Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52

• matured, adult, archetypical, blase, classic, complete, consummate, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, developed, entire, exemplary, experienced, expert, finished, full, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, fully developed, global, intact, knowing, masterful, masterly, maturated, mature, mellow, model, not born yesterday, old, perfected, polished, practiced, proficient, quintessential, refined, ripe, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, solid, sophisticated, total, tried, tried and true, unabbreviated, uncut, undiminished, unexpurgated, veteran, whole, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• maturity, ability, accounts payable, accounts receivable, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, amount due, applicability, bad debts, bill, bills, borrowing, capability, charges, chits, close, competence, competency, completing, completion, conclusion, condition, consummation, culmination, debt, driving age, due, dues, end, ending, financial commitment, finish, finishing, fitness, fittedness, floating debt, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full development, full growth, fullgrownness, fullness, funded debt, grown-upness, indebtedness, indebtment, legal age, legalis homo, liability, majority, manhood, manlihood, mastery, maturation, mature age, mellowness, national debt, obligation, operability, outstanding debt, perfection, pledge, preparedness, prime, prime of life, proficiency, public debt, qualification, readiness, ripe age, ripeness, riper years, rounding off, rounding out, score, seasoning, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, tempering, termination, terminus, toga virilis, topping off, trim, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, virility, windup, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion

• matzo, Agnus Dei, French bread, Holy Grail, Host, Irish soda bread, Italian bread, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino, beadroll, beads, black bread, bread, bread stick, bread stuff, brown bread, candle, censer, chaplet, ciborium, cracked-wheat bread, cross, crucifix, cruet, crust, dark bread, eucharistial, garlic bread, graham bread, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incensory, loaf of bread, matzoth, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, nut bread, osculatory, ostensorium, pain, paschal candle, pax, phylacteries, pita, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pumpernickel, pyx, raisin bread, relics, rood, rosary, rye bread, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, salt-rising bread, shofar, sourbread, sourdough bread, staff of life, sukkah, tabernacle, tallith, thurible, toast, tommy, unleavened bread, urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle, white bread, whole wheat bread

• maudlin, addled, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled, befuddled, beguiled, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brainless, buffoonish, cloying, cockeyed, confused, crapulent, crapulous, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumb, far-gone, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, flustered, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fou, fuddled, full, futile, gaga, gay, giddy, glorious, gooey, goofy, gulled, gushing, happy, idiotic, imbecile, in liquor, inane, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inept, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky, lachrymose, loony, mad, mawkish, mellow, merry, moronic, muddled, mushy, namby-pamby, nappy, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty, overemotional, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, reeling, romantic, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sentimentalized, shikker, silly, sloppy, slushy, sodden, soft, soppy, sotted, soupy, sticky, stupid, tear-jerking, tearful, teary, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, wacky, weepy, wet, witless

• maul, abrade, abuse, assault, attack, bang, barbarize, bark, bash, baste, batter, beat, blemish, bloody, break, broil, bruise, brutalize, buffet, bung, bung up, burn, butcher, carry on, chafe, check, chip, claw, contuse, crack, craze, cut, destroy, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, dogfight, donnybrook, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, fracas, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, go on, hammer, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, incise, injure, knock, knock about, lacerate, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay waste, loot, maim, make mincemeat of, maltreat, mangle, manhandle, melee, mishandle, mistreat, molest, mug, mutilate, outrage, paste, patter, pelt, pierce, pillage, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, puncture, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, rend, riot, rip, roar, rough, rough up, row, ruction, ruin, run, rupture, sack, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, set-to, skin, slash, slaughter, sledgehammer, slit, sow chaos, spank, sprain, stab, stick, storm, strain, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, traumatize, vandalize, violate, wallop, whip, wound, wreck, wrench

• mausoleum, arch, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, column, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cyclolith, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, house of death, inscription, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, mastaba, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, narrow house, necrology, obelisk, obituary, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pillar, pit, plaque, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, shrine, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, vault

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

• maven, adept, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, critic, dab, dabster, dilettante, epicure, epicurean, expert, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, judge, master, past master, professional, proficient, refined palate, virtuoso

• maverick, Bohemian, Brahman, Indian buffalo, agitator, alien, ass, aurochs, beat, beatnik, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bigot, bison, bitter-ender, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, brawler, breakaway, buffalo, bull, bullethead, bullock, calf, carabao, case, cattle, character, cow, crackpot, crank, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, deviant, diehard, dissenter, dogie, dogmatist, donkey, dropout, eccentric, extremist, fanatic, far out, flower child, freak, free and easy, fringy, frondeur, hardnose, heifer, heretic, heretical, hermit, heterodox, hippie, hobo, hornless cow, informal, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intransigeant, intransigent, kine, kinky, kook, last-ditcher, leppy, lone wolf, loner, malcontent, meshuggenah, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, misfit, mule, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, mutineer, natural, neat, nonconformist, nonjuror, not cricket, not done, not kosher, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, offbeat, original, outsider, ox, oxen, pariah, perverse fool, pighead, positivist, purist, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, screwball, sectarian, sectary, solitary, standpat, standpatter, steer, stickler, stirk, stot, subversive, swinger, traitor, tramp, type, ugly duckling, unconformist, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, way out, wisent, yak, yearling, yippie, zealot, zebu

• maw, abdomen, abomasum, bay window, bazoo, beerbelly, belly, breadbasket, chaps, chops, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, embouchure, first stomach, gab, gizzard, gob, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, jaw, jaws, jowls, kishkes, kisser, lips, mandibles, manyplies, maxilla, midriff, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, omasum, oral cavity, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, premaxilla, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, trap, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, yap

• mawkish, bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, luscious, maggoty, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious, offensive, overripe, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening, sickly-sweet, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spoiled, sticky, tears, teary, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky

• maxim, Procrustean law, a belief, adage, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, article of faith, axiom, brocard, byword, canon, cliche, code, commandment, commonplace, convention, criterion, dictum, doctrine, dogma, epigram, form, formality, formula, formulary, general principle, gnome, golden rule, guideline, guiding principle, imperative, law, law of nature, mitzvah, moral, mot, motto, norm, norma, order of nature, ordinance, platitude, precept, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, principium, principle, proverb, regulation, rubric, rule, rule of thumb, saw, saying, set form, settled principle, slogan, standard, standing order, teaching, tenet, theorem, truism, universal law, witticism, working principle, working rule

• maximal, abounding, abundant, acmatic, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, apical, aplenty, best, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, capital, chief, consummate, copious, diffuse, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, first-class, first-rate, flush, full, galore, generous, greatest, head, headmost, highest, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, many, maximum, meridian, meridional, most, much, numerous, opulent, outside, overflowing, overmost, paramount, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, preeminent, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, summital, superabundant, superlative, supreme, teeming, tip-top, top, top-notch, topmost, ultimate, upmost, uppermost, utmost, vertical, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, zenithal

• maximize, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, elaborate, embellish, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, hike, hike up, improve, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, lengthen, magnify, make much of, overdo, overemphasize, overplay, oversell, overstate, overstress, parlay, put up, pyramid, raise, thicken, up

• maximum, abundance, acmatic, acme, affluence, all, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, apex, apical, apogee, authority, authorization, avalanche, be-all and end-all, best, blue ribbon, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brow, bumper crop, cap, capital, ceiling, championship, chief, climactic, climax, cloud nine, command, comprehensive, consequential, considerable, consummate, control, copiousness, crest, crown, crowning, culmen, culmination, deep, directorship, dominion, edge, effectiveness, end, exhaustive, extravagance, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, exuberance, fertility, first place, first prize, first-class, first-rate, flood, flow, foison, full, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, grand, grave, great, great abundance, great plenty, greatest, gush, head, headmost, headship, heaven, heavens, heavy, hegemony, height, high noon, highest, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, imperium, influence, intense, irresistible, jurisdiction, kingship, landslide, lavishness, leadership, liberality, liberalness, limit, lordship, lots, luxuriance, main, management, mastership, mastery, maximal, meridian, meridional, mighty, more than enough, most, mountaintop, much, myriad, myriads, ne plus ultra, new high, no place higher, noon, nth degree, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, outside, overflow, overmost, palms, paramount, paramountcy, peak, pinnacle, pitch, plenary, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, point, pole, power, powerful, preeminent, presidency, prevalence, primacy, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, record, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, ridge, riot, riotousness, rule, say, scads, serious, seventh heaven, shower, sky, sovereignty, spate, spire, stream, strong, substantiality, substantialness, summit, summital, superabundance, superlative, supremacy, supreme, sway, teemingness, the whole, tip, tip-top, top, top spot, top-notch, topmost, total, ultimate, upmost, upper extremity, upper limit, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, vertex, vertical, very top, wealth, zenith, zenithal

• Mayday, Klaxon, SOS, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, beacon, blinking light, burglar alarm, buzzer, crostarie, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, gale warning, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, lighthouse, note of alarm, occulting light, police whistle, signal of distress, siren, small-craft warning, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, tocsin, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, whistle

• mayhem, bankruptcy, breakage, breakdown, chaos, collapse, commotion, confusion, crack-up, cripple, crippling, damage, destruction, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, dismember, disorder, disrepair, encroachment, fracas, harm, havoc, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, loss, maiming, mischief, mutilate, mutilation, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, sickening, spoiling, violence, weakening

• mayor, alderman, archon, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, headman, induna, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, minister, minister of state, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden

• mayoralty, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, bishopric, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, consulate, consulship, deanery, dictatorship, dictature, directorship, emirate, episcopacy, governorship, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, justiceship, leadership, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nobility, papacy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, ruling class, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, tribunate, vizierate, viziership

• maze, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, addle, addle the wits, amaze, baffle, ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilder, bewilderment, boggle, bother, botheration, buffalo, bug, can of worms, chaos, cloud, complex, confound, confuse, confusion, conglomeration, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disturb, disturbance, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, get, gordian knot, haze, hodgepodge, intricacy, jumble, jungle, keep in suspense, knot, labyrinth, lick, meander, mesh, mess, miscellany, mishmash, mist, mix up, moider, morass, muddle, muddleheadedness, muddlement, mystify, nonplus, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ravel, ruffle, shuffle, skein, snafu, snake pit, snarl, stew, stick, stump, sweat, swivet, tangle, tangled skein, throw, throw into confusion, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, web, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness

• mazy, Byzantine, aberrant, aberrative, adrift, affluent, afloat, alternating, ambagious, amorphous, anfractuous, balled up, bent, billowing, billowy, capricious, changeable, changeful, circuitous, circumlocutory, complex, complicated, confluent, confounded, confused, convoluted, convolutional, coursing, crabbed, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, daedal, decurrent, defluent, departing, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, diffluent, digressive, discursive, dizzy, eccentric, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, errant, erratic, excursive, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flexuose, flexuous, flickering, flighty, flitting, flowing, fluctuating, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, fouled up, freakish, gulfy, gushing, impetuous, implicated, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indecisive, indirect, infirm, intricate, involute, involuted, involutional, involved, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, meandering, meandrous, mercurial, messed up, mixed up, moody, mucked up, multifarious, out-of-the-way, perplexed, planetary, pouring, profluent, racing, rambling, ramified, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, restless, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, running, rushing, scatterbrained, screwed up, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, sluggish, snaky, snarled, spasmodic, spineless, stray, streaming, subtle, surging, surgy, swerving, tangled, tangly, tidal, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, undulant, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, vortical, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, whorled, winding, wishy-washy, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

• MC, AFTRA, Abbot of Unreason, DJ, Lord of Misrule, anchor man, announcer, attorney, auteur, bailiff, ballyhoo man, barker, broadcaster, butler, callboy, commentator, costume designer, costumer, costumier, croupier, curator, custodian, director, disk jockey, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, factor, guardian, housekeeper, impresario, landreeve, librarian, majordomo, makeup man, marshal, master of ceremonies, news commentator, newscaster, playreader, proctor, procurator, producer, program director, programmer, prompter, radiobroadcaster, ringmaster, scenewright, seneschal, set designer, showman, social director, sound-effects man, spieler, sportscaster, stage director, stage manager, steward, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, toastmaster, usher, usherer, usherette

• MD, Doctor of Medicine, GP, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, coroner, country doctor, croaker, doc, doctor, family doctor, general practitioner, house physician, intern, leech, medical, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, medico, physician, physician in ordinary, resident, resident physician, sawbones

• me, I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, ego, ethical self, he, her, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self, it, my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

• meadow, baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, campo, everglade, fen, fenland, field, glade, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, hog wallow, holm, lea, llano, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, mead, meadow land, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peat bog, prairie, quagmire, quicksand, range, salt marsh, savanna, slob land, slough, sough, steppe, steppeland, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, vega, veld, wallow, wash

• meager, Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, Tom Thumb, abstemious, angular, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, ascetic, austere, bare, bony, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, crowded, cursory, deficient, depthless, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, exiguous, few, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, footling, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, impoverished, inadequate, inappreciable, incapacious, incipient, incommodious, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent, insignificant, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, limited, little, low, mean, mere, midget, miniature, minimum, miserable, miserly, nanoid, narrow, near, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes, paltry, parsimonious, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poor, puny, pygmy, rare, rawboned, restricted, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, scrubby, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, shallow, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skimp, skimping, skimpy, skin-deep, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, spotty, sprinkled, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, stunted, subsistence, superficial, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tight, tiny, trifling, trivial, twiggy, undersize, undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery, wizened

• meagre, bare, barren, bony, broad, deficient, emaciated, exiguous, gaunt, general, half-starved, inadequate, indefinite, infertile, insufficient, lean, loose, measly, paltry, pathetic, piddling, plain, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimpy, simple, simplified, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparse, starving, thin, trifling, unadorned, underfed, undernourished, unelaborate, unembellished, unfruitful, unproductive, vague

• meal, C ration, K ration, air pollution, allotment, allowance, attritus, barley, bird seed, board, bran, breakfast, carry too far, cat food, chicken feed, chop, chow, collation, commons, consume, corn, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, devour, dinner, dog food, dust, dust ball, eat, eatage, efflorescence, emergency rations, ensilage, entertainment, fallout, fare, farina, feast, feed, feed on, field rations, filings, flour, fodder, food, forage, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, grain, grits, groats, grub, hay, ingest, kittens, lint, lunch, luncheon, mash, meals, meat, mess, nourishment, oats, overdo, overplay, partake of, pasturage, pasture, pet food, powder, provender, pussies, raspings, rations, refection, refreshment, regalement, repas, repast, sawdust, scratch, scratch feed, short commons, silage, slops, smut, snack, soot, spread, straw, supper, swill, table, take, tea, treat, tucker, victuals, wheat

• mealy, achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, branny, cadaverous, chalklike, chalky, chloranemic, colorless, comminute, comminuted, crushed, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, detrital, detrited, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, disintegrated, dull, dusty, efflorescent, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, farinaceous, fine, flaky, flat, floury, furfuraceous, ghastly, gone to dust, grated, gray, ground, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, impalpable, lackluster, leaden, levigated, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, milled, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pestled, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, sallow, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless, triturated, uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

• mealy-mouthed, ambiguous, artful, circumlocutory, deceitful, equivocal, equivocating, euphemistic, hesitant, hypocritical, indirect, mincing, oily, periphrastic, reluctant, reticent, roundabout, slick, unctuous, vague

• mealymouth, Joseph Surface, Pecksniff, Tartuffe, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, canter, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fair-weather friend, false friend, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, groveler, handshaker, helot, hypocrite, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, minion, peon, pharisee, phony, puppet, sanctimonious fraud, serf, slave, snuffler, spaniel, stooge, suck, summer soldier, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, whited sepulcher, yes-man

• mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, abject, adulatory, affected, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, canting, casuistic, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fair-spoken, false, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, goody, goody-goody, groveling, gushing, hangdog, holier-than-thou, hollow, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, hypocritic, hypocritical, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, jesuitic, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, pharisaic, pharisean, pietistic, pious, prostrate, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, tongue in cheek, truckling, uncandid, unctuous, unfrank, unserious, wheedling

• mean, Herculean, Lenten, Mickey Mouse, OK, Spartan, abject, abominable, absolutely, abstemious, abstruse, abysmal, ace-high, add up to, affect, agency, agent, ailing, aim, aim at, allegorize, allude to, amidships, apparatus, approach, arduous, argue, arrant, ascetic, aspire after, aspire to, assets, assume, assuredly, at all events, at any cost, atrocious, attest, augur, austere, authoritarian, avenue, average, backing, bad, bad-tempered, baleful, banal, bang-up, base, base-minded, baseborn, be after, be construed as, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bearish, beggarly, below the salt, beneath contempt, bespeak, betoken, bigot, bigoted, bitchy, bonzer, borne, boss, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to mind, bring to notice, brutal, bully, bundle, but good, by all means, by dint of, by means of, by no means, by way of, cankered, cantankerous, capital, carry, center, central, certainly, channel, characterize, cheap, cheesy, churlish, close, closed, coarse, cockney, common, commonplace, communicate, complex, compromise, connote, constricted, contemplate, contemptible, convey, cool, core, corking, count, course, crabbed, crackerjack, cramped, cranky, creedbound, critical, cross, cross-grained, cruel, crummy, crusty, cussed, dandy, dangle, deaf, deaf to reason, debased, declasse, deficient, definitely, degenerate, degraded, delicate, delicious, demanding, demonstrate, denominate, denote, depraved, design, designate, desire, despicable, destine, determine, develop, diameter, diaphragm, differentiate, difficile, difficult, dirty, disagreeable, disclose, disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, disobliging, display, divine, divulge, donsie, dramatize, dreary, drive at, ducky, dwarfed, dwarfish, effective, embody, enact, entail, equator, equatorial, equidistant, equipment, estate, evidence, evince, exacting, excellent, exceptional, excitable, execrable, exhibit, exiguous, expect, expose to view, express, fab, fair, fairish, fanatical, fashion, feisty, fence, finances, fine and dandy, flagrant, flaunt, flourish, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, formidable, fortune, foul, fourth-class, fractious, frugal, fulsome, funds, gaudy, gear, get across, get over, gimcracky, give evidence, give sign, give token, go for, golden mean, grave, great, groovy, gross, grudging, hack, hairy, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway, halfway measures, happy medium, harbor a design, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, hateful, have every intention, have in mind, have in view, heart, heavy, heinous, herald, hidebound, highlight, hint, hint at, holdings, homely, hope, hostile, hot, huffish, huffy, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, hunky-dory, identify, ignoble, ill-tempered, illiberal, illuminate, imperfect, implicate, imply, import, impoverished, in any case, in any event, in no way, inadequate, incarnate, incompetent, indicate, indifferent, indisposed, ineffectual, infer, inferior, inglorious, iniquitous, innocuous, insinuate, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, insufficient, insular, intangibles, intend, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intervenient, intervening, intimate, intricate, invidious, involve, irascible, irregular, irritable, jam-up, jawbreaking, jejune, just dandy, keen, kernel, knotted, knotty, laborious, lean, least, limited, little, little-minded, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-minded, low-quality, low-test, lowborn, lowbred, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, machinery, make clear, make plain, maladroit, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, mangy, manifest, manner, mark, marvy, materialize, meager, mean, mean to say, mean-minded, mean-spirited, means, measly, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, menial, mercenary, meretricious, mesial, mesne, method, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle way, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midriff, midships, midst, midway, mind, mingy, ministry, miserable, miserly, mode, moderate, moderateness, moderation, modest, money, moneybags, monstrous, name, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nasty, near, nearsighted, neat, nefarious, nest egg, neutral ground, nifty, niggard, niggardly, no matter what, no picnic, no way, nobby, nonclerical, norm, normal, not at all, not comparable, not easy, not in it, note, noxious, nuclear, nucleus, obnoxious, odious, of course, okay, on no account, operose, ordinary, organ, ornery, out of it, out of sight, paltry, par, parade, paraphernalia, parochial, parsimonious, pathetic, peachy, peachy-keen, penny-pinching, penurious, perform, perverse, pesky, petty, pile, pinchpenny, pitiable, pitiful, plain, plan, plebeian, pocket, point indirectly to, point to, poky, poor, portend, position, positively, possessions, prefigure, preindicate, presage, present, presign, presignal, presignify, presume, presuppose, pretypify, procedure, process, produce, project, proletarian, promise, property, propose, provincial, punk, puny, purblind, purport, purpose, purse, rank, refer to, represent, reptilian, reserves, resolve, resources, reveal, rigorous, ripping, roll out, rough, routine, rubbishy, rude, rugged, rum, run-down, sad, savings, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scrumptious, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, servile, set, set forth, set with thorns, severe, shabby, shabby-genteel, shoddy, shortsighted, show, show forth, signal, signify, simple, skilled, skimp, skimpy, slap-up, slavish, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, small-minded, smashing, snappish, so-so, solid, something else, sordid, sorry, sour, spare, sparing, specify, spell, spiffing, spiffy, spiny, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, spotlight, squalid, stand for, standard, starvation, steep, stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, strenuous, stuffy, stunning, stunted, submissive, subservient, subsistence, substance, suggest, support, suppose, surely, swell, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, system, tacky, take for granted, tatty, teachable, technique, testify, testy, thick, thick of things, thin, think, third-class, third-estate, third-rate, thorny, through, ticklish, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, tinny, toilsome, token, tough, trashy, tricky, trot out, troublous, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, typify, ugly, unaccommodating, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undignified, undistinguished, unfold, ungenerous, ungenteel, unimportant, unkind, unliberal, unmentionable, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpleasant, unpretentious, unskillful, unwashed, uphill, using, usual, valueless, vehicle, vexatious, via, via media, vile, vulgar, waist, waistline, want, waspish, watered, watery, wave, way, ways, wealth, weigh, wherewithal, wicked, wish, without fail, wizard, wonderful, worthless, wretched, zone

• meander, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, S-curve, ambages, amble, anfractuosity, bat around, bend, bending, bends, bow, bowing, bum, can of worms, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, coils, complex, conflexure, contort, convolution, corkscrew, count ties, crinkle, crinkling, curves, deflection, divagate, drift, err, excurse, flection, flex, flexuosity, flexuousness, flexure, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, geanticline, geosyncline, go about, go adrift, go astray, go the rounds, hairpin turn, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, inflection, intorsion, intort, involution, jaunt, jungle, knock about, knock around, knot, labyrinth, loops, maze, meandering, mesh, mess, mooch, mosey, nomadize, oxbow, peregrinate, pererrate, perplex, prowl, ramble, range, ravel, reflection, rivulation, roam, rove, run about, saunter, scallop, screw, serpentine, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slink, slinkiness, snafu, snake, snake pit, snakiness, snarl, straggle, stray, stroll, sweep, swirl, tangle, tangled skein, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, traipse, tramp, turn, turning, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twisting, undulation, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wander, wave, waving, wayfare, webwork, wheels within wheels, whirl, whorl, wilderness, wind, winding, worm, wring, zigzag

• meandering, Byzantine, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, affluent, aimlessness, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, backhanded, balled up, bent, billowing, billowy, circling, circuition, circuitous, circuitousness, circuitry, circular, circularity, circulation, circumambages, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumforaneous, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumvolution, complex, complicated, confluent, confounded, confused, convoluted, convolution, convolutional, coursing, crabbed, crinkle, crinkling, crooked, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, daedal, decurrent, defluent, departing, desultoriness, desultory, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, diffluent, digression, digressive, digressiveness, discursive, discursiveness, divagatory, drifting, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, errant, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, flitting, floating, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fouled up, fugitive, gadding, geosynclinal, gulfy, gushing, gypsy-like, gypsyish, gyre, gyring, helical, implicated, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indirect, indirection, intorsion, intricate, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, landloping, loused up, many-faceted, matted, maundering, mazy, meander, meandrous, messed up, migrational, migratory, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, nomad, nomadic, oblique, orbit, orbital, orbiting, out-of-the-way, perplexed, planetary, pouring, profluent, racing, rambling, ramified, ranging, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roaming, rotary, round, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, roving, ruffled, running, rushing, screwed up, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slinkiness, sluggish, snakiness, snaky, snarled, spiral, spiraling, straggling, stray, straying, streaming, strolling, subtle, surging, surgy, swerving, tangled, tangly, tidal, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turn, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulant, undulation, vagabond, vagrant, veering, vortical, wandering, wave, waving, wavy, wheeling, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

• meanie, SOB, bastard, bugger, creep, fart, heel, hood, hooligan, jerk, louse, mother, pill, rat, shit, shithead, shitheel, stinkard, stinker, turd

• meaning, acceptation, aim, allegory, allusion, ambition, animus, arcane meaning, aspiration, assumption, balefulness, banefulness, bodefulness, characterization, coloration, connotation, construction, content, counsel, definition, denomination, denotation, description, desideration, desideratum, design, designation, desire, determination, diagnosis, differentiation, direness, disclosure, doomfulness, drift, effect, essence, explanation, expression, fatality, fatefulness, fingering, fixed purpose, force, function, gist, hint, idea, identification, implication, implied meaning, import, indication, indicativeness, inference, innuendo, intendment, intent, intention, interpretation, intimation, ironic suggestion, manifestation, message, metaphorical sense, mind, motive, naming, nisus, nuance, occult meaning, ominousness, overtone, picking out, plan, point, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, portent, portentousness, presagefulness, presumption, presupposition, project, proposal, prospectus, purport, purpose, reading, resolution, resolve, sake, selection, sense, show, showing, significance, significancy, signification, sinisterness, specification, spirit, striving, study, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, suggestion, suggestiveness, sum and substance, supposition, symbolism, symptomaticness, tenor, tinge, touch, undercurrent, undermeaning, understanding, undertone, value, view, way of seeing, will

• meaningful, allegorical, associational, augural, big, connotational, connotative, consequential, considerable, deep, definable, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, denotative, designative, diagnostic, eloquent, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, facund, figural, figurative, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, graphic, heavy with meaning, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, imaginative, implicative, important, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, intuitive, material, meaning, meaty, metaphorical, momentous, monitory, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, pithy, pointed, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, pregnant, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging, prognostic, prognosticative, readable, referential, relevant, representative, rich, semantic, semiotic, sententious, serious, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, sober, substantial, substantive, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, telling, transferred, typical, valid, vivid, warning, weighty

• meaningfully, ardently, effectively, eloquently, expressively, fervently, fluently, forcefully, glibly, glowingly, graphically, impressively, in glowing terms, indicatively, meaningly, passionately, powerfully, significantly, smoothly, spiritedly, strikingly, suggestively, tellingly, vehemently, vigorously, vividly, warmly

• meaningfulness, articulateness, command of language, command of words, effective style, eloquence, eloquent tongue, expression, expressiveness, facundity, felicitousness, felicity, gift of expression, gift of gab, glibness, graphicness, intelligibility, interpretability, meatiness, oratory, pithiness, pregnancy, readability, rhetoric, sententiousness, significance, significancy, significantness, silver tongue, slickness, smoothness, suggestiveness, vividness

• meaningless, absurd, aimless, amorphous, asinine, blank, bootless, capricious, casual, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disinclined to communicate, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, empty, erratic, fatuous, feckless, fitful, foolish, formless, frivolous, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, hollow, immethodical, importless, impotent, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential, indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, insignificant, insubstantial, irregular, irrelevant, misshapen, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugatory, null, of no use, orderless, paltry, phatic, planless, pointless, preposterous, promiscuous, puny, purportless, purposeless, random, ridiculous, scrambled, secretive, senseless, shapeless, silly, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, superfluous, systemless, trifling, trivial, unarranged, unavailing, unclassified, uncommunicative, unconversable, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unpurposed, unsignificant, unsociable, unsorted, unsubstantial, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, useless, vacant, vacuous, vague, vain, valueless, wandering, worthless

• meanly, abjectly, abominably, arrantly, atrociously, balefully, basely, closefistedly, commonly, contemptibly, despicably, execrably, flagrantly, foully, grossly, harmfully, hatefully, heinously, illiberally, in spite, inferiorly, iniquitously, invidiously, maleficently, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly, miserably, monstrously, nastily, nefariously, niggardly, noxiously, obnoxiously, odiously, ornerily, pettily, poorly, scurvily, shabbily, shoddily, sordidly, spitefully, stingily, tightfistedly, ungenerously, vilely, wickedly, with bad intent, with malice aforethought, with malice prepense, wretchedly

• meanness, Lenten fare, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, austerity, authoritarianism, baseness, bearishness, beggarliness, bigotry, bitchiness, blind side, blind spot, blinders, cantankerousness, cheapness, churlishness, closed mind, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, crabbedness, cramped ideas, crankiness, crossness, crumminess, crustiness, cussedness, daintiness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, delicacy, depravity, despicableness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diminutiveness, disagreeability, enormity, evil intent, excitability, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure, fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fourth-rateness, fractiousness, fulsomeness, gaudiness, grossness, harmfulness, hatefulness, heinousness, helotism, helotry, hideboundness, homeliness, huffiness, huffishness, humbleness, humility, ignobility, illiberality, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, inferiority, inferiorness, ingloriousness, iniquitousness, innocuousness, insignificance, insufficiency, insularism, insularity, invidiousness, irascibility, irritability, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, little-mindedness, littleness, lowlihood, lowliness, lowness, maladroitness, maleficence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meagerness, mean mind, mediocrity, meekness, menialness, meretriciousness, meritlessness, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, miserliness, moderateness, modesty, monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, niggardliness, noxiousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum, ordinariness, orneriness, paltriness, parochialism, parsimony, penuriousness, peonage, perversity, pettiness, petty mind, picayunishness, pitiableness, pitifulness, plainness, plebeianism, pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness, rankness, sadness, scabbiness, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness, scrimpiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, second-rateness, serfdom, servility, shabbiness, shoddiness, shortsightedness, shut mind, simpleness, skimpiness, slavery, slavishness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, snappishness, sordidness, sorriness, spareness, squalor, stinginess, straitlacedness, stuffiness, submissiveness, subnormality, subservience, subserviency, teachableness, testiness, thinness, third-rateness, tininess, triviality, ugliness, uncatholicity, ungenerousness, unimportance, unmagnanimousness, unpretentiousness, unskillfulness, unworthiness, vileness, vulgarity, waspishness, wickedness, worthlessness, wretchedness

• means to an end, ability, action, ad hoc measure, answer, artifice, capacity, capital, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, demarche, device, devices, disposable resources, dodge, effort, expedient, funds, gimmick, improvisation, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last resort, last shift, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, method, move, pis aller, power, recourses, resort, resorts, resource, resources, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stock, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, supply, tactic, temporary expedient, trick, trump, ways, ways and means, wherewith, wherewithal, working hypothesis, working proposition

• means, MO, Swiss bank account, action, ad hoc measure, algorithm, answer, apparatus, approach, artifice, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, attack, available means, balance, bank account, bottom dollar, budget, capital, capital goods, capitalization, cash reserves, checking account, circumstances, command of money, contraption, contrivance, countermove, coup, course, course of action, current assets, deferred assets, demarche, device, dodge, effort, exchequer, expedient, fashion, finances, fixed assets, form, frozen assets, fund, funds, gadget, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, grist, guise, hand tool, holdings, implement, improvisation, instrument, intangible assets, intangibles, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kitty, last expedient, last resort, last shift, life savings, line, line of action, lines, liquid assets, makeshift, maneuver, manner, manner of working, material assets, measure, mechanical device, method, methodology, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, moneys, move, nest egg, net assets, net worth, order, pecuniary resources, pis aller, pocket, pool, power tool, practice, precision tool, procedure, proceeding, process, property, purse, quick assets, reserves, resort, resource, resources, routine, savings, savings account, shake-up, shift, solution, speed tool, step, stock, stock-in-trade, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, style, substance, supply, system, tack, tactic, tangible assets, tangibles, technique, temporary expedient, the drill, the how, the way of, tone, tool, treasure, trick, trump, unregistered bank account, utensil, way, wealth, wherewithal, wise, working hypothesis, working proposition

• meant, advised, aimed, aimed at, assumed, calculated, conscious, considered, contemplated, deliberate, deliberated, designed, envisaged, envisioned, hinted, implicated, implied, indicated, inferred, intended, intentional, intimated, involved, knowing, meditated, of design, planned, presumed, presupposed, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, studied, suggested, supposed, teleological, voluntary, willful, witting

• meanwhile, ad interim, at a stretch, between acts, betweentimes, betweenwhiles, during the interval, during the time, en attendant, for a time, for the meantime, for the moment, for the nonce, in the interim, in the meanwhile, interim, interval, meantime, pendente lite, temporarily, the while, until then, while

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

• measly, abject, abominable, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arrant, arthritic, atrocious, base, beggarly, bilious, cancerous, cheesy, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, execrable, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, jerkwater, laryngitic, leprous, little, low, low-down, luetic, lumpen, malarial, malignant, mangy, mean, mingy, miserable, miserly, monstrous, nefarious, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, niggardly, niggling, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, palsied, paltry, paralytic, pathetic, pettifogging, petty, phthisic, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, poky, poor, punk, puny, rachitic, rank, reptilian, rheumatic, rickety, scabby, scant, scanty, scorbutic, scrofulous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, skimpy, small, small-beer, small-time, sparse, squalid, stingy, tabetic, tabid, tinhorn, trifling, trivial, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, two-bit, two-by-four, unmentionable, vile, wretched

• measurable, appraisable, appreciable, assessable, calculable, computable, countable, determinable, estimable, fathomable, gaugeable, mensurable, meterable, noticeable, numberable, numerable, perceptible, quantifiable, quantizable, reckonable

• measure for measure, alternation, amends, atonement, balancing, battledore and shuttlecock, blow for blow, commutation, compensation, cooperation, counteraction, counterbalancing, counterchange, cross fire, defensibility, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, exchange, expiation, give-and-take, indemnification, indemnity, interchange, intermutation, interplay, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, law of retaliation, lawfulness, legality, lex talionis, like for like, meetness, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, nemesis, offsetting, permutation, poetic justice, properness, propriety, quid pro quo, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, recompense, rectification, redress, reparation, repayment, restitution, retaliation, retributive justice, revenge, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, satisfaction, scales of justice, something for something, something in return, substitution, summary justice, talion, tit for tat, transposal, transposition, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right

• measure out, administer, deal, deal out, disburse, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, divvy, dole, dole out, give out, issue, lay off, lay out, mark off, mark out, measure off, mete, mete out, pace off, parcel out, partition, pass around, pay out, portion out, rule off, set off, spoon out, step off

• measure up to, admit of comparison, amount to, balance, be commensurable, be comparable, break even, check out, come to, come up to, compare, compare to, compare with, correspond, ditto, draw, equal, even, even off, have the qualifications, keep pace with, knot, match, match up with, measure up, not compare with, parallel, qualify, reach, resemble, rival, run abreast, run to, stack up with, tie, touch, vie, vie with

• measure, A, Alexandrine, Spenserian stanza, Stabreim, a, accent, accent mark, accentuation, accommodate, accommodation, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accord, achievement, acreage, act, acta, action, ad hoc measure, adapt, add, additionally, adjust, adjust to, adventure, air, algebraize, alliterative meter, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, amount, amphibrach, amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, analogize, anapest, angstrom unit, answer, antispast, antistrophe, apportion, apportionment, appraisal, appraise, appraisement, appreciate, approach, approximation, area, aria, arsis, artifice, as a bonus, ascertain, assay, assess, assessment, assign, assimilate, assize, assizement, astronomical unit, attain, attune, avenue, bacchius, badge, balance, banner, bar, barometer, barrel, bass passage, batch, be equal to, be up to, beat, beauty, benchmark, besides, big end, bigger half, bigness, bill, bit, bite, block, blow, body, book, bound, bourdon, breadth, bridge, bring into analogy, bring into comparison, budget, bulk, bunch, burden, bushel, bylaw, ca, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calculation, caliber, calibrate, caliper, call, call off, call over, call the roll, canon, canto, cantus, capacity, cast, catalexis, census, centare, centimeter, chain, character, characteristic, check, check a parameter, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, chunk, cipher, class, clutch, coda, colon, commission, compare, compare and contrast, compare with, compass, computation, compute, concinnity, confront, constraint, content, contingent, continuum, contrast, contrivance, control, coordinate, cord, cordage, correction, count, countermove, counterpoint, counterpose, coup, couplet, course, course of action, cover, coverage, cretic, criterion, cubic foot, cubic meter, cubit, cup, custos, cut, cut the mustard, cut to, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, deal, deal out, dealings, decaliter, decameter, decastere, deciliter, decimeter, decrease, decree, deed, degree, dekameter, delimit, delimitate, demarche, depth, descant, destiny, determination, determine, development, device, diaeresis, dial, diameter, diapason, dictate, dictation, differentia, dimension, dimensions, dimeter, dipody, direct, direction, dispense, disperse, distance, distich, distribute, divide, dividend, division, dkl, do, dochmiac, dodge, doing, doings, dole, dole out, dope out, dose, dot, draw a comparison, draw a parallel, drop, dry pint, earmark, edict, effort, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, ell, em, emphasis, emptiness, empty space, en, enactment, end, endeavor, enlarge, enterprise, enumerate, envoi, epitrite, epode, equal, equal share, equalize, equilibrium, estimate, estimation, euphony, evaluate, evaluation, expanse, expansion, expedient, exploit, exposition, expression mark, extension, extent, extract roots, extreme, fait accompli, fate, fathom, feat, feminine caesura, fermata, field, fifth, figure, figure in, figure out, figure up, find out, finger, fit, fix, folderol, foliate, foot, footstep, force, forearming, forehandedness, foresight, foresightedness, forethought, forethoughtfulness, form, form an estimate, formality, formula, formulary, fur, furlong, furthermore, gage, galactic space, gallon, gauge, gauger, gauging, gear to, gest, gill, gimmick, girth, give an appreciation, give out, go, go over, gob, grade, graduate, graduated scale, greatness, group, guess, ha, half, hallmark, halver, hand, hand out, handiwork, harmonic close, harmonize, harmony, heap, hectare, height, helping, heptameter, heptapody, heptastich, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hexastich, hogshead, hold, homologate, homologize, hunk, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, idiosyncrasy, image, improvisation, in addition, inch, increase, index, indicant, indicator, infinite space, infinity, insignia, institution, instrument, instrumentation, insurance, interest, interlude, intermezzo, interstellar space, interval, into the bargain, introductory phrase, ionic, issue, jeroboam, jigger, jingle, job, judge, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, jus, key signature, key to, keynote, kiloliter, kilometer, large amount, largeness, last expedient, last resort, last shift, law, lay, lay off, lead, league, leap, legislation, length, lengthiness, level, lex, ligature, light-year, liken, liken to, lilt, limit, limitation, line, linear measures, link, litmus test, long time, longitude, longness, lot, magnitude, magnum, make an estimation, make plumb, make the grade, make uniform, makeshift, maneuver, mark, mark off, mark out, masculine caesura, mass, match, matter, means, measure against, measure out, measure up to, measuredness, measurement, measurer, measures, measuring, meed, meet, melodia, melodic line, melody, mensurate, mensuration, mess, metaphorize, mete, mete out, meter, method, metric system, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, metronomic mark, micron, mil, mile, mileage, milliliter, minim, model, moderateness, moderation, modicum, moiety, molossus, monostich, mora, moreover, motif, motion, move, movement, multiply, musical phrase, musical sentence, myriameter, nail, norm, notation, notch, note, nothingness, nuance, number, numbers, numerate, octastich, octave, octet, operation, oppose, order, orderedness, ordinance, ordonnance, ornament, ottava rima, outer space, overall length, overpass, overt act, pace, pace off, pack, paeon, page, paginate, palm, parallel, parameter, parcel, parcel out, parsec, part, pas, pass out, pass over, pass through, passage, patrol, pattern, pause, peck, peculiarity, peg, pentameter, pentapody, pentastich, perambulate, percentage, perch, peregrinate, pererrate, performance, period, perpetuity, phrase, pica, picture, piece, pint, pis aller, pitch, place against, plan, plane, plateau, plumb, ply, point, pole, poll, pony, portion, poundage, precaution, precautions, precautiousness, presa, prescript, prescription, preventive measure, prize, probe, procedure, proceeding, proceleusmatic, process, production, project, property, proportion, proportions, proposal, proposition, prosodic pattern, prosody, protection, providence, provision, put in tune, pyrrhic, quantification, quantify, quantitative meter, quantity, quantization, quantize, quantum, quart, quatrain, quota, radius, rake-off, range, range over, rank, rate, rating, ratio, ration, reach, reading, readout, reckon, reconcile, reconnoiter, rectify, reduce, refrain, regulate, regulation, relate, remove, representation, representative, res gestae, resolution, resort, resource, response, restraint, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, right, ritornello, rod, rood, room, round, rubric, rule, ruling, run a comparison, run over, rung, safeguard, scale, scanning, scansion, scope, score, scour, scour the country, scout, seal, section, segment, segno, septet, sestet, set, set in contrast, set in opposition, set off against, set over against, set right, sextet, shade, shadow, shake-up, share, share out, shift, sigil, sign, signal, signature, similarize, similize, size, size up, slice, slur, small amount, small share, solo, solo part, solution, song, soprano part, sort, sound, space, span, spatial extension, sphere, spondee, spread, spread about, sprung rhythm, square inch, stair, stake, stamp, standard, standing order, stanza, statement, statute, stave, step, steps, steps and measures, stint, stock, stopgap, stowage, strain, stratagem, strength, stress, stretch, stride, stroke, stroke of policy, strophe, stunt, substance, subtract, sum, superficial extension, sure sign, surface, survey, surveying, sweep, sweetness, swell, swing, syllabic meter, syllable, symbol, symmetry, symptom, sync, synchronize, system, syzygy, tablespoon, tactic, tactics, tailor, take a reading, take account of, tally, teaspoon, technique, telemetering, telemetry, tell, telltale sign, tempo mark, temporary expedient, tercet, terza rima, test, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, tetrastich, theme, thesis, thing, thing done, tie, time, time signature, to boot, tonnage, touchstone, tour de force, township, track, tract, trait, transaction, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, tread, treble, triangulate, triangulation, tribrach, trick, trim to, trimeter, triplet, tripody, triseme, tristich, trochee, true, true up, trump, tune, turn, tutti, tutti passage, type, undertaking, valuate, valuation, value, variation, vers libre, verse, versification, view together, vinculum, void, volume, voyage, warble, wavelength, way, weigh, weigh against, weight, whole, width, work, work out, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, yard, yardage, yardstick

• measured, a, accordant, admeasured, alike, alternate, an, antispastic, any, appraised, assessed, automatic, balanced, beating, cadenced, cadent, calculated, careful, cautious, certain, circling, concinnate, concinnous, considered, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, cyclic, dactylic, deliberate, dignified, epochal, equable, equal, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, even, every other, exact, flat, flowing, fluent, frugal, gauged, harmonious, homogeneous, iambic, immutable, in numbers, in rhythm, intentional, intermittent, invariable, isochronal, known by measurement, leisurely, level, majestic, mapped, mechanical, metered, methodic, metric, metronomic, moderate, modulated, monolithic, monotonous, of a piece, one, ordered, orderly, oscillatory, periodical, persistent, planned, plotted, precise, predetermined, premeditated, prosodic, prudent, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, quantified, quantitative, quantitive, quantized, reasoned, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, regular, regulated, restrained, rhythmic, rhythmical, robotlike, rotary, scanning, seasonal, sedate, serial, slow, smooth, smooth-sounding, sober, solemn, some, sparing, spondaic, stable, stately, steadfast, steady, stinting, studied, surveyed, sweet, symmetrical, systematic, temperate, throbbing, triangulated, tripping, trochaic, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, undulant, undulatory, unhurried, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, valuated, valued, wavelike, well-thought-out, wheeling

• measurement, accounting, acreage, amount, amplitude, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, area, ascertainment, assessing, assessment, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, calculation, caliber, capacity, census, computation, counting, coverage, dactylonomy, depth, determination, diameter, dimension, dimensions, enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, foliation, force, gauge, gauging, girth, greatness, height, inventorying, judgement, largeness, length, magnitude, mass, matter, measure, measuring, mensuration, mileage, numbering, numbers, numeration, opinion, pagination, period, proportion, proportions, quantification, quantity, quantization, quantum, radius, range, ranking, rating, reach, reckoning, scale, scope, size, spread, strength, substance, sum, tallying, telling, tonnage, valuation, valuing, view, volume, weighing, weight, whole, width

• measuring, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, approximative, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, chorographic, computation, correction, determination, estimate, estimation, estimative, evaluation, gauging, hypsographic, instrumentation, measure, measurement, mensural, mensuration, mensurational, mensurative, metric, metric system, numerative, oceanographic, quantification, quantitative, quantization, rating, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, topographic, triangulation, valuation, valuational, valuative

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

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

• meat, Brazil nut, TLC, act of love, adultery, almond, almond paste, amande, amande douce, amandes mondees, aphrodisia, aspic, ass, axiom, bag, balling, ballocks, balls, barbecue, basics, basis, basket, beard, bench mark, best part, better part, bitter almond, blanched almonds, board, body, boiled meat, bouilli, bread, bread and butter, breasts, bulk, burden, burnt almond, cardinal point, care, carnal knowledge, case, center, cervix, chapter, cheer, chief thing, chow, civet, climax, clitoris, cod, cods, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, comestibles, commerce, concern, congress, connection, copula, copulation, core, cornerstone, coupling, creature comfort, crisis, critical point, crux, cuisine, cullions, daily bread, diddling, distillate, distillation, eatables, eats, economic support, edibles, elixir, endowment, entertainment, essence, essential, essential matter, essentials, fabric, family jewels, fare, fast food, feast, feed, female organs, flesh, flower, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, food, food and drink, foodstuff, forcemeat, fornication, fundamental, game, generality, genitalia, genitals, gist, gonads, goober, goober pea, gravamen, great point, ground-pea, groundnut, grub, hachis, hash, head, heading, health food, heart, high point, hot number, hypostasis, important thing, ingesta, inner essence, intercourse, intimacy, issue, jerky, joint, jugged hare, junk food, keep, kernel, keystone, kitchen stuff, labia, labia majora, labia minora, landmark, lingam, lips, livelihood, living, living issue, lovemaking, main body, main point, main thing, maintenance, major part, majority, making it with, male organs, manna, marital relations, marriage act, marrow, mass, material, material point, mating, matter, matter in hand, meal, medium, menue viande, mess, milestone, mince, most, mothering, motif, motive, nigger toe, noisette, noix, nourishment, nub, nucleus, nurture, nut, nutriment, nuts, nuts and bolts, nymphae, onanism, orgasm, ovary, ovum, pareunia, peanut, peanut butter, pemmican, penis, phallus, piece, piece of ass, piece of meat, pith, pivot, plurality, point, point at issue, point in question, postulate, pot roast, price support, principle, private parts, privates, privy parts, problem, procreation, provender, provision, provisions, pubic hair, pudenda, question, quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, recap, recapitulation, refection, refreshment, regalement, relations, repas, repast, reproductive organs, resume, roast, rocks, rubric, run-through, rundown, salient point, salted peanuts, sap, sausage meat, scrapple, screwing, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sense, sex, sex act, sex goddess, sex object, sex organs, sex queen, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, short, sine qua non, sleeping with, soul, sperm, spermary, spirit, spread, stud, stuff, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, substance, substantive point, subvention, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, sweet almond, table, tender loving care, testes, testicles, text, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, theme, thrust, topic, treat, tucker, turning point, upkeep, upshot, uterus, vagina, venery, venison, viande, viands, victuals, vittles, vulva, womb, yoni

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

• meathooks, claws, clutches, digits, fangs, fingernails, fingers, hands, hooks, jaws, mandibles, maxillae, mitts, nails, nippers, palm, pincers, pounces, talons, teeth, unguals, ungulae

• meaty, adipose, allegorical, associational, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, compact, connotational, connotative, corpulent, definable, denotational, denotative, distended, dumpy, epigrammatic, expressive, extended, extensional, fat, fattish, figurative, fleshy, full, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, lusty, meaning, meaningful, metaphorical, obese, overweight, paunchy, pithy, plump, podgy, pointed, portly, potbellied, pregnant, pudgy, puffy, pursy, readable, referential, roly-poly, rotund, sententious, significant, significative, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, substantial, suggestive, swollen, symbolic, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, transferred, tubby, well-fed

• mechanic, aeromechanic, aeronautical engineer, aircraftsman, apprentice, artificer, artisan, artist, cobbler, craftsman, craftswoman, doctor, fixer, flight tester, grease monkey, ground tester, handicraftsman, jet engineer, journeyman, little Miss Fixit, machinist, maintenance man, master, master carpenter, master craftsman, mechanician, mender, prentice, renovator, repairer, repairman, restorer, rigger, rocket engineer, serviceman, technician, tinker, trouble man, troubleshooter, wright

• mechanical, accordant, aeromechanical, alike, automated, automatic, balanced, biomechanical, blind, cold, colorless, compulsive, conditioned, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, dead, distant, equable, equal, even, flat, forced, habitual, homogeneous, immutable, impersonal, impulsive, inanimate, insensible, instinctive, invariable, involuntary, level, lifeless, locomotive, locomotor, machinal, machine-made, machinelike, matter-of-fact, measured, mechanistic, mechanized, methodic, monolithic, of a piece, ordered, orderly, perfunctory, persistent, power-driven, powered, reflex, reflexive, regular, ritualistic, robotlike, routine, smooth, spiritless, stable, steadfast, steady, systematic, unanimated, unartistic, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconscious, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, unemotional, unfeeling, uniform, uninspired, unintentional, unruffled, unthinking, unvaried, unvarying, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, zoomechanical

• mechanics, Newtonian physics, acoustics, aerophysics, applied physics, art, astrophysics, basic conductor physics, biophysics, chemical physics, craft, cryogenics, crystallography, cytophysics, electron physics, electronics, electrophysics, geophysics, macrophysics, mathematical physics, mechanism, medicophysics, method, microphysics, natural philosophy, natural science, nuclear physics, optics, philosophy, physic, physical chemistry, physical science, physicochemistry, physicomathematics, physics, psychophysics, radiation physics, radionics, science, skill, solar physics, solid-state physics, statics, stereophysics, technic, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, zoophysics

• mechanism, Charlie McCarthy, Marxism, action, agency, agent, ancilla, animalism, apparatus, appliance, approach, arrangement, art, atomism, automatic switch, behaviorism, channel selector, check valve, clockworks, commonsense realism, contour follower, contrivance, control valve, convenience, craft, creature, device, dialectical materialism, drive, drive train, dummy, dupe, earthliness, electronic control, emergency control, empiricism, engine, enginery, epiphenomenalism, expedient, facility, finder switch, fixture, flowmanostat, gear, go-between, going between, handmaid, handmaiden, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, implement, innards, instrument, instrumentality, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermediation, intermedium, internal selector, lever, machine, machinery, materialism, means, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanics, mediation, mediator, medium, method, midwife, minion, monism, motion, motive power, motor, movement, movements, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, organ, organization, pawn, physicalism, physicism, plaything, positive philosophy, positivism, power plant, power source, power train, pragmaticism, pragmatism, procedure, process, puppet, realism, recourse, rectifier, register regulator, representative realism, resort, safety control, safety fuse, safety stop, safety switch, safety valve, science, secularism, selector switch, sequence switch, servant, service, servo valve, servomechanism, skill, slave, stooge, structure, substantialism, system, technic, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, temporality, thermoswitch, timer, tool, toy, utility, vehicle, voltage regulator, voltage stabilizer, watchworks, way, wheels, wheels within wheels, workings, works, worldliness

• mechanistic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, aeromechanical, animist, animistic, atomistic, biomechanical, commonsense, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, existential, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, locomotive, locomotor, materialist, materialistic, mechanical, mechanist, metaphysical, monistic, naturalist, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, zoomechanical

• medal, Bronze Star Medal, Croix de Guerre, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Unit Citation, Medaille Militaire, Military Cross, Navy Cross, Unit Citation, Victoria Cross, anaglyph, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, bas-relief, baton, blazonry, boss, brassard, button, cameo, cameo glass, cap and gown, cavo-rilievo, chain, chain of office, class ring, cockade, collar, cross, cut glass, decoration, dress, eagle, emblems, embossment, ensigns, fasces, figurehead, fleur-de-lis, glyph, glyptograph, hammer and sickle, heraldry, high relief, insignia, intaglio, intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, lapel pin, livery, low relief, mace, mantle, markings, mask, medallion, military medal, mortarboard, old school tie, order, pin, plaquette, regalia, relief, relievo, ring, rose, school ring, sculptured glass, service medal, shamrock, sigillography, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, swastika, tartan, thistle, tie, uniform, verge, wand, war medal

• medallion, Bronze Star Medal, Croix de Guerre, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Unit Citation, Medaille Militaire, Military Cross, Navy Cross, Unit Citation, Victoria Cross, anaglyph, bas-relief, boss, cameo, cameo glass, cavo-rilievo, cut glass, embossment, glyph, glyptograph, high relief, intaglio, intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, low relief, mask, medal, military medal, order, plaquette, relief, relievo, sculptured glass, service medal, war medal

• meddle, Paul-Pry, advise, advocate, arrest, bottle up, brief, busybody, butt in, check, coach, confer, consult with, counsel, countercheck, curb, dam up, damp, dampen, delay, detain, direct, fool, fool with, guide, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, horn in, impede, inhibit, instruct, intercept, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, keep back, keep in check, kibitz, make, meddle with, mess around, mess with, monkey with, nose, obtrude, oppose, peek, peep, prescribe, propose, pry, recommend, repress, resist, restrain, retard, scotch, set back, slacken, snoop, snub, spy, submit, suggest, suppress, tamper, tamper with, trespass

• meddler, Dutch uncle, Paul Pry, Polonius, admonisher, adviser, backseat driver, busybody, butt-in, buttinsky, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, expert, guide, instructor, intermeddler, kibitzer, mentor, monitor, nestor, orienter, pragmatist, preceptist, prier, pry, quidnunc, rubberneck, snoop, snooper, teacher, yenta

• meddling, busy, busybody, butting-in, forward, forwardness, impertinence, impertinent, inquisitive, inquisitiveness, intermeddling, intrusiveness, meddlesome, meddlesomeness, nosy, obtrusiveness, officious, officiousness, presumption, presumptuous, presumptuousness, prying, pushing, pushy, self-appointed, snoopy

• media, communication engineering, communication explosion, communication technology, communication theory, communications, communications engineer, communications industry, communications medium, communications network, electrical communication, electronic communication, electronic communications, information explosion, information theory, radiocommunication, signaling, telecommunication, wire communication, wireless communication

• medial, amidships, average, banal, center, centermost, central, common, core, equatorial, equidistant, fair, fairish, halfway, indifferent, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intervenient, intervening, mean, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mesne, mezzo, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, moderate, normal, nuclear, ordinary, routine, standard, usual

• median, amidships, average, balance, banal, center, centermost, central, common, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, equatorial, equidistant, generality, golden mean, halfway, happy medium, heart, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intervenient, intervening, juste-milieu, kernel, mean, medial, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mesne, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midway, moderate, norm, normal, nuclear, nucleus, ordinary, par, routine, rule, run, standard, thick, thick of things, usual, via media, waist, waistline, zone

• mediate, accommodate, act between, act for, adjust, advance, arbitrate, arrange matters, assist, bargain, be instrumental, bring to terms, bring together, compose, compromise, facilitate, fix up, forward, go between, harmonize, heal the breach, intercede, interfere, intermediate, interpose, intervene, judge, make terms, meet halfway, minister to, moderate, negotiate, patch things up, promote, put in tune, reconcile, referee, represent, resolve, restore harmony, reunite, serve, settle, settle differences, smooth it over, step in, subserve, treat with, umpire, weave peace between

• mediating, agential, agentival, agentive, arbitrational, arbitrative, assisting, coming between, conducive, employable, facilitating, favoring, forwarding, going between, handy, helpful, instrumental, intercessional, intercessory, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervening, interventional, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, mesne, middle, ministerial, ministering, pacificatory, promoting, serviceable, subservient, useful

• mediation, United Nations troops, agency, appeasement, calming, conciliation, detente, device, dulcification, easing of relations, expedient, going between, instrumentality, intermediation, machinery, mechanism, mollification, pacification, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, propitiation, recourse, relaxation of tension, resort, service, soothing, tranquilization

• mediator, Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appeaser, appliance, arbiter, arbitrator, broker, conciliator, connection, contact, contrivance, creature, deputy, device, distributor, dummy, dupe, entrepreneur, front, front man, go-between, handmaid, handmaiden, implement, instrument, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, interventionist, interventor, jobber, judge, lever, liaison, link, mechanism, mediary, medium, middleman, midwife, minion, moderator, mouthpiece, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, ombudsman, organ, pawn, peacemaker, plaything, puppet, referee, servant, slave, spokesman, spokeswoman, stooge, tie, tool, toy, troubleshooter, umpire, vehicle, wholesaler

• mediatory, Christlike, Christly, arbitrational, arbitrative, celestial, coming between, divine, empyrean, godlike, godly, going between, heavenly, incarnate, incarnated, intercessional, intercessive, intercessory, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervening, interventional, made flesh, mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mesne, middle, pacificatory, propitiative, propitiatory, redemptive, salvational, self-existent, superhuman, supernatural, transcendent

• Medicaid, ADC, Medicare, aerospace medicine, biomedicine, clinical medicine, comparative medicine, constitutional medicine, cradle-to-grave security, dosimetric medicine, experimental medicine, guaranteed annual income, guaranteed income, health insurance, internal medicine, leechcraft, leechdom, legal medicine, materia medica, medical jurisprudence, medicine, military medicine, naval medicine, neo-Hippocratic medicine, old-age assistance, physic, physical medicine, preclinical medicine, preventive medicine, psychosomatic medicine, public assistance, public health medicine, relief, sickness insurance, social insurance, social security, social welfare, socialized medicine, space medicine, state medicine, therapy, tropical medicine, unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, veterinary medicine, welfare, welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare state, welfare statism, welfarism, womb-to-tomb security

• medical examiner, Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, autopsy, coroner, country doctor, croaker, doc, doctor, family doctor, general practitioner, house physician, inquest, intern, leech, medical attendant, medical man, medical practitioner, medico, mortality committee, necropsy, necroscopy, physician, physician in ordinary, postmortem, postmortem examination, resident, resident physician, sawbones

• medical, allopathic, chiropodic, chiropractic, clinical, croaker, dental, doc, doctor, exodontic, homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, medico, naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, pediatric, periodontic, prosthodontic, sawbones, surgical

• Medicare, ADC, Medicaid, aerospace medicine, biomedicine, clinical medicine, comparative medicine, constitutional medicine, cradle-to-grave security, dosimetric medicine, experimental medicine, guaranteed annual income, guaranteed income, health insurance, internal medicine, leechcraft, leechdom, legal medicine, materia medica, medical jurisprudence, medicine, military medicine, naval medicine, neo-Hippocratic medicine, old-age assistance, physic, physical medicine, preclinical medicine, preventive medicine, psychosomatic medicine, public assistance, public health medicine, relief, sickness insurance, social insurance, social security, social welfare, socialized medicine, space medicine, state medicine, therapy, tropical medicine, unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, veterinary medicine, welfare, welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare state, welfare statism, welfarism, womb-to-tomb security

• medication, balm, balsam, curative measures, cure, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, ethical drug, first aid, generic name, healing arts, herbs, hospitalization, inhalant, lincture, linctus, materia medica, medical care, medical treatment, medicament, medicamentation, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, medicines, mixture, nonprescription drug, officinal, patent medicine, pharmacon, physic, powder, preparation, prescription drug, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, psychotherapy, regime, regimen, simples, syrup, therapeusis, therapeutics, theraputant, therapy, tisane, treatment, vegetable remedies

• medicinal, adjuvant, alexipharmic, alterative, analeptic, corrective, curative, healing, iatric, medical, medicative, pharmaceutical, remedial, restorative, roborant, sanative, sanatory, therapeutic, theriac

• medicine man, charlatan, exorciser, exorcist, horse doctor, medicaster, medicine monger, mundunugu, obeah doctor, quack, quacksalver, shaman, shamanist, unspeller, voodoo, voodooist, wangateur, witch doctor, witch master, witch-finder, witchman

• medicine, anatomy, anesthesiology, audiology, bacteriology, balm, balsam, cardiology, chiropody, corpse reviver, cure, cure-all, dental surgery, dentistry, dermatology, diagnostics, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, embryology, endocrinology, epidemiology, ethical drug, etiology, exodontics, firewater, fluoroscopy, generic name, geriatrics, gerontology, healing arts, hematology, herbs, hooch, hygiene, immunochemistry, immunology, inhalant, internal medicine, likker, lincture, linctus, materia medica, medical care, medical treatment, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicines, mental hygiene, mixture, mycology, neurology, neurosurgery, nonprescription drug, nostrum, nutrition, obstetrics, officinal, ophthalmology, optometry, orthodontics, otolaryngology, otology, panacea, patent medicine, pathology, periodontics, pharmaceutical, pharmacon, physic, physical medicine, powder, preparation, prescription, prescription drug, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, radiology, remedy, sauce, semeiology, serology, simples, snake medicine, surgery, symptomatology, syrup, teratology, therapeusis, therapeutics, theraputant, therapy, tiger milk, tisane, treatment, vegetable remedies

• medico, Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, Md, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, coroner, country doctor, croaker, doc, doctor, family doctor, general practitioner, house physician, intern, leech, medical, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, physician, physician in ordinary, resident, resident physician, sawbones

• mediocre, adulterated, amidships, artless, average, bad, banal, base, betwixt and between, blemished, central, common, commonplace, core, damaged, defective, deficient, dull, equatorial, equidistant, erroneous, everyday, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fallible, faulty, found wanting, garden-variety, half-assed, halfway, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadept, inadequate, inapt, inattentive, incompetent, incomplete, indifferent, inefficient, inept, inexact, inexpert, inferior, insipid, insufficient, interior, intermediary, intermediate, lacking, lackluster, little, makeshift, maladroit, mean, medial, median, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, mixed, moderate, modest, namby-pamby, no great shakes, normal, not bad, not comparable, not in it, not perfect, nuclear, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, off, ordinary, out of it, partial, passable, patchy, pedestrian, petty, poor, respectable, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, shabby, short, sketchy, skill-less, small, so so, so-so, standard, tedious, third-rate, thoughtless, tolerable, trivial, unapt, undeft, undeveloped, undexterous, undextrous, undistinguished, uneven, unexceptional, unfacile, unfinished, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, unperfected, unproficient, unskillful, unsound, unthorough, usual, vapid, wanting, wishy-washy

• mediocrity, Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, adulteration, average, balance, baseness, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, center, cipher, common man, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dull tool, dummy, erroneousness, failure, fallibility, faultiness, fewness, figurehead, fourth-rater, generality, golden mean, greenhorn, happy medium, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impurity, inability, inaccuracy, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapable, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompetent, incompleteness, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, inexactitude, inexactness, insignificancy, insufficiency, jackstraw, juste-milieu, lack, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, littleness, maladjustment, maladroitness, man of straw, mean, meanness, median, medium, middle, middle class, middle course, middle ground, middle order, middle orders, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, nebbish, no conjuror, no prize, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonentity, norm, normal, nothing special, obscurity, par, patchiness, pedestrianism, pettiness, pip-squeak, punk, rule, run, runt, rustiness, scrub, second-rater, shabbiness, shortage, shortcoming, shrimp, silent majority, sketchiness, skill-lessness, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smallness, squirt, squit, subnormality, suburbia, third-rater, thoughtlessness, tinhorn, triviality, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undevelopment, undexterousness, undextrousness, unevenness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, untrainedness, via media, vulgarity, want, whiffet, whippersnapper

• meditate, be abstracted, brood, brood over, cerebrate, chaw, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, con over, conceive, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, design, devise, digest, envisage, envision, frame, have in mind, have in view, introspect, meditate upon, mull, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, perpend, plan, play around with, play with, ponder, ponder over, reflect, reflect over, reflect upon, revolve, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, scheme, speculate, study, think, think over, think up, toy with, turn over, weigh

• meditation, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, a wise passiveness, absorbed attention, absorption, advisement, aid prayer, appeal, application, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, brooding, chaplet, collect, communion, concentration, consideration, contemplation, contemplative life, counsel, deep study, deep thought, deliberation, devotions, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, engagement, engrossment, entreaty, grace, idleness, immersion, immobility, impetration, imploration, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, intentness, intercession, invocation, involvement, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, litany, lucubration, monomania, musing, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obsecration, obsession, obtestation, orison, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, petition, policy, pondering, prayer, prayer wheel, preoccupation, procrastination, profound thought, quiescence, quietism, rapt attention, reflection, revolving, rogation, rosary, rumination, silent prayer, single-mindedness, speculation, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, studiousness, study, submersion, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, weighing

• meditative, absent, absentminded, absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, bemused, brooding, buried in, castle-building, caught up in, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deliberating, deliberative, devoted, devoted to, do-nothing, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, excogitating, excogitative, faraway, half-awake, ideative, idle, immersed in, immobile, in a reverie, in the clouds, inactive, inert, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lost, lost in, lost in thought, meditating, mental, monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, motionless, museful, musing, napping, neuter, neutral, nodding, noetic, oblivious, obsessed, occupied, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pensive, pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, single-minded, sober, somewhere else, speculative, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, stargazing, static, stationary, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, thinking, thought, thoughtful, totally absorbed, transported, unconscious, vegetable, vegetative, wistful, woolgathering, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up in

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

• medium, Charlie McCarthy, actor, agency, agent, air brush, ambiance, ambience, ambient, amidships, ancilla, appliance, approach, arbitrator, arc, arc light, architect, art paper, atmosphere, atoms, autecology, author, automatist, avenue, average, balance, banal, betwixt and between, bien cuit, bioecology, bionomics, broker, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, center, central, chalk, channel, charcoal, chromogen, climate, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, common, compromise, connection, contact, contrivance, conveyance, core, course, crayon, creator, creature, crown, dead-color, deputy, device, dimmer, distemper, distillate, distillation, distributor, doer, done, doneness, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, dull, dummy, duodecimo, dupe, dye, dyestuff, easel, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, ecstatic, eighteenmo, element, elixir, environment, equatorial, equidistant, essence, everyday, executant, executor, executrix, expedient, exterior paint, fabric, fabricator, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fence, fixative, flat coat, flat wash, floats, flood, floodlight, floor enamel, folio, footlights, foots, front, front man, gelatin, generality, gist, go-between, golden mean, ground, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway, halfway measures, handmaid, handmaiden, happy medium, heart, imperial, implement, indifferent, insipid, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intercurrent, interior, interior paint, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediation, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, intervenient, intervening, interventionist, interventor, jobber, juste-milieu, kernel, klieg light, lackluster, lay figure, lever, liaison, light plot, lights, limelight, link, long suit, maker, marquee, marrow, material, matter, maulstick, mean, means, meat, mechanism, medial, median, mediary, mediator, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium-rare, mesial, mesne, method, metier, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, middleman, middling, midland, midpoint, midships, midway, midwife, milieu, minion, ministry, mise-en-scene, mode, moderate, moderateness, moderation, modest, mouthpiece, mover, namby-pamby, necromancer, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, neutral, neutral ground, norm, normal, nub, nuclear, octavo, octodecimo, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ombudsman, opaque color, operant, operative, operator, ordinary, organ, overcooked, overdone, oyster, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, par, passable, pastel, pawn, pencil, performer, perpetrator, pigment, pigments, pith, plaything, popular, practitioner, prime coat, prime mover, primer, priming, producer, psychic, psychographist, puppet, quarto, quintessence, respectable, road, route, routine, royal, rule, run, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sap, scratchboard, servant, sextodecimo, siccative, sixteenmo, sketchbook, sketchpad, slave, so-so, soul, spatula, spirit, spirit rapper, spiritist, spiritualist, spokesman, spokeswoman, spot, spotlight, spray gun, stain, standard, stooge, stuff, stump, subject, substance, sum and substance, super, surroundings, synecology, tangible, technique, tedious, tempera, thinner, tie, tinction, tincture, tolerable, tool, toy, transparent color, turpentine, turps, twelvemo, undercoat, undercoating, usual, vapid, varnish, vehicle, via media, vulgar, wash, wash coat, way, well-cooked, well-done, wholesaler, wishy-washy, worker

• medley, agglomeration, all sorts, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assemblage, assortment, bicolor, bicolored, blend, blended, brew, broad spectrum, capriccio, caprice, chromatic, cold, collectanea, collection, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, combination, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, conglomeration, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled, dichromatic, divers-colored, divertissement, eclectic, equivocal, fantasia, farrago, fifty-fifty, gallimaufry, glowing, goulash, half-and-half, harlequin, harmonious, hash, heterogeneous, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, humoresque, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, magpie, many-colored, many-sided, mash, matching, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, mingled, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed, mixed bag, mixture, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, parti-color, parti-colored, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, patchy, pigmentary, pluralistic, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, potpourri, prismal, prismatic, promiscuous, rainbow, romance, romanza, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, scrambled, shot, shot through, spectral, stew, sundries, syncretic, thrown together, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, varied, variegated, variety, versicolor, versicolored, warm, what you will

• Medusa, Argus, Briareus, Cerberus, Charybdis, Circe, Cyclops, Echidna, Euryale, Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Loch Ness monster, Medea, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Stheno, Talos, Typhon, bewitcher, centaur, charmer, chimera, cockatrice, dragon, drake, enchanter, enchantress, griffin, hippocampus, mermaid, merman, nixie, ogre, ogress, roc, salamander, satyr, sea horse, sea serpent, siren, spellbinder, troll, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, windigo, xiphopagus, zombie

• meed, allotment, allowance, amends, apportionment, atonement, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, blood money, budget, carrot, chunk, commission, compensation, consideration, contingent, cut, damages, deal, desert, destiny, dividend, dole, due, end, equal share, fate, guerdon, half, halver, helping, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, interest, lot, measure, merit, mess, modicum, moiety, part, percentage, piece, plum, portion, premium, price, prize, proportion, quantum, quittance, quota, rake-off, ration, recompense, recompensing, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution, retribution, return, reward, salvage, satisfaction, segment, share, slice, small share, smart money, solatium, stake, stock, wergild

• meek, abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, amenable, bland, broken, chastened, compliant, deferential, docile, domesticated, dovelike, forbearing, gentle, housebroken, humble, humble-minded, humble-spirited, humblehearted, lamblike, lenient, long-suffering, lowly, manageable, meek-minded, meek-spirited, meekhearted, mild, modest, obedient, pacific, passive, patient, peaceable, poor in spirit, quiet, reconciled, repressed, resigned, retiring, shy, spiritless, subdued, submissive, suppressed, tame, tamed, timid, tolerant, tractable, unambitious, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, uncomplaining, unimposing, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, unresisting, weak, yielding

• meekly, abjectly, acquiescently, compliantly, gently, humbly, like a lamb, mildly, modestly, on all fours, on bended knee, pacifically, passively, peaceably, quietly, resignedly, submissively, tamely, unassumingly, uncomplainingly, unobtrusively, unostentatiously, unpresumptuously, unpretendingly, unpretentiously, with bated breath, with due deference, without ceremony

• meerschaum, Missouri meerschaum, accommodate, act between, adjust, arbitrate, bargain, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet, churchwarden, clay, compose, compound, compromise, cop out, corncob, corncob pipe, duck responsibility, evade responsibility, give and take, give way, go between, go fifty-fifty, hookah, hubble-bubble, intercede, intermediate, interpose, intervene, judge, make a deal, make an adjustment, make concessions, make terms, mediate, meet halfway, moderate, nargileh, negotiate, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, play politics, reach a compromise, referee, represent, settle, split the difference, step in, strike a balance, strike a bargain, surrender, take the mean, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, treat with, umpire, yield

• meet head on, affront, alight upon, antagonize, be antipathetic, be inimical, beard, beat against, bell the cat, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, brazen out, bump heads, bump into, challenge, clash, collide, come across, come among, come up against, come upon, complain, complain loudly, conflict, conflict with, confront, confute, contend, contend with, contradict, contrapose, contraposit, contrast, contravene, counter, counteract, counterattack, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, cross, dispute, dissent, encounter, face, face down, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, fall across, fall among, fall foul of, fall upon, front, go against, go counter to, interfere with, kick against, lie opposite, light upon, lock horns, make a stand, match, meet, meet boldly, meet up with, meet with, militate against, object, offer resistance, oppose, oppugn, pitch upon, polarize, pose against, protest, put in opposition, recalcitrate, reluct, remonstrate, resist, revolt, run across, run against, run counter to, run into, run smack into, run the gauntlet, run up against, run upon, set at defiance, set over against, show fight, speak out, speak up, stand, stand at bay, stand opposed, stand opposite, stand up against, stand up to, strive against, subtend, swim upstream, withstand, work against

• meet, Highland games, Olympiad, Olympic games, Olympics, abide by, abut, accepted, accommodate, accommodate with, accommodated, accord, accost, acknowledged, act up to, adapt, adapt to, adhere, adhere to, adjoin, adjust, adjust to, admitted, advantageous, advisable, affront, agree, agree in opinion, agree with, alight upon, answer, applicable, approach, appropriate, approved, apt, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assimilate to, at home, attend to, auspicious, avail, balanced, ball, bang, bang into, be equal to, be exposed to, be faithful to, be guided by, be subjected to, bear, beard, becoming, befitting, being done, bell the cat, bend, bite the bullet, bout, brave, brawl, brazen, brazen out, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, bump, bump into, bunch, bunch up, call together, cannon, carom, carom into, carousel, carry out, caucus, center, centralize, challenge, chance, chance upon, chime in with, civil, clash, clinch, close, close in, close up, close with, clot, cluster, cohere, coincide, collect, collide, colloquium, come across, come among, come into collision, come together, come up against, come upon, comme il faut, commission, committee, communicate, compete, compete with, competition, comply, comply with, compose, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, conclave, concours, concourse, concur, concuss, conflict, conform, conform to, conformable, confront, confront each other, confront with, congregate, congregation, congress, congruous, connect, contest, convene, convenient, conventicle, convention, conventional, converge, convocation, convoke, cope, copulate, correct, correspond, council, couple, crack up, crash, crash into, cross, crowd, crump, crunch, customary, dance, dare, dash into, date, de rigueur, deal with, decathlon, decent, decorous, defensible, defray, defy, derby, deserved, desirable, diet, discipline, dispose of, ditto, do, do it, do justice to, double-header, doubles, due, echo, eisteddfod, embrace, emulate, encounter, endure, engagement, envisage, equal, equitable, even, evenhanded, event, expedient, experience, face, face the music, face up, face up to, face with, fair, fair and square, fall across, fall among, fall foul of, fall in with, fall upon, favorable, feasible, feel, felicitous, festivity, fete, field day, fight, fill, fill the bill, find, fit, fitten, fitting, flock together, flow together, focus, follow, forgather, forgathering, formal, fortunate, forum, foul, foursome, front, fructuous, fulfill, funnel, fuse, game, games, games of chance, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gathering, gear to, genteel, get by, get together with, get-together, go, go along with, go around, go by, go through, go with, good, grapple, gratify, greet, grow together, gymkhana, hack it, handle, hang together, happen upon, happy, harmonize, have, heed, herd together, hit, hit against, hive, hold, hold a meeting, hold a session, hold by, hold together, horde, housewarming, huddle, hurt, hurtle, impinge, intercommunicate, intersect, jockey, join, joust, just, just do, justifiable, justified, keep, keep faith with, knit, knock, knock against, know, labor under, lawful, lay before, league, legal, levee, level, light, light upon, likely, link, link up, liquidate, live up to, luck, lucky, make conform, make good, make the grade, mass, match, matching, measure up, meet and right, meet boldly, meet head-on, meet requirements, meet squarely, meet up with, meet with, meeting, merge, merited, mill, mold, muster, narrow the gap, nip, observe, open, opportune, oppose, orthodox, outvie, panel, party, pass, pass muster, pass through, pay, pentathlon, percuss, pinch, pitch upon, place before, play, play-off, plenum, politic, present to, profitable, prom, proper, propitious, providential, put it to, qualify, quorum, race, rally, rally around, reach, received, reception, recognized, recommendable, reconcile, reconciled, rectify, regard, regatta, rencontre, rendezvous, respect, right, right and proper, rightful, ripe, rival, rub off corners, run across, run into, run smack into, run the gauntlet, run together, run up against, run upon, runoff, salute, satisfy, seance, seasonable, see, seemly, seethe, serve, serve the purpose, session, set at defiance, set before, settle, shape, shindig, side with, sideswipe, singles, sit, sit-in, sitting, slam into, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, soiree, sortable, speak out, speak up, spend, sport, square, stand, stand under, stand up, stand up to, stem, straighten, stream, stretch, strike, strike against, strike in with, stumble, stumble on, suffer, suffice, suit, suitable, summon, surge, sustain, swarm, symposium, synod, take care of, take it, take on, tally with, taper, taste, test, test one another, the Olympics, threesome, throng, tie, tilt, timely, to be desired, touch, tournament, tourney, track meet, traditional, trial, tumble, turnout, tussle, twosome, undergo, unite, urbane, useful, vie, vie with, warrantable, warranted, well-timed, whomp, wise, work, worthwhile, wrestle, yield

• meeting of minds, acclamation, accord, accordance, agreement, agreement of all, chorus, common assent, common consent, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, confluence of minds, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, harmony, like-mindedness, mutual understanding, one accord, one voice, same mind, single voice, total agreement, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, unison, universal agreement

• meeting, Mass, Olympic games, Olympics, accompanying, accordant, accumulated, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, agreeing, amassed, appointment, approach, approaching, appulse, articulation, assembled, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assignation house, associate, associated, asymptote, asymptotic, at home, at one with, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, bedtime prayer, binding, bond, bottleneck, bout, bracketing, brawl, brunt, brushing, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bunched, bundled, camp meeting, cannon, carambole, carom, caucus, centripetal, centrolineal, church, church service, clash, clumped, clustered, clustering, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coincident, collaborative, collected, collective, collision, collision course, colloquium, collusive, combination, combinative, combined, combining, commission, committee, communication, competition, compline, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concerted, conclave, concomitant, concordant, concours, concourse, concurrence, concurrent, concurring, concussion, confab, confabulation, conference, conflict, confluence, confluent, conflux, confocal, confrontation, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, congregation, congress, conjoint, conjugation, conjunction, conjunctive, connecting, connection, connectional, connective, connivent, consilient, conspiratorial, consultation, contacting, contest, contingent, conventicle, convention, convergence, converging, convocation, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate, copulation, copulative, council, council fire, council of war, coupling, coworking, crack-up, crash, crossing, crump, crunch, cumulate, dance, date, derby, devotions, diet, discussion, divine service, duty, eisteddfod, encounter, engagement, evening devotions, evensong, exchange of views, exercises, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, fascicled, fasciculated, festivity, fete, fight, focal, focalization, focus, forgathering, forum, funnel, game, games, gathered, gathering, get-together, glancing, glomerate, go, grazing, gymkhana, hammering, harmonious, heaped, high-level talk, hookup, housewarming, hub, huddle, impact, impingement, impingent, impinging, in contact, in session, interchange of views, intercommunicating, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, intersection, interview, joinder, joined, joining, joint, jointure, joust, junction, knotted, knotting, lauds, leagued, levee, liaison, linkage, linking, liturgy, love nest, lumped, marriage, massed, match, matching, matins, mauling, meet, meeting place, merger, merging, moot, morning devotions, mutual approach, mutually approaching, narrow squeak, narrowing gap, near thing, near-miss, negotiations, news conference, night song, none, nones, novena, nudging, office, onslaught, osculatory, packaged, pairing, palaver, panel, parasitic, parley, party, percussion, piled, place of assignation, plenum, pourparler, powwow, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, press conference, prime, prime song, prom, public worship, quorum, radial, radiating, radius, rally, ramming, reception, rencontre, rendezvous, revival, revival meeting, rubbing, saprophytic, seance, service, session, sext, shindig, shock, sideswipe, sit-in, sitting, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, soiree, splice, spokes, stacked, summit, summit conference, summitry, symbiosis, symbiotic, symposium, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, synod, tangent, tangential, tent meeting, test, thrusting, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tierce, tilt, touching, tournament, tourney, trial, tryst, turnout, undersong, unification, union, united, uniting, vesper, vespers, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whomp, wrapped up, yoking

• meetinghouse, amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, basilica, bethel, cathedral, cathedral church, chapel, church, church house, concert hall, conventicle, convention hall, dance hall, duomo, exhibition hall, gallery, hall, house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, kirk, lecture hall, minor basilica, mission, music hall, opera house, patriarchal basilica, place of worship, stadium, theater

• megacycles, AF, CPS, EHF, HF, Hz, MF, RF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF, audio frequency, carrier frequency, cycles, extremely high frequency, frequency, frequency spectrum, hertz, high frequency, intermediate frequency, kilocycles, kilohertz, low frequency, lower frequencies, medium frequency, megahertz, radio frequency, spark frequency, spectrum, superhigh frequency, ultrahigh frequency, upper frequencies, very high frequency, very low frequency

• melancholia, abstraction, abulia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, alienation, anguish, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, brain disease, broken heart, catatonic stupor, compulsion, crack-up, crushing, cyclothymia, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, detachment, elation, emotional disorder, emotional instability, emotionalism, euphoria, extremity, flatuous melancholia, folie du doute, functional nervous disorder, gentle melancholy, grief, heartache, heavy heart, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, infelicity, insanity, insensibility, involutional psychosis, lethargy, maladjustment, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia attonita, melancholia religiosa, melancholiness, melancholy, mental disorder, mental distress, mental illness, misery, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, obsession, paranoia, pathological indecisiveness, pensiveness, personality disorder, preoccupation, problems in living, prostration, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, psychosis, reaction, romantic melancholy, sadness, schizophrenia, social maladjustment, stupor, stuporous melancholia, suicidal despair, tic, tristfulness, twitching, unresponsiveness, wistfulness, withdrawal, woe, wretchedness

• melancholic, ambivert, atrabiliar, atrabilious, blase, blue, brooder, choleric, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, depressing, depressive, dispirited, ectomorph, endomorph, extrovert, fed-up, funky, gloomy Gus, good and tired, introvert, irked, jaded, joyless, life-weary, melancholiac, melancholy, mesomorph, mope, pensive, phlegmatic, sad, saddening, sanguine, satiated, schizoid, schizothyme, sick, sick of, sourpuss, splenetic, syntone, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, triste, tristful, wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, wistful, world-weary

• melancholy, absorption, abstraction, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bale, beetle-browed, bitterness, black, black-browed, blase, bleeding heart, blue, blues, boredness, boredom, bouderie, broken heart, brown study, cheerless, cheerlessness, close study, concentration, contemplativeness, crestfallen, crushing, dark, deep thought, dejected, dejectedness, dejection, depressed, depressing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, desperation, despondency, despondent, discomposing, disconsolate, disconsolateness, dismal, dispirited, dispiritedness, disquieting, disturbing, doleful, dolor, dolorous, dour, downcast, downhearted, downheartedness, dreary, dumpish, dumpishness, dumps, engrossment, ennui, extremity, fed-up, fed-upness, forlorn, frowning, funereal, funky, gentle melancholy, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, glowering, glum, glumness, good and tired, grief, grim, grimness, grum, grumness, heartache, heartbroken, heavy heart, heavyhearted, heavyheartedness, infelicity, irked, jaded, jadedness, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, life-weariness, life-weary, low, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, lugubriousness, melancholia, melancholic, melancholiness, miserable, miserableness, misery, moanful, moodiness, moodish, moodishness, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, mopishness, morose, moroseness, mournful, mournfulness, mumpish, musing, pensive, pensiveness, perturbing, plaintive, preoccupation, profound thought, prostration, reflective, reflectiveness, reverie, romantic melancholy, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, sadness, satiated, satiation, satiety, scowling, sick, sick of, somber, sombrous, sorrow, sorrowful, sorrowfulness, sorry, speculativeness, spleen, splenetic, study, suicidal despair, sulkiness, sulky, sullen, sullenness, surliness, surly, taedium vitae, tedium, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, tiredness, triste, tristful, tristfulness, unhappiness, unhappy, wailful, wearied, weariful, wearifulness, weariness, weary, weary unto death, wistful, wistfulness, woe, woebegone, woeful, woefulness, world-weariness, world-weary, wretchedness

• melange, all sorts, assemblage, assortment, broad spectrum, conglomeration, gallimaufry, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, magpie, mash, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, what you will

• meld, Anschluss, add, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamate, amalgamation, assimilate, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal, cartel, centralization, coalesce, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, come together, composition, compound, comprise, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connect, consolidate, consolidation, conspiracy, ecumenism, embodiment, embody, encompass, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, flux, fuse, fusion, hookup, include, inclusion, incorporate, incorporation, integrate, integration, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, join, junction, junta, league, lump together, make one, marriage, melding, melt into one, merge, merger, mingle, mix, package, package deal, put together, reembody, roll into one, shade into, solidification, solidify, syncretism, syncretize, syndicate, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, synthesize, tie-up, unification, unify, union, unite, wedding

• melding, Anschluss, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, composition, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, mergence, merger, merging, package, package deal, solidification, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-up, unification, union, wedding

• melee, ado, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, brush, commotion, disturbance, dogfight, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, fight, foofaraw, fracas, fray, free-for-all, fuss, hash, hassle, helter-skelter, hodgepodge, hubbub, jumble, knock-down-and-drag-out, medley, melange, mishmash, pastiche, pell-mell, pother, potpourri, racket, rampage, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scramble, scrimmage, shindy, skirmish, stew, stir, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar

• meliorate, accommodate, acculturate, adapt, adjust, advance, air, alter, ameliorate, amend, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, boost, bottom out, break, break up, bring forward, change, checker, chop, chop and change, civilize, come about, come along, come around, come on, come round, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, descant, deteriorate, develop, deviate, diapason, diverge, diversify, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, fit, flop, forward, foster, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, go ahead, go forward, go straight, graduate, grow better, haul around, improve, improve upon, jibe, lard, lay, lift, look up, make an improvement, make headway, make progress, make strides, measure, melodia, mend, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, nurture, overthrow, perk up, pick up, progress, promote, qualify, raise, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refine upon, refit, reform, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, shape up, shift, shift the scene, show improvement, shuffle the cards, skyrocket, socialize, straighten out, strain, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, take off, transfigure, transform, tune, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, upgrade, uplift, vary, veer, warble, warp, work a change, worsen

• mellifluous, accordant, achingly sweet, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso, bittersweet, blissful, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, honeysweet, likable, liquid, melic, melliferous, mellifluent, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nectareous, nectarous, nice, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding, rich, sacchariferous, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous, sour-sweet, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tunable, tuneful, welcome

• mellow, achingly sweet, addled, advance, affable, age, aged, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso, attain majority, bear fruit, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, blissful, bloom, blossom, blow, bring to maturity, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful, come of age, come to fruition, come to maturity, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, crapulent, crapulous, creamy, cushion, delicate, delicious, desirable, develop, developed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, dulcet, ease, easy, easygoing, eggshell, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, evolute, evolve, fair, fair and pleasant, far-gone, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, flat, flavorful, fledge, flourish, flower, fluff, flustered, fou, friendly, full, full-blown, full-flavored, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, gay, genial, gentle, giddy, glorious, gloss, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, good-natured, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, grow, grow up, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, in full bloom, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, iridescent, jolly, jovial, juicy, knead, laxate, leave the nest, light, likable, limber, limber up, liquid, loosen, luscious, mash, massage, maturate, maturated, mature, matured, maudlin, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellowed, mellowy, melodic, melodious, merry, mild, milden, mollified, mollify, mother-of-pearl, muddled, music-flowing, music-like, musical, muted, nacreous, nappy, nice, nonresistive, nonrigid, opalescent, pale, pastel, patinaed, pearly, plangent, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, plump, progress, pulp, pulsing, pure, quiet, reach its season, reach manhood, reach maturity, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, reeling, relax, resonant, resonating, rewarding, rich, ripe, ripen, ripened, rolling, sad, satisfying, season, seasoned, semigloss, settle down, shake up, shikker, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, simple, singable, smash, sober, sodden, soft, soft as putty, soft-colored, soft-hued, soften, soften up, softened, somber, songful, songlike, sonorous, sotted, squash, subdue, subdued, subtle, supple, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sweeten, temper, tempered, tender, tenderize, throbbing, tiddly, tipsy, toga virilis, tone down, tunable, tune down, tuneful, under the influence, vibrant, vibrating, warm, wax, welcome, whisper-soft

• mellowness, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, bassness, bliss, blissfulness, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, deepness, delicacy, downiness, easiness, enjoyableness, featheriness, felicitousness, flossiness, fluffiness, fullness, geniality, gentleness, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, harmoniousness, hollowness, insolidity, leniency, lowness, mellifluousness, morbidezza, niceness, nonresistiveness, nonrigidity, plangency, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, plushiness, pulpiness, rapport, resonance, richness, satininess, silkiness, softness, sonority, sonorousness, sponginess, sweetness, tenderness, unsolidity, velvetiness, vibrancy, welcomeness

• melodeon, Hammond organ, baroque organ, calliope, calliophone, choralcelo, electric organ, electro-pneumatic organ, harmonium, hydraulic organ, melodica, orchestrelle, organ, organophone, pipe organ, reed organ, seraphine, steam organ, symphonion, tracker-action organ, tubular-pneumatic organ, vocalion

• melodic, achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, canorous, cantabile, catchy, dulcet, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, honeyed, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, rich, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tunable, tuned, tuneful

• melodious, achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, canorous, cantabile, catchy, dulcet, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, harmonious, honeyed, lyric, lyrical, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, music-flowing, music-like, musical, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, rich, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tunable, tuned, tuneful

• melodist, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, arranger, ballad maker, balladeer, balladist, balladmonger, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, coloratura soprano, comic bass, composer, contralto, contrapuntist, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, diva, dramatic soprano, ethnomusicologist, harmonist, harmonizer, heroic tenor, hymner, hymnist, hymnographer, hymnologist, improvisator, lead singer, librettist, lieder singer, madrigalist, melodizer, mezzo-soprano, musicographer, musicologist, opera singer, orchestrator, prima donna, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, scorer, singer, singstress, song writer, songbird, songsmith, songster, songstress, soprano, symphonist, tenor, tone poet, torch singer, tunesmith, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodeler

• melodrama, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, blood and thunder, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, daytime serial, demonstrativeness, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, histrionics, hit, hit show, human interest, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, love interest, making scenes, masque, melodramatics, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, nonrationalness, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, sensational play, sensationalism, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, theatricality, theatrics, total theater, unreasoningness, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, visceralness, word-of-mouth success, work, yellow journalism

• melodramatic, Barnumesque, actor-proof, all-star, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, cloak-and-dagger, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, emotionalistic, emotive, exaggerated, film, filmic, ham, hammy, histrionic, hokey, hysteric, legitimate, lurid, milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted, overdone, overdrawn, overemotional, overplayed, overworked, overwrought, scenic, schmaltzy, sensational, sensationalistic, spectacular, spine-chilling, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unreasoning, vaudevillian, yellow

• melodramatics, Thespian art, amateur theatricals, blood and thunder, demonstrativeness, dramatic art, dramatic form, dramatic irony, dramatic stroke, dramatic structure, dramaticism, dramatics, dramatism, dramaturgy, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, histrionics, histrionism, human interest, love interest, making scenes, melodrama, nonrationalness, play construction, sensationalism, staginess, theatricalism, theatricality, theatricals, theatricism, theatrics, unreasoningness, visceralness, yellow journalism

• melody, air, aria, bel canto, canto, cantus, descant, diapason, dulcetness, euphoniousness, euphony, harmony, lay, line, lyrics, measure, mellifluence, mellifluousness, melodia, melodic line, melodiousness, musical quality, musical sound, musicality, note, refrain, solo, solo part, song, soprano part, strain, sweetness, theme, tonality, tone, treble, tune, tunefulness, warble

• melt away, abate, ablate, bate, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be eaten away, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, diminish, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, drop, drop off, dwindle, ebb, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall away, fall off, flee, fly, go, go away, hide, languish, leave no trace, leave the scene, lessen, let up, melt, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, plummet, plunge, retire from sight, run low, sag, shrink, sink, sink away, subside, suffer an eclipse, tail off, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away

• melt down, colliquate, concentrate, cut, decoagulate, decoct, defrost, deliquesce, dissolve, distill, essentialize, express, fluidify, fluidize, flux, fuse, hold in solution, infuse, leach, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, melt, percolate, press out, refine, render, run, smelt, soak, solubilize, solve, steep, thaw, thin, unclot, unfreeze, wring, wring out

• melt, affect, assuage, bake, be consumed, be gone, blend, broil, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, colliquate, come home to, cook, cut, decline, decoagulate, decoct, decrease, defrost, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, diminish, disappear, disarm, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fleet, flit, fluidify, fluidize, flux, fly, forbear, forgive, fuse, give quarter, go, go away, go deep, go through one, grieve, have mercy upon, have pity, heat, hide, hold in solution, infuse, leach, leave no trace, leave the scene, let up on, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, mellow, melt away, melt down, melt into, melt like snow, melt the heart, merge, mollify, move, pardon, pass, pass away, pass out, penetrate, percolate, perish, perspire, pierce, reach, refine, relax, relent, render, reprieve, retire from sight, roast, run, sadden, scorch, shrink, sink, sink away, smart, smelt, soften, solubilize, solve, spare, sting, stir, suffer an eclipse, sweat, swelter, take pity on, thaw, thin, touch, touch a chord, unclot, unfreeze, vanish, vanish from sight, warm, waste, waste away, wear away

• melted, abject, apologetic, contrite, decoagulated, deliquescent, fused, fusible, humble, humbled, in solution, in suspension, liquefied, liquescent, meltable, molten, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, repentant, sheepish, softened, thawed, thermoplastic, touched, unclotted

• melting pot, America, Columbia, Land of Liberty, US, USA, Uncle Sugar, United States, Yankeeland, agitator, alembic, anvil, beater, blender, caldron, cement mixer, churn, crucible, eggbeater, emulsifier, engine, lathe, machine, mixer, mortar, motor, retort, stateside, test tube, the States, the melting pot, transducer, transformer

• melting, adoring, affectionate, blackout, bleeding, blocking, charitable, clement, colliquation, colliquative, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, conjugal, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demonstrative, departure, devoted, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolutional, dissolutive, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faithful, filial, fleeting, fluidification, fluidization, flying, fond, forbearant, fugitive, fusibility, fusing, fusion, gentle, going, human, humane, husbandly, languishing, leaching, lenient, liquation, liquefaction, liquefactive, liquefying, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, merciful, occultation, parental, passing, paternal, percolation, pitying, romantic, running, ruthful, sentimental, soft, softhearted, solubilization, solution, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thaw, thawing, thermoplasticity, transient, unclotting, understanding, uxorious, vanishing, vanishing point, warmhearted, wifely, wipe

• member, Greek, affiliate, appendage, arm, associate, belonger, bough, branch, brother, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charter member, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, colleague, committeeman, comrade, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, cut, division, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, fellow, fraternity man, guildsman, hand, honorary member, imp, initiate, insider, joiner, joint, leg, life member, limb, link, lobe, lobule, moiety, offshoot, one of us, organ, parcel, piece, pinion, pledge, portion, ramification, runner, scion, section, segment, sister, socius, sorority girl, sorority woman, spray, sprig, spur, switch, tail, tendril, twig, wing

• membership, admissibility, admission, affiliates, affiliation, assimilation, associates, association, body of affiliates, companionship, company, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, consociation, constituency, cooperation, coverage, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, envisagement, exhaustiveness, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, inclusion, inclusiveness, incorporation, members, openness, partaking, participation, reception, sharing, society, tolerance, toleration, whole

• membrane, allantoic membrane, amnion, amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, basement membrane, coat, coating, collop, conjuctiva, covering, cut, deal, disk, eardrum, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, hymen, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, maidenhead, membrana serosa, membrana tympana, meninges, meninx, neurilemma, pane, panel, patina, peel, pellicle, pericardium, perineurium, plait, plank, plate, plating, pleura, ply, plywood, rasher, safety glass, scum, serosa, sheet, skin, slab, slat, slice, table, tablet, tympanic membrane, tympanum, velum, veneer, wafer

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

• memento, arch, barrow, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, cenotaph, column, commemoration, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, favor, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, keepsake, marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento mori, mementos, memorabilia, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorials, memories, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, pillar, plaque, prize, pyramid, relic, reliquary, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, ribbon, rostral column, shadow, shaft, shrine, souvenir, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, token, token of remembrance, tomb, tombstone, tope, trace, trophy

• memo, adversaria, aide-memoire, annotation, chit, directive, docket, entry, footnote, item, jotting, marginal note, marginalia, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, notation, note, notice, register, registry, reminder, scholia, scholium

• memoir, Clio, Muse of history, account, accounts, adventures, adversaria, aide-memoire, anecdote, annals, annotation, article, autobiography, biographical sketch, biography, case history, causerie, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, commitment to memory, confessions, curriculum vitae, descant, diary, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, docket, entry, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exercise of memory, experiences, exposition, feature, first approach, flashback, footnote, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology, hindsight, historiography, history, homily, introductory study, item, jotting, journal, learning by heart, legend, letters, life, life and letters, life story, looking back, lucubration, marginal note, marginalia, martyrology, memo, memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum, memorial, memorials, memories, memorization, memorizing, memory, minutes, monograph, morceau, narrative, necrology, notation, note, obituary, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, photobiography, piece, preliminary study, profile, prolegomenon, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, record, records, reflection, register, registry, remembering, remembrance, reminder, reminiscence, report, reportage, research paper, resume, retrospect, retrospection, review, rote, rote memory, scholia, scholium, screed, sketch, special article, story, study, survey, term paper, theme, theory of history, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment

• memorabilia, Clio, Muse of history, adventures, ana, annals, archives, autobiography, biographical material, biographical records, biographical sketch, biography, case history, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, commemoration, confessions, curriculum vitae, diary, experiences, favor, fortunes, government archives, government papers, great doings, hagiography, hagiology, historical documents, historical records, historiography, history, journal, keepsake, legend, life, life and letters, life records, life story, martyrology, matter of concern, matter of importance, memento, memento mori, memoir, memoirs, memorial, memorials, memories, necrology, obituary, object of note, papers, parish rolls, photobiography, point of interest, presidential papers, profile, public records, record, relic, remembrance, remembrancer, resume, something special, souvenir, story, theory of history, thing of interest, token, token of remembrance, trophy, vital concern

• memorable, catchy, celebrated, conspicuous, deathless, distinguished, eminent, esteemed, estimable, eventful, exceptional, extraordinary, great, historic, illustrious, important, marked, momentous, noble, notable, noteworthy, observable, of mark, outstanding, prestigious, prominent, rare, recollectable, red-letter, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, rubric, salient, signal, significant, special, striking, telling, unforgettable, worthy

• memorandum, adversaria, aide-memoire, annotation, announcement, chit, cue, diary, directive, dispatch, docket, entry, epistle, flapper, footnote, hint, item, jogger, jotting, letter, marginal note, marginalia, memo, memoir, memorial, message, minute, minutes, missive, notation, note, notice, prompt, prompter, prompting, record, register, registry, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, scholia, scholium, tickler

• memorial, Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, adversaria, aide-memoire, annals, annotation, arch, autobiography, barrow, biographical sketch, biography, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, case history, catalog, celebrating, celebrative, cenotaph, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, column, commemorating, commemoration, commemorative, confessions, correspondence, cromlech, cross, cup, curriculum vitae, cyclolith, diary, docket, documentation, dolmen, entry, experiences, favor, footnote, footstone, fortunes, grave, gravestone, hagiography, hagiology, headstone, historiography, history, hoarstone, inscription, inventory, item, jotting, journal, keepsake, legend, letters, life, life and letters, life story, list, marginal note, marginalia, marker, martyrology, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memento mori, memo, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorials, memories, menhir, minutes, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, notation, note, obelisk, obituary, photobiography, pillar, pipe roll, plaque, prize, profile, pyramid, record, recording, register, registry, relic, reliquary, remains, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, resume, ribbon, roll, rolls, roster, rostral column, rota, scholia, scholium, scroll, shaft, shrine, solemn, souvenir, statue, stela, stone, story, stupa, table, tablet, testimonial, theory of history, token, token of remembrance, tomb, tombstone, tope, trace, trophy, vestige

• memorialize, accost, apply to, approach, beat the drum, bespeak, blow the trumpet, bring to mind, call on, call upon, celebrate, circulate a petition, commemorate, dress ship, etch, eulogize, fire a salute, grave, hallow, hold jubilee, honor, impress, imprint, jog, jubilate, jubilize, keep, maffick, make merry, mark, monument, monumentalize, nudge, observe, petition, pray, prefer a petition, remember, remind, sign a petition, signalize, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, sue, trepidation

• memorize, commit to memory, con, get, get by heart, get letter-perfect, have by heart, know by heart, learn, learn by heart, learn verbatim, parrot, recite, remember, repeat, repeat by heart, retain, study, swot up

• memory, RAM, anamnesis, anniversaries, archetypal pattern, archetype, awareness, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, cognizance, commemoration, consciousness, disk memory, dressing ship, drum memory, engram, fanfare, fanfaronade, father image, festivity, flourish of trumpets, heroic legend, high-speed memory, holiday, homage, honor, image, imago, immortal name, immortality, jubilee, legend, looking back, marking the occasion, memento, memorialization, memory trace, memory tubes, mind, observance, ovation, recall, recollection, reexperiencing, reflection, rejoicing, religious rites, reliving, remembrance, reminiscence, respect, retention, retentiveness, retrospection, revel, revival, rite, ritual observance, salute, salvo, solemn observance, solemnization, souvenir, storage, storage system, storage unit, tape memory, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, thought, toast, traumatic trace, tribute, triumph, unconscious memory, undying fame, youth

• men, Everyman, John Doe, Public, body politic, citizenry, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, crew, employees, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, fighting force, firepower, folk, folks, force, forces, gang, general public, gentry, hands, help, hired help, male sex, man, manhood, mankind, menfolk, menfolks, nation, nationality, people, people in general, personnel, persons, polity, populace, population, public, retinue, servantry, society, staff, state, sword side, the big battalions, the help, troops, units, work force, world, you and me

• menace, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, alarm, apprehend, approach, await, be imminent, be in store, befoul, bewitch, blight, bludgeon, bode, breakers ahead, brew, bulldoze, bulldozing, bully, cardhouse, cause for alarm, come on, comminate, commination, compromise, condemn, confront, corrupt, cow, crisis, croak, crucify, curse, damage, danger, dangerous ground, daunt, defile, denounce, denunciation, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, emergency, empty threat, endanger, endangerment, envenom, face, forebode, foreboding, forewarn, forthcome, frighten, gaping chasm, gather, gathering clouds, get into trouble, hang over, harass, harm, have a premonition, have a presentiment, hazard, hex, house of cards, hover, hurt, idle threat, imminence, impair, impend, imperil, imperilment, implied threat, infect, injure, intimidate, intimidation, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, jinx, lie over, look black, look threatening, loom, lower, maltreat, mistreat, molest, near, outrage, overhang, pass, peril, persecute, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, portend, preapprehend, predicament, prejudice, promise of harm, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, savage, scare, scathe, storm clouds, strait, sword of Damocles, taint, terrify, terrorize, thin ice, threat, threaten, threateningness, threatfulness, torment, torture, utter threats against, violate, warn, warning, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

• menacing, about to be, abusive, alarming, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, chancy, close, close at hand, coming, comminatory, critical, dangerous, dangersome, dark, denunciatory, dire, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, explosive, fateful, fear-inspiring, foreboding, forthcoming, fraught with danger, frightening, future, gathering, gloomy, going to happen, hazardous, hectoring, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, 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, instant, intimidating, jeopardous, looming, lowering, lurking, minacious, minatory, near, near at hand, nearing, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overhanging, parlous, periculous, perilous, portending, portentous, preparing, risky, serious, sinister, somber, terrifying, terroristic, terrorizing, that will be, threatening, threatful, to come, ugly, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, upcoming, waiting

• menage, ancestral halls, brood, children, chimney corner, domestic economy, domestic management, family, family homestead, fireplace, fireside, folks, foyer, get, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home economics, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homefolks, homemaking, homestead, house, household, housekeeping, housewifery, husbandry, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, issue, offspring, paternal roof, people, roof, rooftree, toft

• menagerie, Festschrift, ana, anthology, aquarium, body, chrestomathy, collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, data, florilegium, fund, holdings, library, museum, raw data, treasure, zoo, zoological garden

• mend, Great Leap Forward, acculturate, advance, advancement, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, ascent, better, bettering, betterment, boost, bring forward, civilize, cobble, come along, come on, commission, condition, convalesce, convalescent, convalescing, correct, darn, develop, do up, doctor, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enhancement, enlighten, enrich, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fatten, favor, fix, fix up, forward, foster, furtherance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, get better, get well, go ahead, go forward, go straight, graduate, grow better, headway, heal, improve, improve upon, improvement, improving, lard, lift, look up, make an improvement, make headway, make progress, make strides, meliorate, melioration, mending, nurture, on the mend, overhaul, patch, patch up, perk up, pick up, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put right, raise, ready, rebuild, recap, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recovering, recovery, rectify, recuperate, redress, refine upon, reform, refurbish, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restoration, restore, retread, revamp, revise, revival, right, rise, service, set right, set to rights, sew up, shape up, show improvement, skyrocket, socialize, straighten out, take off, tinker, tinker up, transfigure, transform, upbeat, upgrade, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, vamp

• mendable, ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, curable, emendable, fixable, improvable, medicable, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible

• mendacious, deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, false, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering, perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless, untruthful, unveracious, wrong

• mendacity, blague, boggling, caviling, cock-and-bull story, credibility gap, dishonesty, dodging, equivocation, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fibbery, fibbing, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, hedging, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, lying, mendaciousness, mythomania, pious fiction, prevarication, pseudology, quibbling, shifting, sidestepping, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story, truthlessness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, white lie, yarn

• mendicancy, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, begging, bumming, cadging, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicity, moneylessness, mooching, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, panhandling, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging, sponging, want

• mendicant, Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstinent, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, beadsman, beggar, beggared, beggarly, begging, bereaved, bereft, bhikshu, brother, bum, bummer, cadger, cadging, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, coupon clippers, deprived, dervish, disadvantaged, drone, eremitic, fakir, flagellant, fleeced, freeloader, friar, ghettoized, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, hobo, idle rich, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, lay abbot, lay brother, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant friar, mendicant order, monastic, monk, moocher, mooching, necessitous, needy, nonworker, on relief, out at elbows, palmer, panhandler, parasite, pauperized, petitionary, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, poverty-stricken, prayerful, precative, prior, puritan, puritanical, religieux, religious, rentiers, rigoristic, sannyasi, schnorrer, scrounger, scrounging, self-denying, spiv, sponger, starveling, stripped, stylite, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, underprivileged, wedded to poverty, yogi, yogin

• mending, Great Leap Forward, advance, advancement, advancing, amelioration, ameliorative, amendment, amends, ascent, bettering, betterment, boost, compensation, correction, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fixing, furtherance, headway, improvement, improving, lift, looking up, making right, melioration, meliorative, mend, on the lift, on the mend, ongoing, overhaul, overhauling, pickup, preferment, progress, progressing, progression, progressive, promotion, recompense, recovery, rectification, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, restoration, revival, rise, satisfaction, troubleshooting, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility

• menial, attendant, attending, base, blue-collar worker, bootlicker, breadwinner, brown-nosing, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, cringing, day laborer, degrading, demeaning, domestic, domestic servant, drudge, employee, factory worker, fag, fawning, flattering, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, gofer, hand, help, helping, humble, ignoble, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, lackey, leech, lickspittle, low, lowly, mean, migrant, minion, ministering, moiler, navvy, obeisant, obsequious, office temporary, parasite, proletarian, roustabout, routine, salaried worker, scullion, self-employed person, serf, servant, servile, serving, servitor, servitorial, slave, slavey, slavish, stiff, submissive, subservient, sycophant, sycophantic, temporary, toady, toadying, toiler, turnspit, underling, unskilled, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, waiting, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yes-man

• meningitis, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, adenoiditis, adrenitis, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain fever, breakbone fever, bronchitis, brucellosis, bubonic plague, bunion, bursitis, cachectic fever, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebral rheumatism, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chicken pox, cholera, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, cowpox, cystitis, dandy fever, deer fly fever, degenerative arthritis, dengue, dengue fever, diffuse inflammation, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica, endocarditis, enteric fever, enteritis, equine encephalomyelitis, erysipelas, exudative inflammation, famine fever, fibroid inflammation, five-day fever, flu, focal inflammation, frambesia, gastritis, gingivitis, glandular fever, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, grippe, hansenosis, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infantile paralysis, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammation, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, irritable bowel syndrome, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, laryngitis, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, lumbago, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, mastoiditis, measles, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, milzbrand, mucous colitis, mumps, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, ornithosis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, paradental pyorrhea, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pertussis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, pneumonia, podagra, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, psittacosis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, reactive inflammation, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, sclerosing inflammation, septic sore throat, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, shingles, simple inflammation, sinusitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, spastic colon, specific inflammation, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, swamp fever, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, tetanus, thrombophlebitis, thrush, tinea, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, ulcerative colitis, undulant fever, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaccinia, vaginitis, varicella, variola, venereal disease, vertebral arthritis, viral dysentery, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, whooping cough, wryneck, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

• meniscus, achromatic lens, astigmatic lens, burning glass, camera, coated lens, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, crescent, crescent moon, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, half-moon, hand lens, horseshoe, lens, lunula, lunule, magnifier, magnifying glass, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, prism, reader, reading glass, scythe, semicircle, sickle, telephoto lens, toric lens, varifocal lens, zoom lens

• menorah, Agnus Dei, Holy Grail, Host, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino, beadroll, beads, candle, censer, chaplet, ciborium, cross, crucifix, cruet, eucharistial, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incensory, matzo, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, osculatory, ostensorium, paschal candle, pax, phylacteries, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, relics, rood, rosary, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, shofar, sukkah, tabernacle, tallith, thurible, urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle

• mensch, acceptable person, capital fellow, diamond, gem, gentleman, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, honest man, jewel, lady, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, persona grata, prince, real man, right sort, rough diamond, worthy

• menstrual, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

• mensuration, altimetry, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, calculation, cartography, chorography, computation, correction, craniometry, determination, estimate, estimation, evaluation, gauging, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hypsography, hypsometry, instrumentation, measure, measurement, measuring, metric system, metrology, oceanography, planimetry, psychometrics, psychometry, quantification, quantization, rating, stereometry, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, topography, triangulation, valuation

• mental block, agnosia, block, blocking, conversion, defense mechanism, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, disorientation, flight of ideas, hallucination, hallucinosis, mental confusion, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, paralogia, psychological block, repression, sublimation, suppression, symbolization

• mental deficiency, aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, half-wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental defectiveness, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental handicap, mental illness, mental instability, mental retardation, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, oddness, pixilation, possession, profound idiocy, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, retardation, retardment, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, strangeness, subnormality, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

• mental health, Hygeia, balance, bloom, contact with reality, emotional health, fitness, flush, glow, health, healthy mind, lucid interval, lucidity, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental hygiene, mental poise, normalcy, normality, normalness, physical condition, physical fitness, rationality, reason, reasonableness, right mind, rosiness, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, senses, sober senses, sobriety, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, well-being, wholesomeness

• mental hospital, VA hospital, asylum, base hospital, bedlam, bughouse, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, infirmary, inpatient clinic, insane asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, maison de sante, mental home, mental institution, nursing home, nuthouse, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, padded cell, policlinic, polyclinic, private hospital, proprietary hospital, psychiatric ward, psychopathic hospital, public hospital, rest home, sanatorium, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic

• mental illness, aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack-up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder, emotional instability, folie, functional nervous disorder, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, oddness, paranoia, personality disorder, pixilation, possession, problems in living, psychosis, queerness, rabidness, reaction, reasonlessness, schizophrenia, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, social maladjustment, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

• mental picture, Vorstellung, concept, conception, conceptualization, eidetic image, envisaging, envisioning, image, imagery, imagery study, imaging, imagism, imagistic poetry, lifelike image, mental image, mental representation, objectification, picture, picturing, poetic imagery, vision, visual image, visualization, word-painting

• mental, abnormal, abstract, affective, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, bereft of reason, bonkers, brainsick, cerebral, certifiable, characteristic, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, constitutional, contemplating, contemplative, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, daft, deliberating, deliberative, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, dispositional, distraught, disturbed, emotional, endopsychic, excogitating, flighty, fruity, hallucinated, ideative, ideological, immaterial, innate, inner, insane, intellectual, intelligent, internal, introspective, irrational, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, meditating, meditative, mentally deficient, mentally ill, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck, museful, musing, noetic, non compos, non compos mentis, noological, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, pensive, perceptual, phrenic, pondering, prehensive, psychic, psychical, psycho, psychologic, psychological, psychotic, queer, rational, reasoning, reasonless, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, screwy, senseless, serious, sick, sober, speculative, spiritual, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, subjective, telepathic, temperamental, tetched, theoretical, thinking, thought, thoughtful, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, wandering, wistful, witless

• mentality, IQ, Vernunft, acuity, acumen, apprehension, attitude, bent, brain, brains, caliber, capacity, comprehension, conception, consciousness, deductive power, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disposition, esemplastic power, esprit, frame of mind, gray matter, head, headpiece, ideation, inclination, integrative power, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, judgement, knowledge, mens, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mind, mind-set, mother wit, native wit, nous, outlook, power of mind, power of reason, psyche, ratio, rationality, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, reasoning power, sanity, scope of mind, sense, smarts, temperament, thinking power, understanding, view, wise man, wit

• mentally retarded, arrested, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dithering, driveling, drooling, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, retarded, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, subnormal

• mention, Parthian shot, accolade, account, acknowledge, acquaint, acquaintance, address, address to, adduce, advert, advertise, advertise of, advise, affirmation, allegation, allude, allude to, allusion, animadvert on, announcement, answer, apostrophe, apprise, assertion, assign, averment, blue book, blurt, blurt out, brief, briefing, bring in, bring to attention, bring to notice, bring up, bring word, broach, bulletin, call attention to, citation, cite, comment, communicate, communication, communique, crack, data, datum, declaration, denominate, designate, detail, determine, dictum, direct attention to, direct to, directory, disclose, dispatch, divulge, enlighten, enlightenment, eulogy, evidence, exclaim, exclamation, expression, facts, factual information, familiarization, familiarize, fix, focus on, gen, general information, give notice, give the facts, give word, greeting, guidebook, handout, hard information, hint at, honorable mention, impart, imply, incidental information, indicate, info, inform, information, insinuate, instance, instruct, instruction, intelligence, interject, interjection, intimate, introduce, knowledge, kudos, leave word, let drop, let fall, let know, light, make known, make reference to, mark, mention to, mentioning, message, muse, name, naming, note, notice, notification, notify, observation, observe, opine, phrase, pick out, pin down, point at, point out, point to, position, praise, presentation, promotional material, pronouncement, proof, publication, publicity, question, quote, recognition, refer, refer to, reference, referral, reflect, reflection, release, remark, report, reveal, say, saying, select, send word, sentence, serve notice, set, sidelight, signify, slight, speak, specialize, specify, state, statement, stipulate, subjoinder, suggest, tell, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thought, touch on, touch upon, transmission, tribute, utterance, verse, white book, white paper, word

• mentor, Dutch uncle, Polonius, abecedarian, admonisher, adviser, authority, backseat driver, buttinsky, certified teacher, coach, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, elder, elder statesman, expert, fellow, forerunner, great soul, guide, guru, illuminate, instructor, intellect, intellectual, kibitzer, lover of wisdom, maestro, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, meddler, melamed, monitor, mullah, nestor, oracle, orienter, pandit, pathfinder, pedagogist, pedagogue, philosopher, preceptist, preceptor, preparationist, preparator, preparer, professor, pundit, rabbi, rishi, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, seer, starets, teacher, thinker, trailblazer, trainer, wise man, wise old man

• menu, account, agenda, batting order, bill, bill of fare, bill of lading, blueprint, books, budget, calendar, card, carte, carte du jour, docket, invoice, ledger, lineup, list of agenda, manifest, playbill, program, program of operation, programma, prospectus, protocol, roster, schedule, slate, statement

• meow, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, call, caterwaul, cry, give tongue, give voice, howl, low, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, pule, roar, screak, scream, screech, squall, squeak, squeal, troat, ululate, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

• mercenary, a hog for, acquisitive, adventurer, all-devouring, assistant, avaricious, avid, bottomless, bought, bribable, chartered, condottiere, corrupt, corruptible, coveting, covetous, devouring, drudge, employed, employee, esurient, free lance, girl Friday, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, grub, grubber, gun, gunman, hack, hired, hired gun, hired hand, hired killer, hired man, hireling, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, leased, let, limitless, man Friday, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, myrmidon, omnivorous, on the take, overgreedy, paid, pensioner, piggish, predatory, professional killer, purchasable, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, rented, right-hand man, slakeless, slavey, soldier of fortune, sordid, subleased, sublet, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unethical, unprincipled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unscrupulous, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, worker

• merchandise, advertise, be in, buy and sell, carry, close out, commodities, convert into cash, cut under, deal in, distribute, dump, effect a sale, effects, goods, handle, job, job lot, line, make a sale, market, move, produce, products, promote, provender, provisions, publicize, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, staples, stock, supplies, trade, trade in, traffic in, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, vendibles, wares, wholesale

• merchandising, agency, barter, bartering, brokerage, buying and selling, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, dealing, direct-mail selling, doing business, exchange, give-and-take, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, horse trading, huckstering, interchange, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market, market research, marketing, marketing research, peddling, promotion, retail, retailing, sales, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell, swapping, trade, trading, trafficking, wheeling and dealing, wholesale, wholesaling

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

• merchant, agent, baron, broker, business, businessman, caterer, chandler, commercial, commissariat, commissary, dealer, distributor, donor, drummer, forwarder, furnisher, hawker, huckster, importer, industrial, industrialist, jobber, magnate, manciple, marketer, mercantile, merchandiser, merchant prince, middleman, mogul, monger, patron, provider, provisioner, purveyor, quartermaster, regrater, retail, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, seller, shopkeeper, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, trade, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trading, trafficker, tycoon, vendor, victualer, vivandier, wholesale, wholesaler

• merciful, accepting, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, beneficent, benign, benignant, big, bleeding, boundless, changeless, charitable, clement, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, considerate, creating, creative, easy, easygoing, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, glorious, good, gracious, hallowed, highest, holy, human, humane, immortal, immutable, indulgent, infinite, just, kind, kindly, lax, lenient, liberal, limitless, loving, luminous, magnanimous, majestic, making, melting, mild, moderate, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, patient, permanent, perpetual, pitiful, pitying, radiant, ruth, ruthful, sacred, shaping, soft, softhearted, sovereign, sparing, supreme, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, timeless, tolerant, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, understanding, unlimited, warmhearted

• mercifulness, acceptance, bleeding heart, bowels of compassion, clemency, clementness, compassion, compassionateness, easiness, easygoingness, forbearance, forbearing, gentleness, humaneness, humanity, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, mercy, mildness, moderateness, patience, pity, ruthfulness, softheartedness, softness, tenderness, tolerance

• merciless, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bloody, bowelless, brutal, brutish, callous, cold, crude, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, hard, harsh, heartless, illiberal, implacable, inclement, inconsiderate, indifferent, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, kill-crazy, malevolent, malign, malignant, mortal, murderous, noncivilized, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, rough, rude, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, severe, tameless, thoughtless, tough, tyrannical, unappeasable, unbending, uncalled-for, uncharitable, uncivilized, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unflinching, unforgiving, ungentle, ungracious, unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying, unrelenting, unremorseful, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untamed, unyielding, vicious, wanton, wild, without mercy

• mercurial, active, activist, activistic, adrift, adroit, afloat, agile, alive, alternating, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, animated, at loose ends, aureate, bouncing, bouncy, brass, brassy, brazen, breakneck, breezy, brisk, bronze, bronzy, bubbly, buoyant, capricious, changeable, changeful, changing, chipper, choppy, clever, copper, coppery, coquettish, cunning, cupreous, cuprous, dashing, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, double-minded, double-quick, dubious, eagle-winged, ebullient, eccentric, effervescent, elastic, energetic, erose, erratic, expansive, expeditious, express, faddish, fast, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, ferrous, ferruginous, fickle, fitful, fleet, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, flying, freakish, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, galloping, giddy, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, ingenious, iron, ironlike, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, lead, leaden, light, light of heel, light-footed, live, lively, lubricious, mazy, mercurous, militant, mobile, moody, motley, movable, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, nimble, nimble-footed, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, of two minds, peppy, perky, pert, pewter, pewtery, pluralistic, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quicksilver, ragged, rambling, rapid, reckless, resilient, restless, rough, roving, running, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, silver, silver-plated, silvery, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, spasmodic, speedy, spineless, spirited, sporadic, sprightly, spry, steel, steely, swift, temperamental, ticklish, tin, tinny, toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undecided, undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unorthodox, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, vivacious, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, winged, wishy-washy, zingy

• mercury poisoning, Minamata disease, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, black lung, caisson disease, chilblain, decompression sickness, frostbite, immersion foot, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, motion sickness, pneumoconiosis, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, sunstroke, the bends, trench foot

• Mercury, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Earth, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Iris, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Paul Revere, Persephassa, Persephone, Pheidippides, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, carrier, commercialism, commissionaire, courier, diplomatic courier, emissary, estafette, express, go-between, industrialism, inferior planet, major planet, mercantilism, message-bearer, messenger, minor planet, nuncio, planet, planetoid, post, postboy, postrider, runner, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer

• mercury, April showers, Gyropilot, Proteus, antelope, arrow, automatic pilot, blue darter, blue streak, boatheader, boatsteerer, cannonball, chameleon, cicerone, cloud shapes, courier, courser, cowherd, coxswain, dart, dragoman, drover, eagle, electricity, express train, flash, gazelle, glass, goatherd, greased lightning, greyhound, guide, guidepost, guider, hare, helmsman, herd, herdsman, jet plane, kaleidoscope, light, lightning, moon, navigator, pilot, pointer, quicksilver, river pilot, rocket, rolling stone, scared rabbit, shepherd, shifting sands, shot, steerer, steersman, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, swallow, the weather, thermal detector, thermometer, thermostat, thought, thunderbolt, torrent, tour director, tour guide, water, weather vane, weathercock, wheel of fortune, whirligig, wind

• mercy killing, bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, euthanasia, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, poisoning, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, taking of life

• mercy, acceptance, act of grace, act of kindness, benefaction, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, blessing, caritas, charity, clemency, clementness, commiseration, compassion, condolence, consideration, courtesy, easiness, easygoingness, favor, feeling, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, good deed, good offices, good turn, goodwill, grace, graciousness, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, liberality, magnanimity, mercifulness, mildness, mitigation, mitzvah, moderateness, obligation, office, pardon, pathos, patience, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, ruth, self-pity, service, softness, sympathy, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, turn

• mere nothing, a little thing, bagatelle, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, minor matter, naught, next to nothing, nihility, no great matter, nothing, nothing in particular, nothing to signify, nullity, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught, trifle

• mere, absolute, austere, bare, basic, chaste, elementary, essential, fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, irreducible, just, monolithic, of a piece, only, plain, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, scant, severe, sheer, simon-pure, simple, single, spare, stark, unadorned, uncluttered, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, unenhanced, uniform, unmitigated, unmixed

• merely, after a fashion, alone, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at bottom, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, barely, basically, but, comparatively, detectably, entirely, essentially, exclusively, fairly, fundamentally, in a manner, in a way, in part, in some measure, incompletely, integrally, irreducibly, just, leastwise, mildly, moderately, modestly, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, part, partially, partly, plainly, pro tanto, purely, relatively, scarcely, simply, simply and solely, singly, so far, solely, somewhat, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, tolerably, totally, unanalyzably, undividedly, visibly, wholly

• meretricious, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorable, colored, colorful, common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy, deceptive, declamatory, delusive, delusory, despicable, earthy, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fallen, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, gilded, gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gross, harlot, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, hustling, inkhorn, insincere, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, mean, miserable, misleading, obscene, obtrusive, on the, on the town, orotund, ostensible, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pave, pedantic, pitiable, pitiful, plausible, pompous, poor, pretentious, prostitute, prostituted, raw, rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy, rude, sad, scarlet, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seeming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shabby, shameless, shoddy, showy, sonorous, sorry, specious, spectacular, spurious, stilted, streetwalking, tall, tawdry, tinsel, tortuous, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, vile, vulgar, whorish, worthless, wretched

• merge, accouple, accumulate, act in concert, act together, add, adhere, admix, affiliate, agglutinate, alloy, ally, alter into, amalgamate, amass, articulate, assemble, assimilate, associate, band, band together, baptize, be converted into, be in league, become, bemingle, blend, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, build, build up, bunch, bunch up, bury, cement, chain, change into, clap together, clinch, clot, club together, cluster, coact, coalesce, cohere, collaborate, collect, collude, combine, come round to, come together, commingle, commix, communicate, compose, compound, comprise, concatenate, concert, concoct, concord, concur, confederate, conglobulate, conglomerate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consist of, consolidate, conspire, constitute, construct, converge, cooperate, copulate, couple, cover, crowd, date, deluge, dip, do business with, douse, drown, duck, dunk, embody, embrace, emulsify, encompass, engulf, enter into, evolve into, fabricate, fall into, federate, flock together, flow together, flux, forgather, form, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, get heads together, get together, glue, go into, go partners, grow together, hang together, harmonize, hash, herd together, hive, hold together, homogenize, hook up, horde, huddle, identify, immerge, immerse, immingle, immix, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, intercommunicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, inundate, join, join in, join together, jumble, keep together, knead, knit, knot, lapse into, lay together, league, league together, link, lump together, make, make common cause, make one, make up, marry, marshal, mass, meet, meld, melt into, melt into one, merge in, mill, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, mobilize, muster, open into, organize, overwhelm, pair, partner, pass into, piece together, play ball, plunge in water, pool, pull together, put heads together, put together, rally, rally around, reciprocate, reembody, rendezvous, ripen into, roll into one, run into, scramble, seethe, settle into, shade into, shift into, shuffle, sink, solder, solidify, souse, span, splice, stand together, stick together, stir up, stream, structure, submerge, submerse, surge, swarm, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take in, tape, team up, throng, throw in together, throw together, tie, tie in, tie up, toss together, turn into, turn to, unify, unite, unite efforts, unite in, weld, whelm, work, work together, yoke

• merged, allied, amalgamated, assembled, assimilated, associated, banded together, blended, bound, bracketed, collected, combinative, combinatory, combined, conjoined, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connected, connective, consolidated, copulate, coupled, eclectic, fused, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, linked, matched, mated, mixed, one, paired, spliced, syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, tied, undivided, united, unseparated, wedded, yoked

• merger, Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloyage, amalgamation, articulation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, bond, bracketing, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, clustering, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, communication, composition, comradeship, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence, copartnership, copartnery, copulation, coupling, eclecticism, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusing, fusion, gathering, hookup, identification, immixture, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interlinking, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, meld, melding, mergence, merging, mingling, mixing, mixture, package, package deal, pairing, partnership, pluralism, pooling, sodality, solidification, sorority, splice, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding, yoking

• merging, acme, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, apex, apogee, articulation, associative, blending, bond, bracketing, climax, clustering, combination, combinative, combinatory, combining, communication, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, convergence, copulation, corporational, coupling, culmination, federal, federative, fusing, gathering, hookup, incorporating, incorporative, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, pairing, peak, pinnacle, splice, summit, symbiosis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, uniting, yoking, zenith

• meridian, Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Frigid Zones, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, acmatic, acme, aeronautical chart, apex, aphelion, apical, apogee, astronomical chart, astronomical longitude, atlas, autumnal equinox, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, brow, cap, capital, cartographer, cartography, celestial chart, celestial equator, celestial globe, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, chart, chief, chorographer, chorography, circle, climate, climatic chart, climax, clime, cloud nine, colures, conic projection, consummate, contour line, contour map, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, cylindrical projection, ecliptic, edge, eight bells, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, extreme limit, extremity, galactic longitude, general reference map, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, great circle, grid line, hachure, head, headmost, heaven, heavens, height, heliocentric longitude, heliographic chart, high noon, highest, highest pitch, highest point, horse latitudes, hydrographic chart, index, isoline, latitude, layer tint, legend, limit, longitude, longitude in arc, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, maximal, maximum, meridiem, meridional, midday, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, noonday, nooning, noonish, noonlight, noonlit, noontide, noontime, orbit, overmost, parallel, paramount, peak, perigee, perihelion, period, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, political map, polyconic projection, preeminent, prime meridian, projection, relief map, representative fraction, ridge, road map, roaring forties, scale, seventh heaven, sinusoidal projection, sky, small circle, solstitial colure, special map, spire, subtropics, summit, summital, supreme, terrain map, terrestrial globe, the line, thematic map, tip, tip-top, top, topmost, topographer, topographic chart, topography, trajectory, transportation map, tropic, tropics, ultimate, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vernal equinox, vertex, vertical, very top, weather chart, weather map, zenith, zenithal, zodiac, zone

• meringue, Jell-O, blancmange, breakers, candy, collar, comfit, compote, confection, confectionery, confiture, conserve, foam, frosting, froth, gelatin, glaze, head, honey, icing, jam, jelly, lather, marmalade, mousse, offscum, preserve, puff, scud, scum, sea foam, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stinging, suds, surf, sweet, sweet stuff, sweetmeat, sweets, tutti-frutti, whipped cream, white water

• merit, accent, advantage, advantageousness, agreeableness, arete, assets, auspiciousness, award, be deserving, be entitled to, be worthy of, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, caliber, class, cogency, comeuppance, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, desert, deserts, deserve, deserving, due, due reward, dues, earn, emphasis, entitle, excellence, excellency, expedience, fairness, favorableness, fineness, first-rateness, good, goodliness, goodness, grace, healthiness, helpfulness, high order, high rank, import, importance, interest, just deserts, justify, kindness, mark, materiality, merits, moment, niceness, note, paramountcy, perfection, pleasantness, precedence, preeminence, primacy, priority, profitableness, quality, rate, recompense, repay, requite, reward, rewardingness, rights, self-importance, significance, skillfulness, soundness, stature, stress, strong point, superiority, supremacy, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, warrant, weight, wholeness, winnings, worth, worthiness

• merited, appropriate, balanced, condign, defensible, deserved, due, earned, entitled, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, good, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, level, meet, meet and right, proper, qualified, requisite, right, right and proper, rightful, square, suitable, warrantable, warranted, well-earned, worthy

• meritorious, admirable, ascribable, attributable, beyond all praise, commendable, creditable, deserving, due, entitled to, esteemed, estimable, excellent, exemplary, held in esteem, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honorable, honored, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, laudable, meriting, model, noble, outstanding, praiseworthy, prestigious, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, unexceptionable, venerable, venerated, well-deserving, well-thought-of, worshipful, worthy, worthy of

• mermaid, Davy, Davy Jones, Dylan, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Varuna, bather, bathing beauty, bathing girl, diver, fresh-water nymph, frogman, kelpie, limniad, man fish, merman, naiad, natator, nix, nixie, ocean nymph, sea devil, sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman, siren, swimmer, undine, water god, water spirit, water sprite

• merriment, amusement, blithesomeness, buoyancy, celebration, cheer, cheerfulness, conviviality, elation, enjoyment, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, festivity, flippancy, frivolity, fun, gaiety, glee, gleefulness, good cheer, good spirits, happiness, heartiness, high glee, high spirits, hilariousness, hilarity, holiday-making, hoopla, jocularity, jocundity, jollification, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, larking, laughter, levity, mafficking, merriness, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, racketing, raucous happiness, rejoicing, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, roguishness, show of joy, skylarking, sportiveness, trickery, trickiness, triumph, waggery, waggishness, whoopee

• merry, addled, animated, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, blithe, blithesome, boon, buoyant, buxom, carefree, carouse, celebrate, cheerful, cheery, convivial, crapulent, crapulous, delighted, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, exhilarating, exuberant, far-gone, festal, festive, flustered, fou, frivolous, frolic, full, gala, gay, giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glorious, happy, hilarious, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughter-loving, light-hearted, lighthearted, lively, mad, make merry, maudlin, mellow, merrymaking, mirth-loving, mirthful, muddled, nappy, on the loose, reeling, rejoicing, revel, riant, risible, shikker, sodden, sotted, sprightly, tiddly, tipsy, unconstrained, under the influence, vivacious, wild

• merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, carousel, chute-the-chutes, chutes, disk, flying horses, mad round, roller, roller coaster, rolling stone, rotator, rotor, round of pleasure, roundabout, rundle, seesaw, swing, teeter-totter, the dizzy rounds, the rounds, top, wheel, whip, whirl, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig

• merrymaking, banquet, celebration, cheer, convivial, conviviality, feast, festal, festive, festivity, gaiety, gala, gay, gladsome, good cheer, heartiness, hilarious, holiday-making, hoopla, jollification, jollity, jolly, jovial, joviality, joyance, joyful, joyous, jubilation, larking, mad round, mafficking, merriment, merry, on the loose, racketing, regale, regalement, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, round of pleasures, skylarking, treat, whoopee

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

• mescaline, DET, DMT, LSD, 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, 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

• mesh, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, allure, alternation, arabesque, bag, bait the hook, basketry, basketwork, birdlime, can of worms, cancellation, catch, catch out, clutches, coact, coaction, cobweb, complementary distribution, complex, complexity, concurrence, cooperate, cooperation, cross-hatching, crossing-out, decoy, decussation, dovetail, engage, engagement, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entanglement, entoil, entrap, enweb, filigree, fit together, foul, fret, fretwork, gin, grab, grasp, grate, grater, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, grip, hachure, harpoon, hatching, hook, hook in, interact, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlace, interlacement, interlacing, interlock, intermesh, intermeshing, interplay, interstice, intertexture, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwining, interweave, interweaving, interwork, interworking, intricacy, inveigle, involve, jungle, knit, knot, labyrinth, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, land, lasso, lattice, lattice-work, latticework, lime, lure, match, maze, meander, meshes, meshing, meshwork, mess, morass, mortise, nail, net, netting, network, noose, perplex, plexure, plexus, quid pro quo, raddle, ravel, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, rope, sack, screen, screening, seesaw, sieve, skein, snafu, snag, snake pit, snare, snarl, sniggle, spear, spread the toils, strainer, take, tangle, tangle up with, tangled skein, texture, tissue, tit for tat, toils, tracery, trap, trellis, trellis-work, trelliswork, trip, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wheels within wheels, wicker, wickerwork, wilderness, wind

• meshed, barred, cancellated, crossbarred, filigreed, grated, gridded, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, plexiform, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaked, striped

• meshes, arabesque, bait, basketry, basketwork, birdlime, bola, cancellation, cobweb, cross-hatching, crossing-out, dragnet, filigree, fishhook, fly, fret, fretwork, gill net, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, ground bait, hachure, hatching, hook, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, jig, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lariat, lasso, lattice, latticework, lime, lure, mesh, meshwork, net, netting, network, noose, plexure, plexus, plug, pound net, purse seine, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, seine, sieve, snare, sniggle, spinner, springe, squid, texture, tissue, toils, tracery, trawl, trellis, trelliswork, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork, wobbler

• meshing, a propos, ad rem, adapted, alternation, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, coaction, complementary distribution, concurrence, cooperation, dovetailing, engagement, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitting, geared, happy, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, interplay, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, just right, likely, mesh, on the button, opportune, pat, qualified, quid pro quo, relevant, right, seasonable, seesaw, sortable, suitable, suited, suiting, tailored, tit for tat, to the point, to the purpose

• mesmeric, absorbing, alluring, appealing, appetizing, arresting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, consuming, coquettish, drawing, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, gripping, holding, hypnoid, hypnotic, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, magnetic, mesmerizing, mouth-watering, narcohypnotic, obsessing, obsessive, odylic, piquant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, winning, winsome, witching

• mesmerize, absorb, absorb the attention, anesthetize, arrest, becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, catch, catch up, charm, dominate, dope, drug, enchant, engage, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, exercise, fascinate, grab, grip, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hypnotize, immerse, infatuate, intrigue, involve, involve the interest, lull to sleep, magnetize, monopolize, narcotize, obsess, occupy, occupy the attention, preoccupy, put to sleep, put under, rock to sleep, sedate, spell, spellbind, take up, trance, transport, vamp, witch

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

• mesmerizer, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Mesmer, Svengali, actor, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer, counterfeiter, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger, gay deceiver, hoaxer, hypnotist, hypnotizer, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, leg-puller, misleader, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, practical joker, ragger, role-player, seducer, spoofer, tease, teaser

• meson, Kern, NMR, alpha particle, antibaryon, antilepton, antimeson, atom, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, aurora particle, baryon, beta particle, electron, elementary particle, heavy particle, ion, lepton, mesotron, molecule, monad, neutron, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nucleus, photon, proton, quark, radioactive particle, radion, solar particle, strangeness, strong interaction, triton, valence electron

• mess around, Paul-Pry, bat out, botch, bungle, busybody, butt in, coquet, dabble, dally, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, doodle, fake up, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, frivol, fudge up, horn in, horse around, idle, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, jerk off, jury-rig, kibitz, kid around, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, loiter, meddle, meddle with, mess, mess with, monkey, monkey around, monkey with, nose, patch, patch together, patch up, piddle, play, play around, play with, potter, pound out, pry, puddle, putter, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, slap up, smatter, snoop, tamper, tamper with, throw off, throw together, tinker, toss off, toss out, toss together, toy, toy with, trifle, trifle with, twiddle, whomp up, womanize

• mess hall, automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, commons, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, 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, lunchroom, mess, messroom, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

• mess up, ball up, befoul, benasty, bitch, bitch up, blur, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead into it, bugger, bugger up, clutter, complicate, confound, confuse, contaminate, cook, corrupt, damage, defile, deform, derange, disarrange, disarray, discompose, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, distort, disturb, drop a brick, embrangle, entangle, flub, fog up, foul, foul up, goof, goof up, gum up, hash up, implicate, infect, involve, jumble, knot, litter, louse up, mar, mess, misarrange, mix up, muck, muck up, mucker, muddle, muff, muss, muss up, nasty, obfuscate, obscure, perplex, play hell with, play hob with, pollute, queer, ramify, ravel, ruffle, ruin, rummage, rumple, scatter, screw up, sink, snafu, snarl, snarl up, spoil, sully, taint, tangle, tarnish, tousle, unform, unsettle, unshape, upset

• mess, C ration, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, K ration, Rube Goldberg contraption, all sorts, allotment, allowance, amount, arsy-varsiness, assemblage, assortment, baboon, bad job, bag, batch, befoul, befuddlement, benasty, bevue, bewilderment, big end, bigger half, bind, bit, bitch up, bite, blemish, blot, blow, blunder, board, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, botchery, bother, botheration, bread, broad spectrum, budget, bunch, bungle, butt in, cafeteria, can of worms, carrion, chaos, chunk, cloud, clump, clumsy performance, cluster, clutch, clutter, commission, commons, complex, complication, concoction, confuse, confusion, conglomeration, considerable, contaminate, contingent, copse, corrupt, corruption, count, crop, crunch, cut, dally, dandruff, daze, deal, decay, defile, derange, destiny, destroy, difficulty, dilemma, dine, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, dirty, disarrange, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorientation, disturbance, dividend, dog, dole, doodle, dose, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency rations, end, entertainment, equal share, error, etourderie, excrement, eyesore, farrago, fate, feed, fiasco, field rations, filth, fine how-do-you-do, fix, flirt, flub, fluff, flummox, flunk, flurry, fluster, flutter, fodder, fog, fool around, foozle, forage, foul, foul matter, foul up, foul-up, frenzy, fright, fuddle, fuddlement, fumble, furfur, gallimaufry, gangrene, gargoyle, gaucherie, gob, gobs, good deal, goof up, grass, gratify, graze, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, gum up, hag, half, halver, harridan, hash, hassock, haze, heap, heaps, hell to pay, helping, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hobble, hodgepodge, hot water, hotchpot, hotchpotch, how-do-you-do, hunk, hysteron proteron, imbroglio, infect, interest, interfere with, intervene, jam, jumble, jungle, kettle of fish, knot, labyrinth, large amount, lashings, litter, loads, lot, lots, louse up, lump, magpie, mash, mass, maze, meal, meals, meander, measure, meat, meddle with, medley, meed, melange, mesh, mess around, mess hall, mess up, mess with, messroom, mingle-mangle, mint, misarrange, miscellany, miscue, mishmash, mist, mistake, mix, mix-up, mixed bag, mixture, modicum, moiety, monster, monstrosity, morass, much, muck, muck up, mucus, muddle, muddlement, muff, mull, muss, muss up, nasty, no beauty, number, obscenity, odds and ends, off day, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, oodles, ordure, pack, parcel, parlous straits, part, pass, pasticcio, pastiche, pasture, patchwork, peck, percentage, perplex, perplexity, perturbation, philander, pickle, piece, pile, piles, pinch, play, plight, pollute, portion, pot, pother, potpourri, potter, power, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, proportion, provision, pucker, puddle, pull to pieces, pus, putrid matter, putter, quagmire, quandary, quantity, quantum, quicksand, quite a little, quota, raft, rafts, rake-off, ration, rations, ravel, refection, refectory, refreshment, regale, regalement, repas, repast, restaurant, rot, ruffle, ruin, rumple, run around, sad work, salad, salle a manger, salmagundi, satisfy, sauce, scads, scarecrow, scatter, scramble, scrape, screw up, screw-up, scurf, scuz, seduce, segment, shambles, share, shock, short commons, shuffle, sight, sleep around, slew, slews, slice, slime, slip, slough, small amount, small share, smorgasbord, smut, snafu, snake pit, snarl, snot, sordes, spate, spot, spread, squeeze, stack, stacks, stake, stew, sticky wicket, stock, stook, strait, straits, stumble, sully, sum, sustain, swamp, sweat, swivet, table, taint, tamper with, tangle, tangled skein, tarnish, teratism, thicket, tidy sum, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tinker, tizzy, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tousle, toy, treat, tricky spot, trifle, trip, trouble, tucker, tuft, tumble, turmoil, turn upside down, tussock, ugly duckling, unholy mess, unsettlement, untidiness, upset, wad, wads, washout, webwork, welter, what you will, wheels within wheels, whole slew, wilderness, wine and dine, wisp, witch, wreck, wreckage

• message, ALGOL, COBOL, ESP, FORTRAN, acceptation, account, acknowledgment, acquaintance, address, advice, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, angular data, announcement, answer, assembler, bearer, billet, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, blue book, briefing, bug, bulletin, business letter, byte, carrier, chit, command pulses, commands, commerce, communication, communion, communique, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, congress, connection, contact, control signals, controlled quantity, conversation, converse, correcting signals, correspondence, courier, data, datum, dealing, dealings, declaration, directive, directory, dispatch, dispatcher, embassy, emissary, enlightenment, envoy, epistle, error, error signals, essence, evidence, exchange, express, facts, factual information, familiarization, favor, feedback pulses, feedback signals, film data, gen, general information, go-between, guidebook, handout, hard information, herald, hexadecimal system, idea, implication, import, incidental information, info, information, input data, input quantity, instruction, instructions, intelligence, intendment, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, intermediary, internuncio, interplay, knowledge, letter, light, line, linguistic intercourse, machine language, meaning, mediator, memo, memorandum, mention, messenger, missive, multiple messages, news, noise, note, notice, notification, numeric data, octal system, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, play, pneumatogram, point, polar data, post, presentation, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, punch-card data, purport, random data, rectangular data, reference quantity, release, reply, report, rescript, response, ruly English, sense, sidelight, signals, significance, significancy, signification, single messages, social intercourse, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, statement, talking, telegram, telepathy, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, tidings, touch, traffic, transmission, truck, two-way communication, understanding, unorganized data, visible-speech data, white book, white paper, word

• messed up, Byzantine, ass-backwards, balled up, bitched, bitched up, bollixed up, buggered, buggered up, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, cooked, crabbed, daedal, devious, disheveled, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fouled up, gummed up, hashed up, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, mussed up, perplexed, queered, ramified, roundabout, ruffled, rumpled, screwed up, shaggy, shot, snafued, snaggy, snarled, snarled up, subtle, sunk, tangled, tangly, tousled, tously, tumbled, twisted, uncombed

• messenger, Hermes, Mercury, Pheidippides, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, buccinator novi temporis, bushwhacker, commissar, commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, courier, delegate, emissary, envoy, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, foreshadower, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, go-between, gofer, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, innovator, intermediary, lead runner, leader, legate, minister, nuncio, page, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, premonitor, presager, runner, scout, secretary, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker

• Messiah, Christ, Christ Jesus, Emmanuel, God the Son, God-man, Immanuel, Jesu, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, King of Glory, King of Heaven, King of Kings, Lamb of God, Lord Jesus, Lord of Lords, Lord our Righteousness, Our Lord, Prince of Peace, Redeemer, Savior, Son of God, Son of Man, deliverer, emancipator, liberator, rescuer, savior, the Advocate, the Anointed, the Christ, the Christ Child, the Door, the Galilean, the Good Shepherd, the Infant Jesus, the Intercessor, the Judge, the Lamb, the Life, the Master, the Mediator, the Nazarene, the Only-Begotten, the Risen, the True Vine, the Truth, the Vine, the Way

• messiah, Mahdi, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader, charismatic leader, choirmaster, choragus, conductor, coryphaeus, duce, file leader, forerunner, fugleman, inspired leader, leader, leader of men, pacemaker, pacesetter, precentor, ringleader, standard-bearer, symphonic conductor, torchbearer

• messily, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, bunglingly, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, disregardfully, forgetfully, haphazardly, heedlessly, helter-skelter, hit and miss, hit or miss, inattentively, inconsiderately, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, perfunctorily, promiscuously, recklessly, regardlessly, slapdash, sloppily, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily

• messiness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, bad job, blowziness, blurriness, botch, bungling, carelessness, chaos, chintziness, confusion, dinginess, dirtiness, disorder, dowdiness, entropy, formlessness, frowziness, frumpishness, fuzziness, griminess, grubbiness, haphazardness, haziness, immundity, impurity, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, loose ends, looseness, miriness, mistiness, muddiness, negligence, obscurity, orderlessness, sad work, scruffiness, seediness, shabbiness, shapelessness, shoddiness, slapdash, slatternliness, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, tackiness, tawdriness, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unclearness, unneatness, unpureness, untidiness, vagueness

• messmate, ace, amigo, associate, bedfellow, bedmate, birthmate, bosom buddy, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, classmate, clubmate, colleague, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, copemate, copesmate, couchmate, cradlemate, crony, cupmate, fellow, fellow student, general partner, girl friend, gossip, jailmate, mate, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, pewmate, playfellow, playmate, roommate, schoolfellow, schoolmate, secret partner, shelfmate, shipmate, shopmate, side partner, sidekick, sidekicker, silent partner, sleeping partner, special partner, tablemate, teammate, tentmate, watchmate, waymate, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

• messy, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, botched, bungling, careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, disheveled, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grubby, grungy, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, miry, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, raunchy, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash, slatternly, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, unfastidious, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unthorough, untidy

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

• metabolism, assimilation, avatar, basal metabolism, catabolism, catalysis, consubstantiation, displacement, heterotopia, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, permutation, reincarnation, sport, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation

• metal, Dutch foil, achievement, alerion, aluminum, aluminum foil, americium, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, asphalt, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, barium, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, beryllium, billet, bismuth, blacktop, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, bullion, cadency mark, cadmium, calcium, canton, carpet, causeway, cement, cerium, cesium, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, chrome, chromium, coat of arms, cobalt, cobblestone, cockatrice, concrete, copper, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, dysprosium, eagle, earth metals, erbium, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, europium, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flag, flanch, fleur-de-lis, floor, fret, fur, fusil, gadolinium, gallium, garland, germanium, gold, gold dust, gold foil, gold leaf, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, holmium, honor point, impalement, impaling, indium, inescutcheon, iridium, iron, label, lanthanum, lead, lead foil, lion, lithium, lozenge, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, manganese, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mercury, metal foil, metal leaf, metalleity, metallic, metallicity, metallics, metallike, metalline, metalloid, metalware, metalwork, molybdenum, motto, mullet, native metals, neodymium, nickel, niobium, noble metals, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, organometallic, orle, osmium, pale, palladium, paly, pave, pean, pebble, pheon, phosphorus, platinum, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, precious metals, promethium, protactinium, purpure, quarter, quartering, radium, rare metals, rhenium, rose, rubidium, ruthenium, sable, saltire, samarium, scandium, scutcheon, semimetal, shield, silver, silver foil, sodium, spread eagle, strontium, subordinary, tantalum, tar, technetium, tenne, terbium, thallium, thulium, tin, tincture, tinfoil, titanium, torse, tressure, tungsten, unicorn, uranium, vair, vanadium, vert, wolfram, wreath, yale, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

• metallic, brassy, brazen, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, dry, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, metal, metallike, metalline, metalloid, organometallic, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, squawking, squawky, stertorous, strangled, thick, throaty, tinny

• metalworks, blacksmith shop, bleachworks, bloomery, bottling works, brassworks, copperworks, dye works, forge, foundry, furnace, gasworks, glassworks, ironworks, paper works, printworks, saltworks, scrapworks, smelter, smithery, smithy, soapworks, starchworks, steel mill, steelworks, stithy, tileworks, tryworks, tubeworks, waterworks, wireworks, works

• metamorphic, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable, alterative, anabolic, catabolic, catalytic, changeable, checkered, diversiform, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, manifold, many-sided, metabolic, metamorphotic, metastatic, mobile, modifiable, movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic, polymorphous, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient, transitory, variable

• metamorphosis, avatar, catabolism, catalysis, consubstantiation, displacement, heterotopia, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, permutation, reincarnation, sport, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation

• metaphor, accordance, agent, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, alternate, alternative, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aping, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, approach, approximation, assimilation, backup, balancing, catachresis, change, changeling, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, closeness, community, comparability, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, contrast, contrastiveness, conversion, copy, copying, correlation, correspondence, counterfeit, deputy, distinction, distinctiveness, double, dummy, ecphonesis, emphasis, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, exclamation, fake, figure of speech, fill-in, gemination, ghost, ghostwriter, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, identity, image, imagery, imitation, inversion, irony, likeness, likening, litotes, locum tenens, makeshift, malapropism, matching, meiosis, metonymy, mimicking, nearness, next best thing, onomatopoeia, opposing, opposition, oxymoron, parallelism, paregmenon, parenthesis, parity, periphrasis, personification, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, proportion, proxy, reference, regression, relation, relief, repetition, replacement, representative, resemblance, reserves, ringer, sameness, sarcasm, second string, secondary, semblance, sign, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, spares, spoonerism, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, syllepsis, symbol, symbolism, symploce, synecdoche, third string, token, trope, trope of comparison, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, weighing, zeugma

• metaphorical, allegoric, allegorical, allusive, anagogic, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, denotative, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, figural, figurative, figured, flowery, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, mannered, meaning, meaningful, meaty, naming, ornamented, pathognomonic, peculiar, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, referential, representative, semantic, semiotic, sententious, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, transferred, trolatitious, tropological, typical

• metaphysical, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, anagogic, animist, animistic, atomistic, bodiless, cabalic, cabalistic, cosmotheistic, discarnate, eclectic, empirical, esoteric, eudaemonistic, existential, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, incorporeal, instrumentalist, insubstantial, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysic, monistic, mysterious, mystic, naturalistic, nominalist, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, occult, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, preternatural, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supramundane, supranatural, syncretistic, theistic, theosophical, theosophist, transcendent, transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unearthly, unfleshly, unphysical, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic

• metaphysics, aesthetics, axiology, casuistry, cosmology, epistemology, ethics, existentialism, first philosophy, gnosiology, hyperphysics, logic, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, ontology, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, sophistry, the first philosophy, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory

• metastasis, anastrophe, avatar, catabolism, catalysis, chiasmus, communication, conduction, consubstantiation, contagion, convection, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, displacement, dissemination, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, heterotopia, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron proteron, import, importation, interchange, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutant, mutated form, mutation, mutual transfer, osmosis, palindrome, parenthesis, passage, passing over, perfusion, permutation, reincarnation, sport, spread, spreading, synchysis, tmesis, transanimation, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transmogrification, transmutation, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, transubstantiation, travel

• mete, accord, administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, calculate, calibrate, caliper, check a parameter, communicate, compute, confer, deal, deal out, dial, disburse, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dole, dole out, donate, estimate, evaluate, extend, fathom, fork out, gauge, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, graduate, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, measure, measure out, mensurate, mete out, meter, offer, pace, parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, plumb, portion out, pour, present, prize, probe, proffer, quantify, quantize, rain, rate, render, serve, share out, shell out, shower, size, size up, slip, snow, sound, span, spoon out, step, survey, take a reading, tender, triangulate, valuate, value, vouchsafe, weigh, yield

• meteor, aerolite, asteroids, aurora particles, blackout, bolide, chondrite, cosmic dust, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, fireball, intergalactic matter, meteor crater, meteor dust, meteor dust impacts, meteor shower, meteor swarm, meteor trail, meteor train, meteoric shower, meteorite, meteoroid, meteorolite, meteors, micrometeorite, micrometeoroid, radiant, radiant point, radiation, shooting star, siderite, siderolite, space bullets, tektite, the bends, weightlessness

• meteoric, Cynthian, ablaze, aflame, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, blazing, brief, brilliant, brisk, burning, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, cometary, dazzling, empyreal, empyrean, ephemeral, equinoctial, evanescent, extragalactic, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, fleet, fleeting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, galactic, heavenly, heliacal, impermanent, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, meteoritic, momentary, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, overnight, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, quick, semilunar, sensational, short, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, sidereal, solar, spectacular, speedy, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, swift, temporary, terrestrial, transient, transitory, uranic, zodiacal

• meteorologist, aerial photographer, aerographer, aerologist, aircrew, aircrewman, avigator, belly gunner, bombardier, crew, crew chief, flight attendant, flight crew, gunner, hostess, machine gunner, microclimatologist, navigator, steward, stewardess, weather bureau, weather forecast, weather forecaster, weather prophet, weather report, weather scientist, weather ship, weather station, weather-reporting network, weatherman, weatherologist

• meteorology, aerial photography, aeroballistics, aerodynamics, aerogeology, aerography, aerology, aeromechanics, aeromedicine, aerometry, aeronautical meteorology, aerophotography, aerophysics, aeroscopy, aerospace research, aerostatics, anemology, aviation technology, avionics, barometry, climatography, climatology, forecasting, hydrostatics, kinematics, kinetics, long-range forecasting, microclimatology, nephology, photometry, pneumatics, rocketry, supersonics, weatherology

• meter, Alexandrine, Stabreim, VOM, VTVM, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere-hour meter, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise, appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate, caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer, count-rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide, dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator, evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom, feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist, graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor, lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer, megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement, moving-coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter, oscillation, pH meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic, prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify, quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size, size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey, surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple, thermoelectrometer, thesis, time-interval meter, topographer, triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer, vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh

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

• methane, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, propane, propellant, rocket fuel, turf

• Methedrine, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, cocaine, coke, crystal, dextroamphetamine sulfate, football, heart, jolly bean, methamphetamine hydrochloride, pep pill, purple heart, snow, speed, stimulant, upper

• method, MO, ability, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, algorithm, anality, apple-pie order, approach, arrangement, art, avenue, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, capacity, capital, carriage, charting, comportment, conception, conduct, contrivance, course, craft, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, design, device, devices, discipline, disposable resources, disposition, doing, doings, enterprise, envisagement, fashion, figuring, fine fettle, folkway, foresight, forethought, form, funds, game, gestures, goings-on, good condition, good shape, good trim, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guise, idea, intention, layout, line, line of action, lines, lineup, long-range plan, maintien, manner, manner of working, manners, mapping, master plan, means, mechanics, mechanism, methodicalness, methodology, methods, mien, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus, modus operandi, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, neatness, observable behavior, operations research, order, orderliness, organization, pattern, plan, planning, planning function, poise, port, pose, posture, power, practice, praxis, prearrangement, presence, procedure, proceeding, process, program, program of action, rationalization, recourses, regularity, resorts, resources, road, route, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, science, setup, skill, social science, stock, strategic plan, strategy, structure, style, supply, system, systematicness, systematization, tack, tactical plan, tactics, technic, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, the big picture, the drill, the how, the picture, the way of, tidiness, tone, trimness, way, way of life, ways, ways and means, wherewith, wherewithal, wise, working plan, wrinkle

• methodical, accordant, alike, analytical, arranged, automatic, balanced, businesslike, careful, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, deliberate, disciplined, equable, equal, even, exact, flat, formal, habitual, harmonious, homogeneous, immutable, in hand, invariable, labored, laborious, level, logical, measured, mechanical, methodic, methodized, meticulous, monolithic, neat, normal, of a piece, ordered, orderly, organized, paced, painstaking, persistent, plodding, precious, precise, precisian, precisionist, punctilious, puristic, regular, regular as clockwork, robotlike, routine, scrupulous, smooth, stable, steadfast, steady, structured, symmetrical, systematic, systematized, tidy, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, usual, well-ordered, well-regulated

• methodically, always, at every turn, at regular intervals, at stated times, constantly, continually, every so often, harmoniously, intermittently, invariably, like clockwork, never otherwise, orderly, punctually, regularly, steadily, systematically, uniformly, without exception

• methodized, aligned, arranged, arrayed, assorted, blueprinted, calculated, categorized, charted, classified, composed, constituted, contrived, designed, devised, disposed, figured, fixed, graded, grouped, harmonized, in the works, marshaled, normalized, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, ordered, orderly, organized, placed, planned, plotted, projected, ranged, ranked, rationalized, regularized, regulated, routinized, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, sorted, standardized, strategetic, strategic, sur le tapis, synchronized, systematized, tactical, worked out

• methodologist, Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, formalist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, yes-man

• methodology, MO, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, algorithm, anality, apple-pie order, approach, arrangement, attack, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, carriage, charting, comportment, conception, conduct, contrivance, course, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, design, device, discipline, disposition, doing, doings, enterprise, envisagement, fashion, figuring, fine fettle, folkway, foresight, forethought, form, game, gestures, goings-on, good condition, good shape, good trim, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guise, idea, intention, layout, line, line of action, lines, lineup, long-range plan, maintien, manner, manner of working, manners, mapping, master plan, means, method, methodicalness, methods, mien, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, neatness, observable behavior, operations research, order, orderliness, organization, pattern, plan, planning, planning function, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, prearrangement, presence, procedure, proceeding, process, program, program of action, rationalization, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, social science, strategic plan, strategy, style, system, systematicness, systematization, tack, tactical plan, tactics, technique, the big picture, the drill, the how, the picture, the way of, tidiness, tone, trimness, way, way of life, ways, wise, working plan

• Methuselah, Father Time, Nestor, Old Paar, antediluvian, antique, back number, centenarian, conservative, dad, dodo, dotard, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, granny, graybeard, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old believer, old chap, old codger, old crock, old dodo, old dog, old duffer, old fogy, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old liner, old man, old party, old poop, old woman, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, pop, pops, presbyter, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, square, starets, the quiet-voiced elders, traditionalist, venerable sir, veteran

• meticulous, OK, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, accurate, active, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all right, assiduous, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, aware, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy, choosy, close, compliant, concentrated, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, conscious, constant, correct, critical, dead right, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, diligent, discriminating, discriminative, dour, duteous, dutiful, earnest, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, flawless, full, fussy, grim, harsh, heedful, intense, intent, intentive, just, just right, letter-perfect, loyal, methodical, microscopic, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, observant, observing, okay, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, orderly, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, perfect, perfectionist, perfectionistic, pernickety, picayune, picky, practicing, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish, proper, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, regardful, religious, right, rigid, rigorous, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, special, specific, stern, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict, stringent, subtle, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, true, unsparing, watchful

• meticulousness, Spartanism, absoluteness, accuracy, astringency, attention to detail, attention to fact, austerity, authoritarianism, care for truth, censoriousness, choosiness, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, delicacy, demandingness, detail, discipline, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, grimness, harshness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, minuteness, niceness, nicety, overconscientiousness, overscrupulousness, particularity, particularness, perfection, perfectionism, point of honor, preciseness, precisianism, precision, priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality, purism, puritanism, qualm, refinement, regimentation, right, rightness, rigid discipline, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, scruple, scruples, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity, sensitivity, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, subtlety, taste, textualism, the letter, toughness, twinge of conscience

• metier, ability, area, art, bag, bump, business, caliber, calling, capability, capacity, career, career building, careerism, craft, cup of tea, dower, dowry, endowment, equipment, faculty, field, flair, forte, game, genius, gift, handicraft, instinct, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, long suit, main interest, makings, manner, medium, mission, mystery, natural endowment, natural gift, number, occupation, oyster, parts, pet subject, potential, power, powers, practice, profession, pursuit, qualification, racket, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, strong flair, strong point, style, talent, talents, technicality, the goods, the stuff, thing, trade, type, vocation, walk, walk of life, way, weakness, what it takes, work

• metric system, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, computation, correction, determination, estimate, estimation, evaluation, gauging, instrumentation, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, quantification, quantization, rating, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, triangulation, valuation

• metric, antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent, chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, measured, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, numerative, oceanographic, prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic, trochaic, valuational, valuative

• metrical, antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent, chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, measured, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, metric, numerative, oceanographic, prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic, trochaic, valuational, valuative

• metrics, Stabreim, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, beat, cadence, emphasis, ictus, level of stress, lilt, measure, meter, metrical pattern, movement, number, numbers, primary stress, prosodic pattern, prosodics, prosody, quantitative meter, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, scanning, scansion, secondary stress, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, swing, syllabic meter, tertiary stress, vers libre, versification, weak stress

• metro, Amtrak, L, baggage train, branch, cable railroad, cable railway, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, el, electric, electric railway, electric train, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, express, express train, feeder, feeder line, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, goods train, gravity-operated railway, horse railway, interurban, junction, light railroad, lightning express, limited, line, local, main line, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, rattler, roadbed, roadway, rolling stock, shuttle, shuttle train, sidetrack, siding, special, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, terminal, terminus, track, train, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground, way train

• metronome, baton, diapason, monochord, music stand, mute, oscillator, pendulum, pitch pipe, rhythmometer, rocker, rocking chair, rocking stone, seesaw, shuttle, shuttlecock, sonometer, stick, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetery-bender, tone measurer, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, vibrator

• metronomic, alternate, annalistic, beating, calendarial, calendric, chronogrammatic, chronographic, chronologic, chronoscopic, circling, cyclic, dated, diaristic, epochal, even, every other, horologic, intercalary, intercalated, intermittent, isochronal, measured, oscillatory, periodical, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, seasonal, serial, steady, temporal, timekeeping, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling

• metropolis, Kreis, Stadt, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, art center, bailiwick, banlieue, bishopric, boom town, borough, bourg, burg, burgh, canton, capital, capital city, city, commune, congressional district, constablewick, conurbation, county, departement, diocese, district, duchy, electoral district, electorate, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, garment center, ghost town, government, greater city, hamlet, hundred, magistracy, manufacturing center, market town, medical center, megalopolis, metropolitan area, municipality, oblast, okrug, outskirts, parish, polis, precinct, principality, province, railroad center, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shipping center, shire, shopping center, shrievalty, soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburbia, territory, tourist center, town, township, trade center, urban center, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville, wapentake, ward

• mettle, activity, animation, animus, aptitude, ardor, backbone, bent, bias, bottom, brio, briskness, cast, character, chutzpah, constitution, courage, dauntlessness, diathesis, disposition, eccentricity, elan, enthusiasm, gameness, glow, grain, grit, gusto, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, heart, heart of oak, idiosyncrasy, impetuosity, impetus, inclination, individualism, intestinal fortitude, joie de vivre, kidney, leaning, life, liveliness, lustiness, make, makeup, mental set, mettlesomeness, mind, mind-set, mold, moxie, nature, nerve, perkiness, pertness, pith, pluck, pluckiness, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propensity, resolution, robustness, set, slant, spirit, spiritedness, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, stamp, stout heart, strain, streak, stripe, temper, temperament, tendency, toughness, true grit, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, vivacity, warmth, warp, zest, zestfulness

• mettlesome, active, acute, aggressive, agitable, animated, beany, brisk, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, dynamic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fiery, forceful, forcible, full of pep, game, gamy, go-go, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hearty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, impetuous, incisive, inflammable, intense, irascible, irritable, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppery, peppy, pertinacious, perturbable, plucky, prickly, red-blooded, resolute, robust, sensitive, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, spiritful, spunky, startlish, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, tenacious, touchy, tough, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, volcanic, zestful, zesty, zippy

• mew, adytum, ashram, bark, bawl, bay, beleaguer, bell, bellow, beset, besiege, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, bray, burrow, cage, call, caterwaul, cave, cell, chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, couch, covert, crib, cry, den, detain, earth, encage, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, fence in, form, give tongue, give voice, hedge in, hem in, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hole, holy of holies, house in, howl, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inhibit, ivory tower, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lair, leaguer, lodge, low, meow, mew up, mewl, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, pen, pen in, pen up, pocket, pound, privacy, pule, quarantine, rail in, recess, restrain, restrict, retreat, roar, run, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, screak, scream, screech, seal up, secret place, shackle, shrine, shut in, shut up, squall, squeak, squeal, stable, surround, troat, tunnel, ululate, wail, wall in, whicker, whine, whinny, wrap, yap, yard, yard up, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

• mewl, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, call, caterwaul, cry, give tongue, give voice, howl, low, meow, mew, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, pule, roar, screak, scream, screech, squall, squeak, squeal, troat, ululate, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

• mews, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, barn, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byre, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, cowbarn, cowbyre, cowhouse, cowshed, 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 drag, main road, 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, stable, stall, state highway, street, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd

• mezzo soprano, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, diva, dramatic soprano, falsetto, head register, head tone, head voice, heroic tenor, high, high-pitched, high-sounding, high-toned, hymner, improvisator, lead singer, lieder singer, male alto, melodist, opera singer, prima donna, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, singer, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, tenor, torch singer, treble, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodeler

• mezzo, amidships, average, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, halfway, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear

• miasma, BO, afterdamp, bad breath, bad smell, blackdamp, body odor, breath, chokedamp, cloud, coal gas, damp, effluvium, exhalation, exhaust, exhaust gas, fetid air, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, firedamp, flatus, fluid, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, fume, graveolence, halitosis, malaria, malodor, mephitis, nidor, noxious stench, offensive odor, puff of smoke, reek, reeking, rotten smell, smoke, smudge, steam, stench, stench of decay, stink, vapor, volatile, water vapor

• miasmic, abhorrent, abominable, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, airy, bad, bad-smelling, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, catching, communicable, contagious, contemptible, crude, deadly, despicable, destructive, detestable, disgusting, envenomed, ethereal, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, fuming, fumy, funky, fusty, gamy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, graveolent, gross, hateful, heinous, high, ignoble, ill-smelling, infectious, infective, loathsome, malign, malignant, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nasty, nauseating, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pestiferous, pestilential, pneumatic, poisonous, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking, smoky, steaming, steamy, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vile, virulent

• Mick, Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, Guinea, Hunk, Hunkie, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead, Mickey, Paddy, dago, frog, greaseball, greaser, limey, wetback

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

• Mickey Mouse, base, casual, cheap, cheesy, clear, coarse, common, cushy, easy, easy as pie, effortless, facile, fourth-class, glib, inferior, irregular, light, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, measly, niggling, nothing to it, painless, paltry, peanut, pettifogging, picayune, picayunish, piddling, plain, poor, punk, puny, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, simple, simple as ABC, smooth, soft, straightforward, tacky, third-class, third-rate, tinny, unburdensome, uncomplicated

• microbe, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aerobic organism, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anaerobic organism, autotrophic organism, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, being, bug, coccus, creature, crumb, disease-producing microorganism, dot, drop, droplet, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, fleck, flyspeck, fungus, genetic individual, germ, gnat, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, heterotrophic organism, individual, iota, jot, living being, living thing, microorganism, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mold, morphological individual, mote, nonfilterable virus, ont, organic being, organism, organization, particle, pathogen, physiological individual, picornavirus, pinhead, pinpoint, point, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, scrap, snip, snippet, speck, spirillum, spirochete, spore, staphylococcus, streptococcus, tittle, trypanosome, vanishing point, vibrio, virus, zooid, zoon

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

• microcosmic, atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable

• microdot, bulletin board, card, catalog card, disc, file, filing card, film, index card, library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film, phonograph record, platter, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, slip, tape, ticker tape, videotape

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

• microfilm, Flexowriter typewriter, Photostat, Teleplotter, X-ray, Xerox, alphabetical printer, backing, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, bulletin board, calotype, capture on film, card, cartridge, catalog card, clone, color film, color negative film, copy, digital graph plotter, disc, ditto, dope, double, dry plate, dupe, duplicate, emulsion, facsimile, file, filing card, film, frame, hard copy, hectograph, index card, library catalog, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, manifold, microcard, microcards, microcopy, microdot, microfiche, mimeo, mimeograph, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, mug, multigraph, negative, orthochromatic film, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, pack, pan, panchromatic film, phonograph record, photograph, photographic paper, photomap, plate, platter, printing paper, printout, punch cards, punched tape, quadruplicate, radiograph, reader, readout, recorder, reduplicate, relay register, replicate, reproduce, roentgenograph, roll, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, shoot, slip, snap, snapshoot, snapshot, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, stat, take a photograph, talbotype, tape, tape reader, teletypewriter, ticker tape, trace, transcribe, tripack, triplicate, vehicle, videotape

• microorganism, Euglena, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aerobic organism, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anaerobic organism, animalcule, autotrophic organism, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, being, bug, coccus, colon bacillus, creature, crumb, diatom, disease-producing microorganism, dot, drop, droplet, dyad, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, flagellate, fleck, flyspeck, fungus, genetic individual, germ, gnat, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, heterotrophic organism, individual, iota, jot, living being, living thing, microbe, microspore, microzoa, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mold, monad, morphological individual, mote, nematode, nonfilterable virus, ont, organic being, organism, organization, paramecium, particle, pathogen, physiological individual, picornavirus, pinhead, pinpoint, point, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, salmonella, saprophyte, scrap, snip, snippet, speck, spirillum, spirochete, spore, sporozoon, staphylococcus, streptococcus, tetrad, tittle, triad, trypanosome, vanishing point, vibrio, virus, volvox, vorticellum, zooid, zoon, zoospore

• microscopic, 3-D, atomic, close, constant, corpuscular, delicate, direct, embryonic, evanescent, even, exact, express, faithful, fine, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, mathematical, microcosmic, micrometrically precise, molecular, nice, pinpoint, precise, refined, religious, religiously exact, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scientifically exact, severe, square, stereoscopic, strict, subatomic, subtle, telescopic, tenuous, thin, three-dimensional, ultramicroscopic, undeviating, unerring, unseeable

• microscopy, electron microscopy, electron optics, infrared spectroscopy, microbiology, micrography, microphotography, microphysics, microscopics, microspectroscopy, optical physics, optics, optometry, photography, spectrometry, spectrophotometry, spectroscopy, stereoscopy, telescopy

• mid Victorian, Gothic, Methuselah, Quakerish, Victorian, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, back number, bluenose, censorious, classical, conservative, dad, demure, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fossilized, fud, fuddy-duddy, goody-goody, granny, grown old, has-been, hidebound, longhair, matriarch, medieval, mossback, narrow, of other times, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old maid, old man, old poop, old woman, old-maidish, old-timer, old-world, overmodest, patriarch, petrified, pop, pops, prig, priggish, prim, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, sanctimonious, smug, square, starets, stick-in-the-mud, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated, traditionalist

• mid, accented, alveolar, amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, average, back, barytone, between, betwixt, betwixt and between, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, center, centermost, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, core, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, equatorial, equidistant, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, halfway, hard, heavy, high, interior, intermediary, intermediate, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midst, midway, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuclear, occlusive, open, over, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, throughout, together with, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, with

• Middle America, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, fourth-rater, mediocrity, middle class, middle order, middle orders, no prize, nobody special, nonentity, nothing special, second-rater, silent majority, small beer, small potatoes, suburbia, third-rater, tinhorn

• Middle American, Babbitt, Philistine, anal character, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, formalist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, yes-man

• middle class, Middle America, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, fourth-rater, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, mediocrity, middle order, middle orders, no prize, nobody special, nonentity, nothing special, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, second-rater, shopkeepers, silent majority, small beer, small potatoes, small tradesmen, suburbia, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, third-rater, tinhorn, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people

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

• middle ground, average, balance, center, compromise, fence, generality, golden mean, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, juste-milieu, mean, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, moderateness, moderation, neutral ground, norm, normal, par, rule, run, via media

• middle of the road, average, balance, center, compromise, fence, generality, golden mean, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, juste-milieu, mean, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, moderantism, moderate position, moderateness, moderation, moderatism, neutral ground, norm, normal, par, rule, run, third force, via media

• middle school, Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, academy, grammar school, high, high school, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, secondary school, seminary, senior high, senior high school

• Middle West, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, eastland, northland, the Coast, westland, wild West

• middle, active, active voice, amidships, arbitrational, arbitrative, average, axial, axis, balance, bisect, center, center of action, center of gravity, center on, center round, centermost, central, centralize, centralized, centric, centroid, centroidal, centrosymmetric, centrum, coming between, concentrated, core, dead center, double, epicenter, equatorial, equidistant, fold, generality, geocentric, going between, golden mean, halfway, happy medium, heart, hub, intercessional, intercessory, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervenient, intervening, interventional, juste-milieu, kernel, key, marrow, mean, medial, median, mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, medio-passive, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, medulla, mesial, mesne, metacenter, mezzo, mid, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle voice, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midway, nave, navel, norm, normal, nub, nuclear, nucleus, omphalic, omphalos, pacificatory, par, passive, passive voice, pith, pivot, pivotal, reflexive, rule, run, stomach, storm center, umbilical, umbilicus, via media, voice, waist

• middlebrow, Babbitt, boeotian, boob, dabbler, dilettante, dunce, fool, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, lowbrow, no scholar, puddinghead, tenderfoot, unintelligentsia

• middleman, agent, arbitrator, broker, chandler, connection, contact, dealer, deputy, distributor, entrepreneur, front, front man, go-between, importer, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, interventionist, interventor, jobber, liaison, link, marketer, mediary, mediator, medium, merchandiser, merchant, monger, mouthpiece, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, ombudsman, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, spokesman, spokeswoman, storekeeper, tie, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, wholesaler

• middlemost, amidships, average, axial, center, centermost, central, centralized, centric, centroidal, centrosymmetric, concentrated, core, equatorial, equidistant, geocentric, halfway, interior, intermediary, intermediate, key, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear, omphalic, pivotal, umbilical

• middleweight, Chinese boxer, bantamweight, black belt, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, catchweight, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, heavyweight, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, palooka, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, savate expert, sparrer, welterweight