philosophical, pitying, regardful, relaxed, remiss, ruthful, self-controlled, slack, slipshod, sloppy, smooth, soft, softhearted, solicitous, sparing, stoic, suffering, sympathetic, sympathizing, tactful, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding, unprohibitive, unrestrained, warmhearted, weak

• lenitive, alleviating, alleviative, alleviator, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsam, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, brilliantine, calmant, calmative, cathartic, chrism, cleansing, cold cream, collyrium, cream, cushion, deadening, demulcent, dolorifuge, dulling, easing, embrocation, emollient, extenuating, extenuatory, eye-lotion, eyewash, face cream, hand lotion, inunction, inunctum, lanolin, limitative, limiting, lotion, lubricant, lubricating, lubricational, lubricative, mitigating, mitigative, mitigator, mitigatory, moderator, modificatory, modifying, modulator, modulatory, mollifier, nard, numbing, ointment, pacificator, pacifier, pain-killing, palliative, peacemaker, pomade, pomatum, purgative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, relieving, remedial, restraining hand, restricting, restrictive, salve, sedative, shock absorber, softening, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, spikenard, stabilizer, subduing, temperer, tranquilizer, unction, unguent, unguentum, wiser head

• lens, baby blues, banjo eyes, bright eyes, clear eyes, cornea, eye, eyeball, eyelid, goggle eyes, iris, lid, naked eye, nictitating membrane, oculus, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, peeper, popeyes, pupil, retina, saucer eyes, sclera, starry orbs, unaided eye, visual organ

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

• Lenten, Apostolic, Encratic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste, continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, fasting, frugal, fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, quadragesimal, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, thin, uneating, unfed, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered, watery

• leopard, Dalmatian, Leo, Siberian tiger, antigorite, bobcat, butterfly, candy cane, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chameleon, cheetah, chrysotile, confetti, cougar, crazy quilt, firedog, harlequin, iris, jaguar, lion, lynx, mackerel, mackerel sky, marble, marbled paper, moire, mother-of-pearl, mountain lion, nacre, ocelot, opal, ophite, painter, panther, patchwork quilt, peacock, puma, rainbow, serpentine, serpentine marble, shot silk, simba, spectrum, tiger, tortoise shell, wildcat, zebra

• leper, DP, Ishmael, castaway, declasse, derelict, displaced person, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, pariah, persona non grata, social outcast, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable

• leprechaun, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Oberon, Titania, banshee, brownie, cluricaune, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fay, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hob, imp, kobold, ouphe, peri, pixie, pooka, puca, pwca, sprite, sylph, sylphid

• leprosy, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acne, acne vulgaris, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, eczema, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, heat rash, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hives, hookworm, hydrophobia, impetigo, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, itch, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leptospirosis, lichen, lichen primus, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, lupus, lupus vulgaris, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, miliaria, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pemphigus, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psittacosis, psora, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, skin cancer, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, tetter, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

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

• lesbian, AC-DC, amazon, amphierotic, androgyne, auntie, autoerotic, bi-guy, bisexed, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, catamite, chicken, deviant, dyke, effeminate, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gay, gunsel, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hoyden, invert, mannish, nance, pansy, pathic, perverted, punk, queen, queer, romp, sapphic, sapphist, tomboy, transvestite, tribade, tribadistic, virago

• lesbianism, active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, bisexuality, coprophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incest, incestuousness, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia

• lesion, abrasion, abscess, ache, aching, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blow, boil, break, bubo, bulla, bunion, burn, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chafe, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chip, cold sore, concussion, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, cut, distress, dolor, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flash burn, fracture, fray, frazzle, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gash, gathering, grief, gumboil, hemorrhoids, hurt, incision, injury, kibe, laceration, mortal wound, mutilation, nasty blow, pain, pang, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, passion, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, puncture, pustule, rent, rip, rising, run, rupture, scab, scald, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, shock, slash, soft chancre, sore, sore spot, spasm, stab, stab wound, stigma, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty, suffering, suppuration, swelling, tear, tender spot, third-degree burn, throes, trauma, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

• less, abated, ablated, at a disadvantage, at the nadir, attenuated, barring, bated, belittled, below, below the mark, common, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, decreasingly, decrescendo, deflated, demeaning, diminished, diminishingly, diminuendo, disadvantaged, discounting, dissipated, dropped, eroded, ever less, except, excepting, exception taken of, excluding, exclusive of, fallen, fewer, from, humble, in the gutter, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, junior, least, least of all, leaving out, less and less, lesser, low, lower, lowered, lowly, miniaturized, minor, minus, modest, not counting, not so much, off, ordinary, reduced, retrenched, sans, save, scaled-down, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, shorn, short of, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, third rank, third string, under, under par, underprivileged, vulgar, watered-down, weakened, without, worn

• lessee, board-and-roomer, boarder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent, leaseholder, lodger, occupant, occupier, paying guest, renter, resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlessee

• lessen, abate, ablate, abrade, abridge, abstract, allay, alleviate, allow for, amputate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away, benumb, blunt, chasten, clip, close, color, compress, constrain, consume, consume away, control, corrode, crop, crumble, curtail, cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, deliquesce, depreciate, depress, derogate, detract, die away, diminish, disparage, dive, downgrade, downplay, drain, drop, drop off, dull, dwindle, ease, ease matters, eat away, ebb, erode, extenuate, extract, fall, fall away, fall off, file away, foment, give relief, gloss over, ignore, impair, keep within bounds, languish, lay, leach, lenify, let up, lighten, lower, lull, make allowance for, melt away, mince, minify, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, pare, play down, plummet, plunge, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, purify, reduce, reduce the temperature, refine, relieve, remove, restrain, retrench, roll back, rub away, run low, sag, salve, scale down, shorten, shrink, simplify, sink, slacken, slake, slow down, slur over, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soothe, step down, stifle, stupe, subduct, subdue, subside, subtract, suppress, tail off, take away, take from, tame, temper, thin, thin out, tone down, truncate, tune down, underplay, varnish, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, weed, whitewash, withdraw

• lessening, abatement, abating, abridgment, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, chastening, contraction, contractive, curtailment, cushioning, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, deadening, declining, decrease, decreasing, decrement, decrescence, decrescendo, decrescent, deduction, deflation, deliquescent, demulsion, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, detraction, diminishing, diminishment, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disparagement, dulcification, dulling, dwindling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, impairment, languishing, languishment, leniency, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigating, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, on the wane, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, reductive, relaxation, relaxing, relief, remedy, remission, retraction, retrenchment, sagging, salving, scaling down, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subduing, subsiding, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, truncation, waning, weakening

• lesser, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, common, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, demeaning, diminished, dinky, disadvantaged, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen, humble, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, insignificant, junior, less, low, lower, lowered, lowly, miniaturized, minor, modest, nether, ordinary, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, small, small-fry, small-time, smaller, sub, subaltern, subjacent, subject, subordinate, subservient, third rank, third string, under, underprivileged, vulgar, watered-down, weakened, worn

• lesson, admonish, admonishment, admonition, alarm, assignment, call down, castigation, caution, caveat, chalk talk, chastening, chastisement, chide, chiding, class, correction, deterrent, deterrent example, discouragement, discourse, disquisition, drill, example, exemplar, exercise, exposition, final notice, final warning, guide, harangue, hint, homework, homily, instruction, lecture, lecture-demonstration, maxim, message, model, monition, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, notice, notification, object lesson, objurgation, paragon, practice, preachment, precept, punishment, rating, reading, rebuke, recital, recitation, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, schooling, scolding, sermon, session, set task, skull session, spanking, study, talk, task, teaching, threat, tick off, tip-off, tutoring, ultimatum, upbraiding, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece

• let alone, abandon, abstain, abstain from, added to, along with, as well as, aside from, attended by, avoid, bar, barring, be conservative, beside, besides, butt out, coupled with, cut, dispense with, do nothing, do without, eschew, ex, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, fight shy of, forbear, forgo, give place to, goldbrick, goof off, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, hold off, in addition to, in conjunction with, including, inclusive of, jump, keep aloof, keep away from, keep back, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep in hand, keep remote from, leave, leave alone, leave be, leave loose ends, leave undone, leaving out, let be, let dangle, let go, let go by, linked to, make way for, malinger, miss, never touch, not butt in, not get involved, not interfere, not make waves, not meddle, not meddle with, not tamper, not to mention, not touch, not use, omit, omitting, oppose change, outside of, over and above, pass over, pass up, plus, precluding, pretermit, procrastinate, refrain, refrain from, reserve, save, save and except, saving, shirk, slack, spare, stand aloof, stand aloof from, stand pat, stand still, stay detached from, steer clear of, than, together with, trifle, turn away from, unless, waive, with, withhold, without

• let be, abandon, assume, be afraid, be conservative, believe, butt out, conceive, conclude, consider, cut, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, do nothing, dream, expect, fancy, feel, gather, goldbrick, goof off, grant, hold aloof, imagine, infer, jump, keep hands off, leave, leave alone, leave be, leave loose ends, leave undone, let, let alone, let dangle, let go, malinger, miss, not butt in, not get involved, not interfere, not make waves, not meddle, not tamper, omit, opine, oppose change, pass over, pass up, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretermit, procrastinate, provisionally accept, reckon, repute, say, shirk, skip, slack, stand aloof, stand pat, stand still, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, trifle, understand

• let down, abate, apostatize, arrest, backpedal, backwater, baffle, baffled, balk, balked, bamboozle, bate, bear down, beguile, betray, betrayed, bilk, bilked, blasted, blighted, bluff, bolt, brake, break away, bring low, cajole, cast down, chapfallen, cheat on, check, circumvent, clip the wings, conjure, couch, crestfallen, cross, crossed, crushed, curb, dash, dashed, debase, deceive, decelerate, defeat, defeat expectation, defeated, defect, deflate, degenerate, delay, delude, demit, depress, desert, detain, deteriorate, detrude, diddle, disappoint, disappointed, disgrace, dished, disillusion, disillusioned, disimprove, dissatisfied, dissatisfy, double-cross, downbear, draw rein, droop, dupe, ease, ease off, ease up, embarrass, fall back, foil, foiled, forestall, frustrate, frustrated, gammon, get around, get worse, grow worse, gull, haul down, hoax, hocus-pocus, hold back, hold in check, hold up, hornswaggle, humble, humbug, humiliate, ill done-by, ill-served, impede, indent, inform on, juggle, keep back, let up, let up on, loose, loosen, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, lower, mitigate, mock, moderate, mortify, obstruct, out of countenance, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pigeon, play one false, press down, pull down, pull out, push down, put out, put something over, put to shame, rat, reduce, reef, regress, regretful, rein in, relapse, relax, remit, retard, retrograde, retrogress, run out on, secede, sell out, set back, shame, sicken, sink, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slip back, slow, slow down, slow up, snow, sorely disappointed, soured, stay, string along, take down, take in, take in sail, tantalize, tease, throttle down, thrust down, thwart, thwarted, trick, turn in, two-time, unbend, unbrace, unlax, unstrain, unstring, unwind, worsen

• let drop, allude to, babble, be indiscreet, be unguarded, betray, betray a confidence, blab, blabber, blurt, blurt out, call attention to, comment, drop, exclaim, give away, inform, inform on, interject, leak, let fall, let slip, make reference to, mention, muse, note, observe, opine, peach, rat, refer to, reflect, remark, reveal a secret, sing, speak, spill, spill the beans, squeal, stool, talk, tattle, tattle on, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales

• let fly at, cast at, chuck at, cut and thrust, feint, fire at, flail at, flail away at, fling at, heave at, hit at, hurl against, hurl at, lash out at, let drive at, lunge at, poke at, shy at, sling at, strike at, strike out at, swing at, swing on, throw at, thrust at, toss at

• let fly, bowl, cast, catapult, charge, chuck, chunk, cock, dart, dash, detonate, discharge, drop, eject, fell, fire, fire off, fling, flip, fork, gun, gun for, heave, hit, hurl, hurtle, jerk, lance, launch, let off, load, lob, pass, peg, pelt, pepper, pick off, pistol, pitch, pitchfork, plug, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, put, put the shot, riddle, serve, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shy, sling, snap, snipe, strike, take a potshot, throw, tilt, torpedo, toss

• let go, abandon, abjure, absolve, acquit, amnesty, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, boot, bounce, break, break up, bump, bust, can, carouse, cashier, cast loose, celebrate, clear, come off, cut, cut loose, cut out, deactivate, debauch, debrief, decontaminate, default, defrock, degrade, demob, demobilize, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, desist, destigmatize, detach, diffuse, disband, disbar, discharge, discontinue, disemploy, disintegrate, disjoin, dismiss, disorganize, dispense from, dispense with, disperse, displace, displume, disregard, dissolve, disuse, drop, drum out, ease, ease off, except, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, expel, fail, fire, forgive, free, furlough, give absolution, give dispensation from, give over, give the ax, give the gate, give up, give way to, gloss over, go all out, go bail for, go flat out, go separate ways, go unrestrained, goldbrick, goof off, grant amnesty to, grant bail to, grant immunity, grant remission, have done with, hell around, ignore, jollify, jolly, jump, justify, kick, kick upstairs, lapse, lark, lay off, leave, leave go, leave loose ends, leave off, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let go free, let loose, let loose of, let off, let off steam, let out, let pass, let ride, let slide, let slip, let up, loose, loosen, lose sight of, lose track of, make merry, make redundant, make whoopee, malinger, miss, muster out, neglect, nod, nol-pros, nonpros, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not pursue with, not think, omit, open up, overlook, pardon, parole, part, part company, pass over, pass up, pension off, pretermit, procrastinate, purge, put behind one, put on parole, quash the charge, quit, raise hell, read out of, relax, release, relinquish, remise, remit, remove, renounce, replace, resign, retire, revel, roister, run wild, sack, save the necessity, scatter, see life, separate, separate forcibly, set free, shirk, shrive, skip, skylark, slack, slack off, slacken, sleep, spare, split up, spree, step out, stop, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, take for granted, trifle, turn off, turn out, unclasp, unclutch, unfrock, unglue, unhand, unleash, unstick, vindicate, waive, wanton, whitewash, whoop it up, withdraw the charge

• let in on, air, alert, awaken, break it to, break the news, break the spell, breathe, burst the bubble, buzz, come out with, confide, confide to, correct, debunk, disabuse, disappoint, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, divulgate, divulge, enlighten, entrust with information, evulgate, expose, give confidential information, give out, give vent to, let down easy, let get around, let next to, let out, make known, mention privately, out with, prick the bubble, publish, put hep, put next to, put straight, reveal, set right, set straight, show up, tell, tell the truth, tip, tip off, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, unspell, utter, vent, ventilate, wake up, whisper

• let it go, abandon, allow for, bear with, blink at, brush aside, brush off, bury the hatchet, charge off, charge to experience, condone, connive at, dismiss, disregard, drop it, drop the subject, endure, forget, forget about it, forget it, forgive and forget, ignore, ignore it, lay aside, leave unavenged, let it pass, let slip, make allowances for, never mind, no matter, overlook, pass over, pocket the affront, push aside, put aside, regard with indulgence, set aside, shrug off, skip it, sneeze at, take, think nothing of, thrust aside, turn away from, wink at, write off

• let loose, carouse, cast loose, celebrate, cut loose, debauch, demobilize, discharge, dismiss, give way to, go all out, go bail for, go flat out, go unrestrained, grant bail to, hell around, jollify, jolly, lark, leave go, let go, let go free, let loose of, let off, let off steam, let out, make merry, make whoopee, open up, parole, put on parole, raise hell, release, revel, roister, run wild, see life, skylark, spree, step out, unclasp, unclutch, unhand, wanton, whoop it up

• let off, absolve, acquit, amnesty, backfire, blast, blow out, blow up, burst, bust, cast loose, charge, charter, chartered, clear, cock, decontaminate, demobilize, destigmatize, detonate, discharge, dismiss, dispense, dispense from, dispense with, drop, eject, except, excepted, exculpate, excuse, excused, exempt, exempt from, exempted, exonerate, explode, farm, farm out, favored, fell, fire, fire off, forgive, free, fulminate, give absolution, give dispensation from, go bail for, go off, grant amnesty to, grant bail to, grant immunity, grant remission, gun, gun for, hire, hire out, hit, immune, irresponsible, job, justify, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let fly, let go, let go free, let loose, let out, licensed, load, nonpros, pardon, parole, pelt, pepper, permitted, pick off, pistol, plug, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, privileged, purge, put on parole, quash the charge, release, released, relieve, remise, remit, rent, rent out, riddle, save the necessity, set free, set off, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shrive, snipe, spare, spared, strike, sublease, sublet, take a potshot, torpedo, touch off, unaccountable, unanswerable, underlet, unhand, unliable, unsubject, vindicate, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• let on, acknowledge, act, act a part, admit, admit everything, affect, allow, assume, avow, betray, bluff, come clean, concede, confess, cop a plea, counterfeit, cover up, disclose, dissemble, dissimulate, divulge, fake, feign, four-flush, gammon, give away, grant, let on like, let out, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, open up, out with it, own, own up, play, play a part, play possum, playact, plead guilty, pretend, profess, put on, sham, simulate, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell, tell all, tell the truth, uncover

• let out, air, articulate, ax, bare, betray, bleed, blow, boot, boot out, bounce, break, break it to, break the news, break the seal, breathe, breathe out, bring to light, broach, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast loose, charter, chime, chorus, come out with, communicate, confide, confide to, continue, convey, decant, defrock, degrade, deliver, demobilize, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, develop, disbar, discharge, disclose, discover, disemploy, dismask, dismiss, displace, displume, divulgate, divulge, draft, draft off, drag out, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, draw out, draw the veil, drop, drum out, elongate, emit, empty, enunciate, evacuate, evulgate, exhale, exhaust, expel, expire, expose, express, extend, farm, farm out, fire, fling off, formulate, fume, furlough, give, give away, give expression, give off, give out, give out with, give the ax, give the gate, give tongue, give utterance, give vent to, give voice, go bail for, grant bail to, hire, hire out, impart, job, kick, kick upstairs, lay bare, lay off, lay open, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, lengthen, lengthen out, let, let blood, let daylight in, let get around, let go, let go free, let in on, let loose, let off, lip, make known, make redundant, manifest, milk, mouth, open, open the floodgates, open the sluices, open up, out with, parole, pension off, phlebotomize, phonate, phrase, pipette, pour forth, present, produce, prolong, prolongate, pronounce, protract, publish, puff, pull, pump, pump out, put forth, put in words, put on parole, raise, raise the curtain, read out of, reek, release, remove, rent, rent out, replace, retire, reveal, sack, say, separate forcibly, set forth, show, show up, siphon off, smoke, sound, spill, spin out, steam, strain, stretch, stretch out, string out, strip, strip bare, sublease, sublet, suck, suck out, superannuate, surplus, suspend, tap, tauten, tell, tense, terminate, throw off, tighten, turn off, turn out, uncloak, uncover, underlet, undrape, unfold, unfrock, unfurl, unhand, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, utter, vapor, venesect, vent, ventilate, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, word

• let pass, accept, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, blink at, condone, connive at, countenance, disregard, give no heed, grin and abide, hear nothing, ignore, let go, let go by, let ride, let slide, let slip, make light of, miss, not attend, not heed, not listen, not notice, obey, overlook, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, pay no mind, procrastinate, rise above, see nothing, shrug, shrug it off, slight, submit to, think little of, wink at, yield to

• let ride, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, default, disregard, fail, gloss over, ignore, lapse, let go, let pass, let slide, let slip, lose sight of, lose track of, neglect, nod, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, overlook, pass over, procrastinate, sleep, take for granted

• let slide, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, default, disregard, fail, gloss over, ignore, lapse, let go, let pass, let ride, let slip, lose sight of, lose track of, neglect, nod, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, overlook, pass over, procrastinate, sleep, take for granted

• let slip, abandon, babble, be bereaved of, be caught napping, be indiscreet, be neglectful, be negligent, be unguarded, betray, betray a confidence, blab, blabber, blurt, blurt out, brush aside, brush off, default, dismiss, disregard, drop, drop the subject, fail, forfeit, forget, forget about it, forget it, give away, gloss over, go astray from, ignore, incur loss, inform, inform on, kiss good-bye, lapse, lay aside, leak, let drop, let fall, let go, let it go, let pass, let ride, let slide, lose, lose out, lose sight of, lose track of, mislay, misplace, miss, neglect, nod, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, overlook, pass over, peach, procrastinate, push aside, put aside, rat, reveal a secret, sacrifice, set aside, shrug off, sing, sleep, sneeze at, spill, spill the beans, squeal, stool, suffer loss, take for granted, talk, tattle, tattle on, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, think nothing of, thrust aside, turn away from, undergo privation, wander from

• let up, abate, ablate, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bate, be eaten away, brake, call a recess, check, clip the wings, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, curb, decelerate, decline, decrease, delay, deliquesce, detain, die away, die down, diffuse, diminish, disjoin, disperse, dive, draw rein, drop, drop off, dwindle, ease, ease off, ease up, ebb, erode, fall, fall away, fall off, forbear, forgive, free, give quarter, have mercy upon, have pity, hesitate, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, keep back, languish, lessen, let down, let go, let up on, loose, loosen, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, melt, melt away, mitigate, moderate, obstruct, pardon, pause, plummet, plunge, recess, reef, rein in, relax, relent, remit, reprieve, rest, retard, run low, sag, scatter, set back, shrink, sink, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow, slow down, slow up, spare, stay, subside, tail off, take a recess, take in sail, take pity on, thaw, throttle down, unbend, unbrace, unglue, unlax, unleash, unstick, unstrain, unstring, unwind, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away

• let well enough alone, abstain, abstain from, avoid, be blind to, be caught out, be conservative, be content, be inattentive, be pleased, be reconciled to, be unwary, blink at, butt out, connive at, disregard, do nothing, do without, eschew, fight shy of, forbear, forgo, give no heed, give place to, hear nothing, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, ignore, keep aloof, keep away from, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep remote from, leave, leave alone, leave be, let alone, let be, let go by, let pass, make light of, make way for, miss, never touch, not attend, not butt in, not get involved, not heed, not interfere, not listen, not make waves, not meddle, not meddle with, not notice, not tamper, not touch, oppose change, overlook, pass by, pass over, pass up, pay no attention, pay no mind, refrain, refrain from, rest easy, rest satisfied, see nothing, settle for, shun, slight, spare, stand aloof, stand aloof from, stand pat, stand still, stay detached from, steer clear of, think little of, turn away from, wink at, withhold

• let, OK, accord, accredit, admit, allow, approve, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, assume, authorize, bareboat charter, be afraid, believe, bleed, blockage, blocking, broach, certify, charter, chartered, check, clogging, closing up, closure, commission, concede, conceive, conclude, consent, consider, constriction, cramp, daresay, decant, deduce, deem, delay, detainment, detention, dispense, divine, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, dream, employed, empty, endorse, exhaust, expect, fancy, farm, farm out, feel, fixation, foot-dragging, gather, give leave, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, grant, hampering, have, hindering, hindrance, hire, hire out, hired, hireling, hiring, holdback, holdup, imagine, impediment, infer, inhibition, interference, interruption, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, leased, leave, lend-lease, let be, let blood, let off, let out, license, make possible, mercenary, milk, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, okay, opine, opposition, paid, permit, phlebotomize, pipette, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, pump, pump out, reckon, release, rent, rent out, rental, rented, repression, repute, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, sanction, say, say the word, setback, siphon off, squeeze, stranglehold, stricture, sublease, subleased, sublet, subrent, suck, suck out, suffer, suppose, suppression, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tap, think, underlet, understand, venesect, vouchsafe

• letdown, abasement, abatement, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, bafflement, balk, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, blunting, buffet, calming, check, comedown, cruel disappointment, damping, dash, dashed hope, deadening, debasement, deceleration, defeat, deflation, delay, demulsion, descent, detention, diminution, disappointment, discomfiture, disgrace, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, drag, dulcification, dulling, dump, ease-off, ease-up, easing, embarrassment, failure, fallen countenance, falling-off, fiasco, fizzle, flagging, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, hangdog look, holdup, hope deferred, humbled pride, humiliation, hushing, lag, leniency, lessening, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, minus acceleration, mirage, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mortification, obstruction, pacification, palliation, put-down, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, retardation, retardment, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setback, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, slack-up, slackening, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, sore disappointment, subduement, tantalization, tease, tempering, tranquilization

• lethal, baleful, baneful, brutal, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, fatal, feral, harmful, hurtful, injurious, internecine, killing, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, mortal, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, prejudicial, savage, scatheful, toxic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent

• lethality, balefulness, banefulness, deadliness, detrimentalness, fatality, harmfulness, hurtfulness, injuriousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, mortality, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, perniciousness, poisonousness, toxicity, unhealthiness, venomousness, viciousness, virulence

• lethargic, Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, cataleptic, comatose, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached, dilatory, disinterested, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, enervated, exanimate, exhausted, fagged out, faineant, fatigued, half asleep, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hopeless, idle, impassive, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed, oscitant, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, resigned, sated, sedated, slack, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stolid, stretchy, stultified, stupefied, stupid, stuporose, stuporous, supine, tired, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, uninterested, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weak, weary, withdrawn, world-weary, yawning, yawny

• lethargy, abstraction, abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, asininity, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, blockishness, boobishness, boorishness, boredom, bovinity, catalepsy, catatonic stupor, cloddishness, coma, comatoseness, compulsion, crassness, crudeness, dejection, denseness, density, depression, detachment, dim-wittedness, dimness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dolce far niente, doltishness, doziness, drowsiness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, dumbness, duncery, elation, emotionalism, encephalitis lethargica, enervation, ennui, euphoria, exhaustion, fatigue, folie du doute, grossness, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, high, hopelessness, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, idleness, impassivity, inactivity, inanimation, inanition, inappetence, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, insensibility, insouciance, jadedness, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, laziness, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lifelessness, listlessness, loutishness, lumpishness, mania, melancholia, mental distress, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, ninnyism, nod, nonchalance, numbness, oafdom, oafishness, obsession, obtuseness, opacity, oscitancy, oscitation, pandiculation, passiveness, passivity, pathological indecisiveness, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, resignation, resignedness, satedness, sedation, shock, simpletonianism, sleep, sleepiness, sleeping sickness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, somnolence, somnolency, sopor, soporifousness, sottishness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stolidity, stretching, stupefaction, stupidity, stupor, supineness, swoon, thanatosis, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, tic, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, trance, twitching, unconcern, unmindfulness, unresponsiveness, unteachability, weakness, weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrongheadedness, yawning, yokelism

• letter carrier, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, bearer, bheesty, busboy, caddie, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, cupbearer, drayman, express, expressman, freighter, gun bearer, hauler, homing pigeon, litter-bearer, mail carrier, mailman, porter, postal clerk, postman, postmaster, postmistress, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, stevedore, stretcher-bearer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wagoner, water boy, water carrier

• letter of credit, CD, IOU, MO, Pastoral Epistle, acceptance, acceptance bill, aerogram, air letter, airgraph, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, billet-doux, blank check, bull, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, chain letter, charge card, charge plate, check, checkbook, cheque, circular note, commercial paper, credit card, credit instrument, credit slip, dead letter, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, deposit slip, dimissorial, dimissory letter, draft, drop letter, due bill, encyclical, exchequer bill, fan letter, form letter, letter of introduction, letters credential, letters of marque, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, love letter, money order, monitory, negotiable instrument, newsletter, nixie, note, note of hand, open letter, paper, pastoral letter, poison-pen letter, postal order, promissory note, round robin, sight bill, sight draft, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant

• letter, PP, RD, RFD, accurately, acknowledgment, advice, airmail, alphabet, alphabetize, answer, art, article, ascender, autograph, back, bastard type, beard, belles-lettres, belly, bevel, billet, black letter, blueprint, body, book post, brainchild, business letter, cap, capital, capitalize, case, character, charactering, characterization, chart, chit, choreography, communication, communique, composition, computer printout, conventional representation, copy, correspondence, counter, culture, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, descender, diagram, direct mail, direct-mail selling, dispatch, document, draft, drama, drawing, edited version, em, embassy, en, engrossment, epistle, erudition, essay, exactly, exemplification, express, face, fair copy, fat-faced type, favor, feet, fiction, figuration, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, font, fourth-class mail, frank, groove, halfpenny post, hieroglyphic, holograph, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, initial, inscribe, italic, junk mail, learning, letter post, letters, ligature, limning, line, literae scriptae, literally, literary artefact, literary production, literatim, literature, logogram, logograph, logotype, lower case, lucubration, mail, mail-order selling, mailing list, majuscule, manuscript, map, mark, matter, memorandum, message, minuscule, missive, musical notation, newspaper post, nick, nonfiction, notation, note, opus, original, paper, parcel post, parchment, penscript, pi, pica, pictogram, picturization, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, pneumatogram, poem, point, portraiture, portrayal, post, post day, precisely, prefigurement, presentment, print, printed matter, printing, printout, production, projection, reading matter, realization, recension, registered mail, release, rendering, rendition, reply, report, representation, rescript, roman, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sans serif, schema, scholarship, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, sea mail, seapost, second draft, shank, shoulder, sic, sign, small cap, small capital, special delivery, special handling, spell out, stamp, stem, strictly, surface mail, syllabary, symbol, tablature, telegram, the written word, thus, to the letter, transcribe, transcript, transcription, transliterate, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typescript, upper case, verbatim, version, word, word for word, work, write, writing

• lettered, abecedarian, abstruse, allographic, alphabetic, capital, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, enlightened, erudite, graphemic, ideographic, knowledgeable, learned, lexigraphic, literal, literary, literate, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pansophic, pictographic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, transliterated, uncial, upper-case, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise

• letterer, amanuensis, calligrapher, chirographer, clerk, copier, copyist, ink spiller, inkslinger, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, recording secretary, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, transcriber, word-slinger, writer

• letterhead, address, billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, cachet, check, colophon, counterfoil, countermark, destination, direction, docket, government mark, government stamp, hallmark, imprint, label, logo, logotype, masthead, name and address, plate, postal zone, price tag, registered trademark, running head, running title, seal, sigil, signet, stamp, sticker, stub, superscription, tag, tally, ticket, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name, zip code, zone

• lettering, Italian hand, Spencerian writing, block letter, bold hand, book hand, chancery hand, copperplate hand, coup de plume, cryptography, cursive, cursive hand, engrossment, epigraph, initialing, ink spilling, inkslinging, inscription, law hand, longhand, macrography, majuscule script, micrography, minuscule script, pen, pen-and-ink, pencil driving, printing, round hand, scrivenery, scrivening, secret writing, text hand, transcription, transliteration, typewriting, typing, uncial, writing

• letterpress, advance sheets, advertising matter, albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, impress, impression, imprint, job printing, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mackle, mimeograph, offcut, offprint, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, print, printed matter, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, reading matter, reissue, relief printing, reprint, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, setoff, sheetwork, stamp, stencil, text, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

• letters of marque, Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, air letter, air piracy, airgraph, airplane hijacking, billet-doux, buccaneering, bull, chain letter, dead letter, dimissorial, dimissory letter, drop letter, encyclical, fan letter, form letter, freebooting, letter of credit, letter of introduction, letters credential, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, love letter, monitory, newsletter, nixie, open letter, pastoral letter, piracy, poison-pen letter, privateering, round robin, skyjacking

• letters, French literature, IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, Renaissance literature, account, alphabet, alphabetics, ancient literature, annals, belles lettres, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, catalog, chronicle, classical scholarship, classicism, classics, contemporary literature, correspondence, culture, documentation, donnishness, erotic literature, erotica, eruditeness, erudition, folk literature, futhark, graphemics, history, humane letters, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, inventory, kitsch, learnedness, list, literacy, literature, medieval literature, memorial, national literature, obscene literature, paleography, pedantism, pedantry, pipe roll, polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, pornographic literature, pornography, pseudonymous literature, reading, record, recording, register, registry, relic, remains, republic of letters, roll, rolls, roster, rota, runic alphabet, scatological literature, scholarship, script, scroll, serious literature, syllabary, table, token, trace, travel literature, underground literature, vestige, wisdom literature, writing system

• letting go, abandonment, abjuration, cession, dispensation, disposal, disposition, dumping, forgoing, forswearing, getting rid of, giving up, recantation, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, sacrifice, surrender, swearing off, yielding

• letup, abatement, abeyance, abridgment, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, breach, break, breath, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, caesura, calming, cease-fire, cessation, check, cigarette break, cocktail hour, coffee break, contraction, dampening, damping, day off, deadening, deceleration, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, delay, demulsion, depreciation, depression, detention, diminishment, diminution, downtime, drag, drop, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease-off, ease-up, easing, enforced respite, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, fissure, flagging, gap, half time, half-time intermission, halt, happy hour, hesitation, hiatus, holdup, holiday, hushing, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval, lacuna, lag, languishment, lapse, layoff, leniency, lessening, letdown, lightening, loosening, lowering, lull, lulling, miniaturization, minus acceleration, mitigation, modulation, mollification, obstruction, off-time, pacification, palliation, pause, plateau, point of repose, quiet spell, quietening, quieting, recess, reduction, relaxation, relief, remission, respite, rest, resting point, retardation, retardment, sagging, scaling down, setback, simplicity, slack-up, slackening, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, spell, stand-down, stay, subduement, subtraction, surcease, suspension, tea break, tempering, time off, time out, tranquilization, truce, vacation, weakening

• leukemia, Christmas disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, acute leukemia, anemia, angiohemophilia, aplastic anemia, chronic leukemia, cyclic neutropenia, erythrocytosis, hemoglobinopathy, hemophilia, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, hypochromic anemia, infectious granuloma, iron deficiency anemia, leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, macrocytic anemia, multiple myeloma, myelogenous leukemia, neutropenia, pernicious anemia, plasma cell leukemia, plasmacytoma, polycythemia, pseudoleukemia, purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, sickle-cell anemia, thalassemia, vascular hemophilia

• leukocyte, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, circulation, clinical dextran, dextran, erythrocyte, globulin, gore, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, isoantibody, lifeblood, neutrophil, opsonin, phagocyte, plasma, plasma substitute, red corpuscle, serum, type O, venous blood, white corpuscle

• Levant, Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Middle East, Near East, New World, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, the old country

• levanter, Euroclydon, Tehuantepec wind, Tehuantepecer, bise, defaulter, delinquent, east wind, easter, easterly, gregale, mistral, nonpayer, north wind, northeaster, norther, northwester, south wind, southeaster, souther, southerly buster, southwester, tax dodger, tax evader, tramontane, welsher, west wind, wester, westerly

• levee, affair, arch dam, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, backstop, ball, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, boom, brawl, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, caucus, cofferdam, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, dam, dance, date, defense, diet, dike, ditch, dock, earthwork, eisteddfod, embankment, fence, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gate, gathering, get-together, gravity dam, groin, housewarming, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, logjam, matinee, meet, meeting, milldam, moat, mole, mound, panel, parapet, party, plenum, portcullis, prom, quay, quorum, rally, rampart, reception, rendezvous, reunion, roadblock, rock-fill dam, salon, seance, seawall, session, shindig, shutter dam, sit-in, sitting, slip, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soiree, stews, stone wall, symposium, synod, tenderloin, turnout, wake, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

• level at, aim, aim at, bend, determine, direct, directionize, fix, fix on, hold on, point, point at, point to, present, set, sight on, train, train upon, turn, turn upon

• level head, aplomb, assurance, balance, common sense, confidence, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, due sense of, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, good sense, horse sense, levelheadedness, plain sense, poise, possession, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, presence of mind, rationality, reason, reasonableness, restraint, saneness, sanity, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-control, self-possession, self-restraint, sense, sensibleness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, soundness, well-regulated mind

• level, IC analysis, accommodate, accordant, address, adjust, aim, akin, alabaster, align, aligned, alike, alkali flat, alluvial plain, altitude, amount, appositive, arrowlike, assimilate to, at full length, at par, attribute, attributive, automatic, balance, balanced, band, basin, beat down, bed, bedding, belt, billiard table, blood, blow down, blow over, bottomland, bowl down, bowl over, bowling alley, bowling green, bracket, branch, break down, bring down, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, bushveld, caliber, campo, cancel, cast, cast down, caste, category, champaign, champaign country, chop down, clan, class, clerestory, coastal plain, commensurate, compass, compensate, complement, consistent, consonant, constant, construction modifier, continuous, coordinate, correspondent, couche, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, course, cut, cut down, cutting, dab, damp, dash down, dead flat, dead level, dead straight, deck, deep structure, defensible, degree, delta, demolish, desert, deserved, destroy, devastate, direct, direct object, division, down, downs, downy, drag, drawn, dress, drop, dub, due, earth, elevation, entresol, equable, equal, equalize, equalized, equate, equilibrize, equitable, equivalent, esplanade, estate, even, even stephen, even up, evenhanded, evenly, extent, fair, fair and square, fell, fetch down, fifty-fifty, filler, first floor, fit, flat, flat country, flatland, flatly, flats, flatten, flattened, flatways, flatwise, floor, flush, focus, form-function unit, function, gallery, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, good, grade, grass veld, grassland, grease, ground, ground floor, group, grouping, half-and-half, harmonize, harrow, head, heading, heath, height, hew down, homaloid, homaloidal, homogeneous, homogenize, honest, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, horizontally, ice, identical, immediate constituent analysis, immutable, in a line, incline, indirect object, integrate, interval, invariable, ivory, just, justifiable, justified, kin, knock down, knock over, knotted, label, lande, lawful, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, lay waste, layer, leap, ledge, legal, leiotrichous, lengthways, lengthwise, level line, level off, level plane, level with, level-headed, levels, like, lineal, linear, llano, lowland, lowlands, lubricate, lunar mare, mahogany, make uniform, marble, mare, mark, mean sea level, measure, measured, measures, mechanical, meet, meet and right, merited, mesa, mesilla, methodic, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, modifier, monolithic, moor, moorland, mow, mow down, nip and tuck, normalize, notch, nuance, object, of a piece, oil, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, on the level, open, open country, order, ordered, orderly, overlayer, overstory, pampa, pampas, par, parallel, parterre, pas, peg, peneplain, period, persistent, phrase structure, pigeonhole, pitch, plain, plains, plane, planish, plaster, plateau, platform, playa, point, poise, position, prairie, precipitate, predicament, predicate, prone, proper, proportion, proportionate, prostrate, pull down, qualifier, quits, race, range, rank, ranks, rase, rating, ratio, raze, reach, rectilineal, rectilinear, regular, regularize, regulate, remove, rez-de-chaussee, right, right and proper, rightful, robotlike, roll, roll flat, rolled, round, rubric, ruler-straight, rung, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, same, satin, savanna, scale, scope, sea level, sea of grass, seam, sebkha, section, send headlong, sept, set, shade, shadow, shallow structure, shave, shelf, shoot straight, silk, similar, sincere, slide, slot, slot and filler, smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, space, spread-eagle, square, squashed, squashed flat, stabilize, stable, stage, stair, stalemated, standard, standardize, standing, station, status, steadfast, steady, steamroll, steamroller, step, steppe, stereotype, stint, story, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-shooting, straight-side, straightforward, strain, strata, stratum, streamlined, street floor, strike a balance, structure, suave, subdivision, subgroup, subject, suborder, substratum, superstratum, supinate, supine, surface structure, symmetrize, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, systematic, table, tableland, tabloid, tabular, tagmeme, take down, tear down, tennis court, terrace, thickness, throw, throw down, tied, tier, title, topple, topsoil, train, tread, tree veld, trip, trodden, trodden flat, true, tumble, tundra, turn, unalterable, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncurved, undeflected, underlayer, underlying structure, understory, understratum, undeviating, undifferentiated, undistorted, undiversified, uniform, uniformize, uninterrupted, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unswerving, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, up on, upland, upright, vega, veld, velvet, vertical, very, warrantable, warranted, water level, weald, whack down, wide-open spaces, with, wold, word arrangement, word order, wreck, zero, zone

• level-headed, calm, collected, composed, cool, even-tempered, imperturbable, level, poised, reasonable, relaxed, sane, self-possessed, sensible, serene, tranquil, undisturbed, unflappable, unperturbed, unruffled, well-balanced

• levelheaded, assured, balanced, calm, collected, commonsense, composed, confident, cool, coolheaded, dispassionate, equable, equanimous, equilibrious, even, even-tempered, logical, philosophical, poised, practical, pragmatic, rational, reasonable, recollected, reposeful, sane, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-possessed, self-restrained, sensible, serene, sober, sober-minded, sound, together, tranquil, well-balanced

• lever, Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appliance, bar, beam, boom, cant hook, claw bar, contrivance, crab, crane, crank, creature, crow, crowbar, derrick, device, dummy, dupe, erector, forklift, gantry crane, get a foothold, get leverage, go-between, handmaid, handmaiden, handspike, hoist, hydraulic tailgate, implement, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, iron crow, jack, jackscrew, jimmy, lift, lifter, limb, marlinespike, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, minion, organ, outrigger, pawn, peavey, pedal, pinch bar, plaything, prize, pry, puppet, ripping bar, servant, slave, spar, stooge, tackle, tool, toy, treadle, vehicle, wedge, windlass, wrecking bar

• leverage, aeromechanics, animal mechanics, ascendancy, authority, biomechanics, celestial mechanics, charisma, charm, clout, consequence, control, credit, dominance, domination, effect, electromechanics, eminence, enchantment, esteem, favor, fluid mechanics, force, good feeling, hold, hydromechanics, importance, incidental power, influence, influentiality, insinuation, leadership, magnetism, mastery, mechanical arts, mechanics, moment, personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige, purchase, quantum mechanics, rational mechanics, reign, repute, rule, say, servomechanics, statistical mechanics, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, supremacy, sway, upper hand, wave mechanics, weight, whip hand, zoomechanics

• leviathan, argosy, bark, boat, bottom, bucket, craft, cyclopean, dinosaur, elephant, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, hippo, hippopotamus, hooker, hulk, hull, immense, jumbo, keel, mammoth, mastodon, monster, packet, ship, tub, vessel, watercraft, whale

• levitate, arise, ascend, boost, buoy up, cast up, come up, curl upwards, elevate, erect, escalate, float, go up, grow up, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, jerk up, knock up, lift, lift up, lob, loft, loom, mount, perk up, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, set up, sky, spiral, spire, stand up, stick up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, throw up, tower, up, upbuoy, upcast, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upthrow, upwind

• levitation, Ouija, airiness, anabasis, ascension, ascent, automatic writing, automatism, bubbliness, buoyancy, clamber, climb, climbing, daintiness, delicacy, downiness, elevation, escalade, ethereality, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, fountain, frothiness, gentleness, gossameriness, gush, gyring up, increase, jet, jump, lack of weight, leap, levity, lightness, materialization, mount, mounting, planchette, poltergeist, poltergeistism, psychography, psychorrhagy, rise, rising, rocketing up, saltation, shooting up, soaring, softness, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, spout, spring, spurt, surge, table tipping, takeoff, taking off, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, tenderness, trance speaking, unheaviness, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, volatility, weightlessness, yeastiness, zooming

• levity, absentmindedness, absurdity, airiness, amusement, ascent, banter, big deal, booing, bounce, breeziness, bubbliness, buoyancy, carefreeness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing, changeableness, chirpiness, coquettishness, daintiness, debonairness, delicacy, derision, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, downiness, emptiness, ethereality, facetiousness, faddishness, faddism, fickleness, fleering, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, folly, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, fun, futility, gentleness, giddiness, glee, gleefulness, gossameriness, grinning, heedlessness, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, hissing, hooting, idleness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inanity, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, inconstancy, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, jauntiness, jeering, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joshing, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, lack of weight, laughter, leering, levitation, light heart, lightheartedness, lightmindedness, lightness, lightsomeness, mercuriality, mercurialness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, mockery, negligence, nonobservance, nugacity, obliviousness, panning, perkiness, pertness, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, ragging, raillery, rallying, razzing, regardlessness, resilience, ridicule, roasting, roguishness, scoffing, shallowness, silliness, skittishness, slenderness, slightness, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, softness, sportiveness, superficiality, taunting, tenderness, thoughtlessness, trickery, trickiness, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialization, trivialness, twitting, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, undependability, unheaviness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unpredictability, unreliability, unwariness, unwatchfulness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity, volatility, waggery, waggishness, weightlessness, yeastiness

• levy, angary, annex, annexation, annexure, ask, ask for, assess, assessment, attach, attachment, beat the drums, blackmail, boot, bugle call, burden with, call, call for, call to arms, call up, call-up, catchword, cess, challenge, charge, charge for, claim, clamor for, clarion, clarion call, collectivization, collectivize, commandeer, commandeering, communalization, communalize, communization, communize, compulsory military service, confiscate, confiscation, conscience money, conscript, conscription, contribution, cry for, demand, demand for, detach, detach for service, direct tax, distrain, distraint, distress, draft, draft call, drafted man, draftee, drafting, drain, duty, eminent domain, enjoin, enlist, enlistee, enlistment, enroll, enrollee, enrollment, exact, exaction, execution, exhortation, expropriate, expropriation, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, fasten upon, freight with, garnish, garnishment, go for broke, graduated taxation, gung ho, heavy demand, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposition, impost, impound, impoundment, impress, impressment, indent, indirect tax, induct, inductee, induction, inflict on, inflict upon, insistent demand, issue an ultimatum, join, joint return, lay, lay on, list, make a demand, make dutiable, mobilization, mobilize, muster, muster in, nationalization, nationalize, nonnegotiable demand, notice, order, order up, place, place an order, press, pro rata, progressive tax, prorate, put, put down, put in requisition, put on, put upon, raise, rally, rallying cry, raw recruit, rebel yell, recruit, recruiting, recruitment, replevin, replevy, require, requirement, requisition, right of angary, rookie, rush, rush order, saddle with, screw, selectee, selective service, separate returns, sequester, sequestrate, sequestration, set, sign on, sign up, single tax, slogan, socialization, socialize, stick for, subject to, summon, summons, supertax, surtax, tariff, task, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, tenderfoot, tithe, toll, trainee, tribute, trumpet call, ultimatum, war cry, war whoop, warn, warning, watchword, weight down with, withholding tax, wrest, wring, yoke with

• lewd, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, blue, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, debauched, dirty, dissolute, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, hircine, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, improper, impure, incontinent, indecent, indelicate, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, raw, ribald, rude, ruttish, salacious, satyric, satyrical, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, suggestive, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, unvirtuous, vile, wild

• lewdness, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, animality, bawdiness, bawdry, blue movie, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature, eroticism, eroticomania, erotographomania, erotomania, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, fleshliness, foulness, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hysteromania, iconolagny, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, lickerishness, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, nastiness, nymphomania, obscenity, offensiveness, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, prurience, pruriency, randiness, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, scurrility, sensuality, sexiness, sexploitation, sexuality, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, uteromania, vileness

• lex, act, bill, bylaw, canon, decree, dictate, dictation, edict, enactment, form, formality, formula, formulary, institution, jus, law, legislation, measure, ordinance, ordonnance, prescript, prescription, regulation, rubric, rule, ruling, standing order, statute

• lexeme, antonym, articulation, expression, free form, glosseme, homograph, homonym, homophone, icon, lexical form, linguistic form, locution, logos, metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, morpheme, phrase, polysyllable, semasiological unit, sememe, sign, signifiant, significant, syllable, symbol, synonym, term, token, type, usage, utterance, verbalism, verbum, vocable, word

• lexical, conjugate, derivative, echoic, etymologic, glossematic, iconic, lexemic, lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, morphemic, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, paronymic, paronymous, phrasal, semantic, semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, symbolic, verbal

• lexicographer, allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, dialectician, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender, etymologer, etymologist, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, glossarist, glossographer, go-between, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, guide, hermeneut, interpreter, lexicologist, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, metaphrast, oneirocritic, orthoepist, paleographer, paraphrast, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologist, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, scholiast, semanticist, semasiologist, textual critic, translator

• lexicography, criticism, cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology, diagnostics, epigraphy, exegetics, glossography, hermeneutics, lexicology, lexigraphy, literary criticism, metoposcopy, oneirology, onomasiology, onomastics, onomatology, paleography, pathognomy, physiognomics, physiognomy, semantics, semasiology, semeiology, semeiotics, symptomatology, textual criticism, tropology

• lexicologist, dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologist, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, semanticist, semasiologist

• lexicology, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossography, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicography, lexicostatistics, lexigraphy, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, onomasiology, onomastics, onomatology, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantics, semasiology, semiotic, semiotics, significs, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics

• lexicon, biographical dictionary, cant, chemical dictionary, desk dictionary, dialect dictionary, dictionary, dictionary of quotations, electronics dictionary, etymological dictionary, foreign-language dictionary, gazetteer, general dictionary, geological dictionary, gloss, glossary, gradus, jargon, language, lexis, nomenclator, onomasticon, palaver, phrase book, phraseology, polyglot dictionary, promptorium, rhyming dictionary, science dictionary, slang dictionary, specialized dictionary, stock of words, synonym dictionary, synonymy, terminology, thesaurus, treasury of words, unabridged dictionary, verbiage, vocabulary, word list, wordage, wordbook, wordhoard, words

• lexigraphic, abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, capital, conjugate, derivative, echoic, etymologic, graphemic, ideographic, lettered, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, paronymic, paronymous, pictographic, transliterated, uncial, upper-case

• liabilities, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, assets, budget, budget items, budgeting, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charges, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costing-out, costs, direct costs, disbursals, distributed costs, expenditures, expense, expense account, expenses, general expenses, indirect costs, labor costs, material costs, operating costs, operating expense, outstanding accounts, overhead, prime cost, receipts, replacement cost, swindle sheet, unit cost, unpaid accounts

• liability, a thing for, accountability, accountableness, accounts payable, accounts receivable, affinity, amenability, amount due, answerability, answerableness, aptitude, aptness, arrearage, arrears, bad debts, barrier, bent, bias, bill, bills, borrowing, burden, cast, chance, charges, chits, conatus, conduciveness, damage, debit, debt, dedication to duty, defenselessness, delight, detriment, devotion to duty, diathesis, disadvantage, disposition, drawback, due, dues, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness, encumbrance, expectation, exposure, fair expectation, favorable prospect, feeling for, financial commitment, floating debt, funded debt, good chance, handicap, harm, helplessness, hindrance, hitch, hurt, impairment, impediment, inclination, incumbency, indebtedness, indebtment, injury, leaning, likelihood, likeliness, liking, loss, loss of ground, maturity, mischief, nakedness, national debt, nonimmunity, obligation, obstacle, obstruction, odds, onus, openness, outlook, outstanding debt, penchant, pledge, predilection, predisposition, prejudice, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, prospect, public debt, readiness, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, responsibility, responsibleness, score, sense of duty, sense of obligation, sensitivity to, snag, soft spot, step backward, susceptibility, tendency, tropism, turn, twist, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, verisimilitude, vulnerability, warp, weakness, well-grounded hope, willingness

• liable to, answerable for, apt to, calculated to, capable of, dependent on, disposed to, exposed to, given to, in danger of, incident to, inclined to, likely to, minded to, naked to, obliged to, open to, predisposed to, prone to, ready for, ready to, responsible for, standing to, subject to, susceptive to, within range of

• liable, accountable, actionable, amenable, answerable, answerable for, apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, blameworthy, bound, chargeable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, fair, foreseeable, given, hopeful, in the cards, inclined, likely, naked, nonimmune, obligated, obnoxious, odds-on, open, penetrable, pledged, predictable, predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, prone, responsible, responsible for, sensitive, statistically probable, subject, susceptible, tied, to blame, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable

• liaison, accord, addition, adjunct, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, alliance, amor, amour, approximation, articulation, assemblage, association, bond, bracketing, broker, closeness, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, contact, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, copulation, coupling, cuckoldry, dealings, deduction, disjunction, distributor, entanglement, eternal triangle, filiation, flirtation, forbidden love, gathering, go-between, hanky-panky, homology, hookup, illicit love, infidelity, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, intermediary, intermedium, intimacy, intrigue, jobber, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, link, linkage, linking, love affair, marriage, mediary, mediator, medium, meeting, merger, merging, middleman, mutual attraction, nearness, pairing, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, romance, romantic tie, similarity, splice, symbiosis, sympathy, tie, tie-in, tie-up, triangle, unfaithfulness, unification, union, wholesaler, yoking

• liana, algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack

• liar, Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, mythomaniac, palterer, pathological liar, perjurer, prevaricator, pseudologist, pseudologue, spinner of yarns, storyteller, teller of tales, yarn spinner, yarner

• libation, beverage, bumper, burnt offering, collection, draft, dram, drench, drink, drink offering, drop, ex voto offering, gargle, gulp, guzzle, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide, jigger, jolt, lap, mactation, nip, oblation, offering, offertory, peace offering, peg, piacular offering, portion, potation, potion, pull, quaff, round, round of drinks, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, shot, sip, slurp, snifter, snort, spot, suck, sup, suttee, sutteeism, swig, swill, thank offering, tot, votive offering, wet, whole offering

• libel, affidavit, allegation, asperse, aspersion, backbite, backbiting, bad-mouth, barefaced lie, belittle, belittlement, besmirch, bill, bill of complaint, bitchiness, blacken, blot, burlesque, calumniate, calumniation, calumny, caricature, cattiness, claim, complaint, consummate lie, declaration, defamation, defame, denigrate, denigration, denounce, denunciation, deposition, deprecate, deprecation, depreciate, depreciation, derogate, derogation, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, disparagement, falsehood, humiliate, humiliation, ill repute, innuendo, insinuate, insinuation, lie, malign, misrepresent, misrepresentation, monstrous lie, mortification, mortify, narratio, nolle prosequi, nonsuit, obloquy, out-and-out lie, prevarication, scandal, scandalize, shame, slander, slur, smear, smirch, stain, statement, statement of facts, stigma, stigmatize, tear down, the big lie, traduce, traducement, travesty, untruth, vilification, vilify, whopper

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

• liberal arts, academic specialty, area, classical education, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, discipline, elective, field, general education, general studies, humanities, major, minor, proseminar, quadrivium, refresher course, scientific education, seminar, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject, technical education, trivium

• liberal, Gospel side, abounding, abundant, advanced, affluent, all-sufficing, amiable, ample, aplenty, benevolent, big, big person, bighearted, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, broad-gauge person, broad-minded, cantorial side, charitable, chivalrous, copious, cordial, counterclockwise, diffuse, disinterested, dispassionate, ecumenicist, effuse, eleemosynary, elevated, epidemic, exalted, exhaustless, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fair, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, fat, fertile, flexible, flush, forbearing, free, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freehanded, freehearted, freethinker, freethinking, friendly, full, galore, generous, genial, giving, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hearty, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, humanistic, idealistic, impartial, in plenty, in quantity, independent, indiscriminate, individualist, individualistic, indulgent, inexhaustible, isolationist, knightly, larboard, large, large-scale, largehearted, latitudinarian, lavish, left, left hand, left of center, left wing, left-hand, left-hand side, left-wing, left-winger, left-wingish, leftist, lenient, levorotatory, liberalist, liberalistic, libertarian, libertine, lofty, loose, luxuriant, magnanimous, many, maximal, much, mugwump, munificent, near, near side, neighborly, neutral, nigh, noble, noble-minded, nonpartisan, numerous, on the left, open, open-handed, open-minded, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overflowing, philanthropic, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, port, port tack, portside, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, progressive, progressivist, progressivistic, radical, rampant, receptive, reformer, reformist, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rugged individualist, running over, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, stintless, sublime, superabundant, sweeping, teeming, third force, third world, tolerant, unbigoted, ungrudging, unjaundiced, unopinionated, unprejudiced, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, verso, warm, warmhearted, wealthy, welcoming, welfare stater, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread, wrong side

• liberalism, broad-mindedness, capitalism, catholicity, free competition, free enterprise, free thought, free trade, freethinking, isolationism, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, latitudinarianism, left, left wing, leftism, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarianism, libertinism, noninterference, nonintervention, open-mindedness, progressivism, self-regulating market, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness

• liberality, Trinkgeld, abundance, accommodation, accordance, affluence, amiability, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, award, awarding, bestowal, bestowment, bigheartedness, bigness, bonanza, bonhomie, bonus, bountifulness, bountiousness, bounty, bribe, bumper crop, catholicity, chivalrousness, chivalry, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, consideration, contribution, copiousness, cordiality, deliverance, delivery, donation, donative, double time, elevation, endowment, errantry, exaltation, extravagance, exuberance, fee, fertility, flood, flow, foison, free thought, freethinking, friendliness, full measure, fullness, furnishment, generosity, generousness, geniality, gifting, giving, graciousness, grant, granting, gratuity, gravy, grease, great abundance, great heart, great plenty, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, gush, heartiness, heroism, high-mindedness, honorarium, hospitableness, hospitality, idealism, impartation, impartment, incentive pay, inducement, investiture, knight-errantry, knightliness, lagniappe, landslide, largeheartedness, largess, latitudinarianism, lavishness, liberalism, liberalness, libertarianism, loftiness, lots, luxuriance, magnanimity, magnanimousness, maximum, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, neighborliness, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, numerousness, offer, open door, openhandedness, openheartedness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, palm oil, perks, perquisite, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pourboire, premium, presentation, presentment, prevalence, princeliness, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, provision, quantities, receptiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, salve, scads, shower, something extra, spate, sportula, stream, sublimity, subscription, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, supplying, surrender, sweetener, teemingness, tip, vouchsafement, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth, wealth

• liberally, abundantly, affluently, aplenty, bigheartedly, bottomlessly, bounteously, bountifully, chivalrously, 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, knightly, largeheartedly, lavishly, magnanimously, maximally, no end, nobly, openhandedly, openheartedly, opulently, overflowingly, plenteously, plentifully, prodigally, profusely, richly, riotously, superabundantly, to the full, ungrudgingly, unselfishly, unsparingly, unstintingly, with both hands, with open hands, without stint

• liberate, affranchise, appropriate, cast off, clear, deliver, detach, disburden, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, disinvolve, doff, ease, emancipate, enfranchise, extract, extricate, free, free up, let go, let loose, let off, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, pilfer, purloin, ransom, recover, redeem, release, remove, rescue, retrieve, salvage, save, set at large, set at liberty, set free, steal, take, take off, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, unclutter, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unglue, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unscramble, unshackle, unsnarl, unstick, unstrap, untangle, untie, weigh anchor

• liberated, afoot and lighthearted, at large, at liberty, clear, delivered, detached, disengaged, easygoing, emancipated, extricated, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, go-as-you-please, in the clear, loose, on parole, on the loose, redeemed, released, rescued, scot-free, unattached, unbound, uncommitted, unengaged, uninvolved, unshackled, untied

• liberation, abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement, enfranchising, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, filching, flight, fraud, free thought, freeing, freethinking, getaway, graft, issuance, issue, jailbreak, latitudinarianism, leak, leakage, liberalism, libertarianism, libertinism, lifesaving, lifting, loosing, open-mindedness, outlet, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prisonbreak, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, releasing, rescue, rescuing, retrieval, riddance, salvage, salvation, saving, scrounging, setting-free, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unchaining, unfettering, unshackling, vent

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

• libertine, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Paphian, adulterer, amoral, bestial, broad-minded, carnal, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, decadent, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dirty old man, dissolute, fast, filthy, fornicator, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freethinker, freethinking, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, goatish, heartbreaker, hircine, horny, immoral, incontinent, independent, individualist, isolationist, lady-killer, lascivious, latitudinarian, lecher, lecherous, lewd, liberal, libertarian, libidinous, licentious, lover-boy, lubricious, lubricous, lustful, masher, mugwump, neutral, nonpartisan, old goat, open-minded, philander, philanderer, philandering, profligate, prurient, rake, rakehell, rakish, randy, reprobate, rip, roue, rounder, rugged individualist, ruttish, salacious, satyric, satyrical, seducer, skirt chaser, swinger, third force, third world, tolerant, unbigoted, walking phallus, wanton, whoremonger, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer

• libertinism, broad-mindedness, debauchery, debauchment, dissipation, dissoluteness, fastness, free thought, freethinking, gallantry, latitudinarianism, liberalism, liberation, libertarianism, libertinage, license, licentiousness, open-mindedness, profligacy, rakishness, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unbridledness, venery, wenching, whoring, wildness

• liberty, Lehrfreiheit, OK, a leg up, academic freedom, admission, allowance, assumption, at liberty, authorization, autonomy, blank check, brevet, carte blanche, chance, charter, clear stage, concession, consent, constitutional freedom, copyright, delivery, diploma, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, emancipation, enfranchisement, exception, exemption, fair field, fair game, familiarity, favor, franchise, free, freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of worship, furlough, grant, holiday, hubris, immunity, imposition, independence, indulgence, initiative, lawlessness, leave, leave of absence, legislative immunity, letters patent, liberated, liberation, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, loose, occasion, okay, opening, opportunism, opportunity, paid holiday, paid vacation, patent, permission, permission to enter, place, prerogative, presumption, presumptuousness, privilege, release, right, room, royal grant, run, sabbatical, sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, scope, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, shore leave, sovereignty, special favor, special permission, stepping-stone, the Four Freedoms, the run of, ticket, ticket of admission, time, time off, unconstrained, undue liberty, unfettered, uninhibited, unrestrained, unrestricted, vacation, vouchsafement, waiver, warrant, weekend

• libidinal, amorous, appetitive, automatic, carnal, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, eager, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, fleshly, gamic, heterosexual, hoping, hormic, impulsive, inherent, innate, instinctive, involuntary, lascivious, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, natural, needing, nuptial, optative, oversexed, potent, procreative, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, spontaneous, straight, subliminal, tempted, unconscious, undersexed, unlearned, venereal, voluptuous, wanting, wishing

• libidinous, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, bawdy, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, fleshly, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, hoping, hormic, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, incontinent, itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinal, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene, optative, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, priapic, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, steamy, tempted, unsatisfied, wanting, wishing

• libido, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, anima, archetypal pattern, archetype, ardency, ardor, attachment, blind impulse, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, carnality, charity, coconscious, coldness, collective unconscious, concupiscence, conjugal love, conscience, conscious self, curiosity, death instinct, desideration, desire, devotion, drive, eagerness, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, ethical self, faithful love, fancy, fantasy, fervor, flame, flesh, fleshliness, fondness, foreconscious, free love, free-lovism, frigidity, heart, hero worship, hope, horme, id, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impotence, impulse, inborn proclivity, instinct, intellectual curiosity, lasciviousness, libidinal energy, like, liking, love, lovemaking, lust for learning, marriage, married love, mind, motive force, natural instinct, natural tendency, need, passion, persona, personality, physical love, pleasure, pleasure principle, popular regard, popularity, potency, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, regard, self, sensuality, sentiment, sex, sex drive, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual instinct, sexual love, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, shine, spiritual love, subconscious, subconscious mind, subconscious urge, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, tender feeling, tender passion, thirst for knowledge, truelove, unconscious, unconscious mind, unlearned capacity, unreasoning impulse, urge, uxoriousness, vital impulse, voluptuousness, want, wanting, weakness, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, worship, yearning

• librarian, MC, accountant, amanuensis, archivist, attorney, bailiff, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, bookkeeper, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, butler, cataloger, chief librarian, clerk, college editor, copy editor, croupier, curator, custodian, dictionary editor, documentalist, editor, editor-in-chief, emcee, engraver, executive editor, factor, filing clerk, guardian, housekeeper, juvenile editor, landreeve, library director, majordomo, managing editor, marker, master of ceremonies, notary, notary public, permissions editor, philobiblist, printer, proctor, procurator, production editor, prothonotary, publisher, record clerk, recorder, recordist, reference editor, reference librarian, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, seneschal, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, textbook editor, timekeeper, trade editor

• library, ALA, American Library Association, Bodleian Library, British Museum, Festschrift, Indian reservation, Library of Congress, Vatican Library, ana, anthology, aquarium, archives, armory, arsenal, atelier, athenaeum, attic, back number, bank, basement, bay, bibliotheca, bin, bird sanctuary, body, bonded warehouse, book wagon, bookcase, bookery, bookmobile, bookroom, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, chrestomathy, circulating library, closet, collectanea, collection, compilation, conservatory, copy, corpus, crate, crib, cupboard, data, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, edition, exchequer, florilegium, forest preserve, fund, game reserve, glory hole, godown, hold, holdings, hutch, impression, issue, lending library, library edition, locker, loft, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, menagerie, museum, national forest, national park, number, office, paradise, park, preserve, printing, public library, rack, raw data, reading room, rental library, repertory, repository, reservation, reserve, reservoir, rick, sail loft, sanctuary, school edition, series, set, shelf, stack, stack room, stacks, state forest, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, studio, study, supply base, supply depot, tank, trade book, trade edition, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, volume, warehouse, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, wine cellar, workroom, zoo

• librettist, Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, arranger, ballad maker, balladeer, balladist, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, choreographer, comedian, composer, contrapuntist, dramatist, dramatizer, dramaturge, elegist, epic poet, ethnomusicologist, farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcist, fili, gagman, harmonist, harmonizer, hymnist, hymnographer, hymnologist, idyllist, imagist, joke writer, jokesmith, jongleur, laureate, madrigalist, major poet, maker, melodist, melodizer, melodramatist, mimographer, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, monodramatist, musicographer, musicologist, occasional poet, odist, orchestrator, pastoral poet, pastoralist, play doctor, play fixer, playwright, playwriter, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scenario writer, scenarioist, scenarist, scop, scorer, scriptwriter, skald, song writer, songsmith, sonneteer, symbolist, symphonist, tone poet, tragedian, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, tunesmith, vers libriste, vers-librist

• libretto, arrangement, book, continuity, copy, cue, draft, edition, hymnal, hymnbook, instrumental score, lines, lute tablature, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, notation, opera, opera score, orchestral score, part, piano score, playbook, scenario, scene plot, score, script, sheet music, shooting script, short score, side, songbook, songster, tablature, text, transcript, transcription, version, vocal score, written music

• licence, authority, authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter, credentials, departure, deviation, dispensation, disregard, divergence, entitlement, free choice, freedom, latitude, leave, liberty, nonconformity, papers, permission, permit, privilege, right

• license, Lehrfreiheit, OK, academic freedom, accredit, admission, agency, agentship, allow, allowance, anarchy, approve, assign, assignment, assumption, authority, authorization, authorize, blank check, brevet, building permit, care, carte blanche, certificate, certify, chaos, charge, charter, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, confusion, consent, consign, consignment, constitutional freedom, copyright, cure, debauchery, debauchment, delegate, delegated authority, delegation, deputation, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolution, devolve, devolve upon, devolvement, diplomatic immunity, discharge, disobedience, dispensation, dissipation, dissoluteness, document, embassy, empower, empowerment, enable, enfranchise, entitle, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, errand, exception, executorship, exemption, exequatur, fabulous formless darkness, factorship, familiarity, fastness, favor, fishing license, foul-up, franchise, freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of worship, full power, gallantry, give in charge, give official sanction, give power, grant, hassle, hubris, hunting license, immunity, imposition, imprimatur, indiscipline, indulgence, insubordination, interregnum, irresponsibility, jurisdiction, lawlessness, laxity, leave, legalize, legation, legislative immunity, legitimize, let, liberties, libertinage, libertinism, liberty, liberty abused, licentiousness, lieutenancy, loose, looseness, mandate, misrule, mission, mix-up, morass, muddle, mutiny, nihil obstat, office, okay, patent, permission, permission to enter, permit, plenipotentiary power, post, power of attorney, power to act, power vacuum, presumption, presumptuousness, privilege, procuration, profligacy, proxy, purview, rakishness, rampant will, ratify, regency, regentship, relaxation, release, responsibility, run, sanction, screw-up, send out, slackness, snafu, special favor, special permission, suffer, task, the Four Freedoms, the run of, ticket, ticket of admission, transfer, trust, trusteeship, unaccountability, unbridledness, uncontrol, undue liberty, unrestraint, validate, venery, vicarious authority, vouchsafement, waiver, warrant, wenching, whoring, wildness, willfulness

• licensed, authorized, chartered, empowered, enfranchised, entitled, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, favored, franchised, immune, irresponsible, let off, patented, permitted, privileged, released, sanctioned, spared, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject, warranted

• licentious, abandoned, amoral, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved, disobedient, dissipated, dissolute, fast, fleshly, free, free-living, gallant, gay, go-go, headstrong, heady, high-living, hubristic, immoderate, immoral, incontinent, indulgent, insubordinate, intemperate, irrepressible, irresponsible, lascivious, lawless, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, loose, lustful, mutinous, nonrestrictive, out of control, out of hand, oversexed, permissive, presuming, presumptuous, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant, randy, reinless, relaxed, reprobate, riotous, salacious, satyric, scabrous, self-willed, sensual, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoral, unmuzzled, unprincipled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, wanton, wild, wildcat, willful

• lichen, acne, acne vulgaris, algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, diatom, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, heat rash, herb, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, heterophyte, hives, impetigo, itch, ivy, jungle rot, kelp, legume, lentil, leprosy, liana, lichen primus, liverwort, lupus, lupus vulgaris, miliaria, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, pemphigus, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psora, puffball, pulse, red algae, ringworm, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, scabies, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, shingles, skin cancer, smut, succulent, tetter, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack

• licit, actionable, admissible, allowable, applicable, approved, authorized, competent, constitutional, innocent, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, legitimized, licensed, permissible, rightful, sanctionable, sanctioned, statutory, valid, warrantable, within the law

• lick, addle, amaze, approach, assay, attempt, baffle, bamboozle, bang, bash, bat, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beating, belt, best, bid, biff, bite, blow, boggle, bonk, breath, brush, buffalo, cadenza, career, caress, cast, chop, clip, clobber, clout, clump, confound, conk, conquer, contact, crack, cut, cutaneous sense, dash, daze, defeat, destroy, dig, dint, dirty work, do in, donkeywork, down, dress down, drub, drubbing, drudgery, drumming, effort, employment, endeavor, essay, experiment, extempore, fag, fatigue, feel, feeling, fingertip caress, fix, flax, flick, fling, floor, flourish, fuddle, fusillade, gait, gambit, get, give a dressing-down, glance, gleam, go, graze, grind, hand-mindedness, handiwork, handwork, hide, hint, hit, hors de combat, hot lick, hurdle, idea, impromptu, improvisation, industry, interpolation, intimation, jab, keep in suspense, kiss, knock, labor, lambaste, lambency, lap, lap up, larrup, lather, leather, lick of work, light touch, look, manual labor, master, maze, moil, mouth, move, muddle, mystify, nonplus, offer, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overwhelm, pace, paddle, pelt, perplex, plunk, poke, pound, progress, punch, put, puzzle, rap, rat race, rate, riff, rub, ruin, scintilla, scut work, sense of touch, settle, shade, shadow, shellac, shot, sip, skin, skin alive, slam, slavery, slog, slug, slurp, smack, smash, smattering, smear, smell, smother, soak up, sock, soupcon, spadework, spark, sponge up, sprinkling, stab, step, stick, stride, stroke, stroke of work, strong bid, stump, suggestion, sup, surmount, suspicion, swat, sweat, swing, swipe, tactile sense, taction, take the cake, tan, tap, task, taste, tattoo, tentative, tentative poke, thought, thrash, throw, thump, thwack, tincture, tinge, tiresome work, toil, tongue, touch, trace, travail, travel, tread, treadmill, trial, trial and error, trim, triumph, triumph over, trounce, try, undertaking, undo, vamp, wallop, welt, whack, whale, whiff, whip, whisper, whop, win, wipe, work, worst, yerk

• licked, addled, all up with, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beaten, bested, buffaloed, confounded, dazed, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, fuddled, hors de combat, in a dilemma, in suspense, lambasted, lathered, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, perplexed, put to rout, puzzled, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, stampeded, stuck, stumped, thrown, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed, whipped, worsted

• lickerish, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, bawdy, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fleshly, goatish, gynecomaniacal, hoping, hormic, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, lubricious, lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene, optative, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, priapic, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, steamy, tempted, unsatisfied, wanting, wishing

• lickety split, amain, apace, at flank speed, double-quick, expeditiously, fast, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in seven-league boots, lickety-cut, on the double, post, posthaste, promptly, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappily, speedily, swiftly, trippingly, under forced draft, whip and spur, with all haste, with giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed

• licking, Waterloo, appetite, beating, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, collapse, conquering, conquest, consumption, crash, cropping, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, deglutition, destruction, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, downfall, dressing-down, drubbing, eating, epulation, failure, fall, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hiding, hunger, ingestion, lambasting, larruping, lathering, leathering, manducation, mastery, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, paddling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, quietus, regalement, relishing, rout, ruin, rumination, savoring, shellacking, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, tanning, tasting, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, vegetarianism, walloping, whaling, whipping, wolfing

• lid, baby blues, banjo eyes, bright eyes, bung, cap, chapeau, check valve, clear eyes, cock, cork, cornea, cover, coverchief, eye, eyeball, eyelid, faucet, goggle eyes, handkerchief, hat, headcloth, headdress, headgear, headpiece, headtire, headwear, iris, kerchief, lens, millinery, naked eye, nictitating membrane, oculus, operculum, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, peeper, peg, pin, plug, popeyes, pupil, retina, saucer eyes, sclera, sea cock, spigot, spike, spile, spill, starry orbs, stop, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tap, top, unaided eye, valve, visual organ

• lido, bank, beach, berm, coast, coastland, coastline, embankment, foreshore, ironbound coast, littoral, plage, playa, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, strand, submerged coast, tidewater, waterfront, waterside

• lie down, bed, bed down, couch, crawl, curl up, go to bed, go to rest, grovel, lay, lie, lie flat, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, loll, lounge, prone, prostrate, recline, repose, rest, settle to rest, snug down, sprawl, stretch out, supinate, take it easy, take life easy

• lie in wait, abide, ambuscade, ambush, await, bide, couch, creep, gumshoe, lay for, lay wait, lay wait for, lie in ambush, lurk, mark time, nightwalk, prowl, pussyfoot, shadow, sit up for, skulk, slink, sneak, stalk, stay up for, steal, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, tiptoe, wait, wait for, wait on, wait up for, watch, watch and wait, waylay

• lie in, abide in, approach anchorage, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be confined, be constituted by, be contained in, be found, be located, be present in, be situated, bear, bear a child, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up for, bear up to, bear young, calve, cast, close with, consist in, drop, dwell in, exist in, farrow, fawn, fetch, foal, give birth, go aboard, go alongside, have, have a baby, have young, inhabit, inhere in, kitten, labor, lamb, lay aboard, lay for, lay in, lie, litter, make, make at, make for, pup, put away for, put in, put into port, reach, repose, repose in, reside in, rest, rest in, run for, sail for, stand, stand for, steer toward, subsist in, throw, travail, whelp, yean

• lie low, be incognito, be latent, beware, burrow, couch, crawl, crouch, disappear, drop from sight, escape notice, go into hiding, go to ground, go underground, grovel, have a care, hibernate, hide, hide away, hide out, hole up, hug the earth, lie, lie beneath, lie close, lie doggo, lie dormant, lie hid, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie snug, lie under, look about one, look out, look sharp, lurk, make no sign, masquerade, mind, play peekaboo, qui vive, remain anonymous, retire from sight, sit tight, smolder, squat, stay in hiding, take care, take cover, take heed, underlie, watch out, wear a mask

• lie on, abut on, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be predicated on, bear hard upon, bear on, bear upon, bestraddle, bestride, burden, depend, depend on, go hard with, go ill with, hang, hang on, hinge, hinge on, lean on, lie with, load, oppress, overburden, overload, perch, press, press down, rely on, repose on, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, ride, sit on, stand on, straddle, stride, try one, turn on, turn upon, weigh down, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon

• lie, aim, aspect, attitude, azimuth, be found, be located, be met with, be present, be situated, be there, be untruthful, bearing, bearings, beguile, bent, blague, bouncer, canard, carry, celestial navigation, cheat, cock-and-bull story, course, cover, crawl, current, dead reckoning, deceitfulness, deceive, delude, direction, direction line, dishonesty, distort, distortion, draw the longbow, drift, dwell in, encompass, environ, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, exaggeration, exist, exposure, extend, fable, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, fix, flam, flimflam, forgery, fraudulence, frontage, ghost story, go, go out, grovel, half-truth, heading, helmsmanship, hold, inaccuracy, inclination, indwell, inhere, inveracity, lay, legal fiction, libel, lie athwart, lie down, lie flat, lie flatly, lie in, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, little white lie, loll, lounge, mendacity, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresentation, misstate, misstatement, myth, navigation, occur, orientation, palter, perjury, pilotage, piloting, pious fiction, point, position, position line, prevaricate, prevarication, quarter, radio bearing, range, reach, reach out, recline, remain, repose, reside, rest, ride, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, run, set, shift, shift about, slight stretching, song and dance, span, speak falsely, sprawl, spread, stand, steerage, steering, story, straddle, stretch, stretch out, stretch the truth, surround, sweep, take in, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, tendency, tenor, thrust out, track, trend, trumped-up story, untruth, way, white lie, yarn

• lied, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, alba, anthem, aria, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, croon, croon song, descant, dirge, ditty, drinking song, epithalamium, folk song, hymeneal, hymn, lay, lilt, love song, love-lilt, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, national anthem, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, theme song, torch song, war song, wedding song

• liege, ardent, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, boss, bwana, captive, chattel, chattel slave, chef, chief, church dignitary, churl, client, concubine, constant, creature, debt slave, dependent, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, feudal, feudatory, flunky, follower, galley slave, goodman, guru, hanger-on, helot, homager, husband, inferior, lackey, liege lord, liege man, liege subject, lord, lord paramount, loyal, master, minion, myrmidon, odalisque, overlord, padrone, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, peon, rabbi, resolute, retainer, sahib, seigneur, seignior, serf, servant, servile, slave, starets, staunch, steadfast, stooge, subject, subordinate, subservient, teacher, theow, thrall, tributary, true, underling, understrapper, vassal, villein, yeoman

• lien, adjustment mortgage, antichresis, blanket mortgage, bottomry, bottomry bond, chattel mortgage, closed mortgage, common-law lien, dead pledge, deed of trust, first mortgage, general lien, hypothec, hypothecation, installment mortgage, judgment lien, leasehold mortgage, living pledge, mortgage, mortgage bond, mortgage deed, mortuum vadium, participating mortgage, particular lien, pignus judiciale, pignus legale, second mortgage, security agreement, statutory lien, tax lien, third mortgage, trust mortgage, vadium mortuum, vadium vivum

• lieu, abode, area, bearings, bench mark, district, emplacement, hole, latitude and longitude, locale, locality, location, locus, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, region, site, situation, situs, spot, stead, whereabout, whereabouts

• lieutenant, ADC, CO, G-man, MP, OD, acolyte, adjutant, admiral, advocate, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, assistant, attendant, attorney, auxiliary, backup, backup man, bailiff, beadle, beagle, best man, bound bailiff, brigadier, brigadier general, captain, catchpole, champion, chicken colonel, chief of police, chief of staff, chief petty officer, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, colonel, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, commissioner, commodore, company officer, constable, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, dummy, ensign, exec, executive officer, exponent, fed, federal, field marshal, field officer, figurehead, first lieutenant, five-star general, fleet admiral, flic, four-star general, gendarme, general, general officer, generalissimo, government man, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, inspector, jemadar, junior officer, lictor, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant commander, lieutenant general, lieutenant junior grade, locum, locum tenens, mace-bearer, major, major general, marechal, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, naval officer, navarch, officer, one-star general, orderly officer, paranymph, paraprofessional, patrolman, peace officer, petty officer, pinch hitter, pleader, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, procurator, proxy, rear admiral, reeve, representative, risaldar, roundsman, second, second in command, secondary, senior officer, sergeant, sergeant at arms, servant, shavetail, sheriff, sideman, sirdar, skipper, staff officer, stand-in, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, substitute, superintendent, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, surrogate, the Old Man, the brass, three-star general, tipstaff, tipstaves, top brass, trooper, two-star general, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vice admiral, vicegerent, warrant officer

• life after death, Heaven, Paradise, a better place, afterlife, afterworld, destiny, eternal home, fate, future state, home, life to come, next world, otherworld, postexistence, the beyond, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter, the hereafter, the unknown, what bodes, what is fated, world to come

• life cycle, anima, animating force, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, life breath, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, pneuma, prana, seat of life, soul, spark of life, spirit, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

• life force, anima, animating force, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, pneuma, prana, seat of life, soul, spark of life, spirit, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

• life jacket, Mae West, breeches buoy, buoy, cork jacket, ejection capsule, ejection seat, ejector seat, life belt, life buoy, life net, life preserver, life raft, life ring, life vest, lifeboat, lifeline, parachute, rubber dinghy, safety belt, water wings

• life of the party, activator, animator, arouser, bad boy, banana, bon vivant, booger, buffoon, bugger, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, clubman, clubwoman, comedian, comic, cutup, devil, elf, energizer, enfant terrible, epigrammatist, excellent companion, funmaker, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, good company, good mixer, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, human dynamo, humorist, imp, ironist, jester, joiner, joker, jokesmith, jokester, knave, lampooner, life, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, madcap, man-about-town, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mixer, motivating force, motive power, nightclub habitue, parodist, pixie, playboy, pleasant company, practical joker, prankster, puck, punner, punster, quipster, rapscallion, rascal, reparteeist, restorative, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, satirist, scamp, scapegrace, social lion, spark plug, stimulant, stimulator, stimulus, tonic, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany

• life preserver, Carling float, Mae West, aegis, arm guard, backstop, balsa, balsa raft, bob, boom, breeches buoy, buffer, bulwark, bumper, buoy, contraceptive, copyright, cork, cork jacket, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, dodger, ejection capsule, ejection seat, ejector seat, face mask, fender, finger guard, float, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, insulation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life belt, life buoy, life jacket, life net, life raft, life ring, life vest, lifeboat, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, parachute, patent, pilot, pontoon, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, raft, rubber dinghy, safeguard, safety, safety belt, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, sun helmet, surfboard, umbrella, water wings, windscreen, windshield

• life principle, anima, animating force, astral body, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, buddhi, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, gross body, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, individual essence, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, kama, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life process, lifeblood, linga sharira, living force, manas, mind, ousia, physical body, pneuma, prana, principle of desire, seat of life, soul, spark of life, spirit, sthula sharira, substance of life, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

• life savings, Swiss bank account, assets, balance, bank account, bottom dollar, budget, cash reserves, checking account, command of money, exchequer, finances, fund, funds, kitty, means, moneys, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pocket, pool, purse, reserves, resources, savings, savings account, substance, treasure, unregistered bank account, wherewithal

• life science, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radiobiology, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

• life story, Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, autobiography, biographical sketch, biography, case history, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, confessions, curriculum vitae, diary, experiences, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, journal, legend, life, life and letters, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, necrology, obituary, photobiography, profile, record, resume, story, theory of history

• life, Adamite, Clio, Muse of history, activator, activity, adventures, affairs, age, alacrity, an existence, animal spirits, animation, animator, annals, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor, arouser, autobiography, avidity, avidness, being, biographical sketch, biography, body, bounce, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, case history, cat, chap, character, cheerful readiness, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, circumstances, coltishness, compulsion, concerns, condition of things, conditions, confessions, creature, critter, curriculum vitae, customer, dash, dazzle, dealings, diary, doings, duck, duration, eagerness, earthling, ebullience, effervescence, elan, elan vital, elasticity, energizer, energy, ens, entelechy, enthusiasm, entity, esprit, esse, essence, existence, experiences, exuberance, fellow, fixation, flair, flavor, fortunes, forwardness, freshness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, generation, get-up-and-go, glow, goings-on, groundling, gust, gusto, guy, hagiography, hagiology, hand, head, heartiness, historiography, history, homo, human, human being, human dynamo, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, individual, joie de vivre, joker, journal, keen desire, keenness, legend, life and letters, life story, lifeblood, lifetime, liveliness, living, living soul, lustiness, man, march of events, martyrology, materiality, matters, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, mettle, monad, mortal, motivating force, motive power, moving spirit, moxie, necrology, nose, obituary, object, obsession, occurrence, one, oomph, organism, party, passion, pep, peppiness, period of existence, perkiness, person, persona, personage, personality, pertness, photobiography, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, preoccupation, presence, proceedings, profile, promptness, pungency, quickness, readiness, record, relations, resilience, restorative, resume, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, run of things, sentience, single, skittishness, somebody, someone, something, soul, spark of life, spark plug, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spring, state of affairs, stimulant, stimulator, stimulus, story, subsistence, substantiality, survival, sustenance, tellurian, terran, the times, the world, theory of history, thing, time, tonic, unit, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vital spark, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, warmth, way of life, what happens, worldling, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

• lifeblood, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, anima, animating force, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, breath, breath of life, circulation, clinical dextran, dextran, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, erythrocyte, essence of life, force of life, globulin, gore, growth force, grume, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, impulse of life, inspiriting force, isoantibody, jiva, jivatma, leukocyte, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, living force, neutrophil, opsonin, phagocyte, plasma, plasma substitute, pneuma, prana, red corpuscle, seat of life, serum, soul, spark of life, spirit, type O, venous blood, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, white corpuscle

• lifeboat, Mae West, air-sea rescue, bolt-hole, breeches buoy, buoy, coast guard, cork jacket, ejection capsule, ejection seat, ejector seat, emergency exit, escape hatch, fire escape, inflatable slide, life belt, life buoy, life jacket, life net, life preserver, life raft, life ring, life vest, lifeguard, lifeline, lifesaver, parachute, rescuer, rubber dinghy, safety belt, sally port, savior, slide, water wings

• lifeguard, air warden, air-sea rescue, attendant, caretaker, castellan, coast guard, conservator, curator, custodian, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, governor, guardian, guardian angel, janitor, keeper, lifeboat, lifesaver, next friend, prochein ami, ranger, rescuer, savior, shepherd, steward, warden, warder

• lifeless, abeyant, abiotic, apathetic, arid, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, azoic, bare, barren, benumbed, bereft of life, blah, blank, blase, bleak, bloodless, bored, boring, breathless, called home, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, characterless, cold, colorless, croaked, dead, dead and gone, deadened, death-struck, debilitated, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, desert, desolate, destitute of life, dismal, done for, dopey, dormant, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, extinct, fade, fallen, finished, flat, food for worms, foul, gone, gone to glory, gone west, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inanimate, inanimated, inert, inexcitable, insensate, insensible, insentient, insipid, jaded, jejune, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, listless, logy, low-spirited, lumpish, lusterless, martyred, mat, moribund, mute, no more, nonconscious, nonliving, numb, pale, pallid, passed on, passive, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, prosaic, prosy, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sated, sedentary, senseless, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, solemn, somber, somnolent, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stale, standing, static, sterile, stiff, still, stillborn, stodgy, stuffy, stultified, superficial, supine, suspended, taken away, taken off, tame, tasteless, tedious, tiresome, torpid, unanimated, unaroused, unconscious, unfeeling, uninhabited, uninteresting, unlively, unmoving, unoccupied, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, waste, weary, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wooden, world-weary

• lifelike, authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card-carrying, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, literal, living, natural, naturalistic, original, pure, real, realistic, representative, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, speaking, sterling, sure-enough, to the life, 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, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vivid, well-drawn, word-for-word

• lifeline, Mae West, aegis, arm guard, backstop, bolt-hole, breeches buoy, buffer, bulwark, bumper, buoy, contraceptive, copyright, cork jacket, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, dodger, ejection capsule, ejection seat, ejector seat, emergency exit, escape hatch, face mask, fender, finger guard, fire escape, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, inflatable slide, insulation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life belt, life buoy, life jacket, life net, life preserver, life raft, life ring, life vest, lifeboat, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, parachute, patent, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, rubber dinghy, safeguard, safety, safety belt, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, sally port, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, slide, sun helmet, umbrella, water wings, windscreen, windshield

• lifer, POW, cageling, captive, chain gang, con, convict, detenu, ex-convict, gaolbird, internee, jailbird, parolee, political prisoner, prisoner, prisoner of war, stir bird, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, trusty

• lifesaver, Audubon Society, National Wildlife Service, Sierra Club, air warden, air-sea rescue, attendant, caretaker, castellan, coast guard, conservationist, conservator, curator, custodian, deliverer, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, governor, guardian, guardian angel, janitor, keeper, lifeboat, lifeguard, next friend, preservationist, preserver, prochein ami, ranger, rescuer, safekeeper, saver, savior, shepherd, steward, taxidermist, warden, warder

• lifetime, age, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, being alive, birth, existence, for life, generation, having life, immortality, life, lifelong, liveliness, livelong, living, long life, longevity, period of existence, spriteliness, viability, vitality, vivacity

• lifework, activity, art, business, calling, campaign, career, career building, careerism, cause, commitment, craft, crusade, drive, faith, game, great cause, handicraft, interest, issue, line, line of business, line of work, mass movement, metier, mission, movement, mystery, number, occupation, practice, principle, profession, pursuit, racket, reason for being, specialization, specialty, trade, vocation, walk, walk of life, work