Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/50

• looking up, advancing, ameliorative, auspicious, bettering, bright with promise, cheering, encouraging, favorable, full of promise, improving, inspiring, inspiriting, meliorative, mending, of promise, on the lift, on the mend, ongoing, pregnant of good, progressing, progressive, promising, propitious, reassuring, supportive

• lookout, Argus, Cassandra, Charley, Jeremiah, Texas tower, activities, activity, admonisher, affair, affairs, airplane spotter, airscape, alert, bag, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, bridge, business, cautioner, cityscape, cloudscape, commerce, concern, concernment, conning tower, cupola, custodianship, custody, difficulty, eagle eye, employ, employment, enterprise, espial, espionage, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, flagman, forward observer, function, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, guard, guardedness, guardianship, headache, interest, invigilation, labor, landscape, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, looking, lookout man, loophole, matter, monitor, monitoring, night watchman, note, notice, observance, observation, observation post, observatory, occupation, outlook, overlook, palaver, panorama, patrol, patroller, patrolman, peanut gallery, peeled eye, peephole, perspective, pharos, picket, problem, proctoring, prophet of doom, prospect, prudence, qui vive, regard, respect, responsibility, ringside, ringside seat, riverscape, roundsman, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, scout, seascape, sentinel, sentry, service, sharp eye, sight, sighthole, signaler, signalman, skyscape, spotter, spying, stewardship, surveillance, sweep, thing, top gallery, tout, tower, townscape, undertaking, vedette, view, viewing, vigil, vigilance, vista, ward, wariness, warner, watch, watch and ward, watcher, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, watchkeeper, watchman, watchtower, waterscape, weather eye, witnessing, work, worry

• looks, air, bearing, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, color, complexion, countenance, demeanor, face, facial appearance, favor, feature, features, garb, guise, lineaments, lines, mien, physiognomy, port, posture, presence, stance, traits, turn, visage

• loom large, appear, be evident, be noticeable, be revealed, be seen, be visible, bulk, bulk large, exceed, glare, loom, meet the gaze, outsoar, outstrip, overtop, rear, rise above, shine out, shine through, show, show through, show up, soar, stand forth, stand out, strike the eye, tower, tower above, transcend

• loom, anticipate, appear, approach, arise, ascend, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be in store, be to be, be to come, become manifest, become visible, braid, brew, bulk, bulk large, come, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come on, come out, come to hand, come to light, come up, coming, confront, crop out, curl upwards, dominate, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, emerge, enlace, enter, entwine, exceed, expect, face, fade in, foresee, foretell, forthcome, forthcoming, futurity, gather, go up, grow up, hand loom, hang over, heave in sight, hope, hover, hover over, immediate future, imminence, impend, impendence, impendency, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, issue, issue forth, knit, knitting machine, lace, levitate, lie ahead, lie over, look for, look forth, look forward to, loom large, loop, lower, make up, mat, materialize, menace, mount, near, near future, net, noose, outcrop, outsoar, outstrip, overhang, overshadow, overtop, peep out, plait, plan, pleach, plot, predict, predominate, project, prophesy, raddle, rear, rear its head, rear up, rise, rise above, rise up, see the light, show, show up, shuttle, soar, spiral, spire, splice, stand out, stand up, stream forth, strike the eye, surface, surge, swarm up, sweep up, take form, take shape, threaten, tissue, tower, tower above, transcend, turn up, twill, twine, twist, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upwind, wattle, weave, weaver, web, wreathe

• looming, about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, fata morgana, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, lowering, lurking, menacing, mirage, near, near at hand, nearing, on the horizon, overhanging, preparing, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, waiting

• loon, Boeotian, aliene, bedlamite, block, borderline case, clod, crackbrain, crackpot, dement, demoniac, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, energumen, fanatic, flake, fou, gowk, idiot, jobbernowl, kook, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, meshuggenah, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, non compos, noncompos, nut, phrenetic, put, raving lunatic, screwball, stupid, thickwit, weirdo, witling

• loony, absurd, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, crackers, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dement, dippy, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, harebrained, haywire, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, just plain nuts, kooky, loon, loopy, mad, madman, maniac, maudlin, moronic, non compos, nut, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, preposterous, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, slaphappy, stupid, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless

• loop, O, air hole, ambit, annular muscle, annulus, arc, arch, areola, armhole, association, aureole, band, bank, beat, begird, belt, belt in, bend, bend back, beset, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blowhole, boss, bow, braid, break, broken circuit, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bullet-hole, bump, bunch, bunghole, burl, button, cahot, chaplet, chine, cincture, circle, circlet, circuit, circuital field, circumference, circus, closed circle, closed circuit, clump, coil, compass, complete circuit, condyle, conference, convex, corona, coronet, crab, cringle, crook, crown, curl, curve, cycle, dead circuit, deadeye, decurve, deflect, diadem, dip, discus, disk, dome, dowel, ear, embow, encincture, encircle, encompass, engird, enlace, ensphere, entwine, eternal return, eye, eyelet, fairy ring, feather, fishtail, flange, flap, flex, full circle, gall, galvanic circuit, garland, gasket, gird, girdle, glory, gnarl, grommet, ground loop, guide, halo, handle, hill, hook, hoop, hot circuit, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, inflect, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, jog, joggle, keyhole, knit, knob, knot, knothole, knur, knurl, lace, lap, lasso, lateral circuit, leg, lip, live circuit, logical circle, loom, loophole, looplet, lump, magic circle, magnetic circuit, manhole, mat, microcircuit, mole, mountain, mousehole, multiple circuit, multiple series, net, nevus, noose, nub, nubbin, nubble, orbit, papilloma, path, peephole, peg, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, plait, pleach, plow, porpoise, porthole, printed circuit, pull out, pull up, punch-hole, push down, raddle, radius, recurve, reflect, reflex, retroflex, revolution, rib, ridge, ring, roll, rondelle, round, round trip, roundel, rounds, sag, saucer, series multiple, short, short circuit, shoulder, sideslip, skid, sphincter, spin, spine, spiracle, spiral, splice, staple, stud, stunt, style, swag, sweep, tab, tap, tie, tissue, tour, tubercle, tubercule, turn, twill, twine, twine around, twist, undulate, vault, vector field, vent, venthole, verruca, vesicle, vicious circle, wale, walk, wart, wattle, weave, web, welt, wheel, whorl, wind, wreath, wreathe, wreathe around, yaw, zone

• loophole, Texas tower, abatis, advanced work, air hole, alternative, armhole, avenue, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, blowhole, breastwork, bridge, bullet-hole, bulwark, bunghole, casemate, channel, cheval-de-frise, choice, chute, circumvallation, conning tower, contravallation, counterscarp, cringle, curtain, deadeye, debouch, demibastion, dike, dodge, door, drawbridge, earthwork, egress, emunctory, enclosure, entanglement, escape, escape clause, escape hatch, escarp, escarpment, estuary, evasion, exhaust, exit, eye, eyelet, fence, fieldwork, floodgate, flume, fortalice, fortification, gallery, gasket, gazebo, glacis, grandstand, grommet, guide, keyhole, knothole, lighthouse, lookout, loop, lunette, machicolation, manhole, mantelet, merlon, mound, mousehole, observation post, observatory, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, outlook, outwork, overlook, palisade, parados, parapet, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, pore, port, portcullis, porthole, postern gate, pretext, punch-hole, quibble, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, ringside, ringside seat, sally port, saving clause, scarp, sconce, sighthole, sluice, spiracle, spout, stockade, subterfuge, tap, tenaille, top gallery, tower, vallation, vallum, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, watchtower, way of escape, way out, weir, work

• loose ends, Sisyphean labor, bad job, botch, bungling, endless task, failure, haphazardness, inexecution, messiness, neglect, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonperformance, omission, rough edges, sad work, slapdash, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, unfulfillment, untidiness, work of Penelope

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

• loose, Bohemian, Paphian, abandoned, abate, absonant, adrift, affable, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, aid, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, alleviate, amorphous, approximate, approximative, at large, at liberty, aweigh, bagging, baggy, ballooning, barbarous, bate, beat-up, bedraggled, blobby, blowzy, blurred, blurry, break loose, broad, by the way, capricious, careless, cast off, cast-off, casual, chambering, chance, chancy, chaotic, chintzy, clear, clear the way, confused, contradictory, contrary to reason, cool off, cordial, corrupt, culpably negligent, dangling, debauched, degage, deliver, derelict, desultory, detach, detached, deviative, diffuse, digressive, dilapidated, discharge, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, disengage, disengaged, disenthrall, disjoin, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, disperse, dispersed, dissolute, doff, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drooping, droopy, ease, ease off, ease up, easy, easygoing, emancipate, emancipated, emit, episodic, erroneous, escape, escaped, excursive, expedite, explain, extravagant, facilitate, fallacious, familiar, fast, faulty, fire, flabby, flaccid, flapping, flawed, fled, flee, flimsy, floating, floppy, flowing, flown, foggy, folksy, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fugitive, fuzzy, general, give out with, go-as-you-please, go-go, gracious, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, grubby, hanging, hasten, haymish, hazy, help along, hit-or-miss, homely, homey, ill-defined, illogical, immoderate, immoral, impotent, imprecise, improper, in disarray, in disorder, in rags, in the clear, inaccurate, inadvertent, inattentive, inauthentic, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, inconstant, incontinent, incorrect, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indifferent, indistinct, indulgent, inexact, infelicitous, informal, intemperate, invalid, irrational, irregular, irrepressible, laissez-faire, lax, lenient, lessen, let down, let fly, let go, let up, lewd, liberate, liberated, libertine, licentious, light, limp, loose-moraled, loosen, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lubricate, lumpen, make clear, make way for, manumit, maundering, messy, mitigate, movable, mussy, natural, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nodding, nonadhesive, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, nonscientific, nonspecific, not following, obscure, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off-guard, offhand, offhanded, oil, on the loose, open the way, open up, orderless, out of, out of control, out of hand, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, paralogical, pave the way, permissive, perverted, plain, poky, prepare the way, procrastinating, profligate, promiscuous, quicken, ragged, raggedy, rambling, rampant, random, reasonless, reckless, reinless, relax, relaxed, release, released, remiss, remit, remove, remove friction, rickety, riotous, rough, roving, rubbery, ruinous, run interference for, runaway, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, scamping, scatter, scot-free, scraggly, seedy, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, separate, set free, shabby, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless, shoddy, shoot, simple, simplify, sit back, skimping, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slapdash, slatternly, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slurring, sluttish, smooth, smooth the way, soap the ways, sociable, soft, solecistic, sordid, speed, spread about, squalid, started, stochastic, streaming, swag, sweeping, tacky, take it easy, take off, tattered, unaffected, unanchored, unassuming, unattached, unauthentic, unbar, unbend, unbind, unblock, unbolt, unbound, unbrace, unbridle, unbridled, unbuckle, unbutton, uncage, unceremonious, unchain, unchained, unchaste, unchecked, uncircumspect, unclasp, unclear, unclog, uncoerced, uncommitted, uncompelled, unconfined, unconnected, unconstrained, uncontrolled, unconventional, uncurbed, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undo, undone, unengaged, unfactual, unfasten, unfastened, unfetter, unfettered, unfixed, unforced, ungag, unglue, ungoverned, ungrammatic, unguarded, unhandcuff, unhobble, uninhibited, uninvolved, unjam, unkempt, unlace, unlash, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unmanacle, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoored, unmuzzle, unmuzzled, unneat, unofficial, unpen, unphilosophical, unpinion, unplain, unprecise, unreasonable, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unrigorous, unruly, unscientific, unsecured, unshackle, unshackled, unsightly, unspecific, unspecified, unstick, unstrain, unstrap, unstring, unstuck, unstudied, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untether, untidy, untie, untied, untighten, untruss, unwary, unwatchful, unyoke, vague, veiled, vent, wandering, wanton, wayward, weak, weigh anchor, well out of, whorish, wild, without reason

• loosen up, amuse, beguile, beguile the time, convulse, delight, divert, drown care, ease off, enliven, entertain, exhilarate, fracture one, have a ball, have fun, kill, kill time, knock dead, laugh it up, live it up, raise a laugh, raise a smile, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, slay, solace, tickle, titillate, unbend, unlax, unwind, wow

• loosen, abate, bate, cast off, cushion, cut apart, detach, diffuse, discharge, disengage, disenthrall, disjoin, disperse, doff, ease, ease off, ease up, emancipate, fluff, free, gentle, knead, lax, laxate, let down, let go, let up, liberate, limber, limber up, loose, manumit, mash, massage, mellow, milden, mitigate, mollify, plump, pulp, relax, release, remit, remove, scatter, separate, sever, shake up, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, smash, soften, soften up, squash, subdue, supple, take off, tenderize, tone down, tune down, unbar, unbend, unbind, unbolt, unbrace, unbridle, unbuckle, unbutton, uncage, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, ungag, unglue, unhandcuff, unhobble, unhook, unlace, unlash, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unmanacle, unmuzzle, unpen, unpinion, unscrew, unshackle, unstick, unstrain, unstrap, unstring, untether, untie, untighten, untruss, unyoke, weaken, weigh anchor

• looseness, Bohemianism, affability, allowance, amorphousness, approximation, bagginess, blobbiness, blowziness, blurriness, broadness, carelessness, casualness, chambering, chintziness, common touch, cordiality, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, deviation, disorder, disregard, dowdiness, ease, easiness, easy virtue, easygoingness, failure, familiarity, flabbiness, flaccidity, flaccidness, floppiness, fogginess, folksiness, frowziness, frumpishness, fuzziness, generality, graciousness, grubbiness, haziness, homeliness, homeyness, ill-definedness, impotence, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inchoateness, incoherence, incorrectness, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indifference, indistinctness, inexactitude, inexactness, informality, informalness, irregularity, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxation, laxity, laxness, leniency, lightness, limpness, loose morals, loosening, messiness, mistiness, naturalness, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obscuration, obscurity, offhandedness, omission, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, oversight, permissiveness, plainness, poor stewardship, predictable error, probable error, procrastination, promiscuity, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, ricketiness, rubberiness, seediness, shabbiness, shakiness, shapelessness, shoddiness, simplicity, slackness, slatternliness, sleeping around, slight, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenry, sluttishness, sociability, softness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, standard deviation, sweepingness, swinging, tackiness, tawdriness, tolerance, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unclearness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unneatness, unpreciseness, unpretentiousness, unrestraint, unrigorousness, untidiness, vagueness, wantonness, waywardness, weakness, whorishness

• loosening, abatement, allayment, alleviation, assuagement, blunting, calming, carelessness, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, diminution, dulcification, dulling, easiness, easing, easygoingness, emollient, falling-off, hushing, impotence, imprecision, indifference, laxity, laxness, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, looseness, lulling, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, negligence, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pacification, palliation, permissiveness, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxedness, relaxing, remission, remissness, slackening, slackness, sloppiness, softening, softness, soothing, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, unrestraint, weakness

• loosing, demobilization, discharge, dismissal, parole, release, unbinding, unbolting, unbridling, unbuckling, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering, ungagging, unhanding, unharnessing, unhobbling, unlashing, unlatching, unleashing, unlocking, unloosing, unmanacling, unmuzzling, unpenning, unshackling, unstrapping, untethering, untrussing, untying, unyoking

• loot, abduct, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, blackmail, boodle, booty, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, depredate, despoil, destroy, dough, filthy lucre, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gelt, go on, graft, greenbacks, gut, hammer, haul, hot goods, jack, kidnap, knock off, knock over, lay waste, lettuce, lift, lucre, maraud, maul, moolah, mug, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, plunder, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, rage, raid, ramp, rampage, ransack, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, riot, roar, rob, ruin, sack, savage, seizure, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, storm, swag, sweep, take, tear, tear around, terrorize, throttle, till, vandalize, violate, wreck

• looter, depredator, despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, marauder, pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, sacker, spoiler, spoliator, wrecker

• looting, assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness, violation, wolfishness

• lop, abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag, bagging, baggy, ballooning, ban, bar, bob, bounce, bound, cascade, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, daggle, dangle, depend, dock, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drooping, droopy, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fall, flap, flop, floppy, flow, hang, hang down, hop, hurdle, isolate, knock off, leap, limp, loll, lollop, loose, lop-eared, loppy, mutilate, nip, nod, nodding, pare, peel, pend, pick out, prune, root out, rule out, sag, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slump, spring, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, swag, swing, take off, take out, trail, trollop, truncate, vault, weep, wipe out

• lope, amble, bound, burst, burst of speed, canter, caracole, curvet, dash, dead run, dogtrot, flank speed, flat-out speed, forced draft, fox-trot, frisk, full gallop, gallop, get, git, go on horseback, hack, hand gallop, headlong rush, heavy right foot, high lope, hightail, hop, hop along, hotfoot, jog trot, leap, make tracks, maximum speed, mount, open throttle, pace, piaffe, plunge, prance, race, ride bareback, ride hard, romp, run, rush, scamper, scud, scurry, scuttle, skitter, spring, sprint, spurt, step, step along, step lively, take horse, tittup, trip, trot, wide-open speed

• lopsided, anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, asymmetrical, awry, bent, biased, bowed, canted, cockeyed, contorted, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, deviative, disproportional, disproportionate, distorted, heeling, ill-balanced, irregular, labyrinthine, leaning, listing, nonsymmetric, nonsymmetrical, off-balance, one-sided, overbalanced, sprung, top-heavy, tortuous, twisted, unbalanced, unequal, uneven, unfair, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetric, unsymmetrical, warped

• loquacious, all jaw, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, effusive, expansive, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, jabbering, long-winded, loose-tongued, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative, prolix, smooth, sociable, talkative, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy

• loquacity, big mouth, candor, communicativeness, conversableness, effusion, effusiveness, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, openness, prolixity, slush, sociability, spate of words, talkativeness, verbosity, volubility, windiness

• loran, Gyrosin compass, RDF, VAR, astronavigation, automatic electronic navigation, celestial navigation, chronometer, coastwise navigation, compass, consolan, dead reckoning, direction finder, electronic navigation, fix, gyrocompass, gyroscopic compass, gyrostatic compass, inertial navigation system, line of position, magnetic compass, magnetic needle, navar, navigation, needle, omnidirectional range, omnirange, pilotage, plane sailing, point-to-point navigation, radar, radio beacon, radio compass, radio direction finder, radio navigation, sextant, shoran, sofar, sonar, tables, tacan, teleran, visual-aural range

• lord it over, beat down, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, castrate, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, daunt, despotize, domineer, domineer over, enslave, grind, grind down, henpeck, intimidate, keep down, keep under, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, press heavy on, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, subjugate, suppress, terrorize, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on

• Lord, Almighty God, Alpha and Omega, Demiourgos, Demiurge, Eminence, God, God Almighty, Grace, Heaven, Her Excellency, Her Highness, Her Ladyship, Her Majesty, Highness, His Lordship, His Majesty, Honor, I Am, Imperial Highness, Imperial Majesty, Jehovah, King of Kings, Lady, Ladyship, Lord of Lords, Lord of hosts, Lordship, Majesty, My Lady, My Lord, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Providence, Reverence, Royal Highness, Royal Majesty, Serene Highness, Worship, Your Lordship, milady, milord, the Absolute, the Absolute Being, the All-holy, the All-knowing, the All-merciful, the All-powerful, the All-wise, the Almighty, the Creator, the Deity, the Divinity, the Eternal, the Eternal Being, the First Cause, the Infinite, the Infinite Spirit, the Maker, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the Preserver, the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul

• lord, Brahman, Christ, God, God Almighty, Jehovah, Jesus, Lord, affect, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, beneficiary, blue blood, boss, bwana, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, chef, chief, church dignitary, cock, count, daimio, deedholder, domineer, duke, earl, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, esquire, feoffee, feudatory, gentleman, goodman, grand duke, grandee, guru, hidalgo, householder, hubby, husband, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, landlady, landlord, liege, liege lord, lord it over, lord paramount, lordling, magnate, magnifico, man, margrave, marquis, master, mesne, mesne lord, mister, mistress, monarch, noble, nobleman, old man, optimate, order about, overawe, overbear, overlord, owner, padrone, palsgrave, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patrician, patron, peacock, peer, pontificate, pretend, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, put on, put on airs, rabbi, rentier, ruler, sahib, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, sovereign, squire, starets, swagger, swank, swell, teacher, the Almighty, the Creator, the Supreme Being, thoroughbred, titleholder, tyrannize, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

• lordliness, arbitrariness, augustness, authoritarianism, authoritativeness, autocraticalness, bossism, courtliness, dignifiedness, dignity, domineering, domineeringness, elitism, grandeur, gravity, high-and-mightiness, imperativeness, imperiousness, kingliness, loftiness, magisterialness, magistrality, majesty, masterfulness, nobility, overbearance, overbearing, overbearingness, peremptoriness, pride of bearing, pride of place, princeliness, proud bearing, regality, sedateness, sobriety, solemnity, stateliness, tyrannicalness, venerability, worthiness

• lordly, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, affected, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, august, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, cavalier, courtly, despotic, dictatorial, dignified, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, elitist, feudal, grand, grandiose, grave, grinding, haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, imposing, insolent, kingly, magisterial, magistral, magnificent, majestic, masterful, monocratic, noble, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, princely, puffed, queenly, regal, repressive, royal, sedate, severe, snobbish, sober, solemn, stately, statuesque, strict, supercilious, superior, suppressive, swollen, tyrannical, tyrannous, venerable, worthy

• lordship, acme, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, authority, authorization, baronetcy, barony, be-all and end-all, bishopric, blue ribbon, chairmanship, championship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, command, consulate, consulship, control, deanery, dictatorship, dictature, directorship, dominion, dominium, dukedom, earldom, effectiveness, emirate, episcopacy, first place, first prize, governorship, headship, hegemony, height, hierarchy, highest, imperium, influence, jurisdiction, kingship, knight-errantship, knighthood, ladyship, land tenure, landholding, landownership, landowning, leadership, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, management, marquisate, masterdom, mastership, mastery, maximum, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, most, ne plus ultra, new high, nobility, overlordship, ownership, palms, papacy, paramountcy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, possessorship, power, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primacy, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, proprietary, proprietorship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, queenship, record, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, rule, ruling class, say, seignioralty, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, sovereignty, supervisorship, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, top spot, tribunate, viscountcy, viscountship, viscounty, vizierate, viziership, zenith

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

• lore, Lorelei, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, ancient wisdom, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, bibliography, body of knowledge, body of learning, charm, common law, culture, custom, cyclopedia, doctrine, encyclopedia, erudition, ethos, fable, fairy lore, fairyism, femme fatale, folk motif, folklore, folktale, folkway, immemorial usage, information, knowledge, learning, legend, literature, materials, myth, mythical lore, mythicism, mythology, mythos, popular belief, publications, racial memory, science, seductress, spell, store of knowledge, superstition, superstitiousness, system of knowledge, temptress, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, traditions, treasury of information, wisdom

• Lorelei, Circe, Don Juan, Parthenope, Siren, charmer, coquette, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, femme fatale, flirt, inveigler, seducer, seductress, siren, teaser, tempter, temptress, vamp, vampire

• lorgnette, Polaroid glasses, bifocals, blinkers, cheaters, colored glasses, contact lens, dark glasses, divided spectacles, eyeglass, eyeglasses, glasses, goggles, granny glasses, harlequin glasses, horn-rimmed glasses, lorgnon, mini-specs, monocle, nippers, pair of glasses, peepers, quizzing glass, readers, reading glasses, shades, specs, spectacles, sun-specs, sunglasses, trifocals

• lose ground, arrest, backpedal, backslide, backwater, be found wanting, brake, check, clip the wings, cock, collapse, come short, curb, decelerate, decline, delay, detain, draw rein, ease off, ease up, fail, fall astern, fall away, fall behind, fall short, get behind, go backwards, go behind, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, jerk back, keep back, lack, lag, lapse, let down, let up, lose momentum, lose speed, moderate, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not stretch, not suffice, obstruct, pull back, recede, recidivate, reef, regress, rein in, relapse, relax, retard, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, run short, set back, slack off, slack up, slacken, slip back, slow, slow down, slow up, slump, stay, stop short, take in sail, throttle down, want

• lose heart, abandon hope, become suicidal, despair, despair of, despond, droop, falter, give up, give up hope, give way, hit rock bottom, languish, lose hope, plumb the depths, reach the depths, sink, sink into despair, touch bottom, yield to despair

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

• lose, be bereaved of, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bereave, bite the dust, bow, bow to, capitulate, clear, come to grief, consume, decline, default, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, draw a blank, drop, elude, escape, evade, exhaust, expend, fail, fail of success, fall, flunk, flunk out, forfeit, forget, fritter away, give the slip, give up, go astray from, go bankrupt, go down, go under, have enough, incur loss, kiss good-bye, labor in vain, let slip, lick the dust, lose out, lose sight of, lose the day, mislay, misplace, miss, not come off, not pass, not remember, not work, oust, part with, relinquish, rid, rob, sacrifice, say uncle, shake off, slip, spend, spill, squander, succumb, suffer loss, surrender, take the count, throw off, trifle away, tumble, unburden, undergo privation, use up, wander from, waste, yield

• loser, also-ran, bankrupt, bomb, booby, bummer, bust, clinker, con, defeatee, duck, dud, failure, fall guy, false alarm, fiasco, flop, game loser, good loser, good sport, hard-luck guy, hardcase, jailbird, lag, lemon, misfit, nebbish, poor unfortunate, sad sack, schlemiel, schlimazel, sport, stooge, sure loser, the vanquished, underdog, unfortunate, victim, washout

• loss, ablation, annihilation, attrition, bankruptcy, bereavement, breakage, breakdown, collapse, confusion, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crippling, damage, death, decrement, defeat, deliquescence, demise, denial, depletion, deprivation, deprivement, destruction, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, diminution, disablement, disadvantage, disappearance, disappointment, dispossession, disrepair, dissipation, dissolution, divestment, downfall, drawback, drubbing, dying, encroachment, erosion, exhaustion, extermination, extinction, failure, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, harm, havoc, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, impoverishment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, liability, losing, losings, loss of ground, losses, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mislaying, misplacement, misplacing, mutilation, passing, prejudice, privation, reduction, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shrinkage, sickening, spoiling, squandering, step backward, trouncing, wastage, waste, wasting, weakening, wear and tear

• lost in thought, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, bemused, buried in thought, castle-building, daydreaming, daydreamy, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, faraway, half-awake, immersed in thought, in a reverie, in the clouds, introspective, lost, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, occupied, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, somewhere else, stargazing, taken up, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

• lost in, absorbed, absorbed in, buried in, caught up in, contemplating, contemplative, devoted, devoted to, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, immersed in, intent, intent on, involved, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, occupied, preoccupied, single-minded, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up with, totally absorbed, wrapped in, wrapped up in

• lost soul, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, damned spirits, degenerate, demonkind, demons, denizens of hell, evil spirits, fallen angel, hellish host, host of hell, inhabitants of Pandemonium, lecher, lost sheep, lost souls, miscreant, pervert, pimp, powers of darkness, profligate, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, scapegrace, sorry lot, souls in hell, the damned, the lost, trollop, whore

• lost, abandoned, abashed, ablated, abroad, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, accursed, adrift, astray, at sea, away, baffled, bemused, bewildered, beyond recall, beyond remedy, bothered, buried, by the board, bygone, castle-building, clueless, condemned, confounded, confused, consumed, corrupt, cureless, cursed, damned, daydreaming, daydreamy, dead, defunct, departed, depleted, desperate, destroyed, devastated, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, distrait, distraught, disturbed, doomed, down the drain, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, embarrassed, engrossed, eroded, exhausted, expended, extinct, fallen, faraway, forfeit, forfeited, forgotten, frantic, frenzied, godless, gone, gone away, gone to waste, graceless, guessing, half-awake, helpless, hopeless, immedicable, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a reverie, in a scrape, in a stew, in the clouds, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lacking, late, long-lost, lost in thought, lost to, lost to sight, lost to view, mazed, meditative, mislaid, misplaced, misremembered, missing, misspent, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, mystified, napping, no more, nodding, nonexistent, obliterated, oblivious, obsolete, off the track, out of sight, out the window, passed, past, past and gone, past hope, past praying for, past recall, pensive, perplexed, perturbed, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, put-out, puzzled, rapt, remediless, reprobate, ruined, run to seed, shriftless, shrunken, somewhere else, spent, squandered, stargazing, strayed, taken up, terminal, transported, turned around, unchaste, unconscious, unconverted, undone, unmitigable, unredeemable, unredeemed, unregenerate, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unwon, upset, used, used up, vanished, wanton, wasted, without a clue, woolgathering, worn away, wrapped in thought, wrecked

• lot, A to Z, A to izzard, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, a mass of, a world of, abundance, accidentality, acres, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, affluence, aggregate, aggregation, all, all and sundry, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allowance, alpha and omega, amount, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, appoint, appointed lot, apportion, appropriate to, army, array, assemblage, assign, assign to, astral influences, astrology, avalanche, bank, barrel, batch, be-all, be-all and end-all, bearings, beginning and end, bevy, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, block, blood, board lot, body, bonanza, book of fate, bountifulness, bountiousness, brand, break, breed, budget, build on, bumper crop, bunch, bundle, calculate, call, case, cast, cast lots, casualness, chance, character, chattels real, chunk, circle, circumstance, clan, clearing, clos, close, cloud, clump, cluster, clutch, clutter, color, commission, complement, condition, conglomerate, conglomeration, considerable, constellation, contingent, copiousness, copse, count, count on, covey, croft, crop, crowd, cup, cut, cut lots, cut the cards, deal, decree, demesne, denomination, depend, description, designation, destination, destine, destiny, detail, dies funestis, dividend, dole, domain, doom, dose, draw lots, draw straws, dummy share, each and every, earmark, enclave, end, equal share, estate, even lot, everything, extravagance, exuberance, fatality, fate, feather, fertility, field, fix, flight, flock, flocks, flood, flow, flukiness, foison, footing, foredoom, foreordination, form, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, forty, fractional lot, frontage, full lot, full measure, fullness, future, gamble, game, generosity, generousness, genre, genus, give, gob, gobs, good deal, good fortune, good luck, grain, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, grounds, group, grouping, groupment, grove, gush, hail, half, halver, hap, happenstance, happy chance, hassock, heap, heaps, heedless hap, helping, hive, holding, holdings, honor, host, how they fall, hunk, ides of March, ilk, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, inevitability, interest, jam, kidney, kin, kind, kismet, knot, kraal, label, land, landed property, lands, landslide, large amount, lashings, lavishness, law of averages, legion, length and breadth, liberality, liberalness, line, loads, location, lots, luck, lump, luxuriance, make, make assignments, making, manner, manor, many, mark, mark off, mark out for, mass, masses of, match coins, maximum, measure, meed, mess, messuage, mete out, mint, mob, modality, mode, modicum, moiety, moira, mold, more than enough, much, muchness, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, myriads, nature, nest, number, numbers, numerousness, odd lot, one and all, oodles, opportunity, opulence, opulency, ordain, outpouring, overflow, pack, package, package deal, pale, parcel, parcel of land, part, pass, patch, peck, percentage, persuasion, phylum, pickle, piece, pile, piles, place, planets, plat, play, play at dice, play the ponies, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plight, plot, plot of ground, plurality, portion, portion off, position, posture, pot, power, praedium, predestination, predetermination, predicament, preference share, prevalence, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, property, proportion, push, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few, quite a little, quota, race, raffle off, raft, rafts, rake-off, random sample, rank, ration, real estate, real property, realty, reckon on, repleteness, repletion, reserve, restrict, restrict to, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, risk, round lot, rout, ruck, run, run of luck, scads, schedule, scores, section, segment, serendipity, set, set apart, set aside, set off, shape, share, shoal, shock, shoot craps, shower, sight, situation, slew, slews, slice, small amount, small share, sort, spate, species, speculate, sport, spot, stack, stacks, stake, stamp, standing, stars, state, station, statistical probability, status, stock, stockholding, stockholdings, stook, strain, stream, stripe, style, substantiality, substantialness, sum, superabundance, swarm, tag, teemingness, tenements, the breaks, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the like of, the likes of, the lot, the whole, the whole range, theory of probability, thicket, throng, tidy sum, toft, toss, tract, tribe, trust in, tuft, tussock, type, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unlucky day, variety, wad, wads, wealth, weird, whatever comes, wheel of fortune, whole slew, will of Heaven, wisp, worlds of

• Lothario, Casanova, Don Juan, Romeo, amoroso, beau, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, debauchee, esquire, fellow, flame, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, gigolo, inamorato, lady-killer, libertine, love-maker, lover-boy, man, necker, old man, petter, philanderer, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue, rounder, seducer, sheik, skirt chaser, squire, sugar daddy, swain, swinger, walking phallus, wanton, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer, young man

• lotion, Florida water, abstergent, after-shave lotion, balm, balsam, bay rum, brilliantine, cathartic, cerate, chrism, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, cold cream, collyrium, cologne, cologne water, cream, demulcent, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, diuretic, eau de Cologne, eau de jasmin, eau de lavande, eau de rose, embrocation, emetic, emollient, enema, eye-lotion, eyewash, eyewater, face cream, hand lotion, holystone, inunction, inunctum, lanolin, lavender water, lenitive, liniment, mouthwash, nard, nauseant, oil, ointment, pomade, pomatum, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse, rose water, salve, shampoo, soap, solvent, soothing syrup, spikenard, synthetic detergent, toilet water, tooth powder, toothpaste, unction, unguent, unguentum, vulnerary, wash

• lotus eater, Don Quixote, Quixote, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, daydreamer, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, faineant, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idealist, idler, laggard, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, potterer, prophet, putterer, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, slouch, sloucher, slug, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, trifler, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, visionary, waiter on Providence, wishful thinker

• loud and clear, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, direct, distinct, explicit, express, limpid, lucid, luminous, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, simple, straightforward, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unmistakable, well-defined

• loud, aloud, blaring, blatant, blinding, booming, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, chintzy, clamant, clamorous, coarse, colorful, crass, crude, crying, deafening, demanding, draining, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earsplitting, earthshaking, earthy, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forte, fortemente, fortissimo, full, fulminating, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, grasping, gross, harsh, hoarse, importunate, in full cry, insistent, instant, intense, jazzy, loud-sounding, loudish, loudly, lurid, lustily, meretricious, noisily, noisy, obnoxious, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, ostentatious, overbright, pealing, penetrating, persistent, pertinacious, piercing, plangent, pressing, pungent, raucous, raw, reeking, resonant, resounding, resoundingly, ribald, ringing, ringingly, roaring, rough, rude, screaming, sensational, shameless, showy, shrieking, snazzy, sonorous, spectacular, splashy, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stertorous, strident, tasteless, tawdry, taxing, thundering, thunderous, tinsel, tonitruant, tonitruous, uproariously, urgent, vulgar, window-rattling

• loudly, aloud, clamantly, clamorously, deafeningly, demandingly, exactingly, exigently, exorbitantly, extortionately, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, forte, fortemente, fortissimo, heartily, imperviously, importunately, impregnably, in full cry, insistently, intensely, invincibly, invulnerably, irresistibly, loud, lustily, mightily, noisily, powerfully, pressingly, pungently, resistantly, resoundingly, ringingly, robustly, ruggedly, soundly, stalwartly, staunchly, stoutly, strongly, sturdily, unyieldingly, uproariously, urgently, vigorously

• loudmouthed, bawling, blatant, boanergean, boisterous, brawling, brazen-mouthed, clamorous, clamoursome, crying, full-throated, loud-voiced, multivocal, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, screaming, shouting, stentorian, strident, trumpet-tongued, trumpet-voiced, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

• loudness, amplitude, arsenic green, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, blatancy, brazenness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, earthiness, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, glare, glitter, gorgeousness, grossness, jaundiced yellow, jauntiness, jazziness, luridness, meretriciousness, noise, obscenity, obtrusiveness, panache, phone, rawness, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, screaming color, sensationalism, shamelessness, shocking pink, showiness, sonance, sound, sound intensity level, sound propagation, sound wave, speech sound, sportiness, tawdriness, ultrasound, vulgarness

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

• lounge lizard, Beau Brummel, barnacle, blood, bloodsucker, buck, coxcomb, dandy, dude, exquisite, fop, freeloader, hanger-on, leech, macaroni, spiv, sponge, sponger, sucker

• lounge, antechamber, anteroom, audience chamber, bar, barroom, bed, bed down, bum, bum around, cocktail lounge, couch, crawl, curl up, dally, divan, do nothing, drift, drinkery, foyer, front room, go to bed, go to rest, goldbrick, goof off, greenroom, grovel, hang around, idle, languish, lay, laze, lazy, lie, lie around, lie down, lie flat, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, loaf, lobby, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, parlor, pothouse, presence chamber, pub, reception room, recline, repose, rest, salon, saloon, saloon bar, settee, settle, settle to rest, side room, sit around, slack, slouch, slouch around, snug down, sofa, sprawl, stand around, studio couch, take it easy, take life easy, tap, taproom, tete-a-tete, throne room, vegetate, vestibule, waiting room, wardroom

• lounger, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, faineant, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lubber, mope, moper, potterer, putterer, slouch, sloucher, slug, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, trifler, waiter on Providence

• lounging, accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchant, couche, crawling, dallying, dawdling, decumbency, decumbent, dillydallying, dolce far niente, draped, flat, goofing off, groveling, idling, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, loll, lolling, lying, mopery, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, reclination, reclining, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, supine, supineness, tarrying, trifling

• lour, abase, abash, abated, ablated, abridge, apprehend, approach, attenuated, await, bated, be imminent, be in store, bear down, beat down, belittled, bludgeon, bode, bore, break, brew, bring down, bring low, bulldoze, bump, burrow, bust, cast down, cave, cave in, cheapen, color, come on, comminate, common, compress, confront, consumed, contracted, couch, countersink, croak, crush, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, darkle, dash, debase, decline, decrease, decreased, deduct, deepen, deflate, deflated, degrade, deject, delve, demean, demeaning, demote, denounce, deplume, depreciate, depress, detrude, devaluate, dig, dig out, dike, dim, diminish, diminished, disadvantaged, discourage, disgrade, dishearten, dispirit, displume, dissipated, dive, down, downbear, downgrade, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, dredge, drill, drive, droop, dropped, dump, dump on, dusk, earlier, eroded, excavate, face, fall, fall in price, fallen, flop, flop down, flump, flump down, flush, forebode, forewarn, forthcome, founder, frown, furrow, gather, give way, glare, gloam, gloom, gloominess, glower, gnarl, go down, gouge, gouge out, grimace, groove, grow dark, grow dim, growl, grub, hang over, haul down, have a premonition, have a presentiment, hover, humble, impend, in the shade, indent, inferior, infra dig, intimidate, jew down, junior, knit the brow, knock down, lapse, less, lessen, lesser, let down, lie over, long face, look black, look daggers, look sullen, look threatening, loom, low, lower, lower the spirits, lowered, lowering, lowest, lowly, make a lip, make a moue, mantle, mark down, menace, mine, miniaturized, minor, modest, mope, moue, mow, near, nether, nose-dive, oppress, ordinary, overhang, pare, plop, plop down, plummet, plump, plunge, portend, pout, preapprehend, press down, pull down, push down, put down, quarry, redden, reduce, reduced, retrench, retrenched, roll back, sadden, sag, sap, scale down, scaled-down, scoop, scoop out, scowl, scrabble, scrape, scratch, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, set, set down, settle, settle down, shave, shorn, shorten, shorter, shovel, shrunk, shrunken, simplify, sink, sink down, slash, slouch, slump, slump down, smaller, snap, snarl, somber, somberness, sombrousness, spade, spit, step down, strip of rank, sub, subaltern, subjacent, subject, submerge, subordinate, subservient, subside, sulk, swag, take down, take from, third rank, third string, threaten, thrust down, trench, trim, trip up, trough, tune down, tunnel, under, underprivileged, utter threats against, vulgar, warn, watered-down, weakened, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, worn, wry face

• louse up, ball up, bitch, bitch up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead into it, boot, bugger, bugger up, bungle, complicate, confound, confuse, cook, crab, cramp, crimp, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, embrangle, entangle, flub, fluff, foozle, foul up, goof, goof up, gum, gum up, hash up, implicate, involve, knot, mess, mess up, mix up, muck up, mucker, muddle, perplex, play hell with, play hob with, pull a boner, queer, ramify, ravel, screw up, sink, snafu, snarl, snarl up, tangle

• louse, SOB, bastard, bugger, cat flea, chigoe, cockroach, crab, creep, cur, dog, dog flea, fart, flea, grayback, heel, hood, hooligan, jerk, jigger, meanie, mite, mother, nit, parasite, pill, rat, red bug, roach, sand flea, shit, shithead, shitheel, skunk, snake, stinkard, stinker, toad, turd, vermin, weevil, wretch

• lousy, abominable, alive with, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beset, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, infamous, inferior, infested, lamentable, loathsome, low, low-quality, mean, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, pedicular, pediculous, pitiable, pitiful, plagued, poor, rank, ratty, ravaged, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, second-rate, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid, teeming, terrible, too bad, unclean, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched

• lout, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, deride, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, klutz, lamb, lobster, looby, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lump, mere child, mock, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, palooka, parvenu, peasant, quiz, rally, razz, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, scout, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, taunt, twit, unsophisticate, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

• loutish, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish, callow, careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crude, cumbersome, farmerish, fingers all thumbs, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky, ill-bred, inconsiderate, inelegant, inept, insensitive, inurbane, left-hand, left-handed, loobyish, louty, lowbred, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maladroit, nasty, oafish, offensive, ponderous, raffish, raw, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, rusty, sloppy, stiff, tactless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungainly, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unhandy, unladylike, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous, unwieldy, up-country, vulgar, yokel, yokelish

• louver, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, blowhole, breathing hole, louverwork, naris, nostril, shaft, spilehole, spiracle, touchhole, transom, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, ventilator, wind tunnel

• lovable, acceptable, admirable, adorable, affectionate, agreeable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bewitching, captivating, caressable, charming, cherished, cuddlesome, cuddly, cute, darling, dear, desirable, enchanting, endearing, engaging, enthralling, entrancing, enviable, exciting, fetching, genial, kissable, likable, likeable, loveable, lovely, lovesome, mouth-watering, pleasing, provocative, ravishing, seductive, seraphic, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tempting, tender, to be desired, toothsome, unobjectionable, winning, winsome, worth having

• love affair, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amour, cuckoldry, entanglement, eternal triangle, flirtation, forbidden love, hanky-panky, illicit love, infidelity, intrigue, liaison, love, romance, romantic tie, triangle, unfaithfulness

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

• love nest, assignation, assignation house, blockhouse, box, bungalow, cabin, chalet, cot, cote, cottage, lodge, log cabin, meeting, meeting place, pied-a-terre, place of assignation, rendezvous, snuggery, tryst

• love song, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, alba, anthem, 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, dirge, ditty, drinking song, epithalamium, folk song, hymeneal, lay, lied, lilt, love-lilt, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, national anthem, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, theme song, torch song, war song, wedding song

• love story, Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, detective story, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, horse opera, legend, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, suspense story, thriller, whodunit, work of fiction

• love, Amor, Aphrodite, Astarte, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, Cupid, Eros, Freya, Kama, Love, Venus, accord, accordance, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate, adulation, affair, affection, affinity, agape, agreement, aim at, allegiance, altruism, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, amor, amorousness, amour, angel, appreciate, ardency, ardor, attachment, attraction, babe, baby, baby-doll, bang, bask in, be all heart, be desirous of, be fond of, be partial to, be pleased with, beau, beloved, beloved object, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bent, best love, best regards, best wishes, betrothed, bigheartedness, bonds of harmony, bonk, boyfriend, brotherhood, brotherly love, burn with love, buttercup, cardinal virtues, care, care for, caress, caritas, carnality, cement of friendship, charitableness, charity, cherish, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, choose, coldness, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, compliments, concern, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence, cosset, crush, cuddle, dandle, darling, dear, dear one, dearly beloved, deary, deify, delight, delight in, derive pleasure from, desiderate, desire, devoirs, devotion, devour, disposition, do-goodism, doll, dote, dote on, dote upon, duck, duckling, eat up, egards, embrace, emotion, empathy, enjoy, enjoyment, enthusiasm, esprit, esprit de corps, exalt, faith, fancy, favor, fealty, feast on, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fervor, fiance, fiancee, fidelity, flesh, fleshliness, flower power, fondle, fondness, fortitude, freak out on, frictionlessness, friendliness, friendship, frigidity, fuck, generosity, get high on, girl, giving, gloat over, go for, good vibes, good vibrations, good wishes, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, greetings, groove on, gust, gusto, guy, happy family, harmony, hate, have deep feelings, have designs on, have eyes for, have it bad, have sex, hold dear, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hope, humanitarianism, hump, identity, idolatry, idolize, impotence, inamorata, inamorato, inclination, indulge in, infatuation, intended, intrigue, justice, kind regards, kindest regards, kindness, kinship, know, lamb, lambkin, largeheartedness, leaning, liaison, libido, light of love, like, like-mindedness, likes, liking, love affair, love of mankind, loved one, lovemaking, lover, loyalty, lust, lust after, luxuriate in, make out, man, mania, marriage, mate, mutuality, natural virtues, neck, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, oneness, partiality, passion, peace, peaceableness, pet, petkins, philanthropism, philanthropy, piety, pleasure, potency, precious, precious heart, predilection, prefer, preference, prize, proclivity, prudence, rapport, rapprochement, rapture, reciprocity, regard, regards, rejoice in, relationship, relish, remembrances, respects, revel in, revere, riot in, romance, savor, screw, sensuality, sentiment, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sharing, sisterhood, smack the lips, snookums, sociability, solicitude, solidarity, sugar, suitor, supernatural virtues, swain, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swim in, sympathy, symphony, take, take pleasure in, take to, tally, taste, team spirit, temperance, tenderness, theological virtues, thing, treasure, truelove, turtledove, understanding, unhostility, union, unison, unity, utilitarianism, value, venerate, voluptuousness, wallow in, want, warmth, weakness, welfarism, well-affectedness, well-beloved, well-disposedness, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, woman, worship, would fain do, yearning, young man, zeal

• loved, admired, adored, beloved, cherished, darling, dear, dearly beloved, esteemed, favorite, held dear, pet, popular, precious, prized, revered, treasured, well-beloved, well-liked, white-haired

• loveless, desireless, forsaken, inappetent, jilted, lovelorn, nirvanic, passionless, rejected, spurned, unambitious, unaspiring, unattracted, unbeloved, uncherished, undesirous, uneager, unenthusiastic, unloved

• loveliness, adorability, agreeability, allurement, amiability, appeal, appealingness, attractiveness, beauteousness, beautifulness, beauty, beauty unadorned, bewitchment, bloom, captivation, charm, delightfulness, desirability, elegance, enchantment, enravishment, entrancement, exquisiteness, fascination, glamour, glow, grace, handsomeness, invitingness, likability, lovability, lovesomeness, luxury, prettiness, pulchritude, sensuousness, sweetness, tantalizingness, temptingness, the beautiful, voluptuousness, winning ways, winningness, winsomeness, witchery

• lovelorn, adoring, affectionate, conjugal, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, filial, fond, forsaken, husbandly, jilted, languishing, loveless, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, parental, paternal, rejected, romantic, sentimental, soft, spurned, tender, unbeloved, uncherished, unloved, uxorious, wifely

• lovely, admirable, adorable, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, agreeable, alluring, angelic, appealing, attractive, beaut, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, captivating, caressable, charming, comely, cuddlesome, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, elegant, enchanting, endowed with beauty, engaging, enjoyable, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exquisite, eye-filling, eyeful, fair, fascinating, fetching, fine, flowerlike, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, gratifying, handsome, heart-robbing, heavy, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, kissable, knockout, likable, looker, lovable, lovesome, luxurious, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, pulchritudinous, rare, ravishing, satisfactory, satisfying, sensuous, seraphic, stunner, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tempting, thrilling, titillative, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching

• lovemaking, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, act of love, admiration, adoration, adultery, affection, agape, aphrodisia, ardency, ardor, ass, attachment, balling, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, carnal knowledge, carnality, charity, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, coldness, commerce, congress, conjugal love, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, desire, devotion, diddling, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, flesh, fleshliness, fondness, fornication, free love, free-lovism, frigidity, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impotence, intercourse, intimacy, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, love, making it with, marital relations, marriage, marriage act, married love, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity, potency, procreation, regard, relations, screwing, sensuality, sentiment, sex, sex act, sex drive, sexiness, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual instinct, sexual intercourse, sexual love, sexual relations, sexual union, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, shine, sleeping with, sperm, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, venery, voluptuousness, weakness, worship, yearning

• lover, Maecenas, abettor, acquaintance, addict, admirer, adorer, advocate, aficionado, alter ego, amorist, angel, apologist, aspirant, aspirer, babe, baby, baby-doll, backer, beau, beloved, best friend, bosom friend, boyfriend, brother, buff, buttercup, candidate, casual acquaintance, champion, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, close acquaintance, close friend, collector, confidant, confidante, coveter, darling, dear, deary, defender, dependence, desirer, devotee, doll, doxy, duck, duckling, encourager, endorser, exponent, familiar, fan, fancier, fancy man, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, flame, follower, freak, friend, friend at court, girl friend, habitue, hankerer, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hopeful, hound, inamorata, inamorato, infatuate, inseparable friend, intimate, lamb, lambkin, love, mainstay, maintainer, man, master, neighbor, other self, paramour, paranymph, partisan, patron, pet, petkins, pickup, precious, precious heart, promoter, protagonist, pursuer, reliance, repository, second, seconder, sectary, sider, snookums, solicitant, sponsor, stalwart, standby, steady, sugar, sugar daddy, suitor, support, supporter, sustainer, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, sympathizer, truelove, upholder, votary, wanter, well-wisher, wisher, woman, wooer, yearner

• lovesick, adoring, affectionate, conjugal, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, filial, fond, husbandly, languishing, lovelorn, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, parental, paternal, romantic, sentimental, soft, tender, uxorious, wifely

• loving, Christian, Christlike, Christly, adoring, affectionate, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amatory, amorous, ardent, attached, attentive, benevolent, benign, benignant, bound, boundless, brotherly, careful, caring, cautious, changeless, circumspect, compassionate, conjugal, considerate, cordial, creating, creative, curious, dear, decent, demonstrative, devoted, doting, enamored, erotic, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, faithful, fervent, filial, fond, fraternal, glorious, good, gracious, hallowed, heedful, highest, holy, human, humane, husbandly, immortal, immutable, impassioned, infatuated, infinite, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, languishing, limitless, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, luminous, majestic, making, maternal, melting, merciful, mindful, nice, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, parental, passionate, paternal, permanent, perpetual, radiant, regardful, romantic, sacred, sentimental, shaping, soft, softhearted, solicitous, sovereign, supreme, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited, uxorious, warm, warmhearted, wifely

• lovingly, adoringly, affectionately, amorously, ardently, assiduously, carefully, cautiously, circumspectly, considerately, dearly, devotedly, diligently, fondly, heedfully, industriously, mindfully, painstakingly, passionately, regardfully, sedulously, solicitously, tenderly, thoroughgoingly, thoroughly, thoughtfully, with affection, with care, with great care, with love

• low class, Mickey Mouse, base, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, fourth-class, inferior, irregular, low quality, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, paltry, poor, punk, second best, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, tacky, third-class, third-rate, tinny

• low down, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, cheesy, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, ignoble, little, low, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, petty, poky, poor, rank, reptilian, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, small, squalid, ugly, unmentionable, vile, wretched

• low grade, Mickey Mouse, base, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, declasse, fourth-class, hack, inferior, irregular, low-class, low-quality, low-test, mean, paltry, poor, punk, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, shabby, tacky, third-class, third-rate, tinny

• low opinion, ban, blackball, blackballing, complaint, dim view, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, exclusion, indignation, low estimation, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, protest, rejection, thumbs-down, unhappiness

• low price, bargain prices, budget prices, cut price, easy prices, economy prices, low tariff, manageable price, moderate price, nominal price, popular prices, reasonable charge, reasonable price, reduced price, reduced rates, rock-bottom prices, sale price, sensible price, small price tag

• low priced, budget, cheap, easy, economic, economy, frugal, inexpensive, low, manageable, moderate, modest, nominal, popular, reasonable, sensible, shabby, shoddy, token, unexpensive, within means, worth the money

• low priority, immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferior, inferiority, insignificance, irrelevance, littleness, marginal, marginality, negligibility, no great shakes, of no account, of no consequence, of no matter, of no significance, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness, secondariness, secondary, slightness, smallness, unimportance, unimportant, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness

• low profile, blear, bleared, bleariness, bleary, blur, blurred, blurriness, blurry, confused, dark, darkness, defocus, dim, dimness, faint, faintness, feeble, feebleness, filminess, filmy, fogginess, foggy, fuzziness, fuzzy, half-seen, half-visibility, half-visible, haziness, hazy, ill-defined, inconspicuous, indefinite, indefiniteness, indistinct, indistinctness, indistinguishability, indistinguishable, merely glimpsed, mistiness, misty, obscure, obscurity, out of focus, pale, paleness, semivisibility, semivisible, shadowiness, shadowy, soft focus, uncertain, uncertainty, unclear, unclearness, undefined, unplain, unplainness, unrecognizable, vague, vague appearance, vagueness, weak, weakness

• low spirited, arid, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, blue, bowed-down, cast down, characterless, cold, colorless, dashed, dead, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dispirited, down, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drooping, droopy, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, feeling low, flat, heartless, heartsore, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, inane, inexcitable, insipid, jejune, languishing, leaden, lifeless, low, pale, pallid, pedestrian, pessimistic, pining, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, subdued, suicidal, superficial, tasteless, tedious, unlively, vapid, weary of life, woebegone, wooden, world-weary

• low spirits, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, blank despondency, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, heartlessness, hopelessness, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, oppression, pessimism, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, spiritlessness, suicidal despair, taedium vitae, weariness of life

• low test, Mickey Mouse, base, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, fourth-class, inferior, irregular, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, mean, paltry, poor, punk, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, tacky, third-class, third-rate, tinny

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

• low voice, aspiration, bated breath, breath, breathy voice, exhalation, little voice, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering, sigh, soft voice, stage whisper, still small voice, susurration, susurrus, underbreath, undertone, whisper, whispering

• low, Doric, Hydromatic, a la sourdine, abject, abominable, accented, against, ailing, air mass, alveolar, anticyclone, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrant, articulated, asking price, assimilated, atrocious, automatic transmission, back, bad, barbaric, barbarous, barely audible, baritone, bark, barytone, base, base-minded, baseborn, bass, bawl, bay, bearish prices, beggared, beggarly, bell, bellow, below the salt, bid price, bilabial, black, blamable, blameworthy, blare, blat, blate, bleat, book value, boom, bottoming out, bowed-down, bray, brief, broad, broke, budget, bullish prices, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cacophonous, cacuminal, call, call price, cast down, caterwaul, central, cerebral, cheap, checked, cheesy, close, closing price, clumsy, coarse, cockney, cogwheel, cold front, cold sector, common, commonplace, compact, compendious, con, concise, consonant, consonantal, contemptible, continuant, contralto, cooling off, couchant, crass, criminal, crisis, crouched, crude, crummy, cry, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, cyclone, damnable, dark, dashed, debased, decline, decrescendo, decurtate, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, degraded, dejected, demeaning, dental, depraved, depressed, depression, depthless, despaired of, despairing, despicable, despondent, desponding, destitute, differential, differential gear, dim, dimly, dirty, disadvantaged, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgraceful, disgruntled, disgusting, disheartened, disillusioned, dispirited, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, dissimilated, distant, doggerel, done for, donsie, dorsal, down, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, downturn, drooping, droopy, dying, dysphemistic, earthy, easy, economic, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economy, evil, execrable, expanding economy, expansion, expiring, face value, facing death, faint, faintly, fallen, feeble, feebly, feeling low, few, fixed price, flagitious, flagrant, flash price, flat, flurry, flutter, footling, foul, frank, freewheel, front, frugal, fulsome, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, gentle, gently, give tongue, give voice, given up, glide, glossal, glottal, going, graceless, grave, gross, growth, gutter, guttural, half-heard, hard, harsh, heartless, heavy, heinous, high, high growth rate, high-pressure area, hollow, homely, hopeless, howl, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, hushedly, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ignoble, impoverished, improper, impure, in articulo mortis, in bad taste, in extremis, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, in the shade, incapable of life, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorrect, indecorous, indigent, indignant, indisposed, indistinct, inelegant, inexpensive, infamous, infelicitous, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, iniquitous, innocuous, insignificant, instantaneous, intermediate, intonated, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, issue par, issue price, junior, knavish, knee-high, knocked flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laid low, languishing, lateral, lax, least, less, lesser, light, lingual, liquid, little, low-built, low-down, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-minded, low-pitched, low-pressure area, low-priced, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowered, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, manageable, mangy, market expansion, market price, market value, meager, mean, measly, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, mid, miniature, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, monophthongal, monstrous, moo, moribund, murmured, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naughty, neap, near death, needy, nefarious, negligible, neigh, nether, neutral, nicker, no great shakes, nominal, nominal value, nonclerical, nonviable, obnoxious, occluded front, occlusive, odious, offering price, open, opening price, opposed, opposing, ordinary, outlandish, overdrive, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, paltry, par, par value, parity, peak, peaking, peccant, penurious, pessimistic, petty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, picayune, picayunish, pining, pitch, pitched, plain, plebeian, poky, polar front, poor, posttonic, price, prone, prosperity, prostrate, pule, put price, quotation, quoted price, rack, rally, rank, raw, reasonable, recession, recovery, recumbent, reduced, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, retroflex, reverse, roar, rough, rounded, rude, runty, scabby, scandalous, scarcely heard, screak, scream, screech, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, second rank, second string, secondary, semivowel, sensible, sepulchral, servile, settling price, shabby, shabby-genteel, shallow, shameful, shoddy, short, short and sweet, simple, sinful, sinking, skin-deep, slashed, slipping, slipping away, slowdown, slump, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softly, sonant, sordamente, sordid, sordo, sorry, spiritless, squalid, squall, squall line, squat, squatty, squeak, squeal, standard transmission, stated value, stationary front, stick shift, stooped, stopped, stressed, strong, stumpy, sub, subaltern, subaudible, subdued, subduedly, subjacent, subject, submerged, subordinate, subservient, succinct, suicidal, summary, sunk, sunken, superficial, supine, surd, swings, syllabic, synchromesh, synoptic, tasteless, teachable, tense, terminal, thick, third rank, third string, third-estate, throaty, tiny, token, tonal, tonic, transient, transmission, trifling, trivial, troat, turned-off, twangy, ululate, unaccented, unappreciative, unapproving, unclear, uncomplimentary, uncourtly, uncouth, under, underprivileged, undignified, undistinguished, unelevated, uneuphonious, unexpensive, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unforgivable, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhappy, unimportant, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpolished, unpretentious, unrefined, unrounded, unseemly, unspeakable, unstressed, unwashed, unworthy, upturn, velar, vicious, vile, villainous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wail, warm front, weak, weak-voiced, weakly, weary of life, weather map, whicker, whine, whinny, whispered, wicked, wide, wind-shift line, within means, woebegone, woeful, world-weary, worth the money, wretched, wrong, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

• lowbrow, Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bookless, dabbler, deceived, dilettante, dunce, fool, functionally illiterate, grammarless, greenhorn, greeny, heathen, hoodwinked, ignoramus, ill-educated, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, led astray, middlebrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, no scholar, nonintellectual, pagan, puddinghead, rude, tenderfoot, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligentsia, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored

• lower case, abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, blackface, body, bold-faced, boldface, cap, capital, case, chromotypic, chromotypographic, counter, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, full-faced, graphemic, groove, ideographic, italic, letter, lettered, lexigraphic, ligature, lightface, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, logotype, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, nick, phototypic, pi, pica, pictographic, point, print, roman, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, stamp, stem, stereotypic, transliterated, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typographic, uncial, upper case, upper-case

• lower class, bourgeoisie, cog, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, creature, flunky, follower, hoi polloi, inferior, junior, laborers, lightweight, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, masses, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, pawn, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, second fiddle, secondary, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, subaltern, subordinate, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, third stringer, toilers, toiling class, underling, understrapper, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people, yes-man

• lower house, Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Chamber of Deputies, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, House of Commons, House of Representatives, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, Swaziland, Switzerland, Turkey, US, United Kingdom, Venezuela, West Germany, assembly, bicameral legislature, board of aldermen, chamber of deputies, city board, city council, commission, common council, congress, court, diet, federal assembly, general assembly, house of assembly, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber, legislature, lower chamber, national assembly, parliament, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, representative town meeting, soviet, state assembly, state legislature, town meeting, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house

• lower, abase, abash, abated, ablated, abridge, apprehend, approach, attenuated, await, bated, be imminent, be in store, bear down, beat down, belittle, belittled, bludgeon, bode, bore, break, brew, bring down, bring low, bulldoze, bump, burrow, bust, cast down, cave, cave in, cheapen, clip, color, come on, comminate, common, compress, condescend, confront, consumed, contracted, couch, countersink, croak, crop, crush, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut prices, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, darkle, dash, de-escalate, debase, decline, decrease, decreased, decry, deduct, deepen, deflate, deflated, degrade, deign, deject, delve, demean, demeaning, demit, demote, denounce, deplume, depreciate, depress, descend, detrude, devaluate, devalue, dig, dig out, dike, dim, diminish, diminished, disadvantaged, discount, discourage, discredit, disgrace, disgrade, dishearten, dispirit, displume, dissipated, dive, down, downbear, downgrade, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, dredge, drill, drive, droop, drop, dropped, dump, dump on, dusk, earlier, eroded, excavate, face, fall, fall in price, fallen, flop, flop down, flump, flump down, flush, forebode, forewarn, forthcome, founder, frown, furrow, gather, give way, glare, gloam, gloom, gloominess, glower, gnarl, go down, gouge, gouge out, grimace, groove, grow dark, grow dim, growl, grub, hang over, haul down, have a premonition, have a presentiment, hover, humble, humiliate, impend, in the shade, indent, inferior, infra dig, intimidate, jew down, junior, knit the brow, knock down, lapse, less, lessen, lesser, let down, lie over, long face, look black, look daggers, look sullen, look threatening, loom, low, lower case, lower the spirits, lowered, lowering, lowest, lowly, make a lip, make a moue, mantle, mark, mark down, menace, mine, miniaturized, minor, minuscule, moderate, modest, modulate, moue, mow, near, nether, nose-dive, oppress, ordinary, overhang, pare, peer, plop, plop down, plummet, plump, plunge, portend, pout, preapprehend, press down, pull down, push down, put down, quarry, quieten, redden, reduce, reduced, retrench, retrenched, roll back, sadden, sag, sap, scale down, scaled-down, scoop, scoop out, scowl, scrabble, scrape, scratch, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, set, set down, settle, settle down, shame, shave, shorn, shorten, shorter, shovel, shrunk, shrunken, simplify, sink, sink down, slash, slouch, slump, slump down, small, smaller, snap, snarl, soften, somber, somberness, sombrousness, spade, spit, stare, step down, stoop, strip of rank, sub, subaltern, subjacent, subject, submerge, subordinate, subservient, subside, swag, take down, take from, third rank, third string, threaten, thrust down, tone down, trench, trim, trip up, trough, tune down, tunnel, turn down, under, underprivileged, underprize, undervalue, utter threats against, vulgar, warn, watered-down, weakened, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, worn, write down, write off, wry face

• lowered, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, bowed down, brought down, brought low, consumed, contracted, curtailed, debased, decreased, deflated, depressed, diminished, dissipated, downcast, downthrown, dropped, eroded, fallen, humbled, in the dust, less, lesser, low, lower, miniaturized, prostrate, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, set down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, submerged, sunk, sunken, watered-down, weakened, worn

• lowering, Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, abatement, about to be, abridgment, abusive, alleviation, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, attenuation, bad, baleful, baneful, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, black, black-browed, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, break, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cadence, catenary, cheapening, close, close at hand, clouded, cloudy, coming, comminatory, concavity, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, dark, dark and gloomy, de-escalation, debasement, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decurrence, deduction, deepening, deflation, degradation, dejected, demotion, denunciatory, depreciation, depression, descent, detrusion, devaluation, digging, diminishment, diminution, dire, dive, doomful, dour, dreary, drilling, droop, ducking, dull, dumpish, dying, dying off, evil, evil-starred, excavation, extenuation, fade-out, fateful, fear-inspiring, foreboding, forthcoming, frowning, funereal, future, gathering, gloom, gloomful, gloominess, glooming, gloomy, glowering, glum, going to happen, grim, grum, hauling down, heavy, hectoring, hollowness, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-omened, ill-starred, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inauspicious, incumbent, instant, intimidating, jutting, languishment, lapse, lessening, letup, looming, lower, lurking, markdown, melancholy, menacing, minacious, minatory, miniaturization, mining, mitigation, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, near, near at hand, nearing, nose dive, nubilous, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overcast, overclouded, overhanging, overhung, pending, plummet, plummeting, plunge, portending, portentous, preparing, price cut, price fall, price reduction, probing, projecting, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging, scaling down, scowling, simplicity, sinister, sinkage, sinking, slash, slump, somber, somberness, sombrous, sombrousness, stormy, submergence, subsidence, subtraction, sulky, sullen, superincumbent, surly, swag, terroristic, terrorizing, that will be, threatening, threatful, thrusting under, to come, tunneling, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, upcoming, waiting, weakening

• lowest, bedrock, best, bottom, bottommost, cut, down, earlier, few, giveaway, ground, half-price, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, least, littlest, low, lower, lowermost, lowliest, lowly, marked down, mean, minim, minimum, modest, nether, nethermost, plain, poor, reduced, rock-bottom, sacrificial, shortest, simple, slashed, slightest, small, smallest, subjacent, teachable, under, undermost, undistinguished, unimportant, unpretentious

• lowlands, agricultural region, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, basin, black belt, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus belt, coastal plain, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, delta, desert, down, downs, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, fruit belt, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing region, heath, highlands, lande, level, llano, lowland, lunar mare, mare, meadows and pastures, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, moors, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, steppes, table, tableland, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, tree veld, tundra, upland, uplands, vega, veld, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

• lowlife, Bowery bum, bastard, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blackguard, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, derelict, devil, drifter, drunkard, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, heel, hobo, human wreck, knave, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, miscreant, mucker, no-good, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, rascal, rogue, sad case, sad sack, scoundrel, skid-row bum, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tramp, truant, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, villain, wastrel, worm, worthless fellow, wretch

• lowly, base, baseborn, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, deferential, demeaning, despised, disadvantaged, disliked, everyday, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, innocuous, junior, least, less, lesser, low, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowest, lowliest, mean, meek, minor, misprized, misunderstood, modest, mundane, nonclerical, obeisant, obsequious, ordinary, out of favor, plain, plebeian, poor, retiring, reverential, rude, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, shabby-genteel, simple, small, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, teachable, thankless, third rank, third string, third-estate, unappreciated, unassuming, uncared-for, underprivileged, undistinguished, ungenteel, unimportant, unlamented, unmissed, unmourned, unpopular, unpretentious, unregretted, unsung, unvalued, unwashed, vulgar, withdrawing, workaday, workday

• lowness, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, baseness, bassness, beggarliness, blank despondency, brevity, briefness, commonness, commonplaceness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, crumminess, curtness, death wish, debasement, decrescendo, deepness, degradation, dejectedness, dejection, depravity, depression, despair, despicableness, despondency, despondentness, dimness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, enormity, execrableness, faintness, feebleness, flatness, foulness, fullness, fulsomeness, gentleness, grossness, heartlessness, heinousness, hollowness, homeliness, hopelessness, ignobility, indistinctness, instantaneousness, littleness, low spirits, lowness of spirit, malaise, meanness, mellowness, miserableness, monstrousness, nefariousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, oppression, ordinariness, paltriness, pessimism, pettiness, plangency, plebeianism, pokiness, poorness, rankness, resonance, richness, scabbiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, self-destructive urge, shabbiness, shoddiness, short time, shortness, sinking heart, smallness, softness, sonority, sonorousness, spiritlessness, squalor, subaudibility, subduedness, succinctness, suicidal despair, summariness, taedium vitae, transience, unclearness, vibrancy, vileness, weakness, weariness of life, wretchedness

• loyal, abandoned, acquiescent, active, afire, ardent, assiduous, burning, committed, compliant, complying, conforming, conscientious, consistent, constant, continuing, dedicated, dependable, devoted, devout, diligent, dogged, duteous, dutiful, earnest, enduring, faithful, fervent, fervid, fiery, firm, fixed, flaming, flinty, hearty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, immovable, immutable, impassioned, in earnest, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, inflexible, insistent, intense, intent, intent on, invincible, lasting, law-abiding, liege, marble-constant, meticulous, mindful, never-tiring, obedient, observant, obstinate, on fire, passionate, patient, patient as Job, patriotic, perfervid, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, practicing, preoccupied, punctilious, punctual, rapt, red-hot, regardful, relentless, reliable, resolute, scrupulous, sedulous, serious, set, settled, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, sot, spirited, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stubborn, submissive, tenacious, tireless, true, true-blue, trusted, trustworthy, trusty, unabating, unbending, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unshaken, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vehement, warm, weariless, white-hot, willing, zealous

• loyalist, Conservative, Democrat, Labourite, Republican, Tory, Whig, heeler, partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, patriot, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, stalwart, ward heeler, wheelhorse

• loyalty, abandon, acquiescence, adherence, adhesion, allegiance, application, ardency, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, assigned task, attachment, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, bounden duty, bulldog tenacity, burden, business, call of duty, charge, commitment, committedness, compliance, concentration, conformity, constancy, dedication, deference, dependability, devoir, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, diligence, dogged perseverance, doggedness, duteousness, duties and responsibilities, dutifulness, duty, earnestness, endurance, engrossment, ethics, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, good faith, heartiness, heat, heatedness, homage, impassionedness, imperative, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, inflexibility, insistence, insistency, intensity, intentness, line of duty, mission, must, obedience, obediency, obligation, observance, obstinacy, onus, ought, passion, passionateness, patience, patience of Job, patriotism, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, piety, place, plodding, plugging, preoccupation, relentlessness, reliability, resolution, resolve, respect, rigidity, sedulity, sedulousness, self-imposed duty, seriousness, service, servility, servitium, settledness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, spirit, stability, stamina, staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, stick-to-itiveness, stubbornness, submission, submissiveness, suit and service, suit service, tenaciousness, tenacity, tie, tirelessness, troth, true blue, trueness, trustworthiness, truth, unremittingness, unswerving attention, unyieldingness, vehemence, warmth, willingness, zeal

• lozenge, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bolus, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, capsule, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pill, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tablet, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, troche, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale

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

• lubber, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, clock watcher, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, dolt, doodler, faineant, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, gowk, hayseed, hick, idler, klutz, laggard, landlubber, lingerer, loafer, lobster, loiterer, loller, looby, lotus-eater, lounger, lout, lug, lummox, lump, mope, moper, oaf, ox, palooka, polliwog, potterer, putterer, rube, slouch, sloucher, slubberer, slug, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, trifler, waiter on Providence, yokel

• lubricate, aid, anoint, beeswax, buy, buy off, clear the way, dab, daub, drag, dress, dub, ease, embrocate, equalize, even, expedite, explain, facilitate, fix, flatten, glycerolate, grade, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, harrow, hasten, have, help along, lard, lay, level, loose, make clear, make way for, mow, oil, open the way, open up, pave the way, plane, planish, plaster, pomade, prepare the way, quicken, remove friction, run interference for, salve, shave, simplify, slick, slick on, smear, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth the way, soap the ways, sop, speed, square, tamper with, unbar, unblock, unclog, unguent, unjam, wax

• lubricious, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, buttery, capricious, carnal, changeable, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, dirty, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fickle, filthy, fleshly, goatish, greased, greasy, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impure, inconstant, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lubric, lubricated, lustful, nymphomaniacal, obscene, oiled, oily, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric, sensual, sexual, sexy, slick, sliddery, slipper, slippery, slippy, slithery, soaped, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, undependable, unstable, variable, volatile, wavering

• lucent, beaming, bright, brilliant, clear, clear-cut, crystal, effulgent, fulgent, incandescent, lambent, luminous, pellucid, radiant, refulgent, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous

• lucid, Attic, Ciceronian, all there, apprehensible, balanced, beaming, bright, brilliant, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clearheaded, clearminded, cloudless, coherent, compos mentis, comprehensible, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, effulgent, elegant, explicit, express, fathomable, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, graspable, healthy-minded, incandescent, intelligible, knowable, lambent, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, luculent, luminous, lustrous, mentally sound, natural, neat, nonopaque, normal, of sound mind, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, radiant, rational, reasonable, refined, refulgent, relucent, restrained, revealing, right, round, sane, sane-minded, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, sensible, serene, sheer, simple, sound, sound-minded, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, together, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined, wholesome

• lucidity, Atticism, ESP, admission of light, appropriateness, balance, chasteness, chastity, clairsentience, clairvoyance, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, comeliness, comprehensibility, connectedness, consistency, contact with reality, correctness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity, definition, diaphaneity, diaphanousness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, distinctness, ease, elegance, elegancy, explicitness, extrasensory perception, felicitousness, felicity, filminess, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, foresight, gauziness, glassiness, glasslikeness, good taste, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, healthy mind, insight, intelligibility, intuition, lightness, limpidity, lucence, lucency, lucid interval, luminosity, luminousness, marbles, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, mind, naturalness, neatness, nonopacity, normalcy, normality, normalness, pellucidity, perspicuity, plain English, plain speech, plain style, plainness, polish, premonition, propriety, psychometry, purity, rationality, reason, reasonableness, refinement, restraint, right mind, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, second sight, seemliness, senses, sheerness, show-through, simplicity, sixth sense, smoothness, sober senses, sobriety, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, straightforwardness, structure, taste, tastefulness, terseness, thinness, translucence, translucency, translucidity, transmission of light, transparence, transparency, transpicuity, transpicuousness, unadorned style, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, uncloudedness, understandability, unequivocalness, unmistakableness, vitreosity, vitreousness, vitrescence, wholesomeness, wit

• Lucifer, Aldebaran, Apollyon, Beelzebub, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, His Satanic Majesty, North Star, Old Nick, Old Scratch, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Satan, Satanas, Sirius, Venus, Vesper, celestial body, comet, daystar, devil, diablo, evening star, fiend, fixed stars, heavenly body, living sapphires, lodestar, morning star, orb, polar star, polestar, serpent, sphere, starry host, stars, the Adversary, the Arch-fiend, the Common Enemy, the Demon, the Devil, the Devil Incarnate, the Evil One, the Evil Spirit, the Fiend, the Foul Fiend, the Old Enemy, the Old Serpent, the Tempter, the Wicked One, the archenemy, the serpent

• luck, accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, blessing, break, bump, calculated risk, capriciousness, casualness, chance, chances, chanciness, changeableness, destiny, erraticism, erraticness, fate, felicity, fickleness, flier, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortunateness, fortune, fortunes, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, happy fortune, hazard, heedless hap, hesitancy, hesitation, hit, how they fall, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, irresolution, law of averages, light, lot, luckiness, meet, moira, occasion, opportunity, play, plunge, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, randomness, risk, run of luck, serendipity, smiles of fortune, speculation, statistical probability, stroke of luck, stumble, suspense, suspensefulness, the breaks, theory of probability, tumble, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, venture, whatever comes, whimsicality

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

• lucky piece, amulet, charm, fetish, fylfot, gammadion, good-luck charm, hoodoo, juju, love charm, lucky bean, madstone, mascot, mumbo jumbo, obeah, periapt, philter, phylactery, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, sudarium, swastika, talisman, veronica, voodoo, whammy

• lucky, advantageous, appropriate, auspicious, befitting, beneficial, benign, benignant, blessed, blessed with luck, bright, charmed, convenient, expedient, fair, favorable, favored, favoring, felicitous, fit, fitting, fortuitous, fortunate, full of promise, golden, good, happy, in luck, meet, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, opportune, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, ripe, seasonable, sortable, suitable, timely, well, well-timed

• lucrative, advantageous, banausic, breadwinning, compensating, compensative, compensatory, fat, gainful, good, moneymaking, paying, productive, profitable, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retributive, retributory, rewardful, rewarding, satisfying, well-paying, worthwhile

• lucre, affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse, capital gains, cash, circulating medium, cleanup, clear profit, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, dividends, dollars, dough, earnings, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, gold, greenbacks, gross, gross profit, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, hoard, income, independence, interest, jack, kale, killing, legal tender, lettuce, loot, luxuriousness, makings, mammon, managed currency, material wealth, mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money to burn, moneybags, neat profit, necessity money, net, net profit, opulence, opulency, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, proceeds, profit, profits, property, prosperity, prosperousness, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, riches, richness, scrip, shillings, silver, six-figure income, soft currency, specie, sterling, store, substance, take, take-in, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness, winnings

• lucubration, advisement, application, article, autograph, boning, brainchild, brainwork, brooding, causerie, composition, computer printout, conning, consideration, contemplation, copy, counsel, cram, cramming, deliberation, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, document, draft, drill, edited version, engrossment, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exercise, exposition, extensive study, fair copy, feature, fiction, final draft, finished version, first approach, first draft, flimsy, grind, grinding, headwork, holograph, homily, inspection, introductory study, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, manuscript, matter, meditation, memoir, mental labor, monograph, morceau, musing, opus, original, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, parchment, penscript, perusal, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, pondering, practice, preliminary study, printed matter, printout, production, prolegomenon, reading, reading matter, recension, reflection, research paper, restudy, restudying, review, revolving, rumination, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sketch, special article, speculation, study, studying, subject, survey, swotting, term paper, the written word, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, transcript, transcription, treatise, treatment, typescript, version, weighing, wide reading, work, writing

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

• lug, Eustachian tube, anvil, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, bear, bony labyrinth, buck, carry, cauliflower ear, cochlea, conch, concha, conduct, convey, draft, drag, draggle, draw, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, endolymph, external ear, ferry, fly, freight, gawk, hale, hammer, haul, heave, hump, incus, inner ear, klutz, lift, lobe, lobster, lobule, looby, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, lurch, malleus, manhandle, mastoid process, middle ear, oaf, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, pack, palooka, perilymph, pinna, pull, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, snake, snap, stapes, stirrup, strain, take, take in tow, tote, tow, trail, train, transport, trawl, troll, tug, twitch, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vellicate, vestibule, waft, whisk, wing, yank

• luggage, Gladstone, apparatus, attache case, backpack, bag, bag and baggage, baggage, bags, bandbox, belongings, briefcase, cargo, carpetbag, carryall, consignment, ditty bag, duffel, duffel bag, dunnage, flight bag, footlocker, freight, freightage, gear, goods, grip, handbag, haversack, holdall, impedimenta, kit, kit bag, knapsack, lading, load, outfit, overnight bag, pack, paraphernalia, payload, portmanteau, rucksack, satchel, sea bag, shipment, suitcase, tackle, things, tote bag, traps, traveling bag, trunk

• lugubrious, aggrieved, anguished, black, bleak, careworn, cheerless, depressant, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dour, dreary, dumb with grief, glum, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, in grief, joyless, lamentable, morose, mournful, oppressive, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, rueful, saturnine, somber, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, sullen, tearful, woeful

• lukewarm, Laodicean, aestival, apathetic, blood-hot, blood-warm, calid, chill, chilly, cold, cool, equatorial, fervorless, genial, half-baked, halfhearted, hesitant, indecisive, indevotional, indevout, indifferent, indifferentist, insouciant, irresolute, irresolved, lackadaisical, luke, mild, neuter, neutral, nonchalant, nonobservant, nonreligious, perfunctory, phlegmatic, room temperature, room-temperature, subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undevout, undutiful, unenthusiastic, unfrozen, unmoved, unreligious, unresolved, unresponsive, warm, warm as toast, warmish, wishy-washy, zealless

• lull, abate, abeyance, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, anticyclone, appease, assuage, awful silence, balm, becalm, benumb, breach, break, breath, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, caesura, calm, calm down, calmness, cease, cease-fire, cessation, cigarette break, cocktail hour, coffee break, comma, compose, cool, cradle, cushion, day off, dead, dead calm, dead of night, deaden, deaden the pain, deathlike calm, deathlike silence, delay, die down, diminish, doldrums, dope, dormancy, downtime, drop, drug, dulcify, dull, dwindle, ease, ease matters, ease off, ebb, enforced respite, entrance, even out, fall, fissure, flat calm, foment, gap, gentle, give relief, golden silence, half time, half-time intermission, halt, happy hour, hesitation, hiatus, hibernation, holiday, horse latitudes, hush, hush of night, hypnotize, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, inaudibility, inertia, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval, lacuna, lapse, lay, layoff, lessen, let up, letup, lucid stillness, lull to sleep, magnetize, mesmerize, mitigate, moderate, molder, mollify, motionlessness, mum, narcotize, noiselessness, numb, off-time, oily calm, pacify, pad, palliate, pause, peace, peacefulness, plateau, point of repose, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, put to sleep, put under, qualify, quell, quiesce, quiescence, quiet, quiet spell, quieten, quietness, quietude, recess, reduce, relief, relieve, remission, respite, rest, resting point, rock, rock to sleep, salve, sedate, settle, silence, silentness, slacken, slake, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, soften, solemn silence, soothe, soundlessness, spell, stabilize, stand-down, stay, steady, still, stillness, stop, stupe, subdue, subside, surcease, suspension, tacitness, taciturnity, tea break, temper, time off, time out, tomblike silence, trance, tranquilize, tranquillity, truce, underactivity, vacation, wane, whisht, windlessness

• lullaby, Schlummerlied, Wiegenlied, anesthetic, berceuse, cradlesong, hypnotic, mandrake, morphia, morphine, nightcap, opiate, opium, poppy, sedative, sleep-bringer, sleep-inducer, sleep-producer, somnifacient, soporific

• lulling, abatement, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, blunting, calming, cradling, damping, deadening, demulsion, diminishment, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, falling-off, gentling, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, numbing, pacification, pacifying, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, restful, rocking, salving, slackening, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing

• lulu, ace, beaut, corker, crackerjack, daisy, dandy, darb, dilly, dream, honey, humdinger, killer-diller, knockout, lollapaloosa, peach, pip, pippin, sweetheart, the nuts, whiz

• lumbago, abscess, adenoiditis, adrenitis, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain fever, bronchitis, bunion, bursitis, cachexia, cachexy, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chill, chills, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, colic, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diarrhea, diffuse inflammation, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fibroid inflammation, flux, focal inflammation, gastritis, gingivitis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, growth, hemophilic arthritis, hemorrhage, hepatitis, high blood pressure, hydrops, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertension, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, laryngitis, low blood pressure, lumbar rheumatism, marasmus, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, paradental pyorrhea, paralysis, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, podagra, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pruritus, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, rash, reactive inflammation, rheum, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sclerosing inflammation, sclerosis, seizure, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, shock, simple inflammation, sinusitis, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spastic colon, specific inflammation, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, syphilitic arthritis, tabes, tachycardia, tennis elbow, testitis, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, tumor, ulcerative colitis, upset stomach, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, vertigo, visceral rheumatism, vomiting, vulvitis, wasting, wryneck

• lumber, amble, barge, be all thumbs, beam, beams, billet, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, board, boarding, boards, boggle, botch, bowl along, bumble, bundle, bungle, burden, burthen, butcher, cargo, charge, chug on, clamjamfry, clapboard, clog, clump, clutter, commit a gaffe, cord, cordwood, cramp, cripple, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, deal, debris, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, driftwood, dust, embarrass, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, faux pas, fetter, firewood, flounce, flounder, foot, footslog, freight, fumble, halt, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hardwood, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, impede, impediment, impedimenta, impose upon, imposition, inconvenience, involve, jog, jog on, jolt, jumble, jump, junk, lade, lame, land, lath, lathing, lathwork, lime, limp, litter, load, log, lunge, lurch, mar, mince, miscue, muddle, muff, murder, net, odds and ends, onus, overload, pace, pack, paddle, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, peg, penalty, piaffe, piaffer, plank, planking, planks, play havoc with, plod, plod along, plug, plug along, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, prance, press down, puncheon, rack, raff, rejects, riffraff, roll, rub on, rubbish, rubble, saddle, saddle with, sashay, saunter, schlep, scrap, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shackle, shake, shamble, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shoddy, shuffle, sideboard, siding, sidle, single-foot, skip, slab, slat, slink, slip, slither, slog, slouch, snarl, softwood, splat, spoil, stagger, stalk, stamp, stave, stick, stick of wood, stomp, stovewood, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, swing, tangle, tax, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, tittup, toddle, toil, totter, traipse, trammel, tramp, trash, trip, trouble, truck, trudge, two-by-four, waddle, wamble, weatherboard, weigh, weigh down, weight, white elephant, wiggle, wobble, wood

• lumbering, Christmas tree farming, Latinate, afforestation, all thumbs, ambling, ambulation, arboriculture, awkward, backpacking, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cumbersome, cumbrous, deliberate, easy, elephantine, faltering, fingers all thumbs, flagging, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, forced, forest management, forestation, forestry, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gentle, going on foot, graceless, gradual, guinde, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, hulking, hulky, idle, indolent, inelegant, inept, inkhorn, labored, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, legwork, leisurely, limping, logging, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, marching, massive, massy, moderate, oafish, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous, reforestation, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, sesquipedalian, shuffling, silviculture, slack, sloppy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, splay, staggering, stiff, stilted, strolling, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, tree farming, trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unhurried, unwieldy, waddling, walking, woodcraft, wooden

• lumberyard, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, magasin, magazine, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

• lumen, ASA scale, British candle, Hefner candle, Scheiner scale, bougie decimale, candle, candle lumen, candle power, candle-foot, candle-hour, candle-meter, decimal candle, exposure meter, flux, foot-candle, intensity, international candle, lamp-hour, light, light meter, light quantum, lumen meter, lumen-hour, lumeter, luminous flux, luminous intensity, luminous power, lux, photon, quantum, unit of flux, unit of light

• luminary, VIP, actinic, big, big name, big-timer, candle, catoptric, celebrity, chief, constellation, cynosure, electric light bulb, electronics king, eminence, figure, fire, first-rater, flame, folk hero, galaxy, genius, glim, great man, heliographic, heliological, hero, heroine, honcho, idol, illuminant, illuminator, immortal, important person, incandescent body, king, lamp, lantern, lead, leader, leading light, light, light bulb, light source, lion, luminal, luminant, luminaries, man of mark, master spirit, match, moon, nabob, name, notability, notable, paramount, person of note, personage, photic, photoactinic, photologic, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, prima donna, principal, prodigy, public figure, social lion, somebody, source of light, star, stars, sun, superstar, taper, top dog, topnotcher, torch, virtuoso, wonder, worthy

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

• luminous, ablaze, acute, aglow, alight, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, apprehensible, bathed with light, beaming, beamy, bespangled, blushing, boundless, bright, bright and sunny, brightened, brilliant, burning, candescent, candlelit, changeless, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clear-eyed, coherent, comprehensible, connected, consistent, creating, creative, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dazzling, defined, definite, direct, discerning, distinct, effulgent, enlightened, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, explicit, express, fathomable, firelit, fluorescent, flushing, fulgent, gaslit, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glorious, glowing, good, graspable, hallowed, highest, holy, illuminant, illuminated, immortal, immutable, in a blaze, incandescent, incisive, infinite, intelligible, irradiate, irradiated, irradiative, just, keen, knowable, lambent, lamping, lamplit, lanternlit, light as day, lighted, lightened, limitless, limpid, lit, lit up, loud and clear, loving, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminescent, luminiferous, luminificent, lustrous, majestic, making, merciful, moonlit, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, orient, pellucid, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, permanent, perpetual, perspicacious, perspicuous, phosphorescent, plain, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, rutilous, sacred, shaping, sharp, shimmering, shining, shiny, simple, sovereign, spangled, sparkling, specific, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, starlit, starry, straightforward, streaming, studded, suffused, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny, supreme, timeless, tinseled, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, ubiquitous, unambiguous, unbounded, unchanging, unconfused, undefined, understandable, unequivocal, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, well-defined

• lummox, boor, bumpkin, butterfingers, clod, clodhopper, clumsy, dub, duffer, foozler, foul-up, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hick, klutz, lobster, looby, lout, lubber, lug, lump, muff, muffer, oaf, palooka, rube, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, yokel

• lump together, accouple, accumulate, add, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, amalgamate, amass, articulate, assemble, assimilate, associate, band, batch, blend, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cement, chain, clap together, clump, cluster, coalesce, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, come together, compare, compile, compound, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, copulate, corral, couple, cover, cumulate, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, embody, embrace, encompass, flux, fuse, gather, gather in, gather together, get in, get together, glue, group, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, join, juxtapose, knot, lay together, league, link, make one, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, mobilize, muster, pair, partner, piece together, put together, raise, rake up, rally, reembody, roll into one, round up, scrape together, shade into, solder, solidify, span, splice, stick together, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take in, take up, tape, tie, unify, unite, weld, whip in, yoke

• lump, abide, abide with, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, allow, amassment, barrel, batch, bear, bear with, beard, bide, bilge, bit, blain, bleb, blend, blimp, blister, blob, block, body, boil, boss, bow, brave, brook, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulk, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, butt, butterfingers, button, cahot, cake, carbuncle, chine, chip, chunk, clabber, clip, clipping, clod, clot, clump, clumsy, cluster, coagulate, collect, collop, colophon, combine, comeuppance, concavity, concrete, concretion, condyle, congeal, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, consolidate, convex, convexity, corn, crumb, cube, cumulation, curd, curdle, cut, cutting, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, deserts, deserving, digest, dilatation, dilation, dint, distension, dollop, dowel, dub, due, duffer, ear, edema, embossment, end, endure, excrescence, fatty, fingerprint, flange, flap, footmark, footprint, footstep, foozler, fossil footprint, foul-up, fragment, fumble-fist, furuncle, gall, gathering, gawk, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, glomeration, gnarl, gob, gobbet, goof, goofball, goofer, group, growth, handle, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, heap, heavy, heavyweight, hick, hill, hippo, hump, hunch, hunk, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incrassate, indent, indentation, indention, inspissate, intumescence, jell, jellify, jelly, jog, joggle, join, klutz, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loaf, lobster, looby, loop, lopper, lot, lout, lubber, lummox, lump it, lump together, mass, merit, mix, modicum, moiety, mole, morsel, mountain, much, muff, muffer, nevus, node, nodule, nub, nubbin, nubble, nugget, oaf, pad, palooka, papilloma, paring, particle, pat, paw print, pawmark, peck, peg, persevere, piece, pile, pimple, pock, portion, potbelly, power, print, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, pug, pugmark, pustule, put together, put up with, quantity, rasher, rib, ridge, rights, ring, rising, roly-poly, rube, scoop, scrap, seal, sebaceous cyst, set, shard, shaving, shiver, shoulder, shred, sight, sigil, signet, slice, sliver, slob, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, snowball, solid, solid body, spine, splinter, stamp, stand, stand for, step, stick, stitch, stockpile, stomach, stud, stumblebum, stumblebunny, stump, style, suffer, support, sustain, swagbelly, swallow, swell, swelling, swollenness, tab, take, take up with, tatter, thick, thicken, throw together, thumbmark, thumbprint, tolerate, tub, tub of lard, tubercle, tubercule, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, tun, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, unite, verruca, vesicle, vestige, wad, wale, wart, wedge, welt, wen

• lumpen proletariat, beggar, bourgeoisie, bummer, cadger, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, idle rich, laborers, leisure class, linendrapers, lounge lizard, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, mendicant, middle class, middle orders, moocher, nonworker, ordinary people, panhandler, parasite, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, rentiers, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, spiv, sponger, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, the unemployable, the unemployed, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people

• lumpen, abject, abominable, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, arrant, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, atrocious, available, baggy, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blobby, blowzy, blurred, blurry, boorish, careless, chaotic, characterless, cheesy, chintzy, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, confused, contemptible, countrified, country-born, country-bred, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dilapidated, dirty, disengaged, disgusting, disorderly, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, execrable, fallow, farmerish, featureless, flagrant, formless, foul, free, from the sticks, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, fuzzy, grave, gross, grubby, hayseed, hazy, heinous, hick, hicky, hobnailed, idle, in rags, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, informal, inurbane, jobless, kaleidoscopic, leisure, leisured, little, loose, loutish, low, low-down, lumpish, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, misty, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, nondescript, obnoxious, obscure, odious, off, off duty, off work, orderless, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, paltry, petty, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, reptilian, rube, ruinous, scabby, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shapeless, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, small, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, unclear, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undefined, unemployable, unemployed, unkempt, unmentionable, unneat, unoccupied, unordered, unorganized, unpolished, unrefined, unsightly, untidy, up-country, vague, vile, wretched, yokel, yokelish

• lumpish, Boeotian, all thumbs, apathetic, asinine, awkward, beef-brained, beef-witted, benumbed, blase, blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bored, bovine, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, caked, cakey, careless, carlish, chumpish, churlish, clabbered, cloddish, clodhopping, clotted, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coagulated, congealed, countrified, country-born, country-bred, cowish, crass, cumbersome, cumbrous, curded, curdled, dead, debilitated, dense, doltish, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, elephantine, enervated, exanimate, farmerish, fat, fingers all thumbs, from the sticks, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gelatinized, graceless, gross, grumous, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hayseed, heavy, heavy-handed, hebetudinous, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, hulking, hulky, inanimate, incrassate, incumbent, ineducable, inelegant, inert, inspissate, inspissated, inurbane, jaded, jelled, jellied, klutzy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, lethargic, lifeless, listless, loobyish, loutish, lowbred, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, moribund, numb, oafish, onerous, opaque, oppressive, phlegmatic, ponderous, pooped, raffish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, sated, sleepy, sloppy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, sottish, splay, stagnant, stagnating, stiff, stultified, stupid, superincumbent, supine, thick, thickened, torpid, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unteachable, unwieldy, up-country, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary, wrongheaded, yokel, yokelish

• lumpy, awkward, bulky, bumpy, caked, cakey, chunky, clabbered, clotted, clumsy, coagulated, congealed, crude, cumbersome, cumbrous, curded, curdled, elephantine, gelatinized, gnarled, gnarly, grainy, granular, grumous, hulking, hulky, incrassate, inspissate, inspissated, jelled, jellied, knobbly, knobby, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, massive, massy, nodose, nodular, ponderous, raw, rough, roughhewn, rude, studded, thickened, undressed, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unpolished, unwieldy

• lunacy, aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, asininity, battiness, brain damage, brainlessness, brainsickness, buffoonery, clouded mind, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, desipience, disorientation, distraction, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folie, folly, foolery, foolhardiness, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, furor, giddiness, goofiness, idiocy, illogic, illogicality, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindlessness, mindsickness, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, oddness, pixilation, possession, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, ridiculousness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, silliness, strangeness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism

• lunar module, Earth insertion, LEM, LM, apogee, attitude-control rocket, ballistic capsule, burn, capsule, deep-space ship, docking, docking maneuver, ferry rocket, fuel ship, injection, insertion, lunar excursion module, manned rocket, module, moon ship, multistage rocket, orbit, parking orbit, perigee, reentry, rocket, shuttle rocket, soft landing, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship

• lunar, Cynthian, S-shaped, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, bicorn, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, falcate, falciform, galactic, heavenly, heliacal, horn-shaped, horned, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, lunary, lunate, luniform, lunular, lunulate, menisciform, meniscoid, meteoric, meteoritic, moon-shaped, moonlike, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semicircular, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sidereal, sigmoid, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, terrestrial, two-horned, uranic, zodiacal

• lunatic fringe, Bolshevik, Jacobin, Wobbly, aficionado, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, buff, bug, crank, devotee, energumen, enthusiast, extreme left-winger, extremist, fan, fanatic, fanatico, freak, infatuate, left-wing extremist, mild radical, monomaniac, nihilist, nut, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, red, revolutionary, revolutionist, sans-culotte, subversive, syndicalist, ultra, ultraist, yippie, zealot

• lunatic, abnormal, absurd, aliene, ass, balmy, batty, bedlamite, bereft of reason, borderline case, born fool, brainsick, buffoon, clown, crackbrain, crackbrained, cracked, crackpot, crank, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, deluded, dement, demented, demoniac, deprived of reason, deranged, ding-a-ling, disoriented, distraught, doodle, egregious ass, energumen, fanatic, fantastic, figure of fun, flake, flighty, fool, fou, hallucinated, harebrain, idiot, ignoramus, insane, irrational, jackass, kook, loco, loon, loony, mad, maddened, madman, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, meshuggenah, milksop, moon-struck, mooncalf, neuropath, neurotic, non compos, non compos mentis, noncompos, not all there, not right, nut, odd, of unsound mind, off, paranoid, perfect fool, phrenetic, potty, preposterous, psycho, psychoneurotic, queer, raver, raving lunatic, reasonless, schmuck, screwball, senseless, sick, softhead, sop, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid ass, tetched, tomfool, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weirdo, witless, zany

• lunch counter, automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchen, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, sandwich shop, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

• lunch, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, board, break bread with, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, cook out, cookout, dine, dine out, diner, dinner, eat out, elevenses, fish fry, high tea, hot luncheon, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, mess with, petit dejeuner, picnic, sup, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

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

• lunchroom, automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchen, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, mess hall, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

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

• lunge, amble, barge, bound, bowl along, bundle, charge, clump, cut, cut and thrust, dash, dive, drag, feint, flail at, flail away at, flounce, foot, footslog, halt, hippety-hop, hit, hit at, hitch, hobble, home thrust, hop, jab, jog, jolt, jump, lash out at, leap, let drive at, let fly at, limp, lumber, lunge at, lurch, mince, pace, paddle, pass, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, plunge, poke at, pounce, prance, rack, roll, rush, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spring, stab, stagger, stalk, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, strike at, strike out at, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, swing at, swing on, thrust, thrust at, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trip, trudge, waddle, wamble, wiggle, wobble

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

• lupine, all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, canine, doggy, extortionate, foxlike, foxy, grabby, grasping, parasitic, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, vulpine, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish

• lurch, abandon, amble, barge, bend, bent, bias, blunder, bob, bobble, bowl along, bumble, bundle, capsize, careen, career, clump, coggle, come a cropper, crook, dangle, desert, disposition, drag, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flutter, foot, footslog, forsake, gait, gallop, get a cropper, halt, heave, heel, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hobbyhorse, hop, inclination, jilt, jog, jolt, jump, labor, librate, limp, list, lock step, lug, lumber, lunge, make heavy weather, mince, mincing steps, nutate, oscillate, pace, paddle, peg, penchant, pendulate, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plod, plunge, pound, prance, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, rack, rear, reel, resonate, rock, roll, sashay, saunter, scend, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seethe, shake, shamble, sheer, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skew, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, slue, snap, snapper, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stalk, stammer, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, struggle, strut, stumble, stump, swag, swagger, sway, swerve, swing, swinging, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, tendency, thrash about, tilt, tilter, tittup, toddle, topple, topple down, topple over, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, tumble, turn, turn turtle, twist, twitch, vacillate, veer, vellicate, velocity, vibrate, volutation, waddle, wag, waggle, walk, wallop, wallow, wamble, warp, wave, waver, weave, welter, whirl, wiggle, wobble, yank, yaw

• lurching, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, dangling, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, patchy, pitching, rambling, reeling, rocking, rolling, rough, scrappy, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, swaying, swinging, tossing, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly

• lure, adduct, adductor, allure, allurement, appeal, attract, attractant, attraction, attractiveness, attrahent, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, be magnetic, beguile, bewitch, birdlime, blandish, bola, bribe, bring, cajole, call, captivate, capture, carrot, carry, catch, catch out, center, center of attraction, charm, coax, cobweb, come-on, con, cynosure, decide, decoy, decoy duck, determine, dispose, drag, dragnet, draw, draw in, draw on, draw towards, drawcard, drawing card, drawing power, enchant, encouragement, endearment, engage, enlist, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entice, enticement, entoil, entrap, enweb, fascinate, fillip, fishhook, flirt, flirt with, fly, focus, get to do, gill net, gin, give the come-on, ground bait, have an attraction, hook, hook in, illusion, incentive, incitement, incline, induce, inducement, influence, interest, interest in, inveigle, inveiglement, invitation, invite, jig, lariat, lasso, lead, lead on, lime, magnet, magnetize, mesh, meshes, net, noose, offer bait to, payment, percentage, persuade, persuasive, plug, pound net, procure, profit, prompt, provocation, pull, pull towards, purse seine, reward, rope, rope in, seduce, seducement, seduction, seine, siren song, snare, snarl, sniggle, spinner, spread the toils, springe, squid, stale, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, suck in, sway, sweetener, sweetening, tangle, tempt, temptation, toils, toll, train, trap, trawl, trip, tug, wheedle, whet, wind, wobbler, woo

• lurid, Barnumesque, Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, Titian, Titian-red, achromatic, achromic, affected, aglow, anemic, appalling, ashen, ashy, awful, baleful, bawdy, bedizened, beige, big-sounding, blanched, blatant, bled white, blinding, bloodless, blue, brazen, brazenfaced, bricky, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, burning, cadaverous, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chloranemic, chocolate, cinnamon, cloak-and-dagger, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, colorful, colorless, convoluted, corpselike, crimson, crude, damask, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, declamatory, dim, dimmed, dingy, dirty, discolored, disgusting, doughy, drab, dull, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, eerie, elevated, etiolated, euphuistic, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, faded, faint, fallow, fawn, fawn-colored, ferruginous, fiery, filthy, fire-red, flagrant, flamboyant, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flaring, flashy, flat, flaunting, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frightful, fulsome, fuscous, garish, gaudy, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaring, glowering, glowing, gorgeous, gory, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, graphic, gray, grege, grim, grisly, gruesome, gules, haggard, hazel, hideous, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, hot, hueless, hypochromic, impure, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, inkhorn, iron-red, ithyphallic, khaki, labyrinthine, lackluster, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, leaden, lewd, lexiphanic, livid, lobster-red, lofty, loud, lusterless, macabre, magniloquent, malefic, maroon, mat, mealy, melodramatic, meretricious, mortuary, muddy, nasty, neutral, nut-brown, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, olive-brown, olive-drab, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedantic, pompous, pornographic, port-wine, pretentious, puce, raunchy, raw, red, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, revolting, rhetorical, ribald, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, salacious, sallow, scarlet, screaming, scurrile, scurrilous, seal, seal-brown, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sepia, shameless, shocking, showy, shrieking, sickly, sinister, smoking-room, smutty, snuff-colored, sonorous, sorrel, spectacular, spine-chilling, stammel, startling, stilted, sultry, tabloid, tall, tallow-faced, tan, taupe, tawdry, tawny, terrible, terrifying, tile-red, toast, toast-brown, toneless, tortuous, umber, umber-colored, uncanny, unchaste, unclean, uncolored, unearthly, unprintable, unrepeatable, vermilion, vile, vinaceous, vivid, vulgar, walnut, walnut-brown, wan, warm, washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, yellow, yellowish-brown

• lurk, be latent, couch, creep, escape notice, gumshoe, hibernate, hide, lay wait, lie beneath, lie dormant, lie hid, lie in wait, lie low, make no sign, nightwalk, prowl, pussyfoot, shadow, skulk, slide, slink, slip, smolder, snake, sneak, stalk, steal, tiptoe, underlie

• lurking, abeyant, about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, between the lines, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, covert, cryptic, delitescent, doggo, dormant, esoteric, forthcoming, furtive, future, gathering, going to happen, hibernating, hidden, hidden out, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in ambush, in danger imminent, in hiding, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in the wings, in view, instant, latent, looming, lowering, menacing, muffled, mystic, near, near at hand, nearing, obfuscated, obscured, occult, on the horizon, on tiptoe, overhanging, possible, potential, preparing, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quiescent, skulking, sleeping, sneaking, stealing, stealthy, submerged, surreptitious, that will be, threatening, to come, under cover, under the surface, underlying, unmanifested, upcoming, veiled, virtual, waiting, waiting concealed

• luscious, adorable, agreeable, ambrosial, appetizing, baroque, choice, cloying, dainty, darling, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, deluxe, distinctive, epicurean, exquisite, flamboyant, flavorsome, florid, good, good to eat, good-tasting, gustable, gusty, heavenly, juicy, likable, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, mawkish, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, of gourmet quality, opulent, oversweet, palatable, palatial, piquant, pleasant, pleasing, plush, rare, rich, rococo, saccharine, sapid, savorous, savory, scrumptious, sensual, sickly-sweet, succulent, sumptuous, sweet, tasty, toothsome, voluptuous, yummy

• lush, abundant, adorable, adorned, agreeable, alcohol, ambrosial, befrilled, bibber, blooming, booze, boozehound, boozer, bottle sucker, bountiful, budge, bum, bursting, bursting out, chug, chug-a-lug, colored, copious, creative, dainty, decorated, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, deluxe, dense, drink, drunk, elaborate, elbow bender, embellished, embroidered, epicurean, exquisite, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, festooned, figurative, figured, firewater, florid, flourishing, flowery, fresh, fructiferous, fruitful, generous, ginhound, good, good to eat, good-tasting, green, grog, gross, gustable, gusty, heavenly, heavy, hooch, hooch hound, impenetrable, inebriate, juicy, jungled, jungly, lavish, likable, liquor, liquor up, luscious, lusher, luxuriant, luxurious, moist, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, of gourmet quality, opulent, ornate, overcharged, overgrown, overloaded, overrun, palatable, palatial, pleasing, plenteous, plentiful, plush, pregnant, prodigal, productive, profusive, proliferous, prolific, purple, raise the elbow, rank, rich, riotous, ripe, ritzy, rum hound, rummy, sapid, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seminal, sensual, soak, sot, souse, sponge, stew, succulent, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tasty, teeming, thick, thriving, tipple, tippler, toothsome, uberous, unweeded, verdant, voluptuous, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, wino, yummy

• lust after, aim at, aspire after, be desirous of, be in heat, choose, come in, covet, crave, crave after, crawl after, desiderate, desire, estruate, fancy, favor, hanker after, have designs on, hunger after, itch for, like, love, lust, pant after, prefer, run mad after, rut, take to, thirst after, want, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, would fain do

• lust, acedia, ache, ache for, acquisitiveness, ambition, andromania, anger, animality, animus, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, choice, clitoromania, command, conation, conatus, concupiscence, coveting, covetousness, crave, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, decision, desire, determination, dirtiness, discretion, disposition, drive, energy, envy, eromania, eroticism, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, excitement, fancy, fervor, fleshliness, fleshly lust, free choice, free will, frenzy of desire, furor uterinus, fury of desire, gluttony, goatishness, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gula, gynecomania, hanker, heat, hoggishness, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, hysteromania, inclination, incontinence, indecency, infantile sexuality, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, intention, invidia, ira, itch, itching palm, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, liking, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust after, lustfulness, luxuria, mind, nymphomania, objective, obscenity, overgreediness, passion, piggishness, pine, pleasure, polymorphous perversity, priapism, pride, prurience, pruriency, randiness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, resolution, rut, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, sexuality, sloth, sordidness, superbia, swinishness, thirst, urge, uteromania, velleity, venereal appetite, volition, voraciousness, voracity, will, will power, wish, wolfishness, wrath, yearn, yearning, yen

• luster, abundant year, academic year, afterglow, air glow, annum, aura, be bright, beacon, beam, bedazzle, bissextile year, blaze, blaze of glory, blind, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, buff, burn, burnish, calendar month, calendar year, candescence, ceiling fixture, century, chandelier, charisma, circlet, common year, corona, corona lucis, crown, day, daze, dazzle, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, diffuse light, effulgence, electrolier, envelope, finish, fiscal year, flame, flare, flash, flush, fortnight, fulgurate, furbish, gasolier, give light, glamour, glance, glare, glaze, gleam, glint, gloriousness, glory, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, halo, heavenliness, hour, illustriousness, incandesce, incandescence, iridescence, leap year, luminosity, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, lustrum, magic, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, mystique, nimbus, numinousness, opalescence, patina, polish, quarter, quinquennium, radiance, radiate, ravishingness, refulgence, regular year, resplendence, resplendency, rub, scour, second, semester, send out rays, session, sheen, shine, shine brightly, shininess, shining light, shoot, shoot out rays, sidereal year, skylight, sleek, slick, slick down, solar year, splendidness, splendor, splendorousness, splendrousness, sublimity, sun, sunset glow, term, trimester, twelvemonth, varnish, wax, week, weekday, year

• lusterless, achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, blind, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadened, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, drab, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, livid, lurid, mat, mealy, muddy, muted, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, prosaic, prosy, sallow, sickly, somber, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

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

• lustily, actively, aloud, animatedly, briskly, con brio, deafeningly, energetically, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, forte, fortemente, fortissimo, heartily, imperviously, impregnably, in full cry, intensely, invincibly, invulnerably, irresistibly, keenly, loud, loudly, mightily, noisily, powerfully, pungently, resistantly, resoundingly, ringingly, robustly, ruggedly, soundly, spiritedly, stalwartly, staunchly, stoutly, strenuously, strongly, sturdily, unyieldingly, uproariously, vigorously, vivaciously, with pep, zestfully

• lustral, abstergent, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, cathartic, cleaning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, depurative, detergent, diuretic, emetic, expiatory, expurgatory, lustrational, lustrative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purging, purificatory, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, squaring

• lustrous, aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning, burnished, candescent, charismatic, effulgent, flushing, fulgent, glace, glamorous, glassy, gleaming, gleamy, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glorious, glossy, glowing, illuminant, illustrious, incandescent, irradiative, lambent, lamping, light as day, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, magic, numinous, orient, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, rutilous, sheeny, shined, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny

• lusty, active, acute, adipose, aggressive, animated, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bouncing, brawny, brisk, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, concentrated, corpulent, distended, doughty, dumpy, dynamic, energetic, enormous, enterprising, enthusiastic, fat, fattish, fleshy, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, full, full of pep, full-blooded, full-bodied, full-strength, go-go, gross, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, healthy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, immense, impetuous, imposing, incisive, intense, iron-hard, keen, kinetic, lively, living, massive, meaty, mettlesome, mighty, nervy, obese, obstinate, overweight, paunchy, peppy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potent, powerful, prodigious, pudgy, puffy, puissant, pursy, red-blooded, robust, robustious, robustuous, roly-poly, rotund, rude, rugged, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, steely, stocky, stout, strapping, strenuous, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, substantial, swollen, take-charge, take-over, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tremendous, trenchant, tubby, vast, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivid, well-fed, whacking, whopping, zestful, zesty, zippy

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

• lux, ASA scale, British candle, Hefner candle, Scheiner scale, bougie decimale, candle, candle lumen, candle power, candle-foot, candle-hour, candle-meter, decimal candle, exposure meter, flux, foot-candle, intensity, international candle, lamp-hour, light, light meter, light quantum, lumen, lumen meter, lumen-hour, lumeter, luminous flux, luminous intensity, luminous power, photon, quantum, unit of flux, unit of light

• luxuriant, abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arabesque, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, busy, chichi, colored, copious, creative, decorated, deluxe, dense, diffuse, effuse, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fat, fecund, fertile, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, flashy, florid, flourishing, flowery, flush, frilly, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fussy, galore, garish, gaudy, generous, gross, heavy, high-wrought, impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jungled, jungly, labored, lavish, liberal, luscious, lush, luxurious, many, maximal, moresque, much, numerous, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overcharged, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overflowing, overgrown, overlabored, overloaded, overrun, overworked, overwrought, palatial, picturesque, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plush, pregnant, pretty-pretty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, purple, rampant, rank, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rococo, running over, seminal, showy, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unweeded, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

• luxuriate in, adore, appreciate, bask in, be pleased with, delight in, derive pleasure from, devour, eat up, enjoy, feast on, freak out on, get high on, gloat over, groove on, indulge, indulge in, like, live high, live well, love, rejoice in, relish, revel in, riot in, roll in, savor, smack the lips, swim in, take pleasure in, wallow in

• luxuriate, appreciate, bask, bask in, bud, burgeon, burst forth, delight in, eat up, enjoy, feast, fill, flood, flourish, gemmate, germinate, grow, grow rank, have a ball, indulge, indulge in, know no bounds, leaf, leaf out, leave, like, love, luxuriate in, overabound, overbrim, overdo, overflow, overgrow, overindulge, overrun, overspill, overspread, overswarm, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, relish, revel, revel in, riot, roll, rollick, root, run riot, savor, shoot, shoot up, spill over, sprout, sprout up, strike root, superabound, swarm, swim in, take it easy, take root, teem, upspear, upsprout, vegetate, wallow in, welter

• luxurious, Babylonian, Corinthian, Cyrenaic, abounding in riches, affluent, appealing, appetitive, arabesque, attractive, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, baroque, bent on pleasure, bewitching, big-rich, busy, captivating, charming, chichi, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, costly, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, dear, dear-bought, delightful, deluxe, disgustingly rich, easeful, easy, elaborate, elegant, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, entrancing, epicurean, expensive, exquisite, extravagant, fancy, fascinating, fat, fetching, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, flush, friendly, frightfully rich, frilly, fussy, glorious, gorgeous, gourmet, grand, grandiose, heart-robbing, hedonistic, high, high-priced, high-wrought, homelike, homely, homey, imposing, impressive, in funds, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, labored, languishing, languorous, lavish, lived-in, loaded, lovely, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxury-loving, made of money, magnificent, majestic, moneyed, moresque, noble, not affordable, of great cost, oofy, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, palace, palatial, pampered, peaceful, picturesque, pleasure-bent, pleasure-seeking, plush, plushy, posh, precious, premium, prepossessing, pretentious, pretty-pretty, pricey, princely, prosperous, proud, provided for, ravishing, relaxing, reposeful, restful, rich, rich as Croesus, ritzy, rococo, rolling in money, roomy, self-indulgent, sensual, sensuous, showy, snug, soft, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, steep, stiff, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, sybaritic, taking, tantalizing, tempting, thrilling, titillative, top, unchaste, unpayable, voluptuary, voluptuous, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, winning, winsome, witching

• luxury, Babylonian splendor, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Easy Street, affluence, amenity, amusement, animal pleasure, appeal, appealingness, appetite, appetitiveness, attractiveness, bed of roses, bedizenment, bewitchment, bodily pleasure, brilliance, captivation, carnal delight, charm, clover, comfort, confidence, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, dainty, delicacy, delight, delightfulness, duplication, duplication of effort, ease, easy circumstances, elaborateness, elegance, embellishment, enchantment, endpleasure, enjoyment, enravishment, entertainment, entrancement, epicureanism, epicurism, ethical hedonism, euphoria, expendable, expletive, exquisiteness, extra, extravagance, fascination, fat, featherbedding, felicity, filling, fleshpots, forepleasure, frill, frills, frippery, fruition, fun, gingerbread, glamour, glory, gorgeousness, grace, gracious life, gracious living, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, happiness, hearty enjoyment, hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, imposingness, impressiveness, indulgence, intellectual pleasure, invitingness, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, lap of luxury, lavishness, life of ease, loaves and fishes, loveliness, luxuriousness, magnificence, majesty, needlessness, nobility, opulence, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, physical pleasure, pleasure, pleasure principle, pleasure-seeking, pleonasm, plushness, poshness, prolixity, prosperity, prosperousness, proudness, psychological hedonism, quiet pleasure, redundance, redundancy, relish, resplendence, richness, ritziness, satisfaction, security, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sensuous pleasure, sensuousness, sexual pleasure, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, state, stateliness, success, sumptuousness, superfluity, superfluousness, sweetness of life, sybaritism, tantalizingness, tautology, temptingness, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, titillation, treat, unchastity, unnecessariness, upward mobility, velvet, verbosity, voluptuousness, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, winningness, winsomeness, witchery, zest

• lyceum, Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, academy, amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, chapel, concert hall, convention hall, dance hall, exhibition hall, gallery, grammar school, hall, high, high school, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, lecture hall, meetinghouse, middle school, music hall, opera house, prep school, preparatory school, public school, secondary school, seminary, senior high, senior high school, stadium, theater

• lying, accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, credibility gap, debasement, deceit, deceitful, deceptive, decumbency, decumbent, delusive, delusory, depression, dishonest, dishonesty, draped, duplicitous, duplicity, equivocal, false, falsehood, falsification, fibbery, fibbing, flat, forsworn, groveling, hypocritical, knavish, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying down, mendacious, mendaciousness, mendacity, misleading, mythomania, perfidious, perjured, perjury, prevaricating, prevarication, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, pseudology, reclination, reclining, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, roguish, shifty, shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness, treacherous, truthless, truthlessness, untruthful, untruthfulness, unveracious, unveraciousness, wrong

• lymph, chyle, colostrum, discharge, gleet, humor, ichor, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, matter, milk, mucor, mucus, peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, pus, rheum, saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum, snot, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urine

• lynch law, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, chaos, confusion, criminal syndicalism, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, nihilism, ochlocracy, primal chaos, rebellion, revolution, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unruliness

• lynch, and quarter, annihilate, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, draw, end, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, gibbet, hang, immolate, kill, launch into eternity, liquidate, make away with, martyr, martyrize, neck, noose, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, scrag, slay, starve, stretch, string up, take life, take off

• lynx, Argus, Leo, Siberian tiger, bobcat, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cheetah, cougar, eagle, ferret, hawk, jaguar, leopard, lion, mountain lion, ocelot, painter, panther, puma, simba, tiger, weasel, wildcat

• lyric, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, book, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, dulcet, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, graceful, haiku, idiosyncratic, idyll, individual, jingle, libretto, light, limerick, lyrical, lyrics, madrigal, mellifluous, mellow, melodic, melodious, monody, musical, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, personal, poem, prothalamium, rhapsodic, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sentimental, sestina, silvery, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, subjective, sweet, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, words

• lyrical, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, alto, appealing, ariose, arioso, bardic, baritone, bass, bravura, bucolic, canorous, cantabile, catchy, choral, choric, coloratura, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, dulcet, ebullient, eclogic, ecstatic, effusive, elegiac, emotional, encomiastic, enthusiastic, epic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, exuberant, falsetto, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, heroic, honeyed, hymnal, idyllic, impassioned, liturgical, lyric, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, mock-heroic, music-flowing, music-like, musical, narrative, operatic, panegyrical, pastoral, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, rapturous, rhapsodic, rich, runic, sacred, sapphic, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, singing, skaldic, songful, songlike, sonorous, soprano, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tenor, treble, tunable, tuneful, vocal

• ma, dam, foster mother, genetrix, mam, mama, mammy, mater, materfamilias, maternal ancestor, matriarch, mom, mommy, mother, mummy, old lady, old woman, stepmother, the old woman

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

• macabre, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, eldritch, fearsome, fell, fiendish, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, livid, lurid, morbid, mortuary, pale, redoubtable, schrecklich, shocking, spookish, spooky, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tremendous, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird

• macadam, Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, brick, cement, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, flag, flagging, flagstone, gravel, kerb, kerbstone, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, road metal, stone, tarmacadam, tile, washboard

• macaroni, Beau Brummel, Italian paste, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, clotheshorse, coxcomb, dandy, dude, dumpling, exquisite, fashion plate, fedellini, fettuccine, fine gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, knaydlach, lady-killer, lasagne, lounge lizard, man-about-town, masher, matzo balls, noodles, pasta, paste, puppy, ravioli, spaetzle, spaghetti, spaghettini, spark, sport, swell, vermicelli, won ton, ziti

• mace, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, bastinado, bat, baton, battering ram, billy, billy club, blackjack, blazonry, bludgeon, brassard, button, caduceus, cane, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, cheat, class ring, club, cockade, collar, con man, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, cudgel, decoration, diddler, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, fasces, ferule, figurehead, fleur-de-lis, flimflammer, gavel, gyp, hammer and sickle, heraldry, insignia, knobkerrie, lapel pin, life preserver, livery, mantle, markings, medal, morning star, mortarboard, mountebank, nightstick, old school tie, paddle, pin, portfolio, quarterstaff, ram, regalia, ring, rod, rod of office, rose, sandbag, scepter, school ring, shamrock, sharpie, shillelagh, sigillography, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, spontoon, staff, stave, stick, swastika, tartan, thistle, tie, truncheon, uniform, verge, wand, wand of office, war club

• macerate, Sanforize, agonize, attenuate, bathe, bloody, brew, chew, claw, consume, convulse, crucify, crush, douche, drench, drouk, dry up, emacerate, emaciate, excruciate, flush, harrow, imbrue, imbue, impale, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, kill by inches, lacerate, lancinate, lave, leach, lixiviate, martyr, martyrize, mash, masticate, parch, percolate, permeate, preshrink, pulp, pulpify, punish, rack, rinse, rip, saturate, savage, scarify, sear, seethe, shrink, shrivel, smash, soak, sodden, sop, souse, squash, steep, thin, torment, torture, wash, waste, waste away, waterlog, weazen, wither, wizen, wring

• Machiavellian, Artful Dodger, Byzantine, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellianist, Machiavellic, actor, acute, ambidextrous, arch, artful, astute, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, behind-the-scenes operator, cagey, calculating, canny, charmer, clever, coconspirator, collusive, connivent, conniver, conniving, conspirator, conspirer, conspiring, contriving, counterfeiter, counterplotter, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deceiver, deep, deep-laid, deluder, designing, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, dishonest, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double, double-dealer, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, duper, duplicitous, eminence grise, enchanter, entrancer, exploiter, faithless, faker, false, false-principled, falsehearted, feline, finagler, fooler, forger, foxy, gamesman, gay deceiver, gray eminence, guileful, hoaxer, hypnotizer, influence peddler, ingenious, insidious, intrigant, intriguer, intriguing, inventive, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, kingmaker, knowing, leg-puller, logroller, machinator, maneuverer, mesmerizer, misleader, operator, opportunist, pawky, perfidious, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, plotter, plotting, politic, political realist, politician, pork-barrel politician, power broker, practical joker, ragger, ready, resourceful, role-player, schemer, scheming, seducer, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, spoofer, stealthy, stratagemical, strategic, strategist, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, tease, teaser, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, up to, vulpine, wary, wheeler-dealer, wily, wire-puller

• machinate, angle, brew, cabal, cogitate, collude, complot, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, countermine, counterplot, devise, engineer, finagle, finesse, frame, frame up, gerrymander, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, intrigue, jockey, lay a plot, maneuver, manipulate, operate, play games, plot, pull strings, rig, scheme, wangle

• machination, artifice, behind-the-scenes influence, cabal, chicane, chicanery, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, counterplot, covin, deep-laid plot, design, designing, devices, dodgery, engineering, expedients, finagling, finesse, foul play, frame-up, gambit, game, influence, intrigue, intriguing, little game, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulating, manipulation, move, pettifoggery, pettifogging, plot, plotting, ploy, political influence, practice, rigging, ruse, scheme, schemery, scheming, sharp practice, skulduggery, sleight, stratagem, supercherie, tactical maneuvers, tactics, trick, trickery, underhand dealing, underplot, web of intrigue, wile, wire-pulling

• machinator, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Machiavellian, Quisling, archtraitor, behind-the-scenes operator, betrayer, calculator, cockatrice, coconspirator, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, counterplotter, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, eminence grise, exploiter, finagler, gamesman, gray eminence, informer, intrigant, intriguer, kingmaker, logroller, maneuverer, manipulator, operator, opportunist, plotter, pork-barrel politician, quisling, rat, schemer, serpent, snake, strategist, tactician, timeserver, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

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

• machine, American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Bull Moose Party, Bund, Communist Party, Composaline, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Diatype, Ditto, Elrod, Farmer-Labor Party, Federalist Party, Fotomatic, Fotosetter, Fototronic, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Intertype, Know-Nothing Party, Labour Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party, Linotype, Monotype, Multigraph, National Republican Party, Photon, Populist Party, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Rochdale cooperative, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Teletype, Tory Party, Whig Party, Zip, addressing machine, alembic, alliance, anvil, apparatus, appliance, assemblage, association, auto, autocar, automaton, automobile, axis, band, bloc, boat, body, buggy, bus, cabal, caldron, camp, car, carve, chisel, city hall, clique, coalition, college, combination, combine, common market, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contraption, contrivance, convenience, convert, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, council, crate, credit union, crucible, cultivate, customs union, device, drive, duplicator, economic community, engine, enginery, extract, facility, faction, federation, fixture, free trade area, gadget, gang, gizmo, golem, group, grouping, grow, harvest, heap, hectograph, implement, instrument, jalopy, lathe, league, machinery, major party, make, manufacture, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, mechanize, melting pot, mill, mimeograph, mine, minor party, mob, mortar, motive power, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorize, motorized vehicle, multiple party system, one-party system, opposition party, organization, partnership, party, party in power, phototypesetter, political machine, political party, power plant, power source, prime mover, process, pump, raise, rear, refine, retool, retort, ring, shape, sharpen, smelt, society, splinter party, stock ticker, system, teleprinter, teletypewriter, test tube, third party, ticker, tool, transducer, transformer, tub, two-party system, typewriter, union, utensil, utility, vehicle, voiture, wheels, wreck

• machinery, accouterments, action, adding machine, addressing machine, agency, agent, all-crop harvester, apparatus, appliance, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, automobile, backhoe, baler, bean harvester, beet harvester, binder, breaker, bulldozer, calfdozer, carryall, cast plow, channel, clockworks, combine, compressor, contraption, contrivance, convenience, conveniences, cotton picker, crab, crane, crimping machine, cultivator, cutting machine, cutting press, derrick, device, dishwasher, disk, disk harrow, disk plow, drag, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, drill, drill plow, drive, drive train, drop hammer, duffel, dumping machine, edger, elevator dredge, engine, enginery, equipage, equipment, expedient, facilities, facility, fittings, fixture, fixtures, folding machine, four-bottom plow, furnishings, furniture, gadget, gang plow, gear, gin, going between, grader, grain harvester, grub hook, habiliments, harrow, harvester, haymaker, header, hoe drill, hoist, hydraulic press, impedimenta, implement, innards, installations, instrument, instrumentality, intermediation, kit, lawn mower, lister, lister cultivator, machine, machine drill, mailing machine, materiel, means, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, mediation, medium, middlebreaker, moldboard plow, motion, motive power, motor, motorcycle, movement, movements, mower, munition, munitions, navvy, organ, outfit, packager, paraphernalia, peg-tooth harrow, pile driver, planing machine, plant, planter, plow, plow drill, plumbing, power mower, power plant, power shovel, power source, power train, prairie breaker, press, press drill, printing machine, pulp machine, punching machine, pusher, rake, recourse, resort, rig, rigging, roller, rose engine, rotary plow, ruling machine, saw machine, scooter, scraper, screwing machine, seed plow, seeder, service, servomechanism, sewer, sewing machine, shovel plow, snap machine, snow-thrower, snowblower, snowplow, solar machine, sprayer, spring-tooth harrow, stag gang, steam hammer, steam shovel, steamroller, stock-in-trade, subsoil plow, sulky lister, sulky plow, swather, swivel plow, tackle, tackling, tedder, things, thrasher, three-bottom plow, thresher, threshing machine, tool, tractor, trench plow, triphammer, turnplow, two-bottom plow, typewriter, typing machine, utensil, utensils, utility, vehicle, vineyard plow, walking plow, washing machine, watchworks, water wheel, wheels, wheels within wheels, windlass, windrower, workings, works

• macrobiotic, abiding, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, chronic, constant, continuing, diuturnal, durable, enduring, evergreen, hardy, immutable, intransient, inveterate, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, remaining, sempervirent, stable, staying, steadfast, tough, unfading, vital

• macrocosm, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, all, all being, all creation, allness, cosmos, created nature, created universe, creation, everything that is, expanding universe, macrocosmos, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature, omneity, plenum, pulsating universe, sidereal universe, steady-state universe, sum of things, system, totality, totality of being, universe, whole wide world, wide world, world, world without end

• maculate, besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, defiled, dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, impure, indecent, macular, maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, smirched, soiled, spangled, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous

• mad about, ape about, attached to, bugs on, cracked on, crazy about, devoted to, enamored of, far gone on, fond of, freaked-out, gaga over, gone on, hepped up over, hipped on, hot about, in love with, nuts about, nuts on, partial to, smitten with, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, struck with, stuck on, sweet on, taken with, turned-on, wedded to, wild about, wrapped up in

• mad dog, Mafioso, Young Turk, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, bravo, brute, bucko, bully, bullyboy, cutthroat, demon, desperado, devil, dragon, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gunman, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, madcap, monster, mugger, rapist, revolutionary, rough, rowdy, ruffian, savage, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

• mad, Dionysiac, a transient madness, abandoned, abnormal, absurd, accident-prone, acrimonious, affronted, amok, anarchic, anger, angered, angriness, angry, apish, ardent, ardently, asinine, avid, bacchic, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, befooled, beguiled, bellowing, bereft of reason, berserk, besotted, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bonkers, brainless, brainsick, breakneck, browned-off, buffoonish, bughouse, bugs, careless, carried away, certifiable, chaotic, childish, choleric, cockeyed, corybantic, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, craze, crazed, crazy, credulous, cross, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, delirious, deluded, dement, demented, demoniac, deprived of reason, derange, deranged, desperate, desperately, devil-may-care, disoriented, distract, distracted, distraught, dizzy, doting, dotty, drive insane, drive mad, dumb, eager, ecstatic, enrage, enraged, enragement, enraptured, enthusiastic, enthusiastically, exasperated, excitedly, extravagant, fallacious, fanatical, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervently, fervid, feverishly, fierce, flaky, flighty, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frenziedly, frenzy, fuddled, fulminating, fuming, furious, furiously, fury, futile, gaga, goofy, grapes of wrath, gulled, haggard, hallucinated, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heat, heated, heedless, hellish, hog-wild, hooked, hotheaded, howling, hurried, hysterical, hysterically, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered, imbecile, immature, impetuous, imprudent, in a transport, in hysterics, inane, incense, incensed, indignant, indiscreet, inept, infatuated, infuriate, infuriated, infuriation, insane, insensate, intoxicated, invalid, irate, irateness, ire, ireful, irrational, irritated, keen, kooky, like crazy, like mad, like one possessed, livid, loco, loony, loopy, lunatic, madcap, madden, maddened, madding, madly, maenadic, make mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, mentally ill, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck, moronic, non compos, non compos mentis, nonrational, nonsensical, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, offended, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, outraged, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, pandemoniac, passionate, pissed, pissed-off, possessed, potty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, preposterous, provoked, psycho, psychotic, puerile, queer, rabid, rage, raging, ramping, ranting, rash, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, reasonless, reckless, riled up, rip-roaring, roaring, round the bend, running mad, running wild, saeva indignatio, sappy, screwy, send mad, senseless, sentimental, shatter, sick, silly, slap-bang, slapdash, sophistic, sore, soreness, stark-mad, stark-raving mad, stark-staring mad, storming, stormy, strange, stupid, tempestuous, tetched, thoughtless, ticked off, touched, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, twisted, umbrage, unbalance, unbalanced, uncontrollable, unhinge, unhinged, unreasonable, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unwise, uproarious, vials of wrath, violent, violently, wacky, wandering, wanton, waxy, wet, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wildly, witless, worked up, wrath, wrathful, wrathfulness, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up, zealous

• madam, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, abbess, bawd, chatelaine, dame, dona, donna, dowager, fancy man, first lady, gigolo, goodwife, governess, great lady, homemaker, housewife, lady, madame, mademoiselle, maquereau, matriarch, matron, mem-sahib, mesdames, mistress, mother superior, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer, procuress, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw, white slaver

• madame, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

• madcap, Mafioso, Young Turk, adventurer, adventuress, adventurous, ardent, audacious, banana, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bold, bomber, brash, brazenface, brute, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, daredevil, daring, death-defying, demon, devil, dragon, epigrammatist, fanatic, fiend, fiery, fire-eater, fire-eating, firebrand, flaming, foolhardy, forward, funnyman, fury, gag writer, gagman, gagster, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hard-core, hardnose, harebrained, harum-scarum, hasty, heated, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hot, hothead, hotheaded, hotspur, humorist, incendiary, inflamed, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, killer, lampooner, mad dog, madbrain, madbrained, monster, mugger, parodist, passionate, prankster, presumptuous, punner, punster, quipster, rantipole, rapist, red-hot, reparteeist, revolutionary, satirist, savage, scorching, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, thoughtless, tiger, tigress, totally committed, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wag, wagwit, white-hot, wild, wild beast, wild man, wild-ass, wisecracker, wit, witch, witling, wolf, zany, zealous

• madden, aggravate, alienate, anger, annoy, antagonize, arouse, awake, awaken, badger, bait, bedevil, blow the coals, blow up, bug, call forth, call up, craze, dement, derange, distract, drive insane, drive mad, embitter, enkindle, enrage, envenom, estrange, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, hassle, heat, heat up, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, ire, irk, irritate, key up, kindle, lash into fury, lather up, light the fuse, light up, mad, make mad, move, overexcite, pique, plague, possess, provoke, rile, rouse, send mad, set against, set astir, set at odds, set fire to, set on fire, shatter, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, torment, turn on, umbrage, unbalance, unhinge, vex, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whip up, work into, work up

• maddening, agitating, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, exciting, exhilarating, galvanic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, mind-blowing, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, ravishing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unsettling, upsetting

• made up, coined, conceived, concocted, cooked-up, discovered, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, figmental, forged, hatched, invented, legendary, manufactured, minted, mythical, new-minted, originated, put-up, trumped-up

• made, assembled, assured of success, brought about, built, cast, caused, coming, constructed, crafted, created, crowned with success, custom, custom-built, custom-made, done, effectuated, executed, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, fortunate, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made to order, man-made, manufactured, mass-produced, milled, mined, molded, on the up-and-up, on top, out in front, performed, prefab, prefabricated, processed, produced, prosperous, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, shaped, smelted, succeeding, successful, surefire, triumphant, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

• mademoiselle, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, babe, baby, broad, chick, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, dona, donna, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, heifer, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lady, lass, lassie, little missy, madam, madame, maid, maiden, mem-sahib, mesdames, miss, missy, nymphet, piece, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, skirt, slip, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, vrouw, wench, young creature, young thing

• madly, a corps perdu, absurdly, all to pieces, angrily, ardently, carelessly, crazily, deliriously, demonically, desperately, distractedly, energetically, exceedingly, excessively, excitedly, extremely, fanatically, ferociously, fervently, fervidly, feverishly, fiercely, foolishly, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, hysterically, idiotically, impetuously, inanely, insanely, insensately, intensely, irrationally, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like mad, like one possessed, mindlessly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, passionately, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, rabidly, ramble-scramble, rashly, recklessly, ridiculously, rigorously, riotously, senselessly, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, stormily, stupidly, tempestuously, troublously, turbulently, uncontrollably, uproariously, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently, wantonly, wildly, with a vengeance

• madman, aliene, ass, bedlamite, borderline case, crackbrain, crackpot, dement, demoniac, donkey, energumen, fanatic, flake, fou, idiot, imbecile, jackass, jerk, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, maniac, meshuggenah, nincompoop, ninny, non compos, noncompos, nut, phrenetic, psycho, psychopath, psychotic, raving lunatic, screwball, weirdo

• madness, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, abandon, aberration, abnormality, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alienation, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, asininity, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, battiness, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, brain damage, brainlessness, brainsickness, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, buffoonery, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, clouded mind, clownishness, cowpox, crackpottedness, crankiness, craze, craziness, daffiness, daftness, dandy fever, deer fly fever, delirium, dementedness, dementia, dengue, dengue fever, derangement, desipience, diphtheria, disorientation, distraction, dumdum fever, dysentery, eccentricity, ecstasy, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, fatuity, fatuousness, fire and fury, five-day fever, flu, folie, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frambesia, frenzy, frivolity, frivolousness, furor, furore, fury, futility, giddiness, glandular fever, goofiness, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, hysteria, idiocy, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, imbecility, impracticality, inanity, ineptitude, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, insaneness, insanity, intoxication, irrationality, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, malaria, malarial fever, mania, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, milzbrand, mind overthrown, mindlessness, mindsickness, mumps, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, oddness, orgasm, orgy, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, passion, pertussis, pixilation, pneumonia, pointlessness, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, possession, preposterousness, psittacosis, psychopathy, psychosis, queerness, rabbit fever, rabidness, rabies, rage, rapture, rat-bite fever, ravishment, reasonlessness, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ridiculousness, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, sappiness, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, screwiness, senselessness, septic sore throat, shattered mind, shingles, sick mind, sickness, silliness, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strangeness, strep throat, stupidity, swamp fever, tearing passion, tetanus, thoughtlessness, thrush, tinea, towering rage, transport, trench fever, trench mouth, triflingness, triviality, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, unbalance, unbalanced mind, undulant fever, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, wackiness, weirdness, whooping cough, witlessness, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zaniness, zanyism, zona, zoster

• Madonna, Dei Mater, Deipara, Holy Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mother of God, Notre Dame, Our Lady, Queen of Angels, Queen of Heaven, Regina Angelorum, Regina Coeli, Sancta Virgo Virginum, Stella Maris, Theotokos, Virgin Most Glorious, Virgin Most Merciful, Virgin Most Powerful, Virgin Most Renowned, Virgin Most Venerable, Virgin Most Wise, Virgo Clemens, Virgo Gloriosa, Virgo Potens, Virgo Praedicanda, Virgo Sapientissima, Virgo Sponsa Dei, Virgo Veneranda, mater dolorosa, the Blessed Virgin, the Sorrowful Mother, the Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mother

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

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

• maelstrom, Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, churn, commotion, confusion, conturbation, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dizzy round, ebullition, eddy, embroilment, excitement, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foment, fume, fury, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gyre, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, perturbation, pirouette, pother, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, restlessness, roil, round, rout, row, scramble, seethe, seething, spasm, spin, spurt, stew, stir, storm, surge, sweat, swirl, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, upset, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind

• maestro, abecedarian, artist, artiste, certified teacher, concert artist, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, executant, fellow, guide, guru, instructor, interpreter, master, melamed, mentor, minstrel, minstrelsy, mullah, music maker, musician, pandit, pedagogist, pedagogue, performer, player, preceptor, professor, pundit, rabbi, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, soloist, starets, teacher, tunester, virtuosa, virtuoso

• maffick, be noisy, beat the drum, blow the trumpet, brawl, carry on, celebrate, chirm, clamor, clangor, commemorate, cut up, cut up rough, dress ship, fire a salute, go on, hallow, hell around, hold jubilee, honor, horse around, jubilate, jubilize, keep, make a noise, make a racket, make an uproar, make merry, mark, memorialize, noise, observe, racket, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise hell, raise sand, raise the deuce, raise the devil, raise the roof, roar, roughhouse, row, rumpus, signalize, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, whoop it up

• Mafia, Black Hand, Cosa Nostra, black market, bootlegging, gambling, gangdom, gangland, gray market, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business, loan-sharking, moonshining, narcotics traffic, organized crime, prostitution, protection racket, racket, shady dealings, the Mafia, the mob, the rackets, the syndicate, the underworld, traffic in women, usury, white slavery

• Mafioso, Young Turk, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, black marketeer, bomber, bootlegger, brute, dealer, demon, devil, dragon, drug pusher, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gray marketeer, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, mad dog, madcap, monster, moonshiner, mugger, pusher, racketeer, rapist, revolutionary, savage, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

• magazine, ammo dump, annual, archives, armory, arsenal, artillery park, atomic arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bimonthly, bin, biweekly, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cache, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, daily, daybook, depository, depot, diary, digest, dock, drawer, dump, ephemeris, exchequer, fortnightly, gazette, glory hole, godown, gun park, hold, hutch, journal, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, monthly, newsmagazine, newspaper, organ, park, periodical, pictorial, publication, quarterly, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, review, rick, semiweekly, serial, shelf, slick magazine, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank, trade magazine, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, weekly, wine cellar, yearbook

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

• maggot, alabaster, apparition, arachnid, arthropod, aurelia, bee, beetle, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, bubble, bug, capriccio, caprice, caterpillar, centipede, chalk, chilopod, chimera, chrysalis, cocoon, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, daddy longlegs, delirium, diplopod, driven snow, eidolon, fad, fancy, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasy, fiction, figment, fleece, flimflam, flour, fly, foam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, grub, hallucination, harebrained idea, harvestman, hexapod, humor, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insect, insubstantial image, invention, ivory, kink, larva, lily, make-believe, megrim, milk, millepede, millipede, mite, myth, notion, nymph, nympha, paper, passing fancy, pearl, phantasm, phantom, pupa, quirk, romance, scorpion, sheet, sick fancy, silver, snow, spider, swan, tarantula, thick-coming fancies, tick, toy, trip, vagary, vapor, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, wiggler, wildest dreams, wriggler

• maggoty, Gothic, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bad, barfy, baroque, bizarre, blasted, blighted, blown, brackish, brain-born, capricious, cloying, crank, crankish, cranky, crappy, crotchety, despoiled, deviant, deviative, different, disgusting, divergent, dotty, dream-built, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fecal, feculent, fetid, fey, filthy, flaky, florid, flyblown, foul, freakish, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fulsome, funny, fusty, gloppy, grotesque, gunky, harebrained, high, humorsome, icky, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, irregular, kinky, kooky, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moody, moth-eaten, motiveless, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, notional, noxious, nutty, odd, oddball, odious, offensive, ordurous, outlandish, overripe, peculiar, petulant, poisonous, preposterous, puky, putrid, queer, quirky, rancid, rank, ravaged, rebarbative, repulsive, rococo, rotten, scabby, screwball, screwy, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, singular, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted, smutty, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, strange, temperamental, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, vile, vomity, wacky, wanton, wayward, weevily, whimsical, wild, worm-eaten, wormy, yecchy, yucky

• magic, Prospero, abracadabra, airiness, alchemy, allure, allurement, appearance, augury, aura, bewitchery, bewitching, bewitchment, black art, black magic, blaze of glory, brilliance, brilliancy, charisma, charm, charming, conjuring, delusiveness, demonolatry, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, diabolism, divination, divining, enchanting, enchantment, ensorcellment, entrancing, envelope, exorcism, extraordinary, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fascinating, fascination, fetishism, glamor, glamour, glory, gramarye, halo, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, hypnotic, idealization, illusion, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, illustriousness, immateriality, incantation, juju, jujuism, legerdemain, luster, magian, magic act, magic show, magical, magician, magnetic, magnetism, marvelous, mesmerizing, miraculous, mumbo-jumbo, mystic, mystique, natural magic, necromancy, necromantic, nimbus, numinousness, obeah, occult, occultism, prestidigitation, prodigious, radiance, remarkable, resplendence, resplendency, rune, satanism, seeming, semblance, shamanism, shamanistic, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcerer, sorcerous, sorcery, sortilege, specious appearance, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, splendor, stupendous, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, trickery, unactuality, unbelievable, unprecedented, unreality, unsubstantiality, vampirism, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witching, witchwork, witchy, wizardly, wizardry

• magical, bewitched, bright, brilliant, cantrip, charismatic, enchanted, glamorous, glorious, hoodoo, illustrious, incantational, incantatory, lustrous, magian, magic, miraculous, necromantic, numinous, prodigious, radiant, resplendent, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, shining, sorcerous, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, talismanic, thaumaturgic, voodoo, voodooistic, weird, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly, wonder-working, wondrous

• magically, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, conspicuously, copiously, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, generously, glaringly, impressively, incredibly, intensely, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, nobly, notably, particularly, peculiarly, pointedly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, remarkably, richly, signally, singularly, splendidly, strikingly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, unusually, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• magician, Circe, Merlin, Prospero, ace, airiness, appearance, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, charmer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, conjuror, coryphee, crackerjack, dancer, dancing girl, delusiveness, diabolist, diviner, ecdysiast, enchanter, enchantress, entertainer, escamoteur, exorciser, exorcist, exotic dancer, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, female impersonator, first-rater, fortune-teller, geisha, geisha girl, genius, good hand, great, guisard, guiser, hoofer, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, impersonator, juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magus, mahatma, man of genius, marvel, master, master hand, mastermind, medicine man, medium, miracle-worker, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, necromancer, past master, peeler, performer, practiced hand, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, prodigy, prophet, public entertainer, sage, satanist, seeming, seer, semblance, shaman, show, show girl, simulacrum, singer, skilled hand, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand performer, soothsayer, sorcerer, sorceress, sorcery, specious appearance, star, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, superstar, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, topnotcher, tricker, trickster, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, virtuoso, voodoo, voodooist, warlock, whiz, witch, wizard

• magisterial, Daedalian, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accepted, adept, adroit, approved, apt, arbitrary, arch, aristocratic, arrogant, artistic, august, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, banner, bloated, bossy, bravura, brilliant, capital, cardinal, cathedral, central, champion, chief, clean, clever, coordinated, courtly, crack, crackerjack, crowning, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, despotic, dexterous, dextrous, dictatorial, dignified, diplomatic, disdainful, dogmatic, dominant, domineering, elitist, ex cathedra, excellent, expert, fancy, feudal, first, focal, foremost, good, goodish, graceful, grand, grave, great, grinding, handy, headmost, hegemonic, high and mighty, high-handed, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, important, imposing, ingenious, insolent, judicative, judicatorial, judicatory, judicial, judiciary, jurisdictive, kingly, leading, lordly, magistral, main, majestic, master, masterful, masterly, monocratic, neat, no mean, noble, official, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, paramount, peremptory, politic, pontifical, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, princely, principal, professional, proficient, puffy, queenly, quick, quite some, ranking, ready, received, regal, repressive, resourceful, royal, ruling, sedate, self-important, severe, skillful, slick, sober, solemn, some, sovereign, standard, star, stately, statesmanlike, statuesque, stellar, strict, stuffy, stylish, supercilious, supereminent, suppressive, tactful, the compleat, the complete, topflight, tyrannical, tyrannous, venerable, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike, worthy

• magistracy, Kreis, aedileship, archbishopric, archdiocese, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, canton, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, city, commune, congressional district, constablewick, consulate, consulship, county, deanery, departement, dictatorship, dictature, diocese, directorship, district, duchy, electoral district, electorate, emirate, episcopacy, government, governorship, hamlet, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, hundred, justiceship, leadership, lordship, magistrateship, magistrature, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolis, metropolitan area, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nobility, oblast, okrug, papacy, parish, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, precinct, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, province, provostry, provostship, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, region, riding, ruling class, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, territory, town, township, tribunate, village, vizierate, viziership, wapentake, ward

• magistrate, JP, Justice, alderman, arbiter, arbitrator, archon, bailie, beak, bencher, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, chief executive, chief executive officer, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, court, critic, dean, elder, executive, executive director, executive officer, executive secretary, headman, his honor, his lordship, his worship, impartial arbitrator, indicator, induna, judge, justice, legislator, lord mayor, maire, management, managing director, mayor, minister, minister of state, moderator, officer, official, portreeve, prefect, president, prexy, provost, reeve, referee, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, supervisor, syndic, the administration, third party, treasurer, umpire, unbiased observer, undersecretary, vice-chancellor, vice-president, warden

• magnanimity, ambition, ambitiousness, benevolence, bigheartedness, bigness, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, careerism, charitableness, charity, chivalrousness, chivalry, climbing, condonation, consequence, disregard, distinction, easiness, easy purse strings, elevation, eminence, errantry, exaltation, fame, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness, free hand, freedom, freehandedness, freeheartedness, freeness, generosity, generousness, givingness, glory, graciousness, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, heroism, high-mindedness, hospitality, idealism, indulgence, kindness, knight-errantry, knightliness, largeheartedness, largeness, largess, lenience, leniency, lenity, liberality, liberalness, loftiness, lofty ambition, long-suffering, longanimity, magnanimousness, majesty, munificence, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, notability, open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, overlooking, patience, permissiveness, power-hunger, princeliness, prominence, renown, social climbing, status-seeking, sublimity, tolerance, toleration, unrevengefulness, unselfishness, vaulting ambition, welcome

• magnanimous, altruistic, august, benevolent, big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, chivalrous, conciliatory, considerate, distinguished, elevated, eminent, exalted, famous, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, glorious, godlike, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, idealistic, indulgent, kind, knightly, large, largehearted, lauded, lavish, lenient, liberal, lofty, long-suffering, longanimous, magnificent, majestic, munificent, noble, noble-minded, open, openhanded, openhearted, patient, placable, princely, profuse, prominent, renowned, soaring, sparing, stintless, sublime, superb, tolerant, tolerating, towering, ungrudging, unresentful, unrevengeful, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

• magnanimously, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, bigheartedly, chivalrously, conspicuously, copiously, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, generously, glaringly, greatheartedly, handsomely, impressively, incredibly, intensely, knightly, largeheartedly, liberally, magically, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, nobly, notably, openhandedly, particularly, peculiarly, pointedly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, remarkably, richly, signally, singularly, splendidly, strikingly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, unusually, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• magnate, Brahman, Establishment, VIP, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, banker, baron, baronet, big boss, big businessman, big gun, big man, big name, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, blue blood, brass, brass hat, business leader, businessman, captain of industry, celebrity, count, czar, daimio, dignitary, dignity, director, duke, earl, elder, enterpriser, entrepreneur, esquire, fat cat, father, figure, financier, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, great man, hidalgo, important person, industrialist, interests, king, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lion, little businessman, lord, lordling, lords of creation, magnifico, man of commerce, man of mark, manager, margrave, marquis, merchant prince, mogul, nabob, name, noble, nobleman, notability, notable, optimate, palsgrave, panjandrum, patrician, peer, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, plutocrat, power, power elite, prince, ruling circle, sachem, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, somebody, something, squire, swell, the great, the top, thoroughbred, top brass, top executive, top people, tycoon, upper-cruster, very important person, viscount, waldgrave, worthy

• magnet, ambition, artificial magnet, bar magnet, catch, center of attraction, center of consciousness, center of interest, cynosure, dearest wish, desideration, desideratum, desire, electromagnetic lifting magnet, field magnet, focal point, focus, focus of attention, forbidden fruit, glimmering goal, golden vision, hope, horseshoe magnet, lodestar, lodestone, magnetic needle, magnetite, paramagnet, plum, point of convergence, polestar, prime focus, prize, solenoid, temptation, trophy, wish

• magnetic tape, Flexowriter typewriter, Teleplotter, alphabetical printer, bulletin board, card, catalog card, digital graph plotter, disc, file, filing card, film, hard copy, index card, library catalog, magnetic recorder, microcard, microcards, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, phonograph record, platter, printout, punch cards, punched tape, reader, readout, recorder, relay register, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, slip, tape, tape reader, teletypewriter, ticker tape, videotape

• magnetic, absorbing, adductive, alluring, appealing, arresting, attracting, attractive, attrahent, authoritative, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charismatic, charming, consequential, consuming, diamagnetic, dragging, drawing, effective, effectual, efficacious, electromagnetic, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, estimable, fascinating, ferromagnetic, gripping, holding, hypnotic, important, influential, inviting, irresistible, magnetized, mesmeric, mesmerizing, momentous, obsessing, obsessive, personable, persuasive, polar, potent, powerful, prestigious, pulling, reputable, seductive, spellbinding, strong, suasive, substantial, sympathetic, telling, tugging, weighty, winning, winsome

• magnetism, acceptability, adduction, affinity, agacerie, agreeability, allure, allurement, appeal, ascendancy, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, authority, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, capillarity, capillary attraction, captivation, centripetal force, charisma, charm, charmingness, clout, come-hither, consequence, control, credit, desirability, diamagnetism, dominance, domination, drag, draw, drawing power, effect, electromagnetism, eminence, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, esteem, fascination, favor, ferromagnetism, flirtation, forbidden fruit, force, gilbert, glamour, good feeling, gravitation, gravity, hold, hysteresis, hysteresis curve, importance, incidental power, inducement, influence, influentiality, insinuation, interest, inveiglement, invitation, irresistibility, leadership, leverage, likability, lovability, lure, magic, magnetic circuit, magnetic conductivity, magnetic creeping, magnetic curves, magnetic dip, magnetic elements, magnetic figures, magnetic flux, magnetic friction, magnetic hysteresis, magnetic lag, magnetic moment, magnetic permeability, magnetic potential, magnetic remanence, magnetic variation, magnetic viscosity, magnetics, magnetization, mastery, maxwell, moment, mutual attraction, paramagnetism, permeability, personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige, provocativeness, pull, pulling power, purchase, reign, repute, residual magnetism, rule, say, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snaring, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, supremacy, sway, sympathy, tantalization, temptation, traction, tug, unobjectionableness, upper hand, weber, weight, whip hand, winning ways, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchery, wooing

• magnetize, act on, adduct, allure, anesthetize, approach, attract, be magnetic, bear upon, bewitch, captivate, charm, degauss, dope, drag, draw, draw on, draw towards, drug, electromagnetize, enchant, entrance, exert influence, fascinate, get cozy with, have an attraction, hypnotize, lead on, lobby, lobby through, lull to sleep, lure, magnet, make advances, make overtures, make up to, mesmerize, narcotize, pull, pull strings, pull towards, put to sleep, put under, rock to sleep, sedate, take, trance, tug, wile, wire-pull, work on

• magnification, accelerando, acceleration, accolade, addition, adjunct, adulation, aggrandizement, aggravation, ampliation, amplification, annoyance, apotheosis, augmentation, ballyhoo, beatification, beefing-up, bepraisement, big talk, blowing up, blowup, broadening, burlesque, canonization, caricature, concentration, condensation, congratulation, consolidation, contentiousness, crescendo, deepening, deification, deliberate aggravation, deployment, deterioration, dignification, dilatation, dilation, dispersion, elevation, eloge, embittering, embitterment, encomium, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enshrinement, enthronement, eulogium, eulogy, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exaltation, exasperation, excess, excessive praise, exorbitance, expansion, explosion, extension, extravagance, extreme, fanning out, flare, flattery, glorification, glory, grandiloquence, heating-up, heightening, hero worship, hiking, homage, hommage, honor, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, idolatry, idolizing, immortalization, increase, inflation, information explosion, inordinacy, intensification, irritation, kudos, laud, laudation, lionizing, meed of praise, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overpraise, overstatement, paean, panegyric, pickup, population explosion, praise, prodigality, profuseness, provocation, puffery, puffing up, raising, redoubling, reinforcement, sainting, sanctification, sensationalism, sharpening, souring, speedup, splay, spread, spreading, step-up, strengthening, stretching, superlative, tall talk, tightening, touting, travesty, tribute, upping, widening, worsening

• magnificence, Babylonian splendor, brilliance, elaborateness, elegance, exquisiteness, glory, gorgeousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, imposingness, impressiveness, lavishness, luxuriousness, luxury, majesty, marvelousness, matchlessness, nobility, paramountcy, peerlessness, plushness, poshness, preeminence, primacy, proudness, resplendence, ritziness, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, state, stateliness, sumptuousness, superbness, supereminence, superexcellence, superfineness, supremacy, unsurpassedness

• magnificent, Babylonian, Corinthian, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, brilliant, commanding, deluxe, distinguished, divine, elaborate, elegant, elevated, eminent, exalted, excellent, exquisite, extravagant, famous, fancy, fine, gilt-edged, glorious, godlike, golden, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, heavenly, heroic, high, immense, imposing, impressive, lauded, lavish, lofty, lordly, luxurious, magnanimous, majestic, marvelous, noble, opulent, outstanding, palatial, plush, posh, princely, prominent, proud, regal, renowned, resplendent, rich, ritzy, sensational, soaring, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, stately, sterling, sublime, sumptuous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfancy, superfine, superior, superlative, swank, swanky, swell, terrific, towering, tremendous, wonderful

• magnificently, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, conspicuously, copiously, divinely, elaborately, elegantly, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, extravagantly, exuberantly, famously, generously, glaringly, gloriously, grandiosely, grandly, immensely, imposingly, impressively, incredibly, intensely, luxuriously, magically, magnanimously, majestically, markedly, marvelously, nobly, notably, particularly, peculiarly, pointedly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, proudly, remarkably, richly, signally, singularly, splendaciously, splendidly, splendiferously, strikingly, sumptuously, superbly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, terrifically, tremendously, uncommonly, unusually, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• magnified, accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, amplified, annoyed, apotheosized, augmented, awesome, ballyhooed, beatified, beefed-up, big, bloated, boosted, broadened, canonized, deepened, deified, deliberately provoked, disproportionate, elevated, embittered, eminent, enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exacerbated, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excellent, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended, extravagant, extreme, glorified, grand, grandiloquent, great, heated up, heightened, held in awe, high, high and mighty, high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, immortal, immortalized, increased, inflated, inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, lofty, mighty, multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, sainted, sanctified, shrined, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, stretched, sublime, supereminent, superlative, swollen, throned, tightened, touted, widened, worse, worsened

• magnifier, achromatic lens, astigmatic lens, burning glass, camera, coated lens, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, hand lens, lens, magnifying glass, meniscus, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, prism, reader, reading glass, telephoto lens, toric lens, varifocal lens, zoom lens

• magnify, accelerate, add to, adulate, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, apotheose, apotheosize, augment, ballyhoo, beatify, beef up, belaud, bepraise, bless, bless the Lord, bloat, blow up, boast of, boost, brag about, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, canonize, caricature, carry too far, celebrate, color, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, crescendo, crown, cry up, deepen, deify, deteriorate, develop, dignify, dilate, distend, distinguish, double, doxologize, dramatize, draw the longbow, elevate, embellish, embitter, emblazon, enhance, enlarge, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, erect, eulogize, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, exasperate, expand, extend, extol, flatter, fudge, glamorize, glorify, glorify the Lord, go to extremes, heat up, heighten, hero-worship, hike, hike up, honor, hop up, hot up, huff, hymn, hyperbolize, idolize, immortalize, increase, inflate, intensify, irritate, jazz up, key up, laud, lay it on, lionize, make acute, make complex, make legendary, make much of, make worse, maximize, mount, multiply, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, overpaint, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, pad, panegyrize, pay tribute, pile it on, porter aux nues, praise, praise God, provoke, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise, ramify, rarefy, redouble, reinforce, rouse, saint, salute, sanctify, set up, sharpen, sing praises, soup up, sour, step up, strengthen, stretch, stretch the truth, sublime, sufflate, swell, talk big, talk in superlatives, throne, tout, travesty, triple, trumpet, up, uplift, uprear, vise, whet, widen, worsen

• magnifying glass, achromatic lens, astigmatic lens, burning glass, camera, coated lens, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, hand lens, lens, magnifier, meniscus, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, prism, reader, reading glass, telephoto lens, toric lens, varifocal lens, zoom lens

• magnitude, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, Messier catalog, NGC, Pleiades, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, amount, ampleness, amplitude, area, bigness, binary star, black hole, body, boundlessness, breadth, bulk, caliber, consequence, coverage, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, double star, dwarf star, enormity, enormousness, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, fixed star, force, formidableness, fullness, gauge, giant star, gigantism, girth, globular cluster, grandeur, grandness, gravity star, great scope, greatness, height, hugeness, immensity, import, importance, infinity, intensity, largeness, length, main sequence star, mass, mass-luminosity law, matter, measure, measurement, might, mightiness, moment, momentousness, muchness, neighborhood, neutron star, note, nova, numbers, open cluster, order, pith, plenitude, populations, power, prodigiousness, proportion, proportions, pulsar, quantity, quantum, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, radius, range, reach, red giant star, relative magnitude, scale, scope, significance, signification, size, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, spread, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, stellar magnitude, strength, stupendousness, substance, sum, supernova, tour de force, tremendousness, tune, variable star, vastness, vicinity, volume, weight, weightiness, white dwarf star, whole, width

• magpie, Audubon warbler, Canada goose, English sparrow, accumulator, adjutant bird, agreeable rattle, albatross, all sorts, argala, assemblage, assortment, auk, auklet, avocet, babbler, bald eagle, baldpate, bank swallow, barbet, barn owl, barn swallow, barnacle goose, big talker, bill collector, bittern, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blackbird, blackcap, blatherer, blue jay, booby, broad spectrum, bullfinch, bunting, bush wren, bushtit, butcher bird, buzzard, canary, canvasback, capercaillie, caracara, cardinal, cassowary, catbird, cattle egret, chaffinch, chat, chatterbox, chatterer, chewink, chickadee, chicken hawk, chimney swift, chipping sparrow, cliff swallow, cockatiel, cockatoo, collection agent, collector, condor, conglomeration, connoisseur, coot, cormorant, cowbird, crake, crane, creeper, crossbill, crow, cuckoo, curlew, cushat, dipper, dodo, douanier, dove, duck, dunlin, dunner, eagle, egret, eider duck, emu, erne, exciseman, falcon, farmer, finch, flamingo, flicker, flycatcher, frigate bird, fulmar, gabber, gabbler, gallimaufry, gannet, garganey, gasbag, gatherer, gibble-gabbler, goldeneye, goldfinch, goose, great talker, greylag goose, grosbeak, grouse, guillemot, guinea fowl, gull, gyrfalcon, harrier, hash, hawk, hawk owl, hermit thrush, heron, hobby, hodgepodge, honker, hoopoe, hoot owl, horned owl, hot-air artist, hotchpot, hotchpotch, house finch, house martin, hummingbird, ibis, idle chatterer, indigo bunting, jabberer, jackdaw, jay, jumble, junco, jungle fowl, kea, kestrel, killdee, killdeer, kingbird, kingfisher, kinglet, kite, kittiwake, kiwi, kookaburra, lammergeier, lapwing, lark, laughing jackass, linnet, loon, macaw, mallard, marabou, martin, mash, mavis, medley, melange, merganser, merl, mess, mew, mingle-mangle, miscellany, miser, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mockingbird, moulin a paroles, mud hen, murre, mute swan, myna, myna bird, night-heron, nighthawk, nightingale, nightjar, nutcracker, nuthatch, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, oriole, ortolan, osprey, ostrich, ouzel, owl, oyster catcher, pack rat, parakeet, parrot, partridge, passenger pigeon, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, patterer, peafowl, peewee, pelican, penguin, petrel, phalarope, pheasant, phoebe, pigeon, plover, potpourri, prater, prattler, ptarmigan, puffin, rail, rattle, raven, razorbill, red grouse, redbird, redhead, redpoll, redshank, redstart, redwing, rhea, ring ouzel, ringdove, ringtail, robin, rook, ruddy duck, salad, salmagundi, sapsucker, sauce, scarlet tanager, scaup duck, scramble, screech owl, sea duck, sea eagle, sea gull, sea mew, sea swallow, secretary bird, sheldrake, shoebill, shoebird, shrike, siskin, snipe, snow bunting, snowbird, solan goose, song sparrow, song thrush, songbird, sparrow, sparrow hawk, spoonbill, sprig, starling, stew, stilt, stork, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swallow, swan, swan goose, swift, tanager, tax collector, teal, teal duck, tern, thrasher, thrush, tit, toucan, towhee, tragopan, tree swallow, trumpeter, turkey, turnstone, turtledove, veery, vulture, warbler, waxwing, weaver, weaverbird, what you will, whippoorwill, whistler, widgeon, wild duck, willet, windbag, windjammer, wood duck, wood owl, wood pigeon, woodcock, woodpecker, word-slinger, wren, wryneck, yellowbird, yellowhammer, yellowlegs, yellowthroat, zebra finch

• maharani, Kaiserin, begum, crown princess, czarina, empress, grand duchess, infanta, kumari, kunwari, malikzadi, princess, princesse, queen, queen consort, queen regent, queen regnant, raj-kumari, rani, shahzadi, sovereign princess, sovereign queen

• mahatma, ace, adept, angel, anthroposophist, authority, cabalist, crackerjack, doctor, elder, elder statesman, esoteric, first-rater, genius, good hand, great, great soul, guru, holy man, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, lover of wisdom, magician, man of genius, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, master hand, mastermind, mentor, mystagogue, mystic, oracle, past master, philosopher, practiced hand, prodigy, rabbi, rishi, sage, saint, sapient, savant, scholar, seer, skilled hand, star, starets, supernaturalist, superstar, theosophist, thinker, topnotcher, transcendentalist, virtuoso, whiz, wise man, wise old man, wizard, yogi, yogin, yogist

• maid, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, babe, baby, bachelor girl, betweenmaid, biddy, broad, chambermaid, chaperon, chick, colleen, companion, cook, cutie, daily, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, domestic, duenna, feme sole, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, filly, frail, gal, gentlewoman, girl, girlie, handmaid, handmaiden, heifer, hired girl, housemaid, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lass, lassie, little missy, live-in maid, live-out maid, lone woman, mademoiselle, maiden, maiden lady, maidservant, miss, missy, nursemaid, nymph, nymphet, old maid, parlormaid, piece, quail, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, single girl, skirt, slip, soubrette, spinster, spinstress, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, tweeny, upstairs maid, vestal, vestal virgin, virgin, waiting maid, wench, young creature, young thing

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

• maiden, ax, babe, baby, bachelor girl, bachelorlike, beardless, block, boyish, boylike, broad, calflike, callow, chaste, chick, chief, childish, childlike, colleen, coltish, cross, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, death chair, death chamber, demoiselle, dewy, doll, drop, earliest, electric chair, ever-new, evergreen, feme sole, filly, first, firsthand, fledgling, foremost, frail, fresh, front, gal, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet, girl, girlie, girlish, girllike, green, guillotine, halter, head, heifer, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, hoyden, husbandless, immature, inaugural, initial, intact, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, kiddish, lass, lassie, leading, lethal chamber, little missy, lone woman, mademoiselle, maid, maiden lady, maidenly, main, miss, missy, neoteric, nestling, new, noose, nymphet, old maid, old-maidish, original, piece, pioneer, premier, primary, prime, principal, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, quail, raw, romp, rope, scaffold, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sempervirent, shakedown, single, single girl, skirt, slip, sole, spinster, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spinstress, spouseless, stake, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, the chair, tomato, tomboy, tree, unbeaten, undefiled, undeveloped, unfledged, unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, vestal virgin, virgin, virginal, wench, young, young creature, young thing

• maidenhead, Platonic love, abstinence, allantoic membrane, amnion, amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, basement membrane, boyhood, celibacy, cherry, childhood, conjuctiva, continence, continency, eardrum, girlhood, hymen, intactness, maidenhood, membrana serosa, membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, neurilemma, pellicle, pericardium, perineurium, pleura, pre-teens, serosa, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, subteens, tympanic membrane, tympanum, unwed state, velum, virgin state, virginity

• maidenly, Platonic, abstinent, bachelorlike, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, callow, celibate, childish, childlike, coltish, continent, dewy, distaff, ever-new, evergreen, female, feminine, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gentlewomanlike, girlish, girllike, green, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, husbandless, immature, intact, kiddish, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maiden, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neoteric, nestling, new, old-maidish, original, petticoat, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, raw, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfledged, unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, virginal, womanish, womanlike, womanly, young

• mail coach, autobus, bus, cab, carrier, carrier pigeon, chartered bus, diligence, double-decker, hack, hired car, homer, homing pigeon, jitney, mail car, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, motor coach, motorbus, omnibus, packet boat, pigeon post, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse, post-office car, poster, railway mail car, stage, stagecoach, taxi, taxicab

• mail order house, boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

• mail, PP, RD, RFD, air-express, airfreight, airmail, armature, armor, armor plate, body armor, book post, buckler, bulletproof vest, carrier, carrier pigeon, chain armor, chain mail, chitin, coat of mail, consign, correspondence, cortex, covert, direct mail, direct-mail selling, dispatch, drop a letter, elytron, embark, episperm, expedite, export, express, feather, feathers, forward, fourth-class mail, frank, freight, habergeon, hackle, halfpenny post, harness, hauberk, homer, homing pigeon, junk mail, letter post, letters, lorica, lorication, mail car, mail coach, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mail-order selling, mailer, mailing list, mailplane, needles, newspaper post, packet boat, panoply, parcel post, pericarp, pigeon post, plate, plate armor, plumage, post, post boat, post car, post coach, post day, post-horse, post-office car, poster, protective covering, railway mail car, registered mail, remit, rural delivery, rural free delivery, scute, scutum, sea mail, seapost, send, send away, send forth, send off, shell, shield, ship, special delivery, special handling, speculum, spines, suit of armor, surface mail, test, testa, thick skin, transmit

• mailing list, PP, RD, RFD, airmail, book post, correspondence, direct mail, direct-mail selling, express, fourth-class mail, frank, halfpenny post, junk mail, letter post, letters, mail, mail-order selling, newspaper post, parcel post, post, post day, registered mail, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sea mail, seapost, special delivery, special handling, surface mail

• maim, abrade, bark, batter, blemish, bloody, break, bugger, bung up, burn, castrate, chafe, check, chip, claw, crack, craze, cripple, cut, damage, de-energize, debilitate, defoliate, denude, disable, disenable, disfigure, dismember, drain, draw and quarter, emasculate, enfeeble, flay, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, hamstring, harm, hobble, hors de combat, hurt, impair, inactivate, incapacitate, incise, injure, kibosh, lacerate, lame, make mincemeat of, mangle, massacre, maul, mayhem, mutilate, peel, pick to pieces, pierce, pull apart, puncture, put, queer, queer the works, rend, rip, run, rupture, sabotage, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, shred, skin, slash, slit, spike, sprain, stab, stick, strain, strip, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, traumatize, unfit, weaken, wing, wound, wreck, wrench

• maiming, bankruptcy, breakage, breakdown, castration, collapse, crack-up, crippling, damage, demasculinization, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disrepair, effeminization, emasculation, encroachment, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, loss, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, sickening, spoiling, weakening

• main drag, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd

• main line, L, branch, cable railway, cog railway, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, feeder, feeder line, gravity-operated railway, horse railway, junction, light railroad, line, metro, monorail, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, roadbed, roadway, sidetrack, siding, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, terminal, terminus, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground

• main office, CP, GHQ, HQ, base, base of operations, booking office, box office, branch, branch office, cabinet, center of authority, central administration, central office, central station, chambers, chancellery, chancery, closet, command post, company headquarters, consulate, corporate headquarters, den, embassy, executive office, general headquarters, headquarters, home office, legation, office, seat, shop, study, ticket office

• main point, basis, bench mark, burden, cardinal point, case, chapter, chief thing, climax, concern, core, cornerstone, crisis, critical point, crux, essence, essential, essential matter, focus of attention, focus of interest, fundamental, gist, gravamen, great point, head, heading, heart, high point, important thing, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, living issue, main thing, material point, matter, matter in hand, meat, milestone, motif, motive, nub, pith, pivot, point, point at issue, point in question, problem, question, real issue, recap, recapitulation, resume, rubric, run-through, rundown, salient point, sine qua non, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, substantive point, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, text, the bottom line, the point, theme, topic, turning point

• main, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Europe, North America, South America, absolute, all-absorbing, arch, awful, banner, basic, big, big drink, biggest, blue, blue water, brine, briny, brute, capital, cardinal, central, champion, channel, chief, cock, comprehensive, conduit, consequential, considerable, continent, controlling, crazy, critical, crowning, crucial, damned, deep, dominant, dreadful, drink, duct, effort, electric cable, energy, essential, exceedingly, exhaustive, extremely, fire main, first, focal, foremost, front, full, fundamental, gas main, grand, grave, great, greatest, head, headmost, heavy, hegemonic, high sea, high seas, highest, hydrosphere, in the main, intense, irresistible, landmass, largest, larruping, leading, line, magisterial, maiden, main sea, mainland, mainly, mains, major, master, maximum, mere, might, mighty, monstrous, necessary, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, out-and-out, outstanding, overriding, overruling, paramount, particular, peninsula, pipe, pipeline, plain, plenary, power, power supply, powerful, predominant, predominating, preeminent, premier, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, pure, ranking, ruling, salt sea, salt water, sea, serious, sheer, sovereign, star, stellar, strength, strong, strongest, subcontinent, supereminent, supreme, thalassa, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tide, topflight, topmost, total, uppermost, utter, vigor, vital, water main

• mainlining, antitoxin, bag, bang, booster, booster dose, booster shot, deck, dose, draft, dropping, drug packet, fix, hit, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, injection, inoculation, jet injection, narcotic injection, narcotic shot, overdose, popping, portion, potion, shooting up, shot, skin-popping, vaccination, vaccine

• mainly, a fortiori, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, above all, all in all, all the more, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as per usual, as things go, as usual, at bottom, at first, at large, at the start, before everything, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, customarily, dominantly, effectively, effectually, especially, essentially, even, ever so, first, first and foremost, first of all, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, generally, generally speaking, habitually, in chief, in general, in the beginning, in the main, indeed, initially, largely, more than ever, most often, mostly, naturally, never so, no end, normally, normatively, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, originally, overall, particularly, peculiarly, predominantly, prescriptively, prevailingly, primarily, primo, principally, regularly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, still more, substantially, to be expected, usually, virtually, yea

• mainspring, ambition, aspiration, basis, calling, cause, consideration, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, goal, ground, guiding light, guiding star, headspring, headstream, headwater, ideal, inspiration, intention, lodestar, matter, mine, motive, principle, quarry, reason, riverhead, sake, score, source, spring, springhead, ulterior motive, vocation, well, wellhead, wellspring

• mainstay, Maecenas, abettor, admirer, advocate, afford support, aficionado, alpenstock, angel, apologist, arm, athletic supporter, back, back up, backbone, backer, backing, bandeau, bear, bear up, bearer, bolster, bolster up, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buff, bulwark, buoy up, buttress, cane, carrier, carry, cervix, champion, corset, cradle, crook, crutch, cushion, defender, dependence, encourager, endorser, exponent, fan, favorer, foundation garment, friend at court, fulcrum, girdle, give support, guy, guywire, hold, hold up, jock, jockstrap, keep afloat, keep up, lend support, lover, main strength, maintain, maintainer, mast, neck, paranymph, partisan, patron, pillar, pillow, promoter, prop, protagonist, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reliance, rest, resting place, rigging, second, seconder, sectary, sheet anchor, shore, shore up, shoulder, shroud, sider, sinews, spine, sponsor, sprit, staff, stalwart, standby, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, subsidize, subvention, support, supporter, sustain, sustainer, sympathizer, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upholder, upkeep, votary, walking stick, well-wisher

• mainstream, Zeitgeist, bearing, course, current, direction, drift, glacial movement, line, main current, motion, movement, run, set, stream, swing, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, time spirit, tone, trend

• maintain, abide, accommodate, account as, advocate, affirm, afford, afford support, allege, allege in support, announce, annunciate, answer, argue, argue for, assert, assever, asseverate, assume, aver, avouch, avow, back, back up, be afraid, bear, bear out, bear up, bide, blow to, bolster, bolster up, bottle up, brace, brook no denial, buoy up, buttress, care for, carry, carry on, champion, claim, clothe, conceive, conserve, consider, contend, contend for, continue, continue to be, contribute, copyright, cork up, correct, counter, cradle, crutch, cultivate, cushion, daresay, declare, deem, defeat time, defend, defy time, donate, dwell, emphasize, endow, endure, enunciate, espouse, esteem, estimate, exist, expect, express, extend, fancy, fight for, fill, fill up, finance, find, fund, furnish, give, give support, go on, go treat, guard, guess, have, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, hold in, hold on, hold out, hold up, husband, imagine, inhibit, insist, insist on, insist upon, invest, issue a manifesto, judge, justify, keep, keep afloat, keep alive, keep going, keep in, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep on, keep safe, keep up, last, last long, last out, lay down, lend support, lengthen, live, live on, live through, lock in, look after, look upon as, mainstay, make a plea, make available, make provision for, manage, manifesto, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not use up, not waste, nurture, opine, patent, pay the bill, perdure, perennate, perpetuate, persist, persist in, pillow, plead for, predicate, prepare, present, preserve, press, presume, prevail, proclaim, profess, prolong, pronounce, prop, prop up, protect, protest, protract, provide, provide for, put, put it, rebut, reckon, recruit, rectify, refute, regard, register, reinforce, remain, replenish, reply, repress, respond, retain, right, riposte, run, run on, save, save up, say, say in defense, set down, set down as, set up, shore, shore up, shoulder, spare, speak, speak for, speak out, speak up, speak up for, stand, stand by, stand drinks, stand for, stand on, stand to, stand treat, stand up for, state, stay, stay on, stick to, stick up for, stock, store, stress, submit, subsidize, subsist, subvention, subventionize, supply, support, suppose, suppress, surmise, survive, suspect, sustain, take, take care of, take for, take it, take no denial, tarry, testify, think, tide over, treat, treat to, trow, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upkeep, urge, urge reasons for, view as, vindicate, vouchsafe, warrant, wear, wear well, ween, yield

• maintenance, TLC, abidingness, age, aid, alimentation, alimony, allowance, antiquity, backing, bottling up, bread, care, carriage, carrying, conservancy, conservation, conservationism, constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, contribution, corking up, daily bread, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duration, economic support, endowment, endurance, environmental conservation, extension, forest conservation, forest management, holding, holding in, inhibition, keep, keeping, lastingness, lengthening, livelihood, living, locking in, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintaining, manna, meat, moral support, mothering, nourishment, nurture, paying the bills, perdurability, perennation, permanence, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, prehension, preserval, preservation, price support, progress, progression, prolongation, protection, protraction, provision, psychological support, pursuance, reliance, repetition, repression, retainment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, run, safekeeping, salt, salvage, salvation, saving, security blanket, soil conservation, stability, standing, standing treat, staying power, steadfastness, stipend, straight course, stream conservation, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, suppression, survival, survivance, sustained action, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tenacity, tender loving care, treat, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, upholding, upkeep, water conservation, way, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation

• majestic, Babylonian, Corinthian, affected, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, aristocratic, arrogant, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, barbaric, boundless, ceremonious, changeless, courtly, creating, creative, deluxe, dignified, disdainful, distinguished, dynastic, elaborate, elegant, elevated, eminent, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, exalted, extravagant, famous, fancy, fine, glorious, godlike, good, grand, grandiose, grave, hallowed, haughty, heroic, high, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, imperious, imposing, impressive, infinite, inspiring, just, kinglike, kingly, lauded, limitless, lofty, lordly, loving, luminous, luxurious, magisterial, magnanimous, magnificent, making, merciful, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monarchical, monumental, moving, noble, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, palatial, permanent, perpetual, plush, pompous, posh, princelike, princely, prominent, proud, purple, queenlike, queenly, radiant, regal, renowned, ritzy, royal, sacred, sedate, serious, shaping, soaring, sober, solemn, sovereign, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, statuesque, striking, sublime, sumptuous, superb, supercilious, superfancy, superfine, superior, supreme, swank, swanky, swell, timeless, towering, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited, venerable, weighty, worthy

• majesty, Babylonian splendor, anointed king, augustness, brilliance, caliphate, chief, chieftain, consequence, courtliness, crowned head, czardom, dignifiedness, dignity, distinction, dynast, elaborateness, elegance, elevation, eminence, emperor, emperorship, empery, empire, eternity, fame, glory, gorgeousness, grand duke, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, gravity, heroism, high chief, holiness, immutability, imperator, imperialism, imposingness, impressiveness, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinity, kaiserdom, kaisership, king, king-emperor, kinghood, kinglet, kingliness, kingship, lavishness, light, loftiness, lord paramount, lordliness, luxuriousness, luxury, magnanimity, magnificence, monarch, nobility, notability, omnipotence, omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency, overlord, paramount, petty king, plushness, poshness, potentate, pride of bearing, pride of place, prince, prince consort, princeliness, prominence, proud bearing, proudness, queenhood, queenship, rajaship, regality, regnancy, renown, resplendence, ritziness, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, sedateness, sobriety, solemnity, sovereign, sovereignty, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, state, stateliness, sublimity, sultanate, sultanship, sumptuousness, suzerain, tetrarch, the crown, the throne, ubiquity, unity, venerability, worthiness

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

• major league, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, earthshaking, grand, great, heavyweight, high-powered, important, major, material, momentous, name, self-important, significant, substantial, superior, world-shaking

• major, ADC, CO, OD, a cut above, above, academic specialty, adult, ahead, aide, aide-de-camp, area, ascendant, better, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigger, biggest, bigwig, bigwigged, brigadier, brigadier general, capital, capping, captain, chicken colonel, chief, chief of staff, chosen, classical education, cock, colonel, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, consequential, considerable, core curriculum, course, course of study, critical, crucial, curriculum, dangerous, discipline, distinguished, dominant, dominating, double-barreled, earthshaking, eclipsing, elder, eldest, elective, eminent, exceeding, excellent, excelling, exec, executive officer, extensive, fell, field, field marshal, field officer, finer, first lieutenant, first-born, firstling, five-star general, foremost, former, four-star general, general, general education, general officer, general studies, generalissimo, grand, grave, great, greater, grievous, grown man, grownup, heavyweight, hefty, high-powered, higher, humanities, important, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, jemadar, junior officer, key, key signature, keynote, large, large-scale, larger, legalis homo, liberal arts, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, main, major general, major key, man, marechal, marked, marshal, material, mature man, mediant, minor, momentous, name, no chicken, notable, noteworthy, of choice, officer, older, oldest, one up on, one-star general, orderly officer, outstanding, over, paramount, pedal point, predominant, preeminent, primary, prime, primogenitary, principal, proseminar, quadrivium, rare, refresher course, risaldar, rivaling, scientific education, self-important, seminar, senior, senior officer, serious, shavetail, significant, sirdar, sizable, specialty, staff officer, star, stellar, study, subahdar, subaltern, subdiscipline, subdominant, subject, sublieutenant, submediant, substantial, subtonic, super, superior, supertonic, surpassing, technical education, the Old Man, the brass, three-star general, tonality, tonic, tonic key, top brass, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, trivium, two-star general, ugly, upper, vital, woman, world-shaking, worst

• majordomo, MC, attorney, bailiff, butler, chamberlain, croupier, curator, custodian, emcee, factor, guardian, house steward, housekeeper, landreeve, librarian, master of ceremonies, proctor, procurator, seneschal, steward

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

• majority, accomplishment, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, ascendancy, best part, better part, body, bulk, deanship, driving age, essence, excellence, favor, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, generality, gist, gravamen, greatness, grown-upness, incomparability, inimitability, lead, legal age, legalis homo, main body, major part, manhood, manlihood, mass, mature age, maturity, meat, more than half, most, one-upmanship, plurality, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, preponderancy, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, prime, prime of life, priority, privilege, right-of-way, ripe age, riper years, seniority, skill, substance, success, superiority, the greatest number, thrust, toga virilis, transcendence, transcendency, virility, virtuosity, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion

• make a deal, accommodate, adjust, agree, agree to, bargain, bargain for, be a bargain, be a deal, be a go, be on, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, come to terms, compact, complete a purchase, compose, compound, compromise, contract, cop out, corner, covenant, do a deal, duck responsibility, engage, engross, evade responsibility, give and take, give way, go fifty-fifty, make a bargain, make a buy, make a dicker, make an adjustment, make concessions, meet halfway, monopolize, play politics, procure, promise, purchase, reach a compromise, rebuy, regrate, repurchase, settle, shake hands, shake on it, split the difference, stipulate, strike a balance, strike a bargain, surrender, take the mean, undertake, yield

• make a federal case, accent, accentuate, belabor, dwell on, emphasize, follow out, follow up, give emphasis to, go all lengths, go all out, go the limit, harp on, highlight, italicize, leave nothing undone, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, place emphasis on, point up, punctuate, rub in, see it through, spotlight, star, stress, underline, underscore

• make a killing, be caught short, be short, bear the palm, belong, break the bank, bucket, bucketshop, capitalize on, capture, carry, carry away, carry it, carry off, carry the day, cash in on, clean up, clear, coin money, come out first, commercialize, deposit margin, finish in front, fluke, gain, gain by, gain the day, go long, gross, hit it, hit the jackpot, hit the mark, hold on, make a scoop, make money, make money by, margin up, miss the market, net, operate, overstay the market, play the market, plunge, profit, pyramid, realize, realize on, ring the bell, scalp, scoop the market, score, score a success, speculate, stag, stag the market, take a flier, take the cake, trade on margin, turn a penny, turn to account, turn to profit, turn up trumps, venture, win, win out, win the battle, win the laurels, win the palm, win the prize, win through

• make a point of, attach a condition, conclude, condition, contend for, decide, determine, fight for, fix, have a catch, have a joker, insist upon, make conditional, make contingent, purpose, resolve, seal, settle, stickle for, stipulate, stipulate for, strive for, struggle for, take a resolution, vie for, will

• make a show of, act, act a part, affect, assume, betoken, bluff, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, counterfeit, cover up, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, dangle, dazzle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, dissemble, dissimulate, divulge, do a bit, dramatize, embody, enact, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, fake, feign, flaunt, flourish, four-flush, gammon, give sign, give token, glare, glitter, highlight, histrionize, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, let on, let on like, make a figure, make a pretense, make a show, make a splash, make as if, make believe, make clear, make like, make out like, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, overact, parade, perform, play, play a part, play a scene, play possum, playact, present, pretend, produce, profess, put on, put on airs, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, sham, shine, show, show forth, simulate, splash, splurge, spotlight, token, trot out, tug the heartstrings, unfold, wave, wear

• make advances, act on, answer, approach, bear upon, break the ice, communicate with, contact, correspond, court, cultivate, draw, draw on, establish connection, exert influence, get cozy with, get to, importune, interrogate, lead on, lobby, lobby through, magnetize, maintain connection, make a pass, make an overture, make contact with, make overtures, make up to, overture, pay addresses to, pay court to, play up to, proposition, pull strings, question, raise, reach, relate to, reply to, respond to, run after, shine up to, solicit, suck up to, throw a pass, wire-pull, work on

• make allowance for, admit, admit exceptions, allow, allow for, bear with, blink at, color, concede, condone, connive at, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, diminish, discount, disregard, ease, endure, extenuate, gloss over, grant, ignore, leave unavenged, lessen, let it go, lift temporarily, make allowances for, mince, mitigate, overlook, palliate, pass over, pocket the affront, provide for, regard with indulgence, relax, relax the condition, set aside, slur over, soft-pedal, soften, take, take account of, take into account, take into consideration, varnish, waive, whitewash, wink at

• make amends, atone, atone for, compensate, cover, do penance, expiate, fill up, get satisfaction, give and take, give satisfaction, indemnify, kick back, live down, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, make right, make up for, make up to, pay, pay back, pay damages, pay in kind, pay off, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, propitiate, quit, recompense, recoup, rectify, redeem, redress, refund, reimburse, repair, repay, requite, retaliate, reward, satisfy, set right, square, square it, square things

• make an example of, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, deal with, discipline, inflict upon, masthead, penalize, pillory, punish, settle with, square accounts, take to task, visit upon

• make an impression, affect, arrest the thoughts, assail the ear, be heard, be remembered, caress the ear, catch the thoughts, come home to, contact, gain a hearing, get across, get through to, get to, grab, hit, hit the mark, impress, impress forcibly, make oneself heard, never be forgotten, obsess, penetrate, rankle, reach, reach the ear, register, rock, sink in, smite, strike, strike hard, strike home, tell, traumatize